The Coconino sun., 1922-04-21

"A Legion commander for the hrSt
 time made use of the radio telephone in broadcasting a message to the ex- service men of America when Han ford MacNider stood in Detroit, Mich., and from station WWJ sent an Easter
 greeting that was heard in all middle
 western states and as far south as
 the Gulf.
 The fine points of bravery are not
 unknown to Gov. Harry L. Davis of
 Ohio but when he was asked to pick
 the bravest ex-soldier in Ohio the rep
 resent the Buckeye population at a national assemblage in San Francis co, Calif., he declined the large re- sponsibility. At his request the American Legion undertook the sell ection.
 Poison gas which A. M. Thompson, Cheyenne, Wyo., policeman, inhaled in France during the war four years ago, has just caused him to lose 26 teeth, according to report made by the American Legion. The policeman recovered from a long illness after the teeth had been removed.
 Smarting red eyes among Brooklyn, N. Y., school children caused several shop owners to be haled into court. It was found the merchants were selling a wartime device for purifying wa ter consumed by soldiers as "toy bombs" which threw off poison fumes upon exploding.
 A community playground will be erected by the American Legion at Nashville, Tenn, the exsoldiers bear ing the expense of apparatus and up- keep.
 So confident are the ex-service men of Emporia, Kansas, that the adjusted compensation measure will be passed by the senate that the American Le- zion members of the 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.
 L. Ol2.5O, former members of the A. F.. F., have banded themselves together under the leadership of NJ. L. Swine heart, treasurer of the Southern Presbyterian mission of the Hermit kingdom, and formed a post of the American Legion. About dozen ex- fighters, most of them missionaries, make up the post membership.
 Formr 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 musical to the rapidly growing legion of wireless telephone users.
 The aid of Mayor Curley of Boston, Mass, other city officials. the Amer'- can Legion and the Ameriran consul at Sidney,N. S., was required before a Tank ex-service man, "strandedD with his family in Nova Scotia, could De brought back to his Boston home. The Legion paid the bills the man had incurred and the officials unwound the rad tape.
 The superstition that all army ton sergeants are ''hard- -boiled' took wing when an investigator unearthed | one ex-top kick in Chicago who is spending his time trying to locate jobs | Tor ex-service men as his part of the | American Legion's campaign to find l work for world war veterans.
 When two desperate criminals broke all at Springfield, Tenn, and took 'efuge in the woods, the chief of po ice called on the American Legion liter his own force had failed in it's ,ffort to capture his former guests. | The ex-service men formed a battle inc and the two fugitives were landed pack in the calaboose.
 Judge Hairy s. Keldan of Detroit, Mich. opening his court for business. ound the entire jury panel had been mapped up bv other jurists. His Honor asked the American Lepion to urther the cause of justice with re- 'ult that new set of ten talesmen, Ill jobless ex-service men, was inn ,anelel.
 A thorough canvass of the ex-ser- ice men of Stuttgart, Ark, failed to ring to light a single unemployed eteran. The unemployment commit ee of the American Legion was form d function so it dug up two jobs for nen already employed which were