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...Virgin Islanders like him. A month ago he wanted some livestock for his dominion. Last week some of the cor respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known. Said the Governor of the Virgin Islands to the Chief of Naval Operations : WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE FOR ST. CROIX ONE MILKING SHORT HORN BULL OLD ENOUGH FOR SERVICE AT EXPERIMENT STATION. . . . ONE HOLSTEIN BULL MILKING STRAIN, TWELVE SINGLE COMB WHITE HENS OR PULLETS AND TWO SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS. HOGS NOT NEEDED. Replied the Chief of Naval Operation to the Governor of the Virgin Islands: NAVY DEPARTMENT...
...Force. Professional soldier descended from a long line of professional soldiers, he fought in South Africa, Ashanti, North Nigeria, Zululand, then retired from the army. In 1914 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the rank of Captain. During the next five years he won the D.S.O., C.M.G., C.B., Croix de Guerre with palm, was mentioned seven times in despatches, left the War a Brigadier. A capable officer, a soldier who knew his trade, General Crozier has no illusions about war, tells his trade secrets with amazing candor. "My own experience of war, which is a prolonged one, is that...
Died. Major Michael A. ("Dynamite Mike") Kelly, War Commander of the 3rd (Shamrock) Battalion of the 165th Regiment, holder of the Croix de Guerre, the Cross of the Legion of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross; by his own hand, accidentally, while cleaning his service pistol; in Manhattan...
Awarded. To Col. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, autoracer, War ace (26 enemy planes), holder of the Distinguished Service Cross (with nine palms), Cross of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre (with four palms): after twelve years, the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...name (formerly hyphenated Inness-Brown) in New York's Social Register. A graduate and medalist of University of Virginia where he edited the student paper, he drove an ambulance in France in 1916, later joined the ist Division, A. E. F., emerged as a captain with a Croix de Guerre, six citations, and a wound from the Argonne. Later he was advertising manager of Mogul Checker Cab Co., published its house organ until the company crumbled under the strain of lowered fares. Five years ago he started Taxi Weekly against a local field of seven monthly trade papers. Only...