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Show Maine Youth Proves Valor; Returns With "War Cross NEW YORK, Sept. 10. Although he left this country a stowaway hidden in a barracks bag dragged aboard a transport by sympathetic soldiers nearly two years ago, Maurice Bailey, 16 years old, of Jackson, Maine, landed from the transport Northern North-ern Pacific today, the hero of one of the most interesting episodes of the world war. An ugly scar over his right eye is his only service record because he was never officially recorded a member of the American Expeditionary forces, but a French war cross pinned on his tunic bears silent testimony of his heroism on that autumnal day in 1 11S when he crawled over a shell-torn field in the Tnul sector and rescued a colonel and two majors of the Twenty-sixth division j who were lying wounded In no man's land. His brother, Alfred, who enlisted in the 103rd Infantry, and his father. Victor, a sergeant in the 157th infantry, whom he followed to France, were among that immortal army of Americans destined never to return. Acainst the advice and pleadings of his father and brother, Maurice decided "to do his bit" by going go-ing to France. He followed the colors of his brother's regiment' until the war was over. "While carrying chocolate, eigarettes and water from a V. M. C. A. canteen ; to the men at the front in the Chateau I Thierry operations in July, lfiis, Maurice was struck by a piece of shrapnel. Two months later he rejoined the company I which was then about twenty miles from Toul. It was there that he won his I decorations |