Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-03-25
NEWS NOTES FROM
 AMERICAN LEGION

American Legion and ninety-three units of it's Women's Auxiliary was made during the week ending March 12. Missouri Department of the Legion led with five posts chartered and Massachusetts and Kansas report ed twelve and eleven new units, re- spectively, of the Auxiliary. There are now 10,272 Legion posts and g. 292 units of the Women's Auxiliary.
 Architects from all parts of the country will be invited to submit de- signs and plans for the $15,000,O00 In diana War Memorial building, which will house National Headquarters of the American Legion. A fund of $1O0,O00 was granted by the Indiana legislature for prizes and expenses of the contest, The National Institution of Architecture will determine the winner of the first prize of $5O,0OO.
 F. w. Galbraith, jr., National Com mander of the American Legion, has ordered the Kansas Department of that organization to make a thorough investigation of the recent outrage at Great Bend, Kan, in which two or ganizers of the Non-P Partisan League were tarred and feathered. Although the mob of residents of that vicinity included a number of ex-service men, there was no organizanized support from Legion posts, according to press correspondents. Colonel Galbraith or dered all Legion posts to refrain from interference with the political activi- ties of the, Nonpartisan League sev- eral months ago.
 The increased cost of railroad fare will not trouble the members of Su- perior, Wis, post of the American Legion, who will attend the next Leg ion state convention at Eau Claire in box cars. "We travelled France in side door Pullmans and we believe that we prefer the Yankee type of box cars to riding the velvet at present prices," the Legionnaires said.
 The California Department of the American Legion has received copies of resolution adopted by the Central Labor Council, San Bernardino, Cal, recommending adequate appropria- tions for the bureau caring for dis abled veterans, appropriations to build and maintain necessary hospitals and passage of the Rogers-Capper bill to consolidate the government bureaus dealing with the affairs of ex-service men, as indorsed by the Legion.
 Graves of 15O Civil War veterans will be provided with markers by Kent Voyles Post of the American Legion at Elizabethtown, Ind. To raise funds for the undertaking, the Legionnaires will give banquet of "slum", prepar- ed by former Army cooks belonging to the post. Elizabethtown Legion mem- bers are also backing a movement to establish a public library.
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 American Legion posts and the Home Service department of the Red Cross in Detroit have consolidated ef- forts under the name of the Service Mems Bureau, and will cooperate in the work of adjusting claims, hospital ization, education and War Risk insur- l onro fo,, coysy;oa y,oar
 A special election will be held in Oregon to approve or reject the vet eran's state bonus bill, prepared and backed by the Oregon Department of the American Leg ion.
 Aroused by the greed of landlords in Shreveport, La., the local posts of the American Legion has placed on record as opposed not only to the hardship placed upon renters living in homes and occupying office and busi- ness buildings owned by rent hogs, but as pledging it's aid in seeking a remedy for the evil.
 Nebraska American members are backing an endowment bill in the state legislature, which provides that the state buy two million dollars worth of Liberty bonds and use interest there on for sick and disabled ex-service men. The Nebraska legislature has forwarded a resolution urging the United States Senate to pass the Fordney five-fold bonus bill, which is backed by the Legion.
 Cleaning out cellars and building summer cottages are examples of tenn porary jobs which the St. Paul, Minn., employment bureau and Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion have obtained for more than six hun dred unemployed veterans after an appeal has been made to every em- | nlover and householder in that city.