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...Ocker, oldest pilot in the Army in point of service, was summoned to appear before a court-martial. Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article of War). Major Clyde C. Johnston had examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly Field, after he recovered from a broken vertebra, and grounded him for weak eyesight. Pilot Ocker, no friend of Kelly Field's hard-boiled com mander, Lieut.-Colonel Henry B. Clagett, took his re-examination at another field, managed to pass the eye test. Back he went to Major Johnston and, according to the court-martial charges...
...shoes before a cozy fire. When the President of the U. S. unexpectedly entered the room with His Britannic Majesty, there was big Jesse Jones of Texas, sprawled in a chair, dozing in his stocking feet. Besides his feet, Mr. Jones's spine troubles him. A dislocated vertebra has for some time prevented him from exercising. He is anything but sensitive about such things for in all his dominant doings he employs the homely, intimate touch. And he would be the last to approve titanic descriptions of himself. He masks, or maybe unmasks, his will-to-power with...
...Evansville, Ind., Raymond Woods, 21, snapped at a grain of popcorn he had tossed into the air, caught it in his mouth, fell unconscious to the ground. A doctor found he had snapped a neck vertebra out of place...
...Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time. Unfortunately the swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind of vertebra that fits into England's backbone. First and bad enough, he is a poet. To judge from a fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious creeds, In every driven mind the weeds! There...
Died. Ralph Dayton Cole. 59, Ohio State Commander and one of the founders of the American Legion in Paris in 1918; onetime (1905-11) U. S. Representative; of a fractured vertebra suffered in an automobile accident; in Warren. Ohio. Defeated by Warren Gamaliel Harding for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator in 1914. he later declined President Harding's offers of the Ambassadorship to Belgium and the governorships of Panama and Alaska...