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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
8
In a tense domestic scene Harriet refuses Blondin's advances while Richard Carter and Nina’s fiancé Blondin clash over Nina's marriage prospects. Blondin presses with veiled threats and past secrets as Harriet stays mute and torn amid accusations and a severed alliance.
Harriet confronts Richard in the library about a secret involving Blondin and Nina. She confesses her guilt and plans to leave, while Richard contends with protecting his daughter and realizing the consequences for the Carter family. Harriet prepares to tell Nina and seek Linda’s aid before deciding her next move.
A fragment notes animals show a sixth sense predicting disasters. It cites ants abandoning hills with their young and eggs a day before forest fires and rabbits fleeing low ground ahead of floods, suggesting an instinct to seek higher ground before danger.
Sergt. M. Waldo Hatler of Joplin Mo earned Italy s croce di guerra for bravery in France after he swam the Meuse under fire and gathered critical enemy position information. He met Gen Armando Diaz at the American Legion convention in Kansas City where the decoration was presented in Joplin. He also bears the American Medal of Honor and the French Croix de Guerre.
C. H H. Cronkite of Los Angeles California holds the title vice president of the Forty and Eight Legion’s Roughhouse club. The rank traces to the National Assistant Railway Station Agent division and spans a boxcar motif meant to symbolize forty men or eight horses. Cronkite is a former first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-second field signal battalion.
Miss Viola Bissell won the Americana Legion sponsored election in Panama with 1 807 800 votes. Her accompanying subjects praise her as a tall blonde athletic American type and claim she would win any beauty contest in America or Europe.
A young man seeking a commission under the Old Army is mocked by officers after he stumbles through a test. He cannot answer mapping questions and misstates basic facts, prompting a dramatic outburst about the location of a sainted aunt’s black cat.
On the Platte River prairie in Nebraska lies Fort McPherson National Cemetery, the Middle West’s sole national burial ground. The Fort McPherson American Legion post recently interred 15 World War I fallen from France, marking graves with the single word Unknown on 861 of the earlier markers.
A fragment notes Convict 711 I hear Bill the Mugg is the most popular hold up man in Chi CAO and Convict 117 Yesh, who allegedly returns car fare to victims yet keeps the cream of the trade as per American Legion Weekly.
The county, larger than Thode state, reveals a leader who contributed no commissioned officer to World War I. Rev. H. G. Sengging, Moran Legion post commander, is a track driver and Methodist minister, a former infantry private once reduced from corporal. Moran post boasts 99 percent possible county membership.
A reed chair built for Commander Hanford MacNider of the American Legion as a gift from the Department of the Philippines. Modeled on a Moro thief's throne, it is woven in a tall calor scheme using spilt bamboo and varied reeds. Constructed in Manila without nails pegs or paint, the chair features elaborate Oriental design.
Representative Martin Ansorge of New York defends appointing a negro boy to Annapolis as justice to the large colored population in his district. He cites valor and patriotism of 500000 colored servicemen in World War I. The appointee, Emile Treville Holley, is a freshman at the College of the City of New York. Harvard University denies discrimination and there are several all negro posts in the American Legion.
A wave of wartime veterans and legion activity appears as state and local efforts unfold. Maryland allocates monthly pay for veterans and overseas rates, while reassignments remove 198 officers from Washington. Indiana surveys 130000 veterans, reporting 1500 disability and compensation cases. A Detroit judge directs unemployed ex soldiers to serve as jurors at 40 dollars daily.
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