| Show A merican adventurers by elmo scott watson 0 machine gun maestro M OST men have to decide early ia in life whether they want to become soldiers of fortune or stay ho home me and make money in business sam dreben never could make up his bis mind but he be was successful at both his record was only ordinary in the philippine insurrection the boxer rebellion in china and the laguardia campaign in honduras but that was because he be yet laid his hands on a machine gun in 1912 when gen campa led an uprising against the mexican government ern ment dreben joined the re rebels bels near parral when gen came campas son wis was killed in front of him the rebels morale broke and they began to retreat in confusion only pudgy sam Dreben remained cal calm he sat at a machine gun and covered the retreat with a constant hall hail ot of bullets that tha permitted the rebel troops to take uban up an orderly position in the rear when the revolution was pu put down he crossed the norderto border ato to el paso arid and ml made de a small fortune selling guns but huerta led an an uprising against villa and dreben decided to go to lo the batters lat defense sitting astride his famous machine gun at bachica piss pass he held off chii huerta forces single hand handed edhe he delayed them until villa could reorganize his troops and turn a retreat into a victory then iben here he be returned to el paso again wid and imade a half million dollars in green monster Sert coppe copper r al Alt houghS fid ugh sam am wasa was rich and almost 40 when we entered the world war he enlisted leading a group of doughboys dough boys heilen he silenced ced a benac ingberman ing German machine gun emplacement in a battle near etienne forty germans had to be killed before his mission was accomplished and dreben tilled killed 23 21 of them himself for that feat general pershing Per stung himself pinned the distinguished service cross on grebens Dr ebens alre already ad medal heavy chest lee christmas WHEN HEN lee christmas was engl engi neer deer for the yazoo mississippi railroad he goti fito a scrape and was sent to jail his fellow trainmen dynamited the he building and got him out how his adventurous life happened literally to start with a baegl pursued he stowed away on a ship tor for honduras there was a war going on when he got there and he joined the army it was a wise wipe choice of vocation he was rapidly promoted through eve every 7 rank including general then he went to guatemala and got into another fracas no dynamiting was necessary this time however as he shot the officer and several members of the group that were sent to arrest him then the entire army was called upon to capture him running through side streets he saw the rear door of an unguarded armory open ran in and barricaded barricades barrica ded himself he found more than a thousand rifles plenty of ammunition and many loopholes he went around the building for a day and a half firing as fast as he be could r from one hole after the other not only only did he give the iiii impression that he was more than one man but he be actually killed about 80 soldiers he come out until of all things they offered him not only his liberty but a commission in the army he won 36 big battles in central america and even went so tar far as to start a revolution of his 0 own wn in honduras and won it later he succeeded in getting into the united states army intelligence service with an assign assignment ment to central america in 1923 he died peacefully in a hospital in new orleans |
