Verna Welch Dives 3000 Feet At Wichita Falls Air Meet
Miss Verna Welch leapt from an airplane cockpit during the American Legion aviation meet in Wichita Falls Texas. The 3000 foot plunge drew gasps from thousands of spectators before the parachute opened, she landed with a jolt yet was uninjured. The stunt supported a fundraiser for a Legion clubhouse.
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Verna Welch
Wichita Falla
Wichita Falls
Tex
American Legion
Southwest
Miss Welch
Legion
Rise of May Merritt From Local Auxiliary Leader to Indiana Committeewoman
INDIANA MISS MAY MERRITT, from Conneraville local American Legion Auxiliary to Indiana national committeewoman in under six months, chairs the Auxiliary emblem and resolutions committees. She shapes plans and policies while championing better educational opportunities for Hoosier children.
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May Merritt
Indiana
American Legion
Conneraville
Ind
Indiana Natonal Committee
Miss May Merritt
Miss Merritt
Auxiary
Resolutions Committee
The
Legion Auxiliary
Hoozlerdom
Unity Moves in Wartime Veteran Organizations
Across many participating nations a drive for unity of veteran groups gains momentum. Britain reports over two million members while Germany weighs merging its four largest bodies totaling about 1.6 million. France South Africa and Canada also pursue single national veteran organizations.
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Great Britain
Germany
France
South Africa
Canada
German Officer Trashes Glass in Protest at Patriotism
A young German officer, son of a German general, caused a sensation in a smoking room aboard a transatlantic ship by smashing his wine glass and denouncing fellow Germans who refused to sing Deutschland uber Alles. The incident highlights snags of patriotism aboard a wartime liner.
Only Woman Major in Army
Ing, superintendent of the army nurse corps and dean of the Army School of Nursing, is the only woman major in the United States. Maj. Julia OC Stimson led the Red Cross nursing service in Paris with 10,000 nurses, later becoming superintendent and head of the nursing school. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, she graduated from Vassar at twenty, first overseas as chief nurse of base hospital No. 21. She holds numerous wartime honors, including christening the army transport Chaumont, where she recalled spilling champagne on General Pershing’s uniform.
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Army Nurse Corps
Army School of Nurse
Ing
United States
Julia OC. Stimson
American Red Crom
Paris
American Expeditionary Forces Nursing Service
School of Nursing
Stimaon
Worcester
Mass
Vassar
St. Louis
Base Hospital No. 21
Chaumont
Perahing
Stimson
Bucks in U S Army Shrinking to Bare Framework of Specialists
The article notes a drop in plain buck privates as army reductions occur. Fewer than 20,000 unspecialized ranks remain, with 47,887 in foot regiments and about 53,000 infantry enlistments at war start in April 1917. War department plans retain a framework of specialists to allow rapid expansion in an emergency.
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United States Army
Oficera
War Department
Buck Prefers Marching Style by McMaken
Brigadier General William V. McMaken of Toledo served Ohio for forty years and now prefers marching as a buck in patriotic parades. In 1920 at the American Legion national convention in Cleveland he was sternly corrected by a sergeant for not dressing right, though his service as brigadier commander of the Thirty-seventh division during World War I is noted.
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William V. McMaken
Toledo
American Legion
Cleveland
McMaken
Mr. McMahen
Carrying On With the American Legion
French infantry will wear khaki of the American army as soon as possible to replace horizon blue stocks. Names of soldiers dead from almost every state lie buried in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. A monument marks the cave base with a sealed stone box containing the dead’s names.
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France
The
Union
Mammoth Cave
Lucky
Kentucky American Lion
Sacrifices of a Friend Weigh on Ope’s Regard
A reflective note describes the burden a devoted friend bears for another, weighing their actions against a sense of duty and care within a troubled relationship.
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Ope
Not Always Succestful and Witty Adages
A fragmentary quip discusses ascent and descent methods with a joke about aviators and a cautionary line about wisdom. It contrasts the prudent approach with the fool’s haste and includes a reflection on learning before acting.
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Etnceneers
Incorporated
Madices Ave
New York City
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OFEN
Keerik Washington, D.C
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Kansas City
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Washington Star
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