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September, 1938 Vol. 25, No. 3 LEGIONMAGAZINE

Published Monthly by The American Legion, 455 West lid Street, Chicago, Illinois

EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis, Indiana 15 West 48th St., New York City

CONTENTS THERE was something we were Legionnaire Jack Benny (strawberry planning to mention on this COVER DESIGN etc.) will be master of ceremonies at page this month if we could By William Heaslip the National Commander's dinner. only think of it—oh, yes, the Twen- DONALD DUCK'S WELCOME 3 By Walt Disney tieth National Convention at Los ONE best bet for the Convention Angeles, from Monday, September FOR THE GOOD OF THE LEGION 4 (no, let's not make comparisons By Daniel J. Doherty, National 19th, through Thursday, the 2 just call it a darned swell bet) : 2d. Commander — Motion Picture Night in the Los GERMANY IN THE ARGONNE 6 LITTLE odds and ends of data By Thomas M. Johnson Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Wed- appertaining thereunto: Lowell HIGH-LINE HAZARD 12 nesday, September 21st. The cream Jessen, editor of the Holtville (Cali- By Clifford W. Kennedy of filmdom will be there. fornia) Tribune, passes on a tip sug- Illustration by Frank Street gested to him by Commander R. N. "CALIFORNIA, HERE WE OUTFIT reunions? More at L. A. COME" 10 Claiborne of Warren Bradley than ever before in Legion his- W. By Wallgren Post of Holtville. Here it is: If you tory. In proof thereof, read the col- EYEWITNESS: Conclusion 14 motor to the Convention, remember By Karl Detzer umns and columns of announcements your car is subject to inspection by Illustrations by Jes Schlaikjer in the back pages of this issue. an agricultural patrol. This need not CLOSED SEASON 18 By Alexander Sprunt, annoy you unless you have in your Jr. HERE'S a suggestion (if you'll car any citrus, cotton or nursery EDITORIAL: Westward Ho! 21 permit us to leave the Con- A stock. Of course it seems highly un- THE GENERAL DIED MAJOR 22 vention for a moment) offered by By Samuel Taylor Moore likely that you will, but Convention- Legionnaire Dan T. Balmer of Coch- LIVING MONUMENTS 24 bound pilgrims do strange things. ranville, Pennsylvania, who read an By James V. Demarest "Throw out all oranges and grape- article in a recent Reader's Digest on ROOFS OVER THEIR HEADS 26 fruit and cotton before reaching the By Boyd B. Stutler "Money Going Begging"—the mil- Golden State's borders," counsels A LETTER COMES HOME 30 lions of dollars lying around in un- Editor Jessen. "-The reception com- By John J. Noll claimed bank deposits. One sentence mittee will help in every way pos- TWENTY YEARS AGO 37 in the article reads: "In every town sible, but it doesn't intend to seek BURSTS AND DUDS 39 that was near a training camp during any let-up in the inspection service, Conducted by Dan Sowers the World War, banks are still carry- which is credited with preventing FIGHTS TONIGHT 40 ing little jtems of $11.46 and $18.29 By Dean Snyder destruction of California's highly- for Private This and Corporal That. DRUM CORPS WIDOW 43 specialized crops by confiscating pest- Their last address being a disbanded By Iris Ferrie Otte laden articles at port of entry." service unit, there is little hope of FRONT AND CENTER 44 finding them." Balmer suggests that BEN C. TARNUTZER, Publicity Legion Posts might be able to lend Manager for Yosemite National assistance in tracing the owners. Park, suggests you look in. There are lodges, camps (with or without IMPORTANT DO YOU know your airplanes? housekeeping) , motor tours, saddle your convenience All right —every one of A form for if you wish trips, walks, and much noble scenery. to have the. magazine sent to another ad- those shown on the cover is an dress will be found on page 63. In noti- authentic, identifiable -by -name fying the Indianapolis address be sure to KING of the Paramount job. A diagram with the correct DON include the old address as well as the new Publicity Department wants it and don't forget the number of your identification will be found on to be known to all and sundry that Post and name of Department. page 62.

Thb American Legion Magazine is the official publication of The American Legion, and is owned exclusively by The American Legion, Copyright 1938 by The American Legion. Entered aa second class matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., -mder the act of March 3, 1879. Daniel J. Doherty, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Pub- lishing and Publicity Commission; Members of Commission: Philip L. Sullivan, Chicago, 111.; William H. Doyle, Maiden, Mass.; Jean R. Kinder, Lincoln, Neb.; Phil Conley, Charleston, W. Va.; Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Jerry Owen, Portland, Ore.; Ben S. Fisher, Washington, D. C; Lynn Stambaugh, Fargo, N. D.; Van W. Stewart, Perryton, Tex.; Harry C. Jackson, New Britain, Conn.; Tom McCaw, Dennison, Ohio; Carter D. Stamper, Beattyville, Ky.; John J. Wicker, Jr., Richmond, Va.; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; John B. McDade, Scranton, Pa. Director of Publications, James F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Director of Advertising, Frederick L. Maguire; Editor, John T. Winterich; Managing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler; Art Editor, William MacLean, Associate Editors, Alexander Gardiner and John J. Noll. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917. authorized January 5, 1925. Price, single copy 25 Cents, yearly subscription, $1.30.

SEPTEMBER, 1938 I READING TIMB : 1 MINUTE, 50 SECONDS

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some people still believe that THERE ARE who "We pledge our support to the duly con- the use of beer is sinful or harmful. The scientific stituted authorities for the elimination of

evidence is overwhelmingly against them. anti-social conditions wherever they may The great majority of Americans accept the truth surround the sale of beer to the consumer."

. . . that beer is a mild, wholesome beverage . . . that Being practical men, we promise no miracles.

"there is nothing more promising to combat the We cannot immediately or effectively "police" the

evil of too much alcohol than the opportunity of quarter-million points where beer is sold (nor have drinking good beer." we legal authority in many cases to do so). Nor can We brewers find ground for concern, however, we, immediately, bring about full compliance with

in the conditions under which beer is sometimes the law among all retailers, nor complete enforce- retailed—conditions undesirable to us all. What we ment by all authorities. seek to accomplish, first and foremost, is a measur- A beginning has been made. In accordance with able improvement of such conditions. For example, our program, we have cooperated with law enforce- retailers' beer licenses are sometimes used as a screen ment authorities. We intend to carry on. to sell illegal liquor or to operate illicit resorts. How you can help Other examples are the sale of beer to minors . . . How far we can go, and how soon, depends on or after legal hours ... or to persons who have drunk ourselves, and on you. You can help in three ways: to excess. And while retailing is not our responsi- Take the lead in arousing public opinion which bility, we want these conditions corrected. We believe — can see to it that existing laws are enforced. we will serve both the public interest and our own Restrict your patronage to legal, respectable retail if we succeed. outlets. This can and will raise retailing standards. The Foundation . . . and its Code Buy only beer or ale brewed by Foundation In that belief, a short time ago the Brewers Foun- members.* Show us, and retailers too, that you are dation was organized ... to align the brewing industry behind us in our efforts to serve the public interest with forces working for the public good. and live up to our Code. Important progress has been made. Brewer-mem- For centuries beer has been the beverage of bers of the Foundation already represent nearly half moderation. In preserving it we must depend upon the production of beer and ale in the United States. you leaders of opinion to take action. We urgently These members are pledged, individually and invite your full and sympathetic cooperation. collectively, to the Brewers Code of Practice, one UNITED BREWERS INDUSTRIAL FOUNDATION significant clause of which is here reproduced: 2 1 East 40th Street, New York, N. Y.

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OFFICIALLY, it can be announced, the Legion will of friendly fellowship. A bulletin issued from headquarters be welcomed to Los Angeles for its Twentieth says that Donald is practicing his marching step to take Annual National Convention by one of the world's part in the big parade. By the way, Walt Disney is but best known quacks, (having reference only to genus and a hairbreadth removed from active service in the World manner of speech). Donald Duck, who has quacked his War—a Chicago high school youth of sixteen, he reached cheerful message from the silver screen in all parts of the France to do post-war ambulance driving for the Red world, tips the good left hand (if such it can be called) Cross in late 1918 and 1919.

SEPTEMBER, 1938 3 DURING the last twenty years because of the truly American character the question has been asked Of of our program. Through it an attempt countless times, "Is there any- was made to effect a cleavage within our thing to be said under The Good ranks. This is following a well recognized 1 This query has evoked Dan el procedure of the in world of the Legion?" new technique many and varied responses, all designed affairs. If The American Legion had not to serve the purpose suggested. j. doherty established itself as a virile American In having the great privilege of serving institution, this assault would not have as National Commander, the opportunity been launched. has been afforded me of observing the Recognized and evaluated as the Legion at work throughout the entire Legion is as an impregnable barrier, organization. I am tremendously proud standing between Americanism and all of its accomplishments. More than ever that represents un-American concepts, am I jealous of its good name. Mine is a this effort was made to impair its effective- greater appreciation of its high value as ness. Realizing that a frontal assault an organization dedicated to the service would fail, the strategy of boring from of God and Country. The unselfishness As an outstanding American institu- within was employed in an endeavor to and loyalty of its members have been tion, expressing the mood of its time, The create dissatisfaction and discord. The inspirational. It is reassuring to know American Legion has not been immune loyalty of our members caused this that America has such a stabilizing force to the influence of these forces. During attack to be fruitless and abortive. to rely upon. the current year there have been major In pursuing our Americanism program, But we must never become self- efforts to confuse the public with respect we have consistently had recourse to satisfied. Though our mistakes have been to our aims, purposes and objectives. educational processes. The worth of such relatively few, if any, we must always Those who are either wilfully ignorant of a policy has been definitely manifested. continue to seek improvement. Changing our broad general programs, or are in- Mere red-baiting will accomplish nothing conditions require greater vision, en- completely advised, have sought to pre- that is constructive or of permanent larged perspective and organization soli- sent The American Legion in an unfavor- value. Our influence for good has left a darity to enable us better to meet and able manner before the court of public substantial impress and our efforts in the cope with problems that immediately opinion. field of youth have been attended with and even remotely confront us. Within recent weeks an unwarranted splendid results. Conditions have changed in the attack upon The American Legion At times we are prone to become dis- America we served in war in 1917 and afforded an excellent opportunity to heartened because of the seeming in- 1018. Tremendous and far-reaching social ascertain the standing of our organization difference and inaction that obtains when and economic forces have wrought in the public mind. Through the daily radical groups violate the ethics of free appreciable changes in our lives. Stabili- press, there was immediate repudiation speech and openly advocate tenets that zation has not yet been accomplished. of the attack. From the editors there are offensive to American traditions and As in all great transitions, evil has been came answering comments that were institutions. Highly vocal minorities intermingled with good. There are those highly commendatory of The American frequently arrogate to themselves the who would destroy America and the Legion. Generally, there was disclosed a responsibility of giving their own twisted principles upon which our country was complete understanding and true appreci- interpretations of American doctrines, founded. True liberalism and construc- ation of our aims, purposes and achieve- rights and liberties. Acts of violence tive, progressive action have been badly ments. injurious to, if not wholly destructive of, confused with pure demagoguery and Without question, the newspapers ex- person and property, not infrequently subversive movements. pressed accurately the opinion of the accompany the vocal chorus raised to Intolerance, in the broad and general average American citizen. This attack disparage everything American. meaning of the word, has increased has served more than one good purpose. We have the responsibility that goes despite the advances registered in the Not only has it provided a yardstick of with leadership. This dictates the exercise field of education. Forgetting that the general esteem in which our efforts of caution and restraint. By so doing, no

"liberty may be endangered by the abuse are held, but in addition, it has served to suggestion of weakness is implied. Rather of liberty as well as by the abuses of arouse every member to the great and does it denote strength. It reflects the power" radicals have taken advantage of urgent need of keeping The American disciplinary training we have undergone. social unrest and economic disturbances Legion true to the traditions on which it Organized effort under competent leader- to pursue programs detrimental to the was founded. ship is always more effective than good of America. In this instance the attack came solely sporadic and uncontrolled action.

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Though at times admin- expression of opinion is involved. No istration of public affairs dissuasion from the performance of any may seem weak and falter- moral or legal duty is suggested. ing, our obligation as citi- Legionnaires, as such, have no right to zens is to evidence respect involve the organization in affairs or for and obedience to the proceedings foreign to the duly author- duly constituted govern- ized program or not in consonance with ment authorities. Redress the letter and spirit of the principles upon may be sought through which The American Legion is founded. lawful processes. The This prohibition applies with equal Legion is judged by the force to musical or other units organized action of the men and under the sponsorship or auspices of The

women who comprise it. American Legion or any of its component The American Legion is parts. The welfare of the Legion is of pledged to uphold and de- paramount concern and no Legionnaire fend the Constitution of or integral part of the organization is the United States of authorized or has the right to act so as to America. Under its pro- adversely reflect upon the whole body. visions, the rights of free- The wisdom and logic of such a policy is dom of speech and of readily apparent. It is essential that full assembly are guaranteed. protection be afforded the use of our em- No Legionnaire, Post or blem, colors and uniform so that no in- other component part of discriminate public display will misrepre- the organization, as such, sent or discredit the organization. has the right to interfere I am unaware of any organization with, or to impair in any whose members are more loyal and who manner, the exercise there- adhere to organization mandates and of. The American Legion policies more rigidly than ours. Sub- has no authority, nor does stantial harmony of thought and concert

it attempt, to regulate or of action have characterized the members circumscribe the action of of the Legion. In my judgment this is due the individual citizen, act- in no small measure to the fact that in ing as such, who is a mem- formulating our program, we have always ber of The American Le- been impelled by the highest motives and gion. To him is reserved the impulses. right of fulfilling what he The American Legion is ever in the believes to be his preroga- public eye and one overt act is sufficient tives as a citizen. to loose a flood of condemnation. Exact The American Legion is differentiation is seldom made by citizens pledged to the principle of generally between the Legionnaire and maintenance of law and those who have no affiliation with the order. It is not, however, organization. Therefore, the need is the function or responsi- greater for the exercise of care and de- bility of the organization votion to authorized action on our part. to usurp the right and Each Post is the judge of its own mem- authority of the duly con- bership subject to the requirements of the stituted authorities of gov- Constitution and By-Laws. On each ernment in the preserva- Post is the primary responsibility to re- tion of law and order. quire that Legion policies and mandates There is a vast difference be observed. Those having eligibility to between the academic right membership- in The American Legion,

of freedom of discussion but who have slight, if any, regard for its and the planning and car- policies or mandates are manifestly po- rying out of acts and pro- tential sources of embarrassment and grams inimical to the pub- concern to the Post, Department and lic welfare. To make this National Organization when admitted to differentiation, and to pro- membership. The Legion is not a spring- vide the corrective or puni- board for the espousal or dissemination tive measures essential or of theories or programs not germane to appropriate in the circum- the duly authorized program of the

stances, is the responsi- organization. That program is subject to bility of public officers change by National Convention action through the medium of each year. executive, legislative and Once a program has been formulated, judicial processes. united effort looking to its furtherance No individual, acting should be wholeheartedly given. In seek- as such, and not in the role ing to effect a change, courtesy and of a Legionnaire, is re- Legion loyalty dictate that all effort in quired to surrender any this respect should be directed within the personal rights or preroga- constituent parts of the organization and tives. No suppression of not through the medium of the public the right of full and free press. Those who (Continued on page 47)

SEPTEMBER, 1938 5 , — Thomas M.Johnson

" A LWAYS your reserves are in the than we imagined; often outguessed by /\ wrong place!" snapped Luden- our generals whom he rather respected; / %^ dorff, and hung up. belabored unceasingly by our outnumber- That unkindness ended a ing doughboys whose bravery he admired black day in the life of Max Von Gallwitz, but whose inexperience he sometimes outstanding among German generals, pitied; dizzy with fatigue and war- veteran of Russia, the Somme, Verdun. weariness, yet with stubborn cunning It was September 26, 1018, when the struggling to hang onto the crucial ground amateur Americans hurled themselves he had almost lost at a blow on Septem- at his sector, the pivot of the whole ber 26th. Western Front. And no warning from The German records show, as can no the German secret service or Ludendorff other evidence, how close that was. Our who now, just as a fortnight earlier at St. Fourth, 80th and 33d overwhelmed the Mihiel, bawled him out over that matter Seventh Reserve's thin front; behind it of reserves. stood but one Bavarian regiment. Other "Never mind," consoled Colonel Keller, German reserves came slow as rations, Germany* assiduous Chief of Staff of Army Group Gallwitz. "Our reserves are anyway too small to have done much." "All souls!" exclaimed Gallwitz, thrust- ing out a Teutonic jaw. "The Americans ought to have attacked where our re- serves were, in the Woevre; not here be- tween Meuse and Argonne." Still thinking so, not long before his recent death he wrote me: "A successful attack against the base of the former St. Mihiel salient would have been more important than the suc- cesses gained in the Meuse-Argonne." Pershing thought so, too, but Foch did not. So instead of following through at St. Mihiel, the Americans swung their main strength westward to the Meuse- Argonne, to the dismay of the German commander, who, unknown to most vet- erans, played Lee to Pershing's Grant in the greatest military campaign in history —and on distressingly short notice. His first cue came September 24th when his One of the most famous of American official war photographs: Intelligence reported: Men of the Eighteenth Infantry, First Division, in foxholes "The 2d, an American shock Division, on the slope of Hill 240, near Exermont, in the Argonne has left the Woevre; replaced by the 78th and 80th, young troops doubtless there for training only. West of Meuse, prison- been taken from the Fourth American, through the fiery gauntlet of our long- ers captured from Chicago; 33d Division another "old troop." Yes, they were in range artillery; they could not really newly entered line; an excellent for it, all right! Gallwitz wrote in his counter-attack until five in the evening, Division." diary: twelve hours after the jumpoff. A cor- Could Pershing plan to attack west of "We had been watching the wrong poral's guard, but enough! the Meuse, not east, as Gallwitz had ex- place!" For the 117th Division still held the pected? There he had held his reserves Quite frank, he and other German key height of Montfaucon, despite all to back up his St. Mihiel front, still commanders who in diaries, biographies efforts of our brand new 79th and 37th tender after we had cut off the salient. and official records have written a history and reports of airmen, American and Now he began moving a few of them of the greatest American battle that to German. For just as General Mitchell westward, but cautiously, until next day Americans is virtually unknown. It told General Pershing he had flown over aviators reported activity behind our proves up more accurate than American and no Germans were there, so a German lines. That night at 1 1 130 crashed artil- "histories" that ignore the German side, aviator told Gallwitz the same—and lery fire that rattled the general's win- though history is or should be truth, both were wrong. The Germans stayed dows 20 miles from the front. At two, which is seldom one-sided. This German till next day, and their stubbornness plus word that next to the 33d a prisoner had truth shows an enemy less consummate our inexperience and, perhaps, mixed-up

6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Dugouts prepared by the Ger- mans at Cheppy and subse- quently occupied by the Amer- ican First Artillery Brigade

agreed, too, that G. H. Q. would have to

come to it, as the Crown Prince had ad- vised already—an orderly retirement behind the shorter, safer Antwerp-Meuse Line. And soon, too, lest that line's pivot right here in their "quiet sector" crack beneath these hordes of husky young Americans. That must not be! Hindenburg himself demanded ur- gently, "The troops must be impressed with the hollowness of the American massed attacks." General Von Soden exhorted his Corps not to "become inti- midated by the advancing masses" and ARGONNE orders just about lost us the ball game. The drift of Ludendorff's remarks was Marwitz carefully explained to his troops: Then, too, from Montfaucon westward, that the aviators were merely stringing "The objective of this attack is the cut- the Crown Prince, who was Army Group him. He would send his own personal ting of the railroad line Longuyon-Sedan commander through the Argonne Forest operations man, Major Wetzell; also which is the main line of communication

and the Champagne, outmanaged or Baron Richthofen's famous flyers and the [life artery in literal translation] of the outlucked Gallwitz. In the Aire valley artillery expert, Col. Bruchmiiller. What Western Army. Furthermore, the enemy nightly he had heard our trucks backfiring more could be asked for? hopes to compel us to discontinue the and even drivers bellowing; so he pre- A galaxy of talent, agreed Callwitz and exploitation of the iron mines of Briey, pared to be attacked, ranging the First General von der Marwitz, (he cavalry- the possession of which is a great factor

and Fifth Guard Divisions. Right away man famed as an attacker who had just in our steel production . . . The fate of a they lost Vauquois Height, though its arrived, after a rumpus with Ludendorff, large portion of the Western Front, per- commander, Lt. Von Herwarth, reported: "Shall fight desperately to last man. God save the Emperor!" By nightfall the Crown Prince had just one regiment, the 20th, left intact to hold the Aire Valley, but according to a staff officer, with nerve and machine guns they did hold until reserves came. So, although Gallwitz wrote me, "Our front was broken through on September 26th" and his memoirs add sardonically, "Pershing won the triumph of overrun- ning us with greatly superior numbers," yet that was not the whole story. If we had overrun the Germans, we had not broken them utterly as we had hoped and planned. For September 26th our ambitious goal had been to make an ad- vance of at least eight miles; for that night, to press that advance and storm the Kriemhilde Line on the heights whence the country sloped to Sedan, where lay great strategic victory. Instead we were, as the Germans said, "forced to a battle- pause" to prepare another blow .... German prisoners on their way to a behind-the-lines camp, which they had time to meet. fruit of the first day's attack in the Argonne. Their tempo- "Mass your reserves between Meuse rary hosts are men of the Thirty-Fifth Division. The town, and Argonne," Ludendorff told Gallwitz. such as it is, is Boureilles "Forget the Woevre!" An impulsive man, thought Gallwitz, who was still Woevre-minded. Two cap- to command the Fifth Army astride the haps of our nation, depends on the firm tured American aviators had told him of Meuse in this "quiet sector" where now holding of the Meuse front." coming attacks there. hell was popping to welcome him. They Pershing himself could not have

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stated more clearly the object of his First away the outpost zone before the Kriem- once in were never extricated. But for Army's repeated blows. hilde Line and on October 9th, began veteran artillery and myriad machine And the next one, wondered the gray- snapping wolfishly at its strong-points guns they could not have stood so stub- clad leaders at Longwy . . . how soon? the heights of Cunel and Romagne. bornly, backs to the wall of Cote Dame "Tomorrow," croacked the telephone. That day, these were just saved in a Marie and Cote Chatillon, the two key "Interrogation — five prisoners — 3 2d dramatic scene unknown to the Ameri- heights. Still on came the Americans; American Division." cans. The 236th Brigade retreated through "brave opponents, inclined to reckless- October 4. Long-range shells kept Gall- Romagne; on pressed the 3 2d American ness, often attacking carelessly and in witz from his favorite O. P. on Cote Dame Marie—they were creeping up on him. (These traffic jams were bad; he needed more M. P.'s!) But troops on the road told him of knocking out some of the dread tanks by throwing potato mashers into the treads—why, one artilleryman had knocked out seven of them! At Longwy the general heard that against the second American general attack his part of the line had held well. But the Crown Prince's worn out Guard Divi- sions had let our First drive a wedge that might flank him out of the Argonne For- est. Ludendorff passed to Gallwitz com- mand of the Aire sector and so of the whole Meuse-Argonne battle—a hot potato he promptly grasped by issuing the order that released the Lost Battalion. That was an order to give up the ves- tiges of the Argonne Forest, which was hastened by the attack, October 7th, of the 28th and 8 2d Divisions, but caused by the First Division. In executing it, ridiculed Second Land- the middle-aged Grandpre, on the Aire River, chief "port" of the Argonne wehr fought stubbornly at Chatel- Forest, is still a fighting word to veterans of the Seventy- Lieutenants Bock Chehery and Second Seventh and Seventy-Eighth Divisions and Heinrich held Cornay with their last seventy-seven, firing pointblank at storming Americans. The Landwehr got a citation—but no relief. No men to spare; everything jammed into line every which way. And next morning, October 8th, more demands for reserves. Now the Americans were attack- ing east of the Meuse, the 33d and 29th Divisions and some French. The German troops there lost only their outpost zone, but had to send some reserves led by one Goldschmidt, who was able to buck up the First Austro-Hungarian . . . cracking because, they claimed, their own reserves had been taken away to buck up the Germans! The mixup reached the Kaiser himself. But anyway the Austrians were no shock troops—they were so poorly equipped that Gallwitz called them "pants-less." Luckily for the Germans attention was diverted by a "Lost Battalion" of the 177th Infantry whose Captain Blohm es- caped from Ormont Wood, scraped up two Elements of the 64th Infantry Brigade, Thirty-Second Di- recaptured the wood, held it companies, vision, advancing in support of the first line near Romagne- for 24 hours aided by airplanes machine- sous-Montfaucon gunning the 29th American Division from thirty meters, and finally, wounded, with but thirty survivors, retreated—unlike Division. Then to the rescue came a inappropriate formations. Inexperienced Whittlesey, to be sure, but very gallant. German Sheridan, General Kreuter, who infantry leadership was paid for by big The troops had held well east of the Meuse. personally rallied his men, brought up the losses, admirably borne." But westward, no rest from the Ameri- 109th Grenadiers just in time to make Even the American general attack of can masses. Desperate machine-gunners Romagne German again, and postpone October 14th was, from Gallwitz's view- might mow them down, only to see over yet awhile a breach in the Kriemhilde point, ragged; Divisions starting at dif- their sights more men in olive drab, Line there. ferent hours; meat for counter-attacks. young, eager, pressing forward. Not, Ensued five horrid days and nights of Hard-boiled East Prussians retook Cote God be thanked, with good teamwork, swaying struggle into which German Chatillon after five attacks, but when the but disjointedly. Yet, they were nibbling troops were jammed higgly-piggly and Rainbow's Alabamans and Iowans were 8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine through, only eighty rifles were left. dugouts. From Cote Dame Marie the was from a German officer who had been The Germans gave it up; even the sacro- ground sloped downward toward Sedan! at Cote Dame Marie: sanct Third Guard gave up Romagne. Meanwhile, in Champagne the Ameri- "When about to be surrounded, our And last and worst of all, as the Wiscon- can Second Division had broken the men will no longer hold." sin and Michigan men of the 3 2d worked Crown Prince's line—very disconcerting, Already mail censorship had reported around Cote Dame Marie, there too the the Second being in his estimation really morale poor among new replacements; Germans just gave up and walked out, not so hot. But royalty began a wide now behind the front Saxon troops had leaving to the Americans the key to the retreat, passing the buck to the mere got drunk and 100 must be arrested; others just from Russia had started marching back again, refusing to fight the Americans. That, said the shocked Gallwitz, was unknown in the German army. Nor did he know German soldiers had shouted at the Crown Prince's red- striped trousers: "Lights out! Knives out! Cut 'em up!" Now, on the walls of nearby Stenay, appeared posters urging soldiers to kill their officers, and the secret police sent an agent to guard Gallwitz's life. He growled—but kept the guard. But the staunch old German wouldn't

understand how bad it was everywhere, though Ludendorff tried to tell him, when Gallwitz telephoned protests against giving in to Wilson's peace terms. "Our flabby government throws up its hands!" he cried, and was dismayed when Luden- dorff let him rave instead of bawling him out. A very bad sign. He didn't know that Ludendorff was a broken man; had fallen

frothing at the mouth in a fit, as his front Members of the 311th Machine Gun Battalion, Seventy- yielded first here, then there. Now even Ninth Division, dug in on a slope near Samogneux the less volatile Hindenburg was facing the inevitable; he wrote all his generals that he concurred in the peace negotia- tions. "A thunderbolt!" wrote Gallwitz in his diary. Then came a telegram bidding him come to Berlin for an important conference with the Kaiser! A worn, anxious war lord, explaining it was all the Austrians' fault that his army must endure such strain; especially from these fresh Americans, and—how about it? He must hear from Gallwitz's own lips. These days, thought the general, one must be frank—and plunged: "We can still hold the Americans. But our men need rest. We can give it to them only by withdrawing to a shorter position, there to hold to the last." A deep breath, then:

' "Your Imperial Majesty should thrust himself forward more. The army are asking—where is our Kaiser?" The Kaiser took it, whether he liked

it or not, thanked Gallwitz, and told him to see the Chancellor. of Baden The 307th Field Signal Battalion, Eighty-Second Division, Max agreed, blamed not Austria—rather strings wires following the departure of the enemy from but Chatel-Chehery that impulsive Ludendorff, just now re- signed, for starting the armistice negotia- tions any way. Would Gallwitz address whole battlefield between Meuse and "Von" who had let us advance in the the war cabinet? Would he? Argonne! Meuse-Argonne— Gallwitz. That sorely "We can hold out!" he cried to them The turning point! Now the Yanks harassed general ordered all movie oper- all. could move up Admiral Plunkett's ators, horn-blowers, anybody that was Then in came a telegram: "Austria American naval guns, most powerful handy, into line, scanning gloomily a seeks a separate peace." cannon on the Western Front, to send report that against him stood 28 Ameri- The meeting blanched; decided to play 14-inch shells twenty miles and more, can Divisions— the exact number then in along some more with Wilson. An uneasy to explode along the German strategic all France. Our replacement system had Gallwitz went to see Hindenburg, and railroads and hit Marwitz's headquarters the German G-2ers mildly gaga. A more urge again withdrawal to the Antwerp- in Montmedy, driving his staff to the accurate but even more disturbing report Meuse Line ere (Continued on page 48)

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The American Legion, September 19 22 By Wallgren

SEPTEMBER, 1938 High Line Hazaro Clifford W. Kennedy

THE doctor at Eastham hadn't IFsent his bill directly into headquar- ters, the news of Nap Gaucher's accident would never have gotten away from O'Brien's crew. Spike that down solid. But the Doc must have read Eastern States Electric on O'Brien's him, Dizzy being a new man, until he truck, for the bill traveled back to Chet squeezed out the dope he wanted. Hardy, who was superintendent at Win- At that, for a while, Davis tried to chester, via the regular inter-office cor- edge out of it, pretending he couldn't respondence. exactly place Gaucher. Chet sent for O'Brien. "The main "Of course you know him!" Chet squeeze wants to know what happened growled. "Stubby like a guy-wire butt. to Nap," he announced, waving the mail The only sawed-off with the rest of you under O'Brien's nose. string beans." "Emergency," O'Brien grunted, squint- The way Chet said it brought Dizzy ing purposely down at Chet's top vest up short. Then he caught the corona button. "Couldn't wait to have no com- shooting off Chet's eyes and he realized pany doctor sent up." he was up against a hot— wire. "I know, "I'll have to know the details," Chet I know now"—hastily "he's the copper persisted. "There's no chance of frigging belly who keeps O'Brien in a pinkpeeve, it off as something else—not this bill. all the time calling him frog and pro- What's more, I can't ignore the letter nouncin' his name Obree-en with a sort of tied to it when there's a vice-president's Canuck accent. Been having so many kids lay out there on his belt, stiff, until he name scrawled across the bottom. Where he wonders, when he takes a trip home, took to buckling again, flopping up and was all this going on?" if he'll find another one born." down like a fish stranded on the beach, "At the Junction." "Well?" and then sagged back— this time limp. "Thought you were pulling a power Well, the day Nap got it, according to You'd thought he was a sack of grain line through to that mill at Eastham." Dizzy, he was up on a main line pole hoisted up there. Even from the ground "All done." O'Brien was snipping his adjacent to the transformers at thejunc- his face showed purple, fast edging over words off short. "We'd gone back to hook tion. The gang always sort of hated to see on the green side. in." Nap climb, because, having a torso like O'Brien, being foreman, took charge Now Chet understood O'Brien better a barrel, he could hardly more'n touch in a hurry. When a guy gets 13,000, you than his own brother, and he felt sure fingers behind a pole anyway. Then, be- can't move too quick, and O'Brien O'Brien would never be stalling the way sides, he was up there plumb alongside streaked like a flashover breaking to he was without legitimate reasons. More- a 13,000- volt crossover. Some of that line ground. He had a length of rope in his over, he knew there was a loose connec- was old salvage stuff with only frayed hand in a second and he yelled at Kehoe: tion somewhere, because he had just weatherproof braid to cover it, and Nap "Scat up that stick, Pike, and take this transferred Gaucher out of the district at should have tossed a rubber blanket over rope and have it over the crossarm." He

O'Brien's special request. So, instead of it. He'd led back a line from a low tap gave Taylor a push. "You ride with him," putting the screws on, he tried working in the transformers to a light on the pole. he shouted. around to tap information off some of the And he was reaching way out backward, Pike and Bus Taylor traipsed aloft like mechanics like Pike Kehoe and Bus Tay- not an inch from the high line, with his two squirrels chasing each other, tossed lor. But Pike and the rest seemed sort of spurs dug in, and hanging in his safety the rope over the arm and knotted it to furtive too, and their answers were slip- belt as if it were a sling, tying that light Nap's belt. Four bits says they weren't pery. Even the pole grunts had had eye line to an insulator. eighteen seconds getting him to ground. trouble that day. Finally Chet called All of a sudden he jerked. His whole O'Brien shot orders like a Fourth of Dizzy Davis in and clamped down on body folded like a convulsion. Then he July sparkler. "Get his belt off," he

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine A Short Short Story

He gave his tool bag a vicious kick. "Why's it always a family man gets it? And somebody you cotton to. While there's punks you'd enjoy chippin' in on their funeral expenses." No one pulled out a snappy answer for that one; it was just as if everybody had a fuse blown. Their mouths and spirits drooped lower than the loops of their safety belts. O'Brien was still over yonder, straddling poor Nap, and he wouldn't

stop short of sixty minutes. Which is a long while to labor over a dead body, but it's the rules. Then, just to be doing some- thing, they went into a huddle and matched off with pennies to see who'd put on a necktie and convey the sad tidings of bereavement to Nap's widow. All of a sudden there was a gurgling noise out of Nap—you know how it sounds when you first let water on a main that's been empty a long time. Then

a roar. Nap humped in the middle as if a bee had stung his belly and O'Brien went flying, rump over teakettle, and bit his tongue fearfully. Nap jumped up, after bucking O'Brien off his back, stomped and champed his jaws just like a horse. Then he spit and out flew his false teeth. He turned on O'Brien and made an indecent remark about why he should be taken for a doe rabbit. O'Brien had no chance for a comeback because a car had whizzed up and spilled out a doctor and some sort of a local traf- fic officer all studded with brass posts like the reverse side of a wattmeter. The medico, looking this way and that, yelled: "Where's the man who got

The two of them scrambled up shocked," and O'Brien whirled as if there quick as squirrels somebody had shied a lag screw at him. It took O'Brien a second to tuck his fists away and catch his breath from un- white on a frosty morning. Coming out reeling the string of asbestos-insulated of it after 13,000 has trickled through you words he'd been describing Nap with. is just one lucky roll in ten thousand. His face was no different than a fresh

Besides, they were worrying because, cut of liver; he was still sweating and it after you see a man nicked, it takes a must have chafed him to admit how Nap month or so to go back up and work was up above there and leaning back and

snapped, "Hurry and loosen his collar." around the stuff without getting jittery. that it was only his false teeth slipping Then, "Roll him on his belly," he And always it's just when you're scared down his throat, choking him so quick

ordered. "No, you tripe, no! Head side- of it, you manage to grab it. he fainted. Trying to think up soim alibi ways like this." Then some wack had to mention the had O'Brien so fussed he stepped back O'Brien dropped to his knees right off, widow. without looking and drove a hobnailed and started the old prone pressure resus- "A lineman's wife ought to expect to heel into the Frenchman's teeth as Nap citation on Nap's ribs. At first he pumped see her husband home on a stretcher any was stooping to pick them up. too fast but after a minute he came down time." That was Pike grousing. The Doc was a pretty good guy at that to the right pace. All the time, between "Just because her chin's always up," —brighter than you'd think of anyone grunts, he was giving orders. Get the somebody else chirped right back, "don't who'd mail a bill to headquarters and stretcher. Break out a blanket. "A couple make it any easier about becoming a send the horse laugh on O'Brien around of you half-wits and you too, Taylor, widow maybe. And you let me know the circuit—he didn't get sore nor even climb in the truck and shack a doctor," what chance she's got with nine of Nap's snicker, but let on O'Brien did just right he yelled. "And don't come back without kids hangin' on her." to send for him. He put his little telephone one. And burn the rubber off them Kehoe swiped at the damp mold on his on Nap's chest, ordered him to loaf a wheels." forehead. "No chance except compensa- while, and then gave him a paper on In the meantime, the rest had moseyed tion and what we pick up passin' the hat, which he wrote the brand of flux to help off one side, a cold rind encasing their which last'll just about buy grub till the Nap weld his new plate to his palate hearts the way everything is coated Company gets around with a check." hereafter.

