Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1920 — VICTORY MEDALS-SENT OUT ON INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION [ARTICLE]

VICTORY MEDALS-SENT OUT ON INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION

Washington, July 21.—Victory medals are being issued by the war department to world war veterans on individual application only and no arrangements have been made with the American Legion to distribute the medals, Secretary Baker has informed Marvin G. Sperry, president of the Private Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Legion. Sperry recently sent a protest to the secretary saying that national headquarters of the American Legion had announced that arrangements had been made—for that organization to distribute the medals. Secretary Baker’s reply, after denying . that arrangements had been made with the American Legion to the medals, said that “any arrangements made by the American Legion with the members of that society., after they have received the medals is a matter over which this department exercises no jurisdiction.”