Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-09-23
NEWS NOTES FROM
 AMERICAN LEGION

Charging that bodies of returned soldier dead at the army pier at Ho boken are handled with less respect than are boxes of merchandise, the American Legion department of New Jersey has urged the governor and adjutant general of the state to place officers perrhanently on duty at the base to demand proper treatment Of the bodies. Removal of the dead has become fatigue duty for soldiers, in practice if not by order, investigation has disclosed. Unkempt men jost1e the flag covered caskets into disrep- utable looking trucks and drivers bounce their precious loads over rough streets at high rate of speed, it is charged, with no military guards ac- companying the remains.
 Three distinguished war leaders will return to their Missouri homes as a result of the American Leglon national convention in Kansas City this fall. A home coming celegration will be held by General John J. Persh- ing, Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder and Rear Admiral R. E. Coontz, chief of naval operations, all native Missouri ians. General Pershing was born in Laclede, Mo-, General Crowder in Edinburgh and Rear Admiral Coontz in Hannibal.
 Evidence of the ridiculous and mil icious arguments which radicals and dis-loyalists n New York are present. ing to jobless ex-service men to alien ate them from the government has been presented by William F. Deegan, American Legion member of Mayor Hylan's committee on unemployment, coping with the situation. To crowd in Union Square recently, MT. Dee gan reported, radical orator shout ed that "even the shoe trust is con spring against you. They are keep ing you out of a job so you'll have to wear out shoe leather walking the streets. Then they'll get you for an other pair of shoes!"
 Sergt. Alvin c. York, "greatest hero of the war;" has refused to consider an offer of $6OOO for a twenty-week theatrical tour on which he would be required to appear 30 minutes a day. Eo fnlln1x,;y,or fboopt fn heart talk on conscience" at relig ious gathering at Cleveland, Ohio, that although he needed the money to pay off a mortgage on his Tennessee farm, his conscience would not let him exploit patriotism.
 BilletS for eX-Service men who at tend the land drawing at Powell, Wy oming will be provided by the Amer ican Legion, but the veterans are asked to bring their own blankets.
 President Harding will be asked to join members of the Hood River, Ore, post of the American Legion in their annual climb of Mount Hood next summer. The invitation will be eX- tended by Senator McNary, of Ore. The national commander of the Legion and other officials also will be asked to make the climb.
 A statewide suspension of business and a funeral oration by the governor of the state, marked the funeral at Carson City, Nevada, of farmer boy who went to war and made the su- preme sacrifice. The honored hero was Lawrence Peter Foged. One of his daily tasks before he went to war was to deliver milk at the executive mansion. The funeral was conducted by the American Legion and J. G. Scrugham, national vice-commander of that organization attended.
 While watching a fireworks produc tion, Siege of the Dardanelles," at the Indiana state fair, Ben Welkins, world war veteran, collapsed from shell shock and for five hours under went treatment at a nearby field hos pital. He is a federal apiary inspec- tor.
 
 Efforts to insert the time-honored adjective before the "short and ugly word" describing Ambassador Har- vey's statement of why America en- tered the war threw the North Caro- lima convention of the American Legion into a fiery debate. The res olution adopted merely termed the ambassadors exposition as "a lie'.
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