The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1919, Page 3

. tak EVENING WORLD, WEUDNESBVAY, SERGT. JOHNSON KILLED FOUR, WOUNDED 32, WHEN Hic ROUTED GERMAN RAIDERS 00eeos - Pisani Colored Doughboy Tells How raee kdb cad ‘ ; Rush htm!’ He Won First French War “*Yes, you all rush me and ah'l Cross in Old 15th. Has hcchk Sak hatha Belt fh ‘ca I saw one guy that looked like a lootn’nt and t made for him. Boss, BOMBS | ah was agaoin strong and suah made j‘em step some, But then some Ger- }man got me down on mah knees Fought to Uphold Reputation | when he done whanged me with the of His ( | butt of fb Whew! it suah hurt, whbin’ one and my shoul Wess that row musta la yur before t 9099S9-9-59 4905 09600696068 USED GUN, KNIF it ali jes kepe on, a ed a got relief out half a bh When th me. Ah was pretty well mussed Battalion of the old 15th New York| UP. an’ so was Roberts. But the s ‘Kunnel’ took good care of us an’ kept Regiment at West 57th Street to-day | me with the regiment, and ah knowed Gel. Hayward was asked about the | had tried hard to'be a good soldier, | 0 ah was happy.” men of his regiment who had been|OUT TO UPHOLD THE REPUTA- 5 ene ah ene TION OF HIS COMPANY. Seperated, He sent an orderly for! @ome one wanted to know what GSergt. Henry Johnson of Co. ©, and 1 him to struggle on when over- he mon the big colored man, whose home | !¥; ans, ningly outnumbered by the Ger- ig tn Orange Street, Albany, came] “Ah'l tel! you, boss. Company C was th Beping forward. He bore many} ment, and ah was jest out there a up. holdin’ old Company C and her repu- tation, “When ah joined the marks of his thrilling fracas with the Germans which won for him the first regiment the COL. WILLIAM HAYWARD, OFFICERS 2S AND COLORED HEROES OF OLD 15TH HOME FROM WAR Croix de Guerre Men of the 369th Infantry, all New Yorkers, a RR I rFEBRUAKY 44, 4¥dy, Perry and Edward L. Williams; Standing, left to right, First Sergt. Eug ene Wood, Sergt. J. L. Bush, Corpl. Himmel and Sergt. Henry Matthew Home To-day from France: First row, left to right, Robert H. Miller, Harvey L. L. McVey, E. V. Robinson, Fred MAJOR ARTHUR W. LITTLE. French War Cross to be awarded to unnel” made us a kK, and he sez 000-44 ©0004 BADD DDDDO OG £4 004901-4H94488OO | for us to fight hard and be good sul- 7 » v - — aoe cha inal ben, Iceep. rh it tone Theva. ous | \@ * : Celebration Committee.” eurred in the Argo’ May 5. eyes and cars open, and you are $ . tter was signed by Henry @ Johnson has a silver plate in his! liab et back home.” I saw that | ; 3 c ed, Percy S Dudley, Wiliam fal 26st With Baueen Wi to dies card up in front of mah eyes all the ? |®. Pool, M. D. and M. Shaler Allen, ime " Se Fah tect is aihc badly shel WE] SEs Nene dake bu. & : The demand for the return of he has a bayor ar in his back, the| quietly, His hearers within the sot : money contributed to the old corte bask of his left hand shows a long|f his voice listened as the big 4 $ |mittee has grown more insistent, bat goar and his lips were cut to pleces| "tured Negro tried to make ea ’ = $ no money has been returned. Instead, trie) Gurttan WeSouee) BUC He WORN] ane Uae Rima C ener | — | | the new Chairman, Delaney, baw a huge smile and was a typical bash-| tary terms and mix French with his (Continued from First Page.) | high grade, Col. Hayward sald, un- + talked of the money spent by the eld ful negro doughboy. typical Negro English. He bore his z os oi | ti, they reached Brest. “We had ¢ jconnuee Mr. Jonas said to-day? : honors gracefully and seemed a ok three weeks at “What “ae tte " 1 i plased & rie more sickness in thri ; hat our mmittee eapent Col. Hayward placed his hand 08/ modest hero. ferred, but the bulk of the difference | a = 1 eh re H ee the negro soldier's shoulder and said:| Officials stated later that k ted b ity Het, | Brest," said the Colonel, “than in ten | was disposed of judiciously and neces- Neials stated later that a check] js accounted for by our casualty list. ‘ | Weary, tall th Wanien abodt had bean Theda candiitcweas own. | | months in the trenches. One of ou Bronk ‘tHoans Reficing tq