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Show EfERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH fMiHifflinnnmnnnnnntinn iT" ' " GUNNER By ALBERT N. DEPEW Copyright. 1918. by Eeffly mni Brltton Co., Thwogh Special Ljiiiiiiiiii!iinMi:iuiniiiiiiiiiiii!i!iiiiii:i:;iii:iiiiuiiiii!!iiii:iMini!ni!iii!iiiiii:iMiiiii!i; : fa 3EPEW and Chief Petty Officer, U.rS. Navy Member of the Foreign Legion of France Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassard Ex-Gun- ner Winner of the Croix de Guerre irwmm.nt Witt Ih. oorg Hubr. A.1m Berrtc iiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniuumiiiiiiiuiiuiiHuiiiiiiiiiuuiiuiiiiiiiaiiitiiiiiitiuir asleep In a battalion headquarters dug- they were the toughest bunch I ever out about a hundred yards away, and saw. only waked up when part of the roof After they saw the Germans using BEHIND BELGIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN. caved in on him. Yet he did not know the Belgian women the way they did. he had been shelled ! almost every man In my company took I went on down the road a stretch, some kind of a vow or other, and but soon found It was easier walking most of them kept their tows, too, I Synopsis. Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service beside It, because the Huns had shelled believe. And those that were religious in the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief it neatly right up and down the middle. got more so after that first-clas- s The world war starts soon after he gunner. petty officer, Also, there were so many wrecked Our chaplain had always been very receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for horses and wagons to climb over on friendly with the men, and while I to enlist. He a determination with the France joins Foreign Legion and the road besides dead men. think they liked him they were so is assigned to the dreadnaught Cassard, where his marksmanship wins After I had passed the area of the tough they would never admit It and him high honors. Later he Is transferred to the land forces and sent to bombardment and got back on the some of them claimed he was a Jonah, the Flanders front He gets his first experience in a front line trench at road I sat down to rest and smoke. A or Dtxmude. jinx, or bad luck of some kind. But couple of shells had burst so near the they all told him their vows as Boon crater that they had thrown the dirt as they made them and be was sup on guard had each been wounded in right into the dugout and I was a little posed to be a sort of referee as to CHAPTER V Continued. the leg and one had had a big strip of dizzy from the shock. While I was sit whether they kept them or not a squad of Tommies came his scalp torn off. There was not a ting there n During my second stunt in the front I never saw a battery better up with about twice their number of lines In sound man things got pretty bad. The Ger the bunch. You can German prisoners. The Tommies had this one. Cd on the eround mans were five to our one and they what was imagine their if muzzle cargo like, twenty fyou couldn't see the been making Fritz do the goose step back parts of the line the kept was pushing as used up as these and they started them at it again when convoy fyards away and that was all there There chaps. But all wbo could were sing- they saw me sitting there. It sure and cleaning out others. And the fwas to see at any distance. weather was as bad as it could be was a ruined garden Just outside the ing and talking and full of pep. That is good for a laugh any time, this and the food did not come regIs the French for you: they used no the while gunners and I call it that ularly. Now, before always took their goose step. guess they gun quarters, more men they than could would possibly after the fellow wbo Invented it they fwere there picking apples there last man In the bunch to take care of the wounded, but One thing I had noticed about Fritz vows, every be a hiss and an explosion, ana over spare would have been kicking and growling were all about cheerful it they or was the way his coat flared out at the all the maybe would go some of the trees, time, but, as It was, the only bottom, so I took this chance to find time a man or two, but never a shell struck always. growled was when the Gerthey I Just after this ambulance out The while about a halted passed that. for than poilus nearer the guns it they mans pushed us back. the Germans a section rest began shelling Just a little farther down the used to thank Fritz for helping them Things kept getting worso and yon of the road too near me to be comforts road. I found that they carried their could see that the men talked to the pick the apples, because the explosions so I beat a to able, shell It crater kits in coats. In These their emergency would bring them down great style. chaplain more and quite a few of them Shells from our heavy artillery passed about twenty yards off the road, to the kits contained canned meat, tobacco, rear. A shell exploded pretty needles, thread and plaster all this got real chummy with blm. just over the garden, too, making an near me shrapnel One morning Fritz started In bright as I Jumped Into this in addition to their regular pack. just awful racket. But they were not in it and early to begin his strafe. The I hole did not look around to see how Then I