The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1918, Page 6

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White, South- ampton, L. 1, who was killed In ao- tion, was a member of Battery A, 7th | Artillery, Regulars, In a letter to hin | parents he declared the regiment was | the first American artillery regiment | to land In Burope and the first to step on French soil, He raid his battery fired the first American shells at the Germans. | In @ despatch from France a few |days ago @ correspondent chronicled | the heroism of Lieut. White and seve- ral companions in removing a pile of shells endangered by fire started by a German aeroplane bomb. They were commended by high officers, Lieut. White, in a letter to his father, oscribed the first shots fired by his battery. He sald: “Just after dark the guns were called up and went into position, The camouflage was pulled over them. ‘The ‘old man’ gave the deflection ana range to the gunners. ‘Then it was “Battery right, two rounds,’ “and we sent the first kisses to the Kaiser from American artillery. ibly I ducked several times rendered July Ist Fifth Avenue and 35th Street Established 1879 e Little Children’s Dresses ~in pink or blue chambray or candy stripes in assorted 2 to 3 years. sd checks or stripes. years. reatly Reduced Sizes 4 to 12 years. } Little Girls’ Empire Frocks Of flowered V: oile; dainty pink or blue Sizes 4 to 6 years. Junior Frocks | during the first few days. | hind the German lines | would hear ell, would pass over- | a dull boom, Then a through .the fog, ‘head and burst behind me. | cross on the planes. other sector. The flashes veyed timber land lumbia, killed in eign service. Hevea, Channel on in a tobacco factory Camp Upton. message came sayin killed in action on Charles Messin Charge purchases made today will appear on bills Pest & Co, _ Week End Specials On Sale Today & Saturday 400 Boys’ and Girls’ Scout Shoes Solid leather shoes made on our patented Orpic last. Spec 3.00 Special 3.25 Special 1.95 Special 2.25 { Smart models, suitable for motor, sport or street wear. Special 12.75 Special 3.50 Fancy colored Voiles, trimmed with plain voile. Sizes 13, 15, 17 years. Misses’ Sleeveless Coats Youthful and jaunty styles in wool Jersey, satin or silk ; Misses’ Separate Skirts Special 9.75 Special 18.50 Introducing a smart shirred model of Baronette satin, light Summer colorings. t Misses’ Summer Tailleur Suits Sleeveless, of wool Jersey, Summer colorings. | Women’s Out-Size Cotton Stockings Fine gauge cotton stockings, reinforced heels and toes, | Women’s Sum Sizes 9 to 1014, mer Union Suits Fine ribbed cotton union suits, band top. 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Special 14.75 [Summer Delivery by Our Own Motors to Long Island| Shore Points will Begin Saturday, June Ist! | "On clear days the aeroplanes were | thick overhead, and we had to keep down when wo spotted any with «| “One clear night there was @ heavy barrage fire, with shrapnel, in an- bursts looked like @ multitude of fire- flies in @ meadow, Tho star lights and rockets would #o up and make the front nearly as light as day.” Licut. White enlisted in Elizabeth, N. J, a fow days after the United States entered the war. He was as- | signed to an engineer regiment, but was transferred to the artillery, was twenty-eight years old, @ civil engineor, and for several years su in British Co- He was the first Southampton man the American forces. A sub-committee from the Public Ser- vice Committee will to-day substitute & golden star for one of the 178 blue ones on Southampton’s service flag. Mra, Lawrence Wolff of No, Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, was pros- trated by the news that her husband ‘was drowned on May 14 while on for- | ‘Wolff met his death, his wife he- while crossing the English his transfer from the fighting lines in France to a military post in England, as recent letters from him indicated that such a change had been made. He was drafted in | listed May, 1917, and went to France last , Frank. March with the 806th Ambulance | While and in Texas with the field | Frank Colon, Aberdeen, S. D.; Ken- Company of the 3024 Ambulance #ftiliery. He was wounded some time | . " 1 | Sanitary Train, Gince hie departure | G0, but he recovered and went back |!t® Edward Counter, Alden, Minn one of his three daughters died of |‘ his regiment q|Ptancla E. Dyer, Lake Arthur, La.; noumonta, Charles Joseph Murphy, reporte Pivne war moved swiftly for Btanley |Wounded, lived at Astoria with his|Donald Gregg, Houston Heights, olen, No. 619 West 27th Street, In|father, Edward Murphy, before his|Tex.; Carl M. J. Martinson, Stanley, | August, being drafted, he quit his job departure for France last January and went to In April he sailed for |He is a brother of the France. To-day a War Department he had been Fs) Jin business with him Murphy el y.: Howard L. Pidel, Union Fur-! toa .