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Show 1939 the ,s for THE WEEKLY RKKHEX This year the American Leg on comes of age' in more re spects than or.e. Not only t" it 1939 American Legion Convention Chicago's Famed Coliseum Bring to the organization's ink twenty-firs- t Light? e , 1 i No onojiitau can claim-- 1 A ppcial phonograph record, which it ia claimed will enable students of foreign languages to study simultaneously by eye and ear, has been invented in Japan. ADVENTURERS CLUB o Clay As Clothin" Natives who daub themselves with wet clay as a protection against the cold in the highlands have Jeen discovered near the Equator in Dutch HEADLINES FROM THE tlVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI New Guinea. MmoIkt Molly Pilcher" . J 1 El. I.O. HYEKYnOPY. TihI.iv s sou! s t i nn - - HOTELS - turn o! ,i hi u , hit!,. nv.lh.M u ho vv.k du.it Mv all. ili! of ,miu- - but at tab! oi Nothin1, at all wlu n cot not ation hi i olui.s It u d o i a a ni i o of hoi homo i tho 1! ittU of. Monmotit h .it! ovoi a. 'am 014 i omomher, or do von. how m tha nupogtaiTf ou.m.o-mon- t at KroehoUl, N J., avvav h.wk on duno t1;!, l?7!i, Mollv IlL'hoi took thu placo of hoi laish.md, dohn ( lav an ,u aftor ho vvas vvyimdid, and sorvod his gnu, thus prevotUniiMts oapturo In tho Butish Thats a v.n'n that ovorv d Amoi u an a t a ku k out ot overy tinio ho Motel PlanJemc i ! f i , 4iL Hi t H) . , rod-hlon- to 12 ato tha t and I I I - . 1 i F t F I i M'l . I i'-istic- a (he N -- Rffiu'i (HipuUi hots F f A Q 'LgS. NtVU KF NO lU mni F I laev-- I of ht n m W Silt Lake RIm SUti. st A the founder of the America r APARTMENT HOTEL g.on, got the idea fro", a IUo k flint) Irfiiptf. Kcoaonnblr KolMt 4lnj i' wounded seigeant m a hos rf tiunilli omnlrlrlv furnNhrd Ho said we should form an oi HU HMOMi To f N., Tempi Malt kv ization of eferans of the u FURNITURE r LINOLEUM adding, we have stuck tog-- ' in the bad times; let's slu k t K tor h (Vvt'tr, yd 3V hi ih gethrr m the good ones roads it! rj l Hair Unr On n ai, as $11 $19 9$ .tf After that. I talked with Wv. M t' 'iMe U. IIS $6 9k It is mu'htv oomlortin::, ! want i u ll von. to know tlioro Lamp i of people, many of u MNMsIilMt nr am Molly 1itohors in ovorv 19 Smith HUt Malt Ctt ';w nn ation, sti'ppini: forvvani Strwt had been thanking on these la os foarlossly to taku tlu plaoos of thou inon vvlion iu'ooss.h'v. Tlio problem was to get tie i NEW and USED ACCORDIONS Just such a woman is todays distmpuishod advotituror. ganization under w ay The had been declared. I asked Aerordiono 8 .Moot Mrs. John Doohn, of I.oinont. 111., who did ai.ood job" Vlr Hmlth at th llah Miiair fa, l3 hoot Broadway some regular army friends at G at Balt hor i ah ono that tnakos fool Fit. I tah all warm anil writing story, you 11. Q. if soldiers from eai h of of our womanhood. Thov call women tho vvoakor sox. WEATHER the American divisions then in proud STRIP b INSULATION France could be ordered to lhu is O yeah? Just put their hacks to the wall If you want the Now is tha tlm to InaiiUt a rut weather strip to discuss the idea., They told proof, read how- Mr.s Doolin, single handed, whipped a rather high homa with Rork Wool and Frntei haiulrd to seemed he that to a over one. Jur Strip fast nu they cotiMnor-rfdirectcorporation put trying that Writ for rnvnpleta Information. Not a railroad came through the village of I.einont, long after Intarmaantain Waathar Htrlp Ca. ly, but that they could order su. h ? Fiat 7th Hoath Half l.afca City. T, where the lloolinn had their home, there were a number of accia group of men to meet in Fans dents on a sharp curve close to the lloolln property. The and discuss the morale ot the INEXPENSIVE MEALS wanted to straighten the line by putting It across the American troops. Doolin yard. Surveyors staked out the new right of way; workers Th brat LmhI In Salt Ijtky la served bp We held the meeting on moappeared and began digging. John Doolin ordered them off. The MAYFLOWER CAKE rale Afterwards, at a dinner, Then he took the first train (o Chicago and there consulted his 1M South Mein rorill.AR PRICED t we