sarily Four of my friends, James your Iittle fight with the Germans", Johnson had killed four Germans, a pleaee ticane Ait ra officerty Lieut. Longshore, died at > er oklyn C Citizens zens Refusing tO}, fost, J.. Adolph Mollenhauer, The soldier came to a salute ana| had wounded 32 and had reduced the |something epacia: Aout thoes Bite) rrest of pneumonia,” Serve on Committees Say Arthur J, O'Keefe and Frank J, on Veinity of nis outpost ean m net pel he ast s : i ;| “We were the lost children of tho | | Letters Are Withheld |Helmie, went into their pockets for “Yeasuh. as Johnson called it in the French Hel coum wea 6 pall o;| American Army,” the Colonel said | | -elers Are Withheld, more than $5,000 to pay the expenses Breaking from his rigid galute,| Wav, Was everywhere and a trial of [UNS regiment. | How many cases Of | naany, «tor trom the beginning to | ———— of some of the incidents of the cele- Henry smiled and then began his [Dood showed where he had slasued ay ee atid Maabdigeaetbshd ib the end we never served under an | Pvidence became public in Brooklyn | bration which the committee tself often breaking into dialect |" Germans WED Die Xn eran a poling Teeny) mine! | American General | to-day tending to show that the num. |did not finance n he grew excite | here Poearpe aera *|MANY OFFICERS BRING BACK! ® ber of resignations from the Brooklyn| “Of the money we did spend about | ICA ere’s a record which, in my opinion, ECORATIONS. one-half went for postage send. hele t waa.t Bt nnot be matched by any oth Ware ¢ Victory Celebration Committee is na OS ee n. “I was on ¢ Nee ne heelibeb tan ¥ any other regi: | New York officers of the original ¥ . circular letters to 100,000 Brooklym cane Naa aes in Fi pe ae home ras uneventful €X-/stajor Edward Whittemore, Major gelmann thus far hag seen fit to make cataloguing them. ‘The system thus | similar decoration). Along at "| NEW YORK MEN ARE indie ‘ Lapette dy weed ps ou Arthur B, Little, Capt. Robert F. J. public. | ormanized of course at the dit midnight ¢ at came out wilt ities aa fue men were 89"! rerguson, Capt. Aaron P. Bates Jr It appears that some resignations Psa! of the Delaney committee. two draft men | . EY hase ee happend es Frederick McClinton, First ‘ <ary i the Brooklyn | *PeMt “bout $1,000 for furniture Bicoed Lord nt’ 1 saia.| Maior John W. Huffer, Born in piety eraps on the jour Roger Whittlesey, who is a have been “lost.” And the Brooklyn! sing cabinets, and if Mr. D ‘them mer t know how to handle] Paris, Fought in Foreign Legion ey Mh oud commander Was) cousin of Lieut. Col. Whittlesey, com- enemies of the Hearst management of has no further use for these things I i aurife, whaddyu wanta bring ‘em Tt Us tes ie Pairs : L May.| Mander of the famous “Lost Battal- the soldier welcome home festivities | shall be glad to take them off hi } out here for. Take those fool men nen in U. S. Air Service, fap f i rec a es ‘Y- lion; Lieut Richardson Pratt, Lieut. are wondering how many such pesig-| hands for $1,000 spot cas. i back and mo and Roberts will stay| Among the casual officers on board] NAF You Co ne i ApS for] George Delafield, Lieut. James R | nations disappeared “We serft personal letters to every H atihat tng atecktolm wasn Malar gone ve tenet et nese men have not) pyrope, Lieut. Harokt M, Landon, \icrne aise ‘ t today by| turning Brooklyn soldier, offering NOT SCARED; CAME TO DO HIS|"uffer, twenty-three years aha ai pe r : } _ |Ldeut, Durant Rice and Lieut Hugh ix ne aia m ne siren out to-day BY) our services to him. The money air, aitheueh CAVIRE Gace With cl ee ayward & ® little lA pe Prof. William C. Peckham, Assistant! paid for help up to the time I deft “Just a few minutes after the Ser-| American Army, ia to-day getting his] (2° Tes! ua but he The French Cross of War is worn| | Adjutant and Assistant Quartermas-|was not more than $100.” ful vena * ays, from. the ore | - geant went ba a sniper toc a|*rst glimpse of America. Major Huf. ee Ley A ys, : oa ba by Col, Hayward, Majons Whittemor ter General of the Department of New| Mr. Jonas said he had been couple