SALT LAKE CAPTAIN AND 12 MEN CAPTURE ' TOWN JN 2 DAYS' HOUSE TO HOUSE FIGHT; 31 IBS Of 31 G T H ENGINEERS DECORATED Five Men of 91st Win Congressional Medal of Honor; 150 Officers and Men the D. S. C. Convalescent Wounded Steal Away From Hos- pital and Rejoin Their Companies at Front. Salt Lakers Win Medals, Crosses : for Gallantry' XJEV YORK. April 16. Many 1 1 Utahns were among winners of !; decorations for gallantry who re- ; turned with the IV in ety-first di- ;! vision. Captain John H. Lcavcll, h SlOtU engineers. Salt Lake, won the ; !; distinguished service cross. Lieutenant Dixon Kapple, Paysou. ! distinguished servico cross; Lieuteu- ! ! ant Dean A. Clark. Provo, distiu- !; guished ser"ice cross. The non-commissioned officers of ;! !; the Sb-nd infantry who brought back ; decorations, included Sergeants How- ; ; ard M. Augell, Salt 'Lake, distin- !; fiiiished service cross; Honry Ratu- ! ;! say. Salt Lake, distinguished service cross aud croix do guerre; Feter S. ' Eoouo, Salt Lake, croi"5 do guerre; I; Feter Bosone, Salt Lake, distin- ;! !; gnished servjee cross; Private Ed- h ward Keasouer. croix do guerre. m , Special to The Tribune. ! -NKW VOKK, April 15. The foremost j fighting arm of the ob'Jud in rati try rtL:i-j rtL:i-j mont. composed of K, V and G com-; com-; panics, tho second battalion licadiuiar-Iters licadiuiar-Iters and the Ulbth field signal battalion, j arrived from oerseas this attertioott ou I t he 5 1 ca in ship I .aucast or. Tho on t iro j regiment is now in camps about New York awaiting orders to bo split up and (sent to woieru camps, j The battalion bronht home with it itwo L'tah officers; also three l'tah s"I-jdters s"I-jdters decorated for exceptional b'avcry o ti t h e b a 1 1 1 c f i c hi . T 1 1 o o f f i c e r s a r j Lieui-'naiit thxou Kapplo of Fau", j former star football player with tho j l'tah "Aggies," and Lieutenant Wan j A. Clark of f3 North Second West t reel, Prove. The decorated heroes of the battah-u 'are troroaut Peter Posoue of i'H Sou'i j Thirteenth West street. Sa't l.ake.VVi j )ihs a uist in uished service cross piunc 1 j on his breast; First-class Private Pi-ward Pi-ward Keasouer of 1 9 "J Windsor street, Salt Pake, who is the modest possessor of a croix de guerre, aud tc recant Howard How-ard M. Auetl of Priizliani, who also lu'.s a distinguished service cross. AH ;ro members of F company. The officers of the battalion al! ha 1 one big regret w Inch t hey oiced iu no inn-'-'rtaiu woivls. Tiiey arc all of the belief that the entire regiment?! should be puraded i'i t'ae priuciil states which furnished the personnel. They had wirelessed from the boat on the way to port, and leiirticd that tho companies were to be split up into the camp de aehnumts and sent to their homes with out the recognition which thev knew had been paid other returning eorr.b:it units. To The Salt Pake Tribune represe--1 (.Continued on Fac 11, Column 1.) HIVlEMBERSDFSiBTH DECORATED - . ; (Ccatlnned from Page One.) J-'7;, the commanding officer of the J-'iuor;, Major Henry TS". Edmonds of xHuset boulevard, Los Angeles, an f-:r in private lire of the Pacific ; 'tn; company, gave the following C-Jii"e interview: KXOMEXAL WORK XE BY SOLDIERS. , n;ve the foiks at home forgotten ! " O-.ier divisions have been brought . "5 a unit and paraded in main r::- Taese boys with us have done 1 p-?-a! work on the western front, j - with the single exception of the ('-'.seventh division, have had more r-'f covered and held more ground than any other combat division. It seems -a shame if they are sent to their homes without a, little showing like a i parade. 'Ye went into the Arjonne. where every other square yard was a machine gun net, and the boys not onlv hold their ground but advance 1 altogether thirty kilometers under the most adverse ad-verse fighting conditions. Thev fought through shraiuiel and machine gun bullets. bul-lets. We know other divL-diuis have been brought home and paraued. like the Thirty-seventh from Ohio and the Twenty seventh from Xew York and the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh are now on the wav. The ro:i--i.ents of this division should pirade as units in tho west, but I understand none of the home fedks have made sufficient demand.'' UTAH BOYS PAID HIGH COMPLIMENTS. It was Major -Edmonds who paid a i"ch contpHment to the lighting ability of the Utah boys in the outfit, and it was also the same officer who recommended recom-mended Sergeant Ar.ge'.l for his cita- tion. In si'-caking of that decoration. Major Edmonds said: 'Our Argoune campaign opened up most bitterly on September i. For three days irv boys pounuei awuy at the eneM.:v. near lics-nes. lics-nes. On September i9 I called together part of the battalion for reorganization. reorganiza-tion. There was not an officer ieit in the gathering. "Where there had been -'."J men the previous day, bat thirty-seven thirty-seven remained. 'I looked them over and. found, on close inspection, that three of them were wounded. Never rdu.