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Show The Cache American. Logan, Cache County, Utah Pajr Two Indian of Today, Like Ilis Forefathers, Proves Hes First-Clas- s Fighting Man Whos News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace More Than 11,000 Red Men, Most of Them Volunteers, Are Fighting for Their Native Land as Soldiers, Sailors and Marines. Cor.eulidtd Feetur.a WNU Pattern tuns contains a transfer patten, of rx muttli aver. fins S', by T Inehra; Illustrations of ftitchef; color scheme; materials required. Du. la an unusually larf. demand and current nar condition., alifhtly more Uma la required la Siting orders for a lew of the moil popular pattern number. Send your order lo: tute.ee, YORK. Maj. Gen. Eugene Landrum, who snatched the Island of Aitu back from the Japs, 1 exactly the type of man you could readily ple- Here Definitely We tur wrest-Hav- e a Man Sot of in s bard NEW Ry ELMO SCOTT WATSON by Wtvn NwMipr Union. announcement by the War Department that I'MIE recent Clarence L. Tinker Jr. of the United States army Bewlas C Ire la Needlfcratl Dept. Mlaaa St. Baa rraoclace, Calif. EncloM 15 cento (plus on. cent to cover cost of mailing) tor Pattern 117 Style but ot Action air forces was missing in action in North Africa was a tragic coincidence, in that just a year ago the War Department announced that his father, Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker, commander of the army air forces in Hawaii, was missing in action. He had led a flight of army bombers to attack the Japanese fleet east of Wake island and he was killed in the Battle of Midway. ' fni" who might be drafted under Intcrcsting. too, is the fact Uie Selective Service act that the Tinkers, father and The cate was taken under t son, were North American by the Judges mho heard the Indians and, at the time of his argument. That wai late In Octo1941. Then came Pearl Hardeath, General Tinker was ber. bor. After that fateful day, nothing called the greatest Indian more wa heard of the case. The tribesmen of the Six Nations may fighter in the present war. But although they are ou- have regarded themselves as mem- that away from a wily foe. Short, stocky, and firm Jawed, he radiates pugnacity and courage. Those who favor the fashion plate genus In their military men would never glance twice at him. If they met him in civics on the street of a small town they would pick him out as the bard working village doctor, especially if be were carrying bis battered Gladstone bag end bad his black pipe clamped between bis teeth. He Is 52. mas General Landrum la wht got te the top the bard way. Back la 191S be entered the army at a private !a the coast artillery. By the time the United Males entered World War I be was wearing Ihe silver bar ef a first lieutenant ea his shoulders. Two months later be bad become a captain. Ia the years following the Armistire be brpt moving slowly nod quietly ahead. lie waa not the bind ef officer te make the headlines, especially In peacetime, but bis superiors knew Mm as plug-gand they approve of him. He waa graduated from the Army War college In 1936 and Just tlx months before Pearl Harbor, be received bis colonelcy. General Landrum Is a native of Florida and be calls Pensacola bis borne town. Mrs. Landrum, however, is now in California. Like many another wife of an army or naval officer she likes to look at the same ocean her husband does. advise-men- No. UncUPhilQ Sayi: well-cake- MMOR GENERAL CLARENCE L. TINKER tstanding examples of the fighting red man," modern version, they are only two of an estimated 11,000 Indians in the armed forces of the United States and most of them didnt wait to be drafted for service but enlisted voluntarily. bers of an Independent uncon- ent conflict may be For quered nation' living within the soldiers, sailors or marines. United States but they were Amer- more than 17.000 Indians heard the well as First Americans first call to arms In 1917 and among icans." them was Odis N. Leader, a ChocIn that respect they were like taw, who was foreman of a cattle the majority of the red men wbe ranch in Oklahoma. It is an Ironical had not waited for Pearl Harbor fact that, soon after we declared to join up to fight for their counwar on Germany, this First Amerattry. Even before the Jape ican" was the victim of rumors that tack on Hawaii it was estimated he was a German spy! To prove Taken by Itself, that number does that one out of every ten eligible his loyalty, he gave up his business not aeem large. But In proportion Indians between the ages of 21 and enlisted. He saw action at Can to the total number of naUve and 35 were already serving In Americans" in the United States totigny, at Soissons, at St Mihicl and the armed forrea. in the Argonne. He was twice day. it is a more Imposing record. Descendant! of Noted Chiefs. wounded and gassed and when the If an equal proportion of white men Among them were descendants of French government sought a "mod had likewise voluntarily enlisted we would have an army of nearly four many a famous Indian leader whose el American soldier, of whom an million volunteers In addition to the name has come down in history be- oil painting was to be made tf hang millions who are In the army cause he was a patriot who rallied on the walls of the French federal his warriors to defend their lands building, where types of all the Althrough selective service. against the encroachments of the lied races were to be represented, Incidentally, an Interesting situa tion in regard to the enrollment of while men. One of the greatest of Sergt. Odis N. Leader waa chosen Indiuns in Uncle Sam'a aervice arose these was Tecumseh of the Shaw- for that honor! Other Indians who received the soon after the