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Show THE BEAVEIt CbUKTT TtTEKtY" FRESS, BriAVEIlJ UTAH tteuteoant Aaory was detailed to lead patrol e a hazardous and Important mission of. locating the mala defense Une of the enemy. Fighting' his wsy under their heavy artillery and machine gun fire, and wit! no assistance from our batteries, he established his command two kilometers within the enemy territory. Although wounded and his small command badly cut to piece and almost entirely surrounded," he refused to give up the ground he bad taken, but by stubbornly resisting with his small detachment he finally succeeded In driving the enemy from this Important position. Ills home was In Wilmington, DeL 191S - .naurs - I bucks Sfmmnrtahi Moat - striking inataneea of (rIlntry for which the Distinguulied Service M bees awarded r. f: ' l- - - , FRANK B. STOCKTON, ! Private, Co. E, 167th Infantry. Private. Stockton was decorated for unusual bravery In action-near- , Georges, France, October 14, 1918. After working all morning" In rescuing wounded soldier's, Private Stockton, a stretcher bearer, learned .that a man from another company was tying wounded In a shell hole, one hun dred yardsTla advance of the company's position, Ignoring all warnings as to danger Involved, he and Another stretcher bearer, crawled to the shell hole under violent machine gnu fire and found that the man was o severely wounded that' he could only te carried on a litter. Although the wounded soldier" Attempted to dissuade him from so-- doing. . Private Stockton returned to our line, secured a litter and proceeded once more to the shell hnln In direct view nt th enemy and under the most Intense lire from machine guns 250 yards away. lie succeeded In reaching the shell hole safely, but as he was placing the wounded patient on the litter he was Instantly killed. Private Stockton was a son of Iter, J. A. Stockton, New Decatur, Ala. , ; j:,, .J ., St th. UTAH BUDGET ? f f'-- " The only criticism thai .foreign militant iaiem had in trial- at iht American soldiers was thai they would not stop when their objective was reached. The records of the .war department hear out (his "criticism.'' They show that the Ameri can soldiers would not slop though they faced, seemingly certain death from the kail of German machine gun bullets and German shrapnel The story of these soldiers ts told in the records of the men who were awarded' the Distinguished Service Vross 'for conspicuous bravery on the field of ' tattle. Below are- the records ofa few of these Americans who did mt know when to slop. -- f return fhom the 'front Jd - X . - l Ifl af-falr- 1 . iJavid b. barkeley, . Co. A, 358th Infantry. Private, Private Barkeley (deceased) was decorated for conspicuous gallantry in action near PoulUy, France, November i-- - When Information was desired as to th enemy's position oa the opposite" side of the river Meuse, Private Barkeley, with another soldier, volunteered without hesitation and swam the river to reconnoiter the exact location, lie succeeded In reaching the opposite bank, despite the evident determination of the enemy to prevent a crossing,' Having obtained his 5 it information, he again entered the , water for his return, but before his was with was he seised reached, goal i. . , cramps and drowned. Hla mother, The One Hundred Forty-nint- h and artillery, familiarly knon as Kellly Bucks. - has returned from France and Mrs, Antonio Barkeley, lives In San , ,mu.T nm, wucuw Hiosi 01 iuese nara ngnters nailed, are i In their Antonio, Tex. homecoming, rhe photograph shows some of the artillerymen on their transport and. Inserted, Col. tejolclna 1 ". Reillr. J. Henry . their commander. FRANK J. BART, Private, Co. C, 9th Infantry, j. Private Bart was decorated for conSCENE DURING THE RIOTING IN CAIRO, EGYPT spicuous gallantry In action with the Ocenemy near Medeah farm, France, . ' ' L" '"""" """' nil.,.......,.,, ,i n, nm i ii i iimmi tober 8, 1918. Private Bart, being on duty as a company runner, when the advance was held up by machine gun fire, voluntarily picked up an automatic rifle, ran. out ahead of the line, and silenced a hostile machine gun nest, killing the German gunners. The advance then continued and, when It was again hindered Bhortly afterward by another machine gun nest this courageous soldier repeated his bold ;.. .'