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Show "ARLINGTON OF THE WEST' Cemetery for Ten Thousand Veterans and Members of Their Families, Opened in California. "The Arlington of the West," a cemetery cem-etery for ten thousand veterans of the World war and their families, has been formally opened by the American Amer-ican Legion at Glendale, California. The American Legion plot in the memorial park is considered a great achievement for the Legion in the West, for in future years there will be concentrated the resting places of thousands of veterans of the recent war, a project second only to the governmental gov-ernmental cemetery near Washington. At the formal ceremony which opened the park practically every person per-son of southern California who had relatives in the World war was in attendance, at-tendance, and prominent citizens from all over the country joined in the dedicatory service. One of the speakers speak-ers was Governor James G. Serug-ham Serug-ham of Nevada, a past national vice commander of the American Legion, said to have been the first Legionnaire to have ever been elected to the governorship gov-ernorship of a state. Governor Richardson Rich-ardson of California and Congressman Congress-man Walter Lineberger of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, together with many prominent Legionnaires, were in attendance. Full military honors were accorded the remains of seventeen World war veterans, the first to be buried In the Legion plot. These bodies were Interred In-terred with special symbolic ceremony prepared for the occasion. The memorial park is beautifully located lo-cated and Is accessible by splendid highways from all points of southern California. |