Show WEEKS ASSISTANT AWARDED O. O S 5 C. C Acting Secretary Honored Along With New Duties WASHINGTON March 7 Two Two days before Dwight F P. Davis took oath oy oa Monday as assistant secretary of war and within an hour became acting secretary sec see i on the departure or r Secretary Weeks for Florida war department machinery ground out final action on ona ona ona a citation that awarded Mr Davis a distinguished service cross for tor gallantry gallantry gal gal- lantry In action in France The decoration was laid on on Mr Weeks' Weeks desk dealt on March 3 3 and the secretary sec see determined to make Its ita presentation presentation presentation presen presen- I tation a surprise part of the ceremony o of inducting the new assistant secre seCre- ta tary tay y Into office Mr 1 Weeks was so successful In to surprise his new colleague th that t it was was only today with publication of the citation alon along with Ith a a. number of ot others that It became became be be- came Carrie known that Mr Davis had been decorated The citation says that Lieutenant Colonel Davis displayed extraordinary nary heroism in action near Baulny France September 29 30 1918 while acting as adjutant of ot the Sixt Sixty ninth Infant Infantry brigade when he volunteered to go over the brigades brigade's sector under heavy ma machine gun fire and reorganize the positions |