Selective Service act Croix de Guerre included Sergt of 1940 was passed. Into federal IT had not been for the late James M. Gordon, a Chippewa, who court In New York city one autumn Kaiser, William E. Lynd might to a rescue shell fire braved wound law in Idaho instill be day In 1941 marched five brilliantly ed French officer; Chester Arm- stead ofpracticingat dressed Indiana to watch a white 49, a brigadier being, a Sioux, cited for strong Fourbear, man fight for their rights according In general t; his bravery as a messenger at Becomee the army air to the white mani rules. They Attorney John M. Harper, a Ute; Marwere descendants of the warriors Warrior to Make corps. He nc- ty Beaver, a Creek; Bert Hay man, who, away back in 1784, made a Stick tuUy, astartan a Seneca-ModoGus Gertiez, a The treaty with the United States by Pueblo fedbugler; Oglohombi, Joseph which the young and struggling in fact after earning bis a Choctaw; and Corp. Nicholas E. attorney, eral government recognized the Irodegree at the University of Washingwas another who Brown, Choctaw, quois Indian Confederacy as a sovton. Then be took on military trainkilled in action and received the as a sideline with the Idaho Naereign and independent nation. ing award posthumously. tional Guard. In 1916 he went to 'Independent, Unconquered Nation.' Winners of DSC and Croix de Guerre the Mexican border in the fracas They had come Into court to mainAmong those who received the that served as a curtain raiser to tain by legal means their identity as Distinguished Service Cross of their the first World war. He had hardly members of that confederacy which, own United States, as well as the settled back at his law books beas "an independent, unconquered naCroix de Guerre of France, were fore the real show started. On tion, was subject only to its own Joe Schenderleon, a Crow and March 27, 1917, he was called back lawmakers and not to the congress a Hopi; and Thomas D. to the colors and eight days later of the United States. On the recLawui it L second lieuSaunders, a scion of the most for- was commissioned ords of the court the case appears KILTt'S TECUMSEH midable fighters the United States tenant of infantry. as a writ of habeas corpus for one ever encountered in the days Warren Eldreth Green, a Christmas eve, 1917, Is one be nees, who tried to organize a con- army will always remember, for bis Onondaga Indian, who had been federacy of all the Indian tribes in of the old frontier the Cheyennes, outfit sailed for France just aa drafted Into military service the pre- the Ohio valley in Ihe early 1800s Here is his record, as given In GenSt. Nick bitched up bis reinvious May. Young Green had no but whose plans were upset when eral Orders of the Second division deer. Overseas he was switched Corporal Thomas D. Saunders, particular objection to entering the his brother, the Prophet, launched to the air service a an obarmy as a matter of fact a num- his surprise attack upon the soldiers Company A, Second engineers, while n a member of the first wire cutting had al- of Gen. William server and he finally reached ber of his Henry Harrison and the front in a plane in August. ready voluntarily enlisted but he was badly defeated at the Battle of platoon, made his way forward in advance of the unit until he was in A few days later be was the was being used as a test case to Tippecanoe in 1811. challenge the right of the United proud possessor of a Silver Star, One of the first of the fighting line with and in company with PriStates government to conscript the red men of today who attempted vate Wilkerson, Company B, Second earned in an air battle with the Germans. young men of an "independent, un- to enlist in Uncle Sams armed engineers, were the first soldiers to conquered nation." Like many another veteran of the forces was Kiutus Tecumseh, a de- enter Jaulny, then infested with snipers, and swept with wicked ma White counsel for the Indians ar- scendant of the great Shawnee leadAEF, Lynd found civilian life dull chine gunfire, being occupied by and in 1920 he rejoined the army, gued that the Iroquois Confederacy er. He was rejected for military enof detachments the naHe has anthis time for good. had been treated as a foreign service, however, because he was rearguard 63 Geralone captured tion until 1924 when a law was partially disabled by wounds he re- emy. They other air medal now. He won the man prisoners after searching the second award for a spectacular repassed conferring United States cit- ceived while serving aboard a navy caves of a hospital with persistence connaissance flight out over the Paizenship on Indians. No such law, sub chaser during World War I. This at Jaulny, cific in the first There was a time when the name and courage. he contended, could apply to memyear of the present war. More recently he was at Attu, bers of the Six Nations without their of Geronimo was a name of hatred France, on September 12, 1918. Corporal Thomas D. Saunders, and the other day he visited the consent On this premise he argued and terror in the great Southwest, that the law was unconstitutional for this Apache leader blazed a trail Company A, Second engineers; at White House to tell President Rooseon October 8, velt what his fliers had done to lick of death and destruction through St. and therefore members of the Ononhe bravely conducted a patrol the daga, Cayuga, Seneca, Mohawk, New Mexico and Arizona. Run to 1918, Japs there. Oneida and Tuscarora tribes could earth at last In 1886 by soldiers un- under heavy fire. During the night, not be numbered among the "citi- - der the command of Gen. Nelson A. he made a reconnaissance close to the censors finally Miles, the "Apache Devil was held the enemy, of the position which