Show I I SOLDIERS SOLDIER'S MOTHER FOREWARNED OF SONS SON'S DEATH I Weird Premonition of Tra Tragedy Tra-i Tra gedy Comes to Parent While at Breakfast By Dy Special News Service EVANSVILLE Ind De Dee Dec 21 What What mysterious wireless be beyond ond the knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of ot man forewarned Mrs Alice Dodd of the death of ot her son ton James Tamu Gresham first soldier of the American army anny killed In battle MUle in hr France The perils of army life were not a new nightmare to Sirs Mrs Dodd Her son had enlisted four years ago Sh She She- was proud of him She signed his papers for he heWL was WL under age lie He was one of the first with Pershing on the Mexican border and one of the last away He was 1115 in the first contingent to His risks in France too warfare were an old thought to his mother And yet yet yet- Why did Mrs drs Dodd brave brave- and proud weep unaccountably In terror each day for a week Why was it that on a c certain certain r. r tain morning while she was eating breakfast breakfast breakfast break break- fast something strange seemed to enter among the familiar surroundings of the tho room and her eyes ees and throat got full and her heart suddenly became a dull lump In her breast WARNED AT BREAKFAST I was the messenger first to Inform her that her son James was Immortalized at 23 as the first American soldier to star the tho soil of France with his blood Wood in land battle what battle what premonition had traveled to to- her swifter than telegraph Dont you think any mother would be glad to have her boy the first to give up his life for his countr country In such a cause I had asked her ner as casually asI asI abI as ab I could Then I raised my glance to her eyes There was no light tight In them Ah God Its It's not my boy that's dead she cried But not in question And then only two more sentences God help me mo to endure Will they bring his body home In her hand she held a little silk handkerchief handkerchief handkerchief hand hand- kerchief embroidered in to gay-colored gay floss her sons son's last gift to her before he went over the top She felt only the personal personal personal per per- tragedy tragedy not not the heroism and the history PROUD BUT DUT SAD Yes Yea hes he's a hero and for his sake I ought to be brave she said sald and she was But Im I'm not a hero I 1 Iam iam am Just a mother mother and and my boy Is lead dead Besides his mother and stepfather William Dodd James Gresham leaves two brothers and two sisters They are b better bet bet- t- t ter tel able to detach themselves from the sense of lost loss so far as to feel that with with Thomas ma Enright of f Pittsburg and M at D D. fr maEm Em r g Hay of t Glidden n Iowa James Gresham Gres Gres- e ham forms one of an immortal trio as the first members of the American expeditionary expeditionary expeditionary ex ex- force to give their lives In battle |