Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1920 — THE AMERICAN LEGION NOTES [ARTICLE]

THE AMERICAN LEGION NOTES

Indianapolis, Nov. 25.—L. R. Gignilliat, state commander of the American Legion, has called a meeting of the state executive committee to' be held at the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, November 30. The committee will plan a legislative program, which it will seek io put through the coming session of the legislature. The draft of a bill that would legalise boxing contests in Indiana will be laid before the committee for final approval. The committee some time ago appointed a subcommittee to draft this bill. The Legion committee will receive a report from representatives of the city of Indianapolis and Marion county as to the progress -of plans for having enacted legislation that will make it possible for them to co-operate with the state of Indiana in the erection of a war memorial building. The special session of the legislature last summer enacted a law that provided for a war memorial board of property now occupied by the Indiana school for -the blind and St. Clan Park in Indianapolis on which the memorial wilding will be erected. The mty and county then sought to obtain legislative permission to co-operate with money and additional ground. It is proposed to house the national headquarters of the Legion and other patriotic bodies in the memorial building. '