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Show SCREEN FACES OF BUDDIES STARTLE 7 SOLDIER ' Moving Picture of War Scene Develops Dramatic Bit of Battle History OAKLAND, Feb. 2. In the darkened Auditorium theatr the steady click of n motion picture, projector alone broke the tense silence. On the screen American soldiers were stumblinR across shell-torn ground In the face of a Herman cannonade. Ths audience sat tense and Intent. Now and again h fi if nre was seen io crumple on the shattered earth. Then the scene shifted and the camera cam-era looked down upon a gaping shell-hole shell-hole in which lay group of soldiers. There was a stir in one side of the house. A low voice could be heard J saying: "Boys, that's me. Those are my bud-Mh bud-Mh That's at Montfaucon, It's , us In thersr iho picture clicked on. And hen the Jlehts went up and Harry Hhaphard of IJ.'n Magnolia street. Oakland, sat the center of many Inquiring and sympathetic sym-pathetic lances. There were tears in his eyes. 81 RVIVOK TCM.S TORV. To a group of service men outside later he had a tale to ten a tale as dramatic as any that have come out of the war, a tale that has been told before In Oakland, hut not with the nw dramatic twist it took on yesterday. yester-day. We were In the Argonne drive." he said. "I was sergeant of the first class with the Kighth field signal corps of the Fourth division, but 1 had been attached to the Thirty-ninth Infantry. "The drive waa going ahenri so fast that the signal system couldn't Keep up-with up-with It, so we went In as Infantrymen. Infantry-men. It was on the 28th or September. I think. We took the town of Cuisy and went on aero us the plain of Montfaucon Mont-faucon in the face of devilish machine gun fire. 1 had seventy-two men with me and our objective waa a hill and a machine gun nest. "Sergeant Charles Robinson of the motion picture publicity section of the slfrnu) corps was with us. He climbed ot of shell holes now and then and got back of us and took pictures. . I'AlGRA MAM KILI.RD. "Well, we got up the hill and cleaned out the machine gun nest and took twenty-two prisoners. Then Kobinson was hit by a bursting shell. It tore his chest out. We saved his camera and sent It back as was our duty. It wasn't scratched. "Thos pictures I saw this afternoon were In that camera then. Those were our men. 1 uaw myself lying there In a shell hole and recognised It all. You j can even see the hill we took Just beyond be-yond the shell hole." And that is all of Shepherd's story. He totd how on the day rollowlng they advanced into ugly German fire aa-aln and how, as he again lay in a hole where he and four others had dun in while his contingent awaited replacements re-placements because of heavy losses, there came the scream of a German nheM snd an upheaval that buried htm. When 1h"y finally found him. his I head was split wide by a shell fragment. frag-ment. Ills four companions were dead. SI HVIVOR WEARS MAR. The ictr of his wound Shepherd wears today, a decoration no honor cross will ever equal. "The other men were Hergeant Clarence Clar-ence K. llolph, Hergeant Kudy. Paul F.. Clayton, private,- and another private pri-vate -named Czchowskl. They ere all In that picture. "It was pretty hard when I found I was looking at our own men," said Shepherd apologetically. The pictures, which are being shown by the American legion, were la-ken 1 during the fighting done hy the Nlne-1 Nlne-1 ty. first division In the Argonne. They will he repeated this afternoon and evening. Augmenting the wsr pictures. the) navy recruiting Inspector's office of the Western division has donated two rtels t the lesion exhibition, showing; show-ing; how the army got across and some lively action at sea. The reels are entitled "leStroyers and Transports In Action" and reveal actual fights with submarines aid glimpses of the deck Of the Ievlathlan, the great war troop ship when the doughboys went across. |