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Show TO HONOR WORLD WAR HERO Arkansa4 Legion Members Plan Fitting Fit-ting Tributes to Ex-Service Man In Unmarked Grave. Arkansas members of the American Legion are assisting In plans for the Ilerman Davis Memorial Foundation In honor of Herman Davis, Arkansas' outstanding hero of the World war, who died In January from the effects of gas and Is buried In an unmarked grave at Manila, Ark. Plans of the foundation call for the erection of a suitable monument to his memory at Manila, and a similar monument on the lawn of the State War Memorial building at Little Rock. In addition, a scholarship will be endowed en-dowed at the University of Arkansas, to be known as the Herman Davis scholarship. A highway leading through the northern part of Mississippi county, through Manila and past the burial place of the young hero will be known as the Herman Davis Memorial highway. high-way. Placed fourth on the list of 1W heroes of the war by General Pershing, Persh-ing, Davis was always modest and reticent He did not seek to capitalize capital-ize his fame, but when the war was over returned to his native soil and again took up the ways of the simple life which he always had led. |