The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-09-21
'l|f AhERIUAN lECloNt
u. WEEKtYsNEWS LETTER

H. WEEKIYSNEWS LETTER
Charging that bodies of returned
] soldier dead at the army piers at Ho!
4 poken are handled with less respect
4 than arc boxes of merchandise, the
i american Legion department of New
Jersey has urged the governor and ad-
EAgSutant general of the state to place of
sSSsAsrs permanently on duty at the base
49, demand proper treatment of the
bodies: Removal of the dead has be-
come fatigue duty for soldiers, in
lp&actlce if not by order, investigation
" disclosed. Unkempt men jostlc
tme flag covered caskets into disre-
Ass1S;'flt,f&ble looking trucks and drivers
SencH their precious loads over rough
reefs at high rate of speed, it is
&aargcd, with no military guards ac-
Y5mranying the remains.
Three distinguished war leaders will
'"issCtrn to their Missouri homes as q
result Of the American Legion nation
al convention in Kansas City this fall.
A homecoming celebration will be
held by Gen. John j. Pershing, Maj.
Gen. Enoch H. Crowder and Rear Ad-
miral r. e. Coontz, chief of naval op-
erations, all native Missourians. Gen
eGal Pershing was born in Laclede,
Mo, General Crowder in Edinburgh
and Rear Admiral Coontz in Hanni-
bal.
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Evidence of the ridiculous and mali
cious arguments which radicals and
disloya)ists in New York are present.
>sng to iobless eX-service men to allie
nHte 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, Mr.. Deeg-
an'TeDorted. a radical roator shouted
tftat "cven the shoe trust is conspiring
against you. Thew are keeping you
out of a Job so you'll have to wear out
shoe leather walking the streets. Then
they'll get you for another pair of
|Ash ) shoes"
"a Scrgt. Alvin G.. York, greatest hero
Jof the war;" has refused to consider,
an offer of $4,000 for a twenty-week
sAtheatrical tour on which he would be
to appeared 80 minutes a
Yday He announced following "heart
to heart talk on conscience" at re-
ligious gathering at Cleveland, Ohio,
, tSat although he needed the money to
pay off a mortgage on his Tennessee
farm. his conscience would not let him
aSploit patriotism.
Billets for ex-scrvicc men who at
: tend the land drawing at Powell, Wy
ominc will be provided by the Ameri-
can Legion, but the veterans are ask
cd to bring their own blankets.
President Harding will be asked to
2join members of the Hood River, Ore.
post of the American Legion in their
annual climb of Mount Hood next SIM
mer. The invitation will be extended
by Senator McNary, Of Ore. The ma
tional commander Of the Legion and
ether Officials also will be asked to
make the climb
> statewide SUSPENSION of business
and a funeral oration bv the governor
of the state, marked the funeral at
Carson City, Nevada. of a farmer boy
who went to war and made the SUI
prcme sacrifice. The honorcd hero
was Lawrence Peter Fogcd. One of
mis- 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
~ IldIlOHul NlCC-cOnlmanuol
of that organization attended.
While watching fireworks produc-
ton, "Siege of the Dardanellcs," at
Sthe Indiana state fair, Ben Welkins
world war veteran, collapsed from
rshell shock and for five hours under
went treatment at nearby field hos
pital. He is federal apiary inspcc-
tor.
Efforts to insert the timc-honorcd
adjective before the "short and ugly
word" describing Ambassador Har-
evcy's statement of why America ent-
cred the war threw the North Caro-
lima convention Of the American Le-