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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-23

Kyle Dickson, son of Mr.. and
Walter Dickson, of Silas Creek,
who is a senior at A. S. T. c.,
has made an extraordinary rec
ord during his college career.
He was recently elected "Mr. APP
palachian" in a campus election
and among other honors he has
received are: president of the
Forensic Club, business manager
of The Appalachian, student pap
er; chairman of the A. H. S. A..
tournament, chairman of the APP
palachian Forensic tournament.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-23
HOSPITAL PROJECT
READY TO SUBMIT

Details relative to submitting
applications to WPA for approx
al of the proposed Ashe county
hospital building have been
practically completed and the
project will be sent to Washing
ton in the near future, Prof
R. E. L. Plummer, building plans
chairman, announced yesterday.
Prof. Plummer has called
meeting of the building plans and
finance committees to meet to-
morrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
in Supt. Hash's Office. All men,
bers are urged to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-23

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Crawford
and Miss DeEtte Crawford visit
ed in Lansing Sunday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-23
AsHE COUNTY

is the air-conditioned section Of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. twenty-five miles
of the PARKWAY run through
the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-02-23

WANT A ROSPTrAL9
II YOU want a Hospital in Ashe
County, JOIN the ASHE COUN-
TY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.
Cooper alton and support from
everybody is needed to put the
movement over. We now have
Golden Opportunity!
Evening star., 1939-04-14
POULTRY 3 EGGS,

TURKEY EGGS. pure bred white Holland
for sale; also thoroughbred New Hampshire
Rcd hatchins eggs. Atlantic 1000.
Evening star., 1939-04-14
SOL 18th ST. NE.

3 and rm apt; elec. refg.. new gas
stove. heat. janitor service; extra fine con-
dition; has to be seen to be appreciated;
exceptionally low rent See janitor.
Evening star., 1939-04-14

MICH. PARK. 43O7 18th st. n.e.-Cor. rm..
adj. bath shower: quiet, attrac. home;
porches: breakfast opt; reas. Dupont O473.
1888 QUINCY ST. NW-Lge. rm., PIT.
shower, twin beds. running water. 1nclosed
porch; S25 angle. $50 double.
Evening star., 1939-04-14

ROOMS FURNISHED.
(Continued

PETWORTH, 413 Hamilton st. nw.-Clean
single room, next bath. continuous hot
water; cool; 20 minutes downtown. Break
fast optional. Georgia OO52
213b r ST. NW-small studio room, next
to bath. running water: kitchenette ar
rangement: SIT .50-S25 mo. Dist. 2135.
CLEVELAND PARK. 3421 Quebec st. NV
Nicely furnished rm. and sleeping porch;
reasonable; near bus. car. Woodley $780,
1115 MONROE ST. NW-Large front room
opening on to large porch; modern: $50
month: near cars. buses. Adams 8943.
NEAR SHERMAN CIRcLE-Large. second
conveniences: reasonable. Rand. 1890.
4423 18th ST. N.W-Unusually well-furn
front bedrm., double or single, with SEMI
private bath. in private home. No other
roomers. Adams O56O
Evening star., 1939-04-14

apOO.
Two rooms. south exposure semi-bath:
Frigidaire, elec., gas linen furn.; ideal for
l or . employed persons. 12l st. Sc.
Evening star., 1939-04-14
WALBRIDGE HOUSE,

1850 r ST. NV.
FOR SIX YEARS THE WASHINGTON
FOOD AND FURNISHINGS. NOWHERE
WILL YOUR DOLLAR BUY SO MUCH IN
CONSISTENT COMFORT. SECURITY AND
DIGNITY OF ADDRESS. WE INVITE
INSPECTION AND COMPARISON PHONES
IN ALL ROOMS. TRAY, LAUNDRY AND
BELLBOY SERVICE. COUNTRY CLUB
SINGLES AND DOUBLES. RATES. $4,000
TO S55 90 PER MONTH
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
Jane BIomgren,
Ellen M(Ke(hnie
Hostesses TODAY

