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Show I j DEMPSEY'S WAR RECORD, j The announcement that tho federal j J district attorney at San Francisco is j to undertake an investigation of the war record of Jack Dempsey, chani- pion heavyweight pugilist, is welcomed. wel-comed. The press wires have been j cluttered with charges, counter-1 counter-1 charges and answers to charges until ; the matter began to grow tiresome. i As wo recall It, Dempsey was sup-f sup-f posed to be business agent for a shipyards ship-yards during the war. Instead of carrying car-rying a gun and wearing a uniform he was striving to get employes for the " shipyards he represented, i, Several posts of the American Lc-! Lc-! gion charge that he "dodged" military ; service. The implication is made lhat J the fighter went out of his way to es-I es-I cape the draft. 5' There may have been a good rea-1 rea-1 son why Dempsey did not enter the !j4 military service and fairness to the ' Idol of many ring fans demands that . the reason be made known, if there is a rcasop. j The whole affair goes to show that a pretty close check is kept upon those who did and those who didn't meet flt the calls for service made during the j "period of the emergency." if Demp-( Demp-( sey's record does not withstand careful care-ful scrutiny ho stands to lose thou-j thou-j sands of dollars in possible purses for I fights, receipts from theatrical en-jl en-jl r,agcments and salary for starring In l filmdom, for no impression Is going to s1 "back" a man who Is not indorsed by . lhat great group of solid citizens, now known as the American Legion. ' oo |