The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1919, Page 1

VOLUME 22. ew ag —_ Tides SATURDAY APRIL 26 1:48 am. in Seattle April 27 High Tide the tt Lett h Tide 00 tt tad Lew St pm NO. 56. ITS HO Western Heroes Arrive at Dawn for Short Stay In the misty dawn of this morning doughboys of the| Tegiment, 91st division, who won their hero medals of loving arms of sisters, mother# and sweet- An American Paper That Fights for Americanism tered an Second Class Matter May 3 1899, at the Postorft at Meattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 4%, “SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1919. ‘Ar iae? eee | Spokane Took the 361st to Heart; Helena, Showed ‘ when, after an absence of 10 months, they came) Thm tarther Woei-Ane Saved te demonstration. That's whut the Seattle. e hero-laden train, a dozen coaches in all, came to| ot the 361st say about their web a stop in the O.-W. yards at 5:20 a. m. Saturday. A gray (comes, and just as they expected, it was but none of the doughboys and certainly | “#tt!« te showing them the greatest the trembling mothers and it noticed it. It was only a small knot of kinsfolk that|" sisters and wives time they've had ainee they left the c almost a year ago. Like it! It makes you feel that greeted the tired but happy heroes, but those who were tne folks realize and appreciate al! there to meet the army train, which arrived far ahead of ‘hat you've been thru when they schedule, boldly claimed their own—the boys who went over the top twice in the face of blasting fire. But more than 1,190 of the boys jump from the train with Joyous yell or facetious “Oo-la-lan”; More than 1,100 of the Wild West division heroes did not stretch their arms and legs and “tell the cock eyed world” that “the old town looked good to them”; more than 1,100 never will step from any army train to hear the sweetest music in the world—a mother's welcome—for those 1,100 have gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamlers dust; they gave all they could—their lives, His Son Not There Perhaps that is why big Dick Stromberg, humble policeman, wept openiy when the sturdy, sunburned doughbays, laughing and happy, sur- rendered to arma that soothed their baby hurts and hearts that sent them away with tears and cheers. But while there were tears of pride and happiness in the eyes of mothers, wives, sisters Wd sweet. hearts and a lump in the throat of dad, there was naught save the tears of pain in the eyes of Dick Stromberg, policeman. For. Dick Stromberg’s boy was one of the 1,100 who never will come back. It didn’t seem just right that Dick, jr., wasn't among those sunburned sturdy doughboys. Hardly had the army train crunch- ed to a full stop, than the air was filled with cries of “Sweetheart!” “Allez” “Mother Mine! “Toot Sweet! “Hello, Kid Sister,” “Tres Bien!” and all the incoherent, loving words which always tumble in un | Six Companies in | 361st Contingent Today's arrivals of the 36 include Companies A, BC, headquarters, regimental head- quarters and First battalion headquarters companies, While lucky doughboys, whose mothers, wives, sweethearts and proud old dads made prisoners, the vast bulk of them, tru permission from Col. A. D. Cummings, com- mander of the 361ist regiment, scram- bled wildly for waiting taxicabs, which bore them to unsuxpecting homes or restaurants. Col. Cum mings gave his boys liberty until $:30 o'clock, when they reassembled at the railroad yards for the parade thru the streets of their home town. American Sailors | in Scotland Fight LONDON, April 26. - (United Press.)—American and Brtish au- thorities are investigating day's riot at Inverness, Scotland, during which American sailors and civil police battled for two hours, ‘The fight ia said to have started when policemen attempted to compel sailors from the mine-sweeping fleet to move away from the vicinity of the town hall, Scottish civilians | sided with the police, and American | yeater- | tell you so an forcibly as they are | here in Seattle,” Look, Home Fotks home folk»s—honest to Gawd real people! And Seattle! Say, buddy, but it's good to see thin old town again,” another wind-bitten hero remarked in tones audible for blocks, ax he swung from the troop train in the O.W. station. The welcomes began real demonstrations back in Mon tana, the men say. At Helena the town wan bedecked with banners and bunting in thelr honor, and they | paraded thru streets lined with thou sands of people. Spokane Went Wild In Spokane the jubilee was even more jubilant, for there were some | 30 of Spokane’s own sons aboard the special. The whole city turned out there at the depot to greet the train as it pulled in—the boys arrived long before Mr. Private Citizen | ordinarily has breakfast ‘The men were breakfasted by the | Salvation Army and Red Crose—not just a Then they until 10:30, ‘the parade. Following the parnde 4 at the Davenport hotel, they were |given a banquet lunch In that how telry, then marched back and aboard their train to leave at 2 o'clock for Seattle. Cummings Spokane Boy Col, A. D, Cummings was moet at the station when the troop train | pulled in by hie father, D, W. Cum- mings, and mother, The fact that the colonel fs a Spo. “Look, had the run of the elty when they f \ ij one of the men maid. | | to become | | “hand out,” but a real feed, | fell in for| which end 361st Fought for Nine Days in One Battle DOdst landed in w July 17, 1918, then to Southampton, Eng mediately, arriving m. on the morning That evening the troops Cromed the English channel and arrived at Sa Havre, om the moming