Co-hostesses this afternoon at the
Scatter Tract home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Larry McKechnie. Miss Ellen Me-
Kechnie and Miss Jane Blomgren
entertained with luncheon and a
shower complimentary to Mrs. Rob-
ert Gordon. ~s' '4r,
A centerpiece of gladiolus and
idelphiniums attractively decorated
the luncheon table and the after
noon was spent in playing bridge
pinochle and Chinese checkers.
Guests for the occasion included
Mrs. Clifford Berg, Mrs. Roland
Lindquist. Mrs. John Whitley, Phyl-
lis. Jenne, Beatrice Primavera, Lii
liam Kiloh, Mary Jean McNaugh-
ton, Corrine Duncan, Edythe Young
Jean Taylor, Fay Stoddard, Helen
Ricketts,, Francis Newman, Helen
Beistline, thy Bertholl and
Elaine Housed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
BY The APP Feature Service

Those grim young Czechs form
ing foreign legions today have a
stirring example to live up to. For
a quarter of a century ago, other
grim young Czech legionnaires were
getting into-and out of-one of his
tory's highest jams.
Forced to fight for Austria-Hun-
gary, the Czechs deserted and cross
ed into Czarist Russia, where they
became prisoners.
Far from home, they kept up hope
formed national groups, proved
themselves skilled workmen anc
gave a tenth of their pay to pro-
mote Czecho-Slovak independence
Finally Russia permitted them tc
form Czech legions to fight on the
Russian front.
In 1T the Czechs were concen-
trated in European Russia.
German troops were surging to-
ward them from the west. Enemy
Turkish troops formed wall to the
south. Chaos and the ice-packec
Arctic were to the north. Five
thousand miles of chilly steppe:
blocked the east
And all around the Red revolu.
ton was raging.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
MISS CLAU5EN,
Mr.. HAGLUND
Twill WED SOON
Ceremony 70 Take Place
in Petersburg
Next Month

Miss Charlotte Clausen, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Clausen OF
Petersburg, announced plans for hei
marriage to Mr.. Hiding Haglund
son of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Albin
Haglund of this city, which will be
held August Is, at her home in
Petersburg.
The engagement of the popular
couple was revealed at tea given
las tmonth at the Gold Belt Avenue
home of Mrs. j. B. Godfrey.
Miss Clausen will be given in mar
riage by her father, and Miss Mertie
johnson of Petersburg, will be her
only attendant. Mr.. Arnold Swan
son of Juneau will be Mr.. Haglunds
best man.
Leaving here during the first part
of August Miss Clausen will spend
two weeks in Petersburg with her
parents prior to her wedding. Mr.
Haglund and his best man will leave
Juneau about August 16.
Miss Clausen, who came to this
city during the Legislature, was
employed as a secretary at the ses-
sion. She is graduate of the Pet
ersburg high school, attended the
University Of Washington and was
also enrolled in a stenographic
course at a business college in Sc
attic.
Mr.. Haglund, well known in the
Capital City, is at present Wharf
niger at the City Dock. He is a
graduate of the Juneau High School
and attended Whitman College at
Walla Walla, Wash, where he is a
member of the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity.
Following their wedding in Pet
ersburg the young couple will re-
turn to Juneau where they will
make their home.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
lie Sued.
| But She Won
| Divorce

ALEX. Demos of Douglas sued Hill
da Demos for divorce. but it was
she who was granted the divorce
today in District Court. Judge
George F. Alexander decided the
case after lengthy and spirited ex-
changes in Court. Her maiden
name of Hilda Runquist was re-
stored to Mrs. Demos.
A divorce was granted today to
Virginia from Pierce Faircloth of
Haines.
Dolat Kuloff became citizen of
the United States and changed his
name to Dan Jerry Kelly. He is a
native of Soviet Russia.
The suit of Sam Konoff versus
Michael l.. Bocatch for an account
ing was set for trial Thursday at
Q O'Clock. s'si. e. Fe ~
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
REAL BOOM IS
UNDER WAY AT
KODIAK, WORD
CuIberison Arrives from
Island for Bureau Of
Fisheries office

