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Show AN ALL-AROUND LEGION MAN Michigan's Newly Appointed Head of National Service Division Is Equipped With Information. A snllor, n trntllc cop, n llrst her- gennt, an nsslsuint ptoost murshal and a patient In immm, army hospitals pEto fr utmost two "BbCP I'll i"i of - Mlchl- tsifr m Knn' ,u'w'y "p $ xl pointed head of VX- ;, tlio American Le- Vfe- '( v. I o if s national VA ervlce division, ifPM ls "ol1 t,(i"ipp'11 ffiffii$&M& needs of ex-serv- txmsms, Mr. Haiui gained gain-ed the rank of' captain on the battlelleld and was severely se-verely wounded In action tit Juvlgny, France, while serving with tho Thirty-second Thirty-second (IMsloii. In Walter Heed hospital, hos-pital, Washington, for more than a year, he found out what tho government govern-ment Intended to do for thu wounded by studying plans and legislation concerning con-cerning the subject. Discharged from thu hospital last fall, ho was made a special lepresentatlvu of the bureau of war risk Insurance. In in my and navy camps ho was Instrumental, In-strumental, through the American Legion, Le-gion, In causing the reinstatement or conerslon of $.",000,000 In war risk Insurance. In Michigan Inst November, Novem-ber, as Held representative of the war risk bureau, he directed n cleanup of hospital, Insurance und compensation claims that placed tho state ahead of all othots In welfare accomplishments. Dining the campaign ho Investigated Investigat-ed the condition of ex-service men In the state prison at Jackson and tho Insanu asylum In Kalamazoo. Ho worked with tho Legion's welfare department de-partment to cause the parole of ISO men last year to the Legion. Ho obtained ob-tained $300,000 In funds raised during the war and used It In settling claims, relief of the disabled nnd their dependents de-pendents and In untangling Insurance dllllcultles nnd remedying hospital conditions. con-ditions. Mr. llunn Is twenty-eight yenrs old. Coming out of high school, he entered the United Sttrtes navy ns an apprentice appren-tice seaman. He served four years on tho U. S. S. Idaho nnd wns discharged ns a (luartcrmaster, hecond class. He then became u motor and trnfIkpollcc-mnn trnfIkpollcc-mnn In Grand Kaplds, Mich. In 1010, ho went to the Mexican border ns a llrst sergeant In the Michigan Infantry. Infan-try. Ilefore he entered the lines In Franco, he wns assistant provost mnr-shal mnr-shal at St. Nazalre, as a first lleutcn-nnt. lleutcn-nnt. Ilefore the bnttlo In which ho was wounded, ho had served In tbreo offensives. |