('... exploit by putting the second machine out of action. His home address gun is Newark. N. J. 9. 1918. V "I J ic w i ... ARTHUR L. WALTERS, Sergeant, Company B, 2nd Ammunition Train. Sergeant Walters risked hfs life to aave others while on duty near Beaumont France, November 9, 1018, thereby winning the Distinguished Service Cross. Sergeant Walters wa In charge of a of ammunition trucks ' ' which company was halted In the town. An "FREDERICK 0. QASKINS, V Corporal, Company 1, 11$th Infantry. enemy shell struck the train and set one of the trucks oa fire. Although The Distinguished 8crvlce Cross was knocked down, by the explosion. Serwarded to Corp. Gasklns In recognigeant Walter quickly recovered him tion of distinguished gallantry result- self and moved his convoy to ing In his death In action near La after which he returned and. safety, lamp-Hale Meneresse,' France, October 16, to the wheel f the biasing truck. ling 1918. When the advance of his com arove to a place where It no longer pany was held up by two machine gua endangered the Uvea of others. Ht nests, Corp. Gasklns led his squad, then extinguished the fire, saving both " entirely on hit own Initiative, la the truck and ammunition; face of Intense machine gun fire, against .n enemy post on the right WALDO M. HATLER, flank. Followed by his men, he rushed SergeanV Co. B, 356th Infantry. the position, taking It and killing two of the gun crew. lie then, rushed a Sergeant Hatler was decorated for second cost alone, with his rtfla. kmin exceptional heroism - In action near ono of the crew. ' lie was himself Poullly, France, November SV 1918. killed before he could reach the post; While a member of a patrol sent to Corp. Gasklns' home was In Chester-Hel-d reconnoiter the banks of tt? Meuse n ... ... ., . , ... , river, when all means of crossing iui ' '' -- :.::., 1 V ..' river had b uwtroyed, Sergeant na'.hr and another soldier Volunteered ' Jackson d. burke, swim across, though the other bank 1st Battalion, 28th In, tq Serjeant-Majowas held la force by the enemy. His ' ; . fantry. companion was seized with the cramps Rergt,-MaBurke was decorated for caused by the. cold 'water and (lie display of exceptional ..energy, drowned but Sergeant Hatler conbravery and loyalty to duty at Can-- , tinued on and, after securing the intlgny, France, May 23 to 30. At one formation desired, swam back again period In the fight, It was necessary and made hla report Sergeant Hat-te-ri to send a meswige of great Importance home ts in Neosho, Mo. to the regimental commander. It was considered Impossible for a runner to ' ABE L. ALLEN,, reach regimental headquarters, be' Corporal, Ca. B, 28th; Infantry. cause of the Intently of 'the enemy fire. He, nevertheless, volunteered to Corporal Allen won the Distin carry the message; and, by crawling guished Service Cross for bravery in several hundred - yards through ma- action near Cantlgny, France, May 22, chine gun fire, heauccessfully executed 1918. .During a heavy bombardment his mlKMlon. Rersrt. MaJ. Burke's home of the front line, although severely In (a at Maloneton, Ky. jured by the explosion of a shell, which i s' burled two comrades, he promptly and -... courageously dug them out with hit ARTHUR J. FORREST, bunds and took them to shelter; being 8eroean Co. D, 354th Infantry. subjected all the time to severe fire of Sergeant Forrest received the Dis- shell and shrapneLT Corporal Allen's tinguished Service Cross for conspicuLome is in Leesvllle, La. ous gallantry In action with the enemy fcl- -'. .',. ,, near Renionvllle, France, November 1, H. GAIL SAGER, . 