Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-10-07
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An aerial express for delegates and
visitors to the national convention Of
the American Legion at Kansas City
will be operated by members of the
Minneapolis Mimi Aero Club. They
will use their own planes for the trip.
To assist the few surviving members
of the Confederate Veterans associa-
ton in Tennessee to attend their an
nual reunion at Chattanooga, 20 men Of
Nashville post of the America Legion
devoted a day each to raising a fund
to defray Their expenses.
Whether to wear brown derbies or
cornstalk shirts is a question puzzling
members of the Iowa delegation to the
American Legion meeting at Kansas
City this month All are agreed that
they should wear something distinc-
tive. More than 1000 Iowans will at
tend the convention.
Holding that his opportunity for ser
vice was greater in his new capacity,
Clarence w. Seymour, Hartford, Conn,
sent in his resignation as state senator
Immediately after he had been elected
commander of the American Legion OF
Connecticut. The Legion forbids its
officials to hold political elective Office.
Ward A. Pensyl, navy veteran of the
war, is hiking from Hammanton, N.
J., to Pittsburg, Pa, 400 miles, to get
job that is being held for him. He is
drawing a two wheel cart containing
tools and clothing. The local American
Legion post sent his wife and five chill
dren on a train ahead of him. He had
been out of work for months.
A former soldier, jobess and with a
wife and five children to support, had
80 offers OF employment when his case
became known to Kansas City citizens.
Sleeping on the floor because he had
no bed. the service man was reused
early by a rush of calls from the Ameri-
can Legions employment bureau where
he had registered only the day before.
One hundred aliens manning the
Shipping Boards fleet at Camp Eustis,
Va. have been discharged and their
places filled with unemployed Ameri-
can seamen following representations
of the American Legion of the state.
The fleet now consists of 800 vessels
in charge of skeleton crews and 300
more ships will be added soon.
From eight to ten cents a day for
meals and a bed is the rate in a hotel
lust opened in Des Moines, la, by
Sheriff w. +. Robb, who does it for
iobless ex-service men in addition to
his other duties Only cards supplied
bv the American Legion aud trades
and labor assembly of the city will ad-
NIT guests.
Harold Wells, Petersburg, Va blind
ed while serving his country during
the world war, was not receiving
enough from the government to keep
him Members of his American Legion
post raised $1,000 in a mass meeting
over which the mayor presided. They
set him I'D in business and with their
Women's Auxiliary pledged to buy only
of the veteran in his tobacco and book
shop. Now he has paid off the Sl,OOO
debt and is making a comfortable liv-
ing.
Five thousand wireless stations
forming network from coast to coast
are receiving nightly bulletins of in
formation concerning the forthcoming
national convention of the American
Legion. a sending set with range OF
l,5OO mile, flashes the news from Kan
sas CITY at 40 and $50 o'clock each
night and members Of the Western Ra-
do Company, most of them Legion
men Of army wireless experience, pick
ND the stories for their local news
papers.
Gas on the battlefield and gas in
the hold Of an immigrant ship are
of different quality, according to war
veterans Of both experiences The
American Legion employment bureau,
New York, on receiving call from
the immigration authorities OF the
port for "veterans OF combat service
sent - overseas men to the docks.
They were to don gas masks and fumi-
gate immigrant ships, the work to last
A month. Declaring they had raced
death once the meu gave up and start
ed looking for another job. Five hun
dred ex-service men who played their
old part as movie supers at Mamaro-
neck. n Y, however, liked it.
New York, oct. Use OF the giant
liner Leviathan, for months idle at the
army docks at Hoboken, as shelter and
sleeping quarters for homeless and job
less ex-service men is being sought OF
the Shipping Board by the American
Legion. Following the Shipping Board
announcement that the ship is gong
to be recondtioned and restored to ser
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