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Show AMERICAN CAPTAIN A BRAVE LEADER TILTON. N. H., March 7. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Harold F. Eadie of this town is thought to havo been the officer who lost his life when he led his men into No Man's Land on March 1 to trap a German raiding party returning from an unsuccessful attack on American trenches, according to information received re-ceived by his father James L. Eadie. One of the survivors of the company told a correspondent of tho Associated Press of seeing "tho captain" kneeling "beside a spitting machine gun, blazing blaz-ing away at the Germans with a bullet In his chest." Eadle's father thinks tho lieutenant was acting in command of his company. on |