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Show THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH STATE COMMANDER BUSY LEGION MAN CCopy (or ThU Dopirtment SupplUd by th American Lf ion Nw borvlco ) CARE FOR ORPHANS AND DISABLED MEN Plattsburg was a name to conjure with In the early days of the World war. And Its fume hns been added to since that first girding for the struggle with the Central Powers by the activities of the men who were trained there. One of the lads who entered the first training camp at Plattsburg he was a law student of barely twenty-fou- r years on that May day In 1917 was Harold K. Davison of Woodsville, N. II. Commissioned a second lieutenant on August 15, 1917, he reported for duty with the One Hundred and First Infantry In the Twenty-SixtYankee division on September 1. Five days later he sailed for France. h The American Legion will raise a fund of $5,000,000 or more for orphaned children of the World war and indigent and disabled former service men In a nation-wid- e campaign to be launched soon, It was announced at national headquarters of the Legion recently. President Coolldge, at the request of National Commander James A. Drain of the Legion, accepted the honorary chairmanship of the Legions national committee to raise the fund. The endowment fund program was given authorization by the sixth national convention of the Legion at 8t Iaul, pending approval of the plan by the finance committee, which was given at a meeting of the committee at national headquarters. The urgent need of raising the fund immediately was pointed out by Mark T. McKee, Detroit, Mich., who Is a member of the Legions child welfare committee. Me declured that the existing facilities of the Legion for coring for the orphaned and helpless children of former service men who were killed or died as a result of their war service are overcrowded. At this time the Legion maintains a childrens billet at Otter Luke, Mich., and lias one under construction at Independence, Kans. There are 5,000 children of dead World war veterans who need care right now," Mr. McKee said, out of a total of 35,000 war waifs. As time goes on there will be more. These are veterans bureau figures. Just the other day a man left four children at the veterans' bureau, children of a deceased war veteran, with a request that they be cared for. The bureau turned the children over to us. Somehow we will provide for them, yet our present facilities will stand for no ex- pansion.'' In referring to the proposed fund, Commander Drain declured: The Legions endowment fund campaign will be a success; we will raise more than the set amount and the cumpulgn will bave a greatly beneficial efTect upon the morale of the Lesiwu and Increase our membership for the coming year to a million members. We must look close to home and see the greut underlying misery caused by the greut conflict. We must help the disabled man. lie Is our first obligation and he needs us now. The American Legion must keep faith with Its fallen comrades by seeing that the helpless children are not deprived of the opportunities that are rightfully theirs, because their fathers were killed fighting for their lllnd up the wounds of the country, disabled and care for the widows and orphans must be our slogan. The Legion will petition congress to make a technical chunge In the recently passed ndjusted compensation act to the effect that former service persons may allot their compensation to patriotic organizations chartered by congress, the money to be used for child welfare and disabled veterad care. The Legion would use such a fund toward their endowment program If congress sanctions the proposal, Legion officials declared. T rophies Not Removed i From School Grounds When the local school board proposed that captured war trophies presented to the city of Montclair, N. J., In 1020 by the government be removed from the school grounds as unfit objects for the children to see," American Legionnaires voiced objection to the proposal to city commissioners, declaring: These trophies were presented to Montclair In memory of 09 Montclair men who fell on the battlefields of France; they are a lesson In patriotism to the school children who pass them dally. If these trophies are removed, remove the busts of Washington and Lincoln from the schools and take down the flag that waves The commission above them. the trophies left on the school grounds. Proper Use and Honor to Flag to Be Urged Defenders of the flag In (54 and T7 will Introduce a bill In the next session of the legislature of Connecticut making compulsory the teaching of the proper use and respect of thut flag, It was revealed when representatives from both the American Legion post and the G. A. II. post met and framed a bill to that effect. A resolution concerning the bill wus passed at the last state convention of the Legion which extended an Invitation to their venerable comrades to Include their sentiments in the flag etiquette legislation. Aiding Foreigners Atding foreigners to study for is one of the activities of the Golden Gate post of the American LeOur gion in San Francisco, Cal. said method is simple and direct, Miss Mrytle It. Saylor, in chaige of We get a list of prosthe activity. pective citizens from the naturalization bureau, look