The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-07-30

John G. Emery, national commander
of the American Legion, will head the
party of $50 members of the American
Legion who sail August 8 for France,
where they will tour the former wal
zone as guests of the French govern
ment. Mr.. Emery's decision to join
the Legion pilgrimage to France is
the result of urgent requests from the
French government and Legion Off
Gals.
The former national commanders
Franklin D'Olier, of Philadelphia, and
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 in the Penn
sylvania 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 program of entertainment
for the passengers IN board will be
arranged by the Legion committee.
Nnti thy ioho q I LIZ Law llCN Will
become guests of the French govern
ment and from then ON they will ~
live their A. e. F. days, but without
the former h%ardships.
Among the distinguished visitors at
the national convention of the Amer
lean Legion at Kansas City this fall
will be Stubby, hero of S%eicheprey,
mhn rnonpt1y xryoc rAad a Gold mad
al for bravery and faithfulness. The
decoration was presented by General
Pershing. Stubby has been especially
invited to attend the convention as a
guest of honor. He is a Boston bull
terrier, 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
special invitations to the veterans to
attend the annual convention of the
American Legion to be held at Kansas
City Oct. 81, Nov. l and 2. The visit
ing Shriners will be guests of Ararat
lCilDlC uul1lS lhC tollNtllllOll vi Will
be entertained in the homes of Kansas
City Shriners.
When the American Legion accepted
the invitation of the French govern
ment to send a party of former SER
vice men to France for a our of the
old war zone, John ]. Wicker, Jr., of
Richmond, Va, a member of the Lee
oinn'c national nXoo1tiyn nnromittna
was selected to manage the pilgrim
age. Wicker has conducted tours to
Europe, Palestine, Egypt and the ORR
ent. He was in Rome with a party of
tourists when the world wal started.
Later he went to France in the United
| States aviation service. He is a law
yer.
Michael Nolan, the newly-discovered
mental wizard, who made a perfect
score of 212 in thirteen minutes in the
army alpha test, is a charter member
of the Rainier Noble post Of the Amer
lean Legion at Seattle, WASH. Nolan
is 43 years old, a lumberjack and for
mer 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 min
ute and ten seconds, IN information
test of sixty questions. One of the
questions asked the definition of the
following words: Ageratum, archi-
traye, chamfer, cleistogamous, elohim,
gambit, guimpe, intaglio, metacarpal,
mitosis, NADIA, pomology, rocco and
simony.
Management of the $4,000 Amateur
Athletic Club building at Bend, Ore
gon, has been turned oyer to the local
post of the American Legion.