The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-07-29
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ohm G. Emery, national commando
of the American Legion, will head thu
party of $50 members of the Amer
lean Legion who sail August 3rd., fol
France, where they will tour the for
mer war zone as guests of the French
government. Mr.. Emery's decision t.
Join the Legion pilgrimage to France
is the result of urgent requests from
the French government and Legion
officials.
The former national commanders
Franklin D'Olier, of Philadelphia, anC
Henry D. Lindsey, of Dallas, Tex.,-
will be in the party, which is to be
composed of Legionnaires from every
state in the Union. John Sproul, son
of the governor, will be the Pennsyl-
vania party. The new A. E. F., as
the delegation has been called, will
sail on the Mail Liner George Wash
ington. An American Legion emblem
will fly from the mast of the former
presidential ship when she sails out of
port at New York. There will be an
informal farewell at the docks.
A special programe of entertain
ment for the passengers on board will
be arranged by the Legion committee.
When they land at lie Havre they will
boone guests of the French govern
ment and from then on they will re-
live their A. E. F. days, but without
the former hardships.
Among the distinguished visitors
at the national convention of the A
merican Legion at Kansas City this
fall will be Stubby, hero of Seich-
prey, who recently was awarded a
gold medal for bravery and faith
fulness. The decoration was presented
by General Pershing. Stubby has been
invited to attend the con-
vention as a guest of honor. He is a
Boston bull TERROR, wounded in ST.
Mihiel drive
A national census to determine how
many veterans of the world war are
Shriners has been started by Ararat
Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Kan
sas City. The purpose of completing
the census is to make it possible for
the Kansas City Shriners to send spe-
cial invitations to the veterans to at
tend the annual national convention
of the American Legion to be held al
Kansas City Oct. 31st. and Nov. LIST
and End. The visiting Shriners will be
guests of Ararat Temple during the
convention and will be entertained in
the homes of Kansas City Shriners.
An exhaustive exposition of alleged
pro-German activities of the Los Ang-
eles Examiner, New York American
and other Hearst publications during
the war, presented by the Pasadena
Cal, post of the American Legion
resulted in the post placing a ban on
the Examiner.
At recent conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South. Sergt
Alvin York, who is credited with hav-
ing captured larger number of Ger
mans than any individual in the Amer
lean Army, said that prohibition laws
should be repealed if it is found that
they cannot be properly enforced.
When the American Legion accep-
ted the invitation of the French gov
eminent to send a party of former
service men to France for a tour of
the old war zone, John J. Wicker, Jr.
of Richmond, Va, a member of the
Legion's national executive committee
was selected to manage the pilgrim
age. Wicker has conducted tours to
Europe, Palestine, Egypt and the Or
lent lie vas in Rome with a party Of
tourists when the world war started
Later he went to France in the Unite G
States aviation service. He s law
yer.
Michael Nolan, the newly -discoy-
cred mental wizard, who made per
feet score of PIP in thirteen minutes
in the army alpha test, IS a -harter
member of the Rainier Noble post of
the American Legion at Seattle
Wash. Nolan is 43 yeas old, a lum-
berjack and former sailor. He was
shell-shocked in France and is now
a student of the Federal Board of
Vocational Training at the University
of Washington. He recently passed
perfectly, in one minute and ten sec
Onds, an information test of sixty
questions. One of the questions asked
the definition of the following words
Ageratum, architrave, chamfer, cleis-
togamous elohim, gambit, guimpe, in
taglio, metacarpal, mitosis, NADIA
pomology, rocco and simony.
Posts of the American Legion anC
the Great War Veterans of Canada
have been asked to help find Capt
H, Hudson, formerly of Edmonton
Alberta, heir to the million-dollar es
tate of his father who died recent!
in Michigan,
Management of the $4,000 Anne
teur Athletic Club building at Bend
Oregon, has been turned over to tn,
local post of the American Legion.