The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-09-03
AMERICAN
|HLECIONA

Jr., national commander of the Amer1-
can Legion at the time of his accident
al death at Indianapolis, Ind, in June,
will not be Inferred in Arlington ma
tional cemetery at Washington, d. c.,
according to advices last week from
the widow and brother of the late COM
mander. Burial will be made at
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati,
o., where the body was placed in a
temporary vault following the largest
military funeral in America since the
Civil War.
With the practical closing of the
harvest season, the employment office
of an American Legion post at Aber-
deem, S. D., where |. w. VS. tried to
cause a general strike" among farm
hands, has closed. In three weeks the
Legion served 1,017 free meals, found
jobs for GIT men, gave 304 places to
sleep, gave 1913 free baths and Il treat
ments by the post physician.
The city election in Birmingham,
Ala, may be postponed at the request
of an American Legion post of that
city. The service men want to vote.
When a law exempting them from poll
tax was declared unconstitutional re-
Gently, the men were disqualified as
voters. Thirty thousand world war
veterans of the state are affected.
Evidence of the plight of unemploy-
ed service men was carried to cultur-
ed Boston, Mass, last week, when
Armand T. Gaudreau, University of
Maine graduate, besought the Ameri-
can Legion employment bureau for any
work that he could do. Previously
Gaudreau, dressed in his collegiate cap
and gown, appeared in the streets of
the banking section, selling newspa-
pers.
A silver reproduction of the historic
statue atop Castle San Angelo, Italy,
mounted on a pedestal of stone from
Mount Grappa, will be brought to the
American Legion by General Armando
DiaZ, commander in chief of the Ital-
ian armies, when he attends the Lee
gion convention at Kansas City in
October, cable dispatches declare.
To send back to her home on the
Rhine the German widow of an Ameri-
can doughboy, wearer of five battle
clasps and cited for valor, the Ameri-
can Legion of New York is raising a
fund of $3.50. The veteran met his
bride while with the Army of Occupa-
ton and through illness left her prac
tically penniless upon his recent reath.
JosephuS Daniels, former secretary
of the navy, and Charles r. Forbes
national director of the bureau of war
risk insurance, spoke on the same
platform in addressing the state con.
v~ention of the American Legion OF
North Carolina last week.
The old Grand Pacific Hotel in Chi
cago will be taken over by the Ameri
car Legion of that city for the exclus
i've use of homeless and jobless service
men in plans now being worked oui
by the Legionnaires. Accommodations
will be provided for 1000 men.
When President Harding visits Bfr
mingham, Ala, in October, he will b.
attended by an honor guard of LOO
members of the American Legion
drawn from the so posts of the state.
The parents of Merle Hay, one of the
first three Americans killed in the
world war, will receive no insurance
because their boy died before the wal
risk act became operative. The Amer
lean Legion of Iowa, Hays home state
has petitioned for the parents RELIEF
and is seeking to find my other pa,
rents whose o II died too SOON.
Michael e. Cassidy. member of the
American Legion post at Bisbee, Ari
iona, and morale officer at Camp Cody
New Mexico, during the war, was last
week appointed, appropriately enough
prohibition director for his arid state.