The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-09-29
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In addition by indorsing the bill
heartily the legionairres took occasion
to call attention TO the fact that Sen
ator Shortridge failed to keep MS pre-
election pledges made at last years
convention when ne voted 10 recon-
NIT the bill in the senate.
The resolution on the bonus in part
is as follows:
1--WE are firmly convinced that
there is positively no reason to believe
that the passage of this measure
would place any serious embarrass-
ment on the treasury of the United
States nor jeopardize in the least the
financial security of the country"
With that the convention again
Endorsed ''in the strongest possible
terms" the adjusted compensation
bill now pending in congress.
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According to an announcement by
the war department there will be
eight permanent cemeteries for the
American dead of the World war in
Europe instead of six, as recommend
ed to President Harding by the Com
mission of Fine Arts.
The plan as approved by Secre-
tary of War Weeks calls for six me-
mortal cemeteries in France and one
each in England and Belgium. Each
of the cemeteries is to be named to
commemorate the operation or To-
cality in which the soldiers who are
buried there gave their lives. The
Somme cemetery is near the village
of Bony. Most of the men buried
there served with the 9th and Both
divisions, which were attached to the
British forces. The Aisne-Marne
burial place will be in Belleau Wood;
St. Mihiel, at Thiacourt; Meuse-Ar-I
gOnne, at Romagne; Oise-Aisne, at
Seringes ct Nesles. Other cemeteries
will be located at Suresnes, near
Paris; BroOkwood, Surrey, England,
and in Belgium. The exact location
of the latter has not been definitely
settled upon.
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A resolution calling on congress
to revoke the charter of the Ameri-I
can Legion was adopted at the an
nual convention of the Indiana Fed
Grafton of Labor at Hammond, Ind.
The action asking the revocation
of the legion's charter came after a
sensational debate over two hours in
length, and was a reversal of the
action Of the convention on the pre-
Vious day, when a similar resolution
was voted down. The final vote on
the resolution was close
Louis Hart of Lafayette, one of
the leaders in the debate on the
resolution, declared that the Ameri-I
can Legion of Lafayette, Ind, was
used to incite a riot when Scott Near
ing was slated to speak in that city.
THE streets of Lafayette were
alive with soldiers in uniform for
three hours before the hour of the
lecture" he said. 1T was said thew
were armed. don't know whether
that was true. but Scott Nearing
could not speak,
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The flagship of Admiral Dewey
and pride Of the U. S. navy during
the Spanish war is to have the honor
Of carrying back the body of the
unknown hero to be buried in Ar
ington cemetery. The choice was
left to Secretary DENLY and he Sc
lected the Olympia.
The historic vessel is still in COM
mission and will sail from the United
States early in October and will carry
a detail of soldiers and gobs, who will
act as a guard of honor for the I'M
identified soldier on the return trip.
A suggestion has been made to
the navy department that the Olym-
pia be greeted at New York by the
Atlantic fleet on her return with the
body and that a review be staged
as part of the exercises by the ma
ton in honor of all the men who
were killed in the World war.
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That American Legion posts in the
northwestern states are face to face
with determination is the purport of
a review Of the general situation in
that region as voiced by Robert A.
lie Roux, national field representative
of the American Legion, who is max
ing an inspection of the Colorado
posts.
IAN exigency exists in Washing
ton, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming
that approaches a crisis" lie Reoux
declared. Either the American Lei
zion must hecome a potent factor in