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Show Legion to Run Down Service Swindlers Swindlers who attempt to defraud !th parents and relative-, of men who died in service during the w ;i r, Will find the'Ogden members of the Amerl-1 ;Cail Legion watchful and ready to run' ilhm to earth and do everything pos-'slble pos-'slble toward their prosccutloV aeeord-jing aeeord-jing to J. G. Llttlefleld, secretary of the' i Herman Baker post, who has been notified that the practice Is being carried car-ried on in all parts Of the L'nited States. Mr Llttlefleld said: "Mobilisation has begun of the 'American Legion in a nation-wldi drive to bring to book swindlers who are making a practlcb of defrauding jthe next-of-kin of men who died in the wair through offering to provide them v. 1th Information concerning their i I deaths and the location of their pravesj at a price. Posts have been warned to keep an eye open for these swindlers swind-lers with a view to their arrest and prosecution and a personal warning to relatives of men who died in ser vice is planned for every communitv where thero Is a post of the Legion i ne of the niost glaring cases uncovered un-covered is that of the swindler who wrote a grieving mther that her'mls-ing her'mls-ing son was in Cleveland and would' return If money for his railroad fare were provided. This hoax was exposed and later the writer was arrested In Iowa after he had sent the mother a telegram signed with her sons name asking for $36. "Another swindler provided false information about the deaths of .-ol-diers, claiming in each case to have been an eyewitness on the scene. This man Is now being sought by the police po-lice in California at the instigation of the Legion A third confidence man obtained from a gold star mother expenses ex-penses for a trip to Washington where ho said, he would locate the grave of her son. He even Wi ht so far as to tell her later that he had found the grave and the body would soon be sent home." |