| Show GRAND OLD MAN OF kansas editor recently received dim dl service cross for valor in action A newspaper editor who mho left ot oft lam bastin bastl rif the lern ians in ills colu columns Z ind and went vent to him bist bast thern lit in per son it Is 14 julin john 11 0 oconnor connor of the 4 winfield kan courier who re bently received the dist I 1 service sen lie cross fur for except exceptional lonal valor in action n rhe phe grant old man of the one L ii rt ty seenah infantry reg regiment intent during its service sen ice in france editor 1 0 oconnor connor ably commanded a battalion during the heaviest fight ing and n it d non on the highest ghet hl rank lank of 0 lieuten fint colonel in september 1018 in Mont wood 0 o he received a note penciled on the buck back of an old en telling him he was the lie hig liest officer left in tile the legli nent forthwith lie he assumed command of ills his own unit ui it addid on oil all other troops tit in the wood organized n brigade front fiant bent beat off on two to ache lic che attacks and directed the advance on kermont mr 0 oconnor connor attended the first caucus of the american legion in paris in 1919 and was one of the newspaper men inan who drew the resolution giving the legion its name |
