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Show LEGION MAN FE0 UP m WAU Veteran of tho World and Other Corv flicts Returns to Greece and la Nabbed for Service, John I. Poulos, veteran of lh World war and a member ef Albert tV. linden Tost No. C8, the American Ameri-can Legion, lsh-emlng, lsh-emlng, Mich., Is getting tired at going .to war every year .or bo. He has the United Suites government h'WSm? Uiat will keep "v'Sjip him out .of battlo " V long enough to nt least recover his breath. John Is n native of Athens, jrooce. When he came to this country hlf nuiiie was John IVior CVutsogiaano poulos. On account of his great OllU-cutty OllU-cutty In making his lutenslv huudle understood, he cut off several yards of It and becumo John I. 1'ouIoh. lie was drafted for service with tlio Orcck army during the first Ilulkaa war. After being mustered out be emigrated to Amrelca and found employment em-ployment in the copper mines of Michigan. Mich-igan. After a few years In this country li returned to Greece for a visit. Greece was having another little scrap then, and ho was drafted for the becond I tnl 1(0 it war. He did his bit and left for America again. America entered tho war Just after John got back, and he enlisted for his third fling In the Infantry. He did It well, nnd nfter Uncle Snin had given him his discharge, dis-charge, he decided once more to visit Greece. Itcsult, he's In again I This time the Greeks have drafted him for servlco against tho Turks John recently uppenlcd to his congressman, con-gressman, W. Frank James of the Twelfth Michigan district, opining that ho was fed up on wars and that he wanted to get out of tho army nnd he married. Mr. James has taken up the case with the State department. I'nulos Is a fully naturalized citizen, but In the absence of treaty agreements agree-ments between the United States and Greece, his citizenship papers were not sufficient to prevent hla being drnftcd. |