Show WORLD WAR WAIL YARNS by Frank E. E Hagan The Records of the Sixth When the old soldiers of the army were good ones you couldn't find Ond their equal In wartime value anywhere One ne of the best of the good ones was Will Sergeant ergeant Major Ullrich of or the Sixth Infantry an nn outfit attached to General Pershing himself during part of It its career There was as little of the military In Ullrichs Ullrich's appearance lie tie was a puller paper man almost solely the ser ser- sergeant geant major being In io effect the Ule gen rat erni manager of a 0 regiment No 00 recruit was so Insl insignificant that thai Ullrich didn't know nil about him be be- In to lie tore ore he hed he'd hail had a R single pity pay day IhlY Sixth no detail escaped his wise wise old old eU its eyes And most moat of what he learned learnell he kept on tie Ale simply by entrusting It to 10 memory Shortly after ufer war was wale declared the army did dill an almost unprecedented tying ting tUn Ullrich the time enlisted emulated man main wa was commissioned a major and ordered to 10 report to 10 the fhe adjutant generals general's department de de- at Washington The old timer tuner was us to round out his thirty rl service nice Ice officer years years' 11 SI n as Ban an Wearing his majors major's uniform old Ullrich bade bude good good goodby by to two of his closest friends spoiled a d d-d d d good sergeant major to make an awfully poor major he tie confessed to Col Matthias Crow Crowley ley of the I Fifty Fifty- fourth Infantry Then tears streaming stream stream- streaming ing down n his face he shook hands la In farewell fart with another colonel Robert Hollert Noble of af the Sixth Infantry Ullrichs Ullrich's own regiment and stumbled down the road rondo Noble stood on the porch of his eyes tyes following Ullrich Clinch until the time erstwhile sergeant major bad had almost al al- almost most disappeared Then with a shrug of the shoulders toward the departing eo soldier lr ht he said laid sadly to his adjutant Captain there go the records of the Sixth Infantry I 1 The uThe Fast Mail Persons as distinguished as the Infers late i hrs rs Totter otter Palmer Pili mer of Chicago rode In the cab of Philip Goldstein before the tile war wore They should have ha seen him later laler In 10 the os IS as ns he piloted Goldsteins Fast Mountain Mall Mail Goldstein emerged from the war asa as asa a sergeant with a n sterling record of service ser Not the least of his accomplishments was delivering the mall on time to his regimental headquarters during one of Its early visits on the line Goldstein was a corporal and ond mall orderly In the mountains lie made a single tolling toiling passage with heavy henvy mall sacks to an nn advanced p. p c. c Then he decided his duties dulitS must most he be lightened On his hili second delivery the mall hags bags were strapped on the lime backs of ot two burros They were tre tiny animals but one of them could have handled all the sacks It became the custom for tor cooks looks along the steep mountain trail troll to tempt the little borros as liS they straggled past with kitchen delicacies from the army stores hey Uey I Youre You're delaying the Gold Cold Goldstein Goldstein stein Mountain Mall 1 Corporal Goldstein Goldstein Goldstein Gold Gold- stein would shout Indignantly to the cooks And hed he'd urge one burro then the other Into action up the narrow trail I 1 gotta use two of em fm he explained ex ex- confidentially to the regimental regi mental adjutant one day Sos gos I can leave lea spots on em to reach with aspur a spur Saying which he swung the limb of a tree against the nearest burro with a resounding whack hack I And the Fast Mountain Mall of Goldstein Goldstein- was on Its lis way again The Passing of a Sea Power Exactly ten days daB after afler the Arrola Armis lice the Germany navy envy surrendered Sailors aboard the N New NV V York Texas Wyoming Arkansas and Florida the Sixth Ratite Battle squadron on November 21 21 1018 lIns participated In the surrender The five n American battleships were In la what was known as os the red line of two groups which maneuvered Into Info position so 80 that a highway of ot victory Ictor was formed down which the German Grman vessels steamed to lower their colors color s I at sunset Directly ahead of the American America n ships that da day was the British Fifth squadron I The fhe British destroyer Cardiff wen went t ahead to trick pIck up the German vessels I This it did and the long black forms form a of cwt the enemy boats were wre tiNt first at t I sighted by the allied fleet neet shortly short short- I ly Iy after nine Dine o'clock It was an Impressive sight as ns the German Carman fleet let led by the Moltke and His IlIn denburg passed by The Allied ve vessels ves y silo sels were In to complete silence Eve Every Everyman man was at his bis post 1 Every Ery gun was wn s manned The lines dosed closed In behind the fleet lee t which had passed In surrender A AI I band aboard Admiral flagship the Queen QUE-en Elizabeth I played The Ste Star Spangled Banner tanner A second band bend o on n Admiral Hodman's flagship played playa d Hall flail to the German sea g I was wag liS no more NOre I Ltd tX 1110 Western lantern New Newspaper f Union I |