Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-05 | Page 1 | Medals Awarded Three Americans

MEDALS AWARDED THREE AMERICANS 1 PARIS PREPARES FOR CONGRESS 1 I . i WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. Three American soldiers a colonel, a jp.ptain and a private have been designated by President Wilson lo receive the highest military decoration given by the United States .- for valor in action, the congressional medal of honor. They have ! tvon the first of the medals awarded during- the war with Germany, I I md their names are: Colonel Charles W. Whittlesey, 308th infantry. , Captain George G. McMurtry. j i Private Thomas C. Neibanr. I ' Colonel Whittlesey, then major, and Captain McMurtry were at j: Ihe head of the famous "lost battalion" of the 308th which lost half i its men holding out against the enemy when surrounded in the Ar- gonne forest until relieved five clays later. U Private Neibaur distinguished himself when the Rainbow divi-!' divi-!' ' sion took Cote de Chatillon in October by stopping- an enemy charge ' against a ridge single handed with his automatic after all others of ', his patrol detachment had been killed or wounded. In spite of wounds ; through both knees, he completed the exploit by bringing in eleven , Germans at the point of his pistol. t WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. General, PershXngJscommunifliLejJLox. f Wednesday follows : f "Headquarters American Expeditionary Force, France, Decern-J Decern-J ber 4, 1918. I "The Tird army, continuing' its advance south of the Moselle, today to-day reached the general line Berncastel-Malborn-Otzenhausen. North-; North-; west of Berncastel, our line remained unchanged. PARIS, Dec? 5. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium ;i- will arrive in Paris today for an official visit. !r PARIS, Dec. 5. Incidents of serious gravity occurred within the J last few days in a prison camp in Saxony where allied prisoners are 1 confined, the Echo de Paris declares. The allied governments, it adds, 1 are reported to have decided to act energetically in that connection j