Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-04-03
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pcnses of TIE United States Army of
Occupation. INC American Legion in
France registered healthy kick.
The picture showed a doughhOy push
ing aside Marianne as the latter is
about TO take a plate Of gold from
Germany.
SEATTLE. WASH, Apr livery
Chamber Of Commerce in the State OF
Washington has voted in favor Of the
American Legion's plan for adjusted
compensation.
BOISE. IDAHO, Apr l. When
John A. Isham. of Boise. Idaho, dis
covered that Oscar Weymire. his old
bunkma;e in the army. had not paid
his American Legion dues he decided
Ito visit Weymire, The latter was
trapping 500 miles away, but Isham
made the trip by foot. horse and
skates and Brought in the dues.
NEW YORK CITY. Apr. 1.-The
strength that won the Argonne and st.
Mihiel is being used to guard New
York against payroll and bank mes
scngcr robberies. The American Lee
gion is furnishing ex-soldiers who 60
heavily armed with the men and wo-
men who carry huge sums through
the business sections.
BALTIMORE, MD, Apr. HUN
dreds OF ex-gobs who rak6d mines out
of the North Sea during the World
War want to re-enlist, but in Prohibit
ton Commissioner Haynes "hooch
Navy" Four submarine chascrs are
being put in commission at Baltimore
and when completed will form Navy
that will wage war on rum runners
OMAHA NEB., Apr IA discovery
that Harvard, Neb, didn't have a way
of getting the latest news on the wea.
thor crops and current events caused
an old Navy radio operator to get
busy Now the American Legion is
! issuing "hot off the WIRE news 10 the
Harvard citizenry
DENVER, col, Apr. 1.---"If the lie.
gion wants the flag taken down thcj
can hire couple Of stccple Jacks and
take it down" was the answer tho
Board Of Commissioners made to tho
Littlcton (ColD American Legion
post when 1t protested the impropc,
care being given the nag on the cour
house. Nothing loath. 4 couple of OLE
mast climbers turned tho trick.
! DIES MONIES, IA, Apr 1.-Theil
own hero's death from old wal
wounds has caused Des Moines, la.
family to send request to the Ameri
can Legion for an ex-servicc man FOL
adoption.
TRENTON. N. j., Apr. Iva,
wounds and nervousness laid to shell
shock is believed responsible for the
act of Ralph W. Harrison, OF Maple
wood, ~ j.. who committed suicide BY
shooting himself with the army re
volver he had carried in France
DENVER, COL, APR. 1.-The Am
erican Legion rifle team Of Golden
Col. olnposed of men whose rife
played a part in the World War bat
ties, has issued challenge to any
rife team in the United States, tn,
scores to be telegraphed to each team
at tie end of each range.
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA, Apr. l.
When carnival Pitched its tents OF
his hotel property and an appeal to
! the authorities proved of no avail
! Charles e. Young. Sr., st. Augustine
Fla, used the old sea method of show
ing distress and hung the American
flag on his hosiery upside down. The
American Legion protested the ac
and Young publicly apologized.
CHICAGO. ILL, Apr. 1.-The Chic
ago Board OF Aldermen has voted to
send a delegation of five of it's mem
bers to Washington to help in the
fight for the American Legion's bill
FOR adjusted compensation.
NEW YORK CITY, Apr. Alex
andc- Lochwittky,, a former Russian
Count and Major in the American
Army during the World War. has sent
an appeal to the Newa York American
Legion asking that job be found for
him doing anything" He speaks
eight languages fluently. Everything
he had was lost in the San Antonio
food
ELKHART, ILL, Apr. 1.-Because
the ex-soldier doesn't speak German
and the man he named does, Rep. Ed
ward Voigt of the 2nd Wisconsin dis
trict refused the request of the Am
erican Legion that Clyde Ellis, World
War veteran, be appointed postmas-
ter at Elkhart Lake, Wis. Rep.
Noigt has Informed citizens who fay-