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Show Sergeant York j Is to Be Honored WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Down in the fourth district of Tennessee Micro lives a man credited with the most outstanding individual achievement of nn American in the world war Bis name, already known to the majority of the people in the United States, Is Ah in 0. York, and until recently he I was sergeant of Company G, 328th in- fantry, S2nd division of the American expeditionary fori s A bill has been 1 introduced b ihe congressman from the district in which Seri. York resides, re-sides, Cordell Hull, to honor the sol (dier's heroic exploits by commission Ing him a second lieutenant and then I placing him on the retired list with (pay and allownnr. s of a r nn-d s. mud lieutenant. ork virtually alone wiped out a German machine gun battalion, killed 25 of the enemy and captured 132 prisoners. The military affairs committee of the house of representatives Is expect) ex-pect) i to 1 1 porl 1 longrc ssmnn Hull 1 bill fasorabu. itn,i sLniilar action b . the senate is confidently predicted. York, it will be rem 1 inhered, was second elder of the Church of Christ ;and Christian Union in the seetion where he lived, near the Wolf river, about five miles from the Kentucky border Although deeply religious he declined to claim exemption as a conscientious con-scientious objector, and. being con Ivlnced that his duty to country was justified by Biblical writings, he promptly deoted his attention to his military duties, rose from the ranks , to be corporal, and then to a serv ant 'cy after his exploit. On his return to the United Slates 1 York was tendered a reception not re-j jceived by uny American soldier other than General Fershlng. but he return led to his mountain home where his mother and three small brothers and j sisters awaited him. All attempts to I inveigle his into the moving pictures. I vaudeville or business failed. Or, as he expressed it: "I was offered many different kinds of positions, and tonight 1 could have SOOO.OnO in the bank if I'd accepted those offers, but I read in a little book I carried on the battlefields of France something that I remembered. It said: 'What does It profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.' " So. with all these things in mind, Congressman Hull contends that an unusual distinction should be bestow ed on Seret. York, for he already has the Congressional Medal of Honor, Dis tinguished Service Cross, etc. ' The question has been raised on I this bill that it is unprecedented and I might constitute a bad precedent.' Mr. j Hull told the committee "Mr. Chair man this bill had to be, and was deliberated de-liberated made unprecedented because it was undertaking to deal with an unprecedented un-precedented Individual achievement. This soldier, it would not matter what rank might be conferred upon him now, will always be known in this country as Sergt York It was in '.hat Individual capacity and in that capac-itv capac-itv s a non commissioned officer that this achievement was gained by him. A mere ordinary increase of rank would not suffice It should be some unusual action." |