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Show TO TH RESCUE OF THE FLAG Disgruntled Hotel Owner Makes . Apology to Legion for Flying Emblem Upsidedown. Before 2,000 people in the public fcquare a hotel man of St. Augustine, Flu., hoisted the American flag, saluted It and made a public apology to the local post of the American Legion- for flying the flag upsidedown, as a protest pro-test against the pitching of a carnival company tent near his hotel. In Littleton, Colo., two steeple jacks from the local Legion post climbed the dome of the court house and rescued if It v V , - A H i $ A j: is. e-O f ft Hoisting the Stars and Stripos. a tattered and weather-stained national flag. The post had protested against such treatment of the flag. The county commissioners had replied, "If you want that flag replaced hire a couple of steeple jacks yourselves." |