| Show WORLD W tl k YARN S by frank E ha hagan gan the greatest hero the bolster by gen jolia johei J bershing as the greatest individual bero of the world war earned a 11 congressional gress gressional lonal agedal an um a bucketful oi of other decor adyns without suffering a scratch but when he started to lo maren into germany after ohp lie lighting fighting waa ended lie he broke lifs li mcgl g I 1 samuel sixtieth infantry vas mas tile soldier ills rent of glory was the annihilation of like IS 11 or was it 22 of the enemy also the ole destruction of a i series of hiim hine gun nests lit in that tant busy sector of tho the argonne north of u old yam Woo dillis company helped relieve the eightieth division early curly one foggy morning lit in october and without tiny artillery assistance istance what ever er launched nun clied tin an attack anyway old sum sam seemed to realize re allye the entire job was up tit it to him so whether the total was waa IS 10 or 22 it la Is definitely known lie ho got the last three of tits lus kill with it a pick ax as when lie jumped into their elli cm placement and found that ills his pistol would only snap futilely which surprising since lied hed emptied all ills his clips long iong ago they made a captain over in tile tho Sixt sixtieth leth ile he was in charge of a coil company pany when the post toward germany began not a scratch on him hill Woo Wood dulls fills a lucky guy the doughboys dough boys said the farst time the regiment pitched camp who canie came into abe army an enlisted man and went out tile same anie way challenged one of his soldiers to a wrestling bout and just as we told you in the beginning the hero who won a congressional medal without so much as a scratch sc promptly fractured a log leg 41 the first american killed the first america Ameri cap citizen killed in the world war list tits his life on february 27 1915 more than two years before this country formally entered the conflict ile he was edward mandell I 1 stone a native of chicago who was twenty seven yeara goldat old at the time ot of his death stones sacrifice Is remembered each year tits hla death Is tile the inspiration for two separate ceremonies the date of ills his passing february 27 has been designated as tile the time when the hie assoc alsoc tion of american Volun volunteer teen with the french array army 1914 1017 1917 each year re animates the eternal flame ou on the tomb of francos frances unknown soldier at tile the are arc ide on memorial day every year the american legion directs a rite fl alt t the grave of stone in tile the cemetery of sur seine one of the interesting features of this latter ceremony la Is that atia tile the frenchwoman french woman who as volunteer nurse wrote the lost letter for stone anti was beside him when he lied died Is a participant site she Is now schoolmistress of the school in la nive au chatelot stone lived in parts paris and was in the american diplomatic service when the world war began ile he enlisted in tile french ri foreign legion august 2 24 4 1014 1914 with the firste grouP of american citizens cess than s six months later la teron on feb junry duniy 15 while serving as a private ip in battalion H U second meat of tile the foreign legion he wits wounded so severely lie he died 12 days luter later stone was in the trenches near Cru onelle in tile the aasne when woun wounded deL lie he 4 went west in the military militar hoslie hospital al at t romilta belne the first american 15 ri citizen to ile die received po piously ly both the croix de guerre and mcdaugle the cited captives Captive 3 As aa a tonic for morale which sometimes needled stiffening the german all highest adopted a policy of for certain austrian div divisions ismons or on tile western vestern front papers seized by americans americana from an austrian regimental p c near the end of the wa war r wits was a german colpi order which highly praised the first A austrian division the docu mant mentioned TIC especially the heroic and wonderful work the by the fifth austrian ment of infantry A short time later the order was sent to the front to be rend read to troops of the fifth Aus austrian irlan infantry and on tills this occasion even the youngest austrian private of the rear ranks roared with laughter for the docu inept haq wa rend to them hy fly an At amerl nerl can captain as they loafed in an ain amerlean american er prison tien dpn tile the entire fifth res reg intent including ax men annl and offic officers ersi 1124 been captured by the banks several days daya rater a message was dropped f from r 0 in ft an n american airplane far the german high command 11 conal contained ned tile reassuring information that tha members 3 of the alie fifth austrian in fanty would continue their good work ini mainly in holding roads and in other construction to which prisoners irl of war were commonly assigned lia if ints 30 western new |
