The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1919, Page 9

7 Pages 9 to 16 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1919. Gen. Cameron Pays Great | Tribute “At a time when divisic flanks were faltering back, the Sist pushed steadfastly held to yard gained | ‘This was the tribute paid to the] Wid West division by Maj. Gen. | George W. Cameron, commanding | the Fifth army corps of which the | Sist was a part ns on its or falling ahead and every } WHEN OTHERS FELL BACK, THE 91ST STILL The SeattleStar |= ™ | In it ts the history of grit and! determination which marked the part played in the war, on the ac tual fighting front—by the Wild Westerners. They -were late getting there ph ‘They saw only about two weeks of actual fighting. But they made uo thousands of its men in smaller to the training area about Chau- )doughboys thought then, for it{the front line to familiarize them-| Into the front line went @ bat for lost time by crowding into those Ut% sent to Europe to fill up de-| mont, southeast of Pari brought another move—this time|selves, wore French uniforms. The|talion from each brigade to relieve 14 days and nights more fighting pleted ranks of other outfits, left Occupied 28 Villa, westward and apparently awayl/enemy was to know nothing of|the French on the night of Septem- ‘and greater gains than many o the Bist with many almost raw. t ‘The divixton occupied 28 villages,|£M where all the fighting was|/what was coming ber 26th. At 2:30 the following morn Organizations made in twice, cruits in its makeup. While the peasantry went about | 40!ne on. Vavincourt, a little north| The Fifth corps, of which the|ing, artillery preparation for the even three or four times the sery ‘These new men had be whiD- | narveating their the soldiers [Of BarteDuc, became next division! Wild West division became a part,/ great advance began. At 5:30 it fee abroad. | ped into shape lily, When the | cor ieted thelr training and were|Deadquarters. Three days, then! was in the very center of the Amer. | ceased, and the light Tis sent over The war ended less than six| US scrapping came off in the Gia uch work at the ranges and|forthward again, Heading for alican assault. The Third corps was | their barrage Wweeks after the 91st received ita|AT#onne and for the town of Ges- |i. aneuvers. Alread high | Point jn the line just west of Ver-|to its right and to ite left the First.| Pick Way Thru Wire f baptiam of free. But the men whos es: And at other points where th | ser realized that open wartare|Gun, everybody was happy again.|Each corps was compored of nine! 1 wa the “zero hour” and the i treined at Camp Lewis were going! ince were men in the division who | “&% coming | seers anaes bikes. ta rein eae i givedene Wild West division, silently went in- strong when the Huns cried enough, |) pen nthe, arm tess than | Orders to move thrilled the whole|mud; until September 19 headquar | Was Uphill Fighting lito battle. and every day would have added | 10 "een im uf | divi early in the first week in| term were located in Vraincourt, but | The first obstacle was met when Rew honors to its name, for tho Std i6 wet been.Ser. the eolentis September. Move, but where? |9 kilometers from the line The Fifth corps was commanded | they found that the artillery had their Western courage and daring |)‘ trained» aur plend\a-\" Maj. Gen. Willlam H. Johnaton| ‘They began to reallae then that/ by Maj. Gen. George W. Cameron.| not cut the barbed wire just outside had been added experience. They|'¥ ‘rained men who made up the) i command they were to be a part of the troops| The First corps was under the com-| tne wood had to pick their learned the game; learned it quick-|DBCKBone of every battalion. of |" Ceotember @ they entrained. There |to participate in the grand offens:|mand of Maj. Gen. Hunter Liggett.