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THE SOUTH LYON HERALD
Who’s News
This Week
By
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
RUSSIA:
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Action in the Center
Mediterranean Victories Prepare Way1
For NewAllied CampaignAgainstAxis;
Essential Production to Be Increased
By Simplification of Consumer Items
N EW
YORIC.—Maj.
Eugene
M, Landrum,
who Gen,
snatched
the
island of Attu back from the laps,
is exactly the type of man you could
readily plc.
Here Definitely We ture wrest’
Have a Man Not of ing a hard
Style but of Action bitten strip
of land like
that away from a wily foe. $hort,
stocky, and firm jawed, he radiates
pugnacity and courage, those who
favor the fashion plate genus in their
military men would never glance
twice at him. If they met him in
civics on the street of a small town
they would pick him out as the hard
working village doctor, especially if
he were carrying his _b!ltered Glad.
stoae bag and had his well-caked
black pipe clamped between his
teeth. He is 52,
General taadrum is a man
who got to the top the hard
way. Back in 1910 he entered the
army as a private in the coast
artillery. By the time the United States entered World War I
he was wearing the silver baz~of
a first lieutenant on his ahoulden, Two months later he had
become a captain. In the years
following the Armistice he kept
moving slowly and quietly
ahead, He was not the kind of
officer to make the headlines,
especially in peacetime, but hli
superiors - knew him as plug,
ger and they approve of him. He
was graduated from the Army
War college in 1938 and just six
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months before Pearl Harborhe
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reoëlved his coloneley.
General Landrum is : native of
Florida and he calls Pensacola his
hoMe town. Mrs. Landrum, bow• ever, is now in California. Like
many another wife of an army or
naval officer she likes to look at the
s~meocean her husband does.
IEDITOR’,S NOTE: Wb.n opInions are flpr*ss.( In thess eslosaas, shim sri this. if
westeta ~,‘wspap.r t’alen’s aiws saalysts and net aseessarlir of this n.wspspsr,)
Released by western Newspaper Union,
Official announcements pertaining
to the Russian front continued to be
as confusing as the fighting.
While the Reds claimed to have
thrown back German counterattacks
In the Orel region in the center
of the line, the Nazis’ reported the
continuation of the strong Russian
offensive in the Caucasus,
In neither sector, however, did
either side claim any major advance. In relation to renewed Rut.
Sian actlvlt~in the center, the Nazis
said the Reds were massing huge
forces there, apparently, to press the
Initial attacks of a week ago when
big holes were punched In the German line~
Bolstered by the addition of Amer’
ican planes arriving under lendlease, Russian airmen continued
sweeping attacks over the German
rear.
Military installations and’
transport were bombed,
OIL:
‘Situation WorAe’
Indian of Today, Like His Forefathers,
Proves ‘He’s ‘First-Class Fighting Man’
More Than 11,000 Red Men, Most of Them’Volunteers,
Are Fighting for Their Native Land as
Soldiers, Sailors and Marina
Bc ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
T
HE recent announcement by the War Department that
MaJ. Clarence L. Tinker Jr. of the United States ~army
air forces was missing In action in North Africa was a tragic
coincidence, in that just a year ago the War Department announced that his’ father, Maj. Gen, Clarence L. Tinker, commander of the army air forces in Hawaii, *as missing In
action. He had. led a flight of army bombers to attack the-’
Japanese fleet east of Wake island and he was killed In the
Battle of Midway,
who Might be drafted under
Interesting, too, is the fact zens”
the Selective Service act
that the Tinkers, father and
The ‘case was taken under adviseson, were North American’ ment by the Judges who heard the
Indians and, at the time of his. arguments, That was late In Octodeath, General Tinker ‘was ber, 1941. Then caine Pearl HarAlter that fateful day, nothing
called “the greatest Indian bor,
was heard of the cast The
fighter in the present war.” more
tribesmen of the Six Nations may
&t although they, ar~ out- have regarded themselves as memstanding exaMples of the bers ‘of an “independent, uneonquered nation” living within the
“fighting red man,” modern United
States, but they were Amerversion, they are oMy two of icans first, as well as “First Ameran estimated 11,000 Indians in icans.”
