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Show JACK KEAIS SENDS 0UTSTEI MESSAGE' Demands Propaganda Against Dempsey as Draft Dodger be 1 Stopped at Once LOS ANGELES. Jan. 21 Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, hc&vy weight champion of the world, oday announced he had sent the fol-1 owing telegram to Jimmy Bronson. nanager of Bob Martin, heavyweight ;hampion of tho A. E. F. in France: 1 "In justice to Jack Dempsey, world's i ihampion, I must demand that you :ease immediately your propaganda I hat you are now starting throughout he country in your efforts to boost 3ob Martin and to promote a fight be-ween be-ween him and Carpentier by sending ut literature which is false and mis-cadin'g, mis-cadin'g, in which ou are attempting o convey an impression that- Jack Dempsey was a draft dodger and unfit o represent America in titular battle." I Legion Commander Answers Kearns! I INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 21. Answer- ling a letter from Jack Kearns, mana-! ' ger for Jack Dempsey, world's heavy-1 1 weight boxing champian, requesting i" that the American Legion take steps : to prevent criticism of Dempsey's warp record, Franklin D'Olier. national com- h mander of the legion, today wrote Mr. Kearns that it was not considered a ' function of the American Legion to ! ;pass on the exemption of men fromh military service during the war. Thcji I letter follows: i ' "The national headquarters of the ' American Legion contemplates no ac- tion in reference to the subject matter J of your letter of January 11. "It is not a function of the American j Legion to review acts of the govern- , ment during the war in connection with the classification of men subject . to the selective service act, or to re- view the claims of any individual who finds it necessary to justify his exenvp-tion exenvp-tion from military service." , oo |