Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-07 | Page 5 | Is Biggest Recruit; Joins Signal Corps

IS BIGGEST RECRUIT; JOINS SIGNAL CORPS Husky Young White Hope "From Idaho Whose Danish Relatives Fought Eoches Is Now Soldier. "Kaiser WilbMm and Minions: Take warning and hunt cover. Tlie huskiest, biggest man ever enlisted through the local army office i.s headed toward Berlin Ber-lin with blood In his eye." .Standing six feet three inches in his stocking feet and weighing just an even 2-0 pounds, Hicy 1 1. Anderson, 2) years of age. cf Cleveland, Idaho, who enlisted yesterday in the aviation section of the signal corps as a mechanic, Isolds all local lo-cal records for being tiie "supreme be-hemoth" be-hemoth" of all recruits. A few yen rs ago Hicy, the picture of j health and strength, became imbued with ! the idf-a that he wr.s a "white hope" and I accordingly hoisted his hat into the pugi- listic ring. Jle went like a house afire for a ti me. until he ran up aea inst one A I Weinert, a resident of the village of New York. Al hung one on Kiev's chin, and his star dimmed. However, he is all primed for a good crack, by rifle, bayonet or fist, at one or a half dozen "Fritzies" couldn't keep out of the big melee, and is now very anxious to get "over there." Anderson comes by his fighting instinct in-stinct naturally, a grandfather and a couple of other close relatives having already al-ready had a tilt with Wilhelm's folks when Denmark and Germany had their little scrap back in 1864. And it is chronicled in the family Bible that they fought gloriously and with much valor. If you should read of a bunch o? German Ger-man prisoners being captured soon, the chances are Anderson and two or three ot hers have s.tarted something "somewhere "some-where in France."