American Legion Stars Head to Tokyo for Indiana U Baseball Tour
Ward Gilbert and Emmons Clay, former Seattle balloonist and catcher, depart for Tokyo with Indiana University baseball nine. Japanese hosts at Waseda University will feature the Hoosiers with a $15,000 expense guarantee, while Tokyo and Nagoya merchants welcome the visiting players and band.
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Johnny Jap
Indiana University
Tokyo
Nagoya
Seattle
Wash
American Legion
Ward OQ
Gilbert
Kokomo
Ind
France
Emmons Clay
Legion
Indiana
Japan
Waseda University of Tokyo
Japan University
Pacific
Orient
Musician Surrenders Career for Americanism Work
Madge King Johnston of Aberdeen South Dakota, national vice president of the American Legion auxiliary, has given up a concert career to aid ex service men. She runs eight state stores selling items by disabled veterans and chairs the auxiliary American committee. She helped form citizenship clubs and children’s groups for ex service men, while her husband, Dr M C Johnston, is noted hunter who has hunted in the Rockies and Canada.
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America
Europe
Madge King Johnston
Aberdeen
S. D
American Leggenth
Johnston
Auxiliary
Y M C A Helps Prisoners at Fort Jay In WWI Era
The YMCA runs programs at Fort Jay Governor's Island where 200 to 300 soldiers are confined for minor offenses and some go on to Fort Leavenworth. Col. John B. Hunt led the fort in World War I and introduced inmate activities. Weekly sing songs bring about 175 participants, Sunday services attract over 200, and volunteers teach Spanish French reading writing and arithmetic to eager inmates.
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United States
Fort Jay
Governor’s Island
New York Harbor
Fort Leavenworth
Army
John BE. Hunt
Dan Hollenga A Legion official famed for aid to disabled ex service men
Dan Hollenga a lecturer and former stretcher bearer in France is active nationwide for the American Legion service division in Washington. Born in Holland he became a well known speaker nicknamed Billy Sunday of the American Legion and has led efforts to obtain compensation and hospitalization for veterans.
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France
S. Hollenga
American Legion
Washington, D. C
Holland
Hollenga
Ollenga
Chambers of Commerce
South
Legion
Legion National Headquarters
Unt
Hanford MacNider
Washington
Citizen of Two Countries Honored by Bourges Council
Frank Sinclair, a Janesville Wisconsin newspaper sports editor and historian for the Janesville American Legion post, was made an honorary citizen of Bourges France while serving as an Army sergeant major at G H Q. The honor, awarded for promoting Yankee French ties through The Cro post newspaper, was bestowed by Bourges common council alongside Lawrence J. Weidman and William F. Wrage for diplomatic work. Sinclair and Weidman also coauthored The Battle of Bourges, praised by a Paris newspaper as essential reading.
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Frank Sinclair
Janesville
Wis
Sinclair
American Legion
Bourges
France
Central Records Office
Weidman
Paris
Navy rescue on deck sparks secret mercy tale
In a rough night at sea a U S Navy ship heads to France. Cubbins guards the deck while Lt Cmdr Giblet disappears overboard. Gubbins dives after him and saves the officer, who thanks him and asks secrecy to avoid the crew’s wrath.
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France
Cubbins
Giblet
Gubbins
American Legion Weekly
War Memorabilia Sought as Germany Undercuts Markets
American and English cities buy tombstones and war memorials from Germany due to lower prices. Kansas Legion posts arrange sending breezy home letters to wounded soldiers at Fort Bayard New Mexico. A pilotless plane gathers attention at the Villacoublay air dome in France, controlled by wireless from the ground.
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Germany
Kansas
Fort Bayard
N.M
Legion
Villacoublay Airdome
France
Learn Radio Terms and Wave Basics for Beginners
A primer explains radio wave concepts, frequency and wavelength, carrier waves, resonance, and how transmitters and receivers work. It covers electromagnetic waves, predictor relations between frequency and wavelength, tuner role, and detector function in simple receivers.
Ingenious Radio Plan Delivers Latest News Townwide
In a remote northwest town an editor uses radio to broadcast fresh news. An amateur in a city 50 miles away buys and reads city papers into his transmitter while a country office typist copies the reception. The editor boasts of always being first with the latest.
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Cfliier
Montana Farmers Weigh Summer Tillage Policy
Montana experiment station and Montana State College of Agriculture outline four objects of summer fallow: moisture storage, plant food accumulation, weed control, and labor distribution. They advise fall plowing where moisture allows, spring plowing after seeding, and careful cultivation to maintain mulch and reduce evaporation.
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Montana
Montana Experiment Station
Montana State College of Agriculture
Montana farm boys receive instruction at summer camps
Montana extension service reports rapid growth of club camps for farm boys and girls. Last year 12 camps enrolled 620 youths across the state with Fort Assiniboine hosting 179 attendees. Plans call for camps in Richland Prairie Rosebud Yellowstone Stillwater Gallatin Hill Roosevelt Valley Sanders Lincoln Lewis and Clark Big Horn Ravalli and Flathead.
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Montana
Montana Extension Service
Ecamp
Fort Assiniboine
Ili
Maximun
Extension Club Department
Extension Service
Farm Bureau
Moving Pictures
Hoys
Richland
Prairie
Rosebud
Yellowstone
Stillwater
Gallatin
Hill
Roosevelt
Valley
Sanders
Lincoln
Lewis and Clark
Big. Horn
Ravalis
Flathead
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