Show ARIZONA CITIZENS ERECT LEGION HOSPITAL IN RECORD TIME 21 1 T ea yz 4 j so A no 1 1 part of army of volunteer workman strong no 2 governor campbell at wheel wheal of state highway truck hauling material and workmen no 3 governor campbell wearing overall that later drought brought for post poat park red cross fund no 4 left to flighty 0 C parker mayor of tucson bert H clingan commander Department of arizona american legion E J winslett national vice commander american legion no 6 5 dr 1 I E huffman commander legion po post st at tucson I 1 believed to be almost acost unique in american history and one that lins given tremendous impetus to the th netlon wide fir fight lt 0 of the american legion to obtain a at t least simple justice tor for sick and disabled heroes of tile the world war was staged in tile the thriving little desert city of tucson ariz recently led by pov 1 ov thomas 13 campbell nad and national state ane and local depre R enta tives of the legion tile the entire citizenry of the community brought every business activity to it standstill for a day dax abile more than men and women in overalls or other appropriate working garb drove their automobiles illo blies to pastime park three miles north of tile tho ton and labored with their hands to expedite construction of 0 nn an emergency public health bervice hospital tor for tubercular ex cx men inen governor campbell Caro B H J Win einglett glett national aled cm commander mander ot of the legion state commander bert 11 II clin kan flayer 0 C parser parker and hundreds of other prominent business busl nesa and professional fess ress ional imen of the lie cly city and state appeared in real working clothes and manipulated shovels picks hammers saws and wheelbarrows in tho the greatest frenzy of the lie community had ever known the immediate result was that hat the emergency institution which government engineers rs originally had estimated it would take three months to build wits was brought to virtual completion within one week aeck and more than COO tubercular derelicts of tho the mar who had bad been un pi tallied and partly suddenly found themselves with JB a roof over their heads the whole demonstration was planned and carried out with la a little more than 48 hours houm while governor and state legion commile coan mn ter clingon made flying liang trips min phoenix to address a mass ino etIng under legion auspices sit at the armory on the evening preceding the event and to participate jn the work there next day the hie chief ex executive of the haltli pushed a wheelbarrow full of cocks drove an ex et army truck ind and wound up tip tits ills strenuous afternoon with on an impassioned plea pica to and oil nil good americans to get together and stand rely behind the lh legion in tile the most important movement now starting pore hero for ohp h benefit of disabled ox ex service rien that hat liaa has yet set ae re gun in the united states at the conclusion of tits his address tile the overalls tile ho go governor vernoi had find worn during the afternoon and which fig tired conspicuously in several hundred feet of movie flint dim unwound by a patho news camern camera man were ai uc c off to the highest bidder tho the morgan mcdurmott post of the legion at tucson approximately roi fez tile the benefit of a welfare und fund for patients at the he hospital was realized from the auction each bidder bong obliged to vand over ever the sum offero olTer td irrespective of whether it was high enough to get tile the clothes clothe s the bid of 0 the legion post was 70 tho the attention of F IV galbralth galbraith jr tho the legions national commander was first attracted to tho the tucson situation after II 11 D macartan Ha Ala cArtan tho the public service physician in chargo of ef tile the hospital lind gone to washington and reported that moro more than halt of tho put patients lents then in the institution were sleeping in army anny tents and that there were approximately other tubercular cv cs service men entirely in tile community as a result of tho congestion which followed the usual influx of white victims nt at this season of tile tho year these men in dire of the care and treatment they were not receiving wro nvere distributed through the community with ith such limited housing facilities and shelter from file ho extreme cold of the desert nights na as their weary ann deriggs happened to bring them Co galbraith sent kent 11 1 E 1 J winslett national vice commander of the legion and a representative of tho the american legion news service ervice 4 to tuc sort sora to we gee what could bo be dono to remedy file situation their instructions wore were to do till nil poss possible liTle to speed up construction comit ruction work co tile efforts of nil all community interests and vini visualize alIze the local situation as nil an object lesson to thrust under the nose of congress lit in the legions national tight for ju justice itaco for the lie nations lie he roes of two years ago and tile legions toni rades then now and always governor compbell was lit in tho the kast hast at the time and assisted dr macar diun tiun un in inducing director choicely Choi Clion nely tely jones of the bureau of war risk lit in and other to bring about the cutting of a vast amount of red tape dr MacArt nii fina 1 ly return returned etl to tucson with kith authorization lant I 1 on to 6 spend approximately ad tor for the erection of an emor emergency gency a and nd lie ho brought with him george E H kirk a federal engineer to choin with tits ills assist lints much of tile the for tile tho record brea breaking icing com coin Ille illation ilc ton tion of the project Is due booyer nor campbell placed place state Work workmen laell materials trucks and tools tit nt the he disposal of the lio government and thero there was from the beginning it hearty beartrand beart yand and mope co rallon on oil the part of tile the business bu alness rind professional men of tucson as welt weil ns as tile citizens emern brally I 1 arriving nt at tucson air Wins winslee leI surveyed ho he find thih jhc n called enil 01 n conference of it legionnaires and state tind ind public oin officials cinis and business men inen at the conference lie tofa of tile hie legions nationwide nation wide fight just beginning to obtain justice for the lie derelicts corning coming buck back from tile war and rip hp pealed 0 to o till all ori arid tiger ngen cles make a united stand for n square deal eat for who ti their all to their country in time of u need and have bromo victims vict lins of neglect red tape and dereliction of duty us its their re reward warl the following day was proclaimed a hollday by slayer mayor parker and every avel y store factory and business estu establishment blIsh of every closed its doors tit in every sanse it was a red letter day la in the history of tucson arizona Ari and america and an exemplification of the unity arid and fisli operation cooperation co which animated tile the whole nation our luring the war and which rarely if over ever has been so BO conspicuously displayed ed in uila country since glace the tha signing oil ai the armistice |