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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
IN BEHALF OF DISABLED MEN
Bentley Post at Cincinnati Regarded
as Model for Systematic
Program for Work.

Robert f. Bentley Post of the Amer
ican Legion at Cincinnati, o., has at
tracted national attention because Of
fits activities In behalf of sick and dis
abled veterans of the World war. Its
systematic program for work is regard
ed by Legion officials as a model to
posts.
The work has been assigned to four
committees: for disqualification and
compensation, hospital entertainment,
sick members and employment.
The disqualification, and compensa-
ton committee takes care of all cases
In which ex-service men seek to obtain
their rights from the government. Its
duties are to direct the applicant to
the proper federal authorities and to
follow up the case. The Red Cross has
aided the post committee by stationing
a worker at the club rooms at all times
to handle emergency cases.
Visits to each Cincinnati hospital
where veterans are lodged are made
at least twice month by the hospital
entertainment committee, which notes
the general condition Of the hospitals
and provides entertainments for the
patients.
The sick committee visits all ex-serv-
ice men in their homes as soon as the
cases are brought to the attention of
the post members.
A free employment bureau for all
veterans is operated at post headquar-
tiers by the employment committee.
The Women's Auxiliary of the post
has assumed large share Of the work.
This organization has general chair
man Of hospital work with sub-chair-
man for each hospital.
At the General hospital complete
dinner is set once month. Cigarettes,
candy, fruit and cakes are provided
weekly at all hospitals, as are maya
zines and books. At Rockhill the men
We're supplied with piano and victrola,
motion picture protector, knitting
machines, pajamas. sweaters, caps,
socks and other comforts. The Auxil-
iary women have made sheets, pillows
and bed sacks for the patients. Each
man Is interviewed at each visit and
personal favors are executed whenever
possible.
For the benefit of those men who are
vocationally handicapped the Auxiliary
conducts a shop In the post club rooms
where disabled men are employed in
the manufacture Of wicker, bead and
mat work. The articles are marketed
by the women and the proceeds are
turned over to the veterans.
All caskets Of ex-service men pass
ing through Cincinnati have been deco
rated by the Legion women. Families
of Cincinnati men who died IN the serv-
fee are visited and sympathy extended.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03

CARNATIONS must be limited by the
prevalence OF belief on the subject
for which the organization stands.
The American Legion, drawing its
members from every type Of organiza-
ton and from practically every fam
lily in the United States, has the back
Ing of the whole nation"
Mr.. Dawes was born and educated
In Wisconsin. When he was gradu-
ated from high school he went West
and finally settled at Wrangell, Alas
ka, as proprietor Of q weekly news
paper. Later, lie sold his newspaper
and attended Valparaiso University
Law school, finishing the course in
1915.
AS a member of the artillery park
anti Of the First army, Mr.. Dawes
served I'm France. After his discharge
from the army he returned to Alaska
and entered the practice of law at
Juneau. He Is charter member of
Afford John Bradford Post No. 4 of
the Legion and is now vice commander
of the department of Alaska as well
as national committeeman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
SEARCH FOR BERGDoLL's AID
Legion 10 Endeavoring to Find Man
Alleged to Have Helped Stacker
Reach Germany.

The American Legion is searching
for the man who is reported to have
aided Grover @. Bergdoll, notorious
Stacker, in his escape from Canada to
Germany, according to Lemuel BolIes,
national adjutant Of the Legion, who
said that the Legion is especially con-
cerned In that Bergdoll is alleged to
have obtained his passport in Winni-
peg by using an American Legion but
ton and the army discharge papers Of
q Legionnaire.
Mr.. Bolles has appealed to the De
partment of Justice to ascertain the
facts in the case and proposes, If the
report is true, to see that the man
is apprehended, expelled from the Lee
gion and brought to speedy trial.
Bergdoll has been the target of nu-
merous attacks of the American Lee
gion. When he escaped from prison
a reward of $500 was offered for his
capture and number of Legion posts
In many parts Of the country took
similar action TO bring about his cap
ture. One post adopted resolutions
urging the President to demand the
release of the two Americans who tried
to recover Bergdoll In Germany.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
More Than 10000 Posts.

