The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1918, Page 3

J if Copyright, 191s, by The Py Publishing Co reserves, officers wr THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1918, ‘HON TWO AMERICAN ‘SHOTS ji GERMAN AIRMIEN _ WAT RIFLES AT CHALONS os First Detailed Story of Record- Breaking Exploit of North Caro- lina Marksman, Promptly Dupli- cated by New Yorker. By Martin Green. (Special Cortespondent for The Evening World.) The New York Evening World.) (Continued From Yesterday's Paper.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, July 22.—Between German attacks our trenches were cleared of men no longer able to fight, and at no time was it necessary to call in the reserves from the rear. These and men, were always under heavy retreated after each@—— Americans followed them communicating trenches.) over on us. Pi As the Germans through the with gre hurdling the dead and| German aviators.” Some of our men Wied out into the communicating — trer and waited until mans appeared and last German with drawal on Monday was made at dfisk hostilities for the day. In the our forces sent out! Chine gun bullets ed or The attacks were break on Monday P as vicious us attacks on th end of Tuesday t that they could not br and maret ad been when making LLETS FROM GERMAN AIR- Fe aie FILL TRENCHES, uning r tre for oplanes fi Brock H uan machine ful shot and th German artillery fire, but many of them crept out of their holes in the ground and watched from behind’ hastily thrown up cover the wonderful panorama of battle away off to the front through the shell devas- tated woods. Most of the time their view of the Ger- | man lines was obstructed by geysers of earth and smoke thrown up by German shells exploding on and tearing great holes in the ground, or by the black smoke of shrapnel shells exploding in the air and hurling their destructive contents downward andj outward. GET WRITIN PER FROM Wc. ! INT. FILM Ste, AMERIGAN TROOPS INFLICT LOSSES ON FOE RAIDERS that outfit put es and| Your men to t to get one of those after the; NEW YORK BOY GOT PILOT WITH FIRST SHOT, » word was passed and among se who heard and heeded was Pri- e Martin of New York, who ly atts his’ skill as old Creedmoo' in Que¢ ugh and in the Island shooting galleries, Pri- vate Foody kept his peeled and Awal ended trench in time he saw a German plane skirt- arly| ing the trenches and spitting out ma- ook careful and fired. H mpanions in y he put the pilot out of com- sion with the first shot. The ma retreating cked them off which penetrated trenches and| found them deserted except for a few) chine turned toward the German outpost positions| lines, wobbled an erratic course for about a mile and did a side dive into i a forest renewed at day nod boy, Foody,” said the squad and at least two of | commander aching the private pat 1 patting the back of his soaking flannel shirt ay; but by the] «sip, said Private Foody, turning mans ha ak thr a grimy vise eyes on his officer, “there ain't noth- ing them co! we can't do the big town | To Wi 1 To-morrow.) » TELLS HOW FORTY BOYS OF 69TH TOOK 300 OF FOE ttacks on bo 1s of mach ches. Some as many a rs roar a gantlet of ma the sw It wa of war by pick pilot of a Ger wild b) em, cooking he wants to add fare the rif ad ything of that sort | 8 the word among | WASHINGTOD | man raid on the American lines north of Toul, tor, resul (Associated and French their holdings ry jakes can do that} | machine guns | ment in the A our shi | sunn WOUNDED NEW YORK BOY ONE OF FOUR BROTHERS IN SERVIGE OF COUNTRY Hutton’s Father Helps Out Draft service of their country, H eight ily, now compri mother 4 lad, are Joseph, t Alexander, named for the fathe twenty-three, obert, twen ground, and as th {bine w abreast, Hill, abb and I Only t » head visible and wn wh HW t i him through t fus but » Was observed t th his last effort the pil ar the wreeked ni day, dawn Pha unit of whic the at e length of the torpor foud dating back to t 1 mander of the second un yn the front line at midnig