discussed plans for a veterLunrheona, li rtner and Handwiehe good friend. Attorney Alexander Sullivan. ans organization. All agreed on Actions of Company Held Illegal by Attorney. certaiif principles. The first was HEMORRHOID TREATMENT that no difference should be made ' Mr Sullivan told him the company had no right to put Its line on .th.r mill II. Doolin property without permission. Hut. he continued (and heres the Il.in.rrh.Mt (PI I KS) tand rd.r. rand wlthmt K. knlfv P.r llt.ra-lar-a aad Infararatlta trill catch), if the company succeeded in erecting the poles and stringing 1 H - Student Aid an- nual convention, btit, accord. ng to National Commander Stephen F. Chadwick, the 1939 assembh of the veterans will have a more serums tone than ever before It will be provided by 'Amer.oan first- - convei.Lon Democracy, keynote m Legion history. Moreover, eomentum program plans call for large-scalparticipat.eo by the wives, sons and daughteis of the Legionnaires who will ao company them to Chicago. - The history of the Arnei ,i t Legion goes back to the ve'ai find io l.ii's, France. That told Ty Col Theodore It m one of its founders, ; , Chapter in Nation's. Presidential History Hew PACE THUF- the Chicago Coliseum, where the American Legion 1939 national convention ill open The view was taken daring the Republican national convention of 1912 when a plan to delegates with the appearance of Theodore Roosevelt, who was later progressive candidate, was abandoned. the first time. The plan to smuggle named as the Tedih to the spe Akers nlat-fo- r e - your he Je;ldg riling Out goj ' didn't me pf-- d ever) eighber. ise, flu out the topTe wishes right-ear-o- tour-ye- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ld (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) national convention which meets for the first time Legion, of scene the of three nomination a Chicagos Coliseum, has brought to light a new jents of the United States, Jin American presidential history. It is the story of a i smuggle Teddy Roosevelt into the regular back in 1912, which, if it had succeeded, tell have changed the course of events in this country 25 years, I the last t story was told for the ae recently by Charles veteran manager of 1 1 Collins, executive president of the Legion Ide dw it pictir comfari litter. ;rt sna' little fc, n!" porsrBj ndesce ormof npedop : W. chain ation Qhering of snaires for the thousands of from all parts in that historic hall on September lie incident has addi-- 1 country e sntion of the figure i 1339 sessidn will be iiys son, Col. Theodore interest because tat a prominent welt, who obe e; lemanl corporation, were W arrangements just Legion years his credentials ielegate he will walk, unwed, into the very hall Bearing river a! The b. op of h ession, a with k the n gave d. thing e a father was kept entering by the use of wire! ; let on was-give- his d ther. Charles R. Hall, asone of the 1912 plot- tell the himself: story Democratic party at Bal-keady had nominated Wilson and Thomas R. hen the regular Re-3- s e ate; ecked convention June 5 opened in the 18. for padothing was Repub-f- h to renominate Howard Taft, who was feting his term as Pres-e- r was an undercurrent with the record ..ction . had made in the White JJiere was repeated Roosevelt still a l? r So Wed along while 5 debated in their aether or not to renomi- - r vote-gettin- g. ffif 'YJk convention marked approached by the W. Porter, a Chicago who was a strong aupporter. 1 k in Chicago,-he- Could you 1 C. ttmvention. I (fco Porter Charles R. Hall, veteran manager of the Coliseum, looks over the official badges of some' of the national nominating conventions by held in that building. He Is wearing a scarfpin presented to him 1912. In convention National Progressive Theodore Roosevelt after the answered. convention delegates MeinS Teddy, do XU ers' met in the Coliseum and stone wall which was its front Mxl da7 I found 'Plot' had nominated Roosevelt and Sen. Hiram Johnson- of California as rdered to their candidates on the Progresgarbed wire along sive party ticket. StfoS, frT0nt of the In addition