Legion Hut (Chapel Hill)

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1. March 19, 1937 The American Legion opens its log hut on Rosemary Lane The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion and its Auxiliary held their first meeting in the new log Legion Hut on Rosemary Lane, a gathering that also marked the Legion's 18th anniversary. Legionnaires had done much of the building with their own hands, using donated logs and materials, and a crew of Black masons had filled the cracks between the logs in the days before. People: William S. Hogan The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1937, p. 6
2. June 4, 1940 Chapel Hill American Legion post calls for a national emergency and conscription The post adopted resolutions, first drafted by retired Rear Admiral Percy W. Foote, asking Congress to declare a national emergency and give the President full powers, to expand the armed forces by at least a million men beyond the National Guard and reserves, and to adopt conscription for military service and for industry. The resolutions were sent to the Legion's state and national commanders and North Carolina's members of Congress. People: Henry Roland Totten, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Henry A. Whitfield The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1940, p. 1
3. November 12 to 29, 1941 Volunteers man an aircraft observation post at the American Legion Hut Chapel Hill set up an aircraft observation post at the American Legion Hut on Rosemary Lane under chief observer L. J. Phipps, who with his assistants spotted 13 planes in trial watches on November 12. Volunteers were to watch daily from 5 A.M. to 6 P.M. from November 15 through 29, telephoning each sighting as an 'Army flash' to the Army information center in Raleigh, and Phipps said the main purpose was to train civilians for such posts if war came. People: Luther James Phipps, Paul H. Robertson The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 14, 1941, p. 1
4. March 15, 1944 Chapel Hill's American Legion post burns the mortgage on its hut Chapel Hill Post No. 6 of the American Legion marked the Legion's 25th anniversary on Wednesday evening, March 15, 1944, by burning the mortgage on its hut on Rosemary Lane, after a barbecue for more than 100 members of the post and its auxiliary. Post commander Dewey Horner led the ceremony, and Horner, Paul Robertson and Brack Creel were cited for raising the money to build the hut. People: Luther James Phipps, Paul H. Robertson The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 23, 1944, p. 1
5. June 30, 1945 The Cruise Club for the Navy enlisted men of Chapel Hill opens in the American Legion Hut The ship's companies of the Pre-Flight School and the university's naval units opened the Cruise Club, their own social club, in the American Legion Hut on East Rosemary Street with a chicken buffet and dancing to the Cloudbuster swing band. The enlisted men had fitted up the building themselves. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), July 6, 1945, p. 3

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