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Show i Carrying on 5 8 With the ij j& American Legion (( uj.y (. 1 n Is Oc.;i r( in-ni SUplu-d by tile American l.eion News Servlot'.l Iltissel C. (iross of Philadelphia who filled Slacker liergiloll's place ia the army am? who was killed in action in France after winning a cilatioti for bravery, will he honored by the Over-brook, Over-brook, I'enn., post of the American Legion, whose members have decided to name their projected community house for the hero. The Ovcrhrook post will also change its name to t ho Russell C. Cross post. The apprehension of nearly fil)0 draft deserters since the publication of the slacker lists began has justified the position of army officials and the American Am-erican Legion in their stand favoring the publication of the list. About half of the GO, 000 names of deserters have been published and of the 500 men ar- 1 rested through the publicity of tliij- lists. 200 have been tried and SO con victed. William G. Rockefeller, a brother of John P., attended an American Legion Carnival at Greenwich, Conn., recently. The following day there was delivered to Mr. Rockefeller's garage a shiny new flivver sedan. It cost him $15 which is the sum he had paid for entrance en-trance tickets. One of the tickets was numbered 13, which proved to he the lucky number. In Florida they look at hot weather as a slate of mind. It was announced that the American Legion football squad of Jacksonville had begun practice. prac-tice. The team is coached by Joe Berchnn, who was on the coaching staff of the University of Georgia. The Jacksonville soldiers expect to have one of the strongest teams in the south. While citizens of Ephrata, Washington, Washing-ton, were discussing plans for a public park, wdiich has been talked about for years, members of the American Am-erican Legion organized a working crew with wagons, shovels, rakes and picks and converted a vacant lot into a park with lawn, trees and walks, thus putting an end to the discussions. A fund for the erection of a monument monu-ment as a memorial to the late F. W. Galbraith Jr., national commander of the American Legion, has been started by Hopewood post at Pittsburgh, Pa. The post has forwarded to the national headquarters of the Legion a check covering its contribution to such a fund. Members of the American Legion at Anthony, Kansas, determined to earn enough money shocking wheat to pay for the equipment of their new club rooms. They contracted to shock 500 acres of wheat and each evening at 6 o'clock they went to the fields and wcrked until dusk. They expected to e:.rn about $400. The Blue and Gray Association of Oklahoma has announced that It will turn ove- its reunion grounds aDd buildings at Bridgeport, Oklahoma, to the American Legion of that place on September 1. The grounds have been used for reunions of Civil war veterans for many years. California is far in the lead of other states in providing legislative reward and rehabilitation for service men of the World war according to Gov. William Wil-liam D. Stephens, who has signed five welfare bills introduced and sponsored by the American Legion department of California. Sergt. Aivin York, famed for his individual in-dividual war record, has enrolled as a member of the David King Summers post of the American Legion at Chattanooga, Chat-tanooga, Tenn. York was present at the organization of the Legion in Paris in 1919. Fifty dollars reward for the apprehension appre-hension of an army deserter will be ust)d by the . American Legion of Hardin, Mont., as part of a fund for relief work. The deserter's arrest was caused by the post commander. After crushing a poppy he hud purchased pur-chased and tlier making disloyal re- . marks, Ralph Altmau of Melrose, rJ Minn., apologized for the act before members of the Americau Legiou post at Melrose. The apology was uccepted. An American Legion baseball team at Kayue, La., defeated a girls' team in a recent game, after which both teams were entertained ut a tea and dance given by the legiou post. Members of the St. Charles, Mo., post of the American Legiou recently held a "hammer and saw" meeting at which a portable dance-lloor wu erected in three hours. The Azalea Post of the American Legion at Oteeii, N. C, hjs announced plans for collecting a folid to be distributed dis-tributed as needed to disabled soldiers of the post. New American Legion posts have been organized iu Minnesota at Brook Park, Clarissu, Morguu Park, Dulutu, Blrchdale and Albany making u total of 483 Legiou posts In the stale. An exclusive section of Rose UIU Burial Park, New Orleans, Ia has been set aside for use of AmUi'lcaO Legion posts of the city. |