The National Executive Ing the Eighth Annual National , Committee Meets in Indianapolis Membership Roundup at the In- 1 May.2 and 3
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Indianapolis, Indiana No. 4 EGION LOOKS TO ROUNDUP APRIL 28 TO SET ALL-TIME MEMBER RECORD Executive Army Day Checkup April 6 Air Couriers Committee to Mobilize for Meet May 2-3 Annual Event ■ [Keep America Free from Banquet Will Climax the Foreign Entanglements Activities at National Is Objective Headquarters Opposition to involvement in the Surpassing all previous records | European war and mobilization of by more than 70,000, The Ameri- American defense are expected to can Legion is looking for the mem- be in the forefront of Legion objec- bership ceiling to be reached dur- ' tives when the National Executive ing the eighth annual national , Committee meets in Indianapolis membership roundup at the In- 1 May.2 and 3. dianapolis airport Sunday, April 28. In connection with the program , ARJrW All departments have been in- for keeping America out of war, vited to send planes or air couriers special interest will attach to the _ .2,3 3. OOO bearing sufficient enrollment cards report of the Legion's foreign rela- to break all previous records. Al- tions committee which will be pre- — / 77 OOO ready 74 planes have been entered sented by Chairman Wilbur M. — /37.000 from the following departments: Alter, of Denver. — /as, 000 Alabama, California, Connecticut, Progress in solidifying scores of -/JO. 000 District of Columbia, Georgia, Ida- civic, fraternal, religious, business, ho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Mary- and professional organizations in land, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mis- a united Americanism program will souri, Ohio, North Dakota, South be reported by Chairman Frank E. Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, Vir- Lowe, Portland, Maine, bf the Na- ginia, Washington, West Virginia tional Co-ordinating Committee. and Wisconsin. Membership BoomlnR ,...-»„ , - ***■ . .— —- -!-** - Land at Noon The National Executive Commit- The first planes are expected to tee will gather under one of the arrive at the Indianapolis Munici- most favorable auspices in Ameri- pal Airport at 12:00 noon and will can Legion history. Reflecting the continue until 4:30 p. m. concern of American World War veterans in the welfare of America Pilots, visiting celebrities and in critical times, is a record-break- Legionnaires will be greeted at the ing membership boom. Ex-service- airport by the National Command- men everywhere are flocking to er and his staff. Special transpor- tation will be furnished to the Ant- The American Legion. When the national executive lers Hotel, where reservations are eommitteemen assemble, it is ex- being made for the visitors. pected that The American Legion At 7:00 p. m. the eighth annual will be riding the crest of the aerial roundup dinner will be held greatest membership boom it has at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. ever experienced in May. The na- National Commander Raymond J. tional enrollment, according to Kelly will act as toastmaster. John present indications, should be past Dwight Sullivan, chairman of the the 1,000,000 mark at that time. National Aeronautics Commission, With the membership on April will tell the purpose of the aerial 8 registering over 907,000, and roundup from the aviation angle. representing a gain of more than Father Patrick N. McDermott, na- 91,000 over the corresponding tional chaplain, will offer the in- period last year, the number of vocation. posts also has reached a new high It is confidently expected that of 11,625. the roundup will bring in 75,000 (Continued on page 3) membership cards to conclude the campaign for 1,000,000 members for said date. Every department is Ask Representatives to Support Alien World War Vets Employment expected to have reached its na- File for Naturalization tional quota at the conclusion of the roundup. If each department Widows', Orphans' Bill-Taylor Public Law 146, which was Week May 1-8 reaches its national quota, a bal- approved by the Congress of the ance of 65,000 members must be John Thomas Taylor, director, urge that a rule be granted under United States June 21, 1939, pro- National Legislative Committee, which H. R. 9000 may be consid- forthcomings from those depart- vided that alien veterans may President Roosevelt to ments exceeding their quotas. How- appeals to every member of The ered by the House. All members petition for naturalization up to American Legion and of the Amer- of the Legion and of the Auxiliary Herald Legion Event ever, with assurances of such sur- May 25, 1940. pluses as 10,000 from both Illinois ican Legion Auxiliary to write im- who live in Congressional districts Alien veterans of the World With Proclamation mediately to his or her Repre- represented by members of the and New York and over 5,000 War who have not