Show AltIERI AMERICAN CAN LEGION FUND IS GROWING As final preparations were being made In Indiana Illinois and Kentuck Kentucky to fo start active work on the American Legion I Endowment fund und preliminary steps were taken to extend the move rno movement movement ment to a second group consisting or of 12 states most of them In tile the South The states In the second group are Virginia North Carolina South Caro Caro- Carolina linn linn lina Georgia Florida Alabama Mis Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Tennes- Tennes Tennessee see lee ee W West t Virginia and ami Ohio At Ar the same time It was announced that Judge Jurle W BIngham 0 of Louisville and und publisher ot or the Louisville Journal Courier has lias accept accept- acc accepted accepted pt ed the chairmanship of the lime executive committee to direct the endowment movement In n Kentucky Stearns Steams post Stearns Steams Ky n minin town fown with a population ot of 11 Is the first Legion post In the entire country to co go 0 over o the top In the movement The goal goul for 01 the post was set at nt tour four hours liours after the post learned the he amount a n check for was S on Its wa way to national at Indianapolis The first posts to 10 send end contributions for the fund to national headquarters were Eugene post Eugene Ore and C II H Berry post Penn Tiro Oregon post sent 7 75 and the other 1713 Adjutant Arthur S Wolfe ot of the Tamaqua post said This Tills represents represents otI I lents the lie voluntary contributions from the members of ot this post such con con- contributions contributions having been taken talen after each ench post meeting for the lie last few v months Cardinal OConnell O'Connell of Boston was the first member of tiro national hon hon- honorary lo committee for or the fund und to 10 con contribute contribute tribute to It Ills His contribution was al air alto so among the first received Lloyd W Kendall Legionnaire of Fanner City Iii sent a n check for fur 5 for tor the fund I am vcr very strong tron for fortins this move mo he said and only wish I Iwas Iwas Iwas was financially able to donate 50 o or William B Bogg Boggs no of oC the department of cabled caLled that the Canal Zone pled pledges es 2500 JOO to the fund The forel foreign n departments of the Legion were given no quotas but hut asked to give what hat the they could Panama was the first to respond lion John W Davis Democratic candidate for President nt In 10 1924 1 j cabled from Paris that he Is glad to serve as asa asa asa a member of the national honorary committee e for or the fund Other recent acceptances on the committee are Mrs Mary Mal Mar Lord ord on New York city cHr wife of the late lale President Benja Benjamin min Olin William Green Wash Wash- Washington In ington ron president of the American Fed Federation of Labor Otto iL II Karin Kahn New NewYork NewYork York banker hanker Will WI II 11 Hays s 's New York cIty president of Motion Picture Pro Pro- Producers Producers Producers and Inc John It B QuInn Los Angeles past national com commander mander ot of the lie American Legion m Bishop hop Charles II Brent Buffalo chief che of the chaplain service Ice In the Hie A E F Booth Indianapolis author au- au author au author thor V M 1 Johnson Hockford Ill III president ot of Kiwanis International i James B E Chandler Imperial potentate of the Nobles of ot the Mystic Shrine i iCharles Charles Dana Gibson New York city artist Gen James A Thomas Dub Dub- Dublin Dublin lin Un Ga ln ln chief tn-chief of the United Confederate Veterans Gen John II Dunn Boston commander chief in- in chief of the Veterans of Forel Foreign n Wars John Drew r New York YorI city actor |