Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-18
NEWS NOTES F ROM
 AMERICAN LEGION

Members of the American Legion, who served with the United States forces in France, will be called upon to give facts relating to Senator Wat sons charge that American soldiers were shot and hanged in France with out the formality of a court-martial. Secretary of War Weeks in a request to Commander Hanford MacNider for the Legion's cooperation said the War Department desired to prove or defin- itely refute the Georgia Senator's al- legations. Lemuel Bolles, national adJutant of the Legion said he was sure the National Commander would cooperate.
 There is one officer to every seven men in the United States army, ac- cording to information received by the American Legion. It was explained by the War Department that the high proportion of officers was due to the present army policy of maintaining an army capable of quick expansion in time of war. The army today numbers 13S,000 of which number 1S,000 are officers.
 The first official act of Hanford MacNider, newly elected national commander of the American Legion, was his attendance at the Armistice Day ceremonies at, Arlington as rep resentative of the majority of ex-ser- vice men in the United States. He will remain at Washington during the disarmament conference. MacNider's election has been approved by the Legionnaires everywhere. "He is ex- actly the type of man we want to lead us", seems to be the unanimous com ment. The impressive things about the nv commander are that he went into the army buck private and came out lieutenant colonel with II citations and nine decorations; that at the age of 32 he is head of a large banking business in Iowa and that he is Harvard man without the Har- yard accent. He has been hailed everywhere as a "real soldier".
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 A post of the American Legion composed entirely of World War vet erans of Polish descent has been formed at Toledo, Ohio and is known as Argonne post. Frank Szumigala is the commander, Stanley J. Grzezin- ski is vice commander and Joseph Malinkonsh is adjutant. r...
 Roy Phillips, member of the Amer ican Legion at Nashville, Tenn, re- ceived a five-pound box of candy in the mail and wondered who loved him. After eating some of the candy he was sent to the hospital, where phy- sicians pronounced his condition criti- cal. The candy contained poison and Phillip is now wondering who hates him. The police are Investigating.
 A chicken that came into the world "shimmying" and grew to full size in spite of it's affliction, was one of the attractions at the "Joy Day" eel ebrations of the Hedrick, Iowa post of the American Legion. It was billed as "the worlds only shimmying chicken"
 A five-rhile walking race will be held Thanksgiving Day by the Char les A. Learned Post of Detroit, Mich. Both men and women have entered the contest. Only Legionnaires are elig- ible. Prizes valued at more than 5000 will be offered. ....
 Joseph Semtich, world war vet eran who lost leg in the Argonne, walked seven miles at the head of the Shelbina, Mo-, post of the, American Legion in the Legion parade at Kan sas City. Semtich gets around with the aid of a crutch.
 Flying a kite "to keep the wolf away from the door,, is the occupa- tion of World War veteran who dur ing the war flew an airplane in France. The veteran was jobless and the only work the American Legion Employment Bureau at Minneapolis, Minn., could find for him was flying an advertising kite for film com pany.
 Buck privates had the pleasure of seeing former commissioned officers doing kitchen police at an American Legion banquet at Terre Haute, Ind. <
 The home in whEh the daughter of Betsy Ross, maker of the first Amer ican flag, lived at Fort Madison, Ia.,