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Show STILL AIDS EX-SERVICE MEN Mrs. John Marshall, Kentucky, National Na-tional Committee-woman, Active in After -War Work. Mrs. John Marshall of Anchorage, Ky., known to thousands of ex-service men wno were stationed in the Blue Grass state during the war and who visited the Red Cross canteen to be served with coffee cof-fee and doughnuts, dough-nuts, is still do ing her large "bit" for the sick and wounded ex-service ex-service men. As national e x e c u- .: ' J V ' R r&J'S-iiaH.-i lij:. .. .. ,X. U- five committeewoman for the American Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary from Kentucky, she is especially active in all the things that her organization is doing. Her latest plan results in Louisville. Ky., having a boarding home for ex service men who are taking vocational training there. Nominal fees, a huge living room and library and a real home atmosphere, are high points in the life of the "boys" who make their home with Mrs. Marshall. More than 300,000 service men were eared for at the canteen presided over by Mrs. Marshall during the war. Her experiences with the soldiers and sailors sail-ors are many. Months after the armistice armis-tice she received a letter from a service serv-ice man whose wedding supper she had prepared in 1917. It read, "Mrs. Canteen Lady, can you help me find my wife, not that she is much account, but I want to get married again and must find her first." |