SEPTEMBER, 1938 13 Karl Detzer

BEFORE Inspector Cobb could an- "Upstairs," Cobb swer Flaxner, he heard other feet said. "To the front running, and Barton Oliver and porch. I'm holding his client, Danny McCain, halted all of you. Material together in the doorway of the game witnesses." room. McCain's thick, blond eyebrows Flaxner's voice once more arched questioningly, and his squeaked, out of his eyes were scared, almost as scared as the control, "You killed dead Gill's had been a few moments be- Charley Gill!" fore. Even Oliver's hickory face had "Upstairs," Cobb changed; he looked tired—the lines in his repeated. "Plenty of hard forehead were chiseled deeper than time now to talk it before. all over." Both men stared into the room past Oliver marched Flaxner's head. It was Oliver who spoke ahead up the stairs. first. Flaxner, mumbling, "What was that shooting, officer?" he followed him. Danny demanded. McCain, looking The dispassionate quality of his voice much less dapper was in magnificent contrast to Flaxner's. now, with a streak of Cobb, hearing the question, realized they dirty gray salt water didn't yet see Gill's body, stretched out across both knees of beyond the billiard table. Remembering his evening whites, belatedly that he still held his own pistol, followed Cobb. he thrust it quickly into his belt and saw They walked si- Oliver's eyes following the movement. lently through the Oliver repeated, "Who did you shoot?" living room. The "No one," Cobb said. Chinese boy, who He walked toward them, conscious that had been stacking they drew back as he approached . . . dishes at a table a from fear of him or out of respect for his few minutes before, authority? Only Flaxner seemed to be was no longer in finding anything to look at on the floor sight. Out on the across the room. Cobb, glancing back, verandah, Edythe saw that a thin, dark trickle of blood was Estrella was holding spreading into ugly sight across the her hands up to the polished boards, and beyond the end of sides of her face . . . the table one of Gill's pudgy hands lay pretty hands, Cobb plainly visible. noticed, now that he "Who's that?" McCain suddenly de- had time. Her atti- manded. tude reminded him "Gill," Cobb said. "He's dead." of the old pictures. "Gill?" That had been a fa- Cobb couldn't tell: was it genuine vorite pose of hers in astonishment in McCain's voice? "Your the silent days when late guest," he said. "Step aside, please." every gesture had to The three obeyed. Without snapping be exaggerated. out the light, Cobb closed the door. In At sight of them, spite of himself he hated to leave the she cried, "Where's wretched Gill. The poor devil had been Slats? Danny, where's dear Slats?" She "The fellow you call Charley Gill is dead. double crossed by somebody. He'd saved ran across the verandah to McCain and Murdered. I'm holding all of you." His his own skin, time after time, back East caught him by his broad shoulders and eyes, finishing with what they saw in in the thick of things, only to end by pleaded, "Tell me, Danny, is Slats all Clark's face, moved down slowly to his somebody taking one pot shot at him right?" feet and there halted. down in the middle of the empty desert. A curt voice from the outer darkness The flyer stood with toes apart and one Cobb thought: He might pause and make answered, "Of course I'm all right. knee bent. His own eyes, following an appropriate little speech to these What's the shooting?" Cobb's, took in the fact that the high people right now about the ultimate Clark's breath came short as he stepped heel of his left riding boot was missing. rewards of being a crook. up to the porch, and in spite of the cool- "Heel came off, running on the beach," There was a key in the lock of the game ness of his voice, he, too, wore a new look he explained. room door. Cobb turned it and pocketed of uneasiness. He repeated, "What was "So we see," Cobb said. "Just where on it while owner McCain looked on, the shooting?" the beach?" unobjecting. Cobb said, watching his expression, "Would I know that?" Clark came

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the porch, toward the Salton Sea. Cobb stood a moment, looking at the water, and not

caring for it. Its sluggish silence seemed to echo the secrecy that lay

so heavily upon the shore; it sprawled as lifeless and im- movable as the body of Little Joe Page beside the billiard table. Above its latent waters, the small torn

wraiths of fog still hung in the sticky darkness. Cobb remembered how warm it felt upon his legs a few minutes ago, like new blood. Even the small breezes that fanned it were mysterious and furtive. Anything might happen here ... as anything had happened. Cobb could see the plane, tilted on the beach, even the

sharp shadow it cast on the crystallized sand. He sniffed the salt ... an acrid smell compared with the ocean's. "Needn't come," he called to Slats Clark, who was following down the steps. To his surprise, the flyer showed an indecision which Cobb had not observed in him before, but he obeyed. Cobb turned to the left, then left again, around the corner of the lodge, to the three dark rectangles in the wall which marked the game room windows. He thought: "Whoever

did it, came around this "Who did you shoot?" he demanded. "No one," Cobb answered way." In quick succession he saw four pictures illuminated back. "Don't try to hook me up with a Cobb shrugged. "I think you can trust against the warm May darkness. Slats murder!" me alone if I trust you." Clark, Oliver, the rich, jovial McCain,

Edythe Estrella interrupted. "Murder, He started toward the screen door. It Flaxner . . . each hurrying, gun in hand, you say!" she screamed. "Murder! Slats, was risky to leave them. On the other toward the lighted window of the game get me out of here! My reputation!" hand, they might hang each other, and room, each halting to eavesdrop on "Everybody stays," Cobb said. he wanted to see a few things for himself. scared Little Joe Page's last words. Two "Everybody," Oliver agreed. "Includ- He opened the door. other pictures formed hazily. He saw ing you, officer. I'll 'phone for the sheriff." "Don't leave me!" Edythe Estrella was Edythe Estrella 's shapely hands and the He waited for Cobb to object. ciying. "Who was that horrid person? silent Chinese boy in his spotless white "Good idea," Cobb said. "While you're Why did he come here to get killed? Pour silk jacket. Calling, I'll look around." me a drink, Slats!" Cobb paused, reconstructing the scene. Oliver halted. "Alone?" The steps led down to the east side of The crusty desert surface tilted down

SEPTEMBER, 1938 IS 6 "

toward the house. A man could stand twenty-five miles south. That would be "It does seem to me I noticed one, here, on this small rise, pointing a gun Al Rickard. Cobb had worked with too," Edythe Estrella murmured. into the window, which was at the level Rickard, several times. If he came, it McCain said, "Slats, you ought to of his knees. From this position, mere would take him cnly half an hcur to get know. Did that man Gill have a suit- eavesdropper or someone scheming to kill, here. And he'd stand no nonsense when case?" could have seen Joe Page hiding behind he did. "Most people carry one, traveling," the billiard table, afterward would have On the verandah Steve Flaxner was Clark answered. He met Cobb's gaze seen him fall, spread out face downward pouring a drink for Edythe Estrella, a boldly. on the floor. double for himself. "Find anything?" he "Whether the suitcase is of interest Cobb took his small electric flashlamp asked. depends on where the people are traveling from his hip pocket. The circle of its light Cobb did not answer. Flaxner, scared from," Cobb said. "Glendale airport or shone like a bright full moon on the as he might be, was more likeable than Mexico." smooth weatherboarding of the lodge. any of the others, even Danny McCain. Clark lifted his boot to strike a match, McCain had built well for his guests. McCain's joy in life seemed to ebb when saw it was the one with the missing heel, Cobb tipped the lamp down to the earth, the adventure got real. Cobb crossed to put that foot down and lifted the other. baked hard and whitened by alkali. the table lamp and reaching into his shirt, "Meaning?" he challenged. Ordinary desert soil. He knew the harsh brought out the folded paper he had taken "Meaning, politely, he thinks you're a texture of it. He crumbled a bit in his from Gill's pocket. He saw McCain liar," Oliver barked. "That's what he fingers, and while doing so, he observed a watching him as he unfolded it, heard means!" He stopped. McCain had got out small dried chamiso bush and realized: Flaxner demand, "What's that? Where'd of his chair. Somewhere . . . back of the The murderer had stepped on this bush. you get that?" house, in the garage, or on the road, It had caused the slight crackling sound The paper had been torn from a small nearby at least ... a car was starting. that came through the window just before memorandum pad, such as might hang "Who the hell's that?" McCain de- the shot, and again directly after it. by a telephone, in half a dozen other manded. Cobb, backing, moved his light in a places around a house. The message on The sputter of an exhaust magnified in slow circle. It illuminated only a lizard it was written in a big free hand with the still desert air. sliding out of reach; then the light halted, purple ink. "Charley," it said, "come up They ran, except Flaxner. McCain led and he quickly turned it off, as quickly with Slats tonight. New plans. Im- the way. The gravel road, departing from stooped and picked something off the portant." the big garage, swung in an arc that led ground. Its nails pricked his palm. He There was no signature. Cobb read it straight to the desert. Westward on it, held it, thinking, "So he was here. This again. It would have been too much to through the silvery skeletons of the proves it." expect a signature. Luck wouldn't help mesquites bordering the grounds, a red Into his pocket he thrust the high heel the police to that extent. tail-light of a car was disappearing. which was missing from Clark's boot. He "What is that?" McCain, too, de- McCain shouted, "That's my car! " hadn't expected to discover it so easily. manded. Who . . ? he turned and dashed back In fact, coming upon it here upset his Cobb folded the paper and thrust it angrily into the rear of the house. calculations. His guess had been that he'd back into his pocket. "Something to Cobb stood very still, listening. The find it, if Clark didn't first, down on the show the proper authorities," he an- sound of the fleeing motor was small in beach near the plane. He snapped on the swered, wondering: Who had sent for Gill the enduring silence of the wide night sky. light again. There was nothing else here to come up from San Felipe? Not Slats. It persisted, however; would continue for to be seen. Somebody else. Making two persons in miles, in this air. Who was in the car? He re-entered the house. Oliver only this deal. Slats' boot-heel was in Cobb's Had he missed somebody entirely, in all now had made his telephone connection. pocket and he had flown Gill here, but this time? Somebody the others knew "Send out an officer immediately, someone else sent for him. Cobb said was here. He was in a sweet predicament sheriff," he was shouting. "At once. I'll aloud: if he had. He watched Clark, standing as see that everybody remains here. Yes, I "I'll ask a question of my own. You're still as he was himself, and Oliver. The think I know who killed him, sheriff . . . the host, Mr. McCain. You tell me, then, scene, even the expression on their faces, I'd rather not say ... on the 'phone." where's Gill's suitcase? The one that seemed genuine. "Putting my neck in a sling," Cobb stood here on the verandah when I came "Follow in mine!" Oliver was shouting. thought. "The chief '11 give me hell if they in tonight?" A second automobile stood in the drive. do get me in the jug on some technicality. There was a startled silence. He reached in it and fumbled with the He figured the time. It was twenty- "Suitcase?" Flaxner slopped his drink. dashboard. five minutes after two, now. The county "I saw no suitcase." "Oh, no, you don't!" Cobb forbade. sheriff was at El Centra, but there was a "You wouldn't," Cobb retorted. "I "Everybody stays!" full-time deputy at Westmoreland, did. Mr. McCain ..." "Key's gone," Oliver said, turning. "The scoundrel took ..." "What scoundrel?" Cobb asked. Oliver didn't know. "That was Sam!" McCain shouted, panting down the rear steps. "The China boy! He's not in the kitchen, not in his room ..." "Sam!" Oliver said dully.

COBB slipped back quietly to the house. They had something on their minds for 9 the moment, let them be busy with it. He'd been slow again, getting around to talk to the The car was off at full speed, and it might be carrying the Chino. The chief would give

solution to the murder him the devil for it . . . he'd

1 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine passed up the servants, after all, in spite of not meaning to. He went in the nearest door, and when the others returned he was in the living room, sitting at McCain's desk. "Making yourself entirely at home?" Clark asked. "Entirely." Cobb got up, and for the first time since, those hours ago, he heard Clark's dark plane steal unheralded through the sky, he struck a match for a cigarette. "We'll hunt that suitcase later," he said. "Maybe it's in Salton Sea by now." There was a curious coldness on all their parts about the dead Gill's luggage.

"Wouldn't surprise me if it was," he said. "Meantime, Miss Estrella, tell me please, where were you when you heard the shot?" Oliver started Oliver objected, "Not where you were, out of his chair, at least! In the room with the victim with but Steve Flax- a gun in your hand! There are ways of ner leaped at officer, what weapon fired a shot!" telling, him "Oh, really are there!" Cobb said, and remembered: He'd shot that sidewinder early this evening. He ran one finger around the inside of his collar. It was a Cobb said, flushing, and was conscious: with his face against the floor. I saw it." hot night. So there'd be one shell missing This did sound improbable. "After the "Where?" Cobb challenged. from the magazine of his own automatic! shot," he added. "You know well enough," Oliver said. "I was in the room, yes," he admitted. Oliver laughed. "You must have done "Sprawled out on his face on the floor and "I saw him killed. But the bullet came it fast," he objected. "I wasn't far behind you standing right over him with a gun through the open window." you. I saw everything plainly enough. in your hand." "Oh, no!" Flaxner cried, and the others Ycu were standing right beside the table. Cobb looked at him a long moment. turned on him. He swallowed. "All the Little ..." Then he persisted, "The shot came windows were closed," he blurted. "I "Joe?" Cobb supplied. through the window, sir. Afterward I noticed when I ran in." "Charley," Oliver corrected. "Charley closed it, and pulled the shade." "I closed the one that had been open," Gill. He was sprawled out at your feet Oliver laughed (Continued on page 41)

SEPTEMBER, 195S 17 8

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MAN in a dug-out paddled Hurriedly he worked, snatching A silently down a long "lead" body after body from the water until under the cypresses. He the dug-out was piled high with them was in a world of almost and became difficult to manage. unearthly beauty, but it made no Then, sitting there, he stripped off impression on him. He bent to his back-skin after back-skin which held work in a determined but stealthy the plumes, his all too skillful hands manner, his gaze roving from the making rapid work of the sanguinary cool green obscurity in front to every job. Splash after splash marred the quarter of the compass, through the still water as the carcasses dropped, spaces between the tall, gray-green long white necks and trailing legs trunks of the flooded forest which weaving strange patterns on the enveloped him and his fragile craft. dark surface. At last he turned and As he went, a distant and confused wr ere fixed greedily on the thousands of paddled back down the long lead to where clamor rose and fell ahead of him, a filmy lace-like plumes which streamed a bank loomed ahead, and debarking changing cadence of sound which in- from the backs of these dwellers of the there, picked up his rifle and his plumes creased in volume as he proceeded. cypresses. On every one these plumes and walked down the dim trail to dis- Soon the thick trees thinned ahead and floated like a gauzy halo of airy beauty; appear around a bend. large patches of sky began to appear they were at once, a crowning glory and The next day he came again, and the overhead. The dug-out slowed perceptibly a blasting curse. following day also. After that he came no and the paddler redoubled his caution. The man in the dug-out was in a south- more. On a brilliant morning a few days In another moment or two he pushed up ern egret rookery. The reason for his later, two men came down the bank and behind a fringe of buttonwood bushes presence became speedily manifest. He getting into the dug-out, pushed off down and, securing the bow of the craft, peered moored his craft so that the bow was the lead. They were in high spirits, enjoy- out into a lovely lagoon, an open expanse pushed well into the screening button- ing the beauty of the swamp keenly, but of wine-brown water, rimmed about by woods and, covered almost completely by saying little, after the manner of ornitho- gigantic cypresses, from the high branches the green foliage, set to work. Breaking logists in the field. No gun was in the boat of which streamed magnificent banners of open numbers of boxes of shells, he picked —only a lunch-basket and two pairs of soft gray moss. About this beautiful spot, up a small Flobert rifle and, waiting until binoculars. City men they were, one from the trees and lower growth which grew in the din about him reached one of its peaks the North, the other from the South, but clumps here and there were mantled in of sound, he aimed at the nearest egret they were woodwise men, and the ringing

spotless white, as if a sudden snowfall had and fired. The lovely bird pitched from songs of warblers, vireos and wrens fell descended in the midst of the glory of its perch and plunged headlong into the upon practiced ears. Reveling in the early May. buttonwoods. Again the rifle spoke, and glories of the flooded wonderland, they The snowy mantle was alive. It shifted yet again. Its tiny crack was drowned in paddled slowly, eyes roving widely and

in ever-changing density, particles erupt- the myriad noises of the rookery; it was ears attuned to the varied sounds about ing into the air and streaming in long handled with fiendish skill and the drop- them. lines over the lagoon only to whirl back ping birds still passed unnoticed, or were As they went, the face of the man in the and settle again among the cypress ignored by the others, until they began to stern lengthened. He bent forward now

branches. And all the time there came litter the water. and then, listening intently as if he hoped from it a discordant, raucous diapason of A sudden boil of the surface nearby to catch a sound but never did so. He sound—squawks, croaks, and guttural made the man look up quickly from the said nothing, but his gravity increased outcries that made the vast swamp re- fresh box of shells he was opening. He and he shook his head once or twice in a sound and ring again. caught sight of an armored head and the sort of wondering but ever-growing alarm. To the watching man in the hidden swirl of a ridged tail as one of the floating And then, as the dug-out neared the dug-out, the sight of the infinitely grace- bodies suddenly disappeared, then an- buttonwood fringe, he sniffed strongly, an ful forms which composed that snowy other and another. The man cursed expression of disgust mingled with the cloak of the lagoon was beautiful only in harshly and dropped the shells. Compe- nameless fear which marked his features. that it awakened a sense of intense tition was setting in, and he knew that the The craft emerged suddenly into the selfish satisfaction. The immaculate love- shooting was over for the present as the lagoon but quickly came to a stop, for no

liness of the fairy shapes was lost upon alligators got to work. Seizing the paddle, paddle propelled it further. Both men him; that they were busy about their he shoved outward into the open; the stared rigidly before them, in speechless, rude platform-like homes, in which pale remaining egrets rose in a clamoring cloud open-eyed amazement. At last the man blue-green eggs and downy young were to circle and squawk their consternation in the bow turned slowly and faced his nestling, was nothing to him. His eyes at the intruder. companion with horror in his eyes.

1 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Father's come home to the nest—a pair of egrets, with junior in the center fore- ground. Their plumage is worth its weight in gold—or was until the law took a hand

"Is this ... is this . . . it?" he asked seemed to restore articulation, for he miles to see." His voice seemed to catch hoarsely. "Is this the rookery you told cursed softly but fervently through strangely. "It's hell now, instead of me about?" clenched teeth. Then he spoke. paradise."

The other still stared as though bereft "Yes," he grated. "Thisisi/. This is the The man in the bow turned forward of speech, then nodded dumbly. That nod place you've come nearly a thousand again and neither spoke. A dead, un-

SEPT EMBER, 1958 19 Thanks to Federal and State restrictions, such scenes as this, of egrets massing in trees and foliage, are becoming more common. A few years ago these beauti- fully plumed birds were on the verge of extinction

natural quiet hung like a heavy curtain toward the lagoon, "there'd be one less That fickle goddess Fashion was the over the lagoon. The moss-bannered plume hunter in the country." main obstacle against which the waves cypresses were still there; the dim, cool of conservation had to batter, and she leads led off into the swamp as usual. The SUCH a scene as has here been re- at last capitulated. Due to the vastly water was of its normal wine-brown color, corded can occur no longer, not, at increased public sentiment toward wild- hut here and there upon its surface life generally, it is unlawful to- floated hideous, mottled masses. A day for the plumage of any bird sullen swirl broke occasionally near to be worn or used for decorative one of them; and the ugly blotch purposes. But the end has not yet would disappear. Here and there been reached. amid the high branches a long We hear today, and have for white shape hung stiffly, and from some years past, of "closed sea- the platform nests smaller shapes sons" on certain birds and animals, dangled or sprawled in contorted as well as fish. These measures rigidity. On some of the limbs, big have saved species from extinc- ebony birds with bare heads and tion, and have restored them to at beady eyes craned questing necks least a common status, where, as they stared down at the inter- some years ago, they were on the ruption of their ghoulish feast, edge of oblivion. Among the non- some of the bolder ones pecking game birds, the egret and the now and then at the lumps of skin snowy heron, former victims of the and bones which had been the little plume trade, are the outstanding egrets. One sound, unnoticed at examples. Ten to fifteen years ago, first, broke the stillness—an insis- the bird-books stated that both tent, droning hum from millions were doomed. Dr. Frank M. and millions of busy flies. And, Chapman, in his Handbook of burning its way into the watchers' Birds of Eastern North America senses, a sickening, blasting stench (edition of 1922), said of the egret hovered over the scene of death, that instead of "islands glistening

causing them both to turn at last, in the sun like snow-banks . . . and without another word, propel now you may look for miles along the dug-out to the distant bank. a lake-shore and perhaps in the

Then, and not till then, the Don't talk about the marvelous plum- distance see a solitary egret." Of Northerner spoke. age of the peacock. The female egret the snowy heron he said that "Is there no way to put an end has everything, and knows it "formerly it was abundant in the to this damnable trade in plumes?" South, now it is the rarest of its he asked. "Surely there must be, and I'll least, with any such frequency as such family."

not rest until I see it done." scenes once did. One would think, too, That indefatigable southern ornithol- His companion, with face grimly set, that it would have been easy to stop. ogist, Arthur T. Wayne, said in his responded. "You'll find me and many The contrary is true. The stoppage of Birds of South Carolina (1910) that the others ready to help," he said. "And if I the sale of egret plumes was only accom- snowy heron "is so rare a bird at the knew who did that," he jerked his head plished against strenuous opposition. present day that {Continued on page 46)

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the third time in its history, The and the home folks are going to tell him, "Well, FORAmerican Legion will this year hold its if he's a friend of yours he must be all right. National Convention on the Pacific Coast. Glad to know you, sir!" Fifteen years ago, in 1923, The York, Los Angeles is reputed to American Legion followed the trail of the pio- LIKE New i be populated exclusively by people who neers to hold its annual meeting in San Fran- came from Somewhere Else. Such a state of cisco. Nine years later, in 1932, it followed the affairs, if it is true, is all to the good so far path of Lewis and Clark to Oregon. It has met as an American Legion National Convention as far south as New Orleans and San Antonio is concerned. At a Legion convention, every- and Miami, as far north as Minneapolis and body from Somewhere Else. And twenty Saint Paul, as far east as Philadelphia, New comes years ago a considerable stretch of the flaming York, and Boston—or, for that matter, Paris. Western Front was being manned by several It has met all up and down and across the hundred thousand in olive drab who came land and one ocean. It has provided everywhere men from Somewhere Else. a spectacle the like of which has never been seen before in that particular community OFFICIALLY, a National Convention of unless, like Cleveland, it had seen a previous The American Legion lasts four days. Actu- Legion convention. It has brought to each con- ally it lasts a lifetime in the memory of anyone vention center a stirring, glowing, unforgettable who attends it. Its highest enjoyment, its supreme picture of America on the march, of Americans significance, is in the recollection that endures. still serving America, of men moving forward And out of every national Convention come year after year into the full maturity of accom- a platform and a program that are the Legion's plishment. guiding chart for the year to come perhaps The Legion has seen America, and America — for many years to come. The tumult and the has seen the Legion. shouting last only so long as the newsreels carry the story of the convention across the now, on to Los Angeles! Unless every AND land; the sound-track misses the big story that l\. report that has come out of the fair Cali- comes out of the committee rooms and into the fornia country is phony, Far Western hospital- discussion on the floor. But that discussion and ity is as dynamic and genuine as the particular what comes out of it is the core of the con- of hospitality handed out by any other brand vention. part of the country. Moreover, the Legion has all brands of hospital- a way of carrying these THE Legion's center of population is prob- ity along with it wherever it goes. Last year ably not far remote from the nation's own sheet-steel it cracked through the supposedly —that is, somewhere east of the Mississippi armor of New York and found, beneath, a River and north of the Ohio. Los Angeles is heart that glowed as warmly as the hearts of quite a way from there— further than any pre- a thousand home towns. vious Legion convention site save its own sister

Certainly the Legion will find in California cities of the West Coast. And that, too, is all to a population that is alert and alive to what the good. For a lot of America lies between, the Legion stands for. The record of the Cali- and next September offers the grandest kind to fornia Legion is a chronicle of devotion of an opportunity to see it. Community, State and Nation that is a shining beacon for any organization to follow. THE dates? September 19th to 22d—Mon- day to Thursday inclusive. Parade Which is to say that the Legionnaire from — Day East, or South, 01 North will find, in coming will be Tuesday, September 20th. to California, that he has a friend at court. The place? It was mentioned before, but in His buddy of the West Coast will take him case it has slipped your mind by the arm and present him to the home folks, LOS ANGELES. 21 SEPTEMBER, 1938 noting promotions—corporal, sergeant, Cross, awarded posthumously. The ci- first sergeant, then progressively in every tation accompanying it, however, merely commissioned rank up to brigadier gen- relates the crowning brave act of a gallant eral at the age of 38—climaxed on that fighting leader. Other generals, although ISN'T exactly correct, the inscrip- day in August, 1917, when by the pen not too numerous, won similar decora- ITtion on the small public fountain by of Woodrow Wilson he had been made a tions for extraordinary heroism. But it the Quincy Public Library, diago- brigadier general in the new National takes more than mere courage to make a nally across from the shaded park, Army. general. The citation of Henry Root Hill where Abraham Lincoln debated the To her dying day Mrs. Cecelia Hill does not begin to tell the epic quality of slavery issue with Stephen A. Douglas. maintained that the treatment accorded his patriotism.

Hewn in enduring stone it reads: her son when he was separated from com- Young Henry Hill, just graduated from mand of the 65th Infantry Brigade, the Quincy Public Schools, knew he had In Memory of Thirty-Third Division, and "reclassified" found a life's avocation when he enlisted Bricadier General Henry Root Hill as a major of Infantry represented the as a private in Company F, Fifth Illinois Killed in France rankest injustice suffered by any patri- Infantry, at the age of eighteen a tall, October 16, 1918 — otic member of the American Expedi- raw-boned, serious youth, lean-jawed, Of course there is a military custom of tionary Forces. One would have to blue-eyed, and with a characteristic addressing a former officer by the highest search hard today to find anyone who had which remained with him through his en- rank he ever held, and the man whose known Henry Root Hill in service who memory the fountain commemorates disagreed with that view. Regular Army had been a brigade commander in France. officers who But when he died in action there was no served with Staff by his side, no broad black braid on or under the the sleeve of his tunic, no gold piping on Illinois briga- his overseas cap, no silver stars on his dier on the shoulders. Concealed from enemy sharp- Mexican bor- shooters beneath the mud-encrusted der in 1916, moleskin coat he wore when an enemy and in France, machine gun at Romagne ripped him have only the through were the simple gold leaves of a highest praise major. He had been a battalion com- for his adminis- mander only seven weeks when he was trative ability as killed in action, and he had been a briga- they observed him dier general for almost four years before in command, for that. How and why such a thing came to his personal char- pass proves one of the glowing incidents acter, for the man- of America's part in the World War. ner in which he met The patriotism of Henry Root Hill uncalled-for humili- transcended mere rank. ation in the finest For a decade before she died in 1932 a tradition of a soldier. remarkable old lady sat in her hotel suite For many years the across the way from that simple memorial bereaved mother by the Quincy Public Library, gazing in meditated whether she fond recollection as panting pedestrians should seek to have the refreshed themselves after the long steep highest rank of her hero climb up from the Mississippi to the high son posthumously re- bluff where the city's business center stored. Realizing the ob- begins. stacles, with the practi- For twenty-four of his forty-two years cal judgment which General Hill asks that bachelor son of hers had been a marked her apart, she de- his Divisional Commander why soldier, mostly a citizen soldier in the cided against such a step. service of the State of Illinois, but thrice Those who had known her son knew his tire life, of blushing furiously in anger or serving his country. She had beamed upon story, his memory had been honored in embarrassment. him through those years, beginning as a his home State in several ways, and be- There was no armory in Quincy in lad of 18, as he had successfully come sides, there was first among her treasures 1894. For the 250-mile spread of the home from drill, training camp, war and something of perhaps greater worth than scattered units of the Fifth Infantry, civil emergencies with new insignia de- a general's stars—a Distinguished Service from the banks of the Mississippi to the

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Indiana border, patriotic citizens who wished to be prepared at their country's call drilled in open fields or along dirt roads in summer, in such halls as could be hired in winter. They were ill-equipped and rarely paid. Peace-minded America mostly disdained its militia. "Tin sol-

diers," many called them. But it was different in '98 when the bugles blew for his services by the war with Spain. The militia were heroes national Govern- then. The Fifth Infantry, although mus- ment. Reporting at tered into Federal service, did not have San Antonio, an opportunity to show its calibre in June 19, 1916, he Cuba. It got no farther than Chicka- was placed in com- mauga for a short six months of training. mand of the 2d

Marching home, Henry Hill wore the Brigade of the 1 2th diamond of a top-kick in the angle of his Provisional Divi- sergeant's chevrons. Within a year he had sion at Camp Wil- been commissioned a second lieutenant, son. Major General and been promoted to first lieutenant. Frederick Funston, Later as captain he served both as com- in supreme com- pany commander and regimental adju- mand of the mo- tant, as a lieutenant colonel in the field, bilization of the and in that same rank as Adjutant Gen- National Guard on eral of the State of Illinois, crowned by the border, who his appointment as a brigadier general. himself had risen A congenital bachelor was Henry Hill. from a citizen-sol- The military was his wife. As for a bread- dier, found much and-butter vocation, the carpet and to commend in the furnishings store he had run since the ability displayed untimely death of his father he conducted by General Hill. as he would discharge a more or less oner- Other Regular ous military detail. His credit he main- Army officers also tained as a matter of personal honor, but estimated highly in the incongruity of a blunt soldier en- the work of the gaged in the business of homefurnishings Illinois National Major Henry Root Hill, D.S.C., killed in action it was not to be expected that he would Guard brigadier. near Romagne - sous - Montfaucon, France, be alert to changing times and tastes. Henry Hill had October 16, 1918 The business went on in the old-fashioned every reason to feel way it had come to him and such new that he had dem- fangled specialists as interior-decorators books on tactics, strategy, military law. onstrated his capac ty for a brigade of either sex failed completely to win his He delighted in map-making and reading, command when he was mustered out of interest as new business prospects. he was a master on military weapons service in mid-February, 1917. The war When free from business responsibility and the coordination thereof. In 1905, declaration a few weeks later gave him a or military duties Henry Hill's recreation under a provision of the Federal militia score of tasks, including the important was in the open. Out-of-doors man de- law, he had gone before a board of Regu- duty of halting the bloodiest race riots scribed him in full—a day on the river lar Army officers to prove his fitness for in the history of America at East St. with fish-pole, or tramping woods and higher command. He had been granted Louis. Thirty Negroes had been slain by swamp hunting game was his idea of fun. a certificate of capacity by the War rope and torch before General Hill With gun and rod he had at different Department as a major of volunteers. marched in with his troops to restore times invaded the wilds of Alaska, New- Again he had gone before a similar board order. Those acquainted with the flam- foundland, Labrador. His minor vices seven years later when he had passed ing emotions and chaos of the time pro- were inconsequential—a temperate tests which won him certification as being claim that General Hill performed a drinker, an excellent poker player. His capable of commanding a regiment of masterly job. winnings invariably went to former sol- volunteers as a colonel of infantry. Followed service in the mobilization diers down-at-heels. A man's man. The outbreak of the World War found of the Illinois National Guard as the Despite his limited education he ap- him avidly following the campaigns 33d Division was organized. The heart- plied a fine native intelligence to things overseas on every front. He was made a break attending the organizing of the in which he was interested and his first brigadier general of the Illinois militia Division differed only in detail from interest always was the military and its about that time. The Villa raid and its similar personal tragedies in other States many ramifications. Endlessly he read repercussions resulted in a prior call for when citizen (Continued on page 50)

SEPTEMBER, i C3 8 23 Living Monuments

NATIONAL DIRECTOR, EDUCATION OF WAR ORPHANS' COMMITTEE THE AMERICAN LEGION

THIRTY-SIX officers in our armed midshipmen now authorized by law at plicant involved was sponsored by The forces, thirteen in the Navy and the United States Naval Academy, are American Legion, although this activity twenty-three in the Army, the each hereby increased by forty from the represents merely a part of the program United States large, sons of World War soldiers and at to be appointed set forth by the Education of War by the President from among the sons of sailors who died in service, represent so Orphans Committee. officers, soldiers, sailors and marines of many monuments, symbolizing a gen- Since 1926, at the Philadelphia Na- the Army, Navy and Marine Corps of uinely American effort toward perpetu- tional Convention, when a resolution the United States who were killed in ating the memory of those of our com- was adopted urging legislation making action or died prior to July 2, 1921, of rades of wartime days who have gone to education available to orphans of veter- wounds or injuries received, or disease their reward. contracted, in line of duty during the ans, the committee charged with the These evidences of keeping the faith are World War: Provided, That one-half responsibility of promoting this activity thus placed in their respective niches in shall be appointed from among the sons has, by diligent and persistent endeavor, society, educated gentlemen of America, of officers and one-half from among the brought into being an educational pro-

through an act of Congress approved sons of warrant officers, soldiers, sailors gram of enlightening service to all veter- and marines of the Army, and June 8, 1926, as follows: Navy ans and their offspring. In the years since Marine Corps. That the number of cadets now au- its inception, the Education of War thorized by law at the United States In a great majority of the cases men- Orphans Committee has put at the dis- Military Academy, and the number of tioned above the candidacy of each ap- posal of orphans scholarships, fellow-