-hi'icr and almost demanding they be allowed to start ahead iu the terrific advance on Gesr.es, these men alim st fcae i m-'. Among the three was Sergeant Ange'.l. Kis right arm was painfuiiv wound.e 1 and blackened where a machine gun Duller had penetrated it. He tried to eoneeal the wound, and felt slighted when I ordere d him to renort to hospital hospi-tal attention. The boy had one twenty-four twenty-four hours with his arm in that condition. condi-tion. It was what I cal'.e 1 the finest kind of American spirit. There seemed nothing else to do under the circumstances circum-stances except recommend him fur the medal he wears, but he really thinks he did nothing out of the ordinary. You can .viige for yourself when I say it took five weeks' time in the hospital to fit him for service again." Sergeant Bashful. YVhea the reporter sought Sergeant I Angell, he was ui ba-hf ul a doughboy I as has landed in port in a long time. He seemed to think little of the bravery-he bravery-he had shown. However, he was called up before the entire division in the Ee Mons embarkation area on January 24. and the medal was pinned on his breast. The same day Sergeant Bosone received re-ceived a similar decoration. It was for a slightly different act of heroism he performed on October 11. while the regiment reg-iment was fighting in Belgium, in the Audenarde campaign. "With his squad of seven men. Sergeant Bosone "jumped off and tore across the bullet-swept' area where the doughboys were attempting attempt-ing to take a strong position held by the enemy. The boys knew they were going into a veritable death trap. One by one they fell, one of them killed and the other six were wounded. Throwing hand igrenades right and left into the machine gunners, Sergeant Bosom; kept up his lone fight until the position was taken. Then he plunged back into the shrapnel-torn area and carried the living liv-ing members of his squad back to safety tobe dressed by the first aid men. First-class Private Keasor.er won his croix de euerre in a sliuhtlv different but by no moans less heroic perform? ; auce. He was a company dispatch ruu-: ruu-: nor. and th- success of tho company often depended on the runner, lhiriug tho heat of the fighting in Belgium, from October ol until November 2, ' Keasoner, without rest, continued back ; and forth between his commanding offi-i offi-i cer. Lieutenant William B. Stone, and the battalion headquarters, carrying im-! im-! portar.t - messages directing the course of the fighting. During the three days Keasoner wended wend-ed his wav through No Man's Land, .'lodging high explosive and shrapnel ! sb.elis. and often singed by snipers' bul-I bul-I le"-. T'he doughboys carried their ob-:e.-tivcs, audi Keasoner was recommended recommend-ed and and. awarded the croix de guerre of the French government. Keasoner Kea-soner wis emploved before he enlisted by the Harn-tt Manufacturing company in Salt Lake City. lias Close Call. Lieutenant Kapple was the only officer of-ficer in the regunent when it went into action in the Argoune, and he was the only officer of the company still iu action wheu it came out of action on October l'. In his estimation the most severe fighting the regiment participat-ei participat-ei in was the attack ol Gesnes during the first few days of the Argoune drive. When asked for his opinion on the closest call he had he said: "There w-as a close call every few minutes. If there was not a shell exploding near me. there were a hundred machine gun bailors ploughing up the earth near by. It was iu those days near Gesnes that hundreds of tho boys were 'bumped off.' Those of us who returned were f urtunate. ' 7 Lieutenant Clark went to France as "a sergeant and went through tho fighting fight-ing uninjured. He wufr sent to an -cf-f .cers ' school and received his commission commis-sion shortlv after the end of hostilities. Ma.ior Edmonds, according to the officers and men of his command, exhibited ex-hibited great bravery under fire, being at all limes in front of his men'. Although Al-though he was gassed in the Argonne. he refused to cease commanding his battalion and remained on duty. The men who returned on the Lancaster were given a noisy welcome, notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact that they arrived in a downpour of rain. Several welcome boats met the ship down the bay and it was escorted to a pier in Brooklyn. Red Cross delegations and Knights of Columbus and Salvation Army representatives repre-sentatives furnished hot dinners for the men on the pier, and they were serenaded sere-naded by bands. Most of Unit Home. Practically the entire Wild West division di-vision is now home. The ultimate destinations desti-nations are: Camp Sherman, 1 officer and 97 men; Camp Taylor, 9S men; Camp Funston, G officers" and 199 men; Camp Dodge, 50 men: Camp Grant, 3 officers and b'9 men; Camp Lewis, 2 officers of-ficers and 46 men; Camp Kearny, 7 officers and 69 men; Camp Dix, 46 men: scattered, 3 officers and 27 men. Also ou board was the 316th field signal battalion, headquarters, supply section and medical detachment and A, B and C companies, divided as follows: fol-lows: Camp Kearny, 4 officers and 224 men; Camp I.ew'is, 7S men; Camp Funston, 2 officers and 53 men; Camp Dodge, 20 men, and scattered, 4 officers and 61 men.