Committee Resolution No. 31: No. 192-That emergency treatment by local outside physicians for service-connected conditions be authorized to compensable beneficiaries of the Veterans' Bureau regardless of their hospital status. Committee Resolution No. 32: No. 233-That rating schedule be amended to provide temporary total ratings in all service-connected cases of active tuberculosis.

Committee Resolution No. 33: No. 234-That the same form of application be used for both compensation and disability allowance claims.

Committee Resolution No. 34: No. 260 That World War veterans' act be amended to make all regulations, rating schedules, general and special orders, public documents, and records to be available for examination by anyone interested.

Committee Resolution No. 35: No. 281-Establishment for attendants for psychiatric hospitals of a school where they may be properly trained in the conduct and expansion of athletics.

Committee Resolution No. 36: No. 323-That the adjudication of burial claims be decentralized to regional offices.

Committee Resolution No. 37: No. 325-That the Veterans' Bureau be required to instruct claimants and their representatives in the proper method of developing and presenting their claims.

Committee Resolution No. 38: No. 326-Urging liberalization of requirements for proof of birth.

Committee Resolution No. 39: No. 348-That the Veterans' Bureau be prohibited from breaking service connection after death of the beneficiary for any reason except where fraud is shown.

Committee Resolution No. 40: No. 386-That the Veterans' Bureau be required to accept the evidence of physicians when not supported by detailed records.

Committee Resolution No. 41: No. 387-That the schedule of ratings relating to psychoneurosis be changed to eliminate the requirement of social inadaptability and to require separate ratings where the condition has been caused by trauma.

Committee Resolution No. 42: No. 394-Urging the elimination of delay in the selection of hospital sites and in the construction of hospitals authorized by law. Committee Resolution No. 43: No. 441-That the contact and cooperation service be set up under the direct control of the several regional managers, and that they be required to furnish detailed information and advice to claimants. Committee Resolution No. 44: No. 453-That patients leaving hospitals be advised in plain and understandable language of their condition and as to home treatment.

Committee Resolution No. 45: No. 481-That the Veterans' Bureau be required to revert back to general counsel's decisions instead of those of the Comptroller General in cases of the statutory award under Regulation 73 for arrested tuberculosis.

Committee Resolution No. 46: No. 446-That the adjudication of death claims, adjusted compensation, and insurance be decentralized to the regional offices.

Committee Resolution No. 47: No. 73-That reinstatement of Government life insurance to be permitted any veteran who is suffering from service-connected disabilities not permanently and totally disabling.

Committee Resolution No. 48: No. 229-That the Pension Bureau be required to allow pensions for neuropsychiatric conditions which were latent and became activated by military service.

Committee Resolution No. 49: No. 502-That the Veterans' Bureau be required to accept dependency of parents as automatic at the age of 60.

Committee Resolution No. 50: No. 499-That there be established an agency to anticipate hospital needs and have such facilities ready and waiting at the time the need becomes acute.

Committee Resolution No. 51: No. 500--That bureau be required to order, obtain, and have available in court true and correct copies of medical and hospital records of any veteran instituting suit under section 19 of the act.

Committee Resolution No. 52: No. 505-That act be amended to provide for inclusion in insurance judgments under section 19 a 6 per cent on payments in arrears and to provide for the inclusion in such judgment of costs.

Committee Resolution No. 53: No. 504 That act be amended to add after the word "insurance" in line 2, section 19, the following, "including a claim based on section 305 of this act."

Committee Resolution No. 54: No. 503-That act be amended by adding after the 10 per cent attorney fee clause the following: "In event of recovery under said insurance on the basis of $5,000 or less, such attorney fee may be, but shall not exceed 15 per cent, to be paid as hereinbefore provided for the 10 per cent attorney fee: Provided further, That in the event an appeal is taken by either party an additional 5 per cent may be allowed for legal service rendered on behalf of the plaintiff in and about said appeal."

Committee Rosolution No. 55: No. 296-That national headquarters continue campaign to encourage reinstatement of Government life insurance.

Committee Resolution No. 56: No. 501-Protesting the transfer of compensable cases from Jacksonville and Elgin hospitals, Ill., until such time as the Government is prepared to furnish hospitalization to all mentally disabled veterans.

Committee Resolution No. 57: No. 495-That the selection of a site and the construction of a branch of the national home in the South be authorized by Congress and completed without further delay. (This resolution in lieu of resolutions emanating from North Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, and the Department of Florida.)

Committee Resolution No. 58: No. 295-Read in full. Appreciation of Watson B. Miller.

The following resolutions were referred to the chairman of the national rehabilitation committee of the American Legion for consideration and appropriate action:

No. 51-Increased allowance for ex-service women's hospitalization in contract hospital. (Maryland.)