init in line that he wanted a Boch vy | ! pulated his planes to axeendsand de- | da shurp turn toward the ¢ nan line n nt u ing to crash within the Ger s No one from the German " Kifle Kan ASHINGTON, Aug, 2—Naval rifle days in the United States. The com went ou t_and in formed the commander of the sub “SM never do,” te said, “to let rds Made. 3 marks. "9 sharpshooters and 663 ¢ new records for welve ranges operat ist week qualified a a eenihtieedienmmecmateiie and Cecil, it being ¢ some with mother. He and this fath ins! fac being in action, ° MAJOR BAKER INJURED. Pershing's Alde Thrown From ear Major Baki and a liew thrown from an automobile into a alongside the road between Alzonne Montolien, in the Department of Yesterday, after colliding with x 4 twenty-shot courses ng an average of U3 per Repulse Attack on Lines in) the Sector North of Toul. communique. WITH MOTH FRAN AME erican posit Board and Mother Is a Gas Mask Inspector. ECIL J, HUTTON ely wounded, sever n four brothers who a en years old, and the The boys, be nd R ty-five. All but Joe are in France the other four was the result an understanding between h cided that had to remain he help out at night in the local ex emption board, The mother is in a gas mask ma ory in Brooklyn wounde young s« with the 106th Field Artillery scond, and had h nerly the ng in Van Cortlandt 8 the first time ment the al Gui on made ¢ ith (Nation tomobtle in France, SASSONNE, France, A of Gen. Persnin nant acc mpanying t. Both officers were seriou: Aug. 20.—A Ger- in a comparatively quiet sec- ed in losses tothe Germans, THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE VESLE FRONT, Aug. Press).—The Americans increased their grip on north of the Vesle River at several points early yester. day by slight infantry advances, manoeuvres were carried out without encountering any Germans. West of Bazoches the Germans sent out patrols, but these were pushed nd two bloodshot) back by the Americans, The French and Americans Sunday pgan operating th they have used since they reached Vesle. These heavy guns are blazing away at the Aisne River region, and beyond it, where aerial observers have reported that the Ger- | | mans are concentrating supplies CAN ARMIPS Aug. 19 (United | Press).—Continuous sniping is progress in Fismette, which !s partly by the Germans » Americans The Germans cut loose with their at the slightest move ns, while shooters pick off the enemy degree undetermined, 4 biggest guns and partly by Madden, J ‘Hal Pa Hawk, HMarrisbur Hut Moc | Moort on i Rt Rodzin, | Sen e in the jrone, Pa.; Copie Vani am ng the father cil's twin brother Harold, live at No. 2021 Art Avenue, the Bronx * the wounded nty-one 1 he hopes soon to sail. ‘Tha Harold hadn't volunteered wit Jter N | Thoma will ‘rowder, Koshkonong, Mo; Jam Dambrosia, Castro dei Balsci, Ital William H. Deamer, Philadelph PERSHNG LISTS 275 MORE LOSSES IN FIGHTS ABROAD TOTAL eal mM Rolls Show 147 More Soldiers 'er & Have Made the Supreme Sacrifice. WASHINGTON, Au to-day, contain 275 nam he total killed in action in the two lists is 147, with 109 seve wounded, The tw lists make the total of casualties re- | ported to date 2 list, given out for pub- ation in the afternoon papers of to- |day, contains 135 casualties, divided as follows {in action, 68; died of disease wounded, 1 142. The secc Kill wounded severely KILLED IN ACTION, Lieut. David EK, Wheeler, Pa Va.; Wi easant, Pa m 1, We Bishoft, uts Richard 8, Bullitt, rgt. Raymond ‘orp! Willla a Charles Murphy Howard Shaffer, } Salem, Pa Herbert Stuck, Ohiopyle, Pa; Leonard Whitehill, Washington, Pa.; Mechan: Ben A, Manning, Waynesburg, Pa Privates—Harry D.C LC mpfield, Blairsvi son, Philadel Kaiser, Pittsburgh; Ja Philadelphia; Edward O. Mel Wh; 8 tion, fiana Mass; Harr a, Pa enshaw, Pas Wa boro, N. ¥.; Thomas F. Walsh, Pea- | body, Ma P. Wilson, Oliver, PB. Jersey Shore an, N Alf Rutter wn, Dan Le ‘ Jel} Norman M. % ayes burg, Pa WOUNDED SEVERELY. Lieut. Frederick Smith, Ha fax, Pa SergeantsDonald T. Da 1 K Wa Union I