to contributing this to l 5 item gUCSS wer?; the American political history, 'Planted r of veteran manager of the Coliseum surf1 tion, a a demon-- is also an authority on another up story which links this building . Md on him to te with another historic structure. arettj was the famous Libby prisThat nt hat their on in Richmond, Va., of Civil K have war days which was moved to . - t Ifwouldnt W bad gone Chicago, piece by piece, 50 years rt 1 was ago, and rebuilt on the present a secret site of the Coliseum. a tunnel few During the Civil war Libby was -as the Palace Prison of known 5eta''syaudthen 40,000 up. short the Confederacy where offthem of most Union soldiers, The main barbed have been be- - icers, were confined. i prison was originally a tobacco 17 dictly delegate X in the warehouse, made of .. bricks which were brought tothis ,dne from England. While wuld country the for the delegates, Chicago World s fair plans 8erSe CLINIC l.aha City Hall In.lrum.nl Hoapltal Supply Manufa,turra of Abdominal Sup portara. Elaitla Htocklnva. Tha fhyatetana Bapply Campaay P W Sad South at - Balt Laka City. Utah fturclral TruMa OFFICE EQUIPMENT ' NRW AND USED dtak and chaira. lira, lyp.wrll.ra, addi.f mrh'a. aafaa, hk taiw S. L. DESK EX- - 11 W. Wraadway. Ball Lafca o-- CINDER BUILDING BLOCKS ! . af hard cllnktra and m ratal. Lirht Rlphaat InttMtlta. AUrartlr. Kira Ttrmlta pratf. Itwip.tt.lva. Kttdartiin. Clttdar Wlarh. la.., ITS W. STlh Ha.. Ball Laha Mad triihl. Bl. .USED TRUCKS .x. COL. TIIF.ODORF. ROOSEVELT 111 ChraroMt, LW 11 ller finger was on tbe trigger and she was all aet to pull It. m Kord, the power wire, the only thing Doolin could do would be to go to court. those who had served John Doolin didnt have any money to pay for long years of litigation io overseas and those who had not he beat It for home, resolved to keep the company off his premises. as the desire to serve was what There, sticking up In the lawn, was a nice new pole that had been put op while he waa In the city. counted. The second, that the John sawed the pole half way through. Then he borrowed a Legion was to be a democratic in rifle which and ammunition from a neighbor. there organization, A f;v days la.ter, on a bright June morning In 1903, a policeman should be no question of rank, full appeared with a warrant charging John Doolin with destroying public and privates would get chance to tell the generals what property. John marched sway with the law. leaving three children crythey thought of them. Third and ing. a wife on the verge of 1L No sooner was John Doolin out of sight than a crew of workmen last, the organization should concern itself with policies, not with warmed on the place and began digging so furiously you would think they were being paid a dollar a shovelfull. Was little Mrs. Doolin going partisan politics. Next an organization committee was appointed. to let them get away with It? Up to the attic she hurried. There, forEric Fisher Wood was named getting she shivered at the very sight of a firearm, she took from thg secretary, Bennett Clark, today wall a shotgun that had hung undisturbed for many years. With her children clinging to her and crying again, she senator from Missouri, vice chairopened the window shuttera, and rested the ancient fowling piece man, and I, chairman. on the sill. Then, in a cold fury, ahe called down to the working We decided to hold two meetmen: ings, one in Paris and the other Throw down your tools or Ill shoot! in the practically simultaneously They stopped working and began to kid her. United States. Bennett Clark, Eric Wood and a number of othForeman Orders Men to Take Gun From Iler. ers took the responsibility for the Come Then one bully, who appeared to bd tho foreman, ordered: Paris caucus. I had been or- on, guys, lets go up and take it away from her." Mrs. Doolin leaned dered home, and agreed to arlittle farther out of the window and lifted the rusty shotgun. range the caucus at home. The first man who takes a step toward my house gets shot, she Now all of you drop your tools or Ill start shooting." The Paris meeting went of? in called: