The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-06-17

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ing to the American Legion Weekly.
Applicants should give the following
data; Full name, date of enrolment,
I rating and class in which enrolled,
I present address, present rating, num-
Der of retainer pay checks received
| (if any and amount of each, date of
release from active duty, date of dis
| charge from reserves.
One of the largest single cash CON
tributions for the benefit of disabled
| eX-service men has been received by
the St. Louis city central executive
| committee of the American Legion.
The amount was 5000, without
string to it" given by Mrs. Newton
L. q. Wilson, wealthy philanthropiSt
Of the city. The fund viii be used
exclusively TO assist disabled men In
obtaining just compensation and for
the relief of their dependents.
American Legion posts In Minnesota
are having a lively controversy as 10
which one has the oldest Legionnaire
on its rolls. Redwood Falls presented
DR.. Gibson, seventy-twO years old, who
served with the medical corps at Fort
Benjamin Harrison, Ind, and held the
record until Kimball post introduced
Adam Brewer, seventy-siX years old,
and Joe Mason, who admits eighty-six
years and a highly priced membership
in the Legion.
AS a result of a fight waged on the
Two
Hamilton Fish, Jr., of New York,
prominent American Legion worker,
Aelatives of aliens who served in the
American army, navy and marine
corps during the World war are en-
titled to preferred right of entry in
to the United States in the three-per-
cent immigration to be allowed during
the next year under the immigration
bill.
Members of the American Legion in
st. Paul, Mimi, cast their bread up /
on the waters and 1t was returned /
a hundredfold. Last spring they gave /
assistance to a needy man. When the I
Legion men were selling theater tick /
cts for a benefit performance for IN /
employed veterans the ex-service man \
sold 500 tickets in two days. As a I
result, 80 men were sent out on jobs 1
the following day.
A vigorous campaign waged by the
American Legion against dislOyal ac-
tivities of the Industrial Workers of
the World is responsible for the stab
bling of a Legion worker by an 1. W. W.
fanatic, according to reports received
at Legion national headquarters from
Pocateuo, Idaho. True TO form, the
I. w w member attacked the Legion
man in a dark alley, stabbing him in
the back.
For the prompt relief of disabled
and unemployed ex-service men of Chr
cago, Theodore Roosevelt post of the
American Legion staged a stag party,
at which Judge X. NJ. Lands was
guest. Battling Nelson was in charge
Of the athletic program, the band OF
the Great Lakes naval training station
provided music and stage stars CON
uibuted their services to a midnight
frolic.
Commuters and street car fans of
New Orleans may have TO walk when
the American Legion meets. En-
plOyees of the New Orleans Railway
aad Light company have formed a
post Of the Legion. The street railway
men are enthusiastic members of their
post and have promised to attend meet
ings even if they have TO bring along
their private cars.
An American Legion speaker has
been asked to explain the aims and
purposes of the organization at the an
1ual labor picnic TO be held June IS in
Kansas City. Kan. The action, which
followed a conference with the mayor
Of the city, is intended to clear up any
which radical ele-
lients may have fostered in the ranks
IF labor organizations.
Only men who were in the service
Turing the World war viii be admitted {
% hotel being erected by the Port {
and, Ore, post of the American Le-
zion The post is charging and re- y
upper floors of its large club Z
louSe to accommodate 20 men.
Idaho American Legion members
opened their state service and men,
,ership campaign with prayers in al
most every church in the state.
Store window posters and street car
signs aided Summit post OF the Amer
can Legion at Akron, o., during a
membership campaign
Nine members of the Detroit Tigers
oined the American Legion at
legion day held under the auspices
# Charles A. Learned post at Detroit.
y Cobb, manager. and captain in the !
hemical warfare service during the
var, is one of the Michigan posts best |
oosters.
A Greek open-air theater. to accom-
nodate 5000 persons, was dedicated +
y the people of Santa Monica, Cal, :
o the men who gave their lives in the \
World war. American Legion mem