Indiana I baker, Du Ansy i . Edenborn, 3 iM " Pa burg, Ba; W [Pas Hert Y homas I. 1 Cor jexander May Privates—t phia; William 1 Var’ Lee V ow ner, Pa dic E aio Kvans, Waite Run, Ky, Cheg: —<<—————— , Columbia, Pa. A Philadelphia; et ee | “To-day, however, ecein'y,| the original report’ came from the ic, | ips of Boche prisoners who had sur Redwood Fa!ls | Hutton, 2021 Arthur Avi Aususta, | “Wrightaville, Pa. Joseph. Lawson, 68 E. S4th St, New | York, N. Y. —Two new Gen. Pershing reported to-day in his| casualty lists in the American Expe- (ditionary Forces overseas, n out McLaughlin, alandra, Phil- ‘ « Mayhew, New- ; Anthony Mercedante, Italy; Vandergrift, H John E. Rehm, x . Monongahela, Pa.; | o | “He was one of that small group Grant St., Jersey City, {ed to drill and study in that class are National Army officers, most of us in the division which ix mourning Blanton Barrett, He did not guess i moszunas, 4 Albert A, Mountain, r B. Rig W. Va; Fred Stet, DIED FROM DISEASE. *. Fry, Miamisbure, Albert L. Whi Y.; Henry MeGuirk George J. Lester, Ticon-| Elmer D, Lockhart, Elmer H, Stevenso: Taylor, hil. FP, Small, Lancaste P, omas | WOUNDED (DEGREE UNDETER- Oscar Hagstrom, 27 St. Place, Brouklyn, N. Y. | ico: Zanesville, O. wot, Ale PRISONER, toona, Pa; Sid Clark, Coyle, Okla; J. Closser, Waynesburg, Pa. KILLED IN ACTION, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED SEVERELY WOUNDED, | LONDON, Ang, 20.—Fiel ughlin, ; Charles Boeei y's Landing. Pa; James C, Max i ; tC Marino Panza, No. 328 East 39th St., KILLED IN ACTION, PREVIOUSLY Muriom | REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION. L. L. Franklin, New York; B. D. Dewar, Woodhaven, |. THESE BOYS ARE EAGER TO WRITE HOME "E GERMANS HONORE CAPT. BARRETT FOR ~ HS GALLANT DEATH Desperate ‘Counge of News- paper Man Recognized by \ Foe in His Burial. A letter received from a officer states that Capt. F. Bianton Barrett, at one time a reporter on The Evening World, was killed be hind the German lines “fighting des- | Derately, fighting hopelessly against superior numbers.” Capt. Barrett a few days ago was reported “missing in action.” While not divulging what exploit took Capt. Barrett within the enemy's | lines, the writer of the letter says when the circumstances are known Capt. Barrett's last adventure will shine as “one of the dramatic and | heroic bits of gallantry” of the world | war. | . The writer of the letter, who knew | Capt. Barrett well, waited with other officers three da | formation of the commander before jo taining evidenc from ptured Germans that he was dead. The let- ter says there is proof that Capt. Barrett's courage won the recogni- tion of his foes, for the German pris- oners said he was buried in a coffin, |ten honor accorded to few in the fierce fighting on the Western front. ‘The letter followa in part: “For three days | have been hoping thar it would not be necessary for me | to write a letter confirming the news ; that Blanton Harrett is d uy Now | there appears to be no doubt ghat he died, Sghting gallantly, only’ a few miles from where I am writing. “A runner from the laison patrol brought me the first news that the Captain of Company Blank th In fantry, had been killed. There hu been a considerable acrap and it oc jcurred to me that later information might show that he was wounded and | captured—that we could think of him as missing, for definite in- confirmation of rendered without resistance, They sald that Capt, Barrett had bee burted in a casket in a city far b name of the place do Barr marker it deserves, “Blanton Barrett has left one living monument which occurred to me to. i | night. He was one of the first news- paper men in New York City to feel | the tug of the Allied cause at his heart, of reporters who persuaded Gen Governor's Islan the Newspaper Me | At least fifty of us who first attempt 8 drilin how far his initiative wld go wh he started @ preparedness course for emen who were writing daily about fea's lack of preparedness. of his death. It is one of the