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Show MAKES DRIVE FOR AUXILIARY President of Texas Organization Shows That She( Comes From Fighting Stock. A record for service to America that dates from Revolutionary days and includes the deeds of Nathaniel Na-thaniel Green and Daniel Boone, is perpetuated i n Mrs. E. Clinton Murray, of Houston, Hous-ton, Tex presi-dent presi-dent of the Women's Auxiliary Auxili-ary of the American Ameri-can Legion of that state. The first unit of the Auxiliary of the American Legion was founded there. ' When her husband, who was past the age limit, was accepted by the Medical Corps during the World war, Mrs. Murray likewise volunteered. She made a record of thirty addresses in one week during a Red Cross drive. She sold Liberty bonds, organized Red Cross units and did active canteen work. The Women's Auxiliary was organized organiz-ed nationally in Austin, Tex., July 26. 1919. Mrs. Murray was one of the first women to organize a unit In Houston in Marcli 1920. When she became state president, there were twenty-three units in the department. Under her direction, thirty additional units have been formed and fifty others are now organizing. Mrs. Murray plans to obtain a unit for each of the 291 posts of the Legion in Texas. Mrs. Murray was born In Concordia Parish,' La. Both her father and mother came of old Revolutionary stock. Her mother's paternal ancestor was a near kinsman of Daniel Boone; her father's paternal ancestor was a descendant of Nathaniel Greene. During the Civil War her father served ' as a captain of cavalry In Forrest's Brigade. |