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Show REPORTED KILLED IN WAR, G1LLIN AIDS S0LDIERPAL5 Conducts Active Fight for Justice in Behalf of Wounded Yanks WASHINGTON. March 11. In a burial field in Krani-e la a cross, marking the grave of a fallen American Amer-ican soldier, inscribed:. -O. K. H. Gillln. Co. A. 9th Mg. Bn., 2nd I.t.r But George Gillln. who wa of (on-pany (on-pany A. lh machine gun hattallon. Insists that, government records nol-wlthstandlng. nol-wlthstandlng. he Is very much alive. That fact already has been Impressed upon army authorities, and cognisance - has been taKrn of Oil Un a status as still among the living. Congress, too. will have to e'rtlfy that (llllln Is a mighty live casuul'y, for during the net session the National Na-tional ll!abled Koldiors' league, of which Gillln Is the head, proposes to ware an active fight for "Justice for the disabled soldier.' OP-EM OVARTRHM. Headquarters for a national legls-latlvs legls-latlvs committee of the organisation have been opened In ashlngton and all disabled buddies are Invited to help dig in. "Congress tells us that It Is In aym-psthy aym-psthy with us." says James Mellen, chairman of the league's national leg-Islatlve leg-Islatlve committee. "We don t wsnt svmpsthT TV- rn flnrl Hut -fn the-dictionary. the-dictionary. We do demand Justice. "Through this organisation, which now has I S posts and about 100.000 members, the men who have sustained disabilities In the service are taking their causa into their own hands. "Congress has been saying thers are o many organisations trying to represent rep-resent the disshled soldier that It couldn't tell what the men wanted. We are In a position to tell them, and we ask other soldier organisations to keep their hands oft the disabled sodller question. AI,L DISABLED. Like Gillln. who officially, at leaat cams back from tha dead to lead the fight of disabled veterans, the lesgue .of fleers are men who saw over-seaa over-seaa service and "got theirs" In the heat of action. "W may have been disabled, but we've got lots of right in us yei," Mellen says. "We don't ask: ws demand de-mand Juatlce. The country and con greas owes it to us, and wa rs going to gat Jt |