Show 1 Marine Becomes American 44 1 f- f Ze ft k 1 cJ sl tl i 1 1 V J 1 rt lj Shocked To Find He Wasn't LOUIS LA GALL GALIa who ho has S been a t resident of or the United Stat States o since be he was 3 years of oC age and anda andU a U member r of oC tho the marine marino corps corp for tor thirteen of or those years CarB will celebrate hl his first Fourth of or July as a 1 fuH- fuH Cl fledged dred citizen this year When hen ho he was a small bo boy he emigrated emi g grated from froni France the town o ot of hl ills his nativity with ith hIs hla parents to America Growing to manhood In the country r where his hla father r and mother mothel lived out tho the balance of or their lives he naturally concluded ho he was a citIzen I So he ho enlisted In the marines and amI andIn andin In 1907 1007 eventually c look ou part in 6 1 itt In war ar duty duly In IA JJr ra six battles Chateau Belleau Wood Soissons AIsne Marne St. St and Champaign he lie was cited for tor valor on the tho field and awarded ard d a decoration Eventually he ho discovered he was as not a citizen because Ms his father had hall never nover taken out 0 either cither his hiM first or final papers But tut ho Ito In iii the theA A service r of isis hla chos chosen n co country Recently Re Hc- ite- ite centI Sergeant nt La Gall married Mrs Millis Pingree of oC this eft city and nd when his present term tonn of or enlistment expires In August h ho lie will retire permanently he says SIlS Sergeant La Gall received the official stamp of or Americanism In W. W H II Bramel's court I |