In that respect they were like
the armed forces of the United
the majority of the red men who
States and most of them didn’t
had not waited for Pearl Harbor
,w,,~altto be drafted for serviôe
to join up to fight for their counbut enlisted.voluntariI~.
try. Even before the Saps’ at-
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“We are rapidly passing from an
exporting to an importing nation in
oil,”
With these words Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes fotecast an
increasing shortage of crude oil.
Such a shortage, Ickes said, would
not develop because of”a lack of
natural resourcas but rather be’
cause of a scarcity of labor, transUnder the watehfui eyes of V. S. guards, Axis prisOners march In portation and other factors.
Internment camp in Camp Atterbury, lad- Since fighting In North Africa,
While stating that imports of oil
‘many of these camps have sprung up throughout the country, the average would have to be- increased from
concentration holding 2,000 prisoners and MO American troops. Prisoners Venezuela, the Caribbean and Mexof war are treated under rules of ass International convention,
ico, he declared that Calif órnla. will
not be pi~oducingsufficient crudE by
the end of the year to take care of
FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
MEDITERRANEAN:
Taken by itself, that number does
the Pacific s~ar’theaterand her own not seem large. But in proportion
World Cooperation
Eyes Turn to Sicily
needs.
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to- the total number. of “native
American participation in the esIckes also blasted the Office of Americans” in the Unlte~States toWith Allied shipping reported
tablishment
and
maintenance
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massed in the’ Sicilian straiti, all
Price Administration for its handling day, it Is a more imposing record.
post-war peace was unanimously of the gasoline rationing, declaring H an equal proportion of white men
Italy awaited invasion,
Preparatory to the expected. blow recommended by the house foreig~ the OPA was~too lenient in its al- had likewise voluntarily enlisted we
lotments, He sgld home ‘owners would have an army of nearly four
at the “underbelly of Europe,” Al’ affairs committee, ‘
In a simple, 35.word resolution could expect fuel oil rationing next million volunteers in addition to’ the
lied airmen ranged over the Italian
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islands of Sardinia apd Sicily, the which it recommended to the house winter.
‘millions who are in the -army
Axis’ remaining bastions In the Med. and senate for approval, the com’
through-selective service.
iterranean following the fail of Pan- mittee declared: “, , - Congress CORN:
Incidentally, an ii~terestlng situa- .
hereby
express
itself
as
favoring
the
telleria, Lampedusa, Lampione and
tion In regard to the enrollment of
creation of appropriate internation- Plan ~Callon Loans
Liaosa,
Aiming at loosening ,the tight sjtu- Indians in Uncle Sam’s service arose
Airfields at Catanla and Gerbini al machinery with”p,ower adequate
IT had not been for the late In Sicily were attacked. At Cata’ to establish and to maintain a just ation ‘ in corn for processors and soon after the Selective Service act
IFKaiser,
William B. Lynd’ might ala, ene~nyfighteñ rose In force to and lasting peace, and as favoring feeders, It was reported Commodity of 1940 was passEd. Into federal
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still be practicing law in Idaho in- challenge the Allied assault.
participation by the United States Credit corporation planned to call Its court in New York city one autumn
loans on 57 million bushels of 1942 day in 1941 marched five brilliantly
stead of being, at 49, a brigadier
therein,”
Although
Allied
headquarters
redressed Indians to watch a white
general
in
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silent on their military
Introduced by Representative 3. corn,
man fight for their rights according
Jsttorney Becomes the army air mained
Under
the
proposal,
farmers
would
in the Mediterranean, W. Fuibright’ (Ark.), the resolution
to the’ white man’s rulet • They
Warrior to Make corps. He ac- movements
be
allowed
30
days
to
liquidate
their
the Nazis reported that their air- was passed after being stripped of loans, The call would not interfere were descendants of the warriors.
