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Show TODECORATE American Legion Members Overseas Accept Memorial Day Duties INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. April 28. Graves of American soldiers who gave their lives in the world war and whose bodies rest in France will be decorated decor-ated by the American legion on Memorial Me-morial Day and plans were announced today by Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant, ad-jutant, whereby arrangements may be made for special decoration by relatives. rela-tives. Legion posts are contributing $5' each to a general fund to be used to decorate graves on foreign soil, and donations will be received also by the posts. Special decoration for any grave May 30 may be assured if a letter with draft is sent to any post with information as to name, rank, organization, organ-ization, serial number, date of death, place of Interment and othe data given. giv-en. These letters will bo forwarded to national headquarters here. Drafts should be made payable to "National Treasurer, the American Legion." To insure decoration of graves on May 30 all individual contributions must be in national headquarters by May 10, Mr Boles said. Contributions for the general fund will be received up to May 30, to be cabled to Paris. nn |