Foss (okla.) Post of the American
Legion was the ten thousandth post
marker which the Legion passed early
in the new year. The Legion now has
1904 posts and its Women's Auxiliary
1928 units. Large additions to the
membership Of the ex-service mems
organization are expected within the
next few months because membership
campaigns are In progress in many
states. The Southern departments are
especially active. The Auxiliary is
growing at the rate Of thirty to forty
new units week.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03

$50 discharges in one day.
A member of the Arkansas Nation
al Guard, Mr.. McAlister entered the
federal service early in the war and
served in America and France. He
rose from second lieutenant to major.
Mr.. McAlister was educated IN the
common and high schools of Mississip-
pi and was graduated from Mississip-
pi college. He was an assistant in
mathematics at his alma mater for
one year and then became member
Of the faculty of Ouachita college. He
was acting president of the latter in
stitution when he resigned to enter
the service. Mr.. McAlister is now d.
rector of extension at Arkansas State
Normal school.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
On REORGANIZATION Committee.

DR.. III. Grant Thorburn Of New York
and DIR. II. Kennon Durham Of Gin
cinnati have been appointed members
Of the American Legion committee on
disqualification. DR.. Thorburn is a
member of the faculty Of the School
of Medicine Of Columbia university
and examining physician of the New
York Tuberculosis association. DIR.
Durham Is president Of the Ohio
State tuberculosis association and
professor at the University of Cincin-
natl. He is an international authority
In the field Of roentgenology.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
Seattle Has Veterans, Hotel.

veterans Hotel" three-story struc-
ture with accommodations for 25O Sc
attic unemployed ex-seryice men. is
the result Of the activities of Seattle
Post No. Is of the American Legion
and committee of prominent citizens
of that city. Any veteran In need Of
temporary shelter will be housed In
the hotel for a reasonable length Of
time regardless Of Legion membership.
The project was financed by the Lee
gion and popular contributions.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
FamIIIarity,s Breed.

At the grave of the departed the
old darkey pastor stood. hat in hand.
Looking into the abyss he delivered
himself of the funeral grafton.
Samuel Johnson" he said sorrow
fully, I'VE hopes you is gone where
we 'specks you ain't."-American
Legion Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
BRIEF INFORMATION

The area Of England is not quite
equal to that Of the state of Alabama.
A total eclipse Of the moon may
last as long as one hour and As min
utes.
The French war museum in Paris
recently received gift of complete
set of American war posters.
Eight Canadian memorial monu-
ments are TO be erected on the battle
fields of Belgium and France.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03

In India last year 1.16o persons were
killed by tigers.
julius Caesar was the first ruler TO
style himself an emperor.
The Turks say that women With
long hair have short intellect.
Quicksilver is measured by TASKS,
each weighing seventy-five pounds net.
Street railway fares In Wisconsin
average lower than those in any other
state.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03

tee or the Arkan-
sas department Of
the American Lee
gion, endeared
himself to many
ex : doug h b o s
when his unit at
Camp Dix, N. T.
discharged more
men In one day
than any other
unit In the army.
The score which
he commanded as
n maiOr was l.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
The Greater Shame.

Wifey = Aren't you positively
ashamed that your wife and daugh-
ter are out at the elbows?
Hub-Nope. But am ashamed
that they are all out at the knees
American Legion Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
His Awful Thouoht

Warren was an only child, and there
being no boys in the neighborhood he
was obliged 10 play with girls, of
whom there were number. One day
he appealed to his father to move,
saying: dad, If you don't get me
away from here and let me play with
boys, am afraid I'll grow up to be
regular Sis"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
SAYS LEGION is GREATEST
Alaska National Executive Committee
Member Points With Pride to
American Organization.
Harold F. Dawes, member of the
National Executive Committee of the

American Legion
for Alaska. says
that the American
Legion is the
greatest organiza-
ton in the United
States and backs
up his statement
with the argu-
ment that "any or
ganization is only
as great as the
people behind it.
Political, fraternal
or religions or-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03

of the WISCONSIN
department of the
American Legion,
has become known
to thousands OF
veterans because
of his position as
administrator OF
the educational
bonus law Of that
state, which al
lows $50 a month
to ex-seryice men
VINO desire an ed
ucation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
FITZPATRICK is BUSY MAN
Chairman Of Americanism Commission
of Wisconsin Is Administrator OF
Educational Bonus Law.

