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Show KID CORPORAL SCORES AGAIN John Shoemaker, Through Phoenix American Legion, Draws West L Point Appointment. ' The "Kid Corporal" lias scored again. John Shoemaker, who enlisted In the army at fourteen and served in a n y .months with the i American expedl itlonnry forces In France, has now 'received presidential presiden-tial appointment to West Point. Shoemaker re-tconlly re-tconlly graduated from n high i school in Phoe-Inix, Phoe-Inix, Ariz., where hi UP .lie took special courses in military tactics tac-tics under Maj. Claude Decatur Jones. Major Jones became interested in the , lad because he had such an unusual war record. i Young Shoemaker served with a machine ma-chine gun company in the Fifty-fourth infantry for two years, during and following fol-lowing the World war. His West Point appointment followed a campaign cam-paign in his behalf by the Phoenix i Ajnerienn Legion and Major Jones, who were anxious that a war veteran should take the place nt the military academy vacated by Charles Harrett, ' an overseas hero, who graduated at the head of his class last June. |