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Show commander, led the processii He walked alone, followed by t-"" aides. The national and leg; colors were carried ahead of hi jl Behind Murphy came n see1 L ingly endless line of march. f hundred gaily-bedecked bar blared. Four hundred drum a bugle corps promenaded. One hi dred fifty Forty and Eight i gines and box cars clanged th bells. The city quit work and watiU' I eel. All department stores elos p It was 30 minutes before t parade answered the questl which swept the nation alter t ;TI'.J legion's 11)33 Chicago convent! 1 IT "Where's Elmer?" J "Elmer," masqueraded this ycllF'-as ycllF'-as Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, St. Loi ,is ( Cardinal pitcher, walked alone, i .. ,, tired in a flaming red bnsi'b ''" , uniform, staging a pantomime, i'11' The San Gabriel, Cal., drum a bugle corps, immaculate in t regulation blue and gold, murt11'1 ed in the position of honor belli''8 . Commander Murphy. -tr01 There was a bedlam of nmrlf,1 music. Scottish bagpipes and b1' foonery by the Forty and Eie,h 0 100,000 March In American Legion Cleveland Parade CLEVELAND, Sept. 22 (U.R) American Legionnaires and Iheir affiliates dispensed with convention business today for ii spectacular parade of 100,-1)00 100,-1)00 marchers that will last for 11 hours. As a foretaste, the Forty and Eight conducted its own pa-rude pa-rude down littered Euclid avenue and into Cleveland stadium last night. Martin A. Blecke, deputy traffic commissioner, estimated 400,000 persons crushed in for the three and one-half hour spectacle. Led by a band from Fargo, N. D., "La Societe Des Quai'ante Homines Kt Huit Cheveaux," frocked in amazing coloi-H, rang locomotive bells, shot off miniature minia-ture cannons and in- general created cre-ated an uproar. The - legion suspended all business busi-ness at its eighteenth annual convention con-vention to march through the city in a spectacle expected to take 11 hours passing the reviewing stands. J. Ray Murphy, plump legion |