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Show LEGION HIKERS ARE GREETED j Two California Ex-service Men Report Cordial Treatment by Posts of 1 the Southwest. The hospitality of the Southwest Is reflected in its American Legion posts, according to Van W. Bishop and C. G. Allison, California Legionnaires who are well on their way on a little v;dk from Los Angeles, Cal., to Mexico City, Mexico, a distance of more than 1.500 miles. Bishop belongs to Los Angeles Post No. S. and Allison to Irwin Ir-win Post No. VA of San Francisco. Weary with tramping the dusty kilometers and 'burdened with packs aim other impedimenta, the marchers found rest at a number of Legion posts along the way. according to a letter received .from them by the adju-j adju-j taut of the Los Angeles post. ! "The i.sis of the American Legion in the towns where we have stopped have treated us royally. Legion members mem-bers at Yuma, Ariz., started the good things for us. Then Tucson post lixec us up for two days in a room fittec with bunks for the accommodation 01 a few fellows who come in and wanl place to stay. "Our next stop was at Bisbee foi three days. They have a regular home with several rooms and a sleeping wch. A number of the fellows makt t'jeir home at the club. We arrived in time to a 'lend the funeral of one of the boys brought back from 'over there.' Now, we are ct Douglas, where Region post officers obtained quartets for us. Our plan is to enter Mexico at EI Paso or Laredo, Tex." |