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Show LEGION URGES SUPPORT IN DRIVE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS (American Legion News Service) Members of The American Legion Le-gion an.: Auxiliary are being rallied to a campaign to fire a barrage of letters supporting S. 105, the Veterans' Children Scholarship Act, to the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee Subcom-mittee on Trading with the Enemy En-emy where the measure is in danger of being defeated. The American Legion, by National Na-tional convention resolution, supports sup-ports S. 105, which was introduced intro-duced toward the close of the first session of the 86th Congress by Sen. George A. Smathers (D.-Fla.). (D.-Fla.). The bill was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee under the chairmanship of Sen. James O. Eastland (D.-Miss.), who assigned it to the Subcommittee Subcom-mittee on Trading with the Enemy, En-emy, whose chairman is Sen. Olin D. Johnson (D.-S. C). Members of the subcommittee, in addition to its chairman, are John L. McLellan, Arkansas; Joseph Jo-seph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming; Thomas J. Dodd, Connecticut; all Democrats; Everett McKinley Dirksen, Illinois; Norris Cotton, New Hampshire; and Kenneth B. Keating, New York, Republicans. Their address is the Senate Office Of-fice Bldg., Washington 25, D.C. S. 105 provides for the setting set-ting aside of $100 million of the $600 million principal of enemy war assets seized from Germany and Japan during World War II. The income earned from the investment of this $100 million would be used to provide some 2,000 scholar- j ships each year to students in- J terested in the important fields J of science, technology, and en-gineering en-gineering careers, as well as for teaching in these fields. The scholarships would be -granted on the basis of talent and ability with priority going to children of veterans of World War I, World War II, and the Korean Conflict. This source of educational funds would not represent rep-resent any cost to the taxpayer since the United States now holds these enemy assets in lieu of war reparations. All Legionnaires and members of the Auxiliary are urged to write the Senators on the subcommittee sub-committee urging a prompt and favorable report on the measure to the full Committee on the Judiciary. All school patrons and teachers, teach-ers, and individual citizens who recognize the need for increased advanced training in the science fields, are invited to join the Legion's campaign to secure use of these funds funds seized from an enemy who sought to destroy ' us for training of the children of the men and women who successfully suc-cessfully repelled the enemy aggression. |