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ships and other educational courses in of the Armistice marked the ending of Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, colleges and universities throughout the hostilities in the World War, but the West Virginia, Wisconsin and the Dis- country, through its efforts in connection official ending of the war was July 2, trict of Columbia. Four States— Cali- with legislation in the individual States. 1921; therefore, as of January 1, 1938, fornia, Connecticut, Delaware and New Federal aid in the way of compensa- our youngest war orphan was approxi- York—have extended their war orphan tion has been extended students after mately sixteen years old. education acts to include post-war or- their eighteenth birthdays and until com- Post-war orphans are the children of phans, and in eleven States—Arkansas, pletion of the educational term. Philan- the veterans who have died after July 2, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, New thropic aid, together with the assistance 192 1, and while all educational privileges York, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, of individual Posts and the Forty and are not offered to this class of orphan, Texas and Wisconsin—the veteran him- Eight, not forgetting the splendid efforts The American Legion is definitely on self is entitled to educational privileges. of The American Legion Auxiliary, has record through a resolution adopted at There are so few war and post-war

Twenty-three West Point cadets and thirteen Annapolis middies the Nineteenth National Convention in orphans in any one community that it have graduated as officers of New York City in 1937, urging legisla- should be the duty of every local Post to the United States Army and tion to give to post-war orphans, especi- acquaint the -orphans with the educa- Navy as a result of a special ally those whose fathers were classified tional opportunities open to them through provision permitting appoint- as service-connected disability cases, the the efforts of The American Legion and ments of sons of men who died privileges offered the war orphan. The American Legion Auxiliary. in World War service There are today approximately 5600 Names and addresses of war orphans war orphans and about 39,700 post-war arranged by States have been furnished orphans living in the United States be- to all Departments and are available brought about a well-rounded program tween the ages of sixteen and twenty- upon inquiry. Names and addresses of of education for the war orphan. one, these being the specific ages taken post-war orphans have not as yet been The staff of this committee comprises into consideration by the committee. compiled by The American Legion or the eight general members located through- Thirty-eight States (including the Dis- Veterans Administration, but through out the United States, together with five trict of Columbia) now provide aid in the inquiry and contact each Post or Auxili- area directors situated territorially. In education of war orphans. They are: ary Unit could by little effort prepare each State there is a department director, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, its own list. While it is not contemplated and county and post chairmen. At the Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, that special educational advantages be present time the committee functions for Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, sought for the children of all veterans, war orphans generally, and specifically Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massa- every effort is being put forth toward for orphans of veterans who died as a chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mon- assisting and encouraging ambitious children of result of the war between April 6, 191 tana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New needy veterans. This phase Carolina, of the work, however, involving intimate and July 2, 1921, and in many cases for Mexico, New York. North the post-war orphan, where service-con- North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, contact, renders it purely a matter for Tennessee, the individual or Unit. nected disability is evident. The signing Rhode Island, South Carolina, Post

SEPTEMBER, 1938 25 Roofs Over

Their Heads

IS a fine old truism that a comfort- ITable house is a great source of happi- ness which ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. Per- haps that is one of the reasons why hun- dreds of Legion Posts—already in pos- session of two of the attributes, health and a good conscience—have sought to realize the third by acquiring homes of their own. Hundreds of these Post homes dot the Legion map, all representing en- ergy, foresight, good- A railroad observation car serves as a comfortable and attractive will, and, in each home for Malcolm Crabtree Post at Toppenish, Washington. Top, case, a certain the Post home now come to rest after rolling four million miles; amount of sacrifice. below, the assembly room in the main car with seats ample to Many of them are care for the Post membership splendid buildings and are equipped to the very last detail. is where the Post meets. And there is just not be used as a yardstick to measure Others are on more as much pride of ownership in the small their relative values as civic groups or as modest lines. All Post which meets in its own building and integral parts of a great national organi- serve as community under its own roof as in those that meec zation. In the smaller cities and towns, centers. in the more pretentious buildings. The as well as in some of the larger ones, The Legion home cost of property and other holdings can- many Posts have adapted themselves to

26 Tht AMERICAN LEGION Magazine MomS Til bet- homes well within their 1 \a^r Yek'!? Weil, d£M+ look tainments and The car itself is used for the general *\ouu, bu+ 1 Hunk -H\ei(' , maintain and, rp, ability to bi* 5»\eakm' nqW back Banquets. 1 ne assembly room, where 125 chairs have « with an eye to finances, svx. tales o\ since ioe saf douM . observation replaced the heavy observation car seats. present and prospective, car solved the The basement is used for kitchen and are most comfortably Post's housing dining room. The basement windows are housed at limited cost. problem and, built to resemble the wheels of a railroad Many of these homes far from being car and through these windows, as well bave been built by Post regarded as a as from those in the main assembly members during their make-shift for room, one has a view of a picturesque spare hours, and some temporary oc- city park directly across the street.

are novel and unique. cupancy, it is This car-home represents an expendi- Two Post homes have looked upon ture by Malcolm Crabtree Post of ap- been reported, Carleton with pride by proximately $1,500, exclusive of the (Nebraska) Post and the one occupied by the membership and the community. property on which it stands. The Post Malcolm Crabtree Post at Toppenish, The observation car was built in 1909 members like it —in fact many would not Washington, which have attracted a lot and for years represented the height of trade their present comfortable car- of attention. luxury in the Northern Pacific Railroad home, with its conveniences and low cost Carleton (Nebraska) Post, located in a service in the run between Chicago and of maintenance, for the fine home that section hard hit by the drought in recent Seattle. Hundreds of thousands of travel- was originally planned. The novel and years, had almost despaired of getting a ers have viewed the scenic grandeur of unique features of the veteran observa- home of its own. Then some one had the Pacific Northwest, the Rockies, and tion car transformed into an attractive a happy thought. Two worn out box cars the colorful Middle West from its win- were obtained from the Union Pacific dows. But now, after rolling more than Railroad; a bit of land was donated by the four millions of miles in passenger service, relatives of William Bailey, World War it has come to rest in the city of Toppen- veteran now in a Government hospital; a ish as the club home of an active Post of foundation was laid, and the members of The American Legion—a de luxe home the Post then spent many hours tearing for a de luxe Post. down the box cars and putting up their About five years ago Malcolm Crabtree building on the permanent foundation. Post purchased a piece of ground and Result, Carleton Post has a home of its began making plans for the erection of a own, erected at an expenditure well with- permanent home, with no thought of a in its means, which is paying dividends railroad car being eventually pressed into in pride of ownership and in a broadened that service. The lots were in a desirable community service program. locality and a home in keeping with the A home that has more of novelty in its surroundings was planned. Then, as the architectural design, and pretentiousness years slipped by, the plans were some-

in its finish, is that recently occupied by what modified and I. C. Benz, Sixth Dis- Malcolm Crabtree Post at Toppenish, trict Commander, backed by Frank N. Washington—a de luxe railroad observa- Bruhn, Past National Committeeman, tion car set upon a permanent concrete went to bat —they engineered a deal with foundation, with a full sized basement, the railroad company for the observation and with plenty of room for the Post ac- car which, though unimpaired, had out- tivities, business meetings, social enter- lived its usefulness in rail service.

James J. Shea Post at Willi- mantic, Connecticut, makes its home in a reconstructed fire barn. At left, the historic home of Crescent City Post, New Orleans

building is one of the sights of its home city in the fruit-laden valley of the Yakima. Now, let's take a look at some other Post homes—buildings that have been converted into club houses—some of them landmarks which, in restoring and preserving, the Legion Post has performed a worthy civic enterprise. Crescent City Post, in New Orleans, Louisiana, is housed in a white, colonnaded structure in the heart of the picturesque French Quarter, which not only has a history dating back for more than a century but has long been looked upon as a fine exam- ple of early Creole architecture. The building was erected in 1826 to house the Bank of Louisiana, the fourth bank in the State. This bank was unable to weather the stormy days of the Civil

2? SEPTEMBER, 1938 National Commander Daniel J. Doherty, at right, speaking for his own George A. Campbell Post of Woburn, Massachusetts, presented hospital equipment to a home institution. Left to right, Elmer E. Silver, President of Woburn Charitable Association; Hugh O'Doherty, Senior Vice Commander, and Frank Phinney, Junior Vice Commander, George A. Campbell Post

War and its property was taken over by to the Women's Relief Corps and was until 1937, when an agreement was the city to serve as a mortgage office and held by that unit until its formal transfer reached with the city authorities to take criminal court building. In the World to Roy Anderson Post of the Legion, over the property at a purchase price ol War it was used as Red Cross headquar- which has assumed the responsibility of $3,000. The Post had little money, but it ters. Shortly after the Armistice, upon maintaining the structure and preserving had no difficulty in securing a loan at a the return of the soldiers from home it to posterity as a memorial to the sol- low rate of interest on a long time pay- camps and abroad, the historic building diery of Yankton, particularly to the ment plan. Repairs and improvements was taken over by the Legion. Its interior memory of those who served in the Civil had been made on the building by the was completely remodeled to fit the needs and World Wars. city to the extent of about $1,000, but of Crescent City Post, but the exterior Turning to New Eng- remains the same as when it housed one land, James J. Shea Post of the city's first banks more than a hun- of Willimantic, Connecti- dred years ago. cut, can well be cited as Another historic building which has another unit of the Le- been given into the care and keeping gion that has worked out of the Legion is Phil Kearney Memorial its housing problem in a Hall at Yankton, South Dakota, which is most satisfactory man- now the home of Roy Anderson Post. ner, and at an expense This building well within the was erected in means of the 1887 by Phil lock So mucU like Post. It has Kearney Post, made a com- if Moud vjuear a of Grand Army belt, lite him!! fortable home the Republic, and out of an aban- James and Vada Wilkerson, twin children was the home of doned fire barn, of a Legionnaire, take top honors and win that organization a building medals in Richwood, West Virginia, school until 1923 when which not only the Post was dis- provides a solved because its place for meetings and club when title passed to the Legion Post an ranks had been facilities for the members, but additional $1,500 was spent in repairs so decimated by brings in a substantial revenue. and in dolling up the place, converting it death and remov- James J. Shea Post, accord- into a neat and cheerful club house and a als that meetings ing to Past Commander W'alter thing of pride to the Legionnaires. were no longer W. Taylor, had made its Another Post home that is worthy of possible. The home in the old fire barn as mention is that which, within the past property passed guests of the city from 1929 few months, became the permanent home

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine of Sterling (Illinois) Post. The new home rades, Dr. John P. Carroll and Dr. Thom- You qottu come, A dan 0««?-faal5 is a substantial two-story brick house, " as E. Caulfield, for the gifts were "DocV. A dai^ o~ Onedau i* H\e qear whom located near the business center of the err +te Funulq "Tun vea(li| CNefuxrked dedicated. city on a lot almost large enough to be OuHw} vjoill do A^te*1 Co^dweKnq a George A. Campbell Post, in addition *^OU qood !! Free Clinic, and Accident called a park, which was the gift of Miss to its balanced Legion program carried Ward for "Picnic CasuaVWe* Edith L. Patterson, member of an old on year after year, has this year especi- all dan, I alius Heed a Sterling family. The ten rooms of the ally interested itself in a youth program VJeek o(f --to qi<- < residence building, with slight remodel- fested upaqqin!.' and has organized a Squadron of Sons of ing, are considered ideal for a Legion the Legion, Sea Scouts, and a junior club house and will be ample for the pur- baseball team. pose of Sterling Post, its Auxiliary and its Sons of the Legion Squadron. Twins Take Tops While the gift is a generous one, the members of Sterling Post believe that its SCHOOL award medals running up to greatest value is in the fine esteem of the very close the ten thousand mark Legion and its work held by the donor. were made at the close of the school Past Commander L. L. Carolus writes year, with considerable latitude in range that, although Miss Patterson is not of ages and family distribution. To have eligible to membership in the Post or two medals awarded to members of one

Auxiliary, she had followed closely the family is a matter of considerable pride, work of Sterling Post. Her appreciation but when the two medals offered by one was such that when the Post set out to when National Commander Daniel J. Legion Post are awarded to twins—that buy a home of its own, she countered Doherty, speaking for his own George A. is a record. To make it more interesting, with the gift of the Patterson family Campbell Post, presented that institu- the twins are children of a Legionnaire. home. A dedication block will be set in tion with an oxygen tent and all necessary J. Cobert O'Dell, Adjutant of Bert the front of the building which will bear equipment for its operation. At the same H. Hickman Post of Richwood, West the inscription: "American Legion Home time he gave a kodascope to be used in Virginia, writes that such a record was —Patterson Memorial." the Nurses' Training School to show made in the Richwood schools, when the stereopticon slides for study by the two medals offered by his Post were Oxygen Tent Presented student nurses. awarded James and Vada Wilkerson, The gifts were received for the hospital son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Foster THE humanitarian work and hospital by Elmer E. Silver, President of the Wo- Wilkerson. The father, by the way, is a assistance program of the Legion is burn Charitable Association. Senior Vice member of the State Department of carried on as a constant activity of Le- Commander Hugh O'Doherty presided Public Safety, a veteran of the World gion Posts and Departments, but a pres- at the meeting in the absence of Post War and a member of West Virginia's entation takes on added importance Commander Thomas O'Donnell. In his justly noted All State Police Post. when it is made by the National Com- presentation address National Com- The medal awards were made on mander on behalf of the Post in which mander Doherty lauded the Charles recommendation of the school authori- he holds membership. Charles Choate Choate Memorial Hospital as an institu- ties, and also after a secret vote by the Memorial Hospital at Woburn, Massa- tion indispensable to Woburn and paid school children had been taken. The chusetts, was thus honored late in June warm tribute to the two deceased com- Wilkerson twins {Continued on page 56)

A most distinguished gathering assembled to hear National Commander Daniel J. Doherty at a joint meeting of the Advertising Men's Post and the Advertising Men's Club in New York City. At the head table a few of th° guests were, left to right, Frank Hawks, transcontinental York County; Past National Commander Ray flyer; Joseph J. Burkhart, Commander, New Murphy; National Commander Doherty; Lowell Thomas, President of Advertising Men's Club; Post; Past National Commander Edward E. Spafford, and John J. Hall, Commander, Admen's Walter Hoving, President of Lord and Taylor

SEPTEMBER, 1938 29 Comes Home

SOLDIERS' mail! In a military man's requirements, next in im-

I portance to ammunition and food might be listed mail—letters from the folks back home—and, as we all remember, a comprehensive postal system was developed in the A. E. F. This department will not revive the debatable question as to how well or how poorly the X Army's Postal Express Service func- tioned, but it operated well enough to help keep up the morale of troops several thousand miles away from their home- land. And so with all the armies—the French and British and Italian and others. Men of some of those armies, though closer to their homes, awaited just as eagerly news of the home folks. One such letter reached the soldier for whom it was intended shortly before he gave his life for his Twenty years after it was country. Now, twenty years later, after a written, the above letter, journey of almost ten thousand miles, it found on the battlefield near has been returned to the person who Soissons, has just been re- wrote it. The story starts with a letter we turned to the writer in Mil- received last February from Legionnaire haud, France. Left, the Howard D. Long of Silverton, Oregon, World War memorial in Mil- who had served with the 319th Engineers haud; below, Legionnaire overseas: Charles Lunel, Chief of "Enclosed find a letter taken from a Police, in d'Ales, France, who dead soldier at the front near Soissons, delivered the letter France. I have always wanted to locate the sender and give the details of what became of the soldier. available, we wrote to Comrade Lunel, "There were two soldiers lying close sent him the letter, told him what together. Each had thrust his bayonet Legionnaire Long had reported and sug- through the chest of the other—each gested that he might be interested in soldier held a death grip on his gun. One helping us solve the problem of finding the was French, the other German. writer of the letter and learning who the "I took a letter from the pocket of each soldier was to whom it had been sent. A man, the one enclosed being from the prompt response Frenchman. The other I have misplaced, assured us that but I hope to find it later." Lunel would "go A photostat of the letter, mud-stained to Milhaud next and torn, appears alongside. There was -vHH week and be cer- ~~ no envelope with it. It was dated "Mil- Infantry, 80th Division. We happened to JL tain that I will do haud, 8 Sept., 1918," and the salutation remember that because in the December, dMSjjj^B^^m everything I can was "Dear Adolphe"—no other clues. We 1935, issue of this magazine, there was a |^^B9 to please you." found that Milhaud was in the Depart- story about American veterans who had Wmm H And he did! ment of Gard in southern France and dis- returned to France after the war and were Less than two covered further that it was not far distant still living there. If you'll refer to your weeks later, Chief Lunel rendered his from d'Ales, a city in which the Brigadier copy of that issue, you'll find the story report—in his letter of transmittal stat- Chef de la Surete (or Police Chief) was and a photograph of Lunel, resplendent ing "As I am not very proficient in the use none other than Legionnaire Charles in his chief of police uniform. of English and to better express myself I Lunel of Paris Post, veteran of the 319th So, notwithstanding the few clues wrote it in French. I beg you to rearrange

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ' So, uou air\f 1 mas tatdm 'em stances I received the letter found on our At the Maine (village hall), where I pre- 4bf no seaf over a ^ive to stwote French comrade. An annoying fact was that sented myself, I had the good fortune to be l« UOU«'part*5, Codies out when ' the eU» VMm? allovia suddew +ke^ bayonet had pierced the letter, and a received immediately in friendly fashion by tukole fce>Uo*v\ triangular hole marked it neatly through the M. Auriol, mayor of the commune, and him- drops ouf- center. self a World War veteran; the secretary of The letter appeared to have come from a the Mairie, M. Bijol, also a World War woman closely related to the dead man and veteran and a Chevalier of the Legion of

was dated Milhaud, Gard, September 8, Honor, was also present. A brief examination 19 18. It was my duty to find the sender on of the list of those who had died for France, the basis of these rather vague clues—a sig- and of the civil list, revealed to us quickly nature and a first name. that the letter which I had presented to them I undertook this pilgrimage on the 4th of had been written to the soldier Adolphe May, aided by one of those lovely sunlit days Bellot, killed in action. characteristic of the Midi of France. From A brother-in-law of the lost soldier being d'Ales, which is the center of my area as present, I showed him the letter. "But it is Chief of Police, it is necessary to reach Mil- the hand-writing of my sister-in-law," he haud by way of Nimes—the beautiful city cried. of France which has been christened the I was taken to the Bellot home. I do not "French Rome" because of the well-preserved know how to describe the moving character

traces of the Roman Empire which it has of that meeting. I learned that the soldier it into English"—which may sound kept. Nimes, by its boulevards and modern Bellot was carried as missing for more than a strange coming from a Blue Ridge esplanades, no less than by its monuments, year; while fighting at Laffaux, Aisne, with Division veteran, but remember that draws a large company of tourists who admire the 165th French Regiment, he was reported its coliseum, its missing on September 1918. Laffaux is Lunel returned to France in iqiq. The Maison Carre, beautiful 14,

gardens, Roman temple and gate. . . . but a few kilometers northeast of Soissons. translation of Lund's report follows:

Report on the delivery in the name of The American Legion of a letter to the family of a French soldier wlw fell at the front. By Charles Lunel, Brigadier Chief of Police at D'Ales, late jiQth Infantry, Soth Division.

I should at first in this brief report thank The American Legion for having given me the opportunity to revivify intensely in an honorable family the jealously-guarded memory of a French comrade who fell glori- ously in battle. I am going to recall briefly the command which our great and fine organization en- trusted to me and explain how I went about fulfilling it: Our publication's office transmitted to me under date of April 19, 1038, a copy of a letter from a comrade sergeant of Engineers, Howard I). Long. Our friend informed The American Legion Magazine that he had had for twenty years a letter which had come into his possession in September, 1018, on the Soissons front while he was advancing with his unit behind French army units that were moving forward. He came suddenly upon two bodies, which were literally and mutually

Yeomanettes and gobs en route by tug from Puget Sound Navy Yard to Seattle to parade for the Victory Loan, April, 1919. Who are they? Left, the Navy girls step out in military formation

Madame Bellot had gone to Paris in the hope of finding among the wreckage of the war some clue—but none was there. Identifica- tion of the body took place during reburials after the war and it was brought back to Milhaud where it rests beside many of his brothers-in-arms who had been children of the locality. The letter brought back to his wife was the last written by her to her husband—less than a week before he was reported missing. The widow lives faithful to her memories speared each upon the other's bayonet. The Milhaud, my goal, is six kilometers beyond as does the 94-year-old father of the former one was German, the other French. From Nimes, a mere trifle by reason of the excellent soldier. each he took a letter. He requested our or- highways. It is a small, pleasant village of The aged father, the widow, the three or- ganization to attempt to return these letters some 1 200 inhabitants. The visitor is struck phans, of whom two were very young when to the senders. It was under these circum- by the great vineyards which surround it. he perished and could not remember him,

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IK A camera artist of the Signal Corps produced the above lens idyll in August, 1918, at Lucey, France. Who are the doughboys chatting—in doughboy French, probably—to the old French women? What outfit, buddies? have charged me to offer to The American France. Arrested on his arrival on the plished by the women who were enlisted Legion and to Comrade Long all their grati- charge of desertion, a courtmartial ac- in the Navy to relieve men for more tude for having revived the memory of a quitted him as he had served with our active duty. We are happy to welcome person dear to them. Army in the war. Then came appoint- into the Then and Now Gang, Alta (Mrs. I enclose a photostat of the letter that has ment to the police force of d'Ales and his James R.) Donovan, of Box Boise, been delivered, as well as a picture of the 877, subsequent rise to chief. Idaho, Department Historian of the monument of the war dead at Milhaud. I end by expressing my joy that I have been able Legion in her State, who accepted our on this occasion to mark how solid are the ONE newspaperman out in the great oft-repeated invitation to Legionnair- bonds which unite American and French Northwest wr axed lyrical in bidding esses to tell how women helped win the veterans. I have been proud to make known farewell to the Yeomen (F) when the war. The pictures on the preceding page in one little corner of the soil of France how "powder-puff contingent" was discharged came from her, with this letter: The American Legion still nourishes solidar- from service at the Puget Sound Navy "Since our good National Commander ity of this remembrance. Yard after the war. Well he might, when Doherty was a yeoman in Uncle Sam's And so ends the story of the journey of one considers the splendid work accom- Navy, why not a few more Navy pic- a piece of soldiers' mail: From Mil- tures in our Legion Magazine? haud, France, to the front lines, to So^!! Ho uoc*\dev M\

1 naires will applaud the splendid work VbuVe cxvra uwPcvm ! on our way, via tug, from the Puget that has been accomplished by Com- Sound Navy Yard to Seattle, Wash- rade Lunel. ington, to parade in behalf of the Vic- A word about Lunel? All right. tory Liberty Loan. I well remember Born in France in 1893, he came with the girls pictured, but don't remember his family to America when he was a one of the boys, and it would be in- thirteen, settling in North Braddock, teresting to know what has become of Pennsylvania. Employed as a me- them. Yours truly has the broad grin chanic at the Carnegie Steel works in in the center of the group. The other his town, when we entered the war he snapshot shows us hiking up Second became a member of the 319th Infan- Avenue, Seattle. try, 80th Division, fought with it in "We had a great time that day— France, returned to his home after long, hot parade, a big dinner at the discharge in June, 1919, but by Christ- Seattle Armory, attended by eight mas of that year had returned to hundred, and {Continued on page 60)

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1918 North of the Aisne our agents win wage increases of from ten to SEPTEMBEB 6 troops have made further thirty percent. North of the Vesle our troops have taken the progress cast of Juvigny. Governor Charles S. Whitman and Alfred villages Longueval, Menial and Glennes, There is nothing else of E. Smith gain nominations for New York of and have reached im porta nee to report. (The governorship in Republican and Democratic the line Vieil, Arcy, Villers-en- Prayeres, official American Com- primaries, respectively. Revillon. Our patrols are on the south bank the Aisne munique, printed in ital- Chicago wins National League pennant of canal. Elsewhere the day passed without ics, regularly introduces and Boston the American League champion- incident. Germans in retreat on each daily summary of ship in baseball season closing today. ninety-mile front from activities in this calendar.) the Aisne to Cambrai. First Division Sixth Division relieves Thirty-Fifth in SEPTEMBER 4 begins relief of elements of Alsace; Eighty-Ninth Division in west portion of Gerardmer Sector, First Division Yielding to the continued pressure of the moves to rear of Ansauville Sector, Lorraine. Lucey Sector; Sixth Division assumes com- Allied forces, the enemy is in retreat north of mand of Gerardmer Sector (Alsace); i62d Motorless Sundays are initiated in United the Vesle. Our troops, in close pursuit, have Field Artillery Brigade and 312th Ammuni- States in interest of gasoline conservation. taken Bazoches, Perles, Fismetle and Baslieux, tion Train, Eighty-Seventh Division, move British take Peronne and villages south of capturing prisoners and machine guns. They to Bordeaux area for duty with S. O. S. Bapaume in Somme area; French advance have reached the line Vauxcere, Blanzy, Le Food Administration orders that brewing on the Ailette. Grand Ha mean. In the Vosges a hostile raiding of beer cease on December 1st. Thirtieth Division makes progress in party was repulsed, leaving prisoners in our Capital experts see in news from the West- vicinity of Voormezeele, in Ypres-Lys area; hands. Yesterday our aviators successfully ern Front indication that Pershing's army Twenty-Seventh Division in line on right. bombed the railroad yards at Longuyon, will soon enter the fighting on a large scale; Bronze statues of Frederick I, William I Dommary-Baroncourt and Conjlans. St. Mihiel salient, where Americans are now and Frederick III in Berlin will be melted French and British continue extensive in force, might offer a chance for Foch's down for munitions, Amsterdam dispatch gains; Germans evacuate Lens, but British favorite pincer tactics, asserts Washington says. delay occupying it owing to presence of poi- dispatch to the Nicolai Lenin, Bolshevik premier, shot in son-gas fumes. New York Tribune. shoulder and lung by Dora Kaplan, wireless Thirtieth Division relieved by British SEPTEMBEB 7 to London declares. Thirty-Fifth; 370th Infan- South of the Aisne our troops entered the village try, Ninety-Third Divi- ofMuscourt and ca ptured fifty prisoners. Hostile SEPTEMBER 2 sion, passes to French counter-attacks in this sector were repulsed and North of the Aisne our troops have continued Fifty-Ninth Division in our line was slightly advanced. Two strong hos- lo advance in spite of the strong resistance of the vicinity of La Ferte- tile raids in the Woevre were beaten off, leaving enemy, and have taken the village of Terny- Milon. prisoners in our hands. In Alsace a successful Sorny. In the operations yesterday in this Liner Persic, with 2800 raiding party in flicted losses on the enemy. region they captured 572 prisoners, two 105- Americans aboard, is tor- British and French continue gains, former calibre guns and 78 machine guns. North of the pedoed off coast of Eng- toward St. Quentin and Laon, latter along Vesle two local hostile attacks west Fismes land with no loss of life; of banks of St. Quentin Canal and Canal du were repulsed with losses. vessel is beached, and attacking submarine Nord. Thirty-Second Division, with Juvigny reported sunk. General March, Chief of Staff, announces operation completed, is relieved by First Four die and seventy-five are injured as that organization of the First American Moroccan Division of French Army and bomb explodes in crowded entrance to Fed- Field Army is proceeding so rapidly that passes to corps reserve. eral Building, Chicago, where ninety-five nearly ninety-five percent of American troops British break through Drocourt-Queant I. recently convicted of W. W.'s were ob- brigaded with the British and French have switch line on front of six miles. structing the Government's war program; been withdrawn. Post Office Department is charting air- government agents declare act an I. W. W. Ten thousand of New York's 15,000 saloons mail service between New York and Chicago, reprisal. will close October 1st, Washington announces; trip expected to take Russia announces it is joining Germany when license renewals are ten hours. in fighting the Allies and will take aggressive due, rather than hold on Samuel Gompers, President of the Ameri- action in North Russia and Siberia; Bolshevik until brewing of beer is dis- can Federation of Labor, is given rousing government renounces sovereignty over continued December 1st, reception in Esthonia Livonia. by Trades Union Congress and local press learns. London; in America it is Labor Day, and Retail prices in July were three percent Football squad of United in and fifteen percent speakers at unveiling of monument at Long higher than June States Military Academy Branch, New Jersey, to the martyred Presi- higher than in June, 191 7, Labor Department begins fall practice uncer- dent Garfield, who died near there in 1881, study shows. tain whether it will be recount advances of labor in the years since Sixteen passengers aboard a French liner allowed to play any games; most colleges will in York are found to be suffer- his death. arriving New have informal teams raised from Student ing from Spanish influenza. SEPTEMBEB 3 Army Training Corps units. Aside from successful patrol encounters along SEPTEMBEB 5 SEPTEMBEB 8 the Vesle and a hostile raid in Lorraine, which Our troops, continuing their advance in co- Aside from patrol encounters and heavy ar- was repulsed, there is nothing lo report. operation with the French, have crossed the tillery fighting south of the A isne there is noth- British push forward along twenty-six- plateau north of the Vesle and have reached the ing to report from the sectors occupied by our mile front to a maximum depth of six miles. crest of the slopes leading to the valley of the troops. Twenty-Seventh Division, after advancing Aisne. There is nothing of importance to re- French Sixty-Second Division relieves its line, is relieved by British Forty-First port from the other sectors occupied by our American Twenty-Eighth north of Vesle; Division and moves to troops. latter starts to move by stages through the Winnezeele Area, Flan- Twenty-Sixth Division moves into Rupt Epernay, Revigny and Triacourt Areas to ders. Sector (St. Mihiel). vicinity of Clermont-en-Argonne. Secretary Lansing form- U. S. S. Mount Vernon, homeward bound, Talaat Pasha, Turkish Grand Vizier, in ally notifies Professor torpedoed off French coast, is able to return interview published in Vienna predicts peace Thomas G. Masaryk that to Brest under own steam; thirty-six of crew will come before winter. "All our enemies," the United States recog- killed. he declares, "not excluding America, will nizes the new Czecho- Amsterdam dispatch quotes General shortly come to recognize that there is no slovak nation; Britain, Luderdorff as saying: "We settled with the sense in continuing hostilities." France and Italy have Russian steam-roller; we shall settle with the Dora Kaplan, who wounded Premier Lenin already accorded it similar status. Americans." week ago, has been executed, Moscow dis- Nearly a million railroad men in classifi- War cost United States $40,446 a minute patch to Berlin states; Lenin is recovering. cations of track laborers, watchmen, main- in August, Washington reveals, with total Secretary of War Baker arrives in Paris tenance of way workers, clerks and station expense for month of $1,805,513,000. for second visit to war zone; his party in-

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eludes Second Assistant Secretary of War Edward V. Gardner, postal aviator who ties of ammunition, telegraph material, rail- John D. Ryan and Brigadier General Frank flew from Chicago to New York in six hours road material, rolling stock, clothing and equip- T. Hines, Chief of Embarkation Service. and forty minutes, announces he is preparing ment have been abandoned. Further evidence of flight. the haste with which the enemy retreated SEPTEMBER 9 for an Atlantic is Boston American League team wins its foiuid in the uninjured bridges which he left In the Woevrc a hostile patrol which attached fourth world series game from the Chicago behind. French pursuit, bombing and recon- one of our outposts was repulsed. Elsewhere Nationals and becomes world champions. naissance units and British and Italian bomb- the day was uneventful. ing units divided with our own air service the Second Division moves to woods north of SEPTEMRER 12 control of the air and contributed materially Noviant-aux-Pres and Manonville and re- This morning our troops operating in the St. to the success of the operation. lieves units of Eighty-Ninth and Ninetieth Mikiel sector made considerable gains. Assisted First Division is relieved by French inside Divisions in Limey sector; Third Division by French units they broke the enemy's resist- reclaimed St. Mihiel Salient; Eightieth (less artillery and Seventh Machine Gun ance and advanced at some points to a depth of Division moves toward Bois la Ville and Battalion) moves to Foret de la Reine, while Jive miles. We have counted 8,000 prisoners up Eighty-First to region about Bruyeres. Third Field Artillery Brigade and Third Am- to the present. The operation is still in progress. Austro-Hungarian Government invites all munition Train are detached to support (Divisions participating in the reduction of belligerents to enter into non-binding discus- First and Forty-Second Divisions and Seventh the St. Mihiel Salient were, from left to right: sions at some neutral meeting place with a Machine Gun Battalion is attached to First Fourth, Twenty-Sixth, French outfits around view to bringing about peace. Division; 3 7 2d Infantry, Ninety- Third Divi- nose of salient, First, Forty-Second, Eighty- Eugene V. Debs is sentenced to ten years sion, is relieved from Verdun Sector and Ninth, Second, Fifth, Ninetieth, Eighty- in Moundsville (West Virginia) Penitentiary moves to Bois de Brocourt. Second. The Third, Thirty-Fifth, Seventy- by Judge Westenhaver in Cleveland Federal Stockholm dispatch asserts that Bolshevik Eighth and Eightieth Divisions were in corps Court. and German propagandists have spread or army reserve for the operation.) Two gasolineless Sundays in effect east of stories in Russia that United States is Thirteen million men between ages of the Mississippi have saved 413,000 barrels wracked by internal warfare as Indians op- eighteen and forty-five register for army of fuel, Federal officials declare; scheme may pose conscription. service throughout America. be extended over nation to insure supply for Ford Motor Company suspends produc- Eugene V. Debs, former Socialist candi- Western Front. tion of "pleasure cars" in order to concentrate date for the Presidency, is found guilty by on war orders. jury in Federal Court at Cleveland of vio- SEPTEMRER 15 Rose Pastor Stokes and six other radicals lating the espionage act. In the St. M ihiel sector there was increased are arrested on court's order for applauding Detroit's street cars will have women artillery and aviation activity. A counter defense counsel's opening statement as conductors because of shortage of men, attack launched by the enemy at daybreak near Eugene V. Debs goes on trial in Cleveland United Railways Company of that city an- St. Hilaire was easily repulsed and a number of Federal Court on charges of violation of nounces. prisoners taken. On the left bank of the Moselle espionage act. our lines have been advanced one to two miles SEPTEMRER 13 and now include the towns of Vilcey and Nor- SEPTEMBER 10 In the St. Mihiel sector we have achieved roy. The normal extension of our lines beyond Except for artillery fighting in Lorraine and further successes. The junction of our troops Jaulny resulted in the bringing in of 72 addi- in the Vosges the day passed quietly in the sec- advancing from the south of the sector with those tional guns abandoned by the enemy in his tors occupied by our troops. advancing from the west has given us possession hasty retreat. This brings the total number of Forty-Second Division occupies assembly of the whole salient to points twelve miles north- guns captured to dale to more than 200. positions in Foret de la Reine in rear of east of St. Mihiel and has resulted in the cap- French Fifteenth Colonial Division relieves Eighty-Ninth Division; Thirty-Third takes ture of many prisoners. Forced back by our Eighth Infantry Brigade, Fourth Division; over command of Verdun- Fromereville sec- steady advance the enemy is retiring and is de- Seventy-Ninth moves to vicinity of Bler- tor; Thirty-Fifth takes station in Foret de stroying large quantities of material as he goes. court. Haye; Ninety-First enters Sorcy-sur-Meuse The number of prisoners counted has risen to Thirty- First Division moves from Camps area, ready to support French corps; Fourth 13,300. Our line now includes Herbcuville, Greene, Jackson and Wheeler to embarka- moves to area between Sommedieue and Thillol, Hattonville, St. Benoit, Xammes, tion port of New York. Haudainville, where it becomes corps reserve; Jaulny, Thiaucourl and Vieville. America's reply to Austrian peace overture Fifth relieves units of Ninetieth in Villers-en- Eighty-Fourth Division, less artillery, is still "force without stint or limit," Wash- Haye sector; 5 2d Field Artillery Brigade and moves to West Perigueux area for training. ington officials state. io2d Ammunition Train, Twenty-Seventh President Wilson in proclamation warns Bridgeport's striking machinists, angry Division, begin occupation of Verdun- From- four thousand striking machinists engaged at being ordered back to work, plan an Ameri- ereville sector in support of Thirty-Third in war-contract work at Bridgeport, Connec- can labor party on lines of British, their offi- Division. ticut, to return to work under penalty of be- cials state. President Wilson confers with Congress- ing drafted; proclamation also authorizes man John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts taking over of Smith & Wesson arms plant at SEPTEMRER 16 on possibility of obtaining child-labor safe- Springfield, Massachusetts, by War Depart- Aside from local combats in which we took guards through Constitutional amendment. ment because of company's refusal to accept prisoners and a further increase of artillery and Five men of the exploring expedition of wage awards of War Labor Board; six hun- aviation activity there is nothing to report from Vilhjalmur Stefansson have landed on Arctic dred home guardsmen take over police duty the St. Mihiel sector. ice-pack north of Alaska with intention of in Cincinnati as a shift of regular force goes Seventy-Eighth Division relieves Second, drifting west toward Siberia in search of new on strike. which moves to Ansauville; Twenty-Sixth islands, say officers of a Stefansson ship land- Spanish influenza rampant in Boston, New Division relieves French 15th Colonial in ing at an Alaskan port. York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New Lon- Tryon Subsector which is rechristened New Eleven hundred cases of grippe have don, and Newport News; officials now have England Sector; French 131st Division re- developed in the First Naval District since traced start of disease in United States to lieves Thirty-Seventh in Baccarat Sector, August 28th, headquarters at Boston an- tramp steamer arriving in last-named port in latter proceeding to Robert- Espagne area; nounces; naval radio school at Cambridge mid- August with almost entire crew pros- Italian Eighth Division relieves Seventy- forced to suspend instruction as result. trated by the disease. Seventh along Aisne; 369th Infantry, Ninety- Third Division, moves to Somme-Bionne SEPTEMBER 11 SEPTEMRER 14 Area; entire Eighty-Seventh Division passes In the course of successful raids in Lorraine, In the St. Mikiel sector our advanced units to S. O. S. our detachments penetrated the enemy's have maintained touch with the enemy's Surgeon General Blue declares Spanish in- trenches, inflicting losses and capturing prison- forces and have repulsed a counter-attack at- fluenza will probably spread all over nation ers. There is nothing else of importance to tempted by them in the region of Jaulny. We in next six weeks; declares mortality from the report. are now able to estimate the success obtained disease is extremely light. 369th Infantry, Ninety-Third Division, during the two previous days. The dash and occupies Beausejour Subsector, Lorraine. vigor of our troops and of the valiant French SEPTEMRER 17 Thirty-Eighth Division moves from Camp divisions which fought shoulder to shoulder In the St. M ihiel sector the day was quiet Shelby, Mississippi, via Camp Mills to em- with them is shown by the fad that the forces at- except for continued activity of artillery and barkation ports of New York, Montreal and tacking on both faces of the salient effected a aviation, and patrol encounters in which we Quebec; 319th Engineers and Train, Eighth junction and secured the results desired within captured prisoners. An enemy raid in the Division, move to Camp Upton preparatory 27 hours. Besides liberating more than 150 Vosges was repulsed. to sailing from New York on the 25th. square miles of territory and taking 15,000 Seventy-Eighth Division relieves Second Spanish influenza, prostrating malady prisoners we have captured a mass of material. and Fifth Divisions in Limey sector. which has ravaged various militarized and Over 100 guns of all calibres and hundreds of Highest radio aerial in the world, the cables civil European populations, has reached machine guns and trench mortars have been of a captive balloon, are in use at the New

