Show Q I 1 an le avio 11 JB y i n cp copy tor for this dr nt by fia 0 jV jant R arn Amerl hicom cin la agton nw now LEGION POST PURIFIES LITTLE OIL BOOM TOWN IN TEXAS main street of desdemona acx legion headquarters in lower part of whit building bull dino at the right how a post of the file american legion purliler purl fled a little oil boom town in texas alien respect for law and order had become a mockery Is told in the american legion weekly desdemona tex wad waa hardly more th liau an a n stop for wayfarers wayfare rs on tile the theroan road a dusty community until oil came find and the alio town took on new life and lured hosts of brawny nd adventurers tile the treasure hunters come came to prospect and pioneer but as Is inevitably tile the case there followed after them a horde borde of shifty eyed gentry and red lipped women tile word was passed out that the lid was oft off in desdemona then tho the ring ran up against the american legion individually for it long time the members of aleavy brice post poet tried quietly to combat the spread of vice in desdemona the ring aided by the town constable n deputy sheriff rind and the justice of tile pence decided derided that it would crush this of veterans who stood tor for ideals that were not compatible with places of unsavory repute it began by threatening the legionnaires with violence and when it found them unwilling to retaliate it grew moro more arrogant tile the post quietly called a captain of texas bangerd ranger from austin the captain found desdemona Desdon iona in tumult armed members of tile lio vice ring were parading through the alio streets in confident bravado brav nilo tin the post mar its forces and ordered lie three offending ponce peace officers of tile town to leave within twenty four hours tile the latter returned n contemptuous refusal sect seethed lied from oil fields rind camps hundreds hundred of 0 men poured into town to lie ile present when the ultimatum should expire eighteen legionnaires were sworn in ns as deputy rangers anti and mingled with tho crowd while tile lie offending oti leers swaggered down tile main street lust ns as tile he time limit expired one unarmed member of the lie legion post stepped up to the officers ind ani ordered them lliam to surrender Eur render A dozen revolvers leaped from it dozen hips and all tha bravado went out of tile lio ring the legion dep dei titles disarmed the leaders and marched them oil off to an office where they wrote out their resignations tIong na 03 town officials the next morning the ronda roads from Desde desdemona niona were dotted biles bearing tile exodus of tile lie sporting fraternity to awer and greener pastures postures Des desdemoni demonn was through with them |