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Show : LMION : (Copy for i hta Leparum-iu Supplied by I the Amrlcjtn I.t-frlon News Service.) j LEGION MEN LIKE HIS TYPE State Adjutant of Minnesota Made Numerous Efforts Before Accepted Ac-cepted for War Service. Horace G. Whitmore began serving serv-ing under Pershing early. He was holding down a pivot in the cadet battalion at the University of Nebraska Ne-braska in 1S95 when the future general was n commandant there. Incidentally Incidental-ly Mr. Whitmore and General Pershing Per-shing formed a friendship on the campus which endures en-dures to the pres ent day and which found expression after the armistice, when th : C-in-C, Inspecting the One Hundred and Fifty-first Fifty-first field artillery in Germany, left a crowd of generals, walked over to a stubby little first sergeant, thrust out his hand and said : "Whitmore, I am glad to see you." Whitmore was born in Dayton, 0., ' in 1873; was brought up in a farm ' In Nebraska, and graduated from the state university there in 1895. . He was a contractor in Minneapolis In 1017. when he presented himself for admission to the first series of officers' of-ficers' training camps. He was rejected re-jected as being overweight. Back to the farm went Whitmore. In four weeks he took off 20 pounds and asked to he admitted to the, second series of training camps, but the sur-: sur-: geon said: "Too fat to fight." An other examiner, said : "Too old." Whitmore went from recruiting of-flee of-flee to ryruiting office until he be-j be-j came a pilvate in Battery B, One Hun- j dred and Fifty-first field artillery, j Forty-second division. He went over- , seas with the outfit and served with ',. . it through the war, participating In every engagement in which the Rainbows Rain-bows took part. When discharged he was induced to become state adjutant of tne American Ameri-can Legion for Minnesota. He has done much for the development of the Legion In the Northwest. Mr. Whitmore recently resigned from that position to accept the directorship of a company formed for the manufacture manufac-ture of an automobile accessory device de-vice which he invented. |