No. 158-Same as above, submitted by Pennsylvania.

No. 434-Reimbursement by Veterans' Bureau for vehicles used by employees, submitted by Wisconsin.

No. 490

Discharge from draft status and benefits, submitted by Kentucky. No. 224-Manual for Service Officers to be continued, submitted by New Jersey.

The report was adopted.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TIME AND PLACE OF NEXT CONVENTION

Twenty-nine members of your committee on time and place of next convention met at 3.30 p. m. October 6, in committee room in the State House and agreed on the following report:

The committee elected Harold P. Redden, of Massachusetts chairman and Paul J. McGahan, of the District of Columbia, secretary.

The committee heard representatives of Detroit, Mich., and Los Angeles, Calif., who presented invitations for the 1931 convention. The committee also reports that the Department of Illinois restated its invitation that the 1933 convention be held in that city. The Department of Oregon announced that it would seek the 1933 convention for Portland, Oreg. The Department of Maryland restated its intention to seek the 1932 convention for Baltimore.

The committee recommends that the time of the 1931 national convention be left to the determination of the national executive committee. It further recommends that the national executive committee give serious consideration to the feasibility of advancing the time for the annual convention so that it be held earlier, and not later than September 30 of each year.

The committee received from the representatives of Detroit, Mich., and Los Angeles, Calif., the required certified checks and certificates and made a careful inquiry of the facilities that would be afforded by each. Your committee is of the opinion that either city would be competent and able to care for a national convention of the American Legion. It therefore recommends that, as provided under the rules of this convention opportunity be given for the representatives of Detroit and Los Angeles to present their invitations to this convention and that immediately thereafter this convention proceed to a roll call vote as between Detroit, Mich., and Los Angeles, Calif.

The report was adopted.

DETROIT CHOSEN

Wilbur M. Brucker, attorney general of Michigan, and Frank T. Murphy, mayor of Detroit, spoke, inviting the Legion to Detroit. The invitation of Los Angeles was extended by Past National Commander John R. Quinn. The vote gave the choice to Detroit, as follows:

On motion of Mr. Quinn, the choice of Detroit was made unanimous.

National Historian Eben Putnam presented the report of the committee on awards for post histories, as follows:

The committee on awards for post histories met at national headquarters at Indianapolis, Ind., on Tuesday, June 24, 1930, with all three members present. Nearly 50 separate items from various sections of the country were submitted before May 1, 1930, in competition for the prizes. In considering post histories your committee based its judgment upon certain qualities, the information regarding which had already been sent out to the various department historians. These qualities were comprehensiveness, arrangement, accuracy, and readability. It was specifically stated that mere size would not be considered, and that the historian of a small post might in a few pages produce a history which would meet the requirements of the judges as fully as a 500-page book. Several of the post histories submitted were eliminated at once because they failed to meet one or more of these qualifications.

After some formal discussion the judges were able to eliminate all but eight of the post histories submitted, and by a unanimous decision have agreed to rate these in the following order:

First prize: Clark C. Tucker, A History of Ken-Bur-Bel Post, No. 41, Department of Ohio, the American Legion.

Second prize: Jacob C. Schaeffer, The Records of Service, 1917-1927, published under the auspices of Edward H. Ackerman Post, No. 397, the American Legion, Tellertown, Pa.

Third prize: J. A. Nye, A History of Leo P. McNamara Post 61, American Legion, Ida Grove, Iowa.

HONORABLE MENTION

(A) Milton A. Myers, A History of Naval Post 372, the American Legion, Chicago, Ill.

(B) Ralph Rhodes Smith, A Brief History of the Lawrence W. Foster Post 93, Department of Massachusetts, American Legion, of Foxborough, Mass.

(C) Herman H. Hanson, A History of Walter L. Fox Post, No. 2, Dover, Del. (D) Henry Sherman Douglass, A History of Robert T. McColley Post, No. 87, American Legion, Huntington Park, Calif.

(E) George M. Davis, jr., The Story of New Rochelle Post, No. 8, the American Legion, Department of New York, New Rochelle, N. Y.

Your committee recommends that the history of Post 59, the American Legion, Department of New Jersey, Morristown, N. J., compiled by H. Foster Ensminger, should be given special honorable mention because of its remarkable photographic features.

Believing that the contest in post histories has justified itself by its results, your committee earnestly recommends that a similar competition with regard to department histories be established for the year 1931, previous to the next post history contest already arranged for the year 1933.

In view of the approaching post history contest for 1933, we suggest that post histories failing to secure an award in the contest of 1930 be revised, brought up to date, and submitted in 1933, with especial attention to the requirements as outlined in the national adjutant's letter, No. 78, for September 23, 1929. In connection with this suggestion your judges wish to point out that many otherwise excellent post histories were eliminated from the present contest because of their entirely local nature, and especially because of their failure to connect the local post with the departmental and national organization. We might add, furthermore, that mere collections of newspaper clippings or memorabilia, while valuable in themselves, do not, in our opinion, constitute an effective nor commendable post history.