Kodiak is undergoing boom
which will make it the most popu-
lous place in the Third Division
by the time work starts on the
new Navy base, j. Steele gilbert
son, Bureau of Fisheries Warden,
said today on his arrival from the
island.
New buildings are going up at
Kodiak, Chamber of Commerce
has been organized and every boat
is bringing in load of new citi-
zens.
Culbertson will be stationed
here as Assistant Agent for the
rest of the summer. He spent the
winter of 1867 in the Juneau
office of the Bureau. He and Mrs.
Culbertson are living at the Bar
anof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
DAlGlER FAMILY
BACK IN JUNEAU

Cliff Daigler. well known theatre
man who spent several years in
Juneau operating tn Capitol and
Coliseum theatres under the lease
to B. F. Shearer, returned to Juneau
with his family ON the Baranof
today ~. Hss -.
w. D. Gross, owner of the Coli
scum Theatre chain in Southeast
Alaska, said Daigler will, assume
managership Of the new Twentieth
Century Theatre now under con-
struction. IA. s.a.
Daigler has been in Seattle since
he left Juneau four years ago, and
has been managing shows at The
Ranch, exclusive suburban night
club. Ii 4la
Returning with him was Mrs.
Daigler and the two Daigler chill
dren, Beth, 5, andeDonald, IL. ~
At present the family is stopping
at the Gastineau Hotel. 9
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22

reached, Vladivostok in 81 days
But most trains suffered All Sorts
of delays.
BY July, 1918, troop-trains were
scattered over 1000 miles of track
Jan Syrovy, the famous one-eyed
general, was in, command. a sYstl
Trouble with the Soviets increas-
ed at each station. Soon Czechs
and Bolshevik we're battling
throughout the Urals. As their trains
got on, the Czechs had to fight for
each town. And each railroad tun-
mel in the Lake Baikal region had
to be won. iie ;@s
Held the Railroads
The troops stayed on in Eastern
Siberia until the Arinistice, helping
the Allies hold the railroads. Then
they left Vladivostok for home. via
the Pacific and the United States.
They were rewarded with a free
Czechoslovakia. asa salc
Today, other young Czechs are
working for the same goal. RI
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
MISSION BOAT
IS DESTROYED
IN SEWARD BAY
Four Men Aboard Blown
from Pilot House
Uninjured

SEWARD, Alaska July 22.-Fire
completely destroyed the Nika Nah,
Methodist Mission, yacht, that or
iginally cost $4,000. Is
A backfire, while the craft was
on a short Resurrection Bay run,
ignited the bilge fumes. ,s
The craft was towed to a beach,
but too late to save it.
-Four men aboard were blown
from the pilot house by the aexplos-
ion OF the bilge fumes, but they
were not injured.
The four on the vessel were the
Rev. A. j. Clements, L. Phillips,
Jmes Watt and Tracey Clark.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
BACKGROUND


On dark nights nowadays
Czecho- Slovak youths slip over
the border into Poland, where
they are forming legions to fight
if war GENES. against the Ger
mans.
The Czechs are experienced
border shippers and fighters-in-
strange territory. During the
Werid war, they formed legions
in France. Italy and Serbia
and especially in Russia. Their
opponents then, too, were Ger
mans--the Germans Of Austria
Hungary, an empire of which
they were unwilling subjects.
The story of the 100000 Czech
soldiers in wartime Russia will
shed light on what may be ex-
pected of the expatriated Czechs
in any second weld war. Lloyd
George called the story zone of
the greatest epics in history"
Here it is.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
DAVID WILLIAMS HERE

