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Show FUNSTON CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY CAMP FUNSTON, Kans., Oct. 9 Major General Leonard Wood, commander com-mander of the Tenth division here today, to-day, celebrated his fifty-eighth birth-dayf birth-dayf By a coincidence the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, conferred con-ferred on General Wood by France in recognition of his distinguished service ser-vice during the Spanish-American war has Just arrived. The cross has been retained in the official depositary in the war department as until a recent law was passed it was not customary for American officers to accept foreign decorations. |