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Show WAR INJURIES BEGIN TO SHOW! Legion Claims Average of Two Veterans Killing Selves Each Day INDIANAPOLIS. nd., June . Tho worst casualty uffera1 by American soldiers during tho world war are Just beginning to --how themselves. them-selves. Uy contrast troops wounded on the battlefields aro lucky compared com-pared with the greatly Increased casualties cas-ualties of today, according to C. J. Harris an official of the American legion's national hendrjuarlers here, in charge of ex-?oldler claims agulnst th government. Thfi is an average of two ex-soldier suicides a doeA Mr. Harris declares de-clares following a study of rci.ir -These men. Mr. Harris finds, almost Without exception, were in th battle bat-tle lines In France. These soldi---, the legion official contends, were discharged dis-charged by army doctors ne hormal Since the war, however, these men, struggling for a living, have undergone under-gone mental anguish that their war-racked war-racked nerves could not withstand. Thi-re are two ways In which the legion hopes to minister to these mental men-tal cases and to prevent their increa.s;. Mr. Harris points out. The Langly hill, now aw, provides $17,000,000 for the construction of new hospitals. ITie larger portion of this monej la tn be sppnt tn creating facilities for treating treat-ing the neuropsychiatries, mental patients pa-tients The legion Is also preparing to petition congress to liberalise '.he present Sweet bill This bill now makes it Impossible for an ex-soldler to obtain government treatment for war injuries which show up more than iwo years after discharge from ... .--vice. The legion contends that It might easily be five years afte; Jis-charge Jis-charge before Injurious physical and mental effects of his service would appear. -oo (. LSOIdTNE OUTLOOK. Passenger cars and motor trucks in United Stales total beyond 10,600 -000, on basif- of latest census by National Na-tional Automobile chamber of commerce. com-merce. Auto industry is beginning to consider an output of 1.800,000 passenger 1 ars and 300,000 trucks the normal flguie for a year's nroduc-' nroduc-' tion. This is the ba5s of the oil trade's j optimism aboct th future of the gasoline gas-oline industry, which is regulated by j use of motor cars. Gasoline sales I this year apparently will break all records, probably exceeding 6,000,-I 6,000,-I r00.ono gallons foP domestic and export ex-port consumption 1 mi 11:1.5 j Business failurei toUi 1 IS m one week, compared v. i h ';o. in corresponding cor-responding week of 1321 SI El L PRU 1 i i n . Steel prices continue upward, the eight leading steel commodities now averaging ?46 20 a tor which js ?4.08 a ton higher than in weeks ago. The average was M7.U in :hc U-year period, ia01-lJl j. FAVORABl BAJL.WCE Foreigi Made outlook bv.'tie in 1 April, oxpot!. excebclid imports $10; . 1 000,000, which leaves A;:terfca 'to ihe j good" at a rate of ?.bout 1.25O,00O;- 00u a vear. Mone. a : 11 uf exports Is nearly as big a; a voir ngn FOKD BREAKS RECORD Henry j-'ord has Jrist smashed his. record by turning out 4SS."i. cars ind trucks In cje day In hl5 Dvitroit plont. Since he started Fnl has manufactured manufac-tured e.noo.OOO cars. MEXICAN nil . Mexican liph' oil fields are pro-ducing pro-ducing about 2,500. C90 barrels of crude oil a week, coinpared with 1 -43it..Miti barrels a v.e. k bi ing produced pro-duced .a L'nited stat v, . 00 |