1 David Williams Pacific Alaska
Anyways radio operator who was on
the Seattle Juneau. clipper expert
mental flights last year, returned
on the Alaska yesterday and flew
to Fairbanks today with PAA to
work in the Interior metropolis Of
fices of the company. 'sk
5Williams has been taking flight
operator training at Miami on the
clipper ships this winter.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
SIX! GO NORTH N / Il
Nine Fly DOWN

Six passengers were to fly to Fair
banks this afternoon, while another
plane was to come to Juneau from
the Interior with nine aboard. ,t,.
Those going out with Joe Cros-
son and Al Monsen were j. B. War
rack, j. F. Mullen, Virginia Mullen
d. T. Williams, j. w. Jones ano
M. c. Hoppin.n
Inbound passengers were E. M
Wright, M. j. Farrell, AL Grab, Mary
Grab, Lorene Gisler, Jerry Calvin
C H. Waterman, Mrs. Jerry Koontz
and Mrs r. E. Mespelt.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
Signal Corps
Accuracy
Is Astounding

A record of 146,447 messages
without single error being re-
ported was established by the AL
aska Communications System in
March, according to the quarterly
bulletin OF the Officer in Charge.
A new individual record of g.
1863 messages without error was
made by Albert R. Bech, Seattle
operator, in May.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22

AS the Germans pushed in, the
Czech plight became serious. Rus
sian soldiers merely laid down their
4 guns and went home or became
4 prisoners of war.
Tw oDivisions Trapped
But since the Czechs were largely
deserters, the German army treat
ed captured Czechs accordingly
Two Czech divisions were fight
4 ing near Kiev in the Ukraine. Fac
4 ing certain death, if captured, they
went over the top with a fury that
sent enemy troops sprawling. But
they were only two divisions on a
1 large front.
In November, 1917, the Bolsheviks,
under Lenin, had seized control of
Russia. Lenin signed the treaty OF
Brest-Litovsk.
The treaty cut off any possibility
of the Czechs going home-unless
they were willing to accept doubt
, ful offer of amnesty from the Aus
trian emperor. And If they con-
tinued to fight the Germans they
would fight alone.
The Czechs had to think fast.
They did.
They decided to push through
those 5000 miles to Vladivostok
theme eto return to Europe by way
of the U. S.
The Czechs dog trotted through
the chaotic Ukraine-just ahead OF
the pursuing Germans. When Ger
mans in armored cars attempted tt
head them off, few Germans es.
capped.
Allies Fought Communism
The two divisions commandeereC
trains. Fighting with the supper
of Communists ended the German
menace But more trouble sprans
up.
The Bolshevik government hat
learned that the Allies were com
batting Communism in eastern ST
IBERIA, and was alarmed at the pros
pect of heavily armed Czechs join
!, ing the Allies.
The Bolsheviks would let tn
Czechs push on only if they sur
rendered their arms So the Czech
gave up some of them, but KEEP
other supplies hidden.
The first trainloads of troop
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
AAC( 70 ORDER
2-WAY RADIOS,
s ALASKA PLANES
CAA Head Meets with AL
aska Body and Gov
ernor at Bell Island