them up, and send them to the nearest place where English and other naturalization require mi nis are taught. TELEGRAPH! Secretary Work has assured Sena MS tor Gooding of Idaho that the Boise irrigation project would be the first one visited by the committee recently named with a view to outlining the FOR RUSE READERS plan of relief to be extended the setlaw. Untlers under the til this committee, headed by Dr. John A. Widtsoe, secretary of the ing commission, has made its report on the Boise project the department will not be able intelligently to deal with the problem of the settlers, and Dr. Widtsoe and his associates will not be able' to visit the Boise project until after the Denver conference, beginning January 6. Three navy men and a civilian met death at Norfolk, Va., when a naval ambulance seaplane returning from After wandering over the prairies off the North Carolina coast with a for some time after he had jumped hospital patient was swamped at the from a Northern Pacific train nearlHamPton Roada naval air statlon Jamestown, N. D., a man about 30 landing. An additional gift of $500,000 to years old, who gave his name as the E. said a was and Gish he University of Minnesota was an Harley cousin of the two movie stars, Lil- nounced by William H. Eustis, former lian and Dorothy Gish, is in a hos- mayor of Minneapolis, who has given more than $1,000,000 to the university pital in a serious condition. and the Dowling School for Crippled L. Humphreyville, 74 years old, for Children, several years had worked as a jan- President Coolidge hopes to submit Itor in an Denver hoseveral judgeship nominations to the tel. He ate sparingly and slept in a week when congress renext senate small etuffy room near the furnace convenes. There are nearly a dozen room in the basement of the hotel. on the federal bench, Those few who knew him thought he vacancies in the circuit court of three waa penniless. Last week he was 3 found dead, and a bank book in his ?PPea Each member of the jury which clothing showed deposits in a sav- bank of $56,000. Of this, $11,000 quitted Lam Motlow, wealthy St. was deposited only a few days ago, Louis distiller of a charge of murder-th- e book showed. Where he got his ing Clarence T. Pullis, Pullman con- money, no one seemed to know. ductor, received a turkey as a Christ Motlow. Accom- Samuel Shillington, 35, and his 6 mas present from each was a letter inturkey year-dson, who were found dead in panying him if they are their home at Denver, were the vic- viting them to visit in Tennessee. ever tims of a powerful poison. Deputy Coroner George Bostwick said. This Erie railroad shopment to the announcement was made after number of 9000 received a $600,000 chemical analysis of the stomachs of Christmas present when a committee the two dead persons revealed poison representing the several unions and General Manager A. W. Baldwin, on a new wage scale, effect- . an rr y,0Un? TSOr January 1, by which wages are St May raised three cents an hour. The IT motion pic- rate is 70 cents an nt bures of wild animals and strange hour and the avcrage 74 cents. peoples In out of the way nooks of the Orient had to give up their ro- old boy of Elmo Bercciacini, mantle expedition without having Pawtucket, R. I., played the part of seen a single wild animal or any out Santa Claus at his grammar school of the way place but Singapore, was Christmas tree. Then he went home, revealed by several of the party who so proud of his costume that he returned, begrimed from stoking in planned to surprise a neighbor holes or greased with much dish-- ing on the floor above. The starway washing in galleys. The liquor seized from the British vessel London Merchant at Portland, Oregon, is Bafely packed in the ship's stores and State Prohibition Director Cleaver, in a signed statement, made full apology to the owners of the vessel and Captain Anderson that he Germany are about to be introduced Dynasties raided the ship under a mistaken view in the Russian schools. of his powers as a state dry officer. take a second Place in the Iiew books, and the history of wars is of ten per cent in the owed by economics, social history and plantings of winter wheat in Wash- - the story of the people in the various ington and Idaho and an increase of states which make up the republic. 8 per cent in Oregon are estimated The Irish Free State courteously in the December report of the federal division of crop and livestock esti- - but unequivocally defied Great Brit- mates for the Pacific northwest at ain when in a note ,to the league of nations, it declared it was unable to Spokane. Wash. accept the British contention that the Secretary of War Weeks in a tel- - Anglo-Iristreaty of 1921 was not egram received at San Francisco ap- - susceptible to registration with the proved, with conditions a plan to league, bridge the Golden Gate, the entrance serv to San Franciscos harbor. It is es A combined timated the project will cost $21,000,- - ice was held in Belleau wood ln mem 000. ory of the Americans who fell dur ing the war. Julian S. Wadsworth, Five persons were killed, twenty-- a director of the Association for the one miles east of Chehales, Washing- - Preserving of the Memory of the ton, when a tree, huyled over a bluff Chateau Thierry, made an address, as by a high