Evening star., 1947-01-05
In Local Service Organizations
American Legion
Relief Agency at
.727 10Th Street NV.

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Members of the American Legion
seeking either permanent or tempor-
ary relief or service are advised to
apply to the American Legion We'll
fare Department office, at 727 Nine
teenth street NV, and not at
American Legion Headquarters or
to any other relief agency connected
with the Washington Community
Chest.
With Office help, furnished by the
Chest whose salaries are paid from
the sum allotted to the agency, the
Office is operated under the direc-
tion Of Percy Weinberg, director OF
the American Legion Welfare and
the supervision of the American
Legion Welfare Council composed OF
three members with James A. De
Force as chairman.
The Department Civic Relations
Committee, under the direction of
Sylvan King. will hold a general
meeting at the Legion Club next
Thursday evening. The Depart
ment Staff, all post commanders
and post civic relations officers
have been especially invited to at
tend.
District Engineer Commissioner
Brig. Gen. Gordon Russell Young
will deliver the principal address.
The Department Americanism
Commission will meet at the Legion
Club at 8 pm. tomorrow with Guy
U. Cogswell, chairman Of the COM
mission, presiding.
National veterans preference
chairman requests that members of
the Department Of the District of
Columbia, who have cases or claims
OF veterans preference, take these
up first with their post officers be-
fore referring them to either de-
partment or national committees.
Bunker Hill Post and the Forty
and Eight have changed their reg
ular meeting dates during the COM
ing year. The former will meet
on the third Tuesday of each month,
at 3736 10th street NE, and the
latter will meet the second Thurs
day Of each month at the Legion
Club.
The appointment of John H
Vittum as assistant sergeant at arms
on the department staff; Haywood
Saunders as chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee; Charles
Kohen, vice chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee, and James
D. Hill, Curtis Shears, Wallace Jones'
Charles 6. Senseney, Cloyd /. Dixon
Sanford Ashford, Henry Silverstein
David E. Miller, Francis Holbrook
Geoffrey Creyke, jr.; James p. Googe
and Frank Tucker, to be members
of the same committee, were made
by Department Comdr. Guy Nadeau
Post commanders of the George
S. Patton Tank Corps, Police and
Fire, Fort Stevens, National Cath
edral, Costello, Fort Dupont, Hal
loran-Murray, Bunker Hill and Gov
ernment Printing Office are re-
quested to notify Department Ath-
letic ,Ofiicer James Munro in the
near future if these posts again
desire to sponsor teams in the Amer
ican Legion Junior Baseball League
during the coming year. .'.'>
Monthly classes for post service
officers will be conducted throughout
the coming year under the direction
of Department Service Officer Paul
Flaherty, who announces that post
commanders may also take ad-
vantage of this information by at
tending these classes. .,..
Joseph S. Haldenstein, blood bank
chairman, requests American Legion
members who are volunteer blood
donors report to him in order that
a list of these may be compiled by
the department.
Meetings this week:
Monday-Civil Service Commits
sion, s. P. McGroarty Posts, National
Guard of Honor and Department
Americanism Committee, Legion
Club; Department of Commerce
Post, Department of Commerce.
Tuesday-Costello Post, Odd Eel
lows Hall, I'd Division Post, New
Colonial Hotel.
Wednesday-Sergt. Jasper, Police
and Fire, u. G. McAlexander Posts,
Legion Club; Nash Post, 209 Penn
sylvania avenue Sc; Potomac Post,
Palisades Fieldhouse; Barry Post,
st. Aloysius Hall.
Thursday-Forty and Eight, De-
partment Civic Relations Committee
Legion Club; Fort Totten Post, The
Ship; James E. Walker Post, Twelfth
Street YMCA.
Friday-Department of Agricul-
ture, Government Printing Office
Post, Legion Club.