Evening star., 1947-06-15
American Legion
Posts to Select
Convention Aides

SeVerai pOSLS OF the American
| Legion will elect delegates and al
ternates to the coming department
convention this week.
The General Accounting Office
Post will elect on Wednesday eve
ming at the Legion Club.
William Brauer, chairman of the
Post Soap Box Derby Committee
announces the post will sponsor
Tommy Neal, age 13, an eighth
grade student at the Immaculate
Conception School, in the derby
Thomas G. McEwen, chairman oi
the post Dance Committee, an
nounces that event will take place
June ~ at the Prince Georges
Country Club.
Stanley Church Depue Post will
have elections Thursday evening at
the Legion Club. Comdr. Charles
w. Wickes will appoint members to
Credentials and Resolutions Com
mittees.
Vice Comdr. Mattrew r. Amman
is working hard to obtain the re-
| quired number of new members to
obtain an additional delegate for
the post.
Cooley-McC Cullough Post, which
meets Tuesday evening at the Legion
! Club, will select representatives.
Phillip Stern announces the post
will sponsor five entries in the Soap
Box Derby.
Bunker Hill Post wilf elect repre-
sentatives Tuesday evening at 3736
Tenth street NE, with Comdr. S. D.
Ashford presiding.
Clifford w. Thompson, men,
ber of Washington Gaslight Post,
was the high average bowler in the
American Legion Bowling League.
Entries in the National History
Contest, closing July 3, must be
brought up to June /. Divided into
senior and Junior classes, according
to the age of the =post, entries will
be judged on points with five cash
awards to be made and six honor
liable mention certificates to 60 to
the three runners-up in each class.
The George E. Killeen Post and
Unit will hold bingo party for
disabled veterans at the Walter Reed
Hospital next Tuesday evening, ac-
cording to Comdr. Norman E. Rosser.
Jane A. Delano Post will hold a
bingo party, to raise funds for its
Rehabilitation program and to out
fit a room in a nurses home now
being rebuilt in France, next Satur-
day evening at the home of May
L. Reinoehl, 3201 Nineteenth street
NV.
Proceeds derived from the annual
boatride of the James E. Walker
Post on the Steamer Robert E. Lee
next Saturday will be used toward
the post building fund.
Bureau of Internal Revenue Post
indorsed Chester T. Bennett for the
office of department commander for
the year 1947-1948.
Fort Stevens Post Is recruiting
members for it's Drum and Bugle
Corps and any member OF the de-
partment may join at practice ses-
sions which are held each Tuesday
in the Roosevelt High School at 8
pm. The Sons of the Legion Squad
ron, with a present membership OF
40, is recruiting new members.
Todays scheduled games in the
American Legion. Junior Baseball
League on the White House Ellipse
at 1 pm. are: Costello-Police and
Fire, Halloron Murray-Fort Dupont,
National Cathedral Government
Printing Office and Fort Stevens
Bunker Hill.
In the recent Legion membership
contests the District of Columbia
Department won double header,
nosing out of it's neighbors Mary
land and Virginia. Based on its
aerial roundup membership of 49,
ia. the District department re-
corded 96.08 per cent Of its 1947
quota of 1898 against Maryland's
SO ,277 or 6O.90 per cent of quota, and
Virginia 38,780 or 48.27 per cent of
quota. Maryland forfeited a trophy
cup to the winner.
Arrangements have been COM
pIeted for holding the second Amer
ican Legion Boys Forum of Ma
tional Government on the campus
of American University, August !