Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

was to throw them off the track, for we had a far different plan in mind.  As we expected, the enemy, greater in numbers, would take the pole from us in break it.  In doing this they all mixed in and the confusion resulting was exactly what we wanted.  We were now reinforced by two or three other Seniors, among them Jack Astry.  Our plan was, in the confusion resulting from this fight for the possession of the pole, to have Astry climb the tree close to the telephone post, crawl over to the post + secure the colors.  Everything worked as expected.  We secured another pole and proceeded to act as before.  This time we put up a desperate fight for the poll in order to give Jack plenty of time to do his part.  Without any