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Show BRIG.-GEN. JAMES ALLEN RETIRES I . : : I After a life chock-full of adventure and achievement, honored in the service serv-ice of his government, Brig.-Gen. James Allen, chief signal officer of , the United States army, on Feb. 13 retired from active service and will go back to live the remainder of his life at his boyhood home, Laporte, Ind. General Allen has a military record of forty-one years which reads like a novel. Himself of modest bearing, it is in the official, perfunctory records of the war department that the full story of his adventures may be gleaned. All the way from fighting on the old Indian frontier down to handling han-dling the highly scientific questions of development of military aviation and the wireless, General Allen has . been in the forefront. Allen graduated from West Point in 1S72,- and, in the cavalry branch, ' immediately saw service in the Indian In-dian campaigns in the middle west in 1891 he was transferred to the signal corps because of his unusual ability in arranging means for military communication. - ft was, however, in the Spanish-American war that the army officer forever for-ever established the reputation of the army signal corps. For locating Cer-vera's Cer-vera's fleet in Santiago harbor-and supplying the information which resulted in its destruction. Brigadier General Allen received a letter of commendation from President McKinley. |