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Show LEGION HERO WITH ONE LEG Petroit Member of Organization Displays Dis-plays Makeup of True Soldier During Fire. Onco hero, always a hero, Is what Detroit is saying of Leo Fuhrman, World war veteran, who lost a leg In France, but who nevertheless saved the life of a stranger in a burning building recently, while able-bodied spectators stood about wringing their hands. Fuhrman, a member of the Charles A. Learned post of the American Le-glon, Le-glon, lost his left leg at the thigh while serving as a machine gunner with the Thirty-second division of the A. E. F. Early one morning he was awakened by shouts and soon learned that a near-by house was on fire. Garbed in a dressing gown he made his way to the burning house and found a crowd of spectators awaiting the fire department. Fears were expressed ex-pressed for the safety of occupants in the house, and as no one volunteered to enter, the Legionnaire broke open a window and went in. He returned dragging Aaron Pruitt, whom he found overcome on a bed. "Any soldier would have done the uaine thing," declared the hero. |