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Show ! BLACKFOOT BOY !:, I0ij!IIED j Fint Lieutenant Hoover One 1 ( of Heroes of German At-; At-; I tack on March 1. i f I WASHINGTON, March 5. War de- jsrtment officials aro certain that : "(he captain of the West Point 1917 ! I class" referred to in dispatches de-i de-i tcriblng tho unsuccessful German at-; at-; teckupon the trenches near Toul last ' j Friday, "was Lieutenant Stewart W. Hoover of Blackfoot, Idaho, -whose ! 1 ume appears in tho casualty list re- i ported by General Pershing last night ' N'o reference has been made in reports ! reaching the department to any Amer-: Amer-: lean captain having been killed in that ! i action. Lieutenant Hoover was a member of the West Point class -wich vas graduated ahead of schedule April 20. 1917. WASHINGTON, March 5. General 1 Pershing reported to the war depart-i depart-i ment yesterday the names of one lieu- I ' tenant and nine privates killed in ac-i ac-i tion; of a captain, a lieutenant and 1 ' k eleven men severely wounded and ten ' men slightly wounded, all on March 1, I I 1 the day of a German assault on an ; ! American trench sector. The name : I of a lieutenant and four men killed ) 1 the same day previously had been re-: re-: j ported. j The' dead are: 1 j First Lieutenant Stewart W. Hoover, 'i j infantry, Blackfoot, Idaho. 2 Lieutenant Hoover wns born in ilontpelier, Idaho, July 4, 1895. He finished fin-ished school at Blackfoot, graduating vith the class of 1912, being valedlctor-n. valedlctor-n. He was appointed to West Point by Representative Burton L. French in MU. reported there June, 1913, and r graduated with the class of April 20, ' "17. Returning to Blackfoot, he received re-ceived orders to report and sailed 60on I t arterward. At his request he was giv- ! a trench work. His last letter was received by his parents in Blackfoot r hit December. Under a possible pros' pro-s' f noUon, his father, Dr. C. A. Hoover, 'J recent inquiry of Representative ' bolth at Washington asking Informa- ; uoa of his son's condition The reply JwJ the effect lhat up t0 February ) Q there was no record of any mishap. ,j. Lieutenant Hoover was popular with - 1 L?iea aD(i lrlends, courageous in ev-V ev-V ' frank and dependable, a Others killed in this action were: Ijj ; Privates: f Ruseel A. Murr, Napa, Cal. Chris Busch, Napa, Cal. William Farr, Milan, Pa. Fred Card, friend Hans T. Larson, Crosby, N. D. Edward H. McNulty, 3917 North Ninth street, St. Louis. Matthew D. Souza, Sata Ahtas, Azores Islands. Claude W. Keller, Glenburn, N. D. Lloyd S. Miller, Commerce, Mo.- Frank Mldak, friend John J. Davis, Minot. N. D. Private Alfred Annuziata, Brooklyn, has died from wounds received on March 1. Wounded: Captain John D. von Holtzendorff, field artillery, Brunswick, Ga., and First Lieutenant Ralph H. Blake, Sa-pulpa, Sa-pulpa, Okla., and the following privates pri-vates were severely wounded on that day : 1 William Richter, Chicago. John L. Bray, Drum, Ky. I William F. Woodhouse, Conway, Ark. Jacob T Lemmens, Newark, N. Y. Warren 'M. Bowen, Morristown, Ga. Kennard H. Hill, Bates, Ark. Demetrlc G. Hatzidakis, 116 Enizi-nea Enizi-nea street, San Francisco. William L. Romine, Silva, N. D. Theodore Wong, Sanish, N. D. Maryan Gawlik, Chicago. Henry E. Orange, Gordonsville, Tenn. Th,e slightly wounded were: Corporal Thomas J. McCabe, Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, and tho following" privates: Shellle Moxley, Laurel Springs, N. C. Bruno Urban, St Louis. William A. Kenna, Orange, N. J. Willie Brockleman, Council Grove, Kan. Oscar Pflnstorer, St. Louis. Ralph J. Meyer, St. Louis. Carl Larsen, Ram Bonholm, Denmark. Den-mark. Steve Janicek, Chicago. Henry Kinst, St, Charles, 111. Lawrence L. Lacasse, infantry, killed February 27, Woburn, Mass. Corporal Homer J. Wheaton, Infan-trv, Infan-trv, killed February 27, Syracuse, N, Y." Corporal Arthur C. Trayer of Free-port. Free-port. N. Y., and Private John Lyons of Cedarhurst, N. Y.. were severely wounded February 27, and Corporal Robert A. Eddy and Private Henry Kerr of Willingtord. Vt., were slightly wounded tho same day. General Pershing also reported that Private Cecil D. McIIenry of Georgetown, George-town, Texas, died from gunshot wounds reecived March 1. Private Wallace Hatchard of Columbia Falls, Mont., died March 3 from "traumatism by firearms." 00 |