drilled down the road some with the "75's." lieutenant was walking up and down close was and I remember now more, but had to it soon to stop pretty sentries They gave me a little practice with liow the old minstrel Joke I had heard let a column of French infantry swing the trench to see that the a "75" under the direction of expert on board were properly posted and were on the came to mind the on ship at to my field. a road the from They French gunners before I went to my time A shell whizzed over bis head something about a fellow feel were on their way to the trenches as job. naval gun, and, believe me, It and landed Just behind the parados so small he climbed into a hole Ing After every two was a fine little piece. Just picture and it after him and I wished companies there would be a wagon and the dirt spouted up like I imagine pulled to yourself a little beauty that can I geyser looks. might do the same. I flattened my- Pretty soon I saw the uniform of the a Yellowstone officer came up to the lieu shell every two sec- self send a Another as close against the wall of the Legion. Then a company of my regl onds for five miles and more, Jf you crater as I could then I noticed ment came up and I wheeled In with tenant a new one who had onlyand want It to, and land on Fritz' vest that about a week besomebody had made a dugout in them. We were In the rear of the col- Jolnecl the company naa waiaea bdoui ten button every time. There is nothing the other wall of the crater and I lore. xney umn that had passed. Our boy; were I like better than a gun, anyway, and started for it. yards when another shell whizzed over going up for their regular stunt In the them. They laid to and a third one I have never since been entirely satisThe shells were exploding so fast front lines, while the others had just came. There were three In less than fied with anything less than a "75." by that time that you could not listen arrived at that part of the front. five minutes, directly over their heads. As you probably know, the opposing for each explosion separately, and just the first time my feet be for Then Then a shell landed on the left side so in war sepais this widely as I Jumped Into the dugout a regular artillery me. Our boots were made of the trench and a pollu yelled that rated that the gunners never see their hail of shrapnel fell on the spot I hnd gan hurting of rough cowhide and fitted very well, four men had got It They were all be to unless these targets happen Just passed. It was pretty dark In but it was a day's labor to carry them wounded and three died later. The buildings, and even then it is rare. So, the dugout and the first move I made on your feet I began lagging behind lieutenant went over to them and just since an artillery officer never sees the I bumped into somebody else and he I would lag twenty or thirty yards after he passed me a lad got It square enemy artillery or Infantry, he must let out a yell that you could have behind and then try to catch up. But not far from me and was knocked depend on others to give him the range heard a mile. It was a Tommy who the thousands of men ahead of me over to where I was lying. and direction. had been wounded In the "hand and up the steady pace and very few kept The lieutenant came back and For this purpose there are balloons between curses he told me I had sat they had been on the helped me with the flrst-al- d roll and and airplanes attached to each artil- right on his wound when I moved. I limped, though march since 3 a. m, It was then about then the Germans began using shrap lery unit. The airplanes are equipped asked hlra why he did not yell sooner, 11 a. in. Those who did limp were nel. The lieutenant was swearing with wireless, tout also signal by but he only swore more. He surely In the wagons. But I had seen hard about the carried "while shrapnel and the Ger smoke and direction of flight, was a great cusser. very few men besides the drivers rid mans and everything else. the balloons use telephones. The oba The bombardment slackened up a in the wagons, ana l wanted to Farther to the right a shell had Just servers have- maps and powerful bit about this time, and I thought I ing as be tough as the next guy, so I kept and made a glasses and cameras. Their maps are would have a look around. I did not on. But, believe me,. I was sure glad struck near the parados big crater and across from It against marked off in zones to correspond with get out of the crater entirely, but when we halted for a rest along the the parapet was a young chap with the maps used by the artillery officers. moved around out of the dugout until road. a gash in his head, Bitting on The observations are signaled to a I could see the road I had been on. dldl thedeep That is, the and next to him a fellow fire step receiving station on the ground and The first thing I saw was a brokenOur company of the Legion had not nursing the place where his arm had hibeen are then telephoned to the batteries. down wagon that had Just t- come from so far, and when the front been blown off. Our bread ration lay All our troops were equipped with in fact, It was toppling over when my of the column had drawn out of the all about the trench and some of the The driver Jumped way along the road we kept on filing, telephone signal corps detachments eve caught it. poilus were fishing