The Laws Stick tually
ptarted’out as an men were engaging In rthtning fights the phrase calling for the’ organiza- with the agency’s previous move to who, away back in 1784, made a
attorney, in fact after earning his with large convoys oil North Africa. tion of an international body’to pre- redeem 35’ udllion bushels of ‘corn treaty with the United States by
degree at’ the University of Washing- The Axis also stated that the Allies vent future aggression. and to main- on the 1938-’4l crops, effective July 1. which the young and struggling fed•
ton. Then he took on military train- had massed invasion barges, at Si- tain law, order and lasting peace.
government recognized the Ir&Decision to call the 1942 loans eral
Since this section touched on the
quols Indian Confederacy as a sOv•
Ing as a srdeline with the Idaho Na. zerte,
was
reported
reached
after
the
War
highly
controversial
‘subject
of
an
Meanwhile,, the Allies kept the
tional Guard. In 1916, he• went to
Food administration, headed by ereign and independent nation.
the Mexican ~prdeCin the fracas Axis guessing about their next International police force, it was Chester Davis, turned down pro- ‘Independent, Enoonquered Nation.’
that servejris a curtain raiser to move. Strong aerial formations at- eliminated,
They had come into court to mainposals ‘for requisitioning the corn,
the flrjt—Wortd war. He had hardly tacked Axis shipping in the Aegean FOOD
The WFA said requisitionlnt only tain by legal means their Identity as,,
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back at his law books be- sea, where the Nazis; have fortified
would incense farmers~and leave members of that confederacy which,
~fore
the real show started, On the islands leading to the Grecian Wanted by Congress
the government with the’problem of as “an independent, unconquered as,
March 27, 1917, he was called back mainland.
Shortly after a bi-partisan group shelling, ‘gradi
ing the tion,” was svbject only to ‘its own
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to the colors and’ eight days later
lawmakers and not to the congress
‘of legislators conferred with Presi. corn off
remise
SIMPLIFY
GOODS:
was commissioned a second lieu.
of the United ‘States. On the recdent Roosevelt and suggested that
tenant of infantry;
From Cradle to Grave
ords of the court the case appears
he appoint a single czar to handle MEAT PRICE
Christmas eve, 1917, Is one he
as a writ of habens corpus for one
In an effort to Increaje production the food situation, the War Food’adDown
will always remember, for his
Warren Eldreth Green~’ a 21-yearof necessary essentials, the govern- ministration- prepared Issuance Of a
outfit sailed for France just as
Answering to President .Roose
old Onondaga Indian, who had been
ment has ordered the simplification report dealing with’ unfavorable crop
St Nick hitched up his reinveiEs “hold~the-llne” order, retail drafted into military service the preof more than ‘1,000. manufactured and meat prospects.
deer, Overseas be was switched
Items, Elimination of frills and vanLed by Senator Walter George, the prices of meat, have’ been “rolled vious May. Young Green had no
to the air service as an ob- ‘ety
of sizes is ‘expected to result in five senators and four representa- back”. 10 per cent, a move that particular objection to entering the
server and he finally reached
enough conservation of material, to tives urged that a single authority’ will save housewives an average of army—as a matter of fact a numthe front In a plane In August.
ber of his fellow-tribesmen had aladd to production.
be. delegated to’ co-ordinate produc- three cents per pound.
A few days later he was the
The “roll-back” will ,be accom-, ready voluntarily enlisted—but he
The
simplification
order
win.
affect
tion,
distribution,
p!eservation,
raproud possessor of a Silver Star,
Americans from the cradle-to-the- tioning and prjcing agricultural com- plished by. government payment of was being used as a test case to
earned in an air battle with the
subsidies , to meat slaughterers to challenge the right of the ‘United
grave. Metal will be restricted in modities,
Gçrmsns.
States government to conscript the
baby’s cribs, and the length, width
It was reported the President sug- cover -their costs of livestock.
• Like many another veteran of the and depth of coffins win be limited. gested an appyoprlatlon from 1%,to
Although the action will reduce -young men of an “independent, unAEF, Lynd found civilian life dull Cast Iron kitchen utensils wlfl be 2 billion dollars for subsidies to be meat prices, consumers will be com- conquered nation.”
and in 1920 he rejoined the’ army, confined to 12 Items, and 40 styles used in “rolling back” the prices of pelled to eat even less beef. The
White counsel for the Indians arthis time for good. He has an- of enamelware have been eliminated. foods. Many legislators oppose the War Food administration announced gued that the Iroquois Confederacy
other air medal now. He won the
Wood furniture wlil be reduced to, subsidies, coatending the money that federally inspected slaughter- had been treated as a foreign nasetond award ‘for a spectacular re- 24 basic patterns. Whereas 1,150’ used only will have to be repaid In era had been ordered to reserve 45 tion until 1924 when a law was
connaissance flight out over the, Pa- types of tools formerly were made, taxes.
