The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-08-31
THE AMERICAN LEGION
WEEKLY news LETTER

WEEKLY news LETTER
The body of Frederick w. Galbraith
Jr., national commander of the Ameri-
can Legion at the time of his acciden-
tai death at Indianapolis, Ind, in June,
will not be inferred in Arlington ma
tional cemetery at Washington, D. c.,
according to advices last week from
the widow and brother of the late
commander. Burial will be made at
spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati,
w., where the body was placed in a
temporary vault following the largest
military funeral in America since the
Civil War.
With the practical closing of the
harvest season, the employment Of
flee OF an American Legion post at
Aberdeen, S. D., where l. w. WIS tried
to cause a general "strike" among
farm hands, has closed. In three
weeks the Legion served LOTT free
meals, found jobs for GIT men, gave
800, places to sleep, gave 373 free
baths and II treatment by the post
physician.
The city election in Birmingham,
Ala, nay be postponed at the request
or an American Legion post of that
CITY. The service men want to vote.
When law eXcmpting them from
POLL tax was declared demonstrations
al recently, the men were disqualified
as voters. Thirty thousand world war
veterans of the state are affected.
Evidence of the plight Of uncmploy-
ed service men was carried to cultured
| Boston, Mass, last week when Ar
mand Il. Gaudreau, University of
Maine graduate besought the Ameri-
can Legion employment bureau for
any work that he could do. Previous
~ Gandreau, dressed in his collegiate
cap and gown, appeared in the streets
, of the banking section, selling news
papers.
a silver reproduction of the historic
statute atop Castle San Angelo, Italy,
; mounted on pedestal of stone from
Mount Grappa, will be brought to the
American Legion by General Armada
DlaZ, commander of the Italian armies
when he attends the Legion conven-
tlon at Kansas City in October, cable
dispatches declare.
TO send back to her home on the
Rhine the German widow of an Am
erican doughboy, wcarcr of five battle
clasps and cited for valor, the Ameri-
can Legion of New York is raising a
fund Of $3.50. The veteran met his
bride while with the Army of Occupa-
ton and through illness left her prac-
tlcally pcnnilcss upon his recent
death.
Josephus Daniels, former secretary
of the navy, and Charles r. Rorbes,
national director Of the bureau of war
risk insurance, spoke on the same
platform in addressing the state con-
vention of the American Legion Of
North Carolina last week.
The old Grand Pacific Hotel in Chi
cago will be taken over by the Am
crocan Legion of that city for the ex-
elusive use of homeless and joblcss
service men in plans now being work
ed out by the Legionnaires. Accomo-
dations will be provided for 1000 men.
When President Harding visits Bir-
mingham, Ala, in October, he will be
attended by an honor guard of 1000
members of the American Legion,
drawn from each of the so posts of
the state.
The parents Of Merle Hay, one of
the first three Americans killed in the
world war, will receive no insurance
because their boy died before the war
risk act became operative. The Am
erican Legion of Iowa, Hays home
state, has petitioned for the parents
relief and is seeking to find any other
parents who sons "died too SOON"
Michael +. Cassidy, member of the
American Legion post at Bisbcc, Ari-
Zona, and morale officer at Camp Cody,
New Mexico, during the war, was last
week appointed, appropriately enough
prohibition director for his arid state.
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