America, Washington announces, ordering taken. In spite of the fact that the enemy during York Navy Yard, it is disclosed ; the yard has an absolute quarantine against the disease his retreat burned large stores, a partial exam- been in communication with wireless station r.t all ports. ination of the battlefield sho'ws that large quanti- at Arcadia, Calif. {Continued on page 54)

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CHARLIE CORRADI, of Green- flew overhead, pulling off a few stunts. pened?" asked the bandaged one, feebly. mont, West Virginia, tells of a "Gosh, I'd hate to be up there in that "You were tight and bet you could lawyer who was cross-examining thing," one said. jump out of the hotel window and fly a witness. He asked: "Jiggers," said the other. "I'd hate to around the square." "And you say you called on Mrs. be up there without it." "Well, why didn't you stop me?" Jones, May second. Now will you tell the "Stop you!" replied the friend. "I had jury just what she said?" REV. E. LESTER STANTON, of ten dollars bet on you!" "I object to the question," interrupted . Lena, Illinois, wore his Victory the lawyer on the other side. medal at the Memorial Day ceremonies COLONEL JOHN C. WILLING, of There was nearly an hour's argument in his town. As the parade was forming, a Cleveland, Ohio, describes what he between counsel, and finally the judge Boy Scout came up and looked at the calls good salesmanship. A newsboy ap- allowed the question. medal. When he had finished counting proached an unhappy looking man at the "And as I was saying," the first lawyer the nine bars on the ribbon and had taken race track: began again, "on May second you called in all the details, he said: "Say, you didn't "Latest edition, mister, all about all on Mrs. Jones. Now what did she say?" stay very long in one place, did you?" the losers." "Nothing," replied the witness. "She was not at home." HERB MTJLLER, of New York City, is telling a yarn IEGIONNAIRE John C. Viv- about the leading man arriving ian of Denver, Colorado, back stage just before curtain offers a court-room classic regard- time after a long session in the ing one Justice Dunne, who was cocktail room. presiding over an action for dam- "Good Lord, man," said the ages when the following dialogue stage manager, "you can't go on between lawyer and witness took like this! Never in my life have I the place seen any one as drunk as you "Did you see the witness are!" knocked down?" "Huh! Jush you wait'll y' shee "Who, me?" my unjershtudy!" "Yes, you." "No, not me." IITTLE Ann was sitting on her "Did you see the defendant at u grandfather's knee one day, all?" and after looking at him in- "Who, me?" tently for a time, said: "Yes, you." "Grandpa, were you in the "No." Ark?" "Then why are you here?" "Certainly not, my dear," an- "Who, me?" swered the astonished old man. "Yes, you." "Then why weren't you "To see justice done." drowned?" "Who, me?" demanded Justice Dunne. A MAN bought a store. In six months it had failed. Later FROM Legionnaire Eddie on, meeting the original owner, O'Donnell, of Toledo, Ohio, he halted him and said: comes the incident of the widow "You know that business you sold as going concern?" whose husband had died some The ambulance I was chasing backed up me a months previously. Not long "Yes, what of it?" afterward the widow herself "Nothing, only it's gone." died. When she arrived at the pearly ACCORDING to Irl Thomas of Fair- BILL was a colored gates she asked if she might see her A mont, West Virginia, a real estate HEADLIGHT former husband. agent was showing a very modern apart- man of sporting proclivities who "What's his name?" ment to a prospect who, observing the got his name from a large diamond he "Joe Smith." small size of the rooms, said, "Why, wore as a stud. One time he had oc- "You'll have to give us a better identi- there's not enough space here to swing a casion to consult a doctor about a fication. How about his last words? We cat." misery in his chest. The doctor looked Classify new arrivals that way." "In that case," re lied the agent, 'it intently at the stud, and this keen in- "Well," she replied, "just before he might be a good idea for you to change terest made Headlight somewhat un- easy. died Joe said, 'Katie, if you ever waste your hobby." of questions, the any of my hard-earned dollars, I'll turn After a number doctor " his and placed it over in my grave.' FORMER National Vice Commander produced stethoscope "Oh, sure we know him. We call him Hughes B. Davis, of Oklahoma, is squarely over the stud. When he had Whirling Joe up here." telling about a man visiting his bandage- finished listening, the medical man looked covered friend in the hospital on the very solemn, and so did his patient, who WO patients were seated on the lawn morning after a heavy night. asked genuwine, doctah?" T of the state hospital when an airplane "What in the name of heaven hap- "Ain't hit

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SEVENTEEN years, nearly ten fund for war veteran aid. The only money films (remember the big cigar he used to million dollars. the Post has taken for itself was used to smoke when he took the part of a cap-

That's a part, a very vital part, erect the fine clubhouse it maintains on tain of industry?) and Roberts, glad of the story of Hollywood Legion Highland Avenue. to do anything that would help the vet- Stadium, owned and operated by Holly- Back in 1920 Hollywood Post was just erans, selected a cast for a play. They put wood (California) Post of The American another unit of Legionnaires. One night on the sure-fire old thriller, "Arizona." Legion, where boxing matches have Legionnaire Allen Watt, figuring that In the cast (and how many of them drawn anybody that was anybody in the with all the screen folk and stage stars can you remember?) besides Theodore capital of moviedom, to the exhibitions who were camping on moviedom 's door- Roberts were Howard Hickman, Sessue put on every Friday night in the year. steps there might be gold in personal Hayakawa, Sylvia Ashton, Clara Kim- appearances, sold the Post ball Young, Ruth Renick, Dustin Far- on a big vaudeville benefit. num, Bessie Barriscale, Roscoe Fatty Walter Long, who had been Arbuckle, Branda Fowler, Clyde Fill- in support of Lillian Gish in more, William Desmond, Jack Holt, D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Charley Murray, Monte Blue, Eddii Nation," took the idea to Sutherland, Ted Duncan, Edward Mo the late Theodore Roberts, Wade. beloved star of the silent For three nights it packed the Philhar- monic Auditorium, and the following Monday night the show sold out in San Diego. With the profits the Post At left, the skeleton of bought a half acre of ground in El Centro the old stadium's roof Street, at a cost of about $15,000. The just before it was pulled Legion boys went in and pulled weeds, down. Below, the new built a boxing ring, put in a few benches stadium's framework and started busi- (Continued on page 60)

It's been going on since 192 1, and the gross take at the box-office has reached the fabulous figures of my first paragraph. The old wooden structure, put up in the days of the silent flickers, lasted until the spring of this year, when it was pulled down and is being replaced by a modern steel-and-concrete structure that will cost around a quarter of a million dollars and will accommodate 6,000 people. By the time you read this the new place will be just about ready, and if you convention- naires get into town on the Friday night before the big doings, don't miss coming out to the new stadium. It's half a block off Hollywood Boulevard and two blocks east of Vine, within a five minute walk of Hollywood's screen and radio centers. The old structure was a huge, rambling, wooden affair that had seen every fighter of any ability in this country do his stuff. It was put up in 1923, and the greater part of the box-office take has gone to the support of ill veterans and their families. For years the Post has given a thousand dollars a month to the general county

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(Continued from page 17) again. "For any special reason?" lawyer no chance to speak. "Miss "And what?" Again it was Oliver. "To keep from getting the second slug Estrella, I was asking you when they all "Lay down on a couch. Then I heard in my own head," Cobb said. He studied cut in on me, where were you at the all hell break loose and I got up. That their faces again. There was nothing new minute of the shooting?" China boy was standing by the table. He " in any of them. Oliver was still hard and Edythe Estrella, who had sunk back, said, 'Somebody shoots.' determined, Flaxner unsteady, Clark weeping, into her deep chair, leaned for- Oliver asked quickly, "You were on a nerveless as he must always be, the ward, once more looking tragic. couch in there?" woman's washed with tears, make-up "I was sitting right here. In this very "That's right. China boy'll tell you McCain confused, definitely ill at ease. chair! Wasn't I, Danny? But you weren't I was." "A good fellow," people said, did they? here, Danny, were you? Here I was, a "China boy isn't here and isn't likely Busy all the time trying not to be to be," Oliver said. He turned and bored with life. Well, he certainly went into the living room. Its acted appalled at the sudden lights still were dim. He snapped seriousness of life this minute. them on bright and asked, He said now, "I'd like to point "Which couch, Flaxner?" out one thing myself, Inspector. "That one, inside the porch Every window in the lodge is door," Flaxner said, pointing. screened. Did Charley," he hesi- "What you want to know for?" tated, "did he get shot through Oliver went into the living the screen?" room. "Charley?" Cobb noted the "I was on that couch," Flaxner familiarity. "No, he didn't. The insisted. He caught Cobb's arm. screen was half off. He was un- "I didn't leave it. That's the fastening it when I discovered truth, officer!" him. Go down and look if you "What's this?" Oliver de- want." manded. "No, no, I've looked enough!" Cobb quickened his step. "All right," Cobb said. "Your The couch was heavy and question's answered, anyway." stacked with cushions in tan He turned on Clark. "Gill was a linen dust covers. Oliver, feeling frequent companion of yours, across its stuffed surface, was too?" bringing something out from be- "Of mine?" Clark protested. tween the cushions. Cobb felt his "That bum? Hell, no! I was giv- heart miss a beat. ing him a ride." A short, flat automatic pistol "From San Felipe?" lay in Oliver's palm. Slowly he Clark stared at him and Mc- turned it over, more slowly cain said, "San Felipe? Where's .tar- pressed the magazine release and that?" let the black clip fall. The yellow "Just a nice lonely spot down glint of brass cartridges shone 'They're coming over for dinner, sir- on the Gulf of California for a through the round holes in its their cook burnt the lamb chops" guy that wants to be alone." sides. Oliver was counting them "Gill was at Glendale airport," deliberately. Clark said slowly. "Wanting to get over poor defenseless woman, alone on this "Six. One of them missing," he to Yuma. Said he was broke. I said I'd verandah ..." announced. He glanced at Flaxner, bring him this far. Maybe Danny'd get "Alone?" Cobb repeated. "Entirely?" started to give the gun to him, but drew him on a ways." He added lamely, "You know we all ran!" Oliver broke it back quickly. "Fingerprints on it, you "Danny's one of these good scouts, in. "You ran with us. I was on the beach, suppose?" he asked uncertainly and always liking to do good turns ..." searching toward the south. Why'd the stared at his own hand. "So I've heard," Cobb said. "Then fool light out, anyway? I heard McCain "You've smeared any that might have you'd never seen Gill before?" somewhere behind me." He tried to been there," Cobb said, and looked at "I didn't say that," Clark denied. snatch the inquiry out of Cobb's hands. McCain, who didn't look back. "I'd seen him often. So had everyone "That's two of us. You, Clark ..." Sweat was standing on Flaxner's fore- else who goes to Santa Anita." Clark answered, "I ran down the shore head. He cried suddenly, in a shrill "Oh," Cobb said. "He hung around the to my ship." hysteria, "I didn't shoot him! You know race track? Well, well." He made the "Find it in good shape?" Cobb asked. that, Oliver, blast you! I never saw that words as insulting as he could, as un- Clark's eyes narrowed. "Any reason I gun!" believingly, but still Clark wasn't dis- wouldn't?" "Give the gun to me," Cobb ordered. comfited. Cobb changed attack. "Did Oliver persisted, "Which leaves you, To his surprise Oliver handed it to him, he tell you that he was wanted down in officer, and Miss Estrella and Steve but kept the cartridges. Cobb smelled the New York? That his name wasn't Flaxner unaccounted for. Where were barrel. "It's been fired, all right." His Charley Gill? That actually he was Little you, Flax, after Gill insulted you?" eyes rested on Flaxner. "Oh, calm down," Joe Page?" The writer said humbly, "I was he said. "Get hold of yourself. No one's "Joe Page!" Flaxner exploded. drunk." He blinked twice and then tried accusing you. Who knows who hid the "Shut up, Steve!" to explain, "I never like confusion. You gun in the couch?" "Oh, don't shush him, Mr. Oliver," know that, Danny. Always makes me "Who would?" Oliver demanded. Cobb said. "It's real news to him, at sick. When you all ran out, I went in the "How do I know? Maybe he, maybe ." least." He shifted quickly, giving the living room and ..." Miss Estrella . . {Continued on page 42)

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She screamed—the scream' of a genu- down, sir. Right here. Landed on Salton "You crossed the border without clear- inely frightened woman. Sea." ing Customs. McCain here sheltered "... maybe you, maybe McCain, "All right. Go on," the chief said. He you. The law's quite plain on both." maybe anybody. All I know is, Flaxner was looking at the dirt on McCain's "I . . . I'm very willing to settle, gentle- ran downstairs, soon after the shot. He trouser knees. men." McCain's voice, fingers, the mus- was in the door before any of the rest of "Clark here, from Hollywood, was cles of his face were trembling. "Lt was ." you." Cobb paused. There was a racket transporting Gill ..." only sport, a game as you say . . outside. He looked at his watch. "There's "No crime in that." Clark took out a "Shut up, Danny," Clark warned. a bus from the sheriff's department stick of gum. "As for you otherwise, Clark," Cobb now," he said. "... from San Felipe, which we all said. "I happen to have the heel of your know is a smugglers' base," Cobb went boot in my pocket." IT WAS Rickard, the deputy, but he on, building up his case. "McCain had "Oh, you do? Thanks." The flyer went wasn't alone. sent for Gill." to the door and tossed out the wrapper "By Godfrey, he's got Sam with him!" "I?" Danny McCain stammered. "You from his gum. Danny McCain shouted. mean, / ..." he pushed the groveling "Picked it up near the window through "Sam?" Oliver exclaimed. Chinese away distastefully and dropped which Joe Page was shot," Cobb said. Cobb stared, and felt a flood of relief. down in a chair. "You're accusing me of "What were you doing, Clark, when you It was the Chino, all right, scared to smuggling?" lost it?" death. So scared his knees shook. But the "You," Cobb said. "Nice little game it "That's for you to find out." third man coining around the corner of was, too. Must have entertained you a "I intend to." the house was the chief of the border lot. Relieved all your awful boredom. "Atta-boy, Cobb," Rickard encour- patrol. Only you got caught." He took the note aged. "Picked your Chino up a-ways back," from his pocket. "You wrote this to "Gill was killed downstairs in the bil- the deputy called. He walked up the Gill, Mr. McCain. Your writing, and it's liard room," Cobb told him and the chief. steps, dragging the Chinese with him. like your ink. I found plenty in the desk "Outside the window, there's a rise of

"Recognized your car, Mr. McCain. He to prove it. The paper's from the pad ground beside the house. From it a person had a flat. Cactus thorn, nice big one. I over there," he pointed his finger at the could look right into the room and see Gill thought it was damn funny, him high- telephone. hiding behind the billiard table. Clark's ." tailin' it somewheres in your car and me "You don't talk to my client like that!" heel, I found there on the rise . . sent out here on a murder." Oliver began. "You come up here, Sam!" McCain The deputy stepped forward. Light I DIDN'T look in any window," Clark ordered. sparkled on the badge on his brown shirt. said. Cobb wiped sweat from his own face. "Talking about don'ts, you don't vote in "No? Well, tell the truth, I almost be- ." The chief must have been in Westmore- my county," he said. "Never saw you lieve you, too. Only . . Cobb swung his land when the sheriff called . . . before. You wait your turn." attack on Sam. "You, Sam, when you lit The deputy released the Chinese. He "Look here," Cobb said. He went out the house tonight, you went through cowered, shrinking against the door. quickly to the desk and brought back a the front door?" "Sam good boy! Ver' good!" handful of canceled checks. He handed The Chinese begged, "Me? Please!" "Like hell you are!" McCain exploded. them and Gill's creased note to Rickard. "Listen, now," Cobb said. "You went He seized the Chinese by the sleeve of the "It's similar purple ink, no argument, out this front porch door or you couldn't soiled white silk coat. but are they all in the same handwriting, have grabbed that bag. It stood right "Oh, leave him be," Cobb ordered. deputy?" here. Miss Estrella had run out of sight, "Have a heart! Why pick on him? All he Rickard studied them one at a time, at so had Flaxner." He waited. The Chinese did was get scared and light out." last nodded violently. "You write a neat swallowed. "With a suitcase in the car," the chief signature, Mr. McCain." "Come, have a nice seat, Sam," Cobb said, "that's all." He stepped onto the urged. "Sit down. Rest your feet. You porch, towering well above every one of COBB held the note up for the chief to went out that front door?" them. see. "And this is what Gill, to me, a "I . . . Please, yes, I run." "Suitcase!" Cobb exclaimed. minute before he died, called the letter "No use being scared, Sam," Cobb "With twenty, thirty pounds of tungs- from his boss ..." he waited for the said. "You grabbed a bag. It happened ten in it," the chief disclosed. "Some gray effect of his words on McCain. McCain to have contraband in it. Don't know powder, anyway, heavy as lead. Looks would break, give him time. His face whether you knew it or not. Maybe you like all I've heard about tungsten. It's showed it. did. Only, technically, you didn't bring out there." He nodded toward the "You're the fellow we've been sitting it over the line." He looked at Clark. deputy's machine, and said, shrugging, up nights for, Mr. McCain," Cobb said. "The man's dead, that smuggled it over.

"It's not in my department this time, He was conscious of the chief's amazed ex- Somebody shot, and you beat it, Sam. thank Jehosaphat. Tungsten belongs to pression . . . chief seemed to be approving, Well . . . listen close, now . . . did you see T Customs. W ho killed Page, Cobb?" though. "You've been the agent on this anybody else while you were running for Sam's narrow shoulders sagged closer side of the line. You, nobody else. Page McCain's car?" together. "Steal bag, boss's car," he . . . Gill, however you want to call him . . Sam's narrow eyes traveled miserably admitted. "No shoot. You believe?" picked up the contraband, Clark brought around the circle. "No see," he said ." "Yes," Cobb said. "Tell the truth I it over . . finally. "Hear." do." He looked at the chief for orders. "So what?" Clark demanded. "Hear?" Cobb considered the word. This shouldn't be an inspector's job any "So you're under arrest for smuggling. "What'd you hear?" longer, with the chief here . . . except that You and Danny McCain both. Held for "You can't take his word for any- he believed that he, Cobb, knew . . . did Customs." thing," Oliver interrupted. know, in fact; if Rickard would just give "You found nothing on me," Clark Rickard again took a hand. "I told you him time to tell it . . . "The plane came began. to wait your (Continued on page 45) The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — Pg^WlDOW

boys in Post 37, North Iris Ferrie Arlington, New Jersey, to help fill up the ranks of the Otte neighboring Rutherford Drum and Bugle Corps. Of the dozen that re- sponded, my man was one. Well do I remember being blasted out of a perfectly good sleep by the boom-

number is legion ! Those un- boom of a big bass drum OURsung orderlies with their gal- beside my bed, over which lons of bleach for cross-belts, grinned the face of a big bottles of polish for so many little boy with a see-what- buckles, badges, buttons, bugles and I-got-mama expression. "pot lids" (cymbals to you), quarts of After that, many eve- shoe polish white and black and what nings were taken up with have you, cleaners for spots on white, red, orange and also what-have-you uni- forms—not forgetting the four-hour black enamel for shoe-soles that takes A drum corpsman wher- more than forty-eight hours to pass the ever he happens to be liv- tacky stage. ing is Legionnaire Otte, I, as one of these aides, salute the rest once again of New Jersey. of us! To many of us, I am sure, belongs Does the family like it? some of the credit of their resplendent They love it! glory as they stand on the inspection line of Drum and Bugle Corps competi- tions; like so many little wooden soldiers —their physical and perhaps mental defects, balding heads and thinning gray hairs, hidden by their gorgeously gay uniforms and plumed bonnets, trappings of gold braid and buttons—devotedly drum practice grasping their shining instruments of necessitating chang- blare and boom. ing dinner schedules, How did I get this way? Well, buddies, and my daily wor- it started a long time ago—twenty-one ries added to, as it years to be exact—when Uncle Sam got was almost impossi- into a little scrap that yanked us up by ble to keep two our boot-straps, messed up our tranquil equally boom-boom lives plenty and threw into my life a lad minded youngsters from a place I never heard of, and who from bringing in the later changed my single blessedness into whole neighborhood its present status. Come to think of it, to have a try at Daddy's Drum. And a I am still more or less single due to bass drum is not a gadget one can dunk away from our car

Legionitis and its accompanying ills. under a bed! and even loss of the It is like an insidious fever that creeps In order to encourage his new hobby car key itself—al- upon us gradually and finally engulfs the and swell his ego by admiring him in his ways someone else's whole family. Do we like it? We love it! newly acquired raiment, the family and I husband to the res- And ever thrill with proper patriotic often drove around to the various com- cue of this drum goose pimples every time we witness our petitions where said father, conspicuous corps widow—never outfits of daddies marching in majesty by his absence from us and absolute her own! and strutting their intricacies. As I look fidelity to the corps, did us no good what- S u m m e r s back, I find our Drum Corps mania ever in such times of stress as lack of {Continued on began with an invitation for some of our seats, sudden cloudbursts while blocks page 58)

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Tattoo Marks on Guardsmen line reporter he's got his facts all balled partment. It has been my experience here To the Editor: In the July issue under the up. He relates the German offensive in this office, maintained by the Depart- against the Champagne front on the ment of Kansas, title "Anchors Away" Thomas J. Malone, The American Legion, speaking of tattooing, said, "In the Army, night of July 14th as being stopped by that very few veterans whom I come in Regular and National Guard, the tattoo "thirsty French bayonets." Let me put contact with have any knowledge of the has no recognition these days in enlist- you straight on that score. Those were benefits due them under the provisions not thirsty ing." That is not true. There is a place French bayonets but instead of this act. they on the enlistment record for noting these, met the unflinching Fighting Irish Travel pay at the rate of 3^ cents per the particular heading being, "Indelible from the 165th New York, the Alabama mile to honorably discharged soldiers was Wildcats of the 167th the rest of or permanent marks." Wayne Myers, and the authorized by section 126, Act of June 3, Rainbow Division. Louis E. Davis Post, Bloomington, Illinois. iqi6, 3Q Stat., 217. Section 3, Act of [Editor's Note.—Mr. Myers, a ser- 'Tis true the French evacuated the February 28, 1919, 40 Stat., 1203, geant in the Illinois National Guard, sent front-line as the attack was about to be amended such act to authorize the pay- along a National Guard enlistment blank launched and the Rainbow was left hold- ment of five cents per mile for land to back up his statement. The Regulars ing the bag as it were, and we of the Old travel, on discharge, retroactive to can note tattoos in the enlistment record 42d Division consider this particular en- November 11, 1918. under "Remarks," as Mr. Malone re- gagement as the Turn of Tide, for had The five cents a mile is from place of marked.] we given way to the onslaught of the discharge to place of acceptance for en- Germans there's no telling what would listment. All those veterans discharged have happened. Another Legion Ball Graduate —C. Howaro Larsen, between the dates of November 11, 1918 Vice Commander , William Clinton Story and February 28, 1919 are entitled to To the Editor: Just a line to call your at- Post, Frecport, New York. receive five cents per mile transportation tention to the fact that Arthur Kenney, whereby they were only paid in the now pitching for the Boston National ma- '98 jority of cases cents per mile. You League team, is a Legion Junior Baseball The Days of will find that there are any number of product. He started his baseball career To the Editor: What is Comrade Charles veterans who have not received with the Sergeant John W. Powers Post Johnson Post squawking about in his this additional travel pay and who can per- of Milford. He then played with the Mil- "Montauk" in the July issue? I belonged haps use it to good advantage at ford High School team and after that was to a separate battalion of Infantry, con- this time. All veterans seeking this extra on the varsity of Holy Cross College in sisting of 408 officers and men that was travel pay can secure Form No. 2034 from Worcester in this State. John J. Best, in the service 116 days, all under canvas closest Veterans Administration Post Commander, Sergeant John W. Pow- in the United States. We had over 80 office, and after filling the form out, ers Post, Milford, Massachusetts. men down with typhoid fever at one mail to the General Accounting Office, time. The patriotism of the saloon keepers Claims Division,Washington,D.C. W.Everett From a Comrade in Hospital in the adjacent town took the form of Fast, Asst. State Service liberal credit and our major considered Officer, The To the Editor: The American Legion American Legion, Department liquor a sovereign preventive of typhoid. of Kansas, Auxiliary in Ypsilanti has very kindly Veterans Administration We had one lieutenant doctor and one Facility, Wads- sent to this sanatorium a lot of magazines, worth, Kansas. hospital corps man. didn't get a good many of them being copies of The We much military training American Legion Magazine. Being ajia- but we learned a lot about typhoid. tive born American and a veteran of the To the Editor: Many men who served in After 86 days, over, World War, I was especially interested in the war being we the United States Army in Panama and were privileged to take a 30-day furlough an article of the March, 1038, issue by possibly other places away from the or a discharge. Most of us took the dis- Albert Curtis, "What Hospital Life United States between April 5th, 191 charge, so in later years, didn't Taught Me." After reading this article we get a and July 1st, 1919 are entitled to an ad- chance to raid the treasury. I would like to say to each and every one You had to justment on their Adjusted Service have 00 days' service in the Spanish that is hospitalized in any Veterans Hos- War Certificate (so-called bonus) based on to licensed as pital regardless of his disability that he be a "Treasury Raider." overseas service while enroute on a trans- L. T. Stephenson, Post American should consider himself lucky, and I will — 4, port. I served in Panama with Co. I, 29th Legion (California). Past Commander, explain what I mean. I enlisted in the Infantry, have applied for and received Department California, United Spanish Canadian Army before the U. S. A. be- of an adjusted service credit because my Veterans. came involved in the war and served War entire length of service was figured as three years and two months, two years home service and I know of at least one and nine months of this time over-seas. Back Pay for You? other soldier that served in Panama who Thirteen months after discharge I was To the Editor: There is one benefit due has received a similar adjustment. diagnosed as tubercular but when I World War veterans which is not given a In applying for an adjustment, eligible appealed to Canada for help, I was re- great deal of publicity by either the soldiers should write to The Adjutant fused hospitalization and any assistance, Veterans Administration or the War De- General's Office, War Department, Wash- as they ruled that my tuberculosis was ington, D. C. Care should be taken to not the result of my war service. I have give the following information: been in hospitals now for eleven years. Because of space demands, letters quoted Name in full. —Lawrence Kenneoy, Leland Sanator- in this department (responsibility for state- Serial number. ium, Ypsilanti, Michigan. ments in which is vested in the writers and History of service with dates of en- not in this magazine) are subject to listment and discharge, being sure to abridgement. Nernes, addresses and post "The Turn of the Tide" indicate period on transport, which affiliation must be given, though the editors To the Editor: I read with much interest was the time during which overseas will withhold publication of these if the Alexander Woollcott's "The Turn of the circumstances warrant. service was incurred. William Tide" in the July issue. But as a front- Mackey, Springfield, Pennsylvania.

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turn!" he warned Oliver. ''Just shut up." "What'd you hear, Sam?" Cobb re- peated. "Him," the Chinese said, and pointed to Clark. "Him? All right," Cobb said. "Good. Where was he?" The Chinese sidled to the porch door. "There," he said, his finger shaking. "Down beach. Coming from plane. Man shoot, Mr. Clark holler, 'Hey, what that?' Sam know his voice. Please ..." "Ah!" Clark exclaimed. "You get that, do you, wise guy? My voice. Com- ." ing from plane . . "Yes, I get it," Cobb said. "Your voice. Coming from the plane. And Gill already shot, in the other direction. Well?"

Clark's eyes met his boldly. "WELL, MY GRANDFATHER'S SHIP 'THE GULL', WAS LONG * FORTUNATELY, THE PASSING SKIPPER OBLIGED THEM WITH SOME OF HIS OWN DELAYED BV CALMS.AND THE TOBACCO RATIONS RAN OUT. TOBACCO RATIONS, AND THE CREW WAS HAPPY AGAIN. SO GRANDAP-S SHIP "Well?" the chief asked, too. THE MEN STARTED A MUTINY FOR WANT OF A SMOKE, MADE PORT SAFELY" WHEN SUDDENLY * "No reason I shouldn't tell you," Clark said. "Why wouldn't I run for the ship? I thought the fool had some crazy idea of taking off in it. When I heard the ." shot . . he paused, freshly uneasy. ." "When I heard the shot, I came back . . Cobb surmised: "And ran right around to where it had sounded?" "Why not? Who wouldn't?" "And square into the fellow that had done the shooting." "I didn't say so!" YOU BET YOUR BOOTS WE DO, JUDGE. WE SEAFARING "Don't need to," Cobb said. "I've got BY THE LOOKS OF ALL THE PRINCE ALBERT ABOARD, I SEE YOU ALSO MAKE SURE MEN KNOW WHAT A GRAND SHIPMATE PRINCE ALBERT IS ON A LONG VOYAGE his confession already." THAI THE TOBACCO , the right mr KIND "Confession?" McCain faltered, and J-Y\ ,1 &\ TOO, EH skipper? I// **" Edythe Estrella repeated, "Confession . . :Afrf\'tt\ of the murderer?" "You're a lawyer," Cobb said to Oliver.

"You ought to recognize it. Think back. After the shot was fired, you came down the stair and saw me, standing over the ." on land or sea, pa assures body, gun in hand . . Rich, mellow smoking in every pipeful. prince albert's the "I did," Oliver agreed sharply. "The standby for pipe-joy, all right.' others'll substantiate that. They were right there in the doorway beside me. They saw the same thing I did." Copyright, 1938. K.J. KernoItlB lobacco Uo. ^^^B^^^^M M! "Be pretty swell if they did," Cobb said. "Three of you, looking from the SMOKERS! MAKE EVERYDAY same place, certainly ought to have seen the same thing." He glanced at the chief. He still approved, did he? "You, Mr. A HOLIDAY FROM TONGUE-BITE! McCain, when you and Mr. Oliver first looked in," Cobb asked, "did you notice PRINCE ALBERT in what position Gill's body lay?" 15 NO-BITE McCain's eyebrows no longer stood TREATED— up straight as exclamation points. His SMOKES COOL voice, too, was wilted. "I didn't see it," AND MILD he managed to say. "Couldn't, from WITHOUT where I stood. the . . . the dead Just HARSHNEtf! hand, finally. I saw you, with the gun ." in your hand . . pipefuls of fra- Cobb agreed, "That's right. And you, MONEY BACK IF YOU SAY SO grant tobacco in every 2-oz. tin of Prince Albert Flaxner. 50 Did you notice?" Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince find it the mellowest, "The body? No, just the one hand, Albert. I.' you don't tastiest pipe tobacco you ever smoked, sticking out from behind the table. Hand return the pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco in it to us at any time within a and wrist. the floorboards." And blood on month from this date, and we will refund "Three of you in the door, and two of full purchase price, plus postage. (Signed) PrinceALBERT R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE you seeing practi- {Continued on page 46) Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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46 Eye Witness

{Continued from page 45) cally nothing," Cobb said, "and Mr. face. But he only stayed that way a "Get away, you fool," Oliver said.

. . ." Oliver . well, he saw a lot more than minute. I turned him right over on the "You're all ridiculous! Why, Little . . you two did. He saw Joe Page . . . Gill . . rug. When you looked in the doorway, "That's a small point of the confes- face down on the floor. So he told me, at Mr. Oliver, the body was on its back." sion," Cobb said. "It's you who al- least. 'With his face pressed against the "Meaning?" the lawyer demanded. ways keep starting to call him 'Little " floor,' he put it." "That you did see him on his face, Joe.'

