Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-02-21
AMERICAN
\LEGIIONl.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Feb. 20
Wall Street is determined 10 kill the
adjusted compensation bill nj any cost
according to report sent by New
York state executives OF the Amer
lean Legion To national headquarters
M Indianapolis. Ind. The report
states that mandatory orders were is
sued by al least one large stock eX-
change house. ordering employees. both .
men and women. To write their Con
gressmen urging against the passage +
OF the measure. Suggested forms /
we're handed out. and employees wer,
instructed to deliver their letters in
nnsealcd envel6l es TO their employers
for inspection.
Lined up with Wall Street against
/ the bonus is the L. 5. Chamber OF
Commerce. which. however. is meet
/ ing continued opposition from its con
stituent chambers in widely separate
parts of the country Chambers in
| Omaha. Neb. in Battle Creek. Mich.
and in several cities in oklahoma and
| Ohio have now fatty declared in favor
of the bonus i'm the QUESTIONABLE sent
out by the national body. In Toledo
following a hearing by the American
| Legion, business men of the local
commerce board refused 10 vote on The
matter. charging that the issue had
not been impartially presented by the
III. s. Chamber They said that it had
ignored three OF the five options
EMPORIA. KAN. Feb. 2l.- Failing
in his attempt to commit suicide by
freezing in snow-drift AT Emporia,
Kan. Chester Hagerman, jObless war
veteran, is being sought by tho Amer
lean Legion 4 woman of Medicine
Lodge says her son. who bore that
name was reported killed in action.
and body. supposed to have been
his. brought from France for burial
here.
NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 2l.-Lined
up patiently for hours in advance.
hundreds of tattercd eX-s0lders re.
ceiNed shoes. overcoats. and chidrens
garments from the American Legion
distributing committee in New York
LINCOLN. NEBR. Feb 21.-Posses-
sing all the requisites for dance eX-
except music, American Legion men
in Lincoln Nebr. called on an eX-gob
for help. He rugged up radiophonc
in
miles away.
NEW YORK CITY. Feb. 2l-A
Spanish bull fight will be staged in
Madison Square Garden, New York.
by an American Legion post. One
stipulation is that the bull shall not
be hurt
NEW YORK CITY, Feb. PA mar
ried man. who formerly was earn
ing $3.50 week. applied TO the
American Legion, wholly destitute. He
took job as a packer at $l5, and
said he was glad To get it.
NEW YORK CITY. Feb. 2l-Twelve
majors, five naval commanders. 27
captains. and nearly 100 lieutenants
have applied for jobs al American Lee
gion employment headquarters in New
York since September.
FAIRMONT. w. VA, Feb. 2l.-A
cemetery in FairmOnt, w Va, where
Civil War. soldiers were buried. had
become a thicket of briers. The Am
erican Legion cleaned it up 10 do rev
erence to the dead heroes.
HARTFORD, CONN, Feb 2l-
Plans for Connecticut State hospital
for eX-service men have been endorsed
by Governor Lake 1t will be named
for Frederick w Galbraith. late com
mander of the American Legion.
NEW YORK CITY, Feb. PA Fed
eral appropriation of $16,4O0,0OO for
hospitals for wounded ex-soldiers has
been asked by the American Legion in
New York, where continued investiga-
ton has revealed inadequate facilities
EMPORIA. KAN. Feb 81 Kansas
women have organized to put over a
State bonus Mrs. Ida Walker, woman
legislator, has told the American lie
gion sile wants nurses included in the