Show LEGION MEMBERS AID POLICE former service men in various cities lend assistance in combating crime wave in conformity with the stand for law and order which tho the american jeglor takes thousands of legion dalre are assisting the police pollee in combating the crime wave which has nt mowed life and property in larger cities all over the country according to reports rec received elved at legion national bend headquarters quarters new ew ibel department headquarters promptly offered to put 5 veterans on the streets to assist the police when nhen the hip orgy of murder and robbery was at its height while during the christmas season a number of legion mem bers bars aided in eliminating holdups in the shopping district by serving ns as guards in large retail stores and wholes vile lie houses rive hundred bundred st louis I 1 alsted the police in pat patrolling roling ng the city and rounding up suspicious characters at st paul minn the services of legion members were ere volun leered in the formation of a series of network patrols legion region leaders explained that their organization in volunteering the ices fees of its members for maintaining law aw and order did not imply that the police were inefficient but that there was recognition that an abnormal situ existed under which the legion u was as pledged to act if it wished to live up to the principles of its constitution |