wind, crashed through the did also the Catholic vicar of Belleau. top of an automobile stage. The French government was repre sented and many members of the gy were present. A young married couple, driving Pedro Leon Ugalde, former radical home in a small automobile laden deputy, was convicted by a Santiago, with Christmas packages, died in chili court martial of plotting to sub each others arms when the steering vert public order and instigate went wrong and their car plung- - tion among troops. He was senten-eupside down into Pelham bay, New ced to three years banishment from fact-finder- K. Davison. For nineteen months he saw active duty In that war-torcountry. He was at Chemin des Dames, at Chateau He wus Thierry and at Verdun. gassed slightly In the Toul sector. On March 0, 1918, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government. Three times he was cited in division orders. He was promoted to first lieutenant on August 13, 1918, and recommended for a captaincy before his discharge at Camp Devens on April 29, 1919. Returning home, he studied law for a year, supplementing the two years he had hud at Harvard Law school following his graduation at Dartmouth In 1915. He Is a practicing attorney at Woodsville. For four years lie has been a member of the New Hampshire legislature. Mr. Duvlson was one of the organizers and also first commander of Tracy Itoss Post, No. 20, of the American Legion In Woodsville. lie hns served on various state committees. He was elected senior vice commander for 1924 and In May was chosen as commander to succeed a commander who had resigned. He was unanimousat the annual state conly vention. He has attended ns a New Hampshire delegate the national conventions at Minneapolis. New Orleans, San Francisco and St. Paul. I am alhe to attend says, ready planning, the next convention at Omaha, which I anticipate will be the biggest convention yet. n Post Disapproves Plan of Disabled Veterans Mayor Haker was advised recently by the executive committee of the American Legion post of Portland, Ore., thut the organization opposes the granting of permits to veterans to sell postal cards on the streets, even If those veterans are disabled. The stand of the post was taken when Mayor Baker referred the application of three disabled veterans, who were traveling about In a car designed like a locomotive to attract attention, to the local post of the Legion for consideration. The post explained that the American Legion will make every effort to get compensation for disabled veterans, will pass their cases through the United States Veterans bureau and will find Jobs for men who need them, but It does not approve of methods of tills kind for raising funds. WYOMING fact-fin- d jHIMItUMMIII FRENCH PREMIER GIVEN MOST SEVERE CRITICISM FOR ALLEGED INFLUENCE Stable Conditions In Germany Held to Be Out of The Question If Frontiers Are Invaded I Hive wf Los"f TJn liv-co- al 1 overshad-Decreas- es h Franco-America- n 1 n a large church. The construction force of twenty men laid off at Fort Mackenzie Thanksgiving week when the appropriation made last spring for construction, remodeling and repair work at the fort was exhausted, has been put on again, it was announced by Dr. Richard W. Sopher, officer in charge. Prediction of a return In excess of $9,000,000 on Wyoming's 1923 wool cliiv Is the outcome of the estimate made recently by Byron Wilson, secretary of the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, who places next year's probable-productioof fleeces at 21,000,000-poundsan Increase of 2,000,000 pounds over the 1924 output. Three persons were instantly killed nnd four injured when the automobile ln which they were driving plunged through a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad viaduct on the Salt Creek The highway just north of Casper. Mrs. Minnie dead, all negroes, are Marshall, George Moore and Derry Officer. William I . lustier, who with his brother Fracx E. Kistler organized the for Germany. The belief that Germanys foreign relations have measureably grown worse since the return of the conser. vative element in England is freely expressed in that section of the press which assumes that the present official orientation in England is distinctly hostile to Germanys economic progress and therefore would not disdain to ally itself with French imperialistic currents with the purpose of retarding such progress, even at the risk of impeding the Dawes plan. Neither Germania, the Clerical partys organ, which is close to Chancellor Marx, nor Die Ziefiet, which reflects Foreign Minister Strese. mans views commented on the action of the council of ambassadors. This is taken as an indication that the government will await formal notification of the decision from Paris before undertaking expres- Producers and Refiners Corporation sion. Chancellor Marx will return from his vacation in the middle of the week and immediately will confer with President Ebert on the question of constructing a new government. The present foreign crisis finds the Ger- man internal political situation in a chaos. state of complete Foreign Minister Stresemann is unyielding in his demand that the nationalists should be formally invited to accept representation in the governmennt in order to remove them from the opposition on