Show MISS FORKER IS OFFICIAL SOLOIST Alma Forker Porker of ot Bakersfield CaL veteran of the Chemical Warfare service of the United States army descendant of Spanish ConquIstadores an and of Mor Morgans ns of American Revolutionary Revolutionary Revolutionary fame and of the noted note Lees of Virginia VirgIn In will sing at the sixth annual annual annual an an- nual convention of the American Legion Legion Le Le- Le- Le gion glon In n St. St Paul Minn on September 1 15 to 19 She has hns Just been selected by National Commander John R R. QuInn from a list of forty Yorty tort applicants as convention Sixty thousand veterans It Is estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated will hear the California songbird songbird songbird song song- bird while war was on thought that it was the duty of ot a young and bodied able American woman to do more than sing for th the hAYs boys In France and so enlisted In the Chemical Warfare Warfare War War- fare branch of Uncle Sams Sam's army Miss 1 Forker found time from her military mili- mili tary duties to sing for the soldiers too She became a familiar famUlar figure at nt camp and canteen Born In California Miss Forker Fortier has hay hasan hasan an established reputation as a church and concert singer In her native nathe state and also In New York city Beginning her musical education with the time study studs of ot the piano and becoming later an anac ac violinist she went to toY tos Y s p Alma Forker New York to cultivate her nn natural vocal ocal ability While V there she filled numerous engagements In and about the metropolis Returning to California Califor Califor- nia she silo has hus been teaching voice and filling concert engagements throughout through through- out the state I The convention is the only woman member of Frank S. S TIe Reynolds post of the Legion Leg at Bakersfield She Is so a president of time the newly organIzed organized organized organ organ- Bakersfield unit of the Legion Auxiliary t I |