Evening star., 1949-07-24
Attorney General
Addresses Legion's
Annual Convention

Annual Convention
The Department Of the District
OF Columbia American Legion an
nual convention will open next
Thursday at pm. in the main
ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel
and remain in session for three
days. On Saturday the delegates
will elect a new department COM
mander, five vice commanders and
delegates and alternates to repre-
sent the local department at the
Legion's national convention in
Philadelphia August 20 to Sep
tember l.
Attorney General Clark will de-
liver the principal address at the
opening session, which also will
feature the presentation of 25
trophies and awards to various
posts and members. The annual
memorial service. with the ritual
team of Fort Stevens Post Off
ciating. will take place during the
opening session, which will recess
with the reports of the Rules and
Credentials Committees, and the
official seating of all delegates and
alternates to the convention.
Friday evenings session will
hear another prominent and we'll
known speaker, and after that the
session will get down to the con-
sideration of convention business
and recess with the nomination
of new officers.
Music for the convention will be
furnished by the Navy Band. Air
Forces School Band, 304th Army
Band from Walter Reed Hospital
and the Drum and Bugle Corps of
Fort Stevens and James Reece Eu-
rope Posts of the Legion. Soloists
will include Glen Darwin of the
Air Forces Band. Kai de Vermond
and Audrey Hall. Miss American
Legion of 1949. The Silver Shields
Quartet, composed of members of
the Metropolitan Police, also will
sing.
In American Legion Junior
baseball games to be played today
on the White House Ellipse at l
pm. the Holleran-Murray nine
will stack up against the Victory
Post club on the north diamond.
Fort Dupont will meet Fort
Stevens on the east diamond, Co.'S
tello will engage Bunker Hill on
the west diamond and Thad Dulin
will encounter Government Print
ing Office on the south diamond,
while at pm. next Saturday on
the west diamond Clark v. Polling
will play Holleran-Murray.
Ninety-six boys from 48 States
will attend the American Legion's
Fourth Annual Forum of National
Government at American Univer-
sity here July % to August 4.
On August 3. accompanied by
National Comdr. Perry Brown. the
entire forum will visit President
Truman at the White House. A
number of each calls will also be
made on various high Government
officials and places of historic in
terest in and around the city will
be visited.
Before closing, the boys will
divide into two political parties,
stage their own campaigns on ma
tional issues and elect their own
president, vice president and other
officers. 8
Sergt. Jasper Post at its last
meeting elected Comdr. Alvin B.
Shonk as chairman Of its 17-man
delegation to the department con-
vention and at the same time in
dorsed George w. Lee. for the last
three years department publicity
officer, as a candidate for the Wat
son B. Miller Trophy, awarded an
nually to the outstanding Legion
naire Of the local department.
Grand Chef de Care Clarence
T. Milne presented Costello Post
with the Forty and Eight Bowling
Trophy at it's last meeting for
having won the 1948-1949 Ameri-
can Legion Bowling League title
for the second consecutive year.
BY virtue of having enrolled the
largest membership in the local
department during the past year
Costello Post will have the largest
delegation at the department
convention. Post Comdr. Curtis
Jackson is chairman Of dele
gates. He has named Byron
G. Carson to serve on the Con-
vention Resolutions Committee,
Martin Goerl on the Credentials
Committee and John M. Griffin
on the Rules Committee.
Department Adjutant Gail T.
Judd announces applications for
room reservations at the National
Convention in Philadelphia, Pa,
are now being received at Depart
ment Headquarters. Local de-
partment headquarters have been
assigned in Warwick Hotel.
Meetings this week:
Monday-White- Whitmore Post,
3105 Naylor road Sc.
Tuesday-Army and Air Forces
Post, Sheraton Hotel; James
Reece Europe Post, 1914 Vermont
Ave. NV.
Observation-Disclosures Cathe-
dral Post. Henry c. Spangler Post.
Legion Club; Kenneth H. Nash
Post, 224 D street Sc; Depart
ment of Agriculture Post. lunch
con, IL noon, room 1862 South
Building.
Thursday. Friday, Saturday.
Department Convention. Shore
ham Hotel; Legion Club closed.
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