per cent of their fleer ‘and heifer passed conferring United States citcific in the first year of the present only 357 now will be permitted, Proizenship on Indians, No such law,
In commenting on crop prospects, production far the army,
war. More recently he was at Attu, duction of electric bulbs will be cut the War Food ~iminlstration
deFlat price ceilings on meat have he contended, could apply to memand the other day he visited the from 3,500 types to 1,100, ‘Feminine clared floods in t1lfl~Midwest and dry been drawn by the OPA for four bers of the Six Nations without their
White House to tell President Roose- flparel will be simplified along with weather over the great plains have classes of stores, ‘starting with the consent. On this premise he argued
velt what his filers had done to lick children’s sportswear and rayon caused considerable damage. Meat small independent doing less than that the’ law, was unconstitutional
the Japs there.
slaughter and dairy production have $50,000 worth of business a year, and therefore members of the Onondressci,
failed to approach expectations,
and ending with the large oper9tor dan, Cayuga,’ -Seneca, Mohawk,
with an annual volume over $250,000. Oneida and Tuscarora tribes could,
\ATHEN the censors finally re- AIR OFFENSIVE:
not be numbered among the “clti~ leased the news that Artemus
DRAFt:
1. Gates, assistant secretary of the Cities in Flames
NAZI
SPY:
navy for air, had been on a tour
Bremen’s big Atlas shipyards were Fathers Due for Call
of the Pa- rocked by a dozen bomb hits as
“Fathers will be placed in uniform Intrigue in Hawaii
Getting to Zone of cific fight- American airmen continued their at least by the last quarter of this
In November, 1941, Bernard Julius
Otto Kuehn offered his services as a
Battle 1, Second ing front, Joint attacks with the RAP over Ger- year.”
With this statement the War Man’ spy to the Japanese vice-consul at
longtime man industrial centers. Results of
Nature to Gates his
friends said’ the U. S. raid on the submarine power commission, headed by Paul Honolulu. In a confession to the
in unison, “We might have kno~wi base of Kid were unobserved, as V. McNutt, announced the Selective FBI, he said, he volunteered to supit.” In World War I his experiences swarms of Nazi fighter planes arose Service board’s new draft policy in ply the enemy with Information
Informing employers to prepare for about the national defense of the
were like something out of fiction.
to the defense.
When the war clouds lowered over
While the Americans hammered replacement of married men with U. S.
the United States 25 years ago, the Atlas works, strong British units, children in industry after October 1.
Shortly after, Kuehn worked out
Gates was In his junior year at Yale, bolstered by huge four-engined
In addressing 5,500 employers who a system of signals to transmit inHe had just been made captain- bombers, ripped Duesseidorf and have filed replacement lists with telligence of American fleet positions
elect of the football team, an honor Bochum in the Ruhr,
state draft directors, the WMC said to the Japs, According to testimony,
earned at tackle for two seasons,
Blockbusters caused heavy dam- that after July 1 the employers also the signals were developed through
By April, however, he had aban- age in both cities, •dveeping fires should plan to release the childless a window light in the dormer of,
doned his cap and gown for a naval adding to the havoc. Mass evacua- married men within six months.
Kuehn’s home near Pearl Harbor.
uniform.
Although the WMC’s remarks
Mrs. Kuehn played a prominent
tions were reported, and the German
Iii the summer of 1918 he bad
radio asked people in other districts were directed to the 5,500 employers, role in the intrigue, according to
‘it indicated that its new policy would the FBI, In 1929, her daughter opbad a fling at flying and it did
to make room for thwrefugees.