as yet made from Georgia, Michigan, New Jer- sentative in Congress to bring H. R. House Rules Committee should application for naturalization 9000, the Widows' and Orphans' write or wire such Representatives, A forthcoming proclamation of sey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wis- are urged to do so before this President Franklin D. Roosevelt consin, along with surplusses of Bill, to a vote in the House. This urging that a meeting of the Rules date line. measure came up for consideration Committee be held Immediately will herald the effort of The Amer- over 1,000 from many other de- ican Legion to center the nation's in the House on April 1, but went and that a rule be granted under partments, the 65,000 should be over on objection of Representa- which H. R. 9000 may be consid- NEW 1,000-MEMBKR POST interests in the plight of the un- reached and a new roundup record tive John Costello, California. ered by the House. DULUTH, Minn.—For the first employed worker over 40 during attained. Representative John E. Rankin, The members of the House Rules time the David Wisted Post No. 28 National Employment Week, May Mississippi, chairman of the World Committee are: of The American Legion here en- 1 to May 8, 1940. War Veterans' Committee, has in- Democrats: Adolph J. Sabath, rolled more than 1,000 members, The President's proclamation will SOVIET FILMS troduced H. Res. 444, which was re- Illinois; E. E. Cox, Georgia; How- February 21, when the 1940 enroll- be issued within the next few days, NEW YORK.—The flow of Soviet ferred to the House Rules Com- ard W. Smith, Virginia; J. Bayard ment reached 1,004. and it will be the second time that moving pictures to theaters in the mittee and which requests a rule Clark/North'Carolina; Martin Di^s, This record-breaking member- he- has joined with the Legion and United States was slowed down per- for consideration of H. R. 9000. Texas; Lawrence Lewis, Colorado; ship came as a happy background with many Governors of the nation ceptibly with the announcement of All members of the Legion and John J. Delaney, New York; Wil- for the 1940- Hall of Fame Dinner, in urging that every job oppor- Amkino Corporation, sole distrib- of the Auxiliary who live in Con- liam M. Colm'er, Mississippi; Wil- February 24, at which National tunity be made available on the utor of Soviet films in the United gressional districts represented by liam L. Nelson, Missouri; John J. Commander Raymond J. Kelly was basis of the individual's capacity to States, that it would be dissolved non-members of the House Rules Dempsey, New Mexico. the guest of honor. This is an an- fill that job without regard to any as a corporation. Box office re- Committee should write their Rep- Republicans: Hamilton Fish, New nual civic banquet sponsored by autocratic age bar. ceipts for Soviet films had reflected resentatives, urging these Repre- York; Leo E. Allen, Illinois; Charles the local post. The selection of an Latest available figures from trie American feeling following receipt sentatives to speak to the members Halleck, Indiana; Earl Michener, outstanding Duluth citizen is an- United States Employment Service of news of the Soviet-Nazi pact, it of the House Rules Committee and Michigan. nounced to the Hall of Fame. (Continued on pace 2/ / was announced. \ *t*-« wyw—"f ' •" ".' »V ■Mggy mmmm '"W-^ . r • *_.' - \ A , t ■ iU—-«— ■ III IIIMIJIIIUM ■»■>.. hi ' i- i, ,., -r ,i 111 »»»i«iWwwnumn iiifti.iiin inn ■ ' i ',T THE NATIONAL LEGIONNAIRE APRIL, 1940 National Employment Week May 1-8 Calls For Full Legion Effort on Behalf of Comrades (Continued from page 1) service in the World War and took do call upon all posts of The Amer- indicate that 244,275 of the ap- up the tasks of peace. ican Legion, and all members of proximately four million surviving In those early days there were The American Legion, to join World War veterans are seeking nearly five million veterans thrown wholeheartedly in the observance of employment. Legion employment on the labor market. The cry then NATIONAL LEGION EMPLOY- committee officials express the was that the youthful veteran opinion that the figure is consider- hadn't the experience to entitle MENT WEEK ably under the number who are out him to a job. Nevertheless the Le- which has been scheduled for May of work and seeking employment gion went to work and did a pro- 1 to May 8, and do enjoin such Calls It Best Americanism fessional job of placing hundreds posts and members to use all of Although the Legion hat a pri- of thousands of men back in em- the resources available to the Le- mary Interest in the unemployed ployment gion in opening up job opportuni- World War veterans it is making Again in the early years of the ties, for the worker over 40 during its appeal to employers to cover depression decade the Legion had that week, and all workers in the 40 and over the strength to give a measurable Further, I urge that National group who want a job.