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Show j AN A LL-AnGUfJD LEGION MAN Michigan's Newly Appointed Head of National Service Division la Equipped With Inform at ion. A Miilur. a 1 1 atlie cp. a first ser-jrcani, ser-jrcani, an assistant imvol marshal car and a patient ill a r in y hospitals lor almost two years. Albert E. Ilaan of Michigan, Michi-gan, newly appointed ap-pointed head of the American Le-g Le-g i o if s national service division, is well equipped to minister to i.lie needs of ex-service men. Mr. Haan gained gain-ed the rank of captain on the battlefield and was severely se-verely wounded in action at Juvigny. France, while serving with the Thirty-second Thirty-second division. In Walter Heed hospital, hos-pital, Washington, for more than a year, he found out what the government govern-ment intended to do for the wounded by studying plans and legislation concerning con-cerning the subject. Discharged from the hospital last fall, he was made a special representative of the bureau of war risk insurance. In army and navy camps be was instrumental, in-strumental, through the American Legion, Le-gion, in causing the reinstatement or conversion of $5,000,000 in war risk-Insurance. risk-Insurance. In Michigan last November, Novem-ber, as field representative of the war risk bureau, he directed a cleanup of hospital, insurance and compensation claims that placed the state ahead of all others in welfare accomplishments. During the campaign he investigated investigat-ed t lie condition of ex-service men in the state prison at Jackson and the Insane asylum in Kalamazoo. lie worked with the Legion's welfare department de-partment to cause the parole of lo0 men last year to the Legion. He obtained ob-tained $300,000 in funds raised during the war and used it in settling claims, relief of the disabled and their dependents de-pendents and in untangling insurance difficulties and remedying hospital conditions. con-ditions. Mr. Haan is twenty-eight years old. Coming out of high school, he entered the United States navy as an apprentice appren-tice seaman. He served four years on the U. S. S. Idaho and was discharged as a quartermaster, second class. He then became a motor and traffic policeman police-man in Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1916, he went to the Mexican border as a first sergeant In the Michigan infantry. infan-try. Before he entered the lines In France, he was assistant provost marshal mar-shal nt St. Nazaire, as a first lieutenant. lieuten-ant. Before the battle in which he was wounded, he had served In three offensives. , |