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...Army transport St. Mihiel at Seward, Alaska last week trudged the second & final contingent of Depression-whipped U. S. farmers who had taken up the Government's offer of a new life in Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6; LETTERS, May 27). Leaving their wives & children behind for a few days, 136 men swung aboard day coaches, rode all night to Palmer. There they lined up with their 67 predecessors, shuffled past the colony's genial Chief Don Irwin, dipping their hands into his hat. A slip of paper told each man which 40 acres, barring swaps, failure...
Major General Ewing E. Booth, commander of the Philippine Department, to command the 9th Corps Area (San Francisco). Also a War hero (Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne), onetime deputy Chief of Staff, General Booth is fair-headed, slight, bubbling with nervous energy. He is noted for loyalty to his subordinates...
...Lieut. Waldo Huntley Heinrichs. A onetime Y. M. C. A. man in Honolulu and in India, Lieut. Heinrichs went from theological seminary into avia tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with palm, bars and citations. "Luckiest Man" Heinrichs, dapper and kinetic, has won to his side at the new Jerusalem Y. M. C. A. men of many faiths. In his tennis club are 31 Orthodox...
...October 1918 the A. E. F., having overrun St. Mihiel, was bursting its way through the Argonne and all the Allied armies were plowing into the German front. It was an expensive pastime, both in life and money. Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo then had a big problem. Money there had to be, and in October 1918 the U. S. Treasury was very busy drumming up $7,000,000,000 from the U. S. public in exchange for 4th Liberty Loan 4 1/4% bonds payable in October 1938. In the bonds which were delivered to patriotic buyers there...
...Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target one of the Methodist Church's ablest preachers. Rev. Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle, 47, social-minded leader in the Federal Council of Churches. Big and muscular, Dr. Tittle served in the Y. M. C. A. during the St. Mihiel offensive. In 1918 he went to Evanston's smart First Methodist Church, where his sermons-spoken out of the side of his mouth-now draw large congregations...