Show SEEK NAMES OF NEXT OF KIN community posts to asce ascertain ertain addresses of 0 those expecting bodler to be sent home while tile tho american american legion la Is dying to perfect arrangements with alth the air war department to assist lit in assuring relatives lathes le of prompt notification following tile lie arrival of remains of Sine ricas soldier dead front from overseas wort word tins has reached national headquarters headquarter a of t tile the legion that a bo body 1 I y of one of these heroes recently lay ned on a hoboken pier iier tor for nearly a week with the next of kin totally ignorant Ignon int of its turri valt according to of a lesion heglon post la in the fallen soldiers home community no notification or of the blodys arrival was as sent to relatives by the war department tile tho legionnaires it Is said learned of tile the case through indirect ch channels annelI and telegraphed department part ment headquarters of tho legion in new york city which arranged for shipment of tile the body to its final resting place the legion post took charge of the funeral and the remains an were ere interred with appropriate military tary honors when tile the plan to return certain bodies from froin ovo overseas was wan art t announced noun ced the american legion endeavored to make inake arrangements with the war department to receive notification of shipment in order that national headquarters ot of the legion might write direct to the lie of kin anil and offer the iho services of the alie local po posts ats in assisting with tile he arrange monts lit in case relatives relate ei desired tills nut but the government offic inist decided decide they could not give ehe out tills this information and compromised with nil an offer to circularize the next of 0 kin kill to tile the effect that the legion would ile bo glad to operate cooperate co in extending lionor honor to te I 1 tile the memory of these heroes in a bulletin forwarded to cavil of the more anoro than legion posts throughout the united states le lemuel mile Il otles national adjutant asks these community posts posta to ascertain the ille names of men of their respective localities cali ties who tiled died overseas and whose bodler are being returned and notify legion national headquarters of tho the names and tid dresses of the next of kin kill in order that it way may take atel steps Is to prevent if possible rt recurrence nce of nn an Int incident ident such at as flint recent recently if rp rf ported from new york news dispatches pay that tn in certain cases it lias has lippit impossible to locate lite next of kin after a body I 1 ams I 1 ft a a nr r rived and tho the government has interred such remains in one rif of ti t if p natio national nill C cemeteries the legion tins hns offered nil all its reso resource urco to tile the war department to assist ng in preventing blunders of this bind |