The Coconino sun., 1920-12-24
News of Soldiers and Sailors

Seventeen American Legion mem
 bers of the Ohio State University foo
 ball team, instilled the fighting spiri
 which enabled the Ohio team to defea
 the University of Illinois and win tn,
 championship of the Western confer
 ence. The team, which is coached b,
 Legionnaire, also won over Wiscon
 sin, Michigan and Chicago. It scored
 fifty-eight points in Conference game.
 against twenty for it's opponents. Oi
 the first-squad men, ten are Legion
 naires.
 A national bonus bill for ex-servict
 men would tend to remove the men. ace to race suicide is the opinion ad. vanced by member of the American Legion in a communication to the American Legion Weekly. "There are many young couples" the letter reads, "that are looking for. ward to compensation as a means of making it possible for them to be- come fathers and mothers of future American citizens"
 Nearly 33,000 more acres of public land now are open to entry by former service men, according to announce ment by the department of the inter- for. A number of members of the American Legion have written to the American Legion Weekly to inquire concerning the allotment The land is located in Lyon and Mineral coun- ties in Nevada, Rio Arriba county, New Mexico, Blaine, Phillips and Val ley counties in Montana, and Goshen county, Wyoming.
 Agitation for the formation of a Mems Auxiliary of the American Le- zion continues to gain ground. Travis Post, at Austin, Tex, recently in structed it's executive committee rep resentative to bring the matter to the attention of the Texas department committee.
 Many members of the American Le- zion have enlisted as scout masters in response to an appeal from San Fran cisco Council, Boy Scouts of America The council is making on attempt to enroll Legionnaires as scout masters because of their knowledge of discip- line and camp life and their qualifica- tions for leadership.
 Two hundred American Legion bas- ketball teams in the department of hot To fat< .l pionship, it has been announced by Legion officials at Indianapolis. Play ing is now under way in each of the thirteen congressional districts and later in the winter, district tourna- ments will be held. The winners will then meet in state tournament to determine the state championship. Trophies will be awarded in the state tourney and also in many of the dis trict meets.
 A legislative committee has been formed to draw up plans for conver- sion of the old state capitol at Little Rock, Ark, into a memorial building in honor of the Arkansas men who in the World war. Bry- ant Harper, a member of the Texar- kama post of the American Legion is chairman. The cost of the building will be S250,0OO.
 Armistice Day promised to be a gloomy event for a New York mem- per of the American Legion and a Chicago Legionnaire, who found them selves in Guttenberg, Ia., on a busi- ness mission. Broadway and State street "reminiscences were cut short, however, by Legionnaires of the Prair- e, (Ia.) Post, who raided the hotel at which the strangers were stopping md promptly made them chief guests It the Post dinner.
 The evening edition of the Billings Mont) Gazette is gotten out exclu- lively by Legionnaires. Editors, re- ,orters and advertising men alike wear the blue and gold emblem.
 "Mr. and Mrs. Former B. Private" ,alls out the adjutant at many Legion Post meetings.
 Here" come deep bass voice and me in a higher pitch.
 For American Legion Posts contain he names of many married couples. Post of Pontiac, Mich, las two married couples on it's mem ership rolls, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. fitchell and MT. and Mrs. W. V. Sher- nan. In William Harry Davidson ost, of Vandergrift, Pa, are Mir and