\ Edward Augustus Fitzpatrick, chair.
man of the Americanism Commission
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
M'ALISTER ROSE TO MAJOR
Arkansas Officers Unit Made Record
for Number Of Men Discharged
In One Day.

Heber L. McAlister Of Conway, Ark,
chairman Of the Americanism commit
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03

Charles Dickinson, a retired million
alre of Chicago. and president of the
Illinois Aero club, made his first solo
flight In an airplane the other day.
Mr.. Dickinson, who is sixty-three, has
made several air flights.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03

Women Act as Pawn Agents.
There are women in New York, II is
said, who make living pawning arti-
cles for other people.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03

Less than 800 yards west of the
Monroe county line, In Owen county,
Indiana, the center of the population
of the United States under the 1920
census has been located on John f.
Horron's farm of 90 acres. Mrs. HOr-
ron is shown standing beside the
board marking the center.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-03-03
Gle
AMERICAN
@I.I::G|ON@
Copy for This Department Supplied BY
the American Legion News service)

Copy for This Department Supplied b,
the American Legion News service.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Southern Ireland
In Ruins After Orgy
OF Fire and Battle

LONDON, May Acknowledging
ruins dotted southern Ireland today,
memorials of an orgy of violence in
which thirty-six 1ives were lost over
Whitsuntide.
Up to last night there were thir-
ty-three dead, mostly soldiers and
police. The three additional were
prisoners named Flynn, Ryan and
Aherne, who were shot when they
attempted to escape after their cap
ture by a raiding party.
Reprisals followed swiftly on the
Sim Fem outbreaks. Every ambush
was answered by a raid. Families
suspected of Sim Fein sympathies
were given an hours notice to re-
move their valuables, after which
their homes were fired.
From Cork to Dublin, the skies
were redeemed during the night.
The carnival of violence reached
its climax coincident1y with the most
promising peace negotiations yet
suggested. Premier Lloyd George
and president" De Valera were ex-
changing notes in an effort to ar
range a meeting.
The negotiations were reported to
have been started through the eff
forts of Martin Glynn, former gov
ernor OF New York, who was here
early in May. He was said to have
provided Intermediates who let De
Valera understand that the premier
was willing to see him.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Forty Per Cent Apple
Crop in North Georgia,
Says Market Agent

That the apple crop this year in
north Georgia will be only forty
per cent of normal, is the state
ment made by E. Ragsdale, special
marketing agent of the United States
bureau of markets, who returned to
Atlanta Saturday from a trip through
the apple-raising section of north
Georgia.
Mr.. Ragsdale works in commune
ton with the state college of agri-
culture, and with the farm bureau
movement.
He said that he had made a care
full survey of the conditions through
out the entire apple belt. and thIt
he found that the cold weather, to-
gether with certain tree fungi had
combined to destroy at least sixty
per cent of the total crop this year.
However, he added. that the value
Of the crop will be greatly enhanced
by it's smallness, and that the ip-
pie producers will most likely re-
ceive more for the apples they will
actually market this year than if
they were to market a full normal
crop. He said that he understood
that practically all of the apple coun-
try in the northwest mad been Sc
verely hit by cold weather, and that
the crops there would be practi-
cally negligible.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
M|NCO AUTHORITIES
REQUEST SOLDIERS

