The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-02

1 in 54th St. near Eighth Ave. The next morning he went down to an Eighth Ave. barroom around the corner from his hotel and took stand at the back end of the bar next to the nickel music machine. He drank only beer but he insisted that the ma chine was his He played only record and he is lstill playing that It is Bing Crosby, singing Sweet Leilani" He's been in New York before all his life; he has spent four days, far sleep ing in his hotel room and going straight to the bar putting in nickel after nickel to hear Sweet Leani which he could all day and any day in his gar home where he has a photograph and the same record.
 Legionnaire Bradford I. Dunwell, of Southampton, u, is RED. mail carrier the rest of the year, but today he had his little moment of glory.
 When he arrived at the Metropolitan Opera House for the convention session. he made himself com fortabe in J. P Morgans box and defied the ushers to move him. He didn't he said, what distinguished guests it reserved for
 Hell" quoth Mir Dunwen with feeling I'm a Legionnaire am not? I'm still in Uncle Sams service I'm an ex-marine and I'm Legionnaire. So why the hell can't I sit in J P Morgans box? Why not, I ask you?"
 But half dozen determined sergeant-at-arms escorted him the box and kept escorting until MT Dunwel was deposited with the New Jersey con- tingent in the far reaches of the top gallery He still wanted to know why the hell he couldn't sit in J. P Morgans box.
 The portly Legonnaire with the pince neg on his nose and Ohio" on his cap having the most fun telling New Workers what "a bunch of suckers" they were at the Hotel Astor. He kept yelling:-
 You bought this island for SPA. And we country boys came in and took it away for nothing!"
 
 Elsie Janis billed as the sweetheart of the IA E. F." has flown here from California to lead 65 900 Legionnaires less, in singing the old wartime songs at the Amateur Boxing Tournament at Madison Square Garden Bowl in Queens.
 Eighteen Legionnaires of the Los Angeles Police Post drove their motorcycles into the lobby of the Hotel Pennsylvania yesterday and held an impromptu rodeo They upset chairs scattered bysanders broke ash trays One woman tainted. Legionnaire Edward Lnderman. who said he has been "a dignifed railroad conductor long forgot what it was like to have fun sat down on camp stool in the middle of Seventh Ave in front of the Astor and soaked his feet bucket of water marked For Ice Only" while he nonchalantly read a news paper.
 A woman who said she was Mrs. Margaret Arnold, of North Dakota appeared at the first aid station in Madison Sq at o'clock last night, carrying her H. month-od daughter. Will you mind the baby for a few minutes?" she asked My husband is in the parade, and I want to him. When she didn't return for several hours. the baby sent to the New York Founding Home. Shortly after midnight the woman claimed her
 Legionnare wearing a woraans sunbonnet and accompanied by 2-year-old crild entered the Sal vaton Army tent at the n,rrh end ot Times Sq. He ordered gin himself and Scotch and soda for the child He was persuaded to compromise on coffee for himself and milk for the cmld
 dued attending the convention arrived at the curbstone with dog collar around his neck. He looked out from his bulldog studs at the towers of Radio City and said Where is Rudy Valee?" Off in doorway stood his wife, holding the end of leash attached to his collar She said she had been with him in Detroit and this tune he's not getting away from her
 In the Park Central, the sixteenth floor Legiounaire knocked on door and young woman answered and he said Can I use yous telephone?' The young lady was Helen Morgan She said, Ger tanly" She went into another room after showing him the telephone and after he had left they called her up and told her that the charges to Butte Mont were s525 for three minutes plus 75 cents for hote service charge.
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