Evening star., 1948-07-04
ID. Department
Legion Meeting
Opens August. 5

Department Membership Onicel
Joseph A. Walker of the Depart
ment of the District of Columbia,
American Legion, has set 10 pm
next Tuesday as the last day on
which posts of the local department
may file paid-up cards at depart
ment headquarters to count for
their respective representation at
the department convention ut the
Statler Hotel August 5 to 7, inclu-
sive.
No games will be played today on
the White House Elipse in the
American Legion Junior Baseball
League due to the holiday.
Victory Post is scheduled to meet
the Carmody Hills crew on the Fair
lawn diamond in the Intercity
Junior Baseball League and will en-
gage George McQuinn's Yankees
next Saturday on the Armory dia-
mond.
A special car for the use of Forty
and Eight members to be attached
to the local departments special
train to the national convention ut
Miami, Fla, October II to 81 Is
being arranged by Grand Core
spondent David e. Kisliuk. He is
also making hotel reservations for
members of this department, and
its afhliated bodies who wish to at
tend the convention.
Sergt. Jasper Post will elect 20
delegates and as many alternates to
the department convention next
month next Wednesday evening at
the Legion Club. Comdr. Charles K.
Dunn will preside.
Chairman Harvey Hill, in charge
of the posts annual boatride on the
evening of July Is reports that
plans have been completed.
Forms on which the 50 posts of
the local department may record
their accomplishments and progress
in the field of Child Welfare over
the period from July l, 1947, to June
20, 1948, have been mailed to post
commanders.
These should be completed and
returned to Department Child We'll
fare Chairman Porter Bush at de-
partment headquarters by midnight
next Thursday in order that he may
be submitted to the national con-
vention next fall.
The main business OF the Forty
and Eight next Thursday evening In
the Legion Club will be nominations
of officers. The elections will be
held August IL. Installation cere-
monies will take place in September.
Ronald Thring, membership Of
ficer, announces voyaguers who have
secured either 7 new members or IA
renewals for their posts during the
year are entitled to the Forty and
Eight membership star, provided the
certificate is certified by the adju-
tant and commander and sent to
him either at his home or depart
ment headquarters.
At luncheon meeting of the SEC
Post last week Edward M. Hanra-
han, newly elected chairman of the
SEC, delivered an address.
Formal initiation ceremonies were
held at the last regular meeting,
with the Forty and Eight ritual
team officiating. Department Comdr.
Owen C. Holleran and his staff in
stalled newly elected Comdr. Paul
S. Davis and hissstaff.
Department Entertainment Chair
man Charles Kohen reports Police
and Fire Post will sponsor a party
for disabled veterans at Walter Reed
Hospital during July. Sergt. Jasper
Post will sponsor another during
August.
Chairman Patrick Terrett an
nounces plans for the annual boat
ride of the Stephen P. McGroarty
Post next Wednesday evening have
been completed.
The post at its last meeting elected
Clarence r. Cough as commander
Others elected were: First vice
commander, James r. Threnn; Sec
ond vice commander, John w. Ko-
pecky; third vice commander, Eve
lyn Cooper; sergeant at arms, Ed
ward J. Kerns; finance officer, Rob-
ert Walker; quartermaster, David
Close, service officer, Edbert G. Cor
win; chaplain. John v. Keating,
and historian, Robert H. Threnn.
Mrs. Hannah H. Howard, Ameri-
canism chairman of the Jane A.
Delano Post, presented Americanism
medals to Loretta Evans and William
Fitzgerald members of the gradu-
ating class of the Francis Junior
High School at their graduation
exercises.
Meeting this week:
Neutrality-suspicious. Guard of Hon.
or, Legion Club; Commerce Post,
Department of Commerce; Clark v.
Polling Post, 1923 Sixteenth street
NV.
Tuesday - Vincent B. Costello
Post, Legion Club; I'd Division Post,
Colonial Hotel
Wednesday-Sergt. Jasper Post,
Legion Club; Washington Building
and Construction Trades Post,
Pythian Temple.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Post,
Forty and Eight, Legion Club;
James E. Walker Post, Twelfth
Street YMCA; Fort Totten Post, the
Ship.
Friday-Government Printing Of
flee Post, Agriculture Post, Legion
Club.
tentatively for July %. with Mrs.
Eva Carrico as chairman and Mrs.