Because he manœuvres fifteen ivuckloads of pigs through a "no man's land" in the Chinese-Japanese war. Otto Urbach, 25, of St. Paul, has received a gold medal from the Chinese Government.
In September, 1937, while Urbach was in China as engineer for an American motor company, Shanghii was experiencing a food shortage. In a slaughter house just outside the city there were 5,000 hogs. But the road to the city ran between the lines of the Japanese and Chinese armies Urbach was a member of a vol-unter organization of Americans cruited to aid U. S. Marines and Bri ich troops in protecting the Shanghai Foreign Settlement, So Urbach, at the head of fifteen trucks and two armoured cars, moved the pigs from the slaughter house to the city. Some of the trucks were hit by shells, but the drivers escaped injury.—United Press.
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