Size of the raiding fleets can be be broadly applied throughout all in- erated a beauty parlor designed to
net take him long to get into
gleaned from~the Nazi claim of hay. dustry. Speaking before a house ap- attract “navy business,” and in 1940
naval aviation, then still in Its
hag shot down 40 planes, 29 of which propriations subcommittee, Draft Mrs. Kuehn visited Japan, returning
Infancy. August, 1917, found him
were supposed to be the four-engined Director Hershey said 10,900,000 men with geographical literature describIn France and long before the
machines. German aerial activity will be in uniform by December 31, ing American and British islonds in
Armistice he was commanding
meanwhile was limited to a short, During the’ first six months of 1944, the Pacific, Kuehn, first sentenced
the V. 8, naval air station at
sharp sally over a London suburb, 118,000 men will be inducted month- to death, was later committed to 50
Dunkirk.
ly, Hershey declared.
years at hard labor,
GERONIMO
While there he was decorated for where bombs were dropped.
saving the crew of a British plans
SUPREME COURT:
which had crashed into the sea. Later the French drafted him for oile
Bans Compulsory Salute
Is the “Unknown Soldier” who
of their bombing squadrons, In an
HIGHLIGHTS , In f/se week’s news
Reversing a previous decision by sleeps in the nation’s shrine in
air battle behind the enemy lines in
SOFTWOOD:
Softwood lumber
ShIPPING: Shipping losses have a 6 to 3 vote, the U, S. Supreme Arlington cemetery an American
october, 1918, his plane was shot wiu
be made available for essen- been lower in June than In May, in court ruled that the nation’s public Indian?
down. When the Germans rushed up hal farm repairs, About half a bil- which the smallest losses since schools cannot ‘require pupils to saHe might well be!
to grab him, they found him calmly Von board feet will be released by Pearl Harbor were sustained, says lute the flag,
When that American soldier was
trying to destroy his ship. On the the War Production board,
the OWl.
Said the majority: “Compulsory enshrined there on November II,
.
.
.
way to prison, Gates managed to
unification of opinion achieves only 1922, four lndian chieftains were
leap through the window of his train
TOBACCO: Possibility of a short~ ARMY: An army of about 2½ the unanimity of the graveyard
present as official representatives of
and escape. Just before he reached age of tobacco, caused by unrestrict- million men will be maintained for No official can prescribe what the red men who had given their
the Swiss border, he was recap. sd buying for export, was voiced ‘some time after the war, according shall be orthodox in politics, reli- lives for their country. They were
tired, however, and on November when government officials conferred to statements to a house subcom- gion, nationalism or other matters Red Owl of the Oglala Sioux,
11 he was a prisoner in Germany. with leaders of the Industry recently. mittee,
Stranp,ar Horse of the Brule Sioux,
of opinion , -
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tack on Hawaii It was eStimated
that one out of every ten eligible
Indians between the ages of 21
and 35 were already serving In
- the armed forces.
Descendants of Noted Chiefs.
Among them were descendants of
many a famous Indian leader whose
name his come down in history because he was a patriot who rallied
his warriors to defend their lands
against the encroachments of the’
white men, One of the greatest of
these was Tecumsqh of the Shaw-
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KIUTUS TEOUMSEH
nees, who tried to organize a con’
federacy of all the Indian tribes in
the OliW’valley’ in the early 1800s
but whose plans were upset when
his brother, the Prophet, launched
his surprise attack upon the soldiers
of Gen, William Henry Harrison and
Was badly defeated at the Battle of
Tippecanoe in 1811.
One-of the first of the, “fighting
red men” of today who attempted
to enlist In’ Uncle Sam’s armed
forces was Kiutus Tecumseb, a descendant of the great Shawnee leader, He was rejected for mliitary
service, however, because be was
partially disabled by wound’s he received while serving aboard a navy
sub chaser during World War I.
There was a time when the name
of Geronlmo was a name of hatred
and terror in the great Southwest,
for this Apache leader blazed a’ trail
of ‘death and destruction through
New Mexico and Arizona. Run to’
earth at last in 1888 by soldiers under the command of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, the “Apache Devil” was held
as a prisoner of war In Florida,
Alabama and finally at ‘Fort Sill,
OkIa., until his death in 1911. Thirty
years later, Homer Yahnozha, a
Mescalero Apache and a direct descendant of Geronimo, was one of
the heroes who fought at Batnan and
Corregidor.
