Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-01-01
NEWS FROM NATIONAL
 HEADQUARTERS OF THE
 AMERICAN LEGION

HF1lNlVhV LLVlVN Establishment of radio depart ment for receiving wireless news and keeping in touch with American Legion posts throughout Louisiana |. is announced in a recent issue of kThe Pelicanaire, the official news paper of the Louisiana department pf the Legion.
 Through cooperation with amp- ours in towns in which there are fgion posts, a constant Jason will
 maintained between thN Legion
 wspaper and the local posts. Ar ngements have already been made r this service from Shreveport, Op-
 uses and Franklinton to New Or
 ps where The Pelicanaire is pub
 ed. By the use of the radio ser te, the press sheets of news from
 over the world sent out daily from arlington station will be received by the Legion organ. This service is conducted by the United States Navy for its battleships and stations.
 Three hundred volumes covering the field of American activities in the World War have been recelved through the medium of the Ame&can Legion Weekly as start of a com pfete Legion war library, which will be established in room at National Headquarters. The collection of books includes volumes dealing with the history of units from companies to divisions. It contains the products of hand presses in French and Ger man print shops as we'll as more ann bilious output of leading New York publishers.
 Declaring, that the "desultory", if not dilatory policy of the Administra' tion" in seeking out substantial: 150,000 deserters from the military and naval services and slackers dur. ing the war has been the subject of much adverse criticism, particularly on the part of the American Legion Senator Moses, of New Hampshire has offered an amendment 10 the House joint resolution which inc be- lieves will expedite the punishment of the 'undesirables." The auend- ment provides that the repeal of wal legislation embodied in the House res olution "shall be construed as effec- tive to terminate the military status of any person now in desertion from the military or naval service of the United States, nor to terminate the liability to prosecution and punish menS under the selective service law of any person who failed to comply with the provisions of said act" ~
 The American Legion will eater 1921 with practically 10000 posts, ac- cording to the estimates based on the latest figures. During the week end ing December 10 fifteen new posts were added, which brought the total to 9,930. Arkansas led with tbcee posts. The Women's Auxiliary in the same period obtained twenty-scven new units, raising its list to 1,5S6, Four new units, gained by the New York Department placed that depart ment in the lead for the week. For eign posts added recently are at Gnu quicamata, Chile ,and Guatemala City, Guatemala.
 Although the victim of a murder in Jacksonville, Mo-, was a former ser vice man, members of the American Legion post at Moberly, Mo-, a town nearby, were cool-headed enough tc quiet mob of enraged citizens which threatened to resort to mot violence. The Legionnaires were successful in persuading the angr! crowd to permit the man accused 0; the murder to be placed safely il jail to await trial.
 Following the action of the United Service Post of the American, Leg:ol in Bronx County, N. Y., which sen representatives to Washington t, fight the passage of the propose "blue laws" by Congress, other post in all five boroughs of New York nav put themselves on record against tn proposed legislation. In New Jersey Hubert Rocke Post, of, Teaneck, ex pressed similar sentiment.
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