Evening star., 1941-06-01

1746 K street NV; Fort
Stevens, Stansbury Lodge
Hall, 8 pm. |
Friday-Agriculture, room 1899.
Department of Agriculture:
Department Convention
Committee, department head
quarters, 8 pm.
were Morris z. Gutenberg, Victor
j. Swanson, Louis Rosenberg. James
A. Powers, John H. Way, Arthur r.
LoitZ and Ralph A. Palmer.
Comdr. Jeffreys and First Vice
Comdr. Boliver B. ORear will pre-
sent American Legion school
awards to the Woodward School at
their graduation on June 16.
The Fort Stevens Post junior
baseball team will meet the Po-
tomac Post team this afternoon at
/ on the north diamond of the
Ellipse.
The post will meet Thursday at
Stansbury Hall at 8:15 pm. This
meeting is designated as "Ameri-
canism night" The principal
speaker will be Thomas r. Gala
han, chairman of the District OF
Columbia Department Americanism
Commission. Distinguished guests
will be Miss May P. Bradshaw. prin-
cipal of Roosevelt High School; H.
P. Stafford, principal Of Macfar-
land Junior High School, and
Thomas F. Ferry, principal Of Paul
Junior High School.
During the past week American
Legion school awards were present.
ed by the post to Bernard r. Ihrie
and Teresa M. Riseling of st. Ga
briel's High School and Eugene Ed
wards and Catherine Arnold of Ma
tivity High School. School awards
to the outstanding boy and girl in
the graduating classes of other high
schools in the community will be
presented later in the month.
The next meeting of the Sergt.
Jasper Post will be held Wednes-
day evening at Pythian Temple.
Plans for the posts participation
In the departments building pro-
gram will be announced.
The post Soap Box Derby chair
man will also announce the names
of the boys to be sponsored by the
post in that event, to be held dur
ing the month of July.
The James Reese Europe Post will
present THE Golden Gate Quartet
at the baseball park on June Is.
Past Comdr. Clifton c. Anderson
has arranged for members OF the
post to visit New Jersey resorts sew
eral times before the national con-
vention.
The anniversary of the post will
be celebrated on June q.
The next meeting will be June 6.
Registrars for the selective serv-
ice registration on July / are being
organized in the department. They
will be headed by Department
Comdr. William Hargrave, who an
nounced that As assistants are
needed.
Each of the 25 local areas will
have its own registration unit oper-
ating in school building. An ad-
ditional unit will be needed at the
National Giard Armory for the reg
istering of transients for other
communities. A small mobile unit,
consisting of men with cars, also Is
required. More registrars will be
assigned to the areas in which they
reside, but 1t is probable that 1t will
be necessary to send some to other
areas. Registrars will be divided
into two shifts, one working from Z
am. to pm. and the other from 2
pm. to 9 pm.
Reply postcards have been sent to
all who volunteered through depart
ment headquarters for this work last
October. Those who have received
them. are requested to fill them out
at once.
No cards were sent to those who
volunteered through their Offices as
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More volunteers can be used and
those who had experience at the
last registration are especially desir-
able. Any who wish to serve and
who have not received cards should
send or telephone their names and
addresses to department headquar-
tiers and cards will be sent to them.
The next meeting of Vincent B.
Costello Post will be held on Tues
day at 8 pm at Schneiders Cafe,
427 Eleventh street NV. There will
be an election of delegates and al
ternates to the department conven-
ton.
The chairman of the Legion Home
Committee, Past Comdr. Heine, will
hold meeting Of this committee at
the Portner Apartments tomorrow
at 7:30 pm.
The junior baseball team will play
the National Cathedral Post team
today at pm. on the north dia-
mond of the EllipSe.