of th leaving the following fantry regimen Scotland. of the 19th front, in the direc. St. Mibiel. Arriving there, They wre put in re- serve, bat the drive being #0 successful, they were not called Into battle, but quickly moved to the Argonne forest. On the Zist of September, the regiment tay in waiting in the forest ui the zero hour of the morming 6f the Zith Then they started their attack, which lasted every minute until October 4, It was nine days of incessant fighting, but they cleared the forest of boches Four days of rest followed Then they went into the fray again by Octoter 7. Fight- ing three day more, they de stroyed or captured thousands of machine gun nesta in the Argonne. In a week's time, the fight- ing regiment had been moved into Belgium and waa receiving replacements from the Sird division until the 28th of Oc- tober. Proceeding to tho front, the Dist went over the top on the morning of November 2. In three days’ fighting, Audenarde, which had been German terri tory for almont four years, was given back to the Belgians by the conquering Yanks French troops relieved Americans on the fourth, our heroes took another rest until the ninth. On that day, they proceeded to the front once more and were ready to go over the top, when the arminx- tee was declared at 11 a, m on the morning of Novem- ber 11, the and One Son Returns, But No Word Yet of Her Other Boy Johnson, of R. F. was divided be- Mra, Christine D. No. 3, Seat noticed, high-pitched cadences when | naval pickets were reported to have human emotion is tuned high. aided their comrades. A DAY ABOVE ALL DAYS! This day above all days should be dedicated to service. Before us, we have the living in- spiration of service and sacrifice—the men who fought in the Argonne, unmindful of self. How pitifully small is the service we can perform compared to what they have already performed. With that in mind, can we hesitate to take our full quota of the Victory loan to pay the bills incurred in bringing these heroes back to us, and to pay other Bills until the last Yank is back home? Aye, this service to our country is the very least we can give, kane boy, a product of the Spokane |tween smiling considera of her schools and high school, made the | returned soldier son, Private Eimer lang: a particularly significant one to| Johnson, of headquarters company and wistful conjecture of that other absent member of her family would be back. “{ don't even know where he te Huns Put Price on, Heads of 91st Men 2° "hs" nna Because of Daring |: ®, but we have had i no word since he was at Camp Ari ememy's praine is the greatest | 1. in August, 1918, with the compliment. On the person of a|! | German officer captured in the fight: | 186th depot brigade ing near Audenarde, were orders to | |the following effect: “The Ameri. | EXTER 1S HEARD leans fighting opposite us are of the| LOS ANGELES, April 26.—Con | 91at division, the same unit that #0 | gress may call Itself Into special sea severely defeated us in the Argonne jsion, if President Wilson doesn't act \forest. To every German soldier |within the next fow weeks, Senator that takes an American of thia di-| Miles Poindexter, of Washington, de: vision prisoner, will be granted a|clared today. Poindexter arrived |furlough of 18 days.” here last night, and leaves today for This order was copied into the | Washington. Americar with the re - sult that there v more boches| GHNOA, April 25,—(Delayed.)— missing fromthe German army than |(By United Press)—The thorofare Jeven their bull-headed officers had| recently renamed Wilson st., toduy lanticipated. was changed to Flume st the eastern city, Cm >. S \ a wy, when | “SOIST ALL JAIZ,”SAYS - CUMMINGS \“Best Fighting Men “I've | Ever Seen,” Declares fighting men I've ever seen. Our main trouble in France was in keeping them from taking un- Nnecensary riske—they had abso- lutely no understanding of the word fear and no idea of dan- ger.” That's the way Col. A. D. Cum |tantry feels about his meri, And a straw vote among the men shows them equally aa “strong” for the | colonet “When we left Camp Lewis to go Across,” the commander of the 261st says, “we doubted whether we could keep the, standard of the regiment as high as it had been at the train- |ing camp, We didn't doubt long. ‘The first day's fighting proved that instead of a struggle tq brace them up it was going to be necessary to curb their eagerness. “Keeping them at high tension didn't take much effort. No, sir! Jazx ia their middie name!” “The American ‘oliler not onty |eomes up to my Ideal of what he Ought to be, but #o far surpasses it [that I can't express it,” |Avery D. Cummings, commanding | the S6ist infantry, when asked for hie opinion on the valor and worth | of the men under hist command | “Ot the 91st division and 361st in jfantry, I | this respect. We were fortunate in |having in our division a class of |men of more than ordinary inteili- gence and splendid physique. “They could be depéhded upon down to the last man, This was demonstrated time and again when the officers of the untts were put out of action and their companies went ahead on théir own initidtive. Went Thru Fire “The 3éist went thru the fire in every sense of the word. Fifty of 110 of its officers were put out of action. The regiment displays four blue ribbons, each denoting one def. inite battle in which it participated, |aitho we were really in almost con- | tinuous action, “The engagements were the Meuse-Argonne, first phase; Meuse- Argonne, second phase; first battle {of the Ypres-Lys offensive, and sec- ond battle of the Ypres-Lys