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Show TO CO-OPERATE WITH BUREAU Legion Will Assist Veterans' Branch In Aiding Former Warriors Serving Time In Institutions. The American Legion will co-operate with the United States veterans' bureau bu-reau In the extension of vocational training and medical rehabilitation to the 18,000 veteraus of the World war serving sentences In federal and state penal Institutions, Joe Sparks, chnlr-man chnlr-man of the Legion's national rehabilitation rehabili-tation committee, has announced. Veterans' bureau olllclnls believe that there nre many men now serving sentences who may be unaware Hint the bureau Is Interested In their well-being, well-being, nnd possibly others whose Imprisonment Im-prisonment niny be due to conditions resulting from wnr service. Of the 18,-000 18,-000 Imprisoned, only nbout 2,000 nre receiving benefits from the burenu. Legion officials may be mimed by courts as guardians for mentally dls- fililoil vtitniMinti iinili'r flip TirimnKivt plan. Many mentally Incompetent ex-service ex-service men nre snld to be suffering from luck of proper gunnllnnshlp, nnd their condition renders them Incapable of Instituting court nctlon In their favor. It Is probable thnt the new plnn will first be tried out In the federal prisons nt Atlnntn, Leavenworth and McNeil Island, Senttlo. Veterans' burenu physicians, phy-sicians, mental specialists and vocational voca-tional educators would be permitted to survey the Institutions to determine-the determine-the nature of rehabilitation measures to be taken. The plan may later Include In-clude parole of prisoners under cure of the American Legion or welfare organizations, or-ganizations, while I hey could be sen to vocntlonnl schools elsewhere If facilities fa-cilities for such education were not available at the penal Institutions. |