All licensed passenger carrying
aircraft in Alaska viii be required
to install two-way radio communi-
caticn equipment in the near flu
ture, according to Dudley Reynolds.
Assistant to the Supervisor of the
Alaska Aeronautics and Commune
cations Commission.
At a meeting of the commission
yesterday at Bell Island, with Gov
John w. Troy and M. c. Hoppin,
new head of Civil Aeronautics Ap-
thority in Alaska, Supervisor of the
AACC, Glenn Goudie, and his office,
was directed to draw up such regu-
latior.
Specifications and regulations for
enforcement of the new law will
force two-way radios on all pas
senger carrying planes operating
outside of a 25-mile radius.
Right To Regulate
Right to make such regulation is
granted in the 1877 Territorial Act
creating the Alaska Aeronautics and
Communications Commission and
designating its powers
1t was ais odecided at the meet
ing to draw up preventative regu-
lations governing blocking of facil-
tiles for marine airplanes.
A third decision of the body was
to install and operate a new AACC
station at Goddard Hot Springs,
near Sitka, the equipment coming
from st. Michael, where Northern
Commercial Company station has
obvoated the need for Territorial
equipment.
Sheldon Simmons, Secretary of the
AACC, flew Commission member
Joe Crosson, Dudley Reynolds, AS
sistant to the Supervisor, and Har-
ry Watson, Secretary to the Gov
ernor, to Ketchikan yesterday in the
AAT Lockheed.
At Ketchikan, Supervisor of the
AACC, Glenn Goudie, had contacted
NJ. G. Hoppin, new CAA head in
Alaska, arriving there on the Bar
anof.
Inspect Range Station
From there the party went to
Gravina Island aboard the Coast
Guard cutter Cyane, to inspect the
range station there, southern end
of the RADIO zeam that will reach
to Nome.
Returning to Ketchikan, the party
flew to Bell Island where a meeting
was called of the Commission with
Governor John w. Troy ex-officio
head of the body, during which re-
lations of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority and the Alaska Aeronau-
tics and Communication Commits
sion were discussed.
Hoppin, expressing his common
dations of the work of the AACC.
announced at the meeting that he
is requesting AN me'/ncy appro-
priation of $450,OO0 from Congress
to operate meteorological and range
stations this year,
DCnOnOe ON Commission
Gov. Troy announced the appoint
ment of Thomas A. Donohoe. Cor
dovaa ttorney and aviator, as a men,
Der of the Commission filling the
vacancy created by the recent death
of flier M. D. Kirkpatrick.
The entire party that flew to Ket-
chikan yesterday, returned to Jul
neau this afternoon with Hoppin.
who flew on with PAA into Fair
banks.
Hoppin said here, Your Alaska
Aeronautics and Communications
Commission has done some wonder
full work and what 1 have seen so
far. surpasses all my expectations
and isn't at all what I expected to
find"
Mrs. Robert Bender, daughter of
Gov. Troy, made the round trip
aboard the plane and visited with
her father atsBell Island.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
D0UGLAS-M005E
S. : BALL GAME MAY
BE RAINED OUT

Douglas is scheduled to meet the
Moose tomorrow afternoon at $50
o'clock in Firemen's Park in sec
ond half schedule baseball game, if
it doesn't rain.
Weathermen say chances look
slim, however, for good weather,
with rain the doleful prediction.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
CANNERY HEAD HERE

r. A. Welsh, and his son, Robert
Welsh, Jr., arrived in Juneau this
morning on the Baranof and are
guests at the Gastineau Hotel.
Welsh is one of the owners of the
Icy Straits Packing Company at
Hoonah, and will probably go out
to the plant with his son tomorrow
for a few days visit.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
JONES ON TRIP !. I
Y IS = lh1o INTERIOR

John w. Jones, of the juneau
Young Hardware Company, flew to
Fairbanks with Pacific Alaska Air.
ways today on combined business
and pleasure trip. He expects to
return with PAA next Thursday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22

The following are scores of games
played this afternoon in the two
major leagues:
National League
Cincinnati 2; Philadelphia 0.
Brooklyn T. st. Louisa. = -
Pittsburgh 9; Boston 3.
Chicago B.; New York Z.
American League
Philadelphia A. Detroit 2.
Washington IL; Cleveland 3.
Boston 6; st. Louis 3.
New York Chicago, postponed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
BACK FROM sITKA

Mrs. Cora M. Speanburg, visiting
her daughter Mary Ellen Speanburg
here, returned ON the North Sea
from Sitka after spending few
days visiting. She is at the Bar
anof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
THAT'S B'Al!YE!RS
ENR0UTE HERE