i WILLIAMSON w. Va, May IL
Mingo county authorities today were
waiting for a reply to their latest
appeal to Governor Morgan, asking
that he urge the war department to
send federal troops into the battle
zone along the West Virginia-Ken-
lucky border. in this district. The
appeal, forwarded last night, inform
ed the executive that the situation
was critical. adding that further out
breaks along the Tug river front
were expected.
q. S. NOT FAVORABLE
TO MARTIAL LAW
WASHINGTON, May 17.-The fed
eral government is not disposed TO
declare martial law and employ regN-
lar troops in the Mingo county, West
Virginia, strike region. merely to an
ticipate situation that may get
beyond the control Of the state au-
th6 rites, Secretary Weeks declared
today.
Although he hal kilograms from
the governors of both West Virginia
and Kentucky asking for fedora
troops and the PRONUNCIATION Of the
or ordinations already signed by
President Harding declaring martial
law, Mr.. Weeks said the latest re
ports to the war department indicat-
ed that the situation to he more
quiet. Firing practically had ceased
he said, and no one had been killed
or wounded for two or three days.
Kentucky las 500 state troops 81
Mr.. Weeks sad, land large numb srS
of special officers have been sworn
in in both states. It is true that West
Virginia has no state troops, but the
forces on the spot seem to have the
situation well in hand.
at will be time to take so serious
a step as a declaration of martial
law when the affair becomes more
serious than it is now"
. The situation along the Kentucky
West Virginia border was discusse(
by President Harding and his cabine
and it was indicated that the decision
was affirmed to send federal troop!
into the region only as a last resort
1t was indicated the governors of thu
two states would be advised that tn,
army would be employed on polio
work only where states failed t.
maintain order
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
nOStOfICN inSp0CtOTS, VINO rNturAed

Tuesday and submitted their report.
Federal inspectors have been
securing the country for these men
for eighteen months. Some of the
defendants are wanted in as many as
eight states for robbery, the inspec-
tors declared.
The men, all of whom are held in
default of heavy bonds, are:
William Brawley, Dewey Dennis,
Alex CARTRIDGE, Lloyd Lorrick, Will
liam Norvell, Willis CARTRIDGE, ]. M.
Golf and Watson Wallace. Wallace,
alleged by inspectors to b ethe chief
of the band, is under arrest at
Springfield, Ill. All the others were
arrested in or near Columbia.
Long Chain of Robberies
At the Atlanta postal inspection
headquarters it was stated the
roundup was the most important
made by the government in num-
Der of years. A long chain of rob-
berries in approximately one-third CO
the states in the union is charged to
the gang, and in their capture the in
who are responsible for the robbery
from the banks and postofices of ire
mendouS amounts.
According to Atlanta inspectors
who laid the trap that finally caught
the alleged yeggmen, the band had
its southern headquarters in Column
bia, and it's eastern headquarters in
New York. It's members had been
constantly engaged in doing bank
and postoffice Jobs" for two years,
and up to a few months ago they had
completely baff1ed the authorities
who were seeking to apprehend
them, inspectors declared.
The made Snpcj91tv of
rifiing safe deposit vaults in banks,
and their efforts in this direction
Melted them countless thousands,
said the inspectors.
Extensive Operations
The rified postoffices and blew
bank safes in a dozen or more Caro-
lima towns on an average of once
year, and then proceeded eastward,
taking banks and postoffices> almost
said. A large number of their eff
forts were unsuccessful, but the
hauls made from the successful rob-
berries made their regular eXpedi-
lions extremely profitable, it was
stated.
The government first broke into
the big syndicate three months ago
gang were nabbed by inspectors in
various parts of the country. All
three of these men are now doing
time in federal prisons, and informa-
ton obtained from them led to the
capture Monday of the remaining
members, inspectors said.
The members of the syndicate now
under arrest will be held for trial,
first in federal court in Columbia
for the South Carolina robberies, and
then in the other states in which
they operated.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
BERGDOLL s MOTHER.
SENTENCED To PEN

