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Show AMEDKM LOT Copy lor Thin Dtpartment Supplied by ; tha JLmerlcfLn Leelon News Service.) FIRED FAST, HIT THE MARK Kvditor of Legion's National Finance Division Made Record With Field Artillery. i A record for fnst firing atid direct ; hits with field artillery, may be far removed from keeping records and accounting expenditures. But the American Legion Le-gion considered this recommendation recommenda-tion when It chose William N. Day, Ureal Falls, Mont., as audir of national na-tional finance division. divi-sion. He is still scoring bulls-eyes. Twenty-five mitrtites to one minute -as th reduction Day's battery, "F" 6f the 140th Field artillery, made In the time experts required to train 6-Inch 6-Inch rlfies ro a target. A German train, slghteil on the St. Mihlel front, was lilt hy Day's guns on the third round and completely demolished oa the eleventh. With shells of all cai-bers cai-bers dropping on his battery every half-mhaute for more than two honrs, the battery came through without a man "wounded and with three gui?s In action. Mr. Day says that he finds the ad-flitlon ad-flitlon of n column of figures almost as exalting at times as the bombardment of -an enemy, fleeting target. |