Connecticut western news., 1922-08-03

Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy and members of his party who have for some time been touring the Orient, narrowly escaped death July 19 in an airplane accident. While flying at a height of 4,OOO feet over the great wall of China, about forty miles north of Peking, the engine of the plane in which the nartv was riding broke down. The nilot managed to volplane to the earth but the plane was wrecked against the rocks that strewed the ground. None of the party were injured. MT. Denby will return 10 inc States in September and IS expected to attend the American Legion national convention m Ne" Orleans, Oct. 1920.
 The men who fought with the 7sth Division of the American Expe- ditionary Forces will hold their an nual reunion this year at Atlantlc City, Sept. 30 and Oct. l. Although distinctly separate from the Amer @ can Legion, the veterans ot the foth worked with the organizers ot the T,epion in Paris, 1919. It is estl- mated that more than seventy per cent of the division personnel IS now enrolled in the ranks ot the Legion.
 While assisting his American Le- oion comrades in decorating Sne graves of Dorchester, Mass'' eH- service men last Memorial Day. Jen Frederick Lang, IT,, of that clty nlaced a flag on an untenanted grave and asked that it be reserved for him. He has just died of war wounds and has been buried Tn me plot he picked out but two months ago.
 Military organizations or division associations that wish to hold meet ings. reunions or conventions during the attendance of their members at the fourth annual national conyen- lion of the American Legion in New Orleans. La, Oct. 1920, should notify T. Semmes Walmsley, chair man of the American Legion's na- tional convention committee, Royal and Cont Streets, in. New Orleans, in order that MT. Walmsley can make arrangements for meeting halls, etc.
 Travelling 125 miles a day and camping at night by the roadside Donald F. Chase, 21 years old, re- gently passed through Middle Wes- l tern cities enroute on bicycle from Reno, New, to Syracuse, New ork'
 Young Chase's family lives at Sy- racuse and as a vacation from his duties as city editor of the Nevada State Journal, the energetic lao decided he would ride through and see his mother. The Rena American Legion saw a chance to do some worthwhile advertising. So ar arrangements were made whereoy Chase should speak before llO Le- zion posts on his way across the continent At first, he spoke only CT what the Reno posts of the Legion and the NeUada state department are doing, but later, he found that he could be of greater service by telling each post of all the good things that other posts along hls route are doing.
 The young gattling gun, which he carried with him saw service, when an automobile driver ran into his bicycle near Topeka, Kan, and then refused to stop to see what damage had been done, Chase put bullet in a tire and then made the driver haul him and his bike to town.
 "One doesn't realize just what the American Legion is doing until he visits Legion posts and sees the efforts of these posts to improve their communities" he said.
 John Barton Payne, national chairman of the American Red Cross will be one of the distinguished visi- tors at the fourth annual national convention of the American Legion in New Orleans, La., Oct 1920. An effort is being made to have Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, who is on an extended tour of the Orient accept the Legion's invitation to speak before the convention. After spending two years in ac- quiring funds for a clubhouse, the American Legion post in Mangum, Okla, decided the children of the town needed a playground worse than the former service men did c1,,h bousa Accordingly. the Le- gionnaires obtained an eight year