Oliver broke in. "Well, I'll prove it. true enough. You were an eye witness to "Well, well!" Rickard exclaimed. Go down, sheriff, and look!" the crime. You saw him fall on his face, "Won't this make a story in the Valley! "Which way is that room?" Rickard just after you shot him through the So I take all three?" demanded. window, afraid he was going to mention "Three?" Edythe Estrella cried. "Oh, ." "Wait a minute before you go," Cobb yours and McCain's names . . Steve, dear! Steve, darling, darling, asked. "Listen, chief. Get this. Gill's on Oliver started to rise, but Steve Flaxner don't leave me!" his back. Been that way since right after leaped out of his chair and flung himself "Shut up, will you?" Steve ordered. he was shot. I slammed shut the window on him. "So you planted that pistol to "I'm going to mix a drink." and turned him. He fell, originally, on his trap me?" The End

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I have not seen an example for more than breeding pair. Where once they had been very misleading. Where a flight may pass, ten years." The writer lives in the lo- common, there were none to be seen, and and the section seem plentiful with cality where Mr. Wayne lived, worked in many parts of its range it did become woodcock, there are vast stretches of its and died, and today the snowy heron is extirpated. So acute became the situation former range which are lacking altogether again abundant, as is the egret. Dozens that in October, 1913, a closed season was in birds, and even these flights are be- of the former can be seen any day during declared on the species in twenty-one coming rapidly more uncommon. The spring and summer within the city limits States, from east to west, to continue writer is much in the field at all seasons, of Charleston, South Carolina. Why? until 1018. In August, 1916, this prohibi- and has kept a careful check on the Because of the closed season; because of tion was extended to include all 48 States. woodcock in South Carolina coastal the stoppage of the plume market, a When 1 01 8 saw the expiration of this areas. The result has been discouraging. market which once paid thirty-two dol- extended closed season, the improve- In 1927 about half a dozen birds were lars an ounce for plumes, when gold was ment was noticeable and the success of seen, then until December, 1928, only worth half that. It took four birds to the movement induced the Federal two; 1929 showed but one bird, as did make an ounce of plumes. Government to extend this measure in- 1930; 1 93 1 was a complete blank, and so We do have to go to museums to see definitely, so as to give the bird a com- it goes. Of course, this is but one man's what a Passenger Pigeon, a Great Auk, plete chance of re-instatement. The re- observation in a limited area, but it is an or a Carolina Paroquet looked like, for sult has exceeded all hopes. The Wood area where this bird was once common. they are gone beyond recall. The law- Duck has come back to the extent that It illustrates what is taking place every- came too late to save them. it is again common throughout much of where; it may be but a drop in the bucket And what of game-birds? This is a its range, and in some quarters it is compared to the bird's range in the question which affects thousands of abundant. The writer can take anyone country at large, but it is diagnostic none ardent sportsmen throughout America. into the backwaters of Low Country the less. Many other observers report What has the closed season accomplished South Carolina and show him brood after identical conditions from their localities, there, what has it saved besides the egret brood of young Wood Ducks disporting and therein lies the story. and the heron? with their splendidly plumaged parents The woodcock has been a favorite One of the finest examples of the effi- amid the cool green of the flooded forests. with sportsmen for generations. It pre- cacy of the closed season is the presence Some are killed every season, of course, sents a mark which challenges the aim of today of the Wood Duck as a common but the element of chance must be run, the best; it is a splendid bird on the table species in this country. Unlimited shoot- and mistakes are often made by an and its chase takes one through places ing had its inevitable result; the wood excited gunner in his blind. Many duck- which the dainty walker would shun. But duck became uncommon, then rare, shooters are not ornithologists and do not the sportsmen of this country must do

finally so rare that it faced extinction. identify their game before killing it. something if they want the woodcock Conservationists awoke in time, just as In view of the unqualified success of much longer. There are many who would they did in regard to the egret, and began this measure, it seems strange that like decry its passing; it would be a fine thing

to work. prohibition has not been extended to if such sportsmen would go on record as It was no easy fight. Since this beauti- other uncommon and decreasing game- favoring a respite for this grand game-

ful duck was the only one occurring in birds. For some years many have at- bird. It would be a calamity to lose it, summer throughout much of the country-, tempted to gain a closed season on the but we are losing it. Few realize what the and, therefore, the only nesting duck in woodcock. The case of this splendid bird army of ten million hunters in this coun- many localities, the opportunity for kill- is a serious one. It has sharply declined try, many of them armed with automatic

ing it was ample for those who cared in numbers, and where once it was shotguns, have done and will do to the nothing for its future well-being. abundant it occurs now only scatteringly, game which remains in this day of inten- Throughout the cypress swamps of Vir- if at all. Due to this species' habit of con- sive civilization. ginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, gregating in large flights at certain times Recently, live decoys and shooting the Summer Duck decreased steadily un- of the year, it may appear to be common over baited fields have been outlawed.

til it was a difficult matter to find a in some places, but such concentration is Shotguns are also now limited to three

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 47 shells. These restrictions, though they have aroused some objections, have saved many ducks during the past two or three seasons. In spite of what has been accomplished, today is no time to rest upon laurels. Conservation must ever be a continuous fight. Indeed, there is grave danger even now that the scene described in the open- ing page of this article may have occurred in the year just past. The plume trade,

though decadent, is not deceased. There are still those who find a market for plumes in Cuba and other tropical countries, and American birds are being sacrificed to supply this market. Florida VETERAN has seen some dark pages written into the history of the plume trade, and Florida is not far from Cuba. A The watchful eye of the Audubon So- ciety, however, is alert to the situation OF and additional wardens have been placed in service. It is a vast country, that stretch of territory between the Shark River and Cape Sable; there are many difficulties against which the GENU wardens have to work, and the co-opera- tion of all conservationists is needed in the endeavor. There is plenty of room for In good company when the order comes to "Count all who care to join in the work of de- feating the nefarious plume hunter. Off!", OLD QUAKER Whiskey is never absent. And Game and non-game birds, though in this will be true at the Los Angeles Convention. far better case these days than they were some years ago, still need every effort put OLD QUAKER is mellow and rich, but you don't forth to perpetuate their well-being, and this can only be accomplished by constant need riches to buy it. If good luck doesn't lead you watchfulness. If the sportsman and to the Convention, cheer up wherever you are by nature-lover are to be assured of game and specimens, they must be alive to asking for OLD QUAKER by name. You'll find it what threatens. We have already been tops in smooth 90-proof straight whiskey. far too wasteful of our once bounteous supply, and only education and common- sense can save the remnant. We should see to it that the next generation will have no cause to point the finger of con- demnation at us.

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{Continued from page 5) have the great privilege of eligibility to membership in The American Legion will better know and understand its princi- ples, aims, policies and purposes by active mm participation in its affairs.

As your National Commander, I have endeavored to be cautious of speech, to further vigorously t«he program given to BRAND me and to maintain the organization in its position high in the esteem and good will of our citizenry. The American Le- STRAIGHT WHISKEY gion is entitled to no less. The Good of the Legion can be en- Available in hanced in no better way than by faithful observance of all national mandates RYE or BOURBON while carrying forward, in a manner in keeping with the dignity of the organiza- 90 PROOF tion, a program formulated by the ma- jority or unanimous judgment of the duly chosen representatives of the men and Copr. 1938, The Old Quaker Co., Lawrenceburg, Ind women comprising The American Legion.

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it was too late. Maybe, said Hindenburg. either too close to the front line, or too unscramble the railroads by holding two "But first," the massive Field Marshal far behind it." days more, but at 8:30 p.m. the telephone explained carefully, "we must get out of Well, no more unkindness from Luden- rang: France and Belgium a billion marks' dorff. To Marwitz's cry for more reserves "Immediately withdraw everything worth of material. We must find some he replied shortly: now west of the Meuse, to the east of the middle way." "I'll send all I have in trucks, but I river," it croaked. "Movement will be " "Half-measures are dangerous," spoke haven't many. You must help yourself called the 'War March.' up Gallwitz. "We risk reaching the new and fall back to the Freya Line." That name for the retreat was not quite line with a broken army, and the war lost But by evening the Freya Line was just so frank as Hindenburg's explanation in —and forty or fifty billion marks be- a colored pencil mark on his map. The his memoirs: sides!" "The pressure that the fresh "So?" asked Hindenburg, kind- American masses were putting on tee?. ly. "I'll think it over." our most sensitive area was too "Maybe," thought Gallwitz. strong." Reaching Longwy he ordered his West of the Meuse the Ger- engineers to begin moving back mans retreated well, although the his share of that billion marks' daring night marches of the assorted junk, and wired Hinden- Second and First American Di- burg to send him more reserves visions into their lines at Beau- even if the rest of the front had to mont and near Sedan trod hard be withdrawn immediately. For on their weary heels. Yet the here, at the pivot, Col. Keller's center of tactical gravity shifted report showed that another to the heights east of the Meuse, American blow might fall any the hinge whereon had swung the instant. Then arrived G. H. Q.'s retreat of nine-tenths of the whole great artillery expert, the famous German army northward as far Colonel Bruchmuller, called as Holland, to reach the Antwerp- Durchbruchmiiller because he had Meuse Line. But of that line this broken the British and French hinge was also a part—two fronts that spring; he came just reasons why it must not be in time to see a break-through given up. admirably demonstrated; and as Now of that hinge, the eye-bolt for artillery, well, the date was was the Hoheneichberg, which November i, 1018. veterans of the 26th, 29th, 33d more American- and especially the That day "We found the luncheon terrible, Your Honor 79th may not manned artillery than ever before recognize as Borne de Cornou- the ( igars awful and the defendant not guilty" let loose the greatest artillery fire iller— Corn Willy Hill. That was in American history; a hell on the height of heights, for whose earth for the Germans. They left hidden Americans had broken through the last summit fierce combats raged against machine guns without a shot fired; can- prepared position in the Meuse-Argonne, Wiirttemburg mountaineers, Branden- non with muzzle-covers on and piles of protecting Sedan, Longuyon and the burg Fusiliers and Saxon Jagers whose shells untouched. Gallwitz wrote me:"Our strategic railroads vital to the whole artillery fired pointtlank into the olive- front line was not withdrawn." It was German army. And now those life-arter- drab waves.

well-nigh obliterated; it was isolated for ies were overstrained to bursting with For four tragic days and nights those seven hours after the jump-off. And then trains trying to save Hindenburg's billion waves kept coming, until finally they what news Gallwitz got! marks in supplies. So reported Major inundated the crest. The yielding 228th American infantry, outnumbering the Von Seutter after inspecting them and German Division had endured four weeks Germans three to one, and now too ex- nearly starving—even food supply back in line without relief; and its rear was perienced to attack "disjointedly," had there had gone haywire and train guards threatened by our Fifth and 3 2d, crossing smashed his left wing. The American were selling their loads! It was worst the Meuse without artillery preparation, 90th and Fifth had taken Andevanne; his behind the Crown Prince's Army Group, which General Wellmann protested, "the one fresh Division, the 88th, was wrecked though at first he had held the French French would not have done." the tired 27th Germans were counter-at- and the American 77th and 78th Divi- And besides, Marwitz had ordered that tacking. Let us pray! Then at 2:30 word sions pretty well. Now his troops were hereafter the worn-out troops should not from the right wing. Operations-expert pelting backward, right into that traffic be killed in counter-attacks against hope- Wetzell reported with military brevity: jam. From G. H. Q. Major Stiilpnagel less odds, but if worst came to worst, "Entirely overrun." Worse than the left. telephoned confidentially: "This can quietly withdrawn to new lines. The com- The long-awaited Second American and cost the Kaiser his throne!" Group Gall- bat units of the once-proud German the 89th had struck through like a thun- witz must not, for God's sake, yield be- army were become things of shreds and derbolt to Barricourt Ridge. It was the fore the Americans. patches; intermingled regiments of 200 greatest of all American victories in the "All souls!" exclaimed Gallwitz to his men; scarecrows, sleepless, undernour- World War. Marwitz's line was broken; diary. He was between upper and ished, louse-devoured, and nerve-ex- his whole Fifth Army would be, unless nether millstones—his own G. H. Q. and hausted. he retreated. Pershing—and that nether forced him Yet on the whole, they fought bravelyin "How did this happen?" asked Gall- late that night of November 2d to with- the Meuse-Argonne; seldom surrendered witz. "Where were your reserves?" draw some of his weary troops from west in droves, which is one reason why we Marwitz told him. of the Meuse to east. At noon next day took fewer prisoners than British and "All split up," Gallwitz sighed. "And G. H. Q. told him to give them time to French.

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Behind the lines the Germans were physically stronger, but morally weaker; pacifist propaganda raging, straggling so bad many replacements never reached the front. Behind the American front at Longuyon supply troops lay drunk while others from Russia seized a train and started homeward ("We should get killed at one minute before twelve!"); there Captain LOCH was 45 was rebellion in Metz, now threatened by forward thrusts of the American Second Army. Yet G. H. Q. cautioned: when he Led an "Don't be rough with the boys; negotiate with them." Expedition into the That night Gallwitz confesses he had a nightmare. >x Uncharted Jungles Next morning, November 8th, came news that the Kaiser and Crown Prince of Ecuador had abdicated. The latter, visiting his front line, which was in retreat before Captain E. Erskine French and Americans, had read in the Loch's recent explora- tions in Ecuador took eyes of the battle-weary 466th Infantry him over rugged the question, "How much longer?" He mountains 14,000 feet above sea level. had been very touched. His answer came east of the Meuse, where blow by blow the Americans dis- This Retired Army Officer began a New jointed the German pivot so that Gall- witz, begging more reserves, reminded Career as an Explorer when he was 47 the unlamented Ludendorff's successor, General Groener: CAPTAIN E. ERSKINE LOCH'S first taste of the thrills and hard- "Every backward move here narrows ships of an explorer's life was in 1931, when he spent several the space between the coast and Holland, months among the Indian head -shrinkers of South America. From and his own pressure from the southwest, them he heard tales of a savage, elusive tribe— the Ssabellas. into which the enemy is endeavoring to squeeze us." Four years later, he headed an ex- & gestion. Then, gradually, the old, advice pedition to their territory — deep in tired feel- Had G. H. Q. but taken his ing left me. the uncharted jungle near the head- sooner! The morning of November nth I continued eating the yeast and, at 51, I waters of the Amazon. Only Captain that pressure became crushing at the have energy aplenty for a busy 11-12 hour Loch, then 45, and one companion working day. —HAROLD E. WHITE very hinge, and the door flapped crazily had endurance enough to complete along the whole Western Front. Our 79th this journey. Months of searching 54 — Happy in Division stormed the last of the Meuse showed no more than traces of the Active Selling heights and nearby, near Moulins, the Ssabellas, but the long trek over Job Second crushed the fragments of retreat- mountains 14,000 feet above sea level Dear Life Begins: ing Germans against the rough Ardennes resulted in an important find ... a My work used to region their Division's re- so that 88th collection of gold nuggets, believed to be accounting. I al- port says: "In the wood with its steep have been part of the enormous trib- ways wanted an "out- si de" job and a sides and bottomless roads, the Division ute exacted from the Incas. by Pizarro chance to get around. with all its artillery would have fallen But my health was Undaunted by those 16 months of hard- poor. I lacked stam- an easy prey. The artillery was forbidden ship. Captain Loch is planning new ex- Chester A. LeRocker ina. A doctor advised to change position until the infantry plorations. "At 47," he says, "I am at last Gained pep Fleischmann's Yeast. should actually pass through the batter- leading the life I've always wanted." So it became part of Captain Loch has not only vision and dar- my menu. At first, I noticed I wasn't logy ies." after meals. About 3 weeks later, ing, but the accumulated experience and I found hearty meals didn't disagree with me. Their backs were to the wall, but ripened judgment of mature years. And Feeling full of pep and ambition and ready even the them. this wonderful physical energy and sta m- wall was against And he has for a new, more active job, I became a sales- time the reserves were in neither the ina. Especially after 40, poor health may man. With plenty of vitality, I feel fine and be the only thing that holds a man back. happy in my job.—CHESTER A. LeROCKER wrong place nor the right one ; there were * * * no reserves. Then eleven o'clock struck Slower Digestion Can Cause and the insanity was over. GOOD HEALTH is helping these men enjoy their jobs. Read their letters. that After 40 Feeling of Age GALLWITZ wrote in his diary: Around 40, the gastric juices in the "It was the development of Amer- Has Plenty of stomach are likely to flow less freely. ican strength that hastened an ending of Energy for Long Millions of tiny, live yeast plants in every cake the war unfavorable to us." Working Day of Fleischmann's Yeast help stimulate a stronger, fuller flow of Then from his headquarters he went Dear Life Begins: these juices. This one food also gives for a walk in Longwy, and got a shock. you 4 essential vitamins: the Nerve My chief work is The four-years-conquered French city in the automotive Vitamin, Bone Vitamin, Cold-Resist- was mad with joy, people dressed up, trade. Keeping very ance Vitamin and Vitality Vitamin. busy, I need plenty You'll soon learn to like the fresh, houses decorated with home-made French energy. of malty taste of Fleischmann's Yeast. and American flags; children dancing and Shortly after 40, I Eat 3 cakes every day — one cake began to feel run- '/i joyously waving little flags. hour before each meal. The hour down and tired all '/i But Gallwitz stopped that right away. Harold E. White is important. It allows time for an the time—had no aided Digestion extra flow of digestive "As long as we Germans are here," he pep. I was puzzled juices to be what to do, until a friend told me about ready to act promptly on your food ordered, "none but the German flag shall Fleischmann's Yeast. Soon after I started eat- when you eat. fly!" ing it regularly, I found it was aiding my di- Copyright, 1938, Standard Brands Incorporated

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soldiers were victims of the break-up and Major General George Bell, Jr., who veterans who had led men into action consolidations of old peacetime organiza- commanded the 33d Division, is dead. appeared to respect the opinions and tions to build the new war-strength Divi- Because he cannot state his side of charges work of the Illinois brigadier. sions of the National Guard. Physical or reasons why General Hill did not meet It was a mixed battalion of troops from infirmities, lack of capacity to command, with his favor, any reason for lack of con- the sister brigade of the 33d Division yes, the intrusion of politics, all were fidence from Division to brigade com- which was selected to go over the top factors in the elimination of many fine mander must be plain conjecture. This with Australians at Hamel on July 4th, officers, while others apparently less much is fair assumption. A former In- where they gave an excellent account of qualified were retained. spector General of the Army, General themselves. Instead of commendation Henry Hill sat as head of one such Bell was known to be meticulous in his from GHQ for that action, there was hell "plucking board." The weight of testi- regard for military punctilio. Pride of to pay. It was not that General Pershing mony is that he executed his responsi- dress was admittedly not a strong point wished to keep his troops in a glass case bilities judicially without fear or favor. of General Hill. Tailoring, shining boots, that prompted the trouble. Fighting Certainly this blunt soldier was not a the sparkle of his rank interested him not constant French and British determina- political type. But such a task could not at all. He was a workhorse general, hap- tion to use American troops solely as fail to have repercussions, the more con- piest in the field. their own replacements, thereby defeat- scientiously performed the more so. Whatever other antagonisms, instinc- ing the American plan for a distinct and Those spared among the officers often tive or based on conflicts in judgment, distinctive Army, the participation of were close friends of those sacrificed. existed between Generals Bell and Hill those units of the 33d established a dan- Accusations of prejudice and favoritism there unquestionably was a clash of per- gerous precedent. from one friend to another were easier to sonalities. All who knew both men agree Nine days after the Hamel engagement believe than that a man had done his to that. Despite such friction as ap- General Hill was separated from his honest best in passing judgment. That peared on the surface between his im- command under circumstances so abasing grudges and a desire for "revenge" were mediate superior and himself, however, and trivial that their very triviality sug- borne against the man or men deemed General Hill is generally credited with gests premeditated spite. responsible in those unhappy days was having done an excellent job in whipping On July 13th the Division was engaged inevitable. One evidence of fairness is in his brigade into shape. The regular officer in a training exercise behind the fines the record in favor of Henry Hill in his who succeeded to command the 65 th simulating an offensive action. In a role of judge of officers. When one regi- Brigade, the late Major General Edward memorandum dated July nth the Divi- ment of infantry was designated to be L. King, is said to have voluntarily writ- sion Commander had devoted a para- changed into heavy field artillery, General ten such a testimonial. Certainly the graph to the necessity of all ranks wearing Hill interceded forcefully when large brigade measured up to the standards of iron hats and gas masks throughout the numbers of officers were headed for de- any untried National Guard unit when it maneuver. "Results are wanted, not ex- capitation because of lack of adaptability was assembled for training with the planations or excuses," was one phrase to the changed weapons entrusted to Fourth British Army in the Amiens sector employed, and disciplinary action was their commands. He made the point, and in France in late May, 1018. The British promised for failure to comply, unit com- he made it stick, that a manders being held re- man who had devoted his sponsible. In a supple- career to mastering in- mentary memo issued by fantry tactics should not We of the Legion represent a tremendous buying General Hill the Division be dismissed from the Commander's instructions power for nationally advertised products. As a service because the Gov- were passed on to all unit matter of fact, the Federal ernment arbitrarily sup- a recent survey by Ross commanders. planted rifles with howit- Research Corporation shows that the total income At any rate General Hill zers for an officer to com- of all Legionnaires is $2,464,000,000. led his brigade forward on mand. exact schedule two days this There was then such un- We know from survey that better than 95% later. Halting the com- fortunate background as of Legionnaires are gainfully employed and that mand, he had drawn aside foundation for the later 36.5% own their business. With a market as rich to write his attack order of the general com- when the divisional chief fate as this, it is of great value to product manufac- manding the 65th Infantry of staff rode up and placed turers who advertise in our magazine. Brigade. It is said that him under arrest, by order certain officers whose It is our job to harness this buying power and of the Division Command- er, ordering him to turn friends had been sacrificed continue to make the advertising appearing in our by General Hill's board over his transportation to magazine profitable to the advertisers. Like every gained the ear of the Di- the next in command. other investor, the national manufacturer must vision Commander to whis- General Hill asked the per poison against the make his advertising expenditure profitable. May reason for his arrest. He brigade commander. Others we suggest that you continue to buy merchandise was not answered. testify to the fact that in advertised in The American Legion Magazine There is then the picture saving to the service the of this National Guard when you are in the market for these products. infantry officers who general who had devoted would have been sacrificed And buy from a Legionnaire dealer. his adult life in preparation because they did not readi- to serve his country, and ly absorb artillery tech- Advertising Department further had demonstrated nique, General Hill had THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE his ability to command a become involved in differ- brigade with Regular Army ences with his superior. officers, not merely relieved

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine of command but ordered in arrest with no reason stated for the action. Humiliated, he is obliged to plod back Remington Ammunition is to his billet on foot before his men, baf- fled and bewildered by it all. His face was flushed that day, his blue eyes blazed in anger. Gone are adjutant and aide-de- camp. Likewise absent is clerical help to RIGHT do his bidding. The letter he wrote on that day of his abasement, perforce in Jvrawpkindefgame. . . any make tfgun longhand, still exists.

July 13, 1918 From: Brig. Genl H. R. Hill, N. A. To: Commanding General, 33rd Divi- sion. Subject: My arrest. 1. About 10 a. m. this date while on the Divisional Problem near Vigna- court I was placed in arrest by your Chief of Staff by your order, and ordered to report to my billets, first turning over my transportation to my Senior Regi- mental Commander. No reason was as- signed, though requested, and I now re- quest of you the reason. Henry R. Hill

There was no reply for several days, but at length it was made known that the Division Commander had seen "several" men not wearing the prescribed iron hats. In any event it was a hot day, the man- euver wholly theoretical, but from papers still available it would appear that of the 7000 men composing the brigade, the offenders observed by General Bell con- sisted of a few men of the Signal Corps detachment who had been away at a serv- ice school until immediately prior to the beginning of the maneuver, and another soldier, subsequently identified as on a liaison mission from the 66th Brigade. That similar lapses occurred in other divisional units, notably an entire regi- ment of engineers, there are officers who will testify today, but no other unit com- manders save the senior regimental com- mander who succeeded to command the 65th Brigade were called to account. Colonel Charles H. Greene, however, was restored to duty, though subsequently detailed to the S. O. S., but with rank unimpaired. 1. GRIZZLY BEAR—ALASKAN BROWN BEAR- 4. LYNX— BOBCAT—WOODCHUCK—COYOTES It was thus that General Hill was sep- MOOSE— CARIBOU— WALRUS. Heavy, hard- — WOLVES — FOX — BADGER. Recommended arated from his command. Disregarding driving Remington cartridges are recom- are .32 Spec. Win. 165 gr. "Express" Mushroom; mended, such as .35 Rem. 200 gr. "Express" .25-20, 60 gr. "Hi-Speed" Mushroom; .32-20, 100 the picayunish detail of the excuse for Mushroom; .30'06 Springfield 220 gr. "Express" gr. soft point; .38-40, 180 gr. soft point; .22 Hor- the action, conceding the legal right under Mushroom; .348 Win. 200 gr. soft point; .30-40 net .45 gr. "Hi-Speed" Mushroom. military law for the Division Commander Krag 220 gr. "Express" Mushroom; 8m/ m 236 to rid himself of a disliked subordinate, gr. soft point; and similar powerful loads. All modern Remington cartridges have Klean- there is apparent a rankling humiliation 2. MOUNTAIN SHEEP — MOUNTAIN GOATS- bore priming, non-fouling jackets, Oil-Proof entirely uncalled for which would have ANTELOPE. "Hi-Speed" Remington Bullets sealing, progressive burning powder, plus the right combination prompted a man of lesser ideals to feel with Hat trajectories for accurate long range of bullet weight, type of shooting are needed: .35 Rem. 150 gr. "Hi- bullet and powder charge for every kind of game. himself well out of such an Army, or more Speed" Mushroom; .257 Rem. Roberts 117 gr. Kleanbore, Hi-Speed, Express practicably to raise hob with the home "Express" Mushroom; .30'06 Springfield 180 gr. and Oil-Proof are politicos to exert Washington influence. "Hi-Speed" bronze point expanding; .30-40 Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. by Remington Arms Co., Inc. Being relieved of command, however, Krag 180 gr. "Hi-Speed" bronze point expand- ing bullets. did not mean that General Hill auto- MOUNTAIN LION BLACK matically lost his rank by reason of his 3. DEER — ELK — — BEAR— SEAL—JAGUAR. Any of cartridgesabove arrest. Dereliction remained to be proved. are effective. Also suitable are the .32 Rem. 165 Versed in military law as he was, the gr. "Express" Mushroom; .25 Rem. 87 gr. "Hi- guardsman knew that separation from Speed" Mushroom; .30-30 Win. 170 gr. soft cartridges for deer in some sec- the service could be only "by order of the point. Favorite tions include .303 Savage, .25-35 Win., .45-70 President, or a general courtmartial." SJPONI by Gov't., .32-40 Win., .44-40 Win., .35 Win. There is nothing in the official record of complete chart Remington high cartridges General Hill to (Continued 011 page 52) Write for of Power

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indicate the existence of any other evi- schoolmate and brother officer, writes: chilling downpour on the black night of dence unfitting him for command. Such "Henry was offered a colonelcy in the September 29th to relieve the 37th being the case, it is doubtful that the S.O.S. He was not satisfied with this and Division. President out of hand would have told them (members of the reclassifica- That march to take over from the Ohio ordered his separation from the service. tion board) that he would rather serve as Guardsmen is one of the epics of human On the facts stated it is equally incon- a private soldier in the front lines than as endurance and perseverance in the World ceivable that a general courtmartial a colonel in the rear." War. The divisional front was a jungle of could have justified a verdict to the same Major Hill could not have been other barbed wire, the principal "road" that purpose. One must believe that General than pleased with his assignment, com- hideous mockery of mine craters, shell- Hill had he so desired could have retained manding the Second Battalion of the holes and wire that led to Montfaucon his rank, even though he could not regain 128th Infantry, 64th (Wisconsin) Bri- from Avocourt. Rain-soaked, cold, be- his command or secure another one. gade, 3 2d Division. draggled, with each man carrying 78 It is with understanding of how this Tested and proved veterans were the pounds of equipment, slipping, sliding, innocent, proud Rational Guard general Red Arrows when the raw-boned, blunt falling through the mud, threading dismissed bitterness and resentment from new major took over his command. through feeder roads jammed with im- his mind that one may appreciate the Arrived overseas in February, the Divi- movable vehicles, in utter blackness the quality of his patriotism. sion, after front-line training in Alsace, Division groped its way to accomplish had distinguished itself in the Aisne- the relief by the night of September 30th. THERE are those who say that Gen- Marne offensive. From the end of July No general's car, no horse, was now avail- eral Hill was offered a commission as to August 7th the 3 2d, against the pick able to the former brigadier. He sloshed a brigade commander with the British of German troops, notably the Fourth on foot, herding his battalion over the Army through British officers who ad- Prussian Guards, had advanced 19 kilom- tortured, desolate rise and fall of wired mired his ability. There is no documen- eters in seven days of hard fighting, and pitted hills and valleys, thick with tary evidence to support such a story. It across the Ourcq and the Vesle to Fismes. dead among the shattered trees. is said that he was offered a commission Combined losses for that action were Other divisional units, defying high as full colonel in the Service of Supply if 4200. Then, from August 27th to Septem- explosive, shrapnel, gas bombardments he would tender his resignation as a ber 1st, the Division had taken Juvigny and massed machine guns, accomplished brigadier, but any confirming record of plateau, key to the Chemin des Dames, as the capture of Cierges from October 1st that is also lacking. part of General Mangin's Tenth French to 4th. Except for such strafing as all sup-

All that is of record is that General Army. Tactically the capture was a bril- port troops suffered, the 64th Brigade Hill traveled to the reclassification center liant American triumph. The 128th In- did not see action until October 5th, at Blois, where, despite the fact that his fantry bore the brunt of that offensive, when the Wisconsin brigade took over certificate of capacity as a colonel of in- which cost the Division another 2500 the front of the torn 91st Division. fantry still remained in effect signed by men. an Assistant Secretary of War, he ac- The ex-brigadier was but one of 5000 FROM then on Major Hill's battalion cepted a commission as a major of infan- replacements - to report to the shattered was in the front lines. It took part in try. His appointment in the lower rank Division at Joinville where, with the out- the give-and-take battle for Gesnes. In was dated August 29, 191 8 and two days fit still far short of prescribed strength, silencing machine guns on the heights later he was honorably discharged as a reorganization went forward. It is prob- commanding the roads into town he was brigadier general "for the convenience able that the battle-hardened veterans ever up with the first lines. How he en- of the Government." glanced askance at the new battalion joyed this test he related in a brief note How his release from arrest was ac- commander. He had yet to see action. to Colonel Naylor. Another note he complished, what he did, whom he saw But there was promise in his eager self- wrote remains among Major Hill's in the seven weeks between his separation confidence and energy as he reorganized effects. from command and his "reclassification" his decimated unit. Message at P. C. Boise Circes as a major no one now knows with assur- Major King, aforementioned life-long 9 Oct. '18-12:30 the type of friend of General Hill, relates that dis- ance, for he was not man to he From CO 2d Bn., 128th write of his troubles, even to his closest cussed the death of his friend with Colo- , TO CO 128th Inf. friends back home. nel R. B. McCoy, the regimental com- A gas shell just burst in my P. C. When he accepted that drastic reduc- mander, as Colonel McCoy was recuper- severely and dangerously wounding Lt. tion in rank he did write to Colonel Wil- ating in a hospital following the Armis- Dickinson, several runners and two men liam K. Naylor, his friend in the service tice. of Signal Detachment. I was well gassed but will be on the job; will have to reor- and the Chief of Staff whose unpleasant ganize my whole liaison, two men were duty it had been to place him under ar- McCoy said that when COLONEL hit in the stomach and several others will rest by superior orders. The letter has Major Hill reported for duty, he be evacuated. Send a Sgt. to take Sgt.

lost its tenor remains in the . been but (McCoy), knowing the background of his Shore's place. mind of Naylor, now a brigadier general - new battalion commander, arose and Major Hill commanding at Fort Benjamin Harrison. saluted first. "Never mind the salute, Transmitted by Capt. Ewing 12:55 p.m. All his life, Henry Hill wrote, he had colonel," said Henry Hill. "I am only a posed as a soldier, a combat officer. All major now and reporting for duty." On October nth and 12th the 128th that he wanted now was to prove to the The 3 2d was not to take part in the joined in capturing the formidable Tran- world that he was what he purported to St. Mihiel romp. Nor was it fated to be chee de la Mamelle, key to the Kriem- be. To get the chance to prove himself his in the jump-off in the Meuse-Argonne hilde Stellung. Five hundred prisoners rank was unimportant. There is reason to on September 26th. Arriving in the Fifth were taken after bloody hand-to-hand

believe he would have accepted a second Corps area near Dombasle on the 22d, it fighting. lieutenancy if combat action had been was at first designated in support of the As a result, the 3 2d Division was first assured by such a demotion. 79th Division, then as corps reserve. to pierce that supposedly impregnable Indeed, Major Hugh E. King, a former Battle orders came in the midst of a bone- main defense of the Kriemhilde, as the

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town of Romagne was its strong-point in that sector. The 128th Infantry led the way. Through the mist and fog of the morning of October 14th Major Hill's battalion jumped off. Colonel A. H. Gassner of the 125th Infantry, then a major in support of Hill's battalion, has written: "We could watch the heroic advance of Major Hill and his battalion on the left of the road to Romagne. Through one Boche line after another, taking prison- ers, machine guns and trench mortars, the Yanks pushed resolutely their initial advantage until half a kilometer from Romagne when human effort could do no more. Our attack stopped but our fire continued. "We then discovered well concealed German traverses and trenches and by 1:30 we had mopped up Romagne, cap- turing more than 100 prisoners of the Second Prussian Fusilier Guard besides men from other Prussian units. There- upon Major Hill rushed the last line and came up on our left. We spent several hours getting our men under cover, for // we knew that the enemy's retaliatory Better, Jean? Listen-' fire would soon blast Romagne. It did, but our men were most all in German bombproofs and trenches and losses were "... back in '96, when I started work for G.E., we worked 10 relatively small. hours a day, 6 days a week. Eighteen cents an hour was pretty good "Just after dark I went over to plan the night defense with Major Hill. His men pay. And in our shop we did almost everything by hand. had just brought him some sandwiches "Look at things now—eight-hour days and five-day weeks. I read and cold coffee. These he cheerfully average factory pay is cents an hour. That's shared with me. His one regret was losing the other day that the 67 so many officers and men. Not one cap- a big improvement during one lifetime!" tain remained. Lieutenant Gottschalk of Milwaukee was second in command. TT is a big improvement — between the time when Jeanette "We 'nspected our front lines, going from shell-hole to shell-hole between Wright's grandfather started work and a few months ago when bursts of artillery and machine-gun fire. Jeanette followed her father, grandfather and great-grandfather About midnight we parted. At five the next morning I went over in the mist and joined the General Electric organization. Hours reduced one and darkness to coordinate our attack, third; factory wages increased nearly fourfold. What made this ordered for 6:30 A. m. Major Hill was possible? What has brought about this progress? just aligning his waves for the attack, and after a thorough understanding as to The answer lies in the increase in the effectiveness of each worker's the points each would attack, we parted. I can see him yet, with his automatic in labor. In 1896 the average factory worker had only one horse- his right hand leading his men through power of mechanical aid. Today each factory worker has 12 horse- the woods to the jumping-off place at the edge of the underbrush. He was in the power of mechanical power to help him produce. And because he front line, as usual. Peace-time training produces more, he has more. This progress has been steady, placed a major well to the rear to direct through good years and bad. And it has come about largely the attack by signal and field telephone. Not so Major Hill! because electricity has been put to work to help create more goods "It seemed as though the Germans for more people at less cost, more and better jobs at higher wages, knew the very hour of attack, but that was due to the American method of at- and a higher living standard for all. General Electric, for sixty tacking just before dawn or directly after years, has been making electricity more useful. dark. The enemy was still strong in ar- tillery, machine guns, trench mortars G-E research and engineering have saved the publicfrom ten to one hundred and liquid fire, but when it came to the dollars every dollar they have earned General Electric bayonet push his men quit cold. for for "Full well we knew that, so we pressed every attack as quickly as possible to close quarters. That was precisely what GENERAL ELECTRIC Major Hill was doing. He knew best just f| where to look for enemy machine guns. 1938 — OUR SIXTIETH YEAR OF ELECTRICAL PROGRESS— He knew how quickly to get to them and silence them. So he was out in front of his men, and they {Continued on page 54)

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(Continued from page 53) followed his personal leadership instead jective, and cleaned out enemy machine- The American Legion Post in Quincy of his signals or order. The companies had gun nests. When a group of enemy ma- originally was named for Henry R. Hill chine gunners were about to open fire been so decimated by death and wounds alone. In the democracy of the Legion on his flank Major Hill noticed them, that the few men remaining had to be another name was later added, that of and, armed only with a captured pistol, well directed to do any good. Joseph W. Emery, Jr. yet one more he immediately went forward to engage — battalion, using the lines of least hero son of Quincy, a lieutenant in the "My them. Taken by surprise, three of the resistance, entered the southern edge of crew surrendered, but one, remaining in Ninth Infantry of the Second Division, the Bois de Chauvignon, mopping up the pit, turned the machine gun on him, who, in the slaughter at Soissons left the enemy trenches and machine guns. Most and as Major Hill's pistol failed to work security of his post as a staff officer to die had fled in the mist when they saw bayon- he was instantly killed by the machine in action, and who also is honored with a ets coming. Hardly had we got set for gun fire. Distinguished Service Cross posthu- Posthumously awarded. Medal pre- any possible counter-attack when word mously awarded. Henry R. Hill-Joseph sented to mother, Mrs. Cecelia R. Hill, came that Major Hill had been instantly W. Emery, Jr., Post has been one of the 516 Main Street, Quincy, Illinois. killed at the head of his first wave. From largest in the Legion, with more than the edge of the woods we could see his 1000 members. There is yet another story, that at regi- body lying on the gentle slope within mental headquarters there was awaiting Besides the drinking fountain there is pistol shot of the enemy machine-gun Major Hill at the moment of his death a yet another memorial to Henry R. Hill. nest in that sector." new commission, not that of brigadier A 100-bed hospital at the Illinois Soldiers There is a discrepancy of one day in Sailors outskirts of general it is true, but of full colonel of and Home on the the eye-witness account of Colonel Gann- is the Hill infantry. There is no such notation on Quincy named Henry Root ser, which is easily explained by the loss his official record. Memorial Hospital. Cecelia Hill was of all sense of time in the dog- benumbed Close to the spot where the former alive, but too feeble to leave her apart- gedness of a Division which remained brigadier was killed now stands the ment, when the cornerstone was laid. twenty days in fierce action, the cita- and largest cemetery of American soldier She had died before the humane institu- tion accompanying the Distinguished dead in France. But he does not rest tion was dedicated. Service Cross, posthumously awarded. there. At his mother's request his body A fitting epitaph was spoken by Briga- Colonel Gannser's story would fix the was brought home. He sleeps beneath a dier General Naylor who had been close date as October 15th when Major Hill modest monument, an Episcopalian to General Hill for two years before his was killed. The official citation reads: cross, on a Mississippi bluff dominating separation from command. the river where Tom Sawyer played. In "Not all brigade commanders could Henry R. Hill, 128th Infantry, 32a that quiet cemetery there is also an im- effectively lead a battalion—but an officer Division. pressive structure where on Memorial who could lead a battalion as did Henry For extraordinary heroism in action Hill could command a brigade with high nearRomagne-sous-Montfaucon, France, Day The American Legion pays tribute success. able. proved that October 16, iqi8. to the departed service men of Illinois. He was He With absolute disregard for his per- It was erected with funds left to the Le- ability in action—and in death. The sonal safety Major Hill led his battalion gion and its Auxiliary by the late Cecelia patriotism of Henry Hill soared above over the top personally, reached the ob- Hill. all detail of rank."

