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Show Legion Comes to Aid of Buddy and Family Things looked pretty bad for Ed Rowland of Okanogan, Wash., disabled dis-abled veteran of the World war, when his case came to the attention of the American Legion of Okanogan. In September, 1918, Ed volunteered to help clear out a German machine gun nest that was holding up the advance ad-vance of his company in the Argpnne forest. He eliminated the troublesome trouble-some machine gun by killing the gunner gun-ner in a hand-to-hand fight. But not until a bullet from a German Luger had ploughed through his body, piercing pierc-ing his liver and intestines and leaving leav-ing the walls of his abdomen so badly torn that he narrowly escaped immediate im-mediate death from his wounds. The government paid all his doctor's fees, hospital expenses, and furnished transportation back to the United States; nor was that all; they saw to it that he got twenty-five dollars every thirty days, that his wife and three children should not want for anything. Ed did not want to presume upon the government, but recently he came down with the scarlet fever and mustered mus-tered up courage to put in a request for an increased compensation allowance. allow-ance. The government couldn't do anything for Ed just then. The American Legion heard about Ed and believing that something could be done for him, representatives of the Okanogan County post of the Legion went before the board of commissioners com-missioners to solicit an appropriation (-from (-from the county soldiers' relief fund. It was granted, and will tide him over . until the recently passed Iteed-Johf'-son rehabilitation law comes to his permanent relief ( |