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Show LEGION WINS COURT BATTLES Damages Allowed National Organization Organiza-tion In First Litigation Instituted Two Editors Indicted. From the first court action which It ever Instituted to protect Its name, the American Legion emerged victorious. victori-ous. Judgment by default and damages dam-ages were awarded the Legion In the suit against Francis H. Shoemaker of Omaha, Neb., who was quoted as saying say-ing that the Legion was "subsidized by big Interests" and was "opposed to organized or-ganized labor." Shoemaker, who is an alleged radical radi-cal worker, made a speech last December Decem-ber In Omaha, during the course of which he is said to have referred to the Legion as "an organization of trained murderers opposed to organized organ-ized labor." Suit was brought by the Legion commander In Nebraska on the ground that the statements were "wicked, false and malicious" and for the purpose of "stopping such contemptible con-temptible lies and showing union labor that we resent charges of being opposed op-posed to them." The Legion has also secured Indictments Indict-ments against two editors of the Illinois Illi-nois Staats Zeltung, a German-language newspaper, for an editorial which apr-eared In thsir papr libeling ex-service men. |