his WHEN the news that Artemus as a prisoner of war in Florida, section was to occupy In the front, L. Gates, assistant secretary of the Alabama and finally at Fort Sill, and returning, conducted It to that navy for air, had been on a tour Okla., until his death in 1911. Thirty position. of the Pa- years later, Homer Yahnozha, a Cetting to Zone of cigc gght- Mescalero Apache and a direct deSecond ing front. Battle scendant of Geronimo, was one of l0"gtitn Gates friends to Nature the heroes who fought at Bataan and said We Corregidor. in unison, might have known Out in Nevada a county and a it. In World War I his experiences city perpetuate the name and fame were like something out of fiction. of Winnemucca, great chief of the When the war clouds lowered over s Piutes, who in his day was a the United States 25 years ago. fighting man. Gates was in his junior year at Yale. Today that fighting tradition is carried on by his He had just been made captain-eleStanley Winof the football team, an honor nemucca, who is a Fighting Maearned at tackle for two seasons. rine. Although more Indians have By April, however, he had abangone into the army than into the doned his cap and gown for a navai marines or the navy, there is at least uniform. one who holds high rank in our sea In the summer of 1916 he had forces. He is Francis J. Mee, a had a fling at flying and it did Chippewa, born In J)etroit Lakes, not take him long to get into Minn., a commander in the navy. naval aviation, then still in its The Model American Soldier.' infancy. August, 1917, found him If the Indians in World War II In France and long before the .. follow the precedent of those who Armistice be was commanding in World War I, then some fought the U. S. naval air station at of our greatest heroes of the pres- GEKONIMO SGT. ODIS N. 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Calif. 19th Street Law FOR SALE-FA- SNAPPY FACTS RM ABOUT RUBBER In (own. 5 '18 SALE $1,608 ere. Good water right. Barn, stable oope, TOO thickens, garden, pasture. DORfNDA St'ORUP. 8ahna. Utah bom BETTER HEARING fa yon bear bat do not understand churcb. in movie, or at your work, or in lik to would conversation and ordinary aend thia ad BETTER BEARING, bav eertiwment with ymir name and aridm to If OTARION AID SERVICE, BEARING McIntyre Bailding. USED from 1907 to 1912, guayule rubbar from Mexico represented about 7 per cant ef tho world's rubber supply, lo 1941, it was lass thaa 1 por cant. 111 Salt Lake City, Utah, Mors than 86,000,000 motor vehicle have been produced In tho United States since 1900, with an average of five tires per vehicle. That gives you an Idea of the number of tires that have been made to maintain motor transportation! TRAILERS CARS historian back In 1519 described a ball made of tho gum of a tree that grows in "hot countries." He was referring te what wo now call rubber. A Spanish fellow-tribesme- y,! sling Those who take no chances have whats left by those wh Belli-cour- Etienne-a-Arme- who to take do. er -- .............. Name................................. Addraea.. ......... .................... WJf.U. Wwk No. 432S 8ALT LAKH When you hear a Marine called a Leatherneck, it has nothinfto do with the epidermis of his neck. Years ago the Marine uniform was equipped with a high stiff leather collar. From that time on, Leatherneck has been the word for a Marine. The word for his favorite the favorite cigarette is "Camel cigarette also of men in the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard. (Based on actual sales records from service mens stores.) And though there are Post Office restrictions on packages to overseas Army men, you can still send Camels to soldiers in the U. S., and to men in the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard wherever they are. Adv. CEGoodrick It first-clas- j-kS- ct . Is the Pi J ' -- in Arlington an American Indian? Lone Wolf of the Kiowa s and Plenty Is the "Unknown Soldier who sleeps in the nations shrine in Coups of the Crows. To the latter Arlington cemetery an American fell the honor of placing on the marble tomb a war bonnet and a coup Indian? stick appropriate gifts for a dead He might well be! When that American soldier was warrior. As Plenty Coups placed them on enshrined there on November 11, 1922, four Indian chieftains were the tomb he said: I feel it an honor to the red man present as official representatives of the red men who had given their that he has taken part in this great lives for their country. They were event today because it shows that Red Owl of the Oglala Sioux, the thousands of Indian soldiers who Stranger Horse of the Brule Sioux, fought in the great war are appre ciated by the white man. I am glad to represent the Indians of the United States in placing on the grave of this noble unknown warrior this coup stick and war bonnet, every eagle feather of which represents a deed of valor by my race. I hope that the Great Spirit will grant that these noble warriors have not given up their lives in vain and that there will be peace to all men hereafter. This is the Indians hope and prayer. While there he was decorated for saving the crew of a British plane which had crashed into the sea. Later the French drafted him for one of their bombing squadrons. In an air battle behind the enemy lines in October, 1918, his plane was shot down. When the Germans rushed up to grab him, they found him calmly trying to destroy his ship. On the way to prison. Gates managed to leap through the window of his train and escape. Just before he reached the Swiss border, he was recaptured, however, and on November 11 he was a prisoner in Germany. VfOR ffds too5 in Unknown Soldier ,.rl (DELICIOUS! 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