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SEPTEMBER 18 ers. In the Vosgcs a hostile raiding party was son in a large supply of flour under his care. repulsed with losses. Aside from artillery activity in Lorraine aitd Copy of Cologne Gazette reaching America SEPTEMRER 21 in Alsace there is nothing of importance to contains story of bombardment by German Aside from patrol encounters and increased report from the sectors occupied by our troops. submarines off Wilmington, North Carolina, aviation activity in the Woevre, the day was In the course of a bombing operation in Lor- and Charleston, South Carolina, and de- uneventful in the sectors occupied by our troops. raine our aviators were attacked by superior scribes "terror" of other Atlantic Coast cities Headquarters, Eighty-Sixth Division, ar- forces. Five of our machines are missing. which have "implored" the Government to rives in England; Thirty-Fifth Division Leading units of Eighty-First Division, protect them from a like fate. moves into woods near Grange-le-Comte affiliated with French 20th, enter St. Die Former Russian her daughters Farm; Seventy-Seventh Division, having re- Sector and relieve Ninety-Second Division. empress and were burned to death a month after the Czar lieved French 120th, reorganizes Foret-d'Ar- British attack before St. Quentin, crossing was shot when the house in which they were gonne Sector. Hindenburg Line; French score advances in in hiding Stirred by openly avowed campaign of south. was attacked by a mob, declares London dispatch. mass terrorism and wholesale executions John W. Davis of West Virginia, Solicitor in Russia, Secretary of State Lansing asks all General, is announced as choice to succeed SEPTEMRER 20 governments '"to take some immediate action Walter Hines Page as Ambassador to Great Renewed attempts the enemy to raid our which is entirely divorced from the atmos- Britain. of lines at four points in the Woevrc and in the phere of belligerency and the conduct of the Five soldiers are killed and twenty injured Vosges were repulsed. Aside artillery war, to impress upon the perpetrators of when troop train and freight collide head-on from activity in the Woevre these crimes the aversion with which civiliza- near Marshfield, Missouri. and in Alsace there is nothing to report. tion regards their present wanton acts." War Industries Board orders hat manufac- further Twenty-Eighth Division completes relief Two thousand of the 47,000 men in train- turers to introduce no new styles for straw of French units in Boureilles area; Eighty- ing at the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta- hats next season, and turn out no more than Second Division relieved by French. tion near Chicago are suffering from Spanish enough hats to meet the estimated demand. Total number of influenza cases at nine influenza. Disease is now reported from nine 19 army camps set at 0,313, with Camp Devens, Army camps—Devens, Upton, Lee, Dix, SEPTEMBER Massachusetts, alone reporting 6,583. Gordon, Syracuse, Humphreys, Merritt, and In the Woerore ow detachments successfully An army cook is held at Camp Wright, Lewis. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant raided the enemy's lines, capturing ij prison- New Jersey, on charges of having placed poi- Secretary of the Navy, who has had a mild

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 55 case of post-influenza pneumonia, is improv- ing. There should be no need of rationing of food in the United States during 1010, Food Controller Hoover says, but each person must save one-half a pound a week in consumption of bread and meats and fats. SEPTEMBER 22 In the Woevre our raiding parties penetrated the enemy's Ivies at two points, inflicted numerous casualties and brought back 25 pris- oners. A hostile detachment which attempted to reach our positions was repulsed, leaving two of its men in our hands. Ninety-First Division completes relief of French in Aubreville Sector; Fourth moves in- to assembly positions near Esnes; Twenty- Seventh enters Tincourt-Boucly area, near Peronne, becoming corps reserve with British Fourth Army; French relieve Twenty-Ninth Division in Center Sector, Alsace, latter proceeding to First American Army area near Conde-en-Barrois. British forces under General Allenby sweeping across the famous battlefield of Armageddon in Palestine have advanced sixty miles and captured more than 18,000 Turkish prisoners; Nazareth has fallen, ac- cording to British War Office statement. American delegation which is to confer with Germans on exchange of military and civil prisoners arrives at Berne, Switzerland. August food prices were two percent higher than July's, seventy percent above those of August, 1913, Washington announces. SEPTEMBER 23 In the Woevre our raiding parties "were again active, bringing in 29 prisoners and two ma- chine guns. Three, hostile raids in the Woevre and in the Vosges were repulsed. Thirty-Seventh Division enters main line of resistance in rear of front between Avo- court and La Cour.

National prohibition effective July 1, 1919, for the period of the war is approved by the House of Representatives, which adopts, 171 to 34, the Senate prohibition rider to the $12,000,000 Emergency Agricultural Appro- priation Bill. At least twenty-five army camps now have influenza cases, Washington announces. Benny Leonard and Ted (Kid) Lewis box eight rounds to a draw for the world's welter- GREYHOUND weight championship at Newark, Newjersey. SEPTEMBEB 24 you roared out that fine old song, as you In the Woevre a successful raiding party GREYHOUND TRAVEL • How brought in prisoners. Aside from increased ar- BUREAUS sloshed through the mud and rain to St. Mihiel or tillery activity in the same sectors there is noth- the Argonne—exactly 20 years ago! Cleveland, O. . . . East 9th & Superior ing further to report. Philadelphia, Pa. . . Broad St. Station Thirtieth Division relieves Australian New York City. . . 245 W. 50th Street Today there's new zip and meaning in the old words First Division east Yilleret takes of and Chicago, III 12th & Wabash —for the "Long Trail" is shortened and smoothed command; Ninety-Second Division assembles San Francisco, Cal., Pine & Battery Sts. in Argonne Forest northwest of Clermont; Ft. Worth, Tex. . 905 Commerce Street out, as you roll by Greyhound to the Los Angeles 370th Infantry, Ninety-Third Division, en- Charleston, W. Va.,155 Summers Street Minn., 509 Sixth Ave., N. Convention, again to join the old gang you bunked ters line near Champ-Vailly (Oise-Aisne Minneapolis, Boston, Mass 60 Park Square Operation); Eighty-Sixth Division (less artil- and bellyached with in 1918. Washington, D. C lery) moves to East Bordeaux Area for train- 1403 New York Avenue, N. W. Good riding, good sightseeing, good ing. Detroit, Mich company—and Blvd. at Grand River Fourth Liberty Loan will be for $6,000,- .... Washington a swell saving—all are yours, traveling in one of 000,000 at four and a quarter percent, same St. Louis, Mo., Broadway & Delmor Blvd. Lexington, Ky 801 N. Limestone Greyhound's swanky new Super-Coaches. rate as last, Treasury announces; the bonds Memphis, Tenn. . . 527 N. Main Street will mature October 15, 1938. St. New Orleans, La. . 400 N. Rampart So—on your toes, Legionnaire! Get the boys together, Senator Thompson, Democrat, of Kansas, Cincinnati, O. 630 Walnut Street visit see local agent, . the and back from to Western Front, tells Sen- Richmond, Va. . . 412 E. Broad Street Greyhound get going to-

. . . 403 Ouellette Ave. ate general opinion abroad is that it will Windsor, Ont. ward the land of sunshine and prunes— for the best take another year to bring Germany to her London, England . . . knees. A. B. Reynoldson, 49 L< idenhall Street convention of them all! Nearly three thousand new influenza cases reported from home army camps, with total set at 23,000, of which 10,789 are at Camp This brings rates, routes, facts on your trip Devens. Want to know how little it costs— best route to follow — good places to stop en route? Mail this coupon to nearest Greyhound office listed at left. We'll SEPTEMBER 25 also send that very popular pictorial booklet "THIS AMAZING AMERICA." The day passed quietly in the sectors occu- pied by our troops. Name. Twenty-Seventh Division relieves British 1 8th and 74th Divisions near Malakoff Farm; • . AL-9 the Second American {Continued on page 56) Address

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Corps, to which the Twenty-Seventh is as- timied its attack begun yesterday. The towns of who has been forced hastily to bring up and signed, is affiliated with the Australian Corps. Charpentry, Very, Epiiumville and Ivoiry were engage Divisions from other parts of the front. Henry Ford, in letter to Michigan Demo- taken. Repeated hostile counter-attacks on Ma- Between Cicrges and the valley of the A ire we cratic State Convention, says he will accept jor General Camcro)i's Corps were thrown back have met and repulsed heavy counter-attacks. nomination for United States Senator but by troops from Ohio, from New Jersey, Mary- Twenty-Seventh Division goes through will not be bound by any party consideration. land and Virginia, and from Oregon, Washing- Hindenburg Line near Le Catelet. Thirtieth Influenza is now prevalent in twenty-six ton, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. The crosses canal tunnel, captures Bellicourt and States from coast to coast and is epidemic captured material includes over 100 guns, of enters Nauroy. in New England, health authorities state. which 12 are heavy calibres, many trench mor- Advance detachment, Thirty-First Divi- Camp Devens reported 342 new cases today tars and hundreds of machine guns. The num- sion, sails from Hoboken. and 72 deaths. ber of prisoners has risen to over 8,000, includ- Bulgaria quits the war, surrendering un- ing 125 officers. conditionally. SEPTEMBER 26 French attack east of Reims gains five Germany, through the Swiss Legation, This morning northwest of Verdun the First miles; British thrust near Cambrai on four- sends ultimatum to LT nited States against Army attacked the enemy on a front of 20 miles teen-mile front crosses Canal du Nord and use of shotguns by American soldiers; claim and penetrated his lines to an average depth of pierces Hindenburg Line. is made that prisoners from the Fifth and seven miles. Pennsylvania, Kansas and Mis- German forces of occupation begin to retire Seventy-Seventh Divisions were found to souri troops serving in Major General Liggctl's from Rumania. have these weapons when captured; penalty Corps stormed Varenncs, Montblainvillc, Vau- is death, Germany warns. quois and Cheppy after stubborn resistance. SEPTEMBER 28 War Department notifies New York Secre- Troops of other corps, crossing the Forges The attack begun on September 26 continues tary of State that taking of vote of New York brook, captured the Bois de Forges and wrested to develop successfully. Today our troops, ad- members of A. E. F. would seriously interfere from the enemy the towns of Malancourt, Belh- vancing in the face of heavy infantry, artillery with military operations. Probably no soldier incourt, Montfaucon, Cuisy, Nantillois, Sept- and machine gun fire have reached the outskirts in the A.E.F. will have opportunity of cast- sarges, Dannevoux and Gervourt-el-Drillan- of Prieulles and Exermont. Afore than 20 towns ing a ballot. court. The prisoners thus far reported number a>id enormous quantities of material have fallen New York City puts squads of physicians over 5,000. (Divisions in line on opening day into our liatids. The number of prisoners con- and nurses at railroad stations as influenza of the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne were, tinues to increase. American aviators have kept toll mounts throughout East; 85,000 cases from west to east, Ninety-Second, Seventy- command of the air. They have brought down 12 now in Massachusetts. Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Thirty-Fifth, Nine- balloons and more than 60 enemy planes, while ty-First, Thirty-Seventh, Seventy-Ninth, less than a third of that number of our planes SEPTEMBEB 30 Fourth, Eightieth, Thirty-Third.) are missing. In conjunction with French and From the Meuse to the A isne our troops have Influenza epidemic causes Provost Marshal British aviators they have, notwithstanding un- maintained and consolidated their newly cap- General Crowder to call off orders for entrap- favorable weather, rendered valuable service and tured positions in the face of counter-attacks ment of 142,000 draft registrants scheduled successfully executed many missions. and heavy gas and artillery bombardments. to leave for camps between October 7th and Congress appropriates million for use of No longer do the Germans hold any French nth; Lieutenant Governor Coolidge of Mas- Public Health Service in fighting influenza; Department in its entirety, Paris announces; sachusetts appeals to President Wilson and a recently-discovered serum which has been recapture of four communes in the Depart- governors of neighboring States and Cana- used with some success will be administered ment of Ardennes has brought this condition dian officials to send physicians and nurses; to sufferers. to pass. there have been 853 influenza deaths in Four-Minute Speakers, 150,000 strong, go British in outskirts of Cambrai and St. Massachusetts since September 14th. into action in all parts of the nation as Fourth Quentin, captured Messines Ridge; French Miss Katherine Stinson, only woman air- Liberty Loan campaign gets under way. advance on seven-mile front between the mail carrier, makes first non-stop flight from A total of 21,000,000 gallons of gasoline Aisne and the Yesle. Washington to Belmont Park, Long Island, have been saved for use of the A. E. F. Third Division relieves Seventy-Ninth, with mail—time, three hours and four through "gasolineless Sundays," Federal Thirty-Second relieves Thirty-Seventh in minutes. Fuel Administration asserts; three such Meuse-Argonne battle; Eighty- Ninth re- United States Naval Patrol Ship Tampa is additional Sundays may be necessary to in- lieves Forty-Second in Pannes Sector, Lor- torpedoed and sunk, with all on board, 118 sure adequate supply. raine; Second Division begins relief of French officers and men, in Bristol Channel. 61st and 21st north of Somme-py. SEPTEMBEB 29 American troops transported to France SEPTEMBER 27 Our troops have continue I to meet with de- during month, 257,457; total to date, iA Northwest of Verdun the First Army con- termined resistance on the part of the enemy, 868,884; troops returned, 1,766.

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were away out in front. Naturally, Bert Bradford, or whether she was kidnaped where the child disappeared was combed H. Hickman Post wants to know if a and carried away. No trace of the child by a cordon of men extended in line and similar award has been made by any other has been found since that afternoon when almost touching elbows. All business in Legion Post. Until all returns are in they she, in company with an eleven-year-old the Bradford section was suspended will claim their twin award to be unique. sister, set out to pick some wild flowers while the search continued. When this for their mother. When she failed to ap- careful scouring of the area failed in re- Marjory West pear and failed to answer calls, an alarm covering the lost child, the first suspicion was sent out and a search begun which of kidnaping became more and more con- STARK tragedy was visited upon thoroughly covered the section where the firmed. Bradford Post offered a reward Legionnaire and Mrs. Shirley M. picnic was held, and, in a more general of $200; McKeen Voiture, Forty and West of Bradford, Pennsylvania, on last way, has extended to all parts of the Eight, added $50, and this fund was in- Mothers' Day when their little five-year- State. creased by subsequent subscriptions to old daughter, Marjory, disappeared. The father is a member of Bradford $3,000 as an inducement to continue the To this day it has not been determined (Pennsylvania) Post, and it was to his search. In her first radio appeal for return whether she wandered away from the organization that he turned first. The of the lost child, the mother pleaded with family picnic party, which was held near Post responded in man-power in a search the kidnaper to deliver Marjory to her Marshburg, thirteen miles southwest of lasting several days, when the section home or to the nearest Legion Post.

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57 Though nearly three months have passed since Marjory dropped from sight, Mr. and Mrs. West refuse to believe that GET THIS BIG FAMILY HELP! all hope is gone. They still cling to the ONLY A FEW CENTS A DAY! FREE HOME TRIAL! faintly comforting thought that their WIVES! A Royal Portable beloved little daughter may have been helps HUSBANDS! The right idea children do better it gives presented right is worth real

kidnaped by some one who will treat her them new interest ! Husbands money. Make yours count with become more business-] ike^~ a Royal. Use it, too, to make with kindness. On this premise, they still wives, too. You'll help your all your letters and reports read- family more——you'll do more have hope that Marjory will be found and able, impressive . . . build a yourself. better income! returned to them, and with this hope they still appeal to Legionnaires to be watchful. Marjory West was nearly five years old when she disappeared; she has red hair, blue eyes and freckles, and is bright and active for her age. She knows her name and address and speaks with a slight slur- CHILDREN! A Royal Portable ill help ring of the letter r. When last seen she you wri e faster, think faster- -It will help you with your home-wc wore a red hat and blue coat. you an opportunity to do r

more in school and later on I Pants Guard Club OWN A HELP YOUR STUDENTS START SCHOOL RIGH WELL, that's something new and novel. But it's worth a trial. The WITHOUT RISKING a penny see ROYAL and try a genuine, factory-new game is played with a bicycle and an odd Royal Portable. See how the whole family takes to it. Then own it on clothes of a by-gone day. It lot of sport PORTABLE your own terms—cash or only a jew finishes with a big appetite, charley- cents a day Mail coupon today for ON YOUR complete, up-to-minute inf ormation arnica. least that's what horses and At OWN TERMS — all about Royal's offer. the Step Keeper reads between the lines of Historian Ed Moran's report of the ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY, Inc. first outing of the Binghamton (New FREE/ Dept. C-441, 2 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Typing York) Post's newly organized Pants Royal's Instant Tell me how I can own for only a 1 ic cents a duy- a latest model Chart, shows you how to Itiyal Portable— with FREE HOME TUIAL. Guard Club. type RIGHT. (110 YOU OWN A TYPEWRITER NOW? Then make It help pay! Write Make Serial No. on coupon for Early one summer Sunday morning INCLUDED with every and margin full trade-in value.) Royal Portable at no extra A'-l.WJ? . . STREET- thirty-five members of the newly-or- cost — a handsome all* weather Carrying Case. ganized Pants Guard Club rolled out of bed, put on sport clothes of the vintage worn away back in the middle nineties, sneaked the bicycle belonging to the young hopeful out of the family garage NOTHING and stole down the back streets to the Binghamton Post home. Some of the HAS BEEN CHANGED club members appeared with (synthetic) handle-bar mustaches, moth-eaten Prince BUT THE PRICE! Albert coats, and striped blazers. They had mounts of all kinds, including one gear-shift tandem bike. The procession moved out with a police escort on motorcycles, the Post bugler tooting hunting calls, and a casualty truck with red cross banners brought up the rear. A sizzling hot breakfast at the end of a six-mile run, then back to the humdrum and routine of daily life—and to arnica for the charley-horses. Anyway,

the affair was so much fun that it will be continued from time to time.

Tulip Festival KlORSHEIM prices are substan-

is visited HOLLAND, Michigan, each tially reduced . . . but not a stitch has May by thousands of visitors who been sacrificed, not a lift of leather lost are attracted by the annual Tulip Festi- val, the big event in that city on the . . . nothing has been changed but the eastern shore of Lake Michigan whose people are predominantly of Dutch price. Style illustrated above, The Rambler, MOST STYLES descent. S-825, in black calf; in brown, S-826. Actively participating in the unique festival are the members of Williard G. Leenhouts Post. In addition to their I activity in promoting and putting on the The FLORSHEIM Shoe affair, the Legionnaires appear in Dutch costume, wearing wooden shoes, and assist in the {Continued on page §8)

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No Time Like street scrubbing ceremonies on the open- Commander F. Walsh Tierney of Malone Now to Get in.. ing day. Post. About 450 Canadian veterans, led Make up to $75 a week It's no trick to make up Members of this Post have attracted by Department Commander M. E. Car- to $12 a day when you use your car as a Mc Nesa attention in National Convention cities ver, of The American Legion in Canada, "Store on Wheels." Farmers are buying everything they when they marched in the big parade, and by Montreal Post, were in at- ; UseYour can from McNess men. Attractive as they did the entire line of march up tendance and everybody had a business-getting prizes, also money- CAR grand selling saving deals to customers make | Fifth Avenue last September, wearing time, Commander Tierney reports. McNess daily necessities a snap. This i to Raise business is depression-proof. their Dutch costumes. We Supply Capital— Start Now! Your There's no better work anywhere Legion Notes pays well, permanent, need no ex- PAY perience to start and we supply cap- 1 Dominion Day at Ma/one ital to help you get started quick. You start making money first day. Write at once for McNess Dealer COMMANDER C. B. CRISP of Book— tells all —no obligation. (92-B) CANADA Dominion Day is cele- Delhi (California) Post writes that THE McNESS CO.. 641 Adams St., Freeport, III. IN brated on July 1st and in the United his Post is aiding in disposing of the sur- States Independence Day is celebrated plus peach pack. Each member who at- ARMY KRAG on July 4th. For several years past the tends a regular meeting is given two cans 30-10

city of Malone, in northern New York, of peaches . . . Washington (D. C.) Police has hit upon the idea of putting on a four- and Fire Post inducted a class of 176 day celebration including the national Washington firemen and policemen into days of both countries. Malone Post has their Post at a meeting held during the

had a very active part in the celebration early summer . . . Adjutant P. E. Peter- and this year sent invitations to Cana- son believes this Post in the National W. STOKES KIRK, Oepl. A. L. 1S27 N. 10th SI., Phila., Pa dian veterans and to the American Legion Capital holds the record for large class Posts across the border. initiation during the year 1938. Is there Unfavorable weather and heavy rain any one who will step forward to dispute

on Dominion Day failed to dim the en- the Peterson claim? . . . thusiasm of the visitors, according to Boyd B. Stutler

SALE CATALOG— FREE Nearly 200 Styles and Sizes of Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces at FACTORY PRICES. Easy Drum Gorps Widow Terms. Write today for FREE CATALOG, New styles, new features, new colors. 30 days (Continuedfrom page 4j) FREE trial— 24-hour ship- ments. The Kalamazoo Stove & Furnace Company, 2066 Rochester Avenue came and went, drill nights, post meet- listen to—and still do. One corpsman Kalamazoo, Michigan Coal-Wood Ranges, ings, and competitions held invariably on costing the bunch a first placement be- Combination Gas, Coal, Wood Ranges, Gas Stoves, Coal-Wood Kalamazoo Saturdays or Sundays making father cause the little woman failed to pack his Heaters, OH Heaters, A ' Furnaces. Direct toYou" practically an ornamental boarder in our white socks and of course the canny judge home. had to yank up his white panties—of all The grass was left to grow its own the seventy—and discover an unforgiv- sweet way until the sight of it caused able black pair. 9L THAYER-WEST POINT me to see red and I hewed it down myself. HOTEL Screens often to be put up and taken AS I said, this thing crept upon us grad- a passing stranger. Do -£A_ ually. Then came a National Com- on the U. S. Military Reservation at down by perhaps we fuss? We do not. We suffer in dignified, petition half a continent away, necessitat- WEST POINT, N. Y. patriotic silence, repeating our motto ing a week's leave from the homestead. Open to the Public "For the Good of the Legion," which Such a bustle to see nothing was forgotten more or less melts our ire. from suspenders to polishes, and chalk Then matters got worse. After having for last minute smudges, and pajamas his eye on a State top-notcher—the hurled out with a "What do you think I crack Drum and Bugle Corps of East am, a sissy?" Finally a gasp of relief Orange, New Jersey—enviously for some when daddy goes, telling us to keep the time, he finally crashed its ranks, an- radio tuned in as they are positively other bass drum taking the place of the bringing home not merely the bacon but first and still usurping my sun porch. Oh, the whole pig. but the uniform! And did he glory in the Having absorbed not a little of this en- open-mouthed awe of all the neighbor- thusiasm, we decide to see this thing hood youngsters on parade and competi- through, back out the chariot and dump tion days! in the family and follow to the taking- Now he was up front in Big Time, but off place of the two super-super de luxe START still upsetting the whole household. Such buses. helplessness on parade days in six-feet- Such bedlam and backslapping and $1260 to $2100 Year plus of masculinity, I never before im- high-jinks and jovial camaraderie can't be Ex-Service men found elsewhere. One or two serious bud- get preference FRANKLIN INSTITUTE agined. / Ocpt AI80. Rochester. N. packing neatly bcxed 8716 Ex-Service Gentl. smell: Rush FKEE li ot It got so that this family practically dies systematically Men appointed Gover eni big pay posi- but the last gov't year Send FKEE 32-page book lived, ate and slept drum corps. And the equipment atop the caravan, announced. ?scn laries. hours, work anil rest intent on the small cannon and Influence t> telli about preference to Ex-Service alibis for the loss of some choice prize. more unnecessary. men. / Tie cry "We were robbed" and the post its deafening blanks by which to tell the Mail Coupon / Name. . today, to sympathize with and world they're on their way—leaving SURE. / Address. mortems we had The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine —

59 seventy or more drum corps widows to entered into it last year for mine. We left put out their own garbage cans without the East for California, necessitating his Don't wait to be told so much as a picture card and the wish- surrendering all his equipment, probably you-were-here platitude. What's that tearing his heart out to do so but I was — end that waistline line, "who only stand and wait?" too busy to notice, thinking now I would bulge with We send away almost perfectly gocd probably have a husband a little more husbands as excited and silly as little often. boys going to a circus, and what do we I certainly should have known better. get back? In the disgraceful wee hours Four days after our arrival in Los Angeles some seven or eight mornings later in he mysteriously disappeared one evening, comes a competition-corps wreck. Abso- only to reappear in four hours with a beau- lutely voiceless and baggy-eyed from tiful bass drum having paintingsof the old hours of sour singing, no sleep, and a Mission of San Gabriel thereon, and the froggy throat from yelling in ego to be striking uniform of a Spanish troubadour heard atop the rest. After a dutiful peck consisting of low-necked silk waist, five- and hug he whispers he is asleep on his foot red sash and tight flare-at-the-ankles tramp-weary dogs— the fellows wouldn't panties. By the way, this low silk waist let a guy sleep fas if he wanted to) and a necessitated the shaving of his prided "Gee, I'm so tired I'm dragging three manly chest, but even this was endured tracks." "for the good of the Legion." All the next day we are still widows, Was I never safe? Perish the thought. having to carry on alone with no benefit Drill nights found him in that place of from a snoring drum corpsite (for those immeasurable distances without a car, 36 hours or so the s is not silent.) When spending several hours on trolleys and he finally comes to, we have got to the high-speed lines to hear the sweet blare of point where further grumbles and alibis brass and boom-booms. Now, at last he do not register, but he is still competing was with a corps of champions, and would and in spite of ourselves we have to listen he come back to New York and show his out of the corner of our ears to that still old buddies what a real corps was! Well, croaky voice emitting from the still he drilled and learned their different slow ragged throat. tempo and quick cadence, paraded up

Then, again we find ourselves eating it Hollywood Boulevard during their Christ- up and laughing at the shindigs cut up in mas festival and thought he was some- barracks behind locked doors. How the body. Then plans were changed and back New-type mentally harassed drum major pushed East we came. Again I was a widow to the his cot in front of the door to keep in Orange and White and loving it all as each precious corpsman and safely keep before. Supporter Belt out such libation as might put some in All was forgotten, however, when I makes you look better—feel better, too their cups and later befuddle them and witnessed the magnificent spectacle at the WAIT till your friends start talk- wreck their show. Not to mention the Polo Grounds last September. Thrilled DON'T ing about that stomach— get it under stories—funny, silly and otherwise—that to the marrow, I was proud to have my control. There's no reason to let a growing had been remembered for our edification man on that field amongst that resplen- waistline spoil your appearance — make and reward. dent mass of color at Retreat, to tie East you look older. It's easy to regain that My man and I had scheduled a party Orange with Germantown for second trim, athletic look! Just slip into The engagement the evening following this honors, beaten only by his San Gabriel Bracer, the new-type supporter belt that national event, but the nap could not be buddies, one of them wearing his red sash makes you look better— feel better, too! thwarted, nor could he be aroused, so off and caressing his mission drum. A Bauer & Black product, The Bracer I went again in my widowed martyrdom A drum corps widow is my lot and will is the result of scientific design and manu- to our host's. be as long as his strength hclds out and facture. It is made of the finest materials Lo and behold, toward midnight a con- there is a major left to bully them under the same careful conditions of science asserts itself and he shows up, to and drum corps orphans the lot of my cleanliness as the famous Bauer & Black exclusive fea- escort me home. What an unexpected family. Whether the looks of my neigh- surgical supplies. Its many tures assure you No Rip — No Roll — No pleasure! Again I ask, "Do we like it?" bors and friends are pitying or envying, Bulge—No Bother. So don't accept substi- We love it. I am proud. tutes—insist on The Bracer and be sure I presume it is the hope of every man Perhaps we widows could band to- you have the best supporter belt! in a top-notch corps to help win a Na- gether at a National some time and BEf°R^ tional Championship some time. Irony form a Legion (Continued on page 60) AFTER

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6o TRIAL OFFER 'Drum Stera-Kleen Is the original Gorps Widow powder developed by a dentist to clean false teeth without (Continued jrom page brushing Get Stera-Kleen 59) USE from your druggist or send 10t to cover mailing of generous sample. The Phillips & Benja- Widow Sorority, if only to cast our despite their resulting charley horses, gray EETH min Company, Dept. KL-1. Waterbury. Conn. troubles on sympathetic and understand- hairs and widening girths—may they ing ears. Think of the parades in be- never grow less! NEW tween competitions where we stand hours To add insult to my injury, my Legion- on end in the bunion line along some curb ite is now Commander of his local Post, EASY where our corns are kicked and pockets completing the building and equipment picked and our knees feel that they never of a beautiful "Hut" which they made WAY will bend again, just for a passing sight of with their own hands, leaving me now our men, strutting like so many cocks of more completely a Legion widow than the walk without giving us even a glance ever. of recognition for our pains. Yes, we are Lastly, do I like it? Stgra-Ktan proud of our little big gaudy soldiers I love it. Rights Tonight

ToAnySuitT (Continued from page 40) Double the life of your coat and vest with correctly matched pants. 100,000 pattern! Every pair hand tailored to your measure. ness in an arena under the stars, with a They'll all be back when the new arena, Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit fruaranteed. Send piece canvas wall around it. stream-lined from tip to tip, opens its of cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY In 1Q23 the boxers put on a show and doors within the next few days. There 209 S. State St, Dept. 706 Chicago didn't take any pay. As a result the Post will be a complete telephone service, a was able to put a roof over the enclosure. lighting unit that's a honey, and even a That roof looked down on a lot of fistic jail, to take care of anyone that starts

history before it was pulled down last swinging without being paid for it. Char- Back Pain and spring. The night of the final show fans ley MacDonald, who has been official were allowed to take home anything they matchmaker for the past five years, will Kidney Strain wanted as souvenirs. Some of them took be on hand for the opening at the new the chairs they had sat in every Friday stand, as will Dan Tobey, announcer, Wrong foods and drinks, worry, overwork and (old often put a strain on the Kidneys and func- night over the years. As for the names and Billy Coe, timer, who have been on tional kidney disorders may be the true cause of of those are attending the job since the first fight. Excess Acidity. Getting Up Nights, Burning Pas- who attended and sages, Leg Pains. Nervousness, Dizziness. Swollen the fights while they are being given this If you want to see the movie celebrities Ankles. Rheumatic Pains, Puffy Eyelids, and feel- ing old before your time. Help your kidneys purify summer in Gilmore's Stadium—please! paying for the chance to act as an audi- your blood with Cystex. The very first dose starts helping your kidneys clean out excess acids and . . . You can't give billing to all the cele- ence, just come along to the show on soon may easily make you feel years younger. Un- der the money-back guarantee Cystex must satisfy brities, and that's what you'd have to do. Friday night, September 16th. But you'd completely or cost nothing. Get (siss-texl Cystex Some of them are members of Hollywood better get your reservations in, because today. It costs only 3c a dose at druggists and the guarantee protects you. Post. those 6,000 seats sell out quick.

