South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-23

I 1Oneu, or the enter 1luIlehL COM
mittee. Comrade Ed Roach has
been seen lowering around Sid's
/ place on S. Lafayette st.
John Scharnberg, manager OF the
popular vaudeville house on Michi-
gan ST.. is contemplating posing for
| the Legion magazine since his like
ness has appeared in the local pa
Ders. He expects 20 get grouF
I of Legion men 10 try out for skits
on his circuit
skipper" Hudson has recovered
and is now making arrangements
for his trip to China.
Roy Cartwright and Neal WEIGH
/ have been in conference for some
time. Il is expected that the for
/ mer may open a new automobile
agency I'm the city. At the present
time. however. he give his occupa-
/ ton as a star loafer.'
With a. r. Macdonald. Col Frey
I ermuth. Wade Hardy. "Deak" Kelt-
ner Otis Romine and several others
\ in Culver on Monday and Tuesday
/ Of next week the post should be well
/ represented at the state conference.
TT. NJ. Troeger 1O47. Portage av.,
who has been taking training at
\ Valparaiso university, is confined TO
\ his home and is rated as hospital
lied"
Judging from tho number OF men
applying to the Legion headquar-
tiers for work there are several
I thousand members in South Bend
/ The members. however, have only
/ temporary homes in the city.
Max Bloom, appearing at local
j playhouse this week, Is spending
most of his spare time with Lew
Swan. who used 10 be his end man.
Floyd Murphy the prosperous
/ Michigan ST. tailor, says his black
, eye is result OF falling down ollie
1 Clark's stairs.
The Eagles gave so meals to the
hungry ex-service men who visited
rules OF the Legion for the future,
however. provide that these visitors
be sent TO their home towns and
that each community take care OF
its own
10 TAYLOR scout executive. IS look
ing for Legion men to help him or
ganize the boys for tho Magician
lake trips this summer.
With 1. !. Cortright. I'm charge OF
the athletic program for tonight II
/ is expected that a record crowd will
attend the meeting.
Mrs. McIvor. Mrs. Summerer and
Kauous proved that the auxiliary
can really do things when they aid
ed I'm the unemE loyment drive last
Monday
The American Legion Of Ludlow.
Vt, has made official report OF the
| prowess of John Sheehan, overseas
dough boy who strangled TO death
a wildcat with his bare hands. Shee-
han. wounded four times by the bob
cat. was rewarded with an So state
/ bounty. The soldier and the best
came to blows i'm a remote mountain
pass.
Fourteen states already have re-
fused financial assistance to the
move for a George washington and
World War Memorial building in
Washington. n. C.. and Is other
states viii follow suit according 70
the american Legion's legislative
committee. The Legion opposes con
struction Of the elaborate memoriai
at a time when thousands o. ex-
service men are jobless and IN need.
A badly decomposed body found
on the banks OF the Cumberland
river near Nashville. Tenn, was
given q military burial by the Am
erican Legion when searchers found
a Legion button and membership
card in the clothing.
In Corning. y. X. the American
Legion IS selling -four to get money
for its relief work. Help the lie
sion by Corning Flour" is tho sell
Inns motto
When police in Nashville. Tenn.
raided an alleged bootlegger, they
found his liquor tightly locked I'm a
safe. and appealed 10 the local Am
erican Legion post for man-Tower
The Legion called an expert over
seas Iocksmith from its ranks. TIE
cracked tho safe and exposed so
quarts.
Department of Justice operatives
and the American Legion. rounding
up bogus army uniform wearers fin
/ Chicago. picked up a self-admitted
outstanding hero Of the war. In