Connecticut western news., 1922-04-27

1 all middle western states and as ia
 south as the. Gulf.
 The fine points of bravery are no
 known to Gov. Harry L. Davis O:
 Ohio but when he was asked to picl
 the bravest ex-soldier in Ohio tt
 represent the Buckeye population a
 a national assemblage in San Fran
 cisco, Gal, he declined the large
 responsibility. At his request the
 American Legion undertook the selection.
 Poison. gas which A. M. Thompson
 Cheyenne, Wyo., policeman, inhaled
 in France during the war four years
 ago, had just caused him to lose 2e teeth, according to report made by ! the American Legion. The police
 man recovered from long illness
 after the teeth had been removed. Smarting red eyes among Brook. lyn, N. Y., school children caused several shop owners to be haled into court. It was found that merchants were selling a wartime device fo1 purifying water consumed by sol diers as "toy bombs, which threw off poison fumes upon exploding.
 A community playground will be erected by the American Legion at Nashville, Tenn, the ex-soldiers bearing the expense of apparatus and upkeep. .-.......
 So confident are the ex-service men of Emporia, Kan, that the ad- justed compensation measure will tbe passed by the Senate that the. Ameri- can Legion members of that place have pledged $3,000 of the expected money to be used as the nucleus of a fund to erect a suitable community club house.
 In Korea, where Fords cost $1,012.50, former members of the A. E. F. have banded themselves together under the leadership of M. L. Swineheart, treasurer of the Southern Presbyterian mission of the Hermit Kingdom, and formed a post of the American Legion. About a dozen ex-fghters, most of them missionaries, make up the post mem bership. ~@ a. E.
 Former Navy radio operators and members of the Army signal corps have organized under the auspices of the American Legion in Nebraska and are broadcasting market reports, weather forecasts and weekly musi- cal concerts to the rapidly growing legion of wireless telephone users.
 The aid of Mayor Curley of Bos- ton, Mass, other city officials, the American Legion and the American consul, N. S., was required before a Tank ex-service~ man, stranded" with his family in Nova Scotia, could be brought back to his Boston home: The Legion paid the bills the man had incurred and the officials un- wound the necessary red tape.
 The superstition that all army top sergeants are "hard boiled" took wing whom an investigator uneatthed one e8-top kick in Chicago who is spending his time trying to locate jobs for ex-service men as his part of the American Legion's campaign to find work for world war veterans.
 When two desperate criminals broke jail at Springfield, Tenn, and took refuge in the woods, the chief of police called on the American Le- zion after his own force had failed in its effort to capture his former guests. The ex-service men formed a battle line and the two fugitives were landed back in the calaboose.
 Judge Harry S. Keldan of Detroit, Mich, opening his court for business, found that the entire jury panel had been snapped up by other. jurists. His Honor asked the American Le- zion to further the cause of justice with a result that a new set of ten talesmen, all jobless ex-service men, was impaneled.
 A thorough canvass of the ex-ser- vice men of Stuttgart, Ark, failed to bring to light a single unemployed | The unemployment com- mittee of the American Legion was formed to function so it dug up two jobs for men already employed | which were better than the ones they had.
 Hanging in the room which Mar shal Fochs of France has reserved in his home for the thousands of pres ents he received while touring the | United States under the auspices of | the American Legion are the keys GO eleven of America's largest cities. ! All the gifts which America bestow- 1 ed on the Marshal are in his "Ameri- | can room' except the famous Mon tana bob cat which now paces a cage in the Paris Geological Gardens. |