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...Sickles, Union leader, who had a leg amputated on the Gettysburg battlefield; Major General Leonard Wood who, in the U. S. campaign against Apache tribes in 1886, voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with Indians; Sergeant Alvin York who killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death...
...reorganize its demoralized police department, Phoenix, Ariz, last March hired on a go-day contract Brig. General Pelham D. Glassford, onetime Washington, D. C. police chief, made famed by his tactful handling of the 1932 Bonus Army. Last week frank, efficient General Glassford finished his tour of duty, reported on his discoveries about Phoenix vice in an extraordinary letter to the city's officials, ministers and social service clubs. Excerpts...
...seaman named Pulanski, furious when one of the men discovered a piece of string in his ice cream, had threatened to have it out with the mess steward. Ashore at Naples, three men had been beaten up by their fellows. Captain Gregory clapped two of the assailants in the brig. At Genoa the ship was delayed when part of the crew staged a protest meeting on the dock. After intervention by the U. S. Consul, the prisoners were released, to be sent to California as first-class passengers in another ship. A seaman who gave information to the President Garfield...
...Brig. General Pelham Davis Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia police during the 1932 Bonus March (TIME, Aug. 8, 1932), began a 90-day reorganizing job as police chief of Phoenix, Ariz., where he has run a small wheat & alfalfa ranch since his retirement from Washington three months after the Bonus Marchers withdrew...
...plain namesake of Brig. General Johnson Hagood of the Confederacy, and Governor of South Carolina one term of two years, about...