Miss That's Bayer/ well known
Juneau girl. sailed for Juneau to-
day on the steamer Columbia.
Miss Bayers has spent the past
several months in the States.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
MARRIAGE LICENSE

U. S. Commissioner M. E. Mon
agile issued a marriage license to-
day to Enoch william Jensen of
Juneau and Dorothy Leona Jones
of AUX Bay. -cAe.as ~4i 80
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

The general barometric pressure distribution
Pacific Ocean the northwestern
changed little
Codova outheasward pressure
over the interior and portions of
ported being 1886 inches Precipitation
has been general along the
ia souheastward the northern portion
and scaengy the nterio
while fair weather prevailed the
Juneau, July 25. Sunrise, 1892
Sunrise, 1874 sunset 1888
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
RADIATOR MAN HERE

F. l.. Fiske, American Radiator
representative, came in on the Bar
anof and is guest at the Gastineau
Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
FLORENCE IN

A. L. Florence, Seattle Hardware
representative. came in to Juneau
on the Baranof and is at the Gas
tineau Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
u s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU
THE WEATHER
(By the U. S. Weather Bureau
t for Juneau and Vicinte southerly winds

Forecast for Juneau winds
iy
Forecast for Southeast Sunday mod
crate souhery Winds
Forecast of winds OF Gulf Of Alaska.
Fresh southy winds tonight Entrance
Cane IIinnh
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
DUNLOP BACK

H. S. Dunlop, travelling man, is
back in Juneau and is guest at the
Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22

Lode and placer location notices
for sale at The Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22

The Book ALASKA, Revised and
Enlarged, Now On Sale; $l.0o.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22

AS the Germans pushed in, the
Czech plight became serious. Rus
sian soldiers merely laid down their
guns and went home or became
prisoners of war.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-22
barometer

Cape. Hinchinbrook
Evening star., 1939-05-28
Major Heath

Some men, providentially, are en-
dowed with a genius for the making
and keeping of friends. That is
another way of saying that they live
helpfully and without offense to
other human creatures. 1t is their
business in the world to contribute
to the basic harmony, the essential
fellowship, by which brotherhood is
translated from aspiration into
reality.
Major Ferry Kimball Heath was
such person. The sixty-two years
OF his life were unstained by the dis
appointments which are the COM
mon experience of less amiable char
acters. He was happy and we'll de-
served to be. The work he accom-
plished as a soldier and a builder
was important in itself, but his
manner of doing it was even more
distinctively noteworthy. AS director
Of the construction program of the
administrations of President Coolidge
and President Hoover he supervised
the spending of hundreds of millions
OF dollars of public money, raised
thousands of Federal structures
throughout the Nation, managed a
personnel estimated at four hundred
thousand, and left name respected
for its honor and integrity. SINH
larly, he won applause for his labor
as head Of the American Relief Mis-
sion in Finland after the World War.
Those who toiled with him loved him,
strangers instinctively respected and
admired him. He may not have been
a great figure in the history of his
times, but he was kindly, generous,
tolerant and liberal gentleman, as
sured of remembrance In the hearts
OF a multitude Of people who knew
him
Evening star., 1939-05-28
Contigny

Twenty-one years ago today the
United States Army in France came
gloriously into its own. It was on
May 28, 1918, that the Twenty Eighth
Infantry under Colonel Hanson E.
Ely captured, at the end of three
days furious fighting against crack
and seasoned German troops, the
village of Cantigny, which was of
highly strategic Importance. Notable
as the feat in itself was, Cantigny
became OF symbolical Importance be-
cause 1t was the first occasion on
which an A. E. F. outfit trained on
the western front was tested in action
on its own account. The troops ac-
quilted themselves in a manner that
banished all doubt in the minds of
General Pershing, the Allied High
Command and the German General
Staff as to the capacity of the
"Yanks" to hold their own against
anything the enemy could throw
against them. It was the curtain
raiser for Chateau Thierry, Belleau