101 S. While the progress of his com-pnp-y Corpoial, Co. O, 108th Infantry. was held up by a rain of fire from six enemy, machine guns. SerCorporal Sager wee decorated for geant Forrest alone went forward, extraordinary heroism In action inear working his way to within fifty yards Konsfto)', France, September 29, 1918, of the nest before being discovered. Upon being wounded In the hand. CorCharging the neat, he drove out the poral Sager bandaged the wound himentire company In disorder, killing one self and advancing alone .toward mawith his rifle. II.S home is In Hanni- chine gun nests,' which were holding ' ' '"' up his company, was killed after pror bal, MO. ... ceeding" only a short distance. Cor? KELAND BROWN, poral Sager's widow Uvea la Buffalo, ' i ? - 'an ,. - I i This is the first photograph received In this country showing a scene In Cairo during the rioting attendant on the nationalist revolt in .Egypt Natives are shown carrying the American flag, for which they cheered boisterously. It waa a peaceable demonstration, but was followed la a few hours by a bloody fight with British troops. MAKES SUCCESSFUL TRIAL TRIPS NC-- 3 MEMORIAL TO CANADIANS t 7' life J. N. Y. . -h- 4 . e . ' Tt:' if .KV ... ";V, NC-one of the three big phines which the navy department will send out on the transatlantic !.lght, 1ms made successful trial trips, carrying her full complement! of men and cargo. She Is shown here as she was starting out ' from Rockaway. . 3, '' 81 ,and t KAlt - . .. . i r i a. aiiuer, agea ai Anie - .. Pansy Carol Kershaw, aged f J, If A ' ' 13. Tluaih linil nunftnlrnn them when a gas Jet oh n small Beater had accidentally been left open. By overwhelming majorities on all propositions, Provo and Utah county freeholders voted In favor of bonds totaling $1,000,000. The vote was the heavlesit.ever recorded ,ln Provo .and Utah county for a similar election. , Succeeding Arthur Pratt, who died recently, A. GUre haa been named chief special agent of the Orezon. Short Llne.T Mr. Ure will have charge of .all special operations of the road and will make his headquarters la : v Salt Lake. . j , :. Increased wages of $00,000 a year' for the car men, $7000 a year for shop and barn men and $0000 for track men Were given the employees of the Utah Light & Traction company at Salt Lake In the award handed down by the board of arbitration. Cache county will be second In the state to establish a library under the new county library law. The city commission of Logan has turned over the city public library to the county, together with a $9000 site for the build, ing of a new county library, Warrants for a sum aggregating al most $2.000,000 were issued by the state auditor during "the month of April, the exact amount being $1,811,- 860.51. The warrants were for. of the various state departments and their maintenance. Winter wheat dhd rye! Fprtng wheat nd hnYlev' nnrM rxstnre and alfal fa, all are making excellent progress . 4 --J i' mm t 1 .lit I mtrA Af,w showers during the past week,. . v;- Beaver county la - advocating tha- bulMing of a road from Beaver City Lake, a distance of twenty- one miles. Advocates oi tne mgnway declare that the building of the road will open up more than 300 square miles of Innumerable resources. . Uintah county commissioners have been appealed to by. dtisens of the southeastern part of the county to construct a highway from the summit of Kantlo Burn down Dragon canyon to Dragon.' It Is said that the commission has promised its support" Six o'clock' closing on Saturday night may be one result of Utah's new week law for. women, according to . announcements by Salt UttKe merennntfl. rnie new eigni-nolaw will have no effect on the stores so far as the early part of the week Is concerned. Uintah county commissioners are seeking a road engineer" to take charge of the work authorized under the recent $140,000 bond: Ixsue. ' The board Intends to select. with great care, the overseers for the several rohd gangs and then place them nnder the. Instruction of the federal engineer. r Three rases of scabies which have iIpvcIoinhI In San .Juan, county, hnve been traced to the sheep owned ny Indians on the Navajo reservation, and It Ik believed the appearance nf the Infection la due to unclean conditions In the Indlnn herds, according to Thomas Redmond, secretary of the state live- stock board.