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Show 4 BRAVE YANKS GET 1 SERVICE GROSS Twenty-two Officers and Off I', n Men. of Army and dir Marine Corps. red , r pub'. Pjif- "WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 1 . Asvanlin:; of t)! t:ie distlnui.-lied service imo.s to twenty- fcni f. Ityo officers and men of the army and I marine corns was announced toay in Vo ' ''ly orders siuned by General March, Bat , chief of staff, who made the awards on tl! ! the basis of citations from General Per- A - shl"- jt.- Among tlie officers decorated was Colo- y,' nel Frank J I. Adams, commander of the t3 t Thirty-eighth infantry, which distin-JJ distin-JJ 1 suished itself at tle bepinninji "I" the jj final German offensive on the Alamo last .: y July 1,". I Holding a vital point on ti-.e rivor near J. Doimans, the lOKimciit was all hut sur- rounded by the Germans, but, firing in t fhree directions, it held the enemy at bay and enabled adjoining French units to re- lake their positions. The regiment re- : .ently was cited for this action by the :. French general commanding the army corps to which it was attached. Major Clarence H. Huebnor, Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth infant rv, was awarded the cross X for "heroically exposing h.imsclf to fire constantly in order to command ills but-cus but-cus talion effectively, and, Blihough his command com-mand lost half Its officers and oO per cent of of its men. he held his position and pre- ,. v vented a break in the line at that point." in' This was in the first purely American en- " casement, tlie capture of Cantigny, near P0-? Amiens. May 2S, 1913, by the first iUvU -neri' sion. r 1 Other officers and men awarded the not cross bv General March were Lieut eu- ant Colonel George F. Rozella, Jr.. Twen-sho Twen-sho ty-second infantry; Lieutenants Edward V Rvicker. Twenty-seventy aero squad -tra5, ion, signal corps: Lemuel C. Sh.epard. . r j medical" corps. Fifth regiment, marines: Charles F. Ronganlt, Seventeenth field ait " ai tiller.-; James H. Legendre. medical corps. Fifth regiment, marines; John Me-agrt Me-agrt Arthur. Twenty -seventh aero squadron, signal corps; James M. Wilson, luth in- fantry; Sergeants Daniel Daly, Sixth vest-Ann, vest-Ann, merit, marines; Robert II. Donaghue. 1 Fifth regiment, marines; Corporals Isaac .-'' Valley, 37"lh infantry; Eugene W. Wear. Justj Fifth reeiment, marines; Private?? Cum stiri ''hi-istenberrv, 17 tii infantry; Louis H. Harkenrider. Fifth regiment, marines: 30ld: Stewart J. McKendry, Seventeenth field tral artillerv; James J. Pretty, Sixth machine : gun battalion, and Bertram L. Reams, to h Sixth machine gun battalion, whit Posthumous awards of the distinguished. ser'ice cross were made to Lieutenants has ; Charles W. Chapman, aviation section, signal reserve corps; Leonard C. Hoskins, L. ! coast artillery corps, and Sergeants Ar-pri(J Ar-pri(J thur F. Ware. Fifth regiment, marines, trie nncI P-aj"1"1101 P. Cronin, Fifth regiment, i marines. |