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Show President Truman's Marine Letter Is Sold for $2,500 BATON ROUGE, La. President Truman's now famous marine letter has been sold for $2,500. The letter dubbed the marines as "the navy's police force" with s "propaganda machine" likable to Stalin's. Mr. Truman apologized after marines and ex-marines exploded ex-ploded at home and abroad. Theus J. McQueen, national adjutant ad-jutant of the marine corps league, announced that the letter would be sold. He said the $2,500 check would be turned over to the league for welfare wel-fare and service work among marine ma-rine veterans. McQueen reported he had conducted con-ducted a telegraphic poll of the league's national staff and a majority ma-jority approved the sale. McQueen said that he did not know the identity of the purchaser. |