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Show ALABAMA WILL LEAD PARADE Indianapolis, Ind. Alabama will lead the grand parade of The American Legion at its first big, postwar "Victory Convention" in San Francisco, Cal., on Oct. 1. The Yellowhammer Legionnaires won the right to head the 1946 national na-tional convention procession down San Francisco's famous Market street by turning in the best average av-erage membership record for the war period, 1942 to 1945. For the five-year period beginning in 1942 and including 1946 they averaged 170.30 percent enrollment of their membership quotas annually. Virginia placed second with a 154.99 percent average; North Carolina Car-olina third with 154.12 per cent; Texas fourth with 153.22 per cent, Nebraska fifth with 150.29 per cent. ' 1 Virginia was declared the winner win-ner of the 1946 national convention conven-tion hall seating preference by enrolling en-rolling the greatest percentage of its previous four-year average membership this year. It mustered 47,166 members or 285.40 percent of its 4-year previous average enrollment en-rollment of 16,526. Nebraska was second with a percentage of 275.33; Tennessee third with 268.78 per cent; Alabama fourth with 268.14 per cent; and Texas fifth with 266.41 per cent. v |