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Show OPPOSE SPENDING MONEY FOR VETERAN MEMORIAL WASHINGTON. Nov. 10. Use of J the So. '".'"") offered hy the Knights H of Columbus to ih American Legion. H for a national memorial building in ,H Washington, would' constitute a "moral H and an of in.'ns- .H tlce," to many suffering soldiers. Mar- H Vln (I. Spi-n national president of H tiv Private Soldiers Sailors ic- 1 glon. declared in an open letter Tues- H day to Supreme KnJghl James A. Pla- H The money offered was contributed H during the war for th "..id and relict of our soldiers.' Mr. Sperry asserted ' B and its use for tin.- construction of a H "great marble palace at Washington'" 1 would be "Indefensible diversion 1 from the purpose for which It was in American Legloq officials meet in B New York today to consider accept' BVJ tarice of the offer. oo a, I |