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Show t 1 f A HERO EVERY DAY Brave Deeds of Men In America's Fighting Forces. 4 : 4. Little is heard of the hundreds of men on patrol duty in the T'nited St-Ues navy. Silently, with unflappini? vigilance, they watch the coasts with a telling effect, so pood in its result that they form a unit in tVm force of eyes that never close. Xow and then word comes from them. They are in an attack, make some dash and win commendation, or tidings come of a casualty In the lonjj and heavy fipht with tiie ocean. One of the latter refers to John II. Alexander, a seaman, second class, of the t'nited States naval reserve, who, in this splendid work, tfave up his life. He is reported lost overboard from a submarine patrol on April 10. Alexander enlisted April 27, 1917, at Pittsburg, pa. His father, John R. Alexander, lives at 2GI5 Broad avenue, AJtoona, Pa. |