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Show SAYS NO MAN HER SUPERIOR Bright-Eyed Sergeant and Vice Commander Com-mander of Post Bluffed Mr. Silver-Eagles. Who else but a bright-eyed, smiling American girl could have gotten away -rith It? Sergeant Minnie Arthur of the United Uni-ted States marine corps was on duly In a recruiting office of-fice In Indianapolis, Indianapo-lis, Ind., during the war. The major ma-jor in charge was nervous ; a colonel from Washington was coming to Inspect In-spect ; everyone brushed up on rules of military conduct. In walked the austere colonel. Sergeant Arthur remained working at her desk. Silver-eagles Silver-eagles walked over to her desk and frowned. "I'm ever get up when an oiucer comes in the room, sergeant?" he growled. ' Yes, sir, sometimes," Mis.Sj Three Uipes replied. "I'm and I suppose you salute your euijeriors, too, eh?" Sergeant Arthur smiled sweetly and llieu her eyes snapped. "Sir, I've never seen a man yet who was my superior!" And the colonel passed it off without with-out a reprimand. Miss Arthur, now vice-commander of Kobert F. Ketinington post of the American Legion in Indianapolis, enlisted en-listed for four years and serced 18 monihs. She is still In the reserve, drawing si a month with v hich she buys hair nets. Site is authority on Libcrian gof and plays a good hand fit "hi..c!:J:.el;.- |