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Show Carrying On With the jl American Legion After Herbert Delaney, ex-service man of Caledonia, Mich., had shot and killed a deputy sheriff who was trying try-ing to arrest him, American Legion men of the city formed a posse and captured the man. A survey of land settlement projects proj-ects throughout the state has been begun by the American Legion of Washington. Under the law, ex-service men have a preference right In filing on all public lands. The retirement of 3.000 sick and wounded emergency officers of the World war with pay on the same status as officers of rue regular armj are retired, Is being urged on congress con-gress by the American Legion. President Harding has been Invited to accompany the Hood River, Ore., post of the American Legion on Its annual climb of Mount Hood next summer. sum-mer. Governor Olcott of Oregon led the Legion party to the summit In the climb this year. Demonstrating the use f the airplane air-plane as a busy man's time saver, Theodora Roosevelt, assistant secretary secre-tary of the navy, flew from Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, to Asbury Park, N. J., to address the annual convention of the state American Legion. The trip was made in two hours. Believing that the man still Is suffering from the effects of a severe wound received while In action In France, the American Legion of Hastings, Has-tings, Mich., Is seeking to have determined de-termined the sanity of Frank Soules, former service man, serving a life term In the Michigan state prison for murder. ", The sale for taxes of the estate of John J. Pershing, father of the general of the armies, in Tangipahoa Parish, La., has been prevented by the American Ameri-can Legion and the General has been requested to make the estate available for colonization by his wounded comrades com-rades now taking vocational training in agriculture. Plans for a $10,000 war memorial at Duluth, Minn., to honor the men and women who served during the World war,' were abandoned recently at the sentatives who contended that It was no time to erect a monument The memorial committee sought to honor Jobless and hungry. The recent establishment of a post In Constantinople carries the American Legion into the second country aligned against the allies in the World war. The post was formed of American naval and embassy attaches and representatives repre-sentatives of several American firms commercially engaged in Turkey. There Is a large post of the Legion at Coblenz, Germany. Although he could not swim, Martin J. Maloney, New York policeman and a color sergeant of the Seventy-seventh division in France, plunged into the surf at Rockaway Beach to save a young woman with whom he had been keeping company. He lost his life, but the girl was pulled to safety. Maloney was a member of the police department post of the American Legion. A promise made on Flanders field that he would take care of and protect pro-tect the wife of a wounded "buddy" if the latter should fall, was fulfilled at Manchester, N. H., recently when Adhemar Letendre married Mrs. Albert Tliibeault, whose husband was killed in action. The returned soldier and his comrade's widow met in American Legion work and their friendship grew into love. , The father of 33 children, Manna C. Bruner, Civil war veteran of Independence, Inde-pendence, Kas., could well organize a war veterans' society of his own. Twelve of his sons served with the American army in France, one was "too young to fight and the remainder of the 33 are girls who did their bit. The American Legion recently brought the family to light, but at that there is one larger in the Creek Indian nation na-tion of which Bruner is a citizen. v The corsage bouquet of the fashionably fashion-ably dressed young woman once may have been a flourishing tuft of ragweed rag-weed on a corner lot.' Disabled service men in Kansas City hospitals have built up a good business of making artificial flowers-out of weeds and the American Legion of the city is helping help-ing them sell the -colored posies to florists and gift shops. "War mothers of the city have taught the men to dye the weeds in natural colors. |