dra matic, herole bits of gallantry which |shows why the A. BE. F. is coming Hy to rank side by side with h in trouncing the Boche, You may tell the friends neh a 1 Engl of Capt. Barrett that he died fight ing desperately, fighting heroically against superior numbers, He had his fline at the Roche. Had had luck with him this letter would never Mark's, | have been written. “His ‘you-all,’ with Its Georgia is stored in that corner my heart wh memories are re- freshed frequently by tears unshed Gen, British Succe: Congrate| Haig to-day telegraphed to mag my anadian and other ng tribute to the sh and the bravery diers,” Haig satd |hind the German lines. I got the nd some day we shall reach that place, and when we t's grave shali have the od to designate an officer from ter for $ Training Corps. wish that 1 could tell the story A PAGE OF AMERICAN WAR NEWS ‘SERGT, W. B. M'LAUGHLIN, OF GSTH'S “LUCKY IRI0,” KILLED BY AIR RAIDERS | Ye. RAWGHLING, Son of Court Squad Captain S' in Hospital After Being Wounded on Oureq. Sorgt, William B. McLaughlin of Company I, 165th (old 69th), who was murdered by Germans in France, was the son of Richard McLaughlin, Pp tain of the court equad of the Appel- late Division of the Supreme Court Young MeLaughlin had been wounded driving back the foe beyond the Oureq. It was in the hospital that in the Boche air bom. ders got the soldier | they couldn't get in a fight in the open. McLaughlin, his brother, Richard jr, and Wilton Wharton Jr, were pals from childhood. ‘They went to school together in Yorkville, fought togeth and when they had grown to man hood's estate went to war together in the same regiment and in the same company. Over in France they were d the “Lucky Trio,” having out with r n eal in so many scraps and com flying colors, “Wil geant and Wharton a corporal, ‘Then when “Will” was wounded they called him the luckiest of the trio There are left in the McLaughlin family tWo sisters besides the fat to Wear the gold star for the victim of the Boche. They accept their loss with the bravery of a soldier's kin Capt. McLaughlin said It's ad blow to his sisters and to me; but my boy has given his life was made a s* for his country in trying t make | the world safe from a race of savages.” ss Miners Asked To Sta Work. INDIANAE Aug. 20.—Pending | the outcome of ations In Wash. ington, beginning ursday, betw: international and district offictals the Uni Mine We xers Strike Again, RL, Aug fixers in eight textile mills have ain gone on strike t Loom Loom cause of al discrimination, according to un jon officals, Tt i’ sald) that al who had returned after an eight weeks’ strike Were refused work or transferred to other departments and that In conaequenee others came out in aympathy > South America Alda Red ¢ WASHINGTON, Aug Cross War Council was that duri trive in Valpara f Chile, whieh 115,000. w eet ‘LIEUT. FOLKS, WOUNDED, ANXIOUS TO FIGHT AGAIN cer in Letter to Mother Tell About Injuries—Expects to Come Home Soon. Mrs, Marie Duffau, No, 611 Wee ' Street mother of Lieut. Irving Folks, who was reported in yesterday’ ralty list as having been severel wounded in action, sald to-day that she eceived a letter from her son dater July 20, telling her of his deine wounded, ‘The letter, which arrived on, shortly after the vtifcation from the War Department; | sald I have been wounded over here, but |not what T call severely. I'm itn the hospital at Ani France. I was one lof those who was shot at by the Ger but believe me they got ten shots back for each one they sent over, I was shot through the left and right tex and also had a hole put through my neck. But outside of that I'm feeling fine. 1 imagine that I will be sent to New York among some of the other wounded soldiers some time soon. 1 will be glad to get back to see you, but will be just as glad to get ,back here again and do my share toward downing the Roches.” Lieut, Folks, who is twenty-five yes old, is assigned to Company L, 28th L S. Infantry. 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