The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-07-21

France, sailing from New York, Aug
ust 5. The party of former service
men, their wives, sisters and mothers
will tour France, England and Bel
GUM, returning September 8, via Mon
treal. A few receptions and public
affairs have been arranged in the chief
citiec to be visited but these will not
in any way interfere with the personal
business or pleasure of any member
of the party. Detailed information
concerning the trip may be obtained
from Second Annual European Pill
grimage," care of The American Leg
ion Weekly, 627 w. 43rd St., New York
City.
Only $500 of the 5000 world war
veterans believed to be eligible for
aid have applied for it under the re-
Gently passed New York state law
which sets aside 81, 900 for dis
abled and unemployed veterans. The
state authorities have asked the AM
erican Legion to bring the act to the
attention of it's members in order that
as many needy men as possible may
benefit.
Declaring his claim for disability
was disregarded by the U. S. Veterans
Bureau, Garland E. Carr, colored world
war veteran at Washington, D. c.,
bored a hole through a wall of the
building in which the Washington bu-
reau is housed, stuffed paper into the
room and then touched a match to it.
He wanted to destroy the bureaus rec
ords, he said. He is being held for
mental examination.
For the first time since the United
States declared war, the flag of the
German Republic was displayed from
the German embassy at Washington,
July 4.
Forty Nebraska world war veterans,
decorated by the American and allied
governments for extraordinary hero
ism, will be the guests of honor at
the convention of the state American
Legion posts to be held in York, Neb.,
Sept. 1920.
Disabled world war veterans who
have taken up homesteads on a $500
acre tract of land in Minnesota have
refused to accept the Governments
suggestion that the various plots be
named for the great battles of the
world war. "Our wounds and ailments
are sufficient to remind us of our
experiences" they say.
Under a modification of the New
York Veterans Relief Act, dependents
of disabled ex-service men in hospi-
tails are eligible to SIS a month bene-
fit if the veteran is being maintained
in the hospital by the government.
Several thousand Iowa Legionnaires
will come to the national American
Legion convention next October in
five special trains, according to a rep
resentative of the Iowa department,
who visited New Orleans to make ar
engagements for parking fifty-seven
Pullman cars in which the Iowans will
live while in the Southern city.
Former service men in PENNSYLVANIA
have received $4,000 in claims from
the government during the last month
through the efforts of the Pennsyl-
vania American Legion.
A special board of inquiry has pro-
claimed Julian N. Stahischmidt a hero.
He was killed when he tried to stop
a runaway tank during the American
Legion's Memorial Day parade in New
York. A medal in recognition of his
valor has been presented to his
mother.
A hero of the world war, five times
wounded at Chateau Thierry, but with
out work and with no prospect of
government compensation to which he
was entitled, Daniel Webster, of Phil
adelphia, Pa, committed suicide and
would have been buried in a potter's
field had not the American Legion
given him a decent burial.
Padding down the Missouri and
Mississippi rivers, two members of
1.-THE American Legion post at Chilli