| twenty-nine years old, a native of| 1783 Ameter-| Now York. |nace, Pa. Sergt. William Albers, also reported| Malcolm R White, Southampton, wounded, formerly lived at No. 1886|N. Y, Cornelia Street, Brooklyn, He served | | four years in the army before the pres-| DIED OF Wwounos., | Yi ent war, and was with the colors in| Privates George I, Aitkens, Na-| |China and in the Philippine Islands, |tional City, Cal; Lester W. Chase, He was one of the first men sent to| Derry, N. H.; Charles Messina, No. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918, Away be- DRAFTED MAN KILLED IN ACTION SAILED FOR if NEW YORKERS ON CASUALTY LIS ~TSDEADIN ACTION whistling FRANCE LAST MONTH from the | Eleven Killed Through Acci-| | dents in Total of 60 Re- | ported by Pershing. WASHINGTON, May 31 Sixty | American casualties were reported by Gen, Pershing to-day, divided as follows: Fifteen killed in action; six | dead of wounds; eleven killed in ac- four dead from disease; fit- | | teen severely wounded; eight slightly | wounded, and one missing in action. KILLED IN ACTION Wagoner Chick H. Campbell, Pitts- burg. Kan | | Privates George M. Abney, Mine-| ola, Tex | Stanley Belen, No. 519 West 27th Street, New York. | Robert L, Bolen, Saltillo, Miss.; Ira D. Cochran, Protection, Ga.; He eldents; 1409 dam Avenue, who died of wounds, en- last ‘June, said his brother He was at Fort Slocum for a Wis; Clarence L. .Massey, Columbus, Ga.; George E. Mooney Mont.; Frank A. Murra with Company I of the 18th Infantry. well known |boxer, “Harlem” Tommy Mufphy, jand before going into the service was | France. He ix engaged to marry Miss | Minnie Frederick of No. 78 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, 1724 Amsterdam Avenue, New York; Marshall B, Nelson, Grand Junction, ee Mich,; Charles Poulter, Loutsville, | M’CREERY WAS ANXIOUS de Leslie L. Stokeley, Ellington, DIED OF ACCIDENTS. | TO GET INTO AIR BATTLE |. steuts, richara’ Anderson, st.) Louis; Robert J. Griffith, Athens, Ga.; } William 8. Stearns, Jamaica Plain, | ON THE AMERICAN FRONT wi William N. Newitt, Enfteld, Mas! Frank P. McCreery, No. 24 North Washington Street, Fort Wash- ington, N. Y. Cadet Eugeno D. Penn, Austin, Tex, | Sup. Sgt. Gordon J. Geeting, Chi- cago. Port Washington Aviator Killed in Paris While Testing Aeroplanes for Army. Death in an aeroplane accident tn France deprived Lieut. Frank P, ?fe-| Privates Claud Engram, Hawkina- Creery, of No. 24 North Washington | vit! Thomas W. McDermott, Street, Port Washington, L. £, of his] atpany, Wis.; Daniel Albert Snyder, greatest wish—to get into aerial com- bat with the Germans on the American fro} Buffalo, N. Y. Lawrence Wolff, No. 1409 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. DIED OF DISEASE. Corpl. Bert Lewis, Stockton, Cal. Privates Don Francis Gunder, Pu- yallup, Wash.; Humbert Hook, North, 8. C.; Isaac M. Vaughn, Bal- linger, Tex. SEVERELY WOUNDED. Lieuts. Clark H. <Apted, Rapids, Mich; Thomas D. Amory, Wilmington, Del. Sergeant William Albers, No, 1885 | Cornelia Street, Ridgewood, N. Y. Sergeant George Fuss, Newark, Ohio. Mechanic Claud D. Green, Effing- ham, IN. Privates Horton Creech, Harlan, Ky.; Henry J. Cundiff, Decatur, Ti Elmer Calvan Downer, Traverse City, Mich.; Robert J. Eaves, Doucotte, Tex.; James W. Hicks, Williamsburg, | ‘ank's only complaint was his in- ability to arrange to Ket to the front,” said his brother, Edward S, McCreery, to-day, “More than anything else he Wanted to get onto the firing Une, He | chafed at betng forced to stay in the | rear, In his last letter he said he ex- | pected to be attached to a new squadron | being formed for work at the front. | “He enlisted in the aviation section of the Signal Corps in April, 1917. A few | days after war with Germany was de- | clared, he was made a sergeant, He | took his training course at the Mineola Flying Field and was commissioned in | July. Shortly afterward he was sent |to Dayton, 0., and stayed there four |months, Then he was placed in com- | mand of the 19th Aero Squadron, which he brought to Mineola, He sailed for France with his command on Dec. 4 He was detailed to test aeroplanes | being turned over to the United States | by the French, He was still doing that | when he wrote his last letter." | Lieut, McCreery was graduated from || Princeton Preparatory School, Prince- ton, N. J., in 1914, and in 1915 entered Dartmouth College. He was in his | juntor year when he enlisted. He was | twenty-three years old and @ member |of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. A | brother, John W. McCreery, Is a ma- | Street, Newark, N. J. chinist's mate, second class, in the| william E. Trussell, Honeapath, 8. navy. ¢, | a U. S, AMBASSADOR VICTIM Joseph Murphy, No. 431 Fourth Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. Private Henry Musilek, Lake Andes, 8, D.; Henry Ruch, Waukesha, Wis.; Isador Stupelman, No. 125 Lilly SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. ‘+ | spoke: Grand | By FRENCH TRIBUTES AT HIS BROTHER'S HOME aon to CoNeiR Hee Ee a Jitor-it f und co-proprietor of the 10 AMERICAN DEAD Former Republican Leader, Aged toys state F Des Moines, and tn 76, Was on a Visit to New | ett wae « ne ee i Fe ark Home. First A + Postmaster General tn James 8. Cl many yeast a) 1889-m, felegate-at-large to Republi member of the It 1 National i3x-| ean National Conventions from 1876 un ecutive Committee and Surveyor of ( jent of the Republican + |toms of New York from 1902 to 1910,) Leagu United States in 1991 the home of his brother, H. .| and 1 je was Fresident of the New Father Cadoux and Chaplain © Dickson Acknowledge Na- |; tions’ Mutual Respect. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Thursday, May 30 (As; sociated Press.) exercises in the rear of the In the Memorial Day Ameri- can sector {n Picardy, a small Ameri- can flag and flowers were placed on each grave of an American soldier. ‘The ceremony was in charge of four American chaplains and one French chaplain, assisted by Salvation Army representatives. Lincoln's Gettysburg speech was read, after which the band played re- | ligious and patriotic anthoms and) prayers wero said in English and| French. Chaplain Thomas J. Dick- son, of the American Army, paid tribute to France for her noble ald) to America during the American} Revolution, and drew lessons for the) present from the lives of Washing- ton, Lafayette and Rochambeau. It was touching to see the old} women, old men and children from| the nearby villages standing near the; American graves with presents of flowers in their hands, Tears were| in many eyes as Chaplain Dickson | “The living would speak to the dead and by placing flowers on their graves tell them that their sacrifice had not been in vain. The Sowers are the testimony of our eternal gratitude.” The Rev. Father A. Cadoux, the French chaplain, paid tribute ‘to the dead American soldiers and to the valor and herolsm of France. He sald that the mothers, fathers, sisters, wives and sweethearts of the Ameri- an dead may rest assured that the French will always care for the graves of their heroes. The French civilians then advanced | and placed their floral tributes on the graves. The little cemetery was lit- erally covered with flowers, | The touch of war was not missing and just at the close of the service American anti-aircraft guns began to fire on German airmen hidden be- | hind the clouds, | ‘A picture was added to the cere- | mony when a horse belonging to one of the American officers killed at] Cantigny was led to the grave of his dead master, where he remained un til the cere ject Corpo: delphia, | WASHINGTON, May 31.—Moving of the Emergency Fleet Corporation from Washington to Philadelphia, as ordered by Director General Charles M. Schwab, of the and household the 00 families comprised rks will be done by in the force of army motor trucks. SALE OF SUMMER DRESSES Dainty models in Crepe de Chine, Taffeta, Linene. Voile, ete, at extraore dinar ily low prices, i Gergt. William B. Connell, Pitts- hh burgh, Pa. | OF EPIDEMIC IN SPAIN Mechante Clarence E. Mitchell, Lansing, Mich, Privates John Joseph Carberry, No. in |29 West 14th Street, Bayonne, N. J. | More Than 150,000 Stricken hi ; aa gate Clarence B. Ditty, Dillon, Mont.; f]| Madrid Alone by Disease | joseph H. Lunzer, St. Paul, Minn, } Resembling the Grippe. | Paul J, Owens, Wellaville, N. Y. ye | Frank Von ' MADRID, May $1.—Col. Joseph F. | i pe | South Sixth Bt Nene at latent: vi John Tobias, Reading, Pa, i] | demic of the disease resembling grippe MISSING IN ACTION. which has swept over Spain, causing| Private William J, Lilly, Southing- |the Mllness of more than 150,000 per-| ton, Conn, | eona in Madrid alone. | King Alfonso has recovered sufficient- ly to resume his work. His aunt, In-| fanta Isabel, 19 ill of the disease, | ‘The epidemic is now diminishing both | here and in the provin cata id Lieut, Mi a by Fall in on FORT WORTH, Texas, May 81.— Lieut. P. G. Mibleder, instructor at Taliaferro field, died yesterday of injuries recelved Wednesday after- noon when hia machine fell. 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