The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 9

Sor JF Pershing: One Hundred Heroes WEEP your eyes across history’s page for the names of the bravest brave. No acts of valor since time began surpass those that crowned America with glory in the war that over- matched all other wars. -: General Pershing has compiled a list of heroes among heroes, the hundred deeds of supreme heroism before which all America might bow. ::- With a quota of perhaps one of the hundred, had Washington a laurel crown among the immortals? --- Not one, but three—Grannis I. Syverson, 1203 Sullivan St., Seattle; Captain Edward C. Allworth, Crawford, Washington; Harry L. Causland, Anacortes, Washington. Here’s the story of how Private Syverson helped to break the German might: Peiisde ka 275 SFIS = eo at rou be en rer to- — Near’ St. Etienne, France, early last October the Germans were pounding the American line. Shrapnel, bombs and the terrific last onslaught of goaded and desperate men drove back American advance forces step by step. But Syverson’s gun crew said ‘‘Never!’’ Re- fusing to withdraw, they set their gun in a new position. Upset by a bursting German grenade that injured two members of the squad, they reset their weapon and calmly lay in > wait. Onward, onward the German rush came—still they held and still they waited. Three hundred, two hundred, one hundred feet, they waited in the face of crimson death—fifty, forty, twenty, then they let go! How that machine gun spurted fire and brimstone, swinging to right and left; how the Germans fell in heaps! Shivering, shaking, the gray hordes wavered, halted, broke; the survivors of Syverson’s murderous fire fled in wild disorder; the day was won. _ These are the boys you sent forth to fight for freedom; = these are the boys, with thousands like them, that bear aloft = ae Washington’s proud banner; these are the boys that are coming < triumphantly h =