-'' ' r: Stephen It Bos well,, county agrlcut-turn- ! ' agent of Summit county, nppenrs to be Incensed against the ' Kamns- WiHMllnnd Tclcp.ionr company whose 1 1 m nf fillmtlllff It ' n Im,.I ,fit-- i lit I'm . ... llllro cmnty. In n letter to the public "utilities rmnmlsslnn he complains.'' of "pool"' n service and excessive ana " 7 charges. ' The new fish and game law. printed tit pamphlet 'form. Is now off the press and Is being distributed by It.. II. state fish and game commis' sioner. , It gives a complete set of 'and hunters Who rule for fishermen Utah! and la In outdoor uports enjoy Indexed for convenience In finding any particular feature of the law, Depositors of the Merchants bank at Suit Lake may lose as 'much as $130,000, according to statements, made by Wiliwii McCarthy, district attorney, in opening the case for the stale In the (rial of John Plngree," president of ' taa Institution. , Althongla thefts of motor cars in Salt Lake during the present month -- BRITAIN'S MOST EXTRAORDINARY SHIP ... Sir IU)lxrt Bordiu unveiling a memorial to Canadians who have died at the durheas of Connnught's Bed Cross hospital at Taplnw, lgla'nd, aud who are burled, in this'. Italian garden on the ground of Mrt Atttor. The garden was turned hto a cemetery for tue Cunadlan dead. ' jr r H Is the age limit . M f H 1. . t . .1 auo iMHiie ur . From Kentucky .The principal. 'of a certain ,hlgh fccliool found a cigarette stub In the busem,ent of the building. She began an Investigation. From one room to another she went taking the names of art the boys that had ever smoked. Finally she cam te the door of one of rooms. , the second-grad"There surely Isn't, any bm, of. my going In here," she said to a companion. .They are all too tiny even to i--! think of such a thing." THOMAS D. AMORY, But finally she went on Into the Second Lieutenant, 2Sth Infantry. room and put her question. Then up Lteutensnt Amory (deceased) was went a liand and a treble voice piped awarded the Distinguished Berries cut: "Do you want the names of Cross for conspicuous gallantry la ac the boys who chaw tobacker, tool" tion pear Verdun, France, October 2, Iadlanapolla News. Was - forty-eight-ho- ur m "' Corporal, Company. B, list Infantry. Corporal Brown, whose tome Is at Iowa Fa Ha, la, was decorated for unusual bravery In action on the Cote St. Germatne, France, November 8, 1018. He attacked a machine gun and In the face Best single-hande- d of hesvy fire reduced the nest, capturing one prisoner. Later In the same day he patroled alone under heavy fire In advance of We company and at tacked another machine gua position, capturing the gun and four prisoners. , of 55 yean may enlist In the ordnance corps under recent ruling by the wai department, it- wua announced at the Salt Lake recruiting station last week. In all other branches 45 years Men M r, ' ilalu though a prove conditions everywhere, . r . At least half of the restaurant of Salt Lake were forced to close their doors on May Day, when the cooks aud wallers went out on strike, demanding an eight-hou- r day. Sixty-tw- o employes of the forest service organlxed local No., 123 of the Federal , Employes union, affiliated with Federation of Labor, at Ogiirti'last week,' The (Joldpn Spike celebration' to be held-iy Ogden. will be n two-da- y Jlay 0 and 10Y This action was at the meefng of finally agreed-upothe general committee last wec'i. ,.W H. Korna,' city vommls-iwicr vi ouu i.Ke, anu Mayor j. a. Wood of Farmlngton have been ap pointed a the Utah representatives of the Persuing National Highway asso-- - ' Toe .Many Egoa.-- ., ,' Jly nelgtilxtr and I bad ben striving for a long time to see ,who could produce the am- - pjrg' jfroni a fertaln number ."fh ny when 1 met " .rat iWN-iui- d told him i ':;ii't yx how hitm Huh ,wo(rest. IniB"; after- v accrjirnrinj w ' o one day ( him, and that ttnA Uta I do first JKorelnto the nests wd .WknClo'a funeral andupon out y, return I Invited him In to see my Coop and chickens, ..and.to my bornr,, the ..over by one-hal- f hens had laid more eggs during my ab- hare la not the InIt the month, preceding sence, lie remarked:,, ;You- have ' 1L M. S! tention of the Utah State Automobile Furious, the most extraordinary vessel In the British navy, Is In more eggs than chickens," All I could association to relax lta campaign reality a huge floating aerodrome which, as can be seen by the photograph, ay was that I didn't gather them yr. against these thieves until the practice Tribune. Clilciigo but n also a lerday. carries large airship." only airplanes has been eliminated, been-reduce- |