the floor of the reichstag. The socialists, on the other hand, declared that a government in which the Westarp.Von Tirptiz party plays a dominant role wmuld be wholly unYork. Chili. suited to deal with a situation growTwelve employes of the Lehigh The delegation from the British ing out of continued occupation in Valley Coal company at Scranton, trades union congress which has just violation of Germanys treaty rights. Pa., who ar to take a vote next returned to London from a six weeks' Dr. Stresseman is liberally blamed week on the question of joining in tour of inspection to Russia, in by a section of the press for having sympathy strike with the 12,000 em- - preliminary report declares that the precipitated a parlimentary crisis ployes of the Pennsylvania Coal com- - social, economic and industrial condi which leaves Germany with a roughly pany, who have been idle three weeks tions in Russia have enormously im improvished transitional government were warned by District Union lead- - proved since a trade union delega to deal with a critical foreign situaera that any such action would be tion made a similar visit in 1920 tion. Surprise also is expressed that recognized at a violation of union while the delegates agreed that ra neither Marx nor Stresseman discusslaws, and would be dealt vyith accord- - pid progress in economic restoration ed the evacuation of the Cologne , ingly. now js going on. bridgehead at the London conferences. The national elimination balloon The streets of London are beconi race will be held at St. Joseph, Mo., ing increasingly perilous. During Says New Jersey Is Wettest on Memorial day next year, according the first ten months of 1924 more New York. New Jersey is the to a letter received at St. Joseph than 600 person, were killed anJ wettest state in the Union, William from the National Aeronautic associ- - 61,964 injured in street accidents, II. Walker, assistant Chief Enforceation by Carl Wolfley, Missouri gov- - This is an average of 100 deehs pi ment Agent E. C. Yellowley, in comernor of the organization. The win- annum more than 1923. Due to this mand of the New YorkNew Jersey ner of the event will be the United increasing traffic danger Londoners said. His squad has made area, States entry in the international con- - are becoming moi interested daily raids and seizures in test in Europe. in safety first measures. New Jersey recently. Frank Furst, 75 year-olmillion- Emilio Gallcri, the noted Italian Mississ'ppi Has Bad Fire aire president of the Arundel cor- - sculptor, died suddenly. His most Miss. An entire business Corinth, to monument of include a Baltimore, Md., declined noted works poration, block on the west side of Courthouse a $75,000 gift voted him by the di- - Garibaldi, recently erected in the square here was destroyed by fire. The company needs it more dens of the Janiculum at Rome, and Early estimates of the damage place than I do at my age, he said. a monument to King Victor Emman It at between $1,500,000 and $2,000,-00in 1911 at Rome, Among the build'ngs destroyed The total movement of freight uel II, dedicated were the postoffice, Drakes jewelry has Club France The of Aero through the canals at Sault St. Marie the navigation season just daily ratified the new worlds speed store, the old opera house, the Corclosed aggregated 72,037,390 short airplane recoid of 448.171 Kilometers inth Bank & Trust company, O. W. to announced tons, according per hour made by Adjutant Floren-b- MeCulley's store and the Ford mufigures the United States engineers office, tine Bonnet at Istrees, December 11. seum. The firs is believed to have The figures compare with 91,379,658 This record was 278.48 miles pel started from an oil heater in a in the 1923 season. hour I sedi-ge- ar d Would Name Dirigible for American Legion American Legion Is the name suggested to Secretary Wilbur of the Navy department for the German built dirigible ZR-3- , by the American Legion post at ltellniore, N. Y. In regard to the naming of the giant dirigible, recently arrived in this country, as part of the reparations program, a Legion ollicial here declared: In the name American Legion for our newest air acquisition there would be no regional dissatisfaction Inasmuch as the Legion Is a national organization extending from coast to coast. The name Is especially fitting when one considers that both the ZIt-and the American Legion are the outgrowth of the World war. 3 Will Locate and Mark Illinois Heroes Graves The military and naval department of the state of Illinois Is compiling a record of the burial places of nil soldiers, sailors, marines Had army nurses of all wars who are buried In Illinois. The plun is to mark every grave appropriately and to uid patriotic organ- izations to locate and decorate graves on memorial days. The American Legion, department of Illinois, has been asked to assist in locating unmarked graves of veterans and to send in the locations of all marked graves so that the exact spot of every person's grave In the state may be charted. The United States government furnishes headstones for graves of It war dead upon request. - sixty-seve- n d gar-rector- 0. offi-durin- g INMIinimilHIlHIIMHimHIlHNIMINIHMj Wyoming, represented by Herbert Woodman and Ralph Conwell, won the debate with Oxford University at Laramie