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...Allied front line. Snugly nestled in every available cranny were deadly German machine gun nests. On that day into Belleau Wood went the U. S. Marines of the 2nd Division Regular Army, with bared bayonets. They yelled in defiance, yelled in death. When, after ten days, the 26th Division relieved them, 4,500 U. S. Marines were killed, gassed or wounded. But there were no more Germans in the Wood. The 26th Division, advancing, bombarded the town of Belleau, demolished the ancient chapel, drove out the Germans...
Philanthropically, the 26th Division made amends. Collecting $50,000, they rebuilt the church, will rededicate it this autumn. On its walls they have graven the names of their casualties...
...26th is the "Yankee Division." National Guardsmen from Maine. They have placed their church not upon the ancient stones of the old site, but on the tourist-ridden highway from Paris to Château-Thierry and Metz; not over the tombs of long-dead Frenchmen, but beside the 2nd Division cemetery...
...preceding the festivities in perfect tranquility, and if it later develops that Gloria simply despises Oriental perfume she can give it to a younger brother to use on the dog. And, just to make safety doubly sure he is planning to take six weeks vacation in Labrador beginning December 26th...
...Atlanta on the 26th birthday of Robert Tyre Jones Jr., A. Wise Wood last week called Jones a "young knight" for refusing a $50,000 house and lot offered to him by his admirers. When he had stopped talking Mrs. Bobby Jones unveiled a portrait of her husband painted by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne...