Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-09-09
NEWS NOTES FROM
 AMERICAN LEGION

"I asked her to marry me by talk ing with my hands like I'd seen the French do. She said yes in German; I understood that much" The war romance between the former doughboy of the Rainbow Division and the daughter of a German farmer with whom he was billeted in the Army of Occupation ended in New York last week with the marriage of Everett c. Haughn, Columbus, O., and Fraulein Elsie Bauer, Unkelbach on the Rhine, Germany. Two of the bridegroom's buddies of the American Legion of Columbus attended him at the wedding, one acting as best man. The couple will live in Columbus.
 Correspondence by airplane has been instituted between the mayor of Kansas City, Mr., and the mayor of Omaha, Neb., by the American Legion of the former city. Legion officials flew to Omaha last week with the Kansas City mayors request to the mayor of Omaha that he board the plane for a flight to the Legion con vention at Kansas City October 31. The mayor of Kansas City will fly back with the other mayor to attend the first aero congress in Omaha.
 Membership in the American Legion proved its worth to Arnold Hawkin- son, Glencoe, Minn., after his auto mobile was stolen in Minneapolis re- gently. Shortly after the theft police scrutinized. an automobile in which two women had driven to the jail for . visit with a prisoner. Under the seat they found copy of the Amer ican Legion Weekly addressed to Hawkinson. The women were arrest ed and the automobile returned to its owner.
 With handkerchiefs covering their faces as smoke masks, members of Hoboken, N. J., post of the American Legion aided in removing the bodies of 4,700 American soldiers when fire of unknown origin destroyed two of the army bases piers last week.
 In the hope that the bodies of Lieut.. Charles G. Little, Newburyport, Mass, and Mechanic Lloyd E. Crowell, Char leston, S. C., American Legion men killed when the giant dirigible ZR-2 exploded, will be recovered from the wreckage, the Legion post at Lon don, England, is planning an impress sive ceremony in their honor. If the bodies are returned to America, sim liar rights will be observed at the port of New York by the Legion of the city and state.
 Arrested and facing detention in jail for trial for violating traffic ordinance, James Anderson, Nash vile, Tenn, was passing unhappy moments when his policeman escort noticed his American Legion button. HHere, I'll go your bond, buddy" he said. "T wear the same button" It developed that the men belonged to the same Legion post.
 With the recent receipt of their state bonus checks, members of the Sturgis, South Dakota, post of the American Legion have pledged $11,- 900 of their money for the erection of a $25, 900 community building which is to have gymnasium, shower bath, bowling alley, rest room and dance hall for the entire town.
 In an address formally opening the new quarters of the Holyoke, Mass, post of the American Legion last week General John J. Pershing compli- mented the Legion for not participat- ing in politics.
 Policies favoring navy men of the American Legion will be discussed at the first conference of the newly ap- pointed committee on Naval Affairs of the Legion, Edward E. Spafford, New~Y ork, chairman of the commit tee has called the conference in Chi eago September 20.
 
 The third annual reunion of the Thirty-fifth Division, composed of Missouri and National Guard units,