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Show AMERICAN msxm (Copy for Thim Departnaeni Supplied bj thf American bee inn Neww Service) WILL WRITE POST'S HISTORY Rupert Hughes, Author, Will Chrorv Icle Happenings to Members of Robert Stowe Gill Body. The history of one American Legion post will be written by no less a light than Runert r ftp? Hughes. With an eye to his versatile versa-tile pen, members mem-bers of the Robert Rob-ert Stowe Gill post of the Le-g Le-g I o n in New York, have made the author their historian. The membership of the post is made up entirely of mumliar tt tlP Lamb's club writers and actors for the most part. "Long in time and short In importance" impor-tance" is the way Mr. Hughes describes de-scribes his military career. As a matter mat-ter of fact he was a fairly important soldier. He started as a private in the Seventh regiment in 1897. Ten years later he was offered a lieutenant lieuten-ant colonelcy, which he did not accept. ac-cept. He served on the Mexican border bor-der as a captain, and only deafness kept him from service abroad during the World war. During the raising of troops in New York he served as adjutant general, where his deafness was au asset rather than a liability with the pacifists tooting their tin whistles, and then he became a captain cap-tain in the Intelligence service, being just as intelligent when deaf as when sharp of hearing. "I joined the Legion," Mr. Hughes wrote, "because I believe in its principles prin-ciples and I believe it to be one of the most Important organizations in the country." Mr. Hughes has recently come into public notice for his stand against censorship. |