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Show EDITOR WAS ON FIRING LINE Commander of .Missouri Department of Legion One of Many Newspaper Newspa-per Men Who Heard Call. John Francis Williams, commander of the Missouri department of the ClA ill Legion, is one of thousands of newspaper men who left their typewriters when the war broke out. Enlisting as a private in the Missouri National Guard, Mr. Williams Wil-liams rose to the rank of first lieutenant lieu-tenant In the A. E. F., he served as a machine gun officer with the Thirty-fifth division in the Vosges mountains and in the Argonne-Meuse Argonne-Meuse drive. After the armistice, he served as Instructor in the A. E. F. university at Beaune and later assisted assist-ed in publicity in connection with the Interallied games. Mr. Williams, who is a member of Robert S. Tfcurman post 13, Joplin, Mo., served as post commander and state master-at-arms previously to his election as department head. He Is editor of the Joplin News Herald. |