Show WORLD WAR YA YARNS ift by frank E bagart man of many medals down near holden mo lives a farmer who line hag the right to wear the he highest decorations conferred by live of the allied nations they are in number the british son ice cross the french Ble onille the 1 french renah croli croix lie de guerre guerra with three palms the belgian croix de dc guerre the belgian war cross the italian war criss ansa and the medal de da bravery of montenegro in tie he wears the american Ameri Anteri cun eun V victory letory biedul I 1 with bilth six burs or battle clasps andt indicating that he was in six major engagement ga in france more than any other medal of honor man living or dead and last and greatest the congressional gress lonal of honor each palm on his french croix croin de guerre represents three citations for bravery in the face of the enemy nine citations in all the feat which won the congressional medal ledal of honor one of the most remarkable in the whole history of the adivi iran ican arms was performed near bunel cunel france on october 7 ibis by john I 1 berkley barkley of company K fourth hi infantry when according to the off lilal citation private Irl vate barmey vt who ho sit was as stationed in an observation halt a kilometer from the german line on his own initiative repaired a captured enemy machine gun und and mounted it in a disabled french tank neat his post shortly afterward alien the enemy launched a counter attack against our forces private Irl vate barup barkley v got into the tank waited under HIP flip lin hostile stille barrage until the enemy title line vas abreast ot of him and then opened fire completely breaking up the counter attack and killing and bounding oun ding a large number ot of the enemy five minutes later inter an enemy kull gun opened alre on the tank point blank one tie shell strut k the drive wheel of the tank burthle but this thle soldier nevertheless ned in the th tank and after the barrage ceased broke up a second enemy counter attack thereby en enabling our forces to tc gain and hold bold hill 2 21 M a 0 0 scarcely a shock unit some of tile the rell reasons sons fo for exemption Kempt lon from military service under the provisions ins of the selective service act commonly known as tile the draft were unusual to say any the he least but it Is doubtful if in all tle hie history of that incident of the world war a more comprehensive list sit of dis abill ties was brought forward to proe that a parent raise his hoy boy to be a soldier than was this one rl clouded in a letter re elved by a chicago ill exemption board it sold said in part a hoy boy eleven years old he got gor badly hurt and had a had bad detect defect with ble bin back ile he tins has trouble to stoop to pick up anything and one leg Is shorter r than the other and he hit hart his hand band and has ha one stiff finger lind a defect on the other hand annd and he hurt I 1 Is head and stayed hard of hearing cant walk for he suffers of a sore side and the same when back and side gets awful sore hilten v hen he lifts anything heavy eyes get bloodshot and trouble to see tiny any ex cite ments menti gets frightened he could never go to school and was alwag sick he cant read or write and Is cross eyed ile he froze his heels nine years ago and every winter Is laid op ap with sore heels and his feet get bad he cut his foot across the top and three stiff toes bother blither him to walk he Is drowsy and sleepy all his life and when he goes to sleep he caf choke ke and jumps up and gasps for breath and he was tended by a doctor for 10 two years for a rupture ru plure when he ruria runs he gets sick and has to go to bed I 1 testify that these fads facts are true and he la Is even worse than I 1 have put donn and he sends in his exemption just to comply with the hie law and if the war goes on we will send him to the asylum ufa his father 0 the youngest american who ras the youngest member of the american army during the world war haverhill Haver hlll mass that hut distinction tor for Coi commander amander ernest queeney of lorraine Lor post veteran of foreign wars a chauffeur in that city lie he enlisted at fourteen celebrated his hid fifteenth birthday on the battlefields ol of franco and has applied to hie lie war department tor for oft iclal clat recognition of his claim to being the youngest amerlean american soldier west virginia also tins has a claimant in 1918 chester merriman Merrl man of it komniey 1 11 ney W V then a lad of fourteen fo urleen s slipped 1 away to cumberland md lid convinced a recruiting officer that he was eighteen and was wan enli enlisted lie he was sent to camp greenleaf Green leitt ga thence to ct cl wp imp mills brills N y and on OB june 7 called to france lie he served u as a member of the first llast aid crew will the seventh 51 machine oun gun hat hati lallon allon in lite third division at Bosell no merriman has a letter from wood row wilson written after hip flip war president had left the while houie which says through a ranking officer ot of the war department I 1 learn you tire lire the youngest ahel tier so nr cir ned null I 1 american soldier to IQ set bet awit on fit fit eign eca in defense dif ense of avins tribet anci umi for those thin for we abw leans st and As amir f 1411 marder in calef I 1 extend ebli nil to you its in heartiest A 4 1 d 1930 a 14 w |