The above report was signed by William C. Mundt, Harry S. Ruth, and Claude M. Fuess.

"In submitting this copy of the report of the committee on award for the best post histories, advantage is taken of the opportunity to mention the fact that the members of the committee made a careful inspection of the historical archives of the Legion at headquarters," Mr. Putnam said.

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It was the unanimous opinion of the committee that our records were well kept, and our collection of manuscript material which can be used for a history of the Legion and the various departments is arranged and cared for in the best manner.

"The favorable opinion of this committee confirms the praise which was given a year ago by Mr. George S. Godard, State librarian of Connecticut,. who examined our archives at the time of the meeting in Indianapolis of the American Historical Association.

"In connection with the suggestion made by the committee that in 1931 an award be made for the best department history prepared prior to the next convention there is appended a list of titles of department histories published to date:

"The Alabama Department of the American Legion, 1919-1929, by Thomas M. Owen, jr., department historian. Published by State department of archives and history. 1929. 229 pages.

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History, the American Legion, Department of California, 1919–1928, by Fred W. Smith, department historian. 69 pages.

"The Story of the American Legion in Connecticut, by B. H. Matthies, Seymour, Conn. 1920. 125 pages.

"The Illinois Legionnaire, 1919-1923; the Official History of the American Legion, Department of Illinois. Published by State headquarters, Bloomington, Ill. 112 pages.

"The American Legion in Iowa, 1919-1929, by Jacob Armstrong Swisher.. Published by the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City. 1929. 303 pages. 'History of Kansas Department, American Legion, by Thomas Amory Lee, department historian. Printed by Kansas State Printing Plant. 1925. Pages: 123-192.

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"A Brief History of the American Legion in Massachusetts, 1919-1925, by Claude Moore Fuess, department historian. Published by State of Massachusetts. 1925. 53 pages.

"The American Legion in Michigan, by Mills M. Van Valkenburgh, department historian. Published by authority of the Department of Michigan, Port Huron, Mich. Riverside Printing Co. 1930. 371 pages.

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History of the Nebraska American Legion, by Frank Boyd O'Connell, Pub

lished by the Department of Nebraska, Lincoln. 1922, 213 pages.

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Department of New Jersey, the American Legion; a General Account, 1919-1924. Published by department headquarters, Trenton. 1924.

"History of the American Legion, Department of Virginia, 1919-1924, by Legion yearbook committee. Published by the William Byrd Press (Inc.), Richmond, Va. 192 pages."

During the course of reading the report Historian Putnam made the awards to the winners on the platform.

COMMUNICATIONS READ

The national adjutant read greetings and communications from George S. Geis, national commander Eighth Army Corps Veterans; Lieut. Gen. Alexander J. Elshin, president of the Russian Veterans' Society; Douglas (Wyo.) Kiwanis Club and Samuel Mares Post of the Legion; Reginald Dykers, vice president and general manager of the American Sugar Cane League of the United States; Fred L. Morris, Lawrence, Kans.; and Harry F. Hall, Fairmont, W. Va. The session adjourned at 2.30 p. m.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930

The meeting was called to order at 9.45 a. m., National Commander Bodenhamer presiding. The invocation was pronounced by the national chaplain, Father George Kettell. Miss Elizabeth Haas, member of Herbert Paul Lentz Post 29, Allentown, Pa., gave a solo.

COMMUNICATIONS READ

Greetings and communications were read from M. D. Vance, United Confederate Veterans, of Little Rock, Ark.; L. W. Stevens, commander in chief United Confederates, Tristate Hospital, Shreveport, La.; Betty E. Owens, for the Government Club, New York; Arthur G. Bridge, secretary Branch 51, Canadian Legion, Niagara Falls, Ontario; Willis W. Bradley, jr., governor of Guam; Dyett, federal president, Melbourne; Besel, of Bloemfonte; A. Mascarenas, managing director Banco de Mexico, Mexico City; and Theodore Roosevelt, of Porto Rico.

NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE REPORT

C. B. Robbins, of Iowa, chairman of the national defense committee, made the report of the national defense committee, as follows: Forty-four members of your committee on national defense met at 3 p. m., 11 p. m., and 3 p. m., Monday and Wednesday, respectively, in the committee room in the State house, and agreed on the following report, which is respectfully submitted for your consideration:

MILITARY AFFAIRS

1. Minimum needs of national defense.-We reaffirm our position to the effect that the minimum needs of national defense demand adequate appropriations by Congress for the support of a Regular Army of not less than 12,000 officers