drive, I was standing but a short dis- tance from Col, Davis when he was killed. It was my duty to take charge of the regiment, This was on November 1—the day we cap tured Audenarde, It was open fighting, except in the village where we battled snipers.” Col. Cummings says he's glad that he's back in the Northwest. Spo- kane is his home. He is a regular army man, but hasn't a new assign- ment yet. The Welcome arch over the cor her of Second ave, and Pike st. brightened the whole street, while thousands of flags decorated every building and lamp post along the ldowntown streets, | mings, commander of the 361st in-| said, Col. | n speak particularly in| | The Seattle Star } | Per 1879, Weather Forecast: 7.7 "\. fu; LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE . Year, by Mail, $5.00 to $9 Shower Flowers Along Pathway of Argonne Men ist that. is why oe ated they paraded thru Seattle’s streets on a Saturday morning that will be historic in many Seattle homes. But in the main, Seattle, as typified by of the line of march, looked throngs fringing each side on with happy tears in their eyes and hearts that have thanksgiving. Marchi: at, attention, straight up Sec the Argonne heroes swept ond ave., eyes painfully straight ahead and not a smile to gladden the crowd. Those there were in the dense crowds on either curb who complained queru- flowers and the acclaim. jlously that the heroes smiled not nor acknowledged the But they subsided when told that the doughboys were marching in strict compliance with military orders. Sunburned and .sturdy, the boys who gave the Hun unadulterated hell in the never forgettable Ar gonne forest, came back to their home city bringing with them the “tin lds” and the rifles they carried to victory, Stage “Wild West” ‘To give the parade a real Wild Weert setting in honor of the Wild West regiment was Police Chief J. F. Warren and 30 of his bluecoats garbed as cowboys. The chief him- self was a living picture of Buffalo Bill Cody. Before them the cow: boys, armed with “six-guns,” drove a wild horde of Indians. The pop- ping of six-shooters and the stac eato yells of Indians served to pte: cede the Elks’ band under the lead. ership of Albert Adams. Came then officers of the 36ist in automobiles headed by Col, A. D. Cummings, commander of the regi ment. He was accompanied by Capt. H. H. Burton, adjutant; Capt. L, Py Savage, supply officer; Capt. W. D. Parker, regimental surgeon; Lieut. FP. T. Fairchild, personne! officer; Lieut. F. R. Pfund, opera- tion officer, Tots Shower Flowers Little girls, armed with posies, laid down a barrage of bloom which caused Col. Cummings and his offi- cers to smile their thanks and blow kisses to the tiny tots. And then came the Red Cross automobiles, banked high with spring flowers And greens which they strewed in the path of the advancing heroes. And THEN came the heroes them- selves—the boys who took the dead- ly germ out of German. Wore Hun Helmet Led by thelr own band, headed by Drum Major Sidney H. Wilson, who wore a German officer's helmet, which he took from the body of a Hun leader he shot down during the fierce fighting the Forest of the Argonne, After which—the doughboys them: selves—-the boys who trudged behind the blasting barrage “over there,” the boys who took the sting out of German machine gun nests, the boys who mopped up the enemy trenches, ‘The little woman, gray of hair, standing on the curb at Second ave. and Union st. wept openly as the boys went marching by to the stir- ring strains of their band—she was thinking of that boy who never would march again, She must have been thinking a thought like that, for she wore a little gold star on her breast, Likewise the big, bulky policeman wept unashamed for that boy of his who now sleeps under the sod of France. And there were many more like the little gray mother and the big, bulky cop. THEIR boys grinned in the teeth of shell and shrapnel, but the little gray mother and big policeman must have felt that THEIR boys ought to have been on Second ave, at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, April 26, 1919, to be ac- claimed by adoring mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts. 421 Men in Line ™ ‘There were 421 heroes in line to- day in the living flesh, but there were 1,100 more in spirit. The dead heroes were there, and they marched with the same fearless mien as the living boys ahead. With deathiess fame as their armor, the doughboys who made the supreme sacrifice marched up Second ave. today, and they marched behind a huge gold star, lovingly fashioned in spring blooms. Dry eyes were the excep- tion when the eloquent gold star, mounted on a truck, brought up the rear of the 421, Eat Tarkey Dinner =~ Eight automobiles filled with wounded heroes came next. At their head marched Lalittle Ward Davis, “The American Girl of Vaudeville.” The. parade, concluding with the Elks’ drill team, Capt. W. A. Horner, proceeded up Second ave. to Pike st., and thence to the Masonic temple, at Pine and Harvard, where a sumptu- ous turkey dinner was served to the heroes, Every officer and doughboy was given a box of candy and a bow quet, after which they were turned loose until 1:15 o'clock, At 2 o'clock the army train pulled out of the O. & W. railroad yards for Tacoma and Camp Lewis, The boys of the 361st, more than 200 of whom live in Seattle, were |home RIGHT while they were here. If they were almost killed with kind- ness, they faced death with a smile, ‘That always will be a proud memory for Seattle to nourish, Sunday shot mostly _w: E! CRY DOUGHBOYS, ‘00-LA-LA? &&