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Show LEADER OF OVERSEAS BODY i Miss Louise Wells of Chicago Is Re-Elected Re-Elected President of Women's Service League. Miss Louise Wells of Chicago has been re-elected president of the Women Wom-en Overseas Service league, known as the little sister of the American Legion because many Legion women are also members of the league, making mak-ing for closer co-operation between the two organizations. Members of the league were the Army and Red Cross nurses, Salvation Army lassies, the "Y" girls, signal corps girls, canteeners, librarians and entertainers who served America's fighting men In France. Many were gassed and wounded and more than 150 of them died of such plagues as trench fever and Influenza. A few were killed in action. Miss Wells entered the service from Los Angeles. She Is the daughter of Arthur G. Wells, vle president of the Santa Fe railroad. After serving at Miss Louise Wells. Camp Upton, she went overseas as a canteen worker. At Glenoble, at Al-levard-Les-Bains and at Lyon, she served as a canteen worker and with the entertainment forces. She organized organ-ized the Los Angeles unit of the league, and later was president of the Chicago unit Speaking at a recent convention of the league, Brig. Gen. Charles D. Dawes said: "You never looked so good to me as you did In your somber uniforms and hats, wading through the mud and mire, tramping through the rain, serving serv-ing hot chocolate for hours at a time, In that country which, before we went over, we called 'sunny France.' " Respects of the American Legion were paid to the overseas women by Past National Commander John G. Emery of Grand Rapids, Mich. |