by an o erwhelming vote of the audience. The vote was 465 for the cowboy debaters and 154 for the English team. During the month of November, federal, state and association hunters killed in the state of Wyoming 342 predatory animals. Most of the kills consisted of coyotes. Hunter I)., E. Crouch of Encampment got two mountain liens and one bobcat. Anvil M. Itumfell, employee of the Midwest Refining Company, was found dead floating in a crude oil tank at Salt Creek by fellow employees. He had gone for a bucket of crude oil and had been overcome by gas fumes. He was the father of six children. II. Roe Bartle, for two years Hoy Scout executive In Casper, which boasts the largest organization in the state, submitted his resignation at the annual meeting of the scout council to accept a similar position nt St. Joseph, Mo., where his father is pastor of the-radical ence i I The $100,000 bond issue for construction of water works and the $65,000 bond issue for sewer system construction have been favorably passed at a recent election at Laramie. Berlin. The decision of the council of ambassadors to postpone indefinitely the evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead unloosed a storm of bitter editorial comment in the Ber. lin newspapers. The most severe criticism of the alleged surrender of M. Herriot, the French premier, to external influences oddly enough appears in the German liberal organs, which, since the London conference, had been inclined to view the French prime minister as the harbinger of a new era in relations. M. Herriot, using Marshal Fochs sabre, is not a very inspiring sight, remarks Theodore Wolff in a caustic editorial in the Tageblatt, in which he refers to lame Herriot in connection with the premiers recent indisposition. Wolff charges M. Herriot with having handed the German nationalists a bracing tonic. The French premier failed to re. main true to himself and permitted the moral ground on which he was standing to slip away, the democratic Boersen Courier says. Vorwearts, organ asks whether it will be a historic function of the year 1925 to undo all that has been accomplished in the nature of pacific reconstruction during 1924. It asserts that stable conditions in Germany are out of the question while her Rhineland frontiers are invaded or armed forces remain on German soil. The problem in the opinion of George Bernhard of the Vossosche Zeitung, has an immediate bearing on the unhampered functioning of the Dawes plan, which, he says, presupposes complete economic independFranco-Germa- i Lander increased her 1924 shipments of honey from a half million pounds In 1923 to 64,964 pounds thl year which were billed out in seventeen cars. I d LATE NEWS Ft cm Ail Over DISLIKE DECISION s ac-in- Harold ' BERLIN PAPERS under the laws of Wyoming about six years ago, has tendered his resignation as president and director of that orDec. 15. The ganization effective name of his successor has not yet been announced. Nellie Tayloe Ross, governor-elec- t of Wyoming, has invited no one to witness her Induction ln office January 5th, and will Issue no invitations. She desires that the inauguration ceremony shall be as simple as is possible because of the tragedy of the circumstances which were responsible for my election to the governorship. William T. S. Barnes was sentenced to two years In the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, and his son, Arthur S. Barnes, was sentenced to fifteen months on a charge of using the mails to defraud, following a verdict of by a Jury ln the guilty returned United States District Court at Cheyenne. William Hooper, a third defendant, was acquitted by the jury. The growing of large quantities of Great Northern beans may he the next agricultural development in Sheridan county. IL J. Ilealoh, manager of the Billings office of the Idaho Bean & Elevator Company of Troy, Ida., was ln the county last week buying beans grown by farmers at Parkman and by Bert Black of Decker, Mont. An Interesting International rifle match was shot between the Shoshonl Rifle Club of Shoshonl nnd the Hawick, Scotland Miniature Rifle Club. The match was shot by correspondence, nnd the distance was fifty feet Indoors. Seven men to the team, the high five to count only, and a series of three matches was shot on November 1, 8 and 15. The result was a decisive victory for the Wyoming team. Books of Rolterts Brothers, Peterson, Shirley & Gunther, general contractors for the North & South railroad, show that the general contractors have a balance of $238,056.56 due for work already done but for which payment has not been made, Ike Frost, bookkeeper for the company, testified Ht the opening of the million dollar railroad lajvsult In District Court at Buffalo. The reopening of (he Firt State Bank of Orejbull recently, after seven months' suspension, with the same official force and without loss to the depositors, seems to be unique in hanking experience. Its closing last April was due solely to business depression and not chargeable to any mismanagement of the banks affairs. II. O. Cliappel of Casper is retained as president. Mr. Chappel will continue to reside in Casper where he Is active in the affairs of the Natrona Power Company. The bank Is capitalized at $30,-00- 0 and reports deposits of $215,000. |