And boys and girls, Sirs. Doolin meant exactly what she said. splendid shape. Everyone was interested and enthusiastic. All She waa a determined mother, protecting her home and babies units were represented, and priIn the absence of her husband. Of course, she thought the gun ' wasnt loaded, but her finger waa on the trigger and she waa all vates as well' as generals were set to poll It if any one of those men made a move In the delegates. Incidentally, there was of the honse. Bot their tools went down. no trouble in getting delegates to This lodestone. a The workmen sensed this was real drama, not a comedy, and they go. Paris was Amerithe sober. One spoke up to say the company had sent them there became name, group adopted to them can Legion. The name had been to rush up a couple of poles. Plucky Mrs. Doolin not asked had perthe before on the that her were father company used by my property, that they for to a of offered nor It he formed it use to mission when pay group war, Americans who had experience Well, air, when those men got the low down on the proposiYou win, lady, youre in to serve them tion they took off their hats and cheered. which qualified a game guy, they told her. We arent doing any more digging the army in case of need. until you get a square deal." Meanwhile, I returned to this With that they picked up their tools and went to town. Mrs. Doolin vetwith other some and country, but would the men be back tomorrow? Would the erans, arranged for a caucus. We bad won her battle, for threatening Its workmen? And what had arrested rented an office in New York city company have her husband? of her become and got in touch with OlTtcials Refuse to Prosecute Doolin. men in every state, asking them sailand soldiers the to organize Pondering these questions, Mr.. Doolin went to the door and ors in their community, elect delxras overjoyed tokeh her husband coming up the walk. lie hadn t egates and come to St. Louis on been In Jail at all. The policeman bad taken him before a justice May 8, 1919. ef the peace, but no one In tbe courtroom was willing to prosecute The first order of business him. He thought he understood why he had been taken away on a charge no one would press when Mrs. Doolin told him the was the election of a permanent . been back. But when the told him how ahe had pointed men chairman. We selected Col. HenSoutha The shotgun at them and really Intended to pull the trigger, he ry D. Lindsley of Texas, ern Democrat, thereby giving the felt a' little taint. For that old rim waa loaded! corporation, it lie to those who said it was to be Well, there was one thing about the the worries next The licked. morning was very a Republican organization. Next, always knew when it we confirmed the actions taken of the Doolin family were over. Right after breakfast two suave lawyers by the Paris caucus, such as the called to say how sorry they were it had happened. There had been selection of The name, American a mistake. The company was willing to pay a good price for the land. Legion, and adopted a declaraAnd they paid, right on the line, thank to the little woman who didnt conand a of faith temporary tion know when ahe was licked., (Released by Western Newspaper Union.1 stitution. We provided an organization to carry on until the fall, when the first real convention Honoring Veterans Dorse Sense was called in Minneapolis. There of firing three volleys custom The warrior Grecian famed representatives of both Paris and InUlysses, of a deceased vetover tho at grave the with Trojans, battle the St. Louis meetings would be, and the old Roman from derived Is aceran to to war, want go the American Legion could take first didnt over the cofof earth custom madcasting to Pretending legend. cording i final form. dead the by name three on a fisherman's hat, fin, calling ' At Minneapolis on November ness, he put Vale three then and times to saying started up plow and horses 10 our convention assembled. We yoked la the vale word The times. uncovwas trick His the ground. elected 'as commander Franklin The for farewell. word Latin aside horses firing turned