Show ji- ji MADE EXCHANGE OF SWORDS D r American Officer In Havana Was Not Notto J r J to Be Outdone in Courtesy by Any Cuban d' d Maj B. B Orm Ormande Power United States tates army says the most embarrassIng embarrass embarrass- sing slog s- s Ing log moment of ot his army life lite was In la Havana when he was was wasa a lieutenant In it 1808 1898 The United States had just taken control of or Cuba and Lieutenant f Power was sent to Havana to see fee about about taking over o some property t i While In a restaurant he saw four tour Cuban Cuban Cus Cu- Cu s ban ban officers immaculately garbed 1 In true Latin manner they rose r bowed ceremoniously and Invited him to sit lt at their table Sir said one of ot the officers via ris rising honor dis log ing it gives us the very I d to 10 have an aD American n officer orn join us us-to us to have the valiant Americans Amen Ameri 1 cans In con control 01 of or our country My Iy r feeling is so great that I 1 beg of or you to give me honor bonor of or accepting g wy my ye I sword With that he whipped out his beautiful beau Toledo blade made ronde of or 9 a steel the Ibe like of ot which no American ever er er r rt- possessed As the young American an awkwardly waited the Cuban stuck he the point of ot his Toledo blade in the center center of ot the table bent it double and ond ns as It whipped back Into shape grat graciously graciously gra gra- t handed banded it to Pow v Power jr r. r E Feeling It up to him to do something something some some- thing gracious Lieutenant Power begged the Cuban accept his sword to establish relations further With that I be he whipped out his ld Id blade bought from a department store on the East Fide tide of ot New Y pork Vork rk Imitating the he Cuban Cuban Cuban Cu Cu- ban he stuck the point to tn the middle middlet of t the table bent It and double and It stayed stayed bent 1 Without a tremor Lieutenant Power r N calmly handed the bla blade e now bent r a like a pretzel to the nn Cul-nn and made madel l him a sweeping rom irom bow Prom the Ami Am Am- i t roc aroe New Official NJ Newspaper of the American Army of ot Occupation |