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Show ufie american qleoon Urn American l.-K:mi Ntrws Sirvic- ) HOLDS UMIQUE WAR RCDRU Ed. tor of Legion Publication Left Post a. id Marched to the Fror.t A. W. O. I.. "V.'al'cr T.. Xi'tilii-rt, editor of tlie ,B Star. n'Vial publication of t lie I. ii., .,, u.ainny iiusiTt the army. He I. -ft his post and marched 10 the-I the-I i . lit A. W. O. I.. He went through the .St. Mihiel drive mid vii9 In the (hide of II. e Argoune fighting when tin order was issued for his iirrest. T ml ert didn't mind tlie arrest hut ii hated In qu'.t lighting. A court-iicitlal court-iicitlal followed mill ho was reduced to n private. Later, following the uimislice. lie was sent to Co'olonz a-lie a-lie oiype operator on the Aiaaruc News Neiihert Is president of the Great fulls (Mont.) Typographical union, p i j 1 Is ai'julmit of i lie Great Falls post of ihe American Legion. LEGION HERO WITH OXE LEG Detroit Member of Organizs'ion Displays Dis-plays Makeup of True Soldier During Fire. Once Ik ro, always a hero, is hat Detroit is saying of Leo Fuhrnum, World war veteran, who lost a leg in Fiance, but who neverilieless saved the life ol a stranger in a burning hulldii:g rcoentlv. while aide-hod ed spectntois stood about wringing their hands. Fuiinnan, a member of the Charles . Learned post of the American Legion, Le-gion, lost bis left leg at the thigh while serving as a machine gunner with the Thirty-second division of the A. 10. F. Farly one morning he was awakened by shouts and soon learned that a near-by bouse was on fire. barbed In a dressing gown he made Ids way to the burning house i:nd found a crowd of spectators awaiting the fire department. Fears were es-piessed es-piessed for the safety of occupants in ihe bouse, and as no one volunteered to enter, the Legionnaire broke open a window and wcut in. He returned dragging Aaron Pniitt, whom he found overcome on a bed. "Any soldier would have done the name thing," declared the hero. IN MIDST OF SHELL SHOWER Hurky Seattle Legion Member Was Wounded Twelve Times Within Half Minute. The weathering of three years rough, onil tumble as a Walter Camp All American tackle on the Vale football foot-ball team condi-tioae.l condi-tioae.l Charles II. 1'aul, Seattle. Wash., for one of the World war's most unusual experiences. ex-periences. 1'nul. then a first lieutenant in the Three Hundred Hun-dred and S'xty-fcmrth S'xty-fcmrth infantrv. American Legion of Montana, has what is believed to lie the most un'iiue war record rec-ord of uny man who served In the A. 10. I'. lie was sergeant ser-geant Instructor in France, tint his desire to get into the front-line lighting caused Ninety-first division, was wounded in 12 different spots in half a minute during the Argonne struggle. line high explosive shell burst near him, hurling him about 13 feet distant. He had just landed when a second shell exploded almost under him. tossing him back to where he started from. He thought it over for several months In army hospitals. Also a graduate of Harvard law school. I'aul is junior partner in one of Seattle's legal corporations. He Is commander of liainler-Noble post of the American Legion, Seattle. THE UGiCN 13 HIS HoZ2i Fcrrrcr National Vic? Ccrr.mander AiiiO Devotes Mi::'i Attention to Labor Affairs. Time (Kh"S ii"t linn? l.oavMy for Ceoric Ii. IVrrv. prvsMi-nt .siix-e 1!07 X - '1 $ of the Internationa Interna-tiona I Printing i'ressaien and Assistants' As-sistants' U.'ii in of North America, founder of I'res.v m en's Ho m e, Tenn.. and until recently nationa1 vice commander of the American Legion. Mr. Berry has - two hobbles : his union and his Legion. A veteran of the Spanish-American war, he served overseas la the World war with the railroad transportation corps. He was In I'urls, France, when the first caucus of service men, out of which grew- the American Legion, was held, and he attended at-tended and was heard from. Being familiar fa-miliar with foreign Industrial conditions, condi-tions, he represented the American Federation of Labor at foreign trade union conferences, and after the war was appointed to the government industrial in-dustrial commission sent to allied nations na-tions to eo-ordimte Industrial conditions condi-tions with those of the United States. His .'.eglon activities now concern themselves with his role as a national speaker for the service organization. LECIOiM MAN SAVES LIVES Former Yeoman, Member of New Jersey Post, Aids When Town Is in Danger. A post-war gas attack which ".hreat-ened ".hreat-ened the entire town of Bound Brook. N. J., was checked and hundreds of lives saved by the quick and fearless action of Michael I'ascal, former yeoman of- an American torpedo boat destroyer and member o f the local American Legion post. When a huge t a n k containing l.liOO pounds of phosgene, one uf tlie deadliest gases used in the war, sprang a leak, a workmen was killed and scores were overcome before Pascal Pas-cal and a companion, formerly with the chemical warfare service, arrived. They smelled the gas from a distance, and recognizing its odor, set out for the origin. Arriving, I'ascal fmnd doctors caring car-ing for tlie sevi rely gassed, workmen running about in gas masks but no one trying to stop the leak. After several attempts in the gas-filled plant, I'ascal anil his companion stopped the flow. Both have Been honored by the town council and recommended for Carnegie medals.' FRENCH MEDALS FOR YANKS Special Commemorative Emblem to Be Presented to Ail American Who Served. All Americans who served overseas as members of units of the French command during the World -war are to receive a handsome decoration from the French government, to be known as the French commr-jiorative medal. Distribution will l.e made from, the office of the French military attache at Washington. .It is estimated that from ten to tiften thousand Americans Ameri-cans are entitled to the medal. Since they are scattered .ill over the country, coun-try, the French g '.eminent has appealed ap-pealed to the nion than eleven thousand thou-sand posts of the American Legion to publish the news of the medal offer to eligible veterans. The medals are to go to a.'; American Ameri-can citizens who served (luring the World war, as members of the French army and navy ; as physicians, nurses, phannacists or administrators In French sanitary units between August 2, 1914, and November 11, 1918; as members of relief agencies under French command, and as motor drivers, operators and secretaries In the regular organizations of the French armies. TIE KMOTS WITHOUT CHARGE j Legion's National Chaplain Agrees te Officiate at National Convention Con-vention Events. Because he believes that married members of the American Legion make , . hpitpr rltlzens Rev. John W. Inzer, In-zer, N'ashvCIIe, Tenn., the Legion's national chaplnln, will marry without charge all Legionnaires Legion-naires who attend the third annual convention of the service organization organiza-tion at Kansas City this fall. All marriage license iees ui ue paid from the convention fund. Legion officials promise. Arrangements are being made t house prospective brides In homes ot prominent citizens and the bridegrooms bride-grooms In various hotels and residences. resi-dences. It Is expected that at least 100 couples will take advantage of the offer and preparations are being made to accommodate that numler of newly-weds. |