the K. DOlier, of New Jersey, adopt- ered when be ion lying on of three volleys is equivalent to sayed a permanent constitution, and as he saw his Infant the ing farewell to the deceased. plow, the ground In front of the Legion came into being. B L. W 425 0 B. S9S04 ton Studebaktr, IVfcIJiO 126 Chavrolat, Up L. W U. CAPITAL CHEVROLET BttUr Oral" "Alwnya TTT ga. fltal. Waa. 4S7T Salt Laka City 1V1S between then-explain- get cnvention unseen? twer was: Of course ibe nt of the fffee esde the chair-- C.charger Rida. TRUSSES on e ajj Trarlrira 111 -l ISIS Dodit. KIO h.ary n m-to- n U W. ii Dual IMS Port! 1917 CMC Poll Cah OSS Int.rnoUonal C40 (M)M S7 0 MS M I7S.0 forward TERMS Mack IT Ra. Trucks-FactoMain-- Branch rv WaaaUh TIM Laka City Salt KODAK FINISHING PRINTS 25c 16 Roll D-- v and RKX PHOTO It .print. 1&. IS OODKN. tS, UTAH PHOTO-KRAF- T i Although the ftUKUCAL, A ..... helped organ-h-e 20 movement was the Chicago historian and collector, C. F. Gun- rom-pan- v 20-to- while he and liseum, under way, a movement was started to purchase Libbv prison and move it to the city on the lake as a Cuil war museum. Prominent in this The work of moving the prison from Richmond to Chicago began in December, 1883. Each board, beam, timber, and block of stone was numbered and letdeclared Phil Collins, to whom tered and the task of transportMr. Hall was relating the inci- ing these and the 800,000 bricks in the main structure required the dent. I remember what hapcars by the Chespened at that convention a wom- use of 132 n an delegate mentioned Roos- apeake & Ohio railway. The prisevelts name and it started a dem- on was rebuilt on the site of the onstration which lasted for two present Coliseum, and. hours before it could be as a war museum on September 21, 1889 (just 50 years and four stopped. Theres not a doubt about it, days before the opening of this Ive often years Legion convention!) Apagreed Mr. Hall. wondered why the plan was nev- propriately enough, its first meeter carried through. All I know is ing was a G. A. R. reunion. that George Porter and his Meanwhile a massive battlement, friends dropped the matter. I which was designed to provide a never asked him why and he nev- flashy front for the museum, er volunteered the information. was built along the Wabash avenue side of the transplanted pris. . . But I wish they had gone I was ready for my part on from stone that was quarried ahead. within tie Chicago city limits of in it.J As the Coliseum man- that time. Thousands of visitors, before ager fingered an scarf-pi- n in his tie, he Continued : and during the 1893 World's fair, Maybe if they had gone ahead I were attracted to the museum wouldnt have had this pin. You and its historical relics. However, n to me by 'Ted- this old prison museum was see, it dy' himself. But that was six torn down in 1900 to make way weeks later when the Bull Moos- - for the present Coliseum but the Repub-coeventi- went om 1939 iie American a Sgested preparing for the work of enextr t of 1893 wore - ant-at-ar- tsSS? J & S go-Lrif- r 13-in- ch I 1 still faces on Wabash avenue, Relics in the museum became scattered, some of them being given to the Chicago Historical society where they are still preserved. Bricks of the prison were distributed to G. A. R. posts throughout the country and some of them were sold for a dollar apiece, But even in Mr. Hall recalls. we excavated when recent years, to provide a pool for the diving horse of a circus or for other purposes, some of those old bricks from Libby prison came to fealight. The floors and other have been Coliseum of the tures altered dozens of times to meet the needs of special events. But one distinctive feature remains unchanged. Our outside walls, with their turrets- - and observation posts, today are exactly as they were when they surrounded the transplanted historic Libby prison. ECONOMY FILM SERVICE Any Roll Dsvolopod with 8 Quality Frists - - - d5c 3c Prints Wrap coin md film csrofully Eitu SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- DRUGS N los 749 Salt Lak. City. 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