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Indian Legion Post Is Set lip at TamaCEDAR RAPIDS UP*—'Thirteen Indian veterans of World War II were initiated into the American Legion and a permanent charter was granted Wednesday night at the Tama Indian reservation to Robert Morgan post No. 701. only Indian post in Iowa and one of nine in the nation.The post has 23 World War 31 vets and one World War I veteran member.Ceremonies, headlined by the ap-a knife and that he was shot accidentally when Matheson at-fprrmfpri tn strike him with theocarance of Jesse Haldcn, state commander of the Legion, were held in the school building on the Indian reservation with the initiation in charge of a ^eam of pretty uniformed girls from Marshalltown.State Commander Halden presented a copy of the permanent charter to Robert Waseskuk, 37-year-old veteran of Pacific warfare.The program, attended by several score of Marshalltown, Tama, and reservation residents, was in charge of P. Hope Overturf, Tama county commtndei*.Robert Morgan, after whom the post was named, was a young Indian youth who was killed in Germany.
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 31, 1947
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