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Show - -jit . (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) $1,GG0,000-MARK HAS BEEN PASSED At the conclusion of the preliminary prelimi-nary stages of the active canvass for the American Legion's $5,000,000 endowment en-dowment fund fur disabled veterans and orphans of the World war, the $l,000,OO0-mark had been passed, according ac-cording to National Commander James A. Drain. Nine states had "gone over the top," completing their quotas, In most cases with a substantial oversubscription. oversub-scription. Kentucky was the first state to complete com-plete its quota, oversubscribing it by 50 per cent. Tennessee and Arkansas followed closely. The first Northern state to raise Its .proportion of the fund was North Dakota. South Dakota Da-kota was not far behind. Other states which completed their quotas In the early stages of the nation-wide campaign cam-paign were North Carolina, Utah and Nevada. Avon Park, Florida town with a population of S00, claims to be the only city in the councry to have trebled its quota in two hours. The town raised $1,503 against a quota of $425 by noon of the first day and pushed on. A total of $947 was subscribed sub-scribed in the first ten minutes. George G. Bnumgartner, Civil war veteran of Phoenix, Ariz., sent in a check for $5. He said he would send that amount each month. The first contribution at Tucson was from the Associated Federal Students at the University of Arizona, who gave half the funds in their treasury. Attaches of the United States Veterans' Vet-erans' bureau office at Minneapolis, Minn., pledged themselves to raise $3,000. Patient's and attaches at the United States Veterans' hospital, No. 99, at Excelsior Springs, Mo., contributed con-tributed $150. Employees of the Denver Den-ver (Colo.) office of the veterans' bureau bu-reau pledged $225 to the fund, every person making a contribution. Votaw-Swank post No. 458 at Neoga, III., raised Its quota In the face of many difficulties. This farming community com-munity had been having hard times. A bank had failed with a large loss. Funds and supplies1 had been sent in large quantities to the victims of the terrible tornado which struck just-south just-south of the town last spring. But the quota was raised. Many governors are taking an active ac-tive part in the work for the fund. Among those who have recently accepted ac-cepted the chairmanship of their state committees are: Franklin S. Billings, Vermont; John ,T. Blaine, Wisconsin; Alvin T. Fuller, Massachusetts; Albert C. Ritchie. Legionnaire. Maryland; George S. Silzer. New Jersey, and Alfred Al-fred E. Smith, New York. Former governors -are also active In the work. Among those more recently accepting places on state committees are: Channing II. Cox, Massachusetts; Massachu-setts; Frederick D. Gardner, Missouri; Carey Hardee, Florida; A. H. Longino, Mississippi ; Nathan L. Miller, New York; David I. Walsh, Massachusetts ; Charles S. Whitman, New York. |