Show DUE TO BE SHOT maa MARINE atine au ESCAPES faken baken prisoner by huns he nicks fuses and Is s caught at it MAKES SPLURGE IN PARIS 1 la arrested while posing as an officer wears croix de guerre and D S C he won for bravery in battle paris ills his name Is smith but every inie in paris has heard ot of him ile he wears a croix crois de guerre and a D S 0 lie got them lor for the most extreme bravery at the alie front then the battle battie ot of paris got smith ue ile enlisted in the th marine corps corpa at atlanta ga when he was seventeen and came to france a few months ago ile he was taken prisoner wd odd field just back of the german lines ile he nicked fuses und killed several hundred germans with their own explosives plo before lie ile was caught at it and then at alig elo eleventh hour like the hero of a nante he be escaped and got back to a pais pa als li apitai to tell tl the he tale it was so remarkable that no one bue believer it t until official citations confirmed COTI aMeti it smith whose first name Is jack was waa refused for service when he first volunteered because lie he was too young ile he finally succeeded in enlisting as ft a bugler in the marine corps and crossed to france with a ioe fine company ot of real sc rappers when they reached the front private smith threw avey his bugle and got himself a gun ins his company went into action on the thel Locra lne front find and young smith andi and two other buck privates went so far f and so fast on the first day they went I 1 over the top that they lost their company and were taken prisoners nicked the fuses r the germans needing labor held them just back of tile lines hues setting them to work at preparing hand grenades the boys daringly nicked the fuses whenever tile the backs of guards were turned cutting them short so that they would explode prematurely and kill the boches ft ho he used them they were finally caught at it and orders had just been given to march them back to the line and shoot then them when a thundering barrage cut off that section of the german front line A high explore shell dropped a few feel fec from them scattering dead and wounded bo bodies clies on all sides of them three germans and the three americans dropped into the shell hole to escape other soup wagons that were coming their WRY way while tile the bodies boches were lamenting the war and the cruel tate late that put them in the front froat title line and such danger smith slipped it revolver from the holster bolster of one of the dead men and made his three kame prisoners ue lie waited until there was a lull in the barrage and then with the two americans and lils fits three prisoners made a break across no mans land for the american lines the other two boys were killed la in the hall of machine gun bullets that were falling but smith managed to get back with ills three prisoners not content with his days work he armed himself arth a rifle and after having disposed of liis its prisoners he started over the top when the order came for the americans in that sector to advance and had several boche dead to ills his credit before he be was wounded two weeks later he was brought to an american red cross hospital in paris where lie he made a rapid convalescence one night after after he was well enough to be up and out on brief leave from the hospital lie he failed to report the hospital authorities lost track of him until stories began to come back to them of a young marine officer who ullo was creating a great splurge around tile city ile he was being entertained by red cross officials and frequently assisted a pretty girl in one of the red cross canteens where wounded americans were evacuated for the south of france an inquisitive military policeman finally discovered that the young cap tain fain was none other than private jack J smith of 0 atlanta ga who while entitled to wear the decorations which had made him such a hero in paris was not entitled to wear a captains shoulder bars private smith reduced reduce I to the ranks once more was sent into a camp in III southern france to repeat ills his premature celebration as on an boffl er |