it out of the mud and this was a very important arm from his seat and while he was in the as the Is. I did not care about and water and wiping the biscuits oft saying of the service. The enemy position Is air his head was torn completely from being tough then, and I was ready for on their sleeves or eating as fast as shelled before an attack, either en his shoulders by another shell I do the wagon. they could. Only some of the biscuits barrage or otherwise, and communica- not know what kind. This was enough had fallen in bloody water and they Only now there were no wagons tion between the waves of attack and for me, so back to the dugout with the other troops. did not eat these. belonged They the artillery is absolutely necessary. How the Germans did it I do not So I had to ease along as best I could A young fellow, hardly more than a Bombardments are directed toward know, but they had found out about for what seemed like hours to my boy, stumbled over the parados and certain parts of the enemy position that road and opened fire at exactly feet until we turned off onto another fell Into the trench right near the almost as accurately as you would use the moment when the road was covroad and halted for a rest. I found lieutenant and the lieutenant dressed a searchlight The field telephones are ered with wagons and men. Yet there out later that our officers hod gone his wounds himself. I think he- - was very light and are portable to the last had not been a balloon or airplane in astray and were lost at this time, some relation of the boy. degree. They can be rigged up or the sky for some time. The lieutenant asked him how he though, of course, they did not tell knocked down In a very short time. a while the bombardment us so. but the boy only asked for water After felt, The wire is wound on drums or reels to the east, from which arrived at our section of the and smiled. But you could see he was We moved away and you would be surprised to see how direction I had come, and I knew our trench about three o'clock that after In great pain. Then the boy said: quickly our corps established comwere getting it. The Tommy noon and I rejoined my company. "Oh, the pain is awful. I am going munication from a newly won trench batteries came out of the dugout. As I was all tired out after this trek and to die." I and to headquarters, for instance. They the muddy sides found myself longing for the Cassard "You are all right, old man," the were asking for our casualties before started climbing up man a was standing at and the rolling wave, where no Mara lieutenant said. "You will be home I saw there e had finished having them, almost the edge of it, and I could tell by his thons and hikes were neces- soon. The stretcher bearers are coma Limey. I was Artillery fire was directed by men not in store for ing." So we passed the word for the was was this But he that sary. whose duty it was to dope out the puttees of it, so without me hard a stretcher bearers. job yet rai.-- e from the information sent them having Then he took the water bottle from up I hailed mm. looking by the observers in the air. Two men CHAPTER VI. sure some shelling, was the boy's side and sat him up and gave "rhnf vere stationed at the switchboard, him some water. He left the water it?" I said. "There's a lad "ne man to receive the message and wasn't Does a Little "Strafelng." bottle with the chap and went to Fritz with a wounded fin ; better here down the oilier to operate the board. As him a hand. My outfit was one of those that saw hurry the stretcher bearers along "(t: ;is the rnnirn una r!nttid ant It give says mean, Germans dace women and chil When he got around the corner of the tb do you "What shelling was telephoned to the gunners and "There's Aren in front of them as shields trench the boy was slipping back and moving, without the legs, 1t'ey ti a the rest some against our fire. More than a third of the water bottle had fallen down. So been none In this sector for Ti e naval were THxmude at guns our men, I should say, naa neen pretty I went over to him and propped him HmA. I think." mounted on flat cars and these were heel at my was tough criminals In their own countries. up again and gave him some more right Th Tommy drawn back and forth on the track by a string They always traded their pay against water. out let he and time, this bv little lielgian engines. - a hnndful of cards or a roll of the , was suiyuaw, After I had been at my gun for sev- of language. i arounu m bones whenever they got a chance. iue uiuu eral days I was ordered back to my .nil scrambling "Gawd a Depew goes "over the top" They had been In most of the dirty let 'elp Then the Tommy rf gttiH ut, which was In the of the world. This war vas not narta and "gets" his first German In a the saw and again that looked up I and !" front-linJust one more trenches. My course was us bayonet fight Read his story to a Limey officer, a such a much to them; could ooa Past both the British and French lines legs belonged can the list in of this exploit In the next InThey been we had here job but quite a distance behind the front major. I think. And , nni the saints and the human body stallment at Wml off the eyes lines. boss stevedore cussing than more any things and gave But he sized it up rightly when we mt ever lived. Everywhere there were ambulances a hand, and