Show SEEK NAMES OF NEXT OF KIN community past poff to A ascertain gomill ad dresse of those Ept expecting mg bad bodies those i to so be sent mt home while the american legion Is a t trying to be perfect at arrangements with the var or depart department me t to assist met 1 in assuring so M m relatives ot of prompt notification follow ing the arri arraial 1 of remains ot of america a i soldier dead amal overseas word has reached national headquarters of the lerlon legion that a body of one of at the these heroes re recently antly lay unclaimed on an a li hoboken bulge pier for nearly a week with tile text next of kin totally ignorant of les its arrival according to members of it legion p post net la in the fallen soldiers home community comp no notification of the body arrival was bent I 1 to relatives by the war department the legionnaires it Is IB mid bald learned of the case through indirect channels and telegraphed de pertinent part ment headquarters of us the lega legion in new york city wl which itch arranged croul ged far or shipment hIp ment of the body to ft its final rest ing plate place the legion post took charge of the funer funeral till and the remains were interred with appropriate military honora V M hen the plan to return certain ben b bodies all f from overseas tom nas first an bounced noun ced the american legion ored to male make arrangements with the orv tv war department to recene notification of shipment in order that national headquarters of the legion might write direct to the next of kin bud and of fer far the services of the local posts in with the funeral nc arrange ments la in ca caw re Jathea estred this but the government officials official d decided they could not give out this tion nod and comp compromised aed with ith an otter ff to circularize the next cost of kin to the ef feet that the legion would w be glad to in co operate in et extending ding honor to the ass corm memory of these them heroes in a bulletin forwarded to each of the more mom than 9 legion posts throughout the united cited states lemuel boll bollea net national i one 1 adjmI adjutant mIt asks these them community ity po posts ts to uc ascertain ertain the names of men man of their respective 1 lo 10 cali ties who died mem overseas and whose bodies are am being atu returned rood nod and notify I 1 eglon national h headquarter me a of the a tiamen and 4 add addreen of cf the beat of kin 1 ID order that it may ank take step to prevent it f recurrence a of u an incident kinchle n t gucfa ch as that recently reported from form new Y york ork news new dispatches tal baa that in certain cases am it hm has been to into locate the next of kin after a body has ar ri rived rid d and the has interred such i h remains in one me of the national cemeteries th ohp I 1 I 1 eglon be has offered nil all its me resources to the war department to assiat in preventing prevent lne blunders of mi this kind |