Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-03-04
NEWS NOTES FROM
 AMERICAN LEGION

The Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion passed the 2,OOO- unit mark by nine before the middle of February and was still going for ward at the rate of more than fifty units a week. Meanwhile the Legion is gaining at the rate of approximat- ely thirty posts week, with total of 1O,143 posts.
 The Minnesota Department of the Auxiliary, with 149 units, has now dis placed the Massachusetts Auxiliary for leadership. Massachusetts is sec ond; then follow New York, Iowa and Pennsylvania.
 In percentage of gain within the last three weeks, the Ohio Department leads the Legion. Missouri, Texas, Illinois and Oklahoma follow in rela- tive order.
 By arrangement between the Amer ican Legion and Bureau of Commer- cial Economics, the most complete and valuable collection of educational and travel motion picture films in eXls- tence will be placed at the disposal ot Legion posts for free exhibition Legion members will order films from catalogs which will be sent to all Legion posts. The films will be sent from number of distributing centers, which will be designated in the cata- log. One thousand separate topics are embraced in the films, which have been taken in all parts of the world.
 An American Legion button stopped bullet, which struck Gitamona Scala, a Legionnaire of Newark, N. J., and probably saved his life. Scala was an innocent bystander at a dispute be- tween four men during which the gun play started.
 Wearing his army gas mask, the Rev. F. w. Smith, commander of Ray Stone Post of the American Legion at Shrewbury, Mass, braved the smoke and flames of fire in the town hall to rescue two American flags from post headquarters room. Clutching the flags, he groped his way back through the halls, feeling his way out by string that he had tied to the back door on entering the building. Rev. Smith served as a chaplain with tho TonoI;or Dloo1 W,toh
 An ex-service man with eight bars on his Victory medal has been en- rolled by Argonne Post of the Ameri- can Legion at Des Moines, Ia., in a membership campaign. George Lean- der, the embryonic Legionnaire, was with supply train attached to the Mallet Reserve of the French Army. He took part in the Somme defensive, Aisne, Montdidier Noyon, Champagne Marne, Aisne- -Marne, Somme and Oise-Aisne offensives and also served. in defensive sector.
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 Foreign posts of the American Legion have been asked to cooperate with the Federal Board for Vocation al Education in carrying out system whereby American veterans in France, England, Italy and Belgium are to be provided with vocational training. The plan is based upon a reciprocal agreement between this country and the four allied countries, under which they are to train disabled American veterans in their borders and this country is to train their disabled ex- service men in our own, each nation paying stipulated sum for each vet eran so trained.
 The first convention of the Women's Auxiliary of the Virginia Department of the American Legion will be held May 13 and IA, it was decided at a meeting of the Legion's state execu- tive committee. More than HOO new members were obtained for the Legion in Virginia between January 1 and February 12.
 Player pianos, photographs, desks and Shetland ponies are among the prizes in a membership contest which l the Texas Department of the Ameri- l can Legion has started. Posts will be | graded on the proportion of number of members obtained to the population of the community.
 The Women's Auxiliary unit of Murphy -Major-Sloan Post No. 2S4 of the American Legion at Atchison, Kan., is the first colored auxiliary in Kansas and one of the first to be or ganibed in the country.
 
 Job applicants and employers are listed in card index, according to their abilities and needs by Nash vile, Tenn. Post of the American Legion, which has been successful in ,ht ipipp aroplovpoant fnr many ay |