The American Legion National Headquarters zyf J^etter Gomes Jfome Indianapolis, Indiana (Continued jrom page 32 Financial Statement June 30, 1938 then a dance for us that evening. One of when they read the results of those exam- my thrills at the dance was meeting inations! Assets Ensign Schumann-Heink, son of the be- "The happiest times of our sojourn in loved 'Mother' Schumann-Heink. When the Navy, I believe, were the Friday Cash on hand and on deposit $ 509,297.69 Notes and accounts receivable 42,684.00 he said he didn't fox trot, I offered to night dances in the big Armory in the Inventories 118,345.78 teach him—mainly for the privilege of Navy Yard Training Camp. Only enlisted Invested funds 1,718,305.60 dancing with him and having something personnel were allowed to attend. At Permanent investments: to write home about! He was innocent of one time there were some ten thousand Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund . 199,859.02 Office building, Washington, D. C, less my conspiracy, but we got through the boys in training at the Puget Sound depreciation 125,764.29 dance in great style. Navy Yard and we had only 160 Yeomen Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation 32,304.97 "Our enlistment into regular Navy (F). You can imagine our popularity Deferred charges 24,268.19 service was of course an emergency mea- boys standing fifteen to twenty deep 552,770,829.54 sure to release men for other duties. The around the edge of the great hall, waiting work was entirely clerical and the girls their turns to dance. It was just a matter served wherever such help was needed, of being whirled from one boy to another Liabilities, Deferred Revenue and Net Worth with the exception of aboard ships. We the entire evening. Then at the close of Current liabilities j> 62,623.17 were rated the same as the men, accord- the dance, when everyone stood at at- Funds restricted as to use 34,348.45 played Deferred revenue 357,793.93 ing to experience and qualifications tention while the great Navy band Permanent Trust: Second Class, First Class and Chief. We The Star-Spangled Banner—I never got Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 199,859.02 were given all kinds of drills, had to ob- over the thrill of it. Net Worth: serve the same regulations as the men, "We were called upon many timca to Restricted capital SI, 713, 544.51 and even had to take examinations on the join in parades and other patriotic cele- Unrestricted capital 402,660.46 2,116,204.97 'Blue Jackets Manual.' How some of the brations. Probably we didn't keep step $2. 770,829.54 examining officers must have laughed quite as well as the gobs, but we got just

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as much applause! The good friend and The National Yeomen F, of which advisor of the Yeomen (F) — it made Mrs. Irene Malito Brown of 2054 Nos- Josephus Daniels mad when we were trand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, is A. hammock in a shady cor- called Yeomanettes!—at the Puget Sound Commander, is the veterans' organiza- Navy Yard was the late Admiral Coontz. tion of the women veterans of the Navy, ner, a good book and ... a tall, He seemed to consider us his girls and no and groups throughout the country hold cold glass of Hennessy-and- word of criticism could be raised against sectional reunions in addition to the soda! What more could a man in his presence. national convention and one of us reunion which ask on a warm, sultry day? "At the time of our discharge, the fol- is held each year in conjunction with the Try Hennessy-and-soda . . . lowing lyrically-written article by Carlton Legion National Convention. The group its zest. Fitchett, under the title of The Yeoman- in the Northwest is meeting in Portland, enjoy ettes, appeared in the Seattle Times: Oregon, on October 1st. Evelyn B. HENNESSY-and-SODA Youngs, R. F. D. 10, Box 354, Milwaukie, 1 jigger of Three-Star The dawn of peace has brought regrets as Oregon, the chairman, hopes that some Hennessy well as jubilation, for now we'll lose the yeo- 3 ice cubes • Plain soda water of the yeomanettes returning home from manettes, who nobly served the nation. The the Legion Convention in Los Angeles, gobs will bid them fond good-bye, in spite of may be able to stop for the reunion. orders stringent, the day when they demo- bilize the powder-puff contingent. Josephus Daniels then will face a task of COMMANDER BROWN reports that reconstruction. He'll have to find the girls on October 24, 1937, The National a place or else there'll be a ruction; and pretty Yeomen F dedicated a memorial to the we'll the throughout soon, perhaps, get news first woman in the country to enlist in the the nation that those who'd wed a yeoman- Navy after such enlistments were pro- ette should file an application. But such a vided for in March, 191 7. Loretta Perfec- readjustment scheme I'm very much distrust- tus Walsh of Olyphant, Pennsylvania, ing; the veterans of puff and cream will do was the woman. She was enrolled in the their own adjusting. A plan like that they'd surely wreck, they'll heed their own sweet United States Navy at Philadelphia, wishes, and pick the gink to swab the deck March 21, 1917, and was discharged on and scrub the galley dishes. August 7, 1919, at the Naval Hospital at I wonder if she'll show her spouse a wifely Denver, Colorado, which she had en- condescension, or every time he hits the house tered because of disability due to service. she'll sharply call 'Attention!' And will she Following her lead, 10,599 other young cancel hubby's leave when he has failed to women were enrolled as Yeomen F. Lor- suit her; and all through life do you believe etta Walsh passed away on August 16, she'll make his nibs salute her? 1925, as a result of disease contracted I wonder if she'll pipe him down in manner quite impartial, and when he stays too late from active service. downtown she'll hand him a courtmartial? The memorial in St. Patrick's Ceme- her dress, a And when she'd have him hook tery, Olyphant, Pennsylvania, was spon- INSIST ON HENNESSY in a Stinger process very trying, she'll hoist a signal of sored jointly by two Legion Posts—Ray- Cocktail 'Old-Fashioned -Side Car -Brandy distress with naval codes complying. mond Henry Post of Olyphant and Yeo- Sour • Brandy Cocktail • Mint Julep. She'll call the house her ship-of-line, her man F Post of Philadelphia. Contribu- Distilled and bottled at Cognac. France car her four-oared racer. The cart she'll get tions to the memorial fund are still being JA» HENNESSY & C° Established 1765 for Baby Mine she'll christen a sub-chaser. accepted by M. Cecilia Geiger, chairman, We hope on happy seas she'll float with what sou u. s. agents: Schieffelin 1 Nedro Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn- & Co., the Navy taught her, and if her hubby rocks 171 the boat she'll give him bread and water. sylvania. Veterans {Continued on page 62) NEW YORK CITY IMPORTERS SINCE 1794

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May we suggest that you deco- of Yeoman F throughout the country are Mead Post of Closter, New Jersey, with invited to join in this movement of re- only this information: rate your store in tune with spect to the pioneer Yeoman F. "I am sending you under separate advertised brands that the 124 cover a picture which was given me by a are going to help you by tell- — THERE is such a thing as a setting of veteran who said it was taken in Lucy, ing the whole country "At a picture or its grouping being too France, August 16, 1918. Your Own Favorite, Most perfect to be real and so when we first "I will be glad to give this picture to saw the photograph of the soldiers and any veteran who appears in it, and I Convenient Drug Store, You the old French women that is reproduced thought you might show it in the Legion can Buy the Nationally Ad- on page 32, we suspected that it might Magazine when you have an opportunity. vertised Merchandise You be a "still" from some motion picture Would appreciate hearing from anyone Want—At the Prices You say, "The Big Parade" or "What Price who recognizes himself." Glory?" or something in that category. asked Commander Heaton if he Want to Pay." We

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print and he answered, "I have not been 6:30 p.m. on September 21st. There is able to get additional information regard- room for 2500 guests, and there will be ing the picture from the chap who gave separate tables for the various ships'

it to me. crews, shore stations and other branches "Due to the position I hold in this of the Navy. Headquarters, where gobs town, that of Sergeant of Police, many should register, will be at the old Jim people bring me things such as wartime Jeffries Cafe, 326 South Spring Street, relics and pictures of which they do not Los Angeles with Jim Jeffries there to know the history." greet them. Malcolm Letts, 3532 Sixth With a town name and a date as clues, we checked through the catalogue of Official Signal Corps pictures taken dur- ing the war and found this caption: "Allies." The old women have large classes. "Comme ca." Lucy, France, Aug. LOS ANGELES MOVIE! 18, 1918. So far, so good, but the outfit isn't OWN IT AT LOW COST! identified, nor are any of the men in the Professional 16mm and 8mm films of the group. And there is the further fact that GREAT LEGION CONVENTION at LOS in the particular sequence of pictures ANGELES. Your PERMANENT record of 1938 flabona\ Com>ention taken in and about Lucey at the time HEADQUARTERS the highlights and personalities of the OF REUNIONS REGISTRATIONS 1938 Legion Show! stirring movie of stated, there are several of groups of staff LOS ANGELES A the Convention every Legionnaire and officers of an American Division whose Post will treasure for years headquarters were at that time in Lucey Avenue, Los Angeles, is General Chair- LOW CASTLE FILMS PRICES —note the extra "e". We thought at man for all Navy groups. 8mm Sizes, $1.75 (SO'I and $5.50 (180') first that the picture was taken in Lucy- 16mm Sizes, $3.50 (100') and $8.75 (360'l Check the following list for your out- De Luxe Sound, $17.50 (350') le-Bocage in the Aisne-Marne area—but fits reunion at the National Convention placed with Lucey, the other village, is northwest of ADVANCE ORDERS your and report to the Legionnaire who is photographic dealer mean delivery Toul behind the south face of the former NOW serving as its chairman. Unless otherwise one week after the Convention! St. Mihiel salient, and we know what stated, women members of veterans' Division was headquartered there the Still available : families are invited to the functions. Movies American Legion, New York, 1937 middle of August, 1918. Now let the claimants for the picture DIVISIONS —and it's a nice enlargement—come for- 1st national convention CASTLE FILMS ward, but let them have proof that is Drv.—Annual and re- union. Headquarters at Hayward Hotel. Banquet, * unquestionable, otherwise Comrade Hea- reception, dance, at Jonathan Club, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York City Gen. Summerall and other C. O's attending. Walter will retain the print. ton Naughton, gen. chmn., 537 N. Curson st., Los IM,T,AL Angeles. r5oH"s$5 C/,f/ PERSONAL 2d Drv.—Reunion banquet at L. A. Athletic gypftjiY CHRISTMAS CARDS Club, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Wilbur T. Love, chmn., 585 Reunion Notices Newest Novelty. Season's fastest seller. Palm dr., Glendale, Calif. V ^Jf Assortment of 21 Christmas Cards with Div. hq. \ 3d —Reunion at Hayward Hotel. Ban- INITIAL in Metallic Gold and AST call for outfit reunions during quet, dance, entertainment at L. A. Athletic Club, Seals. Retails $1. Costs 50c. I Convention 3201 Los Feliz blvd., Sept. 22, 7:30 p. m. Wm. Extra Bonus. Also name-imprinted Greet- J the Legion National Jellineck, gen. chmn., 212 {Continued on page 64) ings, 50 for $1. Many other popular as- ortments. Big earnings full or spare time. in Los Angeles, September 19th to 22d! No experience necessary. Write today for Samples. According to comprehensive plans of the ARTISTIC CARD CO., 454 Way St., Elmira, N. Y. Convention Reunions Committee of which Adolph N. Sutro, 808 State Build- AMAZING NEW KIND OF ing, Los Angeles, California, is Chairman, Amazing new discovery 2ives you instant heat from liquid fuel — glowing, sunlike, healthy there will be reunions for all organiza- radiant heat. A few pints of cheap liquid trans- tions that made up the Army, Navy and form ordinary air into many hours of snug heat for only X^ii an hour. This invention Marine Corps during the war. built into a new-type modern portable radiant heater will heat a big room even in zero weather. If you fail to find your own outfit or NO SOOT, NO ASHES... PORTABLE! FOR ONLY branch of service listed below, write to It is absolutely safe, needs no installation, has finger-tip control. Hotter than city gas or-elec- Chairman Sutro that you intend to be at tricity at tenth the cost. It means no more wood or coal, no more ashes or dust. Use it any- the convention and when you arrive in where. Ideal for home, cottage, camp, farm, roadstand. mPer Los Angeles, no doubt a reunion will have 30-DAY TRIAL IN YOUR HOME! Hour! Prove to yourself why thousands are delighted been arranged. with this amazing new heater. Get it on 30-day This marvelous trial, use it for a month at our risk before AGENTS! , heater selllnL, Because of the great volume of mail deciding! WRITE TODAY FOR DETAILS quickly everywhere. You being received by the various outfit chair- AIR! AKRON LAMP & MFG. CO. can make big full- or spare- time profits. Write at once! ONLY 4% FUEL 1319 HIGH ST. - AKRON, OHIO men, individual replies to letters may not be received, but in the center of Los Angeles's business district, in the Broad- T YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? way-Spring Arcade Building, which ex- 1S the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was mailed correct for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail tends from Broadway to Spring Street, THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. Streets, the Central between 5 th and 6th Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine is Reunion Registration Headquarters will NEW ADDRESS located there final and complete Name be and (PLEASE PRINT) information about all reunions may be 1938 membership card no.. obtained. There you should also register Address so that you and your gang can get to- CiTY .State. gether. Post No. .Dept.. 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Stubbornly refuse anything else. © 1 93a. c. p. inc. 8th Div. —Hq. and reunion dinner, Rosslyn 6 p. m. G. C. Hart, chmn., 206 Holmby av., West Hotel, 5th and Main sts. Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Richard Los Angeles. D. Bridges, chmn., 2327 W. 25th st., Los Angeles. 79th Div.—Reunion, reception and dance, Wil- 9th Div. —Hq. and reunion dinner, Mai's Cafe, shire Bowl, 5665 Wilshire blvd., Sept. 20, 8 p. m. 2300 S. Grand av., Sept. 21, 7:30 p. m. D. P. Mc- Chmn. and Hq., Wm. H. Campbell, 1010 Pershing Calib, chmn., 3S07 Wisconsin St., Los Angeles. Sq. bldg., Los Angeles. Eight Guaranteed Prints, Two Beauti- 10th Div. —Hq. and reunion dinner, Billy Greens 80th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, McDonnell's Cafe, 5521 Sunset blvd., Hollywood. Sept. 21, 6 Cafe, Hotel Gates, 6th Fergueroa sts., Sept. ful Professional Enlargements 25 c - p. & 21, m. Elmer Barr, chmn., 845 S. Bixel st., Los Angeles. 7:30 p. m. H. G. Matthews, 2752 Hollyridge dr., Very Quick Service — Expert Workmanship 11th Div.—Reunion dinner, Pig'n Whistle, 712 Hollywood, Calif. S. Broadway, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Roy Kite, chmn., 81st Div. —Hq. and reunion banquet. Cafe de PERFECT FILM SERVICE 939 E. 112th st., Los Angeles. Paree, 2312 W. 7th st,, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Stag. H. O. Lacrosse, Wisconsin 12th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, Mike Ly- Kerber, chmn., 6331 W. 5th st,, Los Angeles. man's Grill, 751 S. Hill st., Los Angeles, Sent. 21, 82d Div.—Hq. at Hayward Hotel. Reunion 6:30 p. m. Jos. Basil D'Amico, 1611 Vista Del Mar luncheon, Jonathan Club, 6th & Figueroa sts., Sept. av., Los Angeles. 19, noon. Stag. Paul W. Tilley, chmn., 1121K W. Sell PERSONAL 13th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, Averills 88th st., Los Angeles. Cafe, 647 S. Vermont av., Sept. 21, 6 p. m. Cecil C. 83d Div.— Hq. and reunion luncheon, Mayfair ONEY! Christmas Cards Foster, 1910 Hillhurst av., Los Angeles. Hotel, 1256 W. 7th st., Sept, 19, noon. Frank E. MAKE UP TO $28 A WEEK 14th Div.—Hq. at Stowell Hotel, 416 S. Spring Dalin, chmn., 326 S. Normandie av., Los Angeles. Take easy orders for newest Personal Christ' st. Reunion dinner-dance, W ilshire Bowl, 5665 Wjl- 84th Div. —Hq. and reunion luncheon, Bristol mas Cards, with sender's name. Popular prices shire blvd., Los Angeles, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Ned Cafe, 2200 W. 7th st., Sept. 19, noon. A. R. Rupp, Put Ri'llers. Also show $1 Assortment of 21 Card: Strumwasser, chmn.. Farmers & Merchants Natl. chmn., 6562 Barton av., Hollywood, Calif. Bigeest value - 100ft profit. Many others-Religion: Kn limk's, Gift Wrappings, and 60 Christmas Cards Bank, Los Angeles. 85th Div. — Hq. and reunion luncheon, Bristol with name, retail SI. SAMPLES FREE. Write today, Div. and reunion dinner, Bristol W. 7th st., Sept. noon. A. J. Lamie, BMK 15th — Hq. Cafe, 2200 21, WETMORE & SUG DEN. INC., Dept. Restaurant, 2200 W. 7th St., Sept. 21, 6:30 p. m. chmn., 621 S. Hope st., Los Angeles. 749 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, New York Harry O. W arren, chmn., 219 W. 101st St., Los 86th Div.—Reunion banquet, Hollywood Roose- Angeles. velt Hotel, Hollywood, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. R. C. Goe- 16th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, State Cafe, dike, chmn., 1128 S. Crest dr., Los Angeles. 108 S. Broadway, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. S. A. Cherniss, 87th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, Bristol Cafe, chmn., 650 S. Spring st., Los Angeles. 2200 W. 7th st,, Sept. 20, 8 m. (or after Legion tZnirru BEAUTIFUL p. Natural -Looking 17th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, Caste'.la parade.) S. J. Puma, 407 E. Pico St., Los Angeles. ^TiT Cafe. 103 S. Broadway, Sept. 21, 6:30 p. m. S. A. 88th Div.—Reunion dinner, entertainment, Cherniss, actg. chmn., 650 S. Spring St., Los Angeles. dance. Ace Cain's Cafe, 1369 N. Westernav.,Sept. FALSE TEETH 18th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, Bristol 21, 7 p. m. Clyde G. Baerresen, chmn., 548 N. Alex- 2200 W. 7th st., Sept. 21, 6:30 m. LOWEST PRICES Restaurant, p. andria st., Los Angeles. A. R. Scolield, chmn., 4311 Woodlawn av., Los 89th Div.—Hq. at 6th and Broadway. National SEND NO Angeles. reunion, business meeting and luncheon, Mon. noon, MONEY 19th and 20th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, Sept. 19, Calif. Natl. Guard Armory, Exposition We make — BY MAIL — the World's Bristol Cafe. 2200 W. 7th St., Sept. 21, 6. p. m. J. E. Park. George L. Armstrong, gen. chmn., 644 Hall No. 1 FIT-RITE Dental Plates for men White, 1806 N. Argyle av., Hollywood, Calif. of Justice, Los Angeles. ''and women — from impressions taken in 26th (Yankee) Div.— Reunion dinner and en- 90th Div.—Hq. and reunion dinner, McDon- your home. Thousands of pleased patrons. MONEY- tertainment. Patriotic Hall, 1816 S. Figueroa St., 454 S. Hill st„ Sept. 21, 8 m. Alfred TRIAL BACK GUARANTEE YOU'LL BE SATISFIED. nell's Cafe, p. Monthly payments possible. FREEmouth-forms.easy Sept. 21, 6 p. m. Erring A. Dresser, chmn., 2664 S. W. 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Spring st. 94th to 102d Divs. (inch)—Reunion dinner, Reunion dinner, Hayward Hotel, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Tuey Far Low Cafe, New Chinatown, Sept. 21, Herbert Ochs. chmn., 801 S. Los Angeles St., Los 7:30 p. m. John H. Pelletier, Rm., 530, 206 S. Angeles. Spring st., Los Angeles. 30th Div.—Reunion dinner, Lindy's, 3656 Wil- A.E.F. Staff and Personnel of G.H.Q. Army shire blvd., Sept. 21, 6:30 p. m. W. E. Lyons, chmn., and Army Corps Hq. —Reunion luncheon, Taix 1111 La Hacienda pi., Los Angeles. French Restaurant, 321 Commercial st,, Sept. 21, 31st Div.— Reunion luncheon, Hotel Rosslyn, noon. Wm. A. Barr, chmn., 1400 N. Gardner St., 5th and Main sts., Sept. 21, 12:30 p. m. Stag. Hq. Los Angeles. and Chmn. C. E. McDowell, 1275 Subway Ter- A.E.F. Army and Army Corps Training Cen- Learn Profitable Profession minal bldg., Los Angeles. ters—Reunion luncheon, Taix French Restaurant 32d Div.—Hq. and dugout basement, Hotel 321 Commercial st., Sept, 21, noon. H. E. Higginson, n in days at Rome Belmont, 251 S. Hill st. Reunion banquet, Cafe de bldg., Los Angeles. QO chmn., 817 Van Nuys ilaries of Men and Women in the fascinating pro- Paree, 2312 W. 7th st., Los Angeles, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. 48th Inf., Co. M—Emil C. Long, San Rafael, Massage run as high as $40 to ession of Swedish Stag. Auxiliary dinner, Royal Palms Hotel, 360 S. Calif. 70 per week hut many pre I er t«. open tlieirown of- ;e incomes from Doctors, hospitals, sani- Westlake av., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Harold F. Sergan, „ _nd private patients come to those who chmn., 1918 E. 71st St., Los Angeles. qualify through our training. Reducing ENGINEERS (Not part of Divisions) *" specialists, 33o Div.—Hq. at Clark Hotel, 426 S. Hill st. a rich rewards for Chmn., for Anaiomy Charts and Reunion banquet, Cafe de Paree, 2312 W. 7th St., Daniel D. Coons, Cen. booklet— They're FREE. chmn., 2155 Outpost dr., Los Angeles. THE College of Swedish Massage Sept. 21, 6:30 p. m. Stag. Roy R. Haney, 1601 Warren Blvd., Dept. G75, Chicago 1414 Summit Ridge dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. all of the following to National College of Massage) 34th Div.—Reunion luncheon, Chicadee Cafe, Unless otherwise stated, dinners 1811 S. Main st, Sept. 21, noon. L. A Bolthoff, Engineer Regiments will hold joint reunion Los 413 E. 10th st., Los Angeles. at the Cabrillo Hotel, 11th and Broadway, 35th Div. —Hq., reunion dinner and entertain- Angeles, Sept, 21st, 7:30 p. m. chmn., ment, llollidays Garden Cafe, 524 S. Spring st., 8th & 9th Engrs.—J. M. Hallowar, Sept. 20, 7:30 p. m. Chas. R. Gesner, chmn., 4224 Serv. Club, Hayward Hotel, Los Angeles. 138 N. Free for Asthma Second av., Los Angeles. 11th Engrs.—H. M. Mibielle, chmn., 36th Div. — Hq. and reunion dinner, Blue Boy Laurel, Los Angeles. of so ter- st., If vou suffer with attacks Asthma Cafe, 40* E. 5th St., Sept. 21. Jim Reeves, 646 N. 12th Engrs. —J. J. Kerins, 6114 Keniston if rible vou choke and gasp for breath, Arden blvd., Los Angeles. Los Angeles. of the Outpost„ , restful sleep is impossible because 37th Div.—Hq. at Mike Lyman's, 749 S. Hill st. 13th Engrs.—D. D. Coons, chmn., 2155 if feel the disease struggle to breathe, you Reunion banquet, Helene's Restaurant, 1723 N. dr., Los Angeles. - . don't fail A. is slowly wearing your life away, Highlandav., Hollywood, Sept. 21, 7:30 p. m. R. J. 14th Engrs.—Hq. at Hayward Hotel. J. to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. Schweikert, 1560 N. Vinest., Hollywood, Calif. Fleming, 5189 Almont st., Los Angeles. for a free trial of a remarkable method. No Div. and flub, 1201 15th Engrs. — L. H. Sample, chmn., 3471 West- have 38th —Hq. banquet, Balboa matter where you live or whether you S. Hill St., Sept, 21, 6:30 p. m. W. H. Abbott, chmn., mount av., Los Angeles. anv faith in any remedy under the Sun, 2626 S. Mansfield av., Los Angeles. 16th Engrs.—C. S. Bourdo, 820K N. New send for th's free trial. If you have suffered 39th Div.— Hq. and reunion luncheon, Bristol Hampshire av., Los Angeles. St.. for a lifetime and tried everything you Restaurant, 2200 W. 7th st., Sept, 19, noon. Roy 17th Engrs. —Roy Van Arsdale, 216 Oak could learn of without relief; even if you Anireles. Montebello, Calif. Huddle, chmn., 27C0 Temple st,, Los , »„„ a are utterly discouraged, do not abandon 40th Div.—Reunion dinner, Natl. Guard Arm- 18th Engrs. — Roland Main, chmn., 1522 t> trial. It hope but send today for this free ory, Exposition Park, Sept. 19, 6:30 p. m. Ray I. Curtis av., Alhambra, Calif. W al- will cost you nothing. Address Follmer, chmn., Rm. 11, City Hall, Los Angeles. 20th Forestry Engrs.— Reunion dinner, Frontier Asthma Co., 30C-C Frontier nidg. 41st Div. — Reunion luncheon, Maison Gaston dorf Cafe. 521 S. Main st., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Stag. Los Angeles. 402, Niagara St. Buffalo, N. Y. Restaurant, 1219 N. Vine st., Hollywood, Sept. 21, Jack Coskey, chmn., 5370 W. 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Air Sta., Arcachon and Gujan E. J. — It's more than annoying, radiator 24th Engrs.—W. H. Anderson, 710 E. 80th st., Oerter, 2516 W. 73d st„ Los Angeles. when a Los Angeles. overheats. It's dangerous. It robs your car 25th Engrs.—Andrew C. Elder, 2714 S. Hill st. MARINE CORPS REUNIONS of power. It threatens Los Angeles. damage to the pistons General Chairman, John M. Gault, 26th Engrs—Albert A. Fricke, 24G S. Orange and cylinders. An overheated radiator is an 325 W. 8th St., Los Angeles. dr., Los Angeles. unnecessary waste. Clean out the cooling 28th Engrs.—Grant E. Talman, 2240 Malecon U. S. M. C-—General reunion dinner of all av., Sta. M, Los Angeles. Marines, with special tables for different groups at system of your own car for 10c (25c for the 29th Engrs. and 74th Engrs. — For roster, write 530 S. Hill st., Los Angeles, Sept. 19, 7:30 p. m. largest truck or tractor). Sani-Flush does to Ralph C. Marr, 2207 Midvale av., West Los An- 3d & 4th Regt., USMC—A. R. Whitney, chmn., it, in geles or Arthur Luekhaus, 2710 W. 7th st., Los 320 Rowan bldg., Los Angeles. a few minutes. Angeles. 7th Regt., USMC, and other Foreign Service Just pour this harmless powder in the 34th Engrs.—Otto F. Nass, 1094 N. Lake av., (not AEF) Units—Max Burnstein, chmn., 0414 Pasadena, Calif. Rugby av., Huntington Park, Calif. radiator. (Directions on the can.) Run the Engrs. (Ry.)— 14th annual reunion. Chas. 39th 9th Regt., USMC—C. C. Cobun, chmn., engine. Drain, flush and refill with clean N. Karl, 11040 Princeton av., Chicago. Standard Oil bldg., Los Angeles. 40th Engrs. —Geo. A. Robertson, chmn., 11222 11th & 13th Regts., USMC—Guy Lewis, chmn. water. The job is done! Sani-Flush removes Kling St., North Hollywood, Calif. 185 N. Hawthorne av., Hawthorne, Calif. rust and scale. It cleans out clogging sedi- 00th Engrs.— Basil L. Mark, 405 Ivy st., USMC, Mare Island—John M. Evans, chmn., Glendale, Calif. 1248 Wholesale st., Los Angeles. ment. Motors run cool and safe. It cannot 01st Engrs. C. C. Ebe, 1722 Roosevelt av., Bogardus, — USMC, Parris Island—John J. hurt the motor or fittings because it's not Los Angeles. chmn., 1901 Palmerston pi., Los Angeles. 02d Engrs.—John M. Winters, 1002 W. 51st., USMC On Sea Duty—John L. McCoy, 2919 caustic. You'll find Sani-Flush in most Los Angeles. Clarendon av., Huntington Park, Calif. bathrooms for cleaning toilets. Sold by gro- 00th Engrs.—Clyde V. Grant, 2228 22d St., USMC At Naval Stations—John F. Leslie, Santa Monica, Calif. chmn., 2013 Addison Way, Los Angeles. cery, drug, hardware, and five-and-ten-cent 319th Engrs. Assoc. Reunion, Los Angeles, Theo — USMC Hq. At Washington, D. C. — stores. 25c and 10c sizes. The Hygienic Sunday, Sept. 18. Write to C. W. Otwell, 214 S. Nathan, chmn., 9500 Dearborn St., South Gate, Mansfield av., L. A., or K. S. Thomson, secy., 218 Calif. Products Company, Canton, Ohio. Central Bank bldg., Oakland, Calif. USMC Legation Guards—Lester Davis, chmn., In addition to the foregoing, veterans of all 1143 W. Boulevard, Los Angeles. Engineer Regiments—Quarry, Survey and Print- ing, Railway Construction, General Construction, and Mechanical, Camouflage, SERVICE WOMEN'S REUNIONS Supply, Electrical " Sam-Hush Searchlight, Sound and Flash, Car Repair, Mainte- General Chairman, Marion Pat" Koenig, nance, Road, Railway Shop, Dock Construction, 72^ S. Mariposa Street, I.os Angeles. KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN Pontoon, Military Map, Depot, Dredge Operating, All Ex-Service Women Banquet at Biltmore Service Battalion, Corps and Stevedore Battalion — Hotel, Sept. 19, 7 P. M. for American women will join in the reunion at the Cabrillo Hotel, 11th veterans who served with American or Allied and Broadway, Los Angeles, September 21st, at Forces. Katherine Edwards, chmn., 138 S. Durfee 7:30 p. m. Write to Daniel D. Coons, general Drive, Los Angeles. road, Pico, Calif. chairman, 2155 Outpost Hostess Headquarters, Ex-Service Women— Have You Some Spare Room Open house during convention at Biltmore Hotel. Transportation Corps (Railway), composed of Edith Sadler, chmn., 1447 Ardmore av., Glendale, ft basement or garage where you can do light work? We 19th, 35th, 30th, 38th, 39th, 44th, to 54th, incl., can offer you a profitable proposition, easting S & Hie Calif. 57th to 69th, incl., 118th, 446th, 409th and 538th Novelties, ashtrays, toy autos, etc. as manufacturer for Ex-Service Women's Tea At Marion Davies' Regiments—Hq. and reunion banquet, Rainbow — firm of many yearsT standing. No experience necessary Beach Home, Santa Monica, Calif., Sun., Sept. 18, as we furnish full instructions with moulds. If in- Room, Mayfair Hotel, 1256 W. 7th st., Sept. 21, 3 to 5 p. m. All attending must show membership terested in devoting spare or full time to profitable 7 p. m. W. G. Knoche, chmn., 624 Pacific Electrio card in The American Legion, Natl. Organization work write AT ONCE stating age and space available bldg., Los Angeles. a« we are now closing arrangements for 1938 supply World Nurses, National F, Women's War Yeomen of our goods. Overseas Service League or other recognized women Motor Transport Corps (M.T.C.), composed of veterans' organizations. Margaret Shiplette, 7827 METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO.. Dept. 9, the following regiments: 442d to 445th, inch, 448th 1696 Boston Road New York, N. Y. S. Harvard blvd., Los Angeles. 456th to 403d, incl. — Reunion ban- to 453d, incl., Natl. Organization World War Nurses— quet, Sardi's Cafe, 0315 Hollywood blvd., Holly- Annual meeting and reunion. Hq. at Clark Hotel. wood, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Gilbert Wright, 0233 Holly- Official reunion breakfast, Clark Hotel, Wed., Sept. wood blvd., Hollywood, Calif. 21, 7:30 a. m. Miss Margaret Shiplette, gen. chmn., 7S27 S. Harvard blvd., Los Angeles. NAVY REUNIONS National Yeomen F—Annual reunion and meet- ing. Philomene L. Cavanagh, reservation chmn., TACT0RYT0Y0USAVES General Chairman, Malcolm Letts, , Los Angeles. 3532 Sixth Avenue, Los Angeles. 10743 Westminister av., Palms Sta., Reunion breakfast, Biltmore Hotel, Sept. 20, 7:30 YOU SO % F~ Mobilization of all Navy veterans at 320 South a. m. Mrs. Margaret Sherlock, breakfast chmn., Spring Street, the old Jim Jeffries Bar. Reunion 1200 Spaulding av., Los Angeles. 00 FOR YOUR dinner with tables for all types of vessels and land Marinettes, Signal Corps Women—Marion S. Mariposa st., Los OLD RADIOi forces. Riverside Breakfast Club, 3212 Riverside "Pat" Koenig, chmn., 724 [30^ Drive, Los Angeles, Sept. 21, 0:30 p. m. Angeles. Battleships, Hospital Ships — J. Frank Ex-Service Nurses' Breakfast—Town and Doran, chmn., 1737 Bentley av., West Los An- Gown Club, University of Southern California geles. Campus, Sept. 20, 7:30 a. m. Ida K. Baumgartner, Destroyers, Torpedo Boats, Gun Boats, chmn., 427 S. Oakhurst dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. Ii MIDWEST Monitors—John F. Clapper, chmn., Box 139, Women's Overseas Serv. League—Open house This 1939 radio for members at Women's Overseas Serv. League headliner is today's Sherman Oaks, Calif. greatest value! Big Armed Guard, Navy, Troop, Army and Cargo Club House. Sally Langley, chmn. beautiful coosole Transports—Roy Northrup, chmn., 5143 W. 20th 10,000 mile ranse— AIR SERVICE ception st., Los Angeles. : i < Submarines, Sub Chasers, Tenders—Harold l-A-Matir Tuning:—Easy Dudley Steele, chairman, 2627 Hollywood Way, ents—Money Back Guaran- B. Green, chmn., 045 Prospect Crescent, Pasadena, Burbank, California. Cf/WPiCrertlMDI Cre Pasto coupon on 1-cent post- Calif. card—or write for new FREE 1939 Catalog. Coast Guard, Yachts On Patrol Duty All Air Service units of Army, Navy, Marine MIDWEST RADIO CORPORATION Supply Vessels, Mine Planters and Sweep- Corps and Allied Forces, Hq. 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American Legion Magazine {Continued from page 6j) INDEX of at Clark Hotel, 426 S. Hill st. Reunion banquet at Officers Assoc. —Reunion, Mandarin dinner in The Palomar, 3d and Vermont av., Sept. 20, 9 p. m. New Chinatown, Sept. 20, 8:30 p. m. Dennis ADVERTISERS Entertainment Dudley [Steele, ehmn., 2627 Holly- McG. Matthews, 5118 Latham St., Los Angeles. wood Way, Burbank, Calif. 92d Div —C. Bradford, chmn., 101 E. 21st st., Anti-aircraft—Reunion dinner Diana Cafe, Los Angeles. 4061 W. Pico blvd., Sept. 21, 7:30 p. m. Scott 93d Div.—G. M. Allen, chmn., 1007 E. 41st st., Jensen, chmn., 7515 Melrose av., Los Angeles. Los Angeles. 106th, 363d & 800th Aero Sqdrns.—Renuion, 9th Cav. John C. Powell, chmn., Fire House, 63 — Akron Lamp & Mfg. Company Sun. afternoon, Sept. 18. Mearon E. Pollock, chmn., 34th & Central av., Los Angolas. Hills, Calif. 10th Cav.—B. L. Dorsey, 887 E. Albert Mills 67 306 Maple dr., Beverly 56th st , Los 139th Aero Sqdrn. —William F. Bride, 4306 Angeles. Artistic Card Company 63 Stillwell av., Los Angeles. 25th Inf.—Leslie King, chmn., 2122 W. 29th st., 199th Aero Sqdrn.—H. J. Lakevold, 643 W. Los Angeles. 30th st., Los Angeles. 24th Inf. —John H. Hill, chmn., 5311 McKinley Bauer & Black 59 223d & 249th Aero Sqdrns. —Arrigo Balboni, av., Los Angeles. 1543 Riverside dr., Los Angeles. Pioneer Inf. —Harry L. Deal, chmn., 1189 E. Bean, L. L 62 225th Aero Sqdrn.—C. L. Jackett, 908 6th av., 54th st., Los Angeles. Great Falls, Mont. Labor Bns.—A. H. Douglas, chmn., 1315 E. Brigham Oil 67 Burner Company 241st Aero Sqdrn. —M. L. Thomas, Jr., 625 E. 48th st., Los Angeles. Garvey blvd., San Gabriel, Calif. U. S. Navy—Markers Carter, chmn., 120 N. Dorr & Carlstrom Fields, & Dorr Field Benton way, Los Angeles. Carter Medicine Company 64 Masonic Club—Leo Mayer, Montrose, Calif. Miscl. Units—E. B. Green, chmn., 1556J^ W' 800th Aero Repair Sqdrn. —Marion E. Pollock, 36th pi., Los Angeles. Castle Films 63 chmn., 306 N. Maple dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. Corps.Vets. Cities Service 36 Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon MISCELLANEOUS REUNIONS Annual national reunion and meeting. Hq. at Clark Hotel, College of Swedish Massage 64 Hotel, 426 S. Hill st. Reunion dinner, Clark World War Tank Corps Assoc. —Hq. 2d floor. Mon., Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m. Free sightseeing tour over Spring Arcade bldg Reunion dinner Clemente's Los Angeles in Goodyear blimp, and other enter- Cafe, 845 N. Broadway. Eugene N. Edwards, tainment. Fred H. Mauldin, chmn., 400 N. Beverly Doan's Pills 67 chmn., 801 City Hall, Los Angeles. dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. Pioneer Inf. and Graves Regis. Serv.—Hq. Room 1261, 740 S. Olive st. Reunion dinner, San ARTILLERY Grill, 5061 Hollywood, Florsheim Shoe Company 57 Francisco Sunset blvd., 9th F. A. (Ft. Sill)—Milton Harris, Box 16 Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Claude Peters, 740 S. Olive St., La. Franklin Institute 58 Bishop, Calif. 1st Gas Regt., Chem. Warfare & Chem. Lido 11th F. A. Vets. Assoc. —Reunion in conjunction Defense Units—Reunion dinner, Cafe, Frontier Asthma Company 64 with 6th Div. reunion. Gilbert F. Benson, 6123 Western av. and Pico blvd., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Walter H. Killam, 402 "E" State bldg., Los Angeles, or A. Fursl-McNess Company 58 Horner St., Los Angeles. 144th F. A.— Annual reunion and barbecue, Dr. S. Chernof, 1150 Venice blvd., Los Angeles. Wm. H. Daniel's Rancho del Burro, 4601 Alta 113th & 332d F. S. Bns.—Warren H. Abbott. Mansfield av., Angeles. Canyada rd., La Canada, Sun. noon, Sept. 18. Don 2626 S. Los General Electric Company 53 Dempster, secy. 308th F. S. Bn. & 52n Tel. Bn.—Lyle C. Garner, Box 1964, Hobbs, N. M. Greyhound Management Company 55 146th & 148th F. A.—T. L. Stearns, P. O. Box 155, Los Angeles. Subsistence Units, QMC—Hq. and reunion dinner, Clark Hotel, 426 S. Hill st., 1st F. A., Btry. A—Harry B. Price, 831 Cross- Sept. 21, 8 p. m. Office 33 Dexter P. Howard, chmn., 1415 Ridgewood pi., Italian Tourist Information way rd., Burlingame, Calif. 58th C. A. C, Btries. C & D—John Hartmann, Hollywood, Calif. 2817 Harrigton av., Bronx, N. Y. Supply Units, QMC—Hq. and reunion dinner, Kalamazoo Stove Company 58 Artillery Parks, Ammun. Trains, etc. (not Clark Hotel, 426 S. Hill st., Sept. 21, 8 p. m. Franklin J. Potter, chmn., 215 W. 5th St., Los part of division)—Reunion dinner, Weiss Cafe, Kant Slam Company 62 Ardmore av. and Wilshire blvd., Sept. 21, 7:30 Angeles. Salvage Units (including Rolling Canteens) Kirk, W. Stokes 58 p. m. Wm. C. Atkinson, chmn., 210 Hayward Hotel, Los Angeles. QMC—Reunion dinner, Nikabob Cafe, 875 S. L. Knox Company 60 Coast Artillery Corps (incl. Naval railway and Western av., Sept. 21, 7:30 p. m. Schank, U. 9. Office, S. Los trench mortar units)—Reunion dinner, Weiss Cafe, Int. Rev. 939 Broadway, Angeles. reunion dinner, Cook's Ardmore av. and Wilshire blvd., Sept. 21, 7:30 Cavalry—Hq. and Cafe, 633 S. Olive St., Los Angeles, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Stag. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company p. m. Chas. F. Hendrickx, chmn., 1364 Hauser Bernard J. Wilkinson, chmn., 1734 W. 38th st., Chesterfields Cover II blvd., Los Angeles. Ordnance—Reunion dinner, Weiss Cafe, Ard- Los Angeles. 11th Cav.—W. C. Weinberger, Colton, Calif. more av. and Wilshire blvd., Sept. 21, 7:30 p. m. Veterinary Units and reunion dinner, Sam Karpel, chmn., 1837 S. Mansfield av., Los —Hq. Metal Cast Products Company 65 Angeles. Cook's Cafe, 633 S. Olive St., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Stag. Domgermain Ord. Det.—7th reunion. Fabian Dr. Chas. M. Laird, chmn., 6227 lung st., Bell, Midwest Radio Corporation 65 Calif. F. Levy, 419 W. Upsal St., Philadelphia, Pa. Units and reunion dinner, 3d Corps Art. Park—Hq. at Clark Hotel. John Remount —Hq. Cafe, 633 S. Olive St., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Stag. S. Staats, 311 E. Colorado St., Pasadena, Calif. Cook's chmn., O'Brien, C. A. & H. Berman 64 Saumur Art. School Soc.—Hq. in Rm. 525, Orie O. Robertson, 1655 N. Cherokee av., Hollywood, Calif. 639 S. Spring st. Reunion stag dinner. University 303d Field Remount Sqdrn. Assoc.—2d annual Club, 614 S. Hope St., Sept. 22, 7 p. m. John C. reunion. W. J. Calvert, 527 State Mutual bldg., Perfect Film Service 64 Campbell, chmn., 639 S. Spring st., Los Angeles. Anti-Aircraft— Reunion dinner, Diana Cafe, Worcester, Mass. San. Trn., Harley E. Shoaff. 4061 W. Pico blvd., Sept. 21, 7:30 p. m. Scott 116th Hq. Co.— St., Pa. Jensen, chmn., 7515 Melrose av., Los Angeles. 206 S. Walnut New Castle, Remington Arms Company, Inc 51 115th Sup. Trn., Co. C—H. L. Williams, 2226 Reynolds Tobacco Company MEDICAL CORPS Cloverdale, Los Angeles. R. J. Amer. Prisoners of War—Hq. and reunion Camels Cover IV Joint Medical Corps Reunion, all branches of luncheon, Hollidays Garden Cafe, 524 S. Spring st., Prince Albert 45 service— Medical and Sanitary Corps officers, Sept. 21, noon. Chas. R. Gesner, chmn., 4224 dental officers, Army and Navy Nurse Corps and Second av., Los Angeles. Royal Typewriter Company 57 all enlisted personnel, including husbands or wives Trng. Corps, unattached Inf., F. A. and M. G. of medical personnel—at famous Cocoanut Grove, Units stationed in U. S. —Reunion dinner, Franks Ambassador Hotel, 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Cafe, 1508 N. Vermont av., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Hel- Sani-Flush 65 Angeles, Sept. 21, noon. Special musical program mar Le Marr, 129 1-5 S. Avenue 63, Los Angeles. and entertainment. Chas. W. Decker, M. D., chmn., Base Sections, SOS, and all Mscl. SOS Units— Schenley Products Company 2417 W. 23d St., Los Angeles. Reunion dinner, Toad in the Hole Grill, Sept. 21, Old Quaker 47 Base Hosp. 48—Reunion dinner, Hawaiian 7 p. m. John A. S. Schoch, 826 S. St. Andrews pi., Paradise, 7566 Melrose av., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Miss Los Angeles. Schieffelin & Company Caroline L. Goetchius, 8340 Rosewood av., Los Depot Brigades—Reunion luncheon, Helene's Hennessy 61 Restaurant, 1723 N. Highland av., Sept. 21, noon. "base Hosp. 52—Dr. Claude F. Baceus, 6253 V. B. Bryant, chmn., 735 S. St. Andrews pi., Los Seagram Distillers Hollywood blvd., Hollywood, Calif. Angeles. Corporation Center Spread Base Hosp. 117— Mrs. Emma J. Pearce Preston, Central Records Office—Reunion dinner, 424 W. Elm st., Compton, Calif. Famous Cafe, 6756 Hollywood blvd., Hollywood, Standard Brands Fleischmann's Yeast... 49 Camp Hosp. 43—Ray A. McKinnie, Box 3465, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. John B. Carson, 7576 Hollywood Phoenix, Ariz. blvd., Hollywood. Stera-Kleen 60 Oll'B Camp Hosp. 52—Reunion dinner, Mona War Dept., Washington, D. C. (except AGO) Superior Match Pants Company 60 Lisa Restaurant, 3343 Wilshire blvd., Sept. 21, 7 Reunion banquet, Biltmore Hotel, Sept. 21, 7 p. m. p. m. Dr. Walter A. Bayley, chmn., 1052 W. 6th H. B. Crosby, chmn., 164 S. G st., San Bernardino, st., Los Angeles. Calif. Evac. Hosp. 14 —Annual national reunion. Div. Crim. Inv. (DCI), Intel. Police (IP) & Hotel 58 Thayer-West Point J. Charles Meloy, pres., New Milford, Conn. Mil. Intel. Div. (MID)—Hq. 276 Hall of Justice. TruVal Manufacturers, Inc Cover III Mobile Hospitals—Jerry Hall, 810 S. Spring Reunion dinner, Rene and Jean's Restaurant, 3070 st., Los Angeles. W. 7th st., Sept. 21,8p.m. Frank D. Grace, chmn., U. S. Amb. Serv. and Amer. Field Serv.— 276 Hall of Justice, Los Angeles. Reunion with Medical Corps, Sept. 21. John Mil. Police— Reunion dinner, Rene and Jean's Industrial Foundation.. 2 United Brewers Shanks, 1802 Cimmaron st., Los Angeles. Resaurant, 3070 W. 7th st., Sept. 21, 8 p. m. Stag. pi., Los Angeles. United States Dental Company 64 Val Beganek, 512 N. Poinsettia COLORED UNITS REUNIONS O. T. C. —Reunion breakfast, Mona Lisa Restau- Headquarters, rant, 3343 Wilshire blvd., Sept. 21, 8:30 a. m. 5111 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles. Register at Central Reunion Hq. Chas. R. Metzger, Washington State Progress Commission. 68 Hollywood. Jerome L. Hubert, chairman, chmn., 5504 Hollywood blvd., S. A. T. C. Reunion luncheon, Mona Lisa Wetmore & Sugden, Inc 64 678 E. 36th St., Los Angeles. — Restaurant, 3343 Wilshire blvd., Sept. 21, noon. Woodstock Typewriter Company 62 92d & 93d Div. and 17th Prov. Trng. Reot. H. W. Kennedy, 1 100 Hall of Records, Los Angeles. The AMERICAN LEGION Magaiint When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — ! —

