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Show Carrying On With tke I American Legion American army officers are now holding hold-ing rank one to two notches higher than they did under the army organization organi-zation before the World war. Chnuncey M. Depew has asked for his war medal. The American Legion found, however, that he Is only named for the after dinner speaker of fame. When Pvt. Edward U. Canoose of the American forces stationed hi Coblenz received 633 love letters, postcards, post-cards, etc. in a batch, he took a week's leave. The French admired the box like motor trucks introduced by the A. E. F. and ordered 20,000 more. The ones they are now using are a part of the huge mass of war material bought from the anuy by the French government. govern-ment. When American Legion representatives representa-tives met the army transport Cnntigny, at the dock in New York, they encountered en-countered the following: 502 men from the army of occupation, 63 German wives, 12 French wives, 36 babies of the German wives, and S(J0 American bodies from the battlefields. Harvard university sent 11.308 men into the World war. Of the number 1,014 received decorations, and 317 were cited in orders. Two graduates, die lute Lieutenant Colonel Whittlesey, and MaJ. George G. McMurty, Jr., received re-ceived the Congressional Medal of Honor. Eighty-two won the American Distinguished Service Cross. |