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Show WOULD BE SECOND TO NONE James Shelley, Phoenix, Sent to West Point, Wishes to Be First-Class Officer. President Harding has appointed another World war veteran to West Point. James Shelley Shel-ley of Phoenix, Ariz., told a "white lie" and at sixteen was enlisted en-listed as a regular regu-lar in the army. He served nine months overseas with the artillery. He Is now a "plebe" at the academy where after four years' hard work he will be graduated a second lieutenant. The stuff that Is Shelley's and which made him enlist when under age evidenced itself when he an swered the telegram of West Poinl officials who asked: "What Is your ambition?" Shelley had to make his answer in seven words, but it was to the point. He said: "I want to be second to none." |