Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-28
NEWS NOTES OF
LEGION POSTS
Compiled by National Head
quarters American Legion,
Indianapolis


/ hours of suffering came to the attention
of Lee c. Prentice Post the American
| Legion, in Fairmont, MINI.
Cletus Laprin, a young soldier severely
/ wounded on the battle6elds of France
and now in hospital, rated totally and
permanently disabled, received a check
for the bonus Minnesota is giving its SOL
/ diers while on his bed of pain in a
sanatarium in Fairmont. Asking to be
propped up in bed, Lappin Endorsed the
/ slip good for several hundred dollars
I to the Prentice Post of the Legion.
| when I needed help" he said, The
| Legion boys stood by me. Now I'm go
| ing to do my little bit to help them get
those clubrooms they are after"
! sympathy for the principals Of the
coming Dempsey Carpenter prize fight
/ In Jersey City is sharply divided in
Atlantic City, which has been visited
by both of the pugilists. On one side
are members of the American Legion,
who cannot and will not reconcile Demp-
sey's war record as a shipyard fighter
with his contention that he is the cham
piOn masculine battler of the world.
| They have openly shown their preference
| for Carpenter. during the war an aviator
who accounted for his share of Germans
On the other side are lined up veterans
Of other wars, including the last one,
who have FASTENED to offer their alleg-
glance to Dempsey and to bitterly de-
EOunce the Atlantic City Legion Post for
its stand against the man who neglected
an opportunity to prove his wonderful
/ fighting abilities.
When Dempsey visited Atlantic City the
Legion men listened to his torrid
speeches in respectful silence. When
/ Carpentire came, they welcomed him as
comrade in arms, with whom they had
something in common during the terrible
days on the battlefelds Of France. To
those who protested. the legionaires
simply recited Carpenters war record.
A special committee of the veterans
organization which openly admires
Dempsey recently called on him. They
found the champion prize fighter smart
ing under the several constructions put
on the action Of the American Legion. He
was so deeply impressed with their visit
that he insisted on shaking the hand of
each one of them before they left.
Bob Martin. who served in the A. f. F.
and who found time between battles to
improve his boxing, will challenge. IL is
rumOred, the winner of the coming fight.
Nav 80 will be observed generally in
the South this year as World War Me
mortal day with the working out Of plans
of the American Legion in conjunction
I with the d. A r. and other patriotic or
CARNATIONS. The poppy adopted as the
/ legion's memorial flower will be univer-
sally worn and two million of them Will
/ he distributed in Dixie The United Con
federate Veterans and Spanish War Vet
Grams are cooperating with the legion in
the May 80 exercises.
The we'll beloved old army mule viii
make his temperance in public in New
Orleans July Fourth, when one of the
star events of the celebration TO be staged
/ by the American Legion will be race
between combattrain "canaries," ridden
by legionaires.
| Veterans of Shiloh and Gettysburg
lined NJ for st. Mihiel "slum" served
| from an A f. F. rolling kitchen in the
Alabama State Convention Of Confederate
Veterans of the Civil War. in Admission.
Ala, recently, when American Legion
posts of the city prepared and served
meals TO their older compatriots
More than $500 was appropriated to
the American Legion Of Utah by he
State board Of examiners to furn sh
wreaths to be placed on graves of Utah
soldiers in France and Germany on Me
mortal day.
George Gee. a Chinaman. who was
cook in the It'll cavalry command
of General Custer, massacred by the
Indians, was buried recently by a post
of the American Legion IN Sitka, Alaska.
/ Gee. after serving in the army. was
cook in the navy for twenty years. When
Z Custer went to his death on the Little
Big Horn. the Chinese cook was detailed
to remain with the regiments baggage
and thus escaped death at the hands OF
the Sioux.
| Two yards Of white paper. bearing 12o
| signatures came to national headquarters
Of the American Legion recently from
woman of Port Alleghaneh, Pa, request
ing they be granted unit Of the
Women's Auxiliary Of the. Legion. And
there Is more coming" was the cheerful
postscript The unit Will be Auxiliary
No. leo Of the State.
A cemetery in which only ex-servfce
men viii be buried will be opened al an
early date by the American Legion posts
Of San Francisco.
A movement to have shakers" who
are holding public office In Minnesota
lfsummarily removed and soldiers OF the
World War appointed in their place was
inaugurated at the recent semi annual
meeting of the Southwestern Minnesota
associations of the American Legion, held
In Washington, MINI.
Efforts of persons concerned to draw
the American Legion into bitter open
or closed shop fight now raging in St.
Paul, Mimi, have failed signally. Fol
lowing an advertisement inserted in a
St Paul newspaper by an alliance en-
gagged in the controversy, declaring that
American Legion men will benefit
through the open shop" leaders of the
legion issued a public statement to the
effect the veterans organization could
not, by its constitution, take any part
in the struggle Proof was offered. how
ever, that the legion's employment bureau
never had sent service men to work rs
strikebreakers, and the statement added
if any service men were engaged in such
an activity, they were doing it by per
sonal choice and not because they were
legionaire.
Each post of the American Legion in
Minnesota is entitled to obtain S25 from
its county board to defray expenses Of
Memorial day decoration of graves by
the provisions Of recently enacted law.