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Show ' LEGION HAS CEMETERY PLOT , I Racine (Wit.) Organization Will Sen I That No Ex-Service Mm Sleeps In j Potter't Field. i The American Legion at Ilndne. j i Wis., has taken over a part of one of the city's cemeterii'S and will hold It ' In order that no one of the ex service men who did his share in the army or navy durini; the World war need plrep In a .otter's held. When the Lotion's work on Its acquired plot Is complete. I'.aolne will have a miniature Arlington. Arling-ton. The plot Is clrcukir and will be fitlinKly arranged In order that II may look ns much as poislblo like- tin- national na-tional cemetery In Vlririnhi. The Lculon iiieahuve authorized the expenditure of $."i.s:i:',.-(i for the land. A steel mast, from which will (ly the Stars and Stripes Is one of the first things the organization will buy. Already Al-ready Kiicine's ..." ex-service men are buried In two of Its cemeteries, An effort Is to be made lo hnve its many of those us possible transferred to the new piv.t. Itoom for the burial of luore than ?.'0 veterans Is belnc allowed al-lowed for. The next session of Ibn Wisconsin legislature will be asked to raise the Amount which the state allows for the burial of a wiir veteran. At present tbl.'i amount Is but $"(, but It Is hoped i Mint this will b" Increased to ?7"i or .irxi. |