| way thru lanes in that wide strip “ly and well, and were ready for|*VCTY “tad almost, these chapa) uch discursion as to whether |ive—the drive that was not to stop! former commander of the Western! of wire, Had it not been foggy, the would have been almost worthless, the ‘future might | Aw it was, they Were given the ex- _ anything have & quiet sector in the Vosges would _ brought. i r be their let, or they w to get e ample,’ and Being true Westerners, |” 4 ' ie CaN? 000 fearete that the war did) they tot nobody outstrip them. They |"wome feal fighting.” It soon de — nde hne we a steed: everything “the next fellow woeges it was not to be a mountain ones . Because, man: morend tat pow more ot these boys are coming | : | Then it was to be Toul or Bac The division teft ¢ Lewt mn sew than Would Reve if thet iy tn : iy, 1918 “Mad “Gen | carat other quiet sectors—when the ( Sas “ccamaieine cee toe longer. | tarry A. Greene had just been re-| Wild West division detrained at ee casualties were heavier, for) ieved and ordered to the Philip- | Gondrecourt on September 8. omen ot Soran on the front, than | pines. Consequently Brig. Gen. they remained during three rainy ‘any other jon. | Frederick S. Foltz commanded on | ays, keeping under cover lest a Whipped Inte Shape Boche plane discover them. | the way across and in the training When the ist left the shores of|area in France. By July 20, most| Night marches! : ; | | American Lake for those of France,| ot the division was at Southamp-| They had reached Void and Com © it was not made up of fully trained |ton and the next day they crossed | mercy, directly south of St. Mibiel by the night of September 12, when lthe great drive in that sector be week in a British camp near Cher-|gan. They were in reserve in this/ bourg and then, in little French| battle but were not used Pig cantonment§ Yet, drafts of|boxcars, moved again, This time| The 13th was “unlucky McDonald and His Bunkie, City | FIRE FIGHTER Fireman, Win Commissions | WINS HONORS, | soldiers. True, there were many ‘of its men who had been instructed tm every branch of fighting for which training was provided at the the channel arriving at Cherbourg early on July ‘They rested a ” these| \? | Now that Hun fighting ts done, | Lieut. Austin Duggan in going back to fire fighting—that is, if hie bunk is still vacant in the fire station at Third ave. and Ping st. Lieut, Duggan is the pal, bunkie fand soulmate of Lieut. McDonald, j and, like McDonald, he won his bars jin France. His home {s at 509. N. | 43rd st, Seattle, where his family live When America climbed Into the} | melee across the pond, Duggan was a member of the Seattle fire depart ment, #0 he was, perhaps, a little | better prepared for the life of danger land physical strain thru which the | 36ist has passed than most others | in that regiment He was among the first at Camp Lewis, and before the Wild West division left for France, had been | made firat sergeant of headquarters | | company. Over there, thru his fear lessness in carrying out orders from headquarters thru the flercest of the | fighting in the Meuse-Argonne, he | waw recommended for commission, | | immediately following the retirement | Jof the ist from the active front. ‘Then the orders to Belgium—and ldelay. Finally it came to a choice of remaining in France a week or | two for his commission or coming |home. It didn’t take him long to| | decide, and he was commissioned up: | | on arrival of the 361st at Camp Merritt. for the Kitchens) Lieut, Frank McDonald Had ‘Special Hate Lieut. Austin Duggan Cook John Armstrong is smiling} When Frank J, McDongld Jeft| ave. 8, Will he tell the story of |All over his face, | Has home again | Camp Lewis with the 61st infafffry,| those five days of hell? Not he. |i) een nee out the Ger. | almost 4 year ago, he was “topper” | But he can pump questions at a| (NUL Jul Mkt nie gone, or} of Co, C, meaning, of course, top| man about the old home and the aay of the little “picnics” the vets| sergeant. Today, Lieut. Frank J.|news here faster than any of the /)¥ Ot tle lian | Mie thru, | MeDonald is back home in Seattle | machine guns he and hin crew cap.| WH are lire Miilncly wall tl ae with the other weather-beaten and| tured. Fellow officers and bis old) eee et enn oe ee tomber wind-bitten heroes of the Wild West | comrades of Co. C tell how Sergt.| 00) tne. but he has one griev division. “Mac” became a commissioned offi | He won his commission on the| cer. They take pride in it as show | field of battle for “conspicuous |ing the spirit of the division, bravery and daring” in leading his! The section McDonald commanded section into the thick of every mix-|aq a sergeant was assigned to in- up they could find. The fact that | telligence work—scouting and pa ance against the Hun which he can't forget. Armstrong believes the Ger mans deliberately. tried to put the | | 91st out of commission by wrecking the culinary | department | but eight of 25 men who jumped | trols. Therefore they, were in the| | off on the morning of October 26|lead when the word to climb the | vantage of, too. under his command, “came back" at| parapet came, and, from