Connecticut western news., 1921-03-31
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 Nebraska American members are backing an endowment bill in the state legislature, which provides that the state buy two million dollars worth of Liberty bonds and use in- terest thereon for sick and disabled ex-service men. The Nebraska leg islature has forwarded a resolution urging the United States Senate to pass the Fordney five-fold bonus bill, which is backed by the Legion.
 Cleaning out cellars and building summer cottages are examples of temporary jobs which the St. Paul, Minn. employment bureau and Wo- mems Auxiliary of the American Legion have obtained for more than six hundred unemployed veterans af- ter an appeal has been made to every employer and householder in that city. The average compensation for temporary employment is fifty cents an hour. Farmers near the Twin Cities are taking advantage of the opportunity to obtain ex-service men as farm hands and are paying from $50 month, with room and board, upwards. ,
 Oklahoma boards of county com missioners are authorized to lease, rent or donate any room in their control for use of the American Le- zion, according to the terms of bill passed by the state legislature.
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 More than 1,600 new members were obtained for the American Le- zion in Virginia during the last two months in spite of unfavorable agri- cultural and industrial conditions. ***#
 Maintaining contact with the main body of the American Legion by na- tive runners, travelling post of the Legion is today moving through the jungles of Portugese West Africa. The post is the first on the Dark Continent and it's establishment leaves Australia as the only contin- ent which has not been penetrated by the Legion. Twenty-three ex- plorers for oil, headed by Robert H. Wamsley, fell to discussing the war on the trail out of Loanda, Angola | and it was discovered that eleven of | the number were ex-service men. l Wamsley communicated with Akron, | 0. Post of the Legion, which ar ranged to obtain the necessary pa- pers from National Headquarters to | establish the African post. The ex- plorers will remain in the wilds for three years.
 Wisconsin led the other depart ments of the American Legion in new posts formed during the week ending March 19, charters having been issued for three posts. Ohio chartered ten units of the Women's Auxiliary and Pennsylvania, nine. There are now 10,297 posts of the Legion and 2,366 units of its Wo- mems Auxiliary.
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 When the chief of police of Amar- llo, Tex. was threatened with death tor his efforts in fighting the crime wave in that city, American Legion members formed an. auxiliary police 'orce and stood by the chief until he town was cleaned up.
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 Thomas W. Miller, of Delaware, is congratulations from mem oers of the American Legion in all parts of the country because of his as Alien Property Gus ,odian by President Harding. Colonel Miller was a member of the Paris ,aucus of the American Legion in L919, one of the incorporators of the in this country and chairman of the National Legislative Committee of the Legion from June, L919 to June 1920. His new job is 0 look after a billion dollars worth 'f German and Austrian property in his country taken over by the gov- ,rnment when war was declared against the Central Empires.
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