Out in Nevada a county and a
city perpetuate the name and fame
of Winnemucca, great chief of the
Piutes, who in his day was a “firstclass fighting man,~’ Today that
fighting tradition is carried on by his
great-great-grandson, Stanley Winnemucca, who Is a “Fighting Marine.” Although more Indians have
gone into the army than into the
marines or the navy, there Is at least
one who holds high rank in our sea
forces. He is Francis .1’. Moe, a
Chippewa, born in Detroit Lakes,
Minn., a commander In the navy.
The ‘Model American Soldier.’
If the Indians in World War II
follow the precedent of those who.
fought in World War I, then some
of our greatest heroes of the pres’
MAJOR GENERAL
CLARENCE l~,TINXER
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ent conflict may be eopper-skned
soldiers, sailors or marines. Ear
more than 17,000 IndIans heard the
call to arms in 1917 and among
them was Odis N. Leader, a Choctaw, who was foreman of a cattle
ranch In Oklahoma. It Is an ironical
fact that, soon after we declared
war on Germany, this “First American” was the victim of rumors that
he was a German spyt To prove
his loyalty, he gave up his business
and enlisted. He saw action at Can’
.tigny, at Soissons, ‘at St. Mihiel and
In the Argonne. He was twice
wounded and gassed and when the
French government sought a “model American soldier,” of whom an
oil painting was to be made tA hang
on the walls of the French federal
building—where types of all the Allied races were to be represented,
Sergt. Odis N, Leader was chosea
for that honorl
Other Indians who received the
CrOix do Guerre Included Sergt.
James M. Gordon, a Chippewa, who’
braved shell fire to rescue a wounded -French officer; Chester Armstrong Fourbear, a Sioux, citEd for
his bravery as a mess’enger at Beth‘court; John M, Hdrper, a tile; Marty Beaver, a Creek; Bert Hayman,
a SEneca-Modoc; Gus Gertlez, a
Pueblo bugler; Joseph Oglohombi.
a Choctaw; and Corp. Nicholas E,
Brown, another Choctaw, who was
killçd in action and received the
award posthumously.
Winners of DSC and Croix de Guerre
Among those who , receiied , the
Distinguished Service Cross of their
own United States, as well as the
Croix de Guerre of France, were
Joe Scheüderleon, a Crow and NaThy-A-Ta, a HOpl; and Thomas D.
Saunders, a scion of the most for‘midable fighters the United States,
army ever encountered ~n the days
of the old frontier—thá Cheyennes,
Here Is his record, as given in General Orders o~th,e Second division:
“Corporal’ Thomas P. Saunders,
Company A, Second engineers, while
a member of the first wire cutting
platoon, made his way forward -Ia’
advance of the unit until he was in
line with and In company with Private Wilkerson, Company B, Second
engineers; were the first soldiers to
enter Jaulny, then infested with
snipers, and swept with wicked machine gunfire, being , occupied by
rearguard detachments of the enemy., They alone captured 63 German prisoners after searching the
caves of a hospital with persistenoe
‘and courage.
This at Jaulny,
France, on September 12, 1918.
“Corporal Thomas D. Saunders,,
Company A, second engineers; ‘at
St. Etienne-a-Armes, on October 8,
1918,’ he bravely conducted a patrol
under heavy’flre. During the night,
he ‘made a reconnaissance close to
the enemy, of the position which his
section was to occupy in the front,
and returning, conducted It to that
position.”
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SOT. ODIS N, LEADER
Is the ‘Unknown Soldier’ in Arlington an American Indian?
Lone Wolf of the Kiowas and Pienty
Coups of the Crows. To the latter
fell the honor of placing on the marble tomb a war bonnet and a coup
stick—appropriate gifts for a dead
warrior.
As Plenty Coups placed then, on
the tomb he said:
“I feel it an honor to The red man
that he has taken part in this great
event today because it shows that
the thousands of Indian soldiers who
fought in the great war are appre-
dated by the white man. I am glad
to represent the Indiana of the United States in placing on the grave
of this noble unknown warrior this
coup stick and war bonnet, every
eagle feather of which represents a
deed of valor by my race. I hope
that the Great spirit will grant that
these noble warriors have not given
up their lives in vain and that there
will be peace to all men hereafter,
This is the Indian’s hope and
prayer,”