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Show SAVE VETERAN FROM ASYLUM Ex-Service Man Sent to Hospital fo; Observation, Through Action of Auxiliary Official. Carl Huff, a World war veteran of Alex, Okla., was saved from a mad house because members of the Ameri can Legion auxiliary saw to it tiiat lie was sent to a hospital for observation rather than to be incarcerated in an asylum for the insane. Huff was In overseas service for 1(; months and returned broken in health Continual brooding over the condition of a brother who had contracted luhei-cnlosis luhei-cnlosis in service, caused the man ti become morbid and extremely nervous He was taken to Chieknsha before a sanity commission, adjudged insane' and ordered to the state asylum ai Norman, to be accompanied by a deputy sheriff. When news readied the office of Mrs. Blanche Freeman national executive committee memtiei of the American Legion auxiliary. Mrs Freeman, through the aid of count. officials, was authorized to overtake the party and direct the officer and his charge to a hospital for observation and treatment. Huff is now receiving care due an ex-service man, and the Legion is fighting his claim for com pensation through with the veterans bureau. |