Talk:Lewis Landes

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1.2 s 1| in 82 .1 .$ in I, Is 1)El) Ex-colonel Headed World War I Clalms Commission special to I'll. New tick Alamo LARCIIMI|N'L N. Y,. Jan. 7-- Lewis Landes. a retired Army colonel wile had had a notable career in both world war: and as a New York and' Washington lawyer. Asked yesterday m New Rochelle Hospital: He was 82 years old and lured at 1333 Palmer Avenue, ,Mr Landis was a student at tea University of Florida in the days just before this country's involvement in World War L when Washington ordered Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit; perished for hts raids across (all border. The student had formed the filet company of what was to Lecome the Florida National Guard on the ll,n-lfers-lt'.y cam- pu a and when the guard was nationalized he Net out for Texas to join Gen. Job 1, berthing in the chase. Later, as a young lawyer in New York, did -loaned the any on the declaration of war In 1 9$7 and was in the first con. tlnyant of the American Expeditionary Force to go to Europe. He joined General Pershing again and became a colonel at 26. After the war lie A'as named zhlcf of the reparations cam- million settling Unite; States dahms against Germany. When World War 11 broke nut he was sent to Australia, where as chief aide to Gen. Douglas MacArthur for legals- ucs and supplies, 'he built n l.ls()-mile read across the Australlan desert to move supplies when also shipping lanes were endangered. He was decorated several. time s f o ? his wor .k ' Over the year: ho rose stead- I iiy in 'the legal profession and! was one of the few men tai genetics for more than half a center before the supreme : scours, . In one all Ms cases, in 1941, working 'with Samuel nimbus and Samuel Untcrmy|, he replresented 'the Brooklyn Aslt ReI I molal company, which was enjoined fro Am entering. into a con-, tract with the citv of New York for ash removal In Brooklyn Upon the tcrlzl-lnat|l)n of this lttigaticu tho dump used by the became Hermite of tiled company two sew York world s fairs, He alsa nraanlzell tha Jockeys . community Yund and Guild, a 1 We slt falrei njjlzjn llltki ha ns t ha ll to hajj -. S y , came its general counsel, I He leaves his wif q the for- mqr Nathan Lee; three sons, Sidney w.. of Palo Alto, Calif,, a retired Ar am colonel and zyw lawyer and computer scene's at List; Leslie N., if Rye, president d thy Argonaut shipping Cor-'. Rotations and Rkhard 1.b man-. Agar of the Hewle||-llacllard Corporation. wha resigned recently Rs Deputy secretary of ! Defense, and right grandchildren. I