OCR Text |
Show "GRAND OLD MAN" OF 137TH Kansas Editor Recently Received Distinguished Dis-tinguished Service Cross for Valor in Action. A newspaper editor who left off 1am-bastlnr 1am-bastlnr the Germans in his columns ffy and went to 1am- jfriJf bast them In per-tjC per-tjC ?on ls Jonn H. Vh?kfr , O'Connor of the i W1"fie'i dn.) ' ' Courier, who re-1" re-1" J ; cently received I j.vr ' tne Distinguished Li!i- Service Cross for exceptional valor JJ. ' i in action. ?S;rfr, The "grand old cTJLs. 1 man" of the One iu...i i i..rtv-seventh Infantry regiment during its service in France, Kdltor O'Connor ably commanded a battalion during 4he heaviest fighting lind won the highest rank of lieutenant lieuten-ant colonel. In September, 1918, In Montrebenu Wood he received a note penciled on the back of an old envelope, en-velope, telling him he was the highest ofllcer left in the regiment. Forthwith be assumed command of his own unit, added on all other troops in the wood, organized a brigade front, beat off two Boche attacks and directed the advance ad-vance on Exermont. Mr. O'Connor attended the first caucus cau-cus of the American Legion in Paris In 1919 and was one of the newspaper men who drew the resolution giving the Legion its name. |