The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-08-13
D, s, CROSS PINNED
ON BISMARCK WAR
HERO Of FLANDERS
Snappy Military Spectacle Is
Setting OF the Decoration
Ceremonies at Fort
DINNER CLOSING OVATION
Speakers Who Know War and
Peace Both Weigh Them in
Scales Of Experience
DINNER CLOSING OVATION

The a-nnv's accolade ce-emonloAalv
Save the touch OF military knight
hood to Captain Herman A Brocopp
or the main parade ground RI Fort
Lincoln. Monday evening. while a
thousand tovns.ner ana a thousand
soldiers looked or and dark cloQds
overhead. Ike those OF wa- DAYS,
spattered a few drops n benediction
or the Gene.
The accolade Was no. the touch ri
a sword as n chIvalry.s investment,
but the p.nninc on Of the coun..Es
distinguished service cross. -cn hy
conspicuous eallantry n action while
the World va was drawing to a Close,
on Belrium's onc popplca oattIe-
fields. Il was the echo 10 that day
at Waerechen October 81 1913, when
the captain. then a lieutenant. TOOK
a German position on a WOODED hill
SIDE and with il an entire enemy field
artillery and a command OF PRISONERS.
Following the ceremony, the COM
nunitv paid It's compliments. when
600 military and civic aanoue.e-s sat
down TO tables a. the Grand Pacific
and enjoyed a dinner under the aus
piccs of the Lions club and heard
the captains rallantry toasted by a
galaxy o. military and official speak
ers beginning with Colonel W. A
Alfontc, cornmadant al Fort Lincoln.
and concluding with Governor George
F. Shater on behal. 0. the state.
Review and Parade
The ceremonies at the Fort Lincoln
field were examples Of military pre-
cision. AS Governor George r. Sha-
fer entered the entrance gate. a
major generals salute Of II guns was
fired by one o! the forts field pieces.
Meanwhile the garrison. the national
guards Of Company A. commanded by
Captain B-ocopp. and the young men
az the training camp, had drawn up
along the barracks roadway on the
south SIDE Of the parade ground.
The reviewing group and captains
~ the fort gathered al the north SIDE
Of the field. facing the military CON-
panies across the parade ground. The
post band was grouped midway on the
cast OF tho parade. The companies
nov were brought 10 the mid portion
Of the field and the ceremonies be-
Gan after the Star Spangled Ban
ner" had been played BY the band.
Lieutenant Paneburn. representing
the war department. advanced to-
ward Captain Brocopp and read the
citation on which the cross was
awarded. Colonel w. A. Altonte vent
forward and pinned the cross on Cap
tain Brocopp. The governor. Colonel
Alfonte. Commander Harry Hart. Ray.
Of the American Legion. Commander
A. L. Fosteson. OF Lloyd Spetz post OF
the Legion. Adjutant General A. 6.
Fraser. Captain E. G. Wanner and
Congressman Thomas Hall reviewed
the military companies and these then
passed in parade before the reviewing
rroup on the north SIDE Of the field.
Another Cross Man Vas There
In the group at the parade review
were also Lieut.. z. D, Pangburn. Col
G. H. Russ. OF the training camp. Ma
jor Harold Sorenson, Captain Flgueras,
w. S. Ayers. Of the Lions club. Cap
tain Moves. OF the air service at the
fort. Roy Baird, Of the adjutant gen.
erals staff. Captain Skinner, Major
A. B. WEIGH. Captain 6. A. NJ Ander-
ecn J.. A. Kitchen. state commander
OF the Veterans OF Foreign Wars. and
". r. Robinson. of Mandan, also a