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Reserve Mallet—Hq. 1438 Oak st near Sept. 19, noon. Marjorie Jackson, exec, secy., Patriotic Hall. Reunion dinner, Weiss Cafe, Ard- A. R. C, 1218 Menlo av., Loa Angeles. more av. and Wilshire blvd., Sept. 21, 7:30 p. m. American Legion Founders—Group dinner and T Chas. J. Mabutt, 1118 Muirfield rd., Los Angeles. get-together, L niversity Club, Sept. 18, 7 p. m. HELP A. P. O. —Hq. and reunion luncheon, Omar Fred Blair TowDsend, pres., Luhrs Tower, Phoenix, Dome, 440 S. Hill st., Sept. 21, noon. Chas. Z. Ariz. Chapman, 425 N. Gower st., Los Angeles. Department Historians, American Legion— Signal Corps (not part of divisions)—Reunion Luncheon, Conference Room 7, Biltmore Hotel, KIDNEYS PASS banquet, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Sept 20, 8 Sept. 21, noon. Chairman, Thos. M. Owen, Jr., p. m. Russel Wagener, chmn., Hay ward Hotel, Natl. Historian, American Legion, Indianapolis, Los Angeles. Ind. Service Companies (telegraph operators) Stars and Stripes omical newspaper of the A. E. Reunion banquet, Los Angeles Athletic Club, 431 F. —-All members of staff planning to attend Los 3 LBS. A DAY

W. 7th st , Sept. 20, 8 p. m. T. G. Hall, chmn., Angeles National Convention please get in touch Doctors say your kidneys contain 15 miles of tiny- 1737 N. Alverado st., Los Angeles. with Willis F.Magill, care of Foster & Kleiser, 1550 tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and Inf. C. O. T. S., Camp Gordon, and 2d & 3d W. Washington St., Los Angeles. keep you healthy. Most people pass about 3 pints a O. T. S., Ft. Oglethorpe—H. C. RiUings, 1616 Purple Heaht—Hq and Luncheon, Bristol Res- day or about 3 pounds of waste. Berkeley way, Berkeley, Calif. taurant, 2200 W. 7th St., Sept. 21, noon. D. Bran- Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and A. G. O. —Hq. and reunion luncheon, Cooks don Bernstein, 'chmn 112 W. 9th st., Los Angeles. burning shows there may be something wrong with House, 633 S. Olive st Sept. 21, noon. Wm Gold Star Mothers Tea given Jeanette your kidneys or bladder. Steak , — by Norton, chmn., 5555 S. Western nv., Los Angeles. MacDonald, Sun. afternoon, Sept. 18. Andree An excess of acids or poisons in your blood, when Field Clerks—Hq. and reunion luncheon. Olson, chmn., 432 S. New Hampshire at., Los due to functional kidney disorders, may be the cause Cooks Steak House, 633 S. Olive st., Sept. 21, Angeles. of nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, noon. B. F. Jinks, chmn., 1010 W. 68th St., Los American War Mothers—Luncheon, Bristol loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, Angeles. Restaurant, 2200 W. 7th at., Sept. 18, noon Mrs. puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Educational Centers—Reunion luncheon, Ser- Alie A. Manning, chmn., 609 W. 85th at., Los Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, vice Club, Hayward Hotel, Sept. 21, noon. Harry Angeles. used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They A. Langjahr, 5625 Melrose av., Los Angeles. give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney Spruce Div.—Hq. Clark Hotel. Reunion dinner, tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. dance, The Palomar, Sept. 20, 9 p. m. Clarke NOTICES of reunion and activities Edwards, W. st , Los Angeles. chmn , 3314 21st at times and places other than the Ft. MacArthur—Oliver C. Hardy, 535 Van Nuys bldg., Los Angeles Legion National Convention, follow: Siberian Exped. Forces—Hq. Hotel Barclay Grill, 103 W. 4th st. Reunion banquet, Hollywood Yeoman F—Annual reunion-banquet in North- Knickerbocker Hotel, 1714 Ivar av., Hollywood, 1. west will be held in Portland, Ore , Oct. Yeomen H'.'M.'H.'.ll'l Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Claude P. Deal, chmn., Barclay returning from Natl. Convention in Los Angeles are Hotel, Loa Angeles. invited to attend. Evelyn B. Youngs, R. F. D. 10, COFFEE ROUTES PAYING Vo $60 Hawaiian Dept. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion dinner, Box 354, Milwaukie, Ore. pany eeds mo Hula Hut, 8204 Beverly blvd., Los Angeles, Sept. 4th Div. Assoc., New York Chapter—Regular ills lo al No ?e needed. Op( 21, 7 p. m. J. L. McPherson, chmn., 3664 Hughes meeting 2d Wednesday of every month at Child's tal. Big bonus—£500. 00 cash av., Los Angeles Restaurant, 109 W. 42d St., New York City. 4th or Ford Sedan— besides your weekly earnings. Rush name Philippine Vets. —Reunion dinner, Hula Hut, Div. veterans in New York are invited to call at on postcard for FREE Facts. 8204 Beverly blvd., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Howell H. Headquarters, 259 W. 14th at. Howard S. Smith, ALBERT MILLS. 537S Mon- mouth, Cincinnati, Ohio. Hough, 5425 Santa Monica blvd., Los Angeles. secy., 259 W. 14th St., New York City. Panama Canal Zone Vets. —Reunion dinner, Soc. of 5th Div.—Annual national reunion, Hula Hut, 8204 Beverly blvd., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 3-5, Roy D. Peters, 441 E. Louis J. Gilbert, chmn., 47 Godwin St., Paterson, Orange st., Lancaster. N. J. 7th Div. Offcrs. Assoc.— 14th reunion, Wash- North Russia Exped. Forces—Hq. Barclay ington, D. C, Nov. 19. J. B. Kittrell, pres., Green- ville, N. C. Cheaper Hotel Grill, 103 W. 4th st. Reunion banquet and HEAT show, Hollywood Knockerbocker Hotel, 1714 Ivar 27th Div. Assoc. —20th anniversary reunion and Line, Albany, av., Sept. 21, 7 p. m. E. W. Herrmann, 1917 N. observance of Battle of Hindenburg Without Collins, Gower st., Hollywood, Calif N. Y., Sept. 30-Oct. 1. Write Eugene R. COAL American Vets of Foreign Allied Armies— Observer bldg., Troy, N. Y., for Orion Messenger. New Invention Fits any Stove Div. Assoc. Annual Reunion, Clement's Cafe, 845 N. Broadway, Sept. 29th (Blue and Gray) — or Range — 30 Days Free Trial reunion, Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Md., invention burns air, 19, noon. Geo. R. Burns, chmn., Inf. Desk, Hall of Remarkable 96% 4% 2-5. 1427 St., of a cheap variety of oil obtainable every- Records, Los Angeles. Sept. J. Fred Chase, natl. comdr., Eye N. W., Washington, D. C. where. Does away with coal, wood, ashes, French Vets. Barbecue and reunion pic- drudgery. Clean, silent, quick, like War — 30th (Old Hickory) Drv. Annual reunion, dirt and — gas heat. 3 times hotter than coal and nic, dancing, Verdugo Woodlands, 1600 La Canada EARN S60 A WEEK Winston-Salem, N. C, Sept. 29-30. Irwin Monk, cheaper. Temperature controlled. No more blvd., Glendale, Sun., Sept. 18, 11 a. m. Francois Writ! for FREE Burner of pres., Box 651, Asheville, N. C. proticted territory, getting upon bitter cold, wintry morn- Giacomone, chmn., 46 E. Colorado av., Pasadena, found 32d Div. Vets. Assoc. Reunion, Grand Rapids, ings. Many automatic features. No gas or Calif. — Mich., Sept. 3-5. M. M. Kincaid, gen. chmn., Box electricity needed. Safe as any ordinary kitchen range. Easy Carlos A. pres., stove simply sits in firebox of Belgian War Vets. — Mention, E, Printline! Hotel, Grand Rapids. to install—no damage to — 705 Equitable bldg., Hollywood. any stove, range or heater. Costs just a few cents a day to 36th Div. Ft.Worth, , Oct. —Annual reunion, Tex operate. 30 DAYS AT RISK. Low introductory British War Vets. W. O. Davidson, Area TRY OUR — 8-9. Hq. at Texas Hotel. John A. Hulen. prea. price and 30-day trial. Write for FREE CATALOG. Comdr., Canadian Legion, 4034 W. 63d St., Los Room 627, Ft. Worth Club Bldg., Ft. Worth. AGENTS and spare time workers: Oil heat saves money this A ngeles. 37th Div. A. E. F. Vets. Assoc. —Reunion, year; people buy to save. Write for free burner offer that business for yourself. Act NOW! Listed aa Italian War Vets. —A. Amati, pres., 401 Sunset Zanesville, Ohio, Sept. 3-5. Write J. A. Sterner, starts you in approved by Nat'l Board of Fire Underwriters. BRIGHAM blvd., Los Angeles. secy., Wyandotte bldg., Columbus, Ohio, for News. OIL BURNER CO., 3678-J Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo. Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Jewish Welfare, 77th Div —-Remaining copies of well-illustrated K. C.—Reunion luncheon for men and women, History of the 77th Division (Continued on page 68)

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Convention-bound? {Continued from page 67) BREAK YOUR LINE OF MARCH are available at fifty cents each. Send order to Chas. Co. 320, M. T. S. 405—Reunion, Omaha, Nebr., J. Cahill, asst. treas. 77th Div. Assoc., 28 E. 39th Sept. 4-5. C. J. Winandy, 6129 N. Hermitage av„ in St., New York City. Chicago, 111. CggL 82d Div. Assoc.—Copy of last issue of All- 316th Sup. Trn., 91st Div.—To complete roster, American available to all who write to R. J. Mc- report to Otto G. Hintermann, 2847 Golden Gate Bride, secy., 2.8 E. 39th St., New York City. av., San Francisco, Calif. 90th Div. Asboc.—Reunion, Fort Woth, Tex., 308th Motor Sup. Trn. Vets. Assoc.—Annual Nov. 11-13, sponsored by 90th Div. Clubs of Dallas convention, Virginia Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. WASHINGTON! and Ft. Worth, Hq. at Hotel Texas. Memorial 3-5, with Columbus Barracks as host. Edw. Planck, service, Armistice Night celebration, business gen. chmn., Columbus Barracks, Ohio. session and jamboree. Roy T. Kline, pres., c/o 309th Ammun. Trn. Assoc. —Annual encamp- Stafford Engraving Co., Ft. Worth. ment, Shakamak State Park, near Jasonville, Ind., Have your round-trip ticket routed 91bt Div. Assoc., Wash. Sector—Annual re- Sun. Sept. 4. Free quarters and rations for mem- union, Seattle, Wash., Oct. 1. B. K. Powell, secy., bers. H. E. Stearley, sccy-treas., Box 277, Brazil, Ind. one way through America's Ever- 204 American Bank bldg., Seattle. 301st T. M. B.—Annual reunion, Bristol, Conn., 92d Div. War Vets. Assoc. For roster, report Oct. 1. W. F. Welch, secy., Southington, Conn. green Playground — in most cases it — to Osie Kelley, pres., 720 E. 50th pi., Chicago, 111. 14th Engrs. Assoc.—Meets 3 p. m. first Monday won't cost you a dime extra! And a 60th and 61st Inf.—Reunion, Lancaster, Pa., each month. Back Bay Station, Boston, Send for 3 or 4 day stopover gives you time to Sept. 3-5, with 5th Div. reunion. Roy D. Peters, bi-monthly News to C. E. Scott, comdr.-ed., 54 441 E. Orange St., Lancaster. College av., Medford, Mass. see and do all this . . 107th Inf.—Reunion dinner, Hotel Astor, New 16th Engrs.—Reunion, Detroit-Iceland Hotel, York City, Sept. 29, 20th anniversary of breaking Detroit, Mich., Sept. 3-5. R. J. Vrooman, 704 E. of Hindenburg Line. A. L. Burgess, adjt., 16 Wall Jefferson av., Detroit. St., New York City. 34th Enqrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, 130th Inf. and 4th III. —11th annual reunion, Chittenden Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 3-5. Belleville, 111., Oct. 1-2. Joe E. Harris, secy., Paris, Geo. Remple, secy., 2523 N. Mainst., Dayton, Ohio. IU. 106th Engrs.—Proposed reunion, Augusta, Ga. 313th Inf. —Annual reunion, Baltimore, Md., L. P. Howell, 2517 Wrightsboro rd., Augusta. Oct. 1. Gorman Schaible, chmn., 924 St. Paul St., 113th Engrs.—Annual reunion, Forest Park, Baltimore. Noblesville, Ind., Sept. 24-25. F. C. Craig, secy., 55 314th Inf.—Annual reunion, Reading, Pa., Sept. Virginia av., Indianapolis, Ind. 22-24. Chas. M. Stimpson, secy., 2239 Benson av., 304th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 12. D. W. Bainbridge, secy., 316th Inf. Assoc.—19th reunion. New Haven, 208 Yeakel av., Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. Conn., Sept. 24. Raymond A. Cullen, 1829 Cobbs 109th Engrs., Co. A—Reunion, Ottumwa, Iowa, Creek Parkway, Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. 9. Harry Lynch, Ottumwa. 332d Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, East Liver- 5th Constr. Co. (Bricklayers)—Proposed re- pool, Ohio, Sept. 3-4. Walter O. Schneider, secy., union of vets of Driffield and Sussex, England. A 2 to 5 hour bus ride takes you from Puget 913 Ohio av., East Liverpool. H. B. Skinner, 35 E. 4th st., Newport, Ky. Sound cities to Mount Baker or Mount Rainier 353d (All Kansas) Inf. Soc.—Annual reunion, 319th Aux. Remount Depot—Annual reunion, Abilene, Kans., Sept. 3-5. Report to David Milton Franklin, Ind., Nov. 6. Ross M. Halgren, 620 . . . where you can fish for fighting trout . . . Jones, Abilene. Circle Tower, Indianapolis, Ind. see glaciers grinding away a mountainside 355th Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Hastings, 50th Aero Sqdrn. Assoc.—Annual reunion, . . . take it easy in a friendly inn that knows Nebr., Sept. 11-12. Jay M. Mead, Hastings. Washington, D. C, Sept. 3-6. J. Howard Hill, secy., how to satisfy your mountain-air appetite! 45th Inf., Co. K—Reunion, Orleans, Ind., Sept. 4. First-Central Tower, Akron, Ohio.

Paul Templeton, 726 N. Illinois st , Monticello, Ind. 142d Aero Sqdrn.—4th annual reunion, Weir 129th Inf., Hq. Co.—Reunion, North Riverside, Lake, Broadheadsville, Pa., Sept. 1-4. Floyd Moyer, 111., Sept. 11. Geo. W. Burton, 111 W. Washington pres., 2032 W. Broad st„ Bethlehem, Pa. st., Chicago. 225th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion, eastern division, 137th Inf. Co. F. — Reunion, including vets 1st New York City, Sept, 3-5. L. J. Ford, 628 W. York and 2d Kans. Cos., Seneca, Kans., Sept. 25. Jack St., Philadelphia, Pa. Reunion, midwest division, R. Houston, Seneca. Chicago, 111., Sept. 3-5. Dan Ross, 683 Capital av., 140th Inf., Co. I —Reunion, Kennett, Mo., Sept. N. E., Battle Creek, Mich. t. L. E. Wilson, 5908 Park, Kansas City, Mo. 350th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion, Babylon, N. Y., u 147th Inf., Co. B—5th annual reunion, San- Oct. 8. Bill Stoetzel, Jr., Sheriff's Office, Newark' v0 dusky, Ohio, Sept. John G. Meyers, 2205 Campbell N. J. St., Sandusky. 801st and 35th Aero Sqdrns.—Reunion, Aller- You'll never forget Grand Coulee Dam ... 4 359th Inf., Co. B—Reunion, Weatherford, Tex., ton Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 3-5. F. C. Er- Tex. times bigger than Boulder . . . destined to Sept. 11. Fred Hopkins, Jr., Box 721, Krum, hardt, 1256 E. LaSalle av., South Bend, Ind. Tex., 15 develop power to run an empire, water to 359th Inf., Co. D—6th reunion, Corsicana, Base Hosp. (Mackay-Roosevelt Unit)—Pro- Sept. 4. R. H. Bash, Emus, Tex. posed reunion. Miss Marie M. Burke, 145 E. 60th turn a million acres of desert into a garden! 11th F. A. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion st.. New York City. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 3-5, R. C. Dickieson, secy. Base Hosp. 48 Assoc.—Annual reunion, Utica, 6140 Saunders st., Elmhurst, L. 1., N. Y. N. Y., Nov. 12. Martin Sacco, Veterans Bureau, 11th F. A.—Reunion of Western States members, City Hall, Utica. Portland, Ore., Sept. 3-5. Glenn W. Sanders, 2612 Base Hosp. No. 116—20th annual reunion, S. E. 51st av., Portland. Hotel McAlpin, New York City, Sat., Nov. 12. Dr 120th F. A.—Reunion, Milwaukee, Wise, Dec. Torr W. Harmer, 415 Marlborough st., Boston, 12, Col. Penner's birthday. Tom J. Fallon, 759 N. Mass. Plankinton av.. Milwaukee. Original 120, Ft. Ethan Allen-Camp Beaure- 322d F. A. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Cleveland, gard—Reunion, Springfield, Mass., Sept. 3-5. E. Ohio, Sept. 10. L. B. Fritsch, secy., P. O. Box 324, E. Rosseau, 358 Hillside av., Holyoke, Mass. Hamilton, Ohio. Base Hosp. Camp Sevier—Proposed reunion. Yeah man! Ride white- 327th F. A. dinner, Callaway, 564 W. Third St., Ohio. I — 12th annual reunion, basket M. R. Dayton, II water rapids in an In- TaylorviUe, 111., Sun., Sept. 11. C. C. May, 1924 Evac. Hosp. No. 13—Annual reunion, Fort Pitt 3-5. dian dugout canoe . . . N. 5th st., Springfield, 111. Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. Leo J. Bellg, whip trout streams 113th F. A., Btry. A—Annual reunion, New secy., 808 Ash St., Toledo, Ohio. Bern, N. C, Sept. 15th. M. E. Tyson, secy., New Field Hosp. Co. 317—Reunion, Boyertown, Pa., where you've got 50 miles of elbow room . . . Bern. in Sept. Norman Schoenly, Boyertown. hike through year 1,000 old forests. Do all Coast Art. Corps—Proposed organization of Field Hosp. Co. 332—Reunion, including men this within 3 hours of Puget Sound cities! national association and reunion of all regiments. of other companies of 308th San. Trn., Columbus, R. R. Jacobs, 43 Frisbie av., Battle Creek, Mich. Ohio. Sept. 4-5. Geo. Delaney, chmn., 1450 25th av., 60th Art., C. A. C, Btry. F—2d annual reunion Columbus. Roanoke, Va., Oct. 8-9. A. C. Willcox, Jr., 1009 Hosp. Unit. Columbus (Ohio) Barracks— E. Main st., Richmond, Va. Proposed reunion. Teddy Zick, 40 N. Guilford av., 1st Corps Art. Park—Reunion, Hotel Waldorf, Columbus. Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 30-Oct. 1-2. Chas. H. Tracy, Amb. Co. 35 Vets. Assoc. —7th reunion, Buffalo, 6703 Erie St., Sylvania, Ohio. N. Y., Sun., Sept. 4. Harry E. Black, Box 153 Par-

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Rent the equipment . . . get Machine Gun] Battalion, history of the Battalion, A. R. C. Amb. Co. 18 (34 1st Amb. Co.)—Annual out on the salt water. Your may be obtained from Oscar L. Farris, secy, 202 reunion, Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 10. H. Y. Tinch, Chamber of Commerce, Nashville, Tenn. secy.. Broad Auto Co., Indianapolis. rod bends . . . the line 306th M. G. Bn., Co. A— 12th annual reunion, Seaman Guard, Hampton Roads—Proposed re- screams . . . you've hooked 77th Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th St., New York union. Peter W. Stehlin, 52 Rushmore av., West- half your weight in fight- City, Oct, 22. Ralph L. Newcome, 44 Van Doren bury, L. I., N. Y. ing King Salmon! Stay av., Chatham, N. J. U. S. S. Mount Vernon Assoc.—20th annual with hi:.', Soldier! Experi- 130th M. G. Bn., Co. B— Reunion, Springfield, reunion, Boston, Mass., Sept, 3. P. N. Horne, ence this real excitement Mo., Sept, 24, 7 p.m. R. P. Pickett, secy., Natl. Room 501, 110 State St., Boston. Guard Armory, Springfield. U. S. S. Solace Annual reunion of crew, Phil- right in Puget Sound! — 326th M. G. Bn., Co. D—Annual reunion, adelphia, Pa., Nov. 5. Dr. R. A. Kern, University Zanesville, Ohio, Sept. 13. Walter M. Wood, Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. THE DOPE ABOUT WASHINGTON Drawer 29, Portsmouth, Ohio. Soc. of S. O. L. —Ail bona fide casuals report to ALL 51st Pioneer Inf.—15th annual reunion, 10th R. Warren Nowell, Box 246, South Windham, YOURS FOR THE ASKING Inf. Armory, Albany, N. Y., Sept. 11. Otto Rauch, Maine. gen. chmn., 186 Adams St., Delmar, N. Y. Vets. A. E. F. Siberia—Reunion, Chicago, 111., Write, telephone or call at the Washington 304th F. S. Bn. —Forming natl. organization. Oct. 8. Edw. B. Buckley, 155 N. Clark St., Chicago. State Progress Commission Headquarters for Send names, addresses, to Jos. P. Tyrrell, secy., M. T. C. Verneuil Vets. (Motor Repair Units information on recreation opportunities here 6144 McCallum, Philadelphia, Pa. 301-2-3 and Spare Parts)— Reunion and convention, 313th F. S. Bn. —Reunion, Des Moines, Iowa, Philadelphia, Pa., late fall. Send present address for — facts, maps, costs. Free, official, unbiased. Oct. 1. Dr. Chas. L. Jones, Gilmore City, Iowa. new roster to Gene Blumenreich, c/o Western Amer. R. R. Transp. Corps Vets.—Annual re- Union, 346 W. 34th st., New York City WASHINGTON STATE Progress Commission union, Hotel Plymouth, New York City, Sept. 221 State Capitol Bldg., Olympic, 24-26. Pre-view of World's Fair, sightseeing and Wash. John J. Noll other entertainment. Gerald J. Murray, natl. adjt., 722 S. Main av., Scranton, Pa. The Company Clerk

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