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Show WILL CHANGE STREET NAMES New Orleans Thoroughfares to Be Re. christened During Legion National Convention. Illuminated by 2S.000 electric lights and decorated with flags, banners and streamers, the downtown streets of New Orleans will be In holiday regalia re-galia during the American Legion national na-tional convention next October. For five days the conventional names of business streets will be thrown into the discard and they will be rechrlstened with designations more appropriate to the Legion garh-I garh-I erlng. A court of honor of the nations will be established in ton blocks, each block being set aside for one of the principal allied powers with corresponding corre-sponding flags and decorations. Signs Indicating the names of the states, with their contributions In numbers of World war fighters, win feature the court of honor of the states, to be held on the principal residential street. American Legion avenue will he decorated with Legion banners and emblems. Visiting doughboys In search of their buddies will be assisted In the ! establishment of the streets of the I divisions. Suspended across the I streets utilized for this purpose will I tie the Insignias of all divisions la the ! World war army. Impromptu re-! re-! unions of men who served In the ! same division will be held near the ' banners Inscribed with their divisional division-al Insignia. Red. white and blue electric bulbs j will Illuminate Canal street, the main I thoroughfare, and all principal sids I streets. |
