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Show DR. SCOTT DENIES LEGION STATEMENT OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. Oct II A statement denying that ho had characterised the American legion as a "dying organisation" waa made here today by Dr. Hugh Scott, executive officer of the United States veterans' bureau. I. Scott wsg quoted In dispatches dis-patches from New Cries ns on October 19 to the effect that he regarded Pres-; Pres-; jl Ident Harding's veto of the adjusted j compensation Mil as the death blow of M the legion. His denial waa made throuah tho executive headquarters of V, the Oklahoma department of the W miican legion, and was Issued over tho signature of Leon H. Brown, state J adjutant. Ltr. Scott Ua a resident of j this city. |