all ac:| They have several machine gun tj the end of the five-day struggle in| counts, they stayed in the lead, As t# to their credit and accounted the ArgonneMeuse, tella whether | intelligence men they had the run | fe more than they vat jen. ty they found a fight of the battlefield directly ahead Pershing issued, the order commis | ‘ Lieut. McDonald lives at $20 20th) the division. This they took ad-! sioning McDonald on be until final hed not left them out of his reckon ing ‘The Things way Hesse forem there to occupy the | Slat second and third lines. The first] The 18ist brigade of the Sist was were still held by the French, so/on the right. It was made up of that the enemy would not discover | the 361st and, 362nd regiments, On the 182nd brigade, made into! up of the 363rd and 364th infantry. |the presence of Americans tn front | the left wa: of them ehief of vietory was won. Foch Uphitt fighting was staff was called to had been elected With | in front of the div of for the offensive. turn out just that the forests divide. on Officers who went JIM’S BACK HOME "Gee, ain't they grand! just watch them step— There's brother Jim, I know, An’ ev'ry one's so full of pep, An’ kick, an’ snap, an’ go. It makes me want to get in line, A suit is all I lack,” Said little Bobby, “ain’t it fine— My brother Jim is back!* “Ah, there's our boy,” say ma and It seems but yesterday Since he was just a little lad And fond of soldier play, But now there's firmness in his eye ‘That's business all thru, He helped to make the Germa We're proud of him, we two fly Then there's another-—sh-h! a girl, Tho not a sister, yet. ‘Tia Jim's return that sets awhirl Her heart that can't forget. She's somewhat more reserved, it's true, In what she says OF him But don't think things she says to you Are what she says TO Jim! Lelie |department of the army, the slopes what lIitth corps was up against to drive forward lcorps headquarters and told whatjover the densely wooded and ra lthe plane for the division were. He|vined heights ahead of them. was told that it would mean the sac | wide divide between the Meuse and rifice of almost the entire division, |the Aire. Here | but that it was “necessary that shadow hanging over them, the|on either side staff prepared didn't tho the division lost heavily | The infantry outfits went into the the ‘They ‘They were to bulge out|7 ions of the corps them and ot Largest by far of these forests was Argonne—made famous by the clear |Jomsen would have been horrible to j think of As it was, the Germans were raining shrapnel and high ex plosive along that stretch across the intervening space they |advanced toward the woods occu- pled by German machine guns and the the Brig. Gen. Foltz, commanding the | brigade, reported by phone to Gen. | Johnston that he would have to withdraw and wait for artillery aid, as the fire was too destructive. Col. George MacDowell Weeks, | manding the 364th, gaining permis |xion to talk to Gen. Johnston, said lthat he could take his men thru He was told to go to it, and Foltz ordered to continue the attack, A little later, Col, Jewett, "SPEED" GRAVEN | WINS RIBBON “Speed” Craven is one the who * | Sergt. Maj lof the Seattle boys who wore a rib bon over his breast pocket today. It was the Belgian croix de guerre and for his conduct battalion | was given him | |leading the first | ltion in the Beigian campaign, when | lan his officers had been either ‘| | killed or wounded. '361st Band Went Over Top to Aid the Wounded Men What did the band do when the 361et went over the top? Were they left behind? Such were the questions put to Band Sergeant Lafe Cassidy, Seat- tle music maker, who returned with | the Wild West boys Saturday morn- ing. Sargt. Lafe leaped to the de fense of his crew of jazzifiers— Not much, we didn’ he said, Reclou bandsmen became stretcher | bearers and first aid men and we didn't hang behind to pick up the boys who'd been hit. Most of the time we were right there beside them to slip on a bandage the min ute they get it. “We were lucky j didn’t have a casu | horseshoe, that’s all.” Returning Yanks Raided Stands to Get Home Papers That news-stands as far east as | Chicago were raided by the 361st for | Seattle papers—and The Star was | called for right and left—was the in {formation brought to | morning by William N. Garner, Y. M. C. A. troop-train secretary, who is completing his 18th trip across the continent with “the boy: “Stands featuring ‘Your Home Paper’ just couldn't begin to