PHILADELPHIA, May 18.-Mrs
Emma C. Bergdoll Tuesday was hem
fenced in the federal district court
to one year and one day in the
penitentiary for conspiracy to aid
her sons. Grover c. Bergdo1f and
Erwin R. Bergdoll, to desert the
United States army, and was fined a
total of $1,000.
Judge Dickinson announced the
prison sentence would be RENTED if
the fine was paid within the present
term, of court, ending the second
Monday in June.
The same conditional sentence was
Imposed on Charles A. Braun, Mrs.
BergdolIs eldest son, who changed
his name because of the notoriety
caused by Growers escapades, and
on James E. Romig, a friend of the
Albert S. Mitchell, an automobile
salesman, and Harry S. Schulz, in
dicted for aiding, Erwin Bergdoll to
months and $1,000 fine, in the Mercer
county Jail, at Trenton, N. j. Their
sentences also will be RENTED If the
fines are paid before the second Mon
day in June.
not lose sight of the fact that she
was a mother and that her offense
involved her sons.
mo one would wish to visit upon
you," said the court, their sins sim
ply because the justice which awaits
and will surely be melted out to them
was and has been for time delayed.
How much of the offenses of which
you are guilty was the, act Of fond
and foolish mother, and how much
was due to a base motive we cannot
certainly know. Your motive. how
NOT affect VOur guilt. al
though it may mitigate the punish
ment. We give you, as the law in it's
mercy commands us to do, the bene-
fit of the doubt.
mo one would wish to see a moth
err sent to Jail for merely helping her
sons, guilty as they We're"
wears old, Judge Dickinson said his
only claim to leniency was his age.
Judge Dickinson admitted all five
defendants to $4,000 bail each. pend
ing the outcome of an appeal on
ri of
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Seay Tells Gruesome
Details of How He
Murdered His Wife

ALBANY, Ala, May ll.-W. +.
Seay, accused of the murder of his
at Florence Sunday night with the
head beaten in by a rock, was rushed
here for safe keeping this morning
following his capture by. ponce
man at Florence, early today. Seay,
according to authorities, confessed
to the murder after his capture, ana
calmly told how he had beaten his
wife to death after bitter quarrel.
The fugitive, who had been sought
by posses with bloodhounds since the
while ringing the doorbell of his
mothers apartment at Florence. He
confessed on the way to the police
station, it is charged, and today ne
again told the details of the crime,
Seay said that he tried to choke
his wife. but that she almost over
came him, according to authorities:
Then, he said, he seized rock and
beat her head to pulp and after
wards mutilated her body in the hope
she could not be identified if found.
Seay declared that his mother and
his wife wanted to send him to an
insane asylum. Authorities believe
that he intended to kill both of them
When arrested. he had a piece OF
iron, wrapped with a handkerchief
with which it is believed he intend
ed to attack his mother. ... -.
Seay, in his alleged confession, is
declared to have told how he and his
wife went for a walk and sat down
on a rock. They had an alteration,
he said, during which he charged her
with indiscreet conduct. Then, he
said. he placed his arms around, her
and suddenly started to choke her:
She was hard to kill" he is al
legged to have declared. '...
Mrs. Seay, the daughter of A. A.
Williams. prominent Florence resi-
dent had been cautioned by her
mother to beware of her husband. it
is said, but laughed at the warning.
They had previously had trouble.
A special term of criminal court
will be ordered so that an immediate
trial may be had. Seay was rushed
from town before news of his cap
ture spread. He said he had been
hiding near Cypress creek since the
killing and has seen many persons
hunting through the underbrush in
an effort to find him. 1t is believed
he will plead insanity.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Conservatives Win
Overwhelming Victory
In Italian Elections

ROME. May 17.-Returns from the
national elections today rolled up an
evergoing conservative majority.
Reports came slowly from widely
scattered districts and the press hes
itated to make predictions. The gen.
eral opinion seemed to be that the
next chamber will contain from $50
to 285 members of the coalition head
ed by Premier Giolitti-the party OPP
posing radical Socialists, communists
and other extremists.
1t was believed other parties will
be represented as follows:
Official Socialists, 80 to 10; popu-
larists, 80 to 107; communists, 10 to
Is; republicans. 10 to Is; fascist, 20
to IS; complaints, 10 to 10; Slavo-
Germans, 10 to II.
Rome's complete figures gave an
idea of how the vote was going. It's
returns showed: Coalition, $4,000;
Socialists. $4,000; Popularists, TO-
800; Republicans, $500; Communists,
$500.