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Show INDIAN. LEGION POST BOSS Ellas Wesley and Sixteen Washington Buddies Also Control Town of White Swan. Where his fathers once tried to resist the civilization of the white man. Ellas Wesley, fullbloed SS Yakima Indian, commander of an f , American Legion post, and sixteen fe Ifs of his Yakima "buddies" now sfe ' control the pros- w perous town of h&tr JfS. White Swan. Jgg f 3 Wash. fJpl More than half f of the I t's mem- Ss-J feiSO bers are full! 'ood Indians. Wesley, the commander, is the village meat cutter. The remainder remain-der of the Indians, all members of the Commercial club, are engaged In business in the town. All are graduates of a government school and are better educnted than the average American. because he was a meat cutter, when Wesley enlisted In the United States navy they made him ship's cook on the U. S. S. Western Chief. In the membership mem-bership of the post there is a Medal of Honor, a Medailie Militaire, a Croix de Guerre and a Victoria cross. |