supply | the demand,” he said, “and it grew worse the nearer to home these Se- jattle boys came, ~ 2 “Not a disagreeable marred the trip, cheering multitudes met the {At St Jer towns, the men paraded, and at the first two cities they took plunges in the ¥. M. C. A. pools The band Just our tho. Ity. ineident com: | in} into ac-| eattle this | nd at every stop | train. | Paul, Helena and other small: | PUSHING AHEAD Wild Westerners | Got Beyond Objectives solidated their positions and prepared new for a offensive. and 3 sent back to the aid of the Ist 32nd They fought - them until October 13. Then rejoined thelr own division om the | 15th : | In response to appeals from Ki , of Belgium, to aid his against the Hun, divisions were divisions. and trave Roulers, 0 miles b to train was a round-about journey, | From there they marched to front line, took their place in had been commanding the regiment | of engineers, was sent to relieve Gen, Foltz of his command. nd, at 5:30 on the r 31, “jumped off" front, extending attle | ing of Octob jon a four-mil Thru woods and marshes—shelled, | he vitiage of Waerghem. ‘Their gassed, ripped thru and thru by ma lject was to drive the enemy from |ehine gun fire—the doughboys | the river Lys and across the Sé fought on and on | It would mean a 10-mile drive, — They overran three separate|" phey aid it in two days, and chains of defenses—machine gun | tureg the town of Audenarde. jnests linked by shallow trenches: | ror three days, they held the i | pill. bees, and short and isolated | siong the river. November 4 @ | Pi 4 were relieved again. But it was Rest on Arms’ for long. On the 10th it was That night, 10 kilometers from| into the line again. The enemy ia withdrawn six kilometers b Scheldt, and they were to tacked at 6 o'clock the next ing. It was postponed to 9 and then was suspended enti cause of the armistice, They were in at the finish, the Wild Westerners. They for | harder than any other crow@ @8 reaped more honors than ay lied organizations who were O@ | fighting front during a year or & of the war. 3 1,160 Not Coming Back Their demonstration of We courage, endurance and sheer will long remain a cherished ory in their home states. It not be forgotten. Nor should those—1,160 of tl who will not come back. They wounded, they were than 5,000. Yes! The 91st did it share! their starting place, the 91st did not “rest on its arms.” It had come |six and a quarter miles thru the jhardest fighting any division ever |__From then on their casualties be- gan. From shell hole to shell hole Jexperienced. But they had to dig in On the 28th Eclisfontaine was |taken a third time. Practically every regiment fought its way from the new positions they had estab: | | lished, but all were ordered back. | On the 30th, lurking machine guns of the enemy were cleared out of | surrounding woods and numerous |snipers accounted for. October 1 | the new infantry line had been con solidated along a line at the outer/ jedge of the great advance. | | | | The division did not move forward | again, and on October 4 it was re- Neved. It held its position while di- visions on both sides were relieved and the new divisions coming in con. | Seattle Chinese Boys Come Bz With Fine Scrapping Rete Ah Toy dash the regiment made against Germans. (ag Ah Toy and Chee Ong are “wait. Ah Toy and Chee Ong have lcome home with the 361st infantry |—home to Seattle—and they're just |as glad to be back as any other/er boys” in the Shung Hal res- members of the scrapping outfit of | taurant—somewhere In Seattle, It which they are a part. Most of|has to be that way—not because of @ censor any more, but neither of them ean remember the name of the street. ‘ A year's a long time, and then ‘ou see, the roar of battle is still in their ears, * Capt. Howard Hughes of died fighting, fighting beside bi colonel, for men of the. 61st told this) morning “how @ *hinatown, their part of Chinatown, lat least, turned out to greet. them Saturday morning. On the roster of the 6ist, Ah ‘Toy and Ong are listed as cooks but over there in the “Orglonne” as they put ft, “evlyblody flight,” That these two swarthy sons of the Orient gave just as good an account of themselves on the bat- | Uefield as they did in their rolling | Seattle cook wagons is testified by the) Hughes was “sniped” by the members of thelr companies. who|Hun .77—killed by the same saw the "China Bo! take up|which brought death to Col, Da rifles and go over the top in every | commander of the rogwam® nee