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Show MANY CHAPLAINS TO ATTEN' Clergymen of All Denominations E: pected at National Legion Convention Con-vention in October. World war chaplains will receh special attention at the national coj vention of the American Legion i San Francisco next October, Liev Gen. Hunter Liggett, convention chai man, has announced. A commute comprising prominent clergymen San Francisco and California, all ( whom served as army, navy or m rine chaplains during the-World wi. will be charged with the reception hundreds of visiting "padres" expe ed to attend the convention. Maj. Joseph P. McQuaide, form chaplain of the Sixty-second Artilli regiment, and a participant in t: i campaigns in the Philippines, h :- ' been appointed chairman of the chr lains' committee. Major McQuai already has communicated with 1 - ther William P. O'Connor of Cinci nati, Legion national chaplain, in i Hard to convention arrangements f the chaplains. Jewish rabbis, Protestant ministei Catholic priests and chaplains of ; other denominations, are represent on the convention committee. Es mating from forecasts made by tional Adjt. Lemuel Bolles and t nres gathered by officials of the S; Francisco convention and Touri league, the civic organization tli ' uids in obtaining conclaves for t: city, the national convention comm tee plans to entertain 150,000 visiti: American war veterans during coiive tion week. |