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...Davenport, Iowa, eight days after their son was officially reported killed, Mr. & Mrs. F. H. Baxter got an airmail letter from Honolulu. Wrote Eldon Baxter: "I am alive and well...
...Eldon Gerald Smith, a rancher, regarded Census queries as an invasion of his rights. Last spring he refused to fill in his draft questionnaire, on the grounds that there was too much red tape in the Government. And he meant it. Alienists examined him. Draft boards harangued him. Finally he was indicted and sent to jail to await trial for draft-dodging. Nothing could budge him. Said he, still wrathy at the memory of the draft questionnaire that had started the whole fuss: "The tone was overbearing and impertinent. It asked questions I thought the Government had no right...
After he had spent the summer in clink, Attorney General Biddle offered to turn Eldon Smith loose if he would go into the Army. Smith, feeling that he had somehow won, agreed. Observed...
Positions filled were: Gerald Eisner '42, chairman of the Social Service Committee; J. Eldon Sawhill, Jr. '43, chairman of the Speakers Committee; Newbold R. Landon '42, chairman of the Undergraduate Faculty Committee; William W. Piuney, Jr. '43, chairman of the Library Committee; Evan Calkins '43, and Robert H. Orchard '42, co-chairmen of the Publications Committee; Maxwell Kaufer '43, chairman of the Summer Jobs Committee; and Robert B. Sherwood '43, chairman of the Information Committee...
...Robert A. "Battlin' Bob" Townsend '43 and J. Eldon "Hack" Sawhill '43, Harvard's revamped varsity field hockey team will seek to avenge its recent 1 to 0 defeat by Wheaton as it clashes with the Winsor School tomorrow in Belmont...