Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-06-03
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July / has been designated by Ma
tional Commander Hanford MacNider.
of the American Legion, as Member
ship Day" To carry on the Legion's
comprehensive program for the relief
OF service men during the summer,
Commander MacNider has urged {. "a
united front and an all-incIusive
membership BY midnight of July l.
the Legion chief has requested, each
post shall have increased it's member
ship by at least % per cent
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, June a.
The absence OF the old pre-Volstead
corkscrew is not noted in Frisco.
Jimmie Flexner, of the American Lee
gion Of San Francisco, couldn't find
one OF them when he wanted to open
a bottle. He took rifle and at a dis
lance of 1000 feet. shot out the cork
in one try. He now challenges the
Pacific Coast.
OMAHA. NEB, June 3.-The War
Department has just written former
Sergeant Jesse Kanady, Falls City.
Neb., that he owes his Uncle two dol
lars. The w. ID. alleges that some
body overpaid Kanady 81 on some
pay day some time in the army. In APP
pealing TO the American Legion for
advice the Sergeant declares his usual
good memory fails him as he cannot
recall ever having been overpaid
while in the army.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, June q
One plank in the platform adopted by
the Republican State convention of
Indiana declares that 1--WE acknowl-
edge our Indebtedness and gratitude
to the veterans of all wars" and that
I'VE favor Federal adjusted compen-
sation for world war veterans"
.
AUSTIN. TEN. June S.-All nuts
are not to be fostered. but in order
that the pecan nut may continue to be
one of Texas foremost products, the
American Legion of the State has
pledged itself to plant grove of nut
trees, see that they are properly
transplanted. and care for them when
they are developed.
BOSTON, MASS, June 3.-While
waiting with his outfit to be called up
to the front in 1918. a Peabody Mass.
soldier fell out of a hay-loft and suf-
Tered permanent injuries to his back
He has just now obtained governments.
compensation. however. following the
American Legion's direct appeal to
President Harding
NEW ORLEANS, LA, June 3.-De-
spite the fact that New Orleans has
been chosen as its 1922 convention
city, the American Legion has re-
,oived a 100000 offer from Kansas
City, Mo. which would be host to the
eX-soldiers this year as it was in 1921.
The offer followed questions by the
New Orleans Chamber of Commerce,
nquiring of Kansas City if the service
mems gathering was a commercial
asset.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3.-Fif-
'een ex-soldiers have formed a post of
the American Legion exactly on a spot
IN Harpoot. Asia Minor, they say,
where Adam and Eve first kept house
The unit is called the Garden Of Eden
post. American Legionnaires in Tur-
key now number PIC.
TULSA, OKLA. June 81 When
Stillwell Okla. was struck by a black
smallpox epidemic; a guard of IS5
American Legion men kept the town
luarantined by guarding all roads |
and railroads day and night for three
weeks.
TAMPA. FLA. June S.-With the
Bahamas and Bermuda not too far
away the Tampa. Fla. American
Legion has placed its entire member
ship at the disposal of the prohibition
enforcement officer of that district
SITKA. ALASKA. June 3.-The first
building built by Uncle Sam at Fort
Wrangell. Alaska. when that country |
was first occupied by the United /
States in 1867. has been remodelledl
and presented to the Alaska Americana