only laughed find wagons us forand Yt the v were. religious in a way. (TO BE CONTINUED.) , going backward I got rattled and were ward. I met one French ambulance tried to explain. of them always Some reading was his saw legs I all that him Versatile Windmill. that was a long wagon full of poilus told poiitrinns books or saving prayers in 's an that they did not look like made 1 different ways and between them they from a field A windmill In Europe grinds grain hospital near the firing have line and was driven legs, which might ana super- to flour for a baker and then mixes about believed in every religion by a man whose X Yet and kneads it Into dough. left arm was bandaged to the shoul-t- o worse on y he was under sun. the guess. stition been Then he said that he had Two poilus who sat in Uoe rear LEGIONARIES VOW VENGEANCE WHEN GERMANS HIDE con-tha- h ' 1 five-mi- f e offl-Jer- good-nature- d le UTAH BUDGET Utah may claim the honor of having more vocational agricultural schools operated by state aud federal than, any oilier state In the Pacific district. New iKjstoffices have been established at Saltair, with James K. Miller as postmaster, and at Dividend, in Utah county, with Nellie Gray as postmistress. Use by troeery stores of old' news- Daners as a substitute for wrapping paper is urged in a bulletin from the war industries board, which has Just been mvived. That the "Used Clothes Week." which recently ended, was a great suc cess is shown by the fact that bait Lake contributed over 70,000 pounds of used clothing. Rescinding of the order issued by the state fuel administrator on Aug ust 5, which prohibits the forking or screeuiug of coal, is urged In a set of resolutions adopted by the Utah lie-- , association. tail Removal of the Fortieth division, In cluding the Utah artillery, from Camp Kearnv some time since was conducted by the officers in charge so smoothly and exiieditlously as to call forth special commendation from the secretary of war. Seed corn should be picked now in order to cot corn that will mature early! according to It II. Mussor, Can yon county agricultural agent, farmers should to Into their fields and pick their best suniples of corn and keep It for seed. Notice has been received that the United States court of appeals in San Francisco lias held valid the bonds issued bv the Kmniett irrigation dis trict. There was involved in (he suit, bonds wnd interest, the sum of $1,200,000. Classification of CO per cent of the registrants of September 12 between the ages of 19 and 3(1 years had been eoinnleted in Utah on October 10, ac telepraglied cording to notification by Captain F. V. Fitz Gerald to Ueu. K. 11. Crowder. Fifteen Murray boys, of ages ranging from 10 to 14. were arrested and charged with wrecking the interior of the Murray dance hall, which was as thoroughly demolished one night last week as a French village after a retreat of the Huns. Many Utah farmers will receive $300 an acre for their tdinre of tlds year's tomato crop, according to John Stringham of the Woods Cross Cantoning company, who estimates the ".love of tal value of the state's crop apples" at $2,000,000. action involving millions of dolinstituted in" the United was. lars States court at Salt Lake last week, An recover $1,750,000 damwhen, suit-- 1 ages was filed by the Utah Apex" Mining company against the Utah Consolidated Mining company. One of he boldest "Inside" burglaries which has occurred in Salt Luke In months was reported to the police last week when It was disclosed that $8201) In Liberty and Lion Coal company bonds hnd been stolen from the vault of the Cameron Coal company. In the purchase of United' States treasury certificates of indebtedness, Utali hnd exceeded her quota by approximately $738,500 at the close of business October 10, according to figures given out by F. B. Cook, Utah director of sales for these certificates. The county exemption board issued a notice to the farmers of Weber county that they will not be required to leave their work in harvesting sugar beets and oilier products to come to the city to find out their status in the draft, but that they can do so by telephone. An ordinance to regulate railroad trains at crossings has been passed by the city commission at I'rovo.- - It provides that all locomotives, cars and trains must come to a full stop before crossing any other line of railroad at distance not less than forty feet therefrom. One of the first cases of its character that of a person dying as a result of sunstroke contracted while at work was considered by the state industrial commission last week. After extended deliberation tile commission ruled that compensation in the case must bo paid. Mimeographed copies of the nrgn-metfor and against the proposed amendments to the stute constitution pertaining to mines taxation, to be voted on at the coming election, are being distributed by the state board of education throughout all the school districts of the state. ' One of Salt Lake's first contribuof mercy, the tions to the cause Sprague ambulance corps, has arrived in England and probably will be In service in France within the next few weeks. Shooting imaginary Germans with an old shotgun cost J. Ulchurd Stenblo of Hunter his life. He was shot, accidentally, by his playmate, Lester Peterson. The charge passed through the body of the boy. , |