shots at me, I called Sergt |fer was born and educated in Paris,| OO erat 2 vha [and Little, Capt pon, tio York Grand Army of the Republic,| With Papers in the suit brought Roy Thompson and told him ‘theysa|where his father is a banker. He ae a og fand McClinton, Li 1 ene agente |Commissioner of Records O'Conner } lot of Dute out there and they'| joined the American Red Cross Am neh soldiers," Ne said, | pratt, Landon, Rice and Page. Lieut i Mystration, Prof, Peckham) seainst James H. Post, Police Ime done been shootin’ at me h Service at the start treated our men so well that one of) Tandon also has a Distinguished | | Bald spector Murphy and ‘himself for me aks ae | 1914, but ald th vc ithe boys said never realized in| Service Cross, 1 resigned promptly as a vice 000. ‘Aw, you're he said to me, | var in it didn’t find this wor ork rance that he is a colored man ex-|_ Rao) eal ala president and as a member of the 1 hope,” said Jonas, “that O’Cene 4 y “Scared nothin’, I come over here | ng enough, Sovhe enlisted with) Ta! . had Io a tan x-| Lieut, Landon’s mother ard sister, lGeneral Committee after Hearst had|ROF Will press his suit to an earty to do mah bit and ahm a goin’ to|*he French Foreign 1 pene e looked in a glass. The) who were war workers, were killed in ella eget A“ | trial and not det it fall by the way stick,’ I told him, and he went away. assigned to the air sery poilu apparently has not learned) . pombardment of a Paris church by | ©0$0¢¢¢404 5 MOORS oo | Won his: Vielory over the. Brooklyn! side,'* aoe ANSTO Sa he ene Mays |e Mia tnaneh pects Tate {that a man's color makes any differ-| ty. Gers Raccnin deat -Eakm|| _SERGT. HENRY JOHNSON. politicians, But the Borough Prest-| alaeeneneeeas long : ? seeeenl ies couatee Gat into tea ence. He judxed his fellowman by| cs onaay. When the news of this was|- dent has not given out my name as| Bolsheviki Occupy Villages Souths rot stad A Matgceh a oh dal PA ce Dai alia e art and his bravery.| po vent tg ut, Landon he gritted having resigned ,nor has he by letter| t of Archangel. wires out there,’ ar decided to get | American Air Service and served o: hen ne ta0kn SAE AWTS 26 wee | spatch rived from Mosco “ eas, wirat think T call he Sa cae AAW ay wacines, Th de and played together ana | 28 His and the decorations AWARDED NEW HONORS |." my friends to know that I do|spateh received (rom Moscow, totam yt while he was a n dited officially with ng first day we were thrown inla4 nag won prove that he did hot stand for the present situation occupied several Villages southeast a 1 slid t wn four rman atrplar g|with the Wrench until we left f The Stockholm left Brest and T should like to have the fact of Pilega (93 miles southeast of Arahe i jown and # lid offe planes ar H ne Stock 1 | oP i asitic sae i hi I neve ard of a quarrel b sh nclud: published that I have resigned.” hand grenades, He didn't come, so | Pears the a MTalre and the tween my men and the French.” | ADEE CMG aad rte * |Advanced Flying Ratings Recom-|""\ nother who complaine that his | ak ‘enti @ row up iW front of re Hutter has relatives in New| TAUGHT FRENCH NEGROES TOl i.e sci, company Transp silat i 4 E : f 5 1 nsportatior rended for Thaw, Rickenbacker | resignation was pressed emas ‘ “How many did you have?” Jot fajor er hag relatives in New SHOOT CRAPS. the 854th Company nsportation resiignay ; supr 4 is Thomas : Corps, p Meade, 2 officers and ind Ot Heroes of Air. H. Kelby, formerly a member of t . was askexd. French general in command : . : i “Bout thirty I 1 it, Mor Cohen of Compa . men to one side of the| 245 enlisted men (colored); Casual WA BILINC 13 a ree | General Committee. He told an Eve | Rober come and Hold him about Wied H, 10M Infantry, lives at No.7 Pin own. colored, troops, [Companies No. 219, Maryland No * rine in action World reporter to-day oat el N@w Dessert es lweth. Avanus, ‘Farsokien, Sew : ' 234, Mississippi; casuals, 389 officers had resigned on Feb, 6. He wanted} wires snippin’. j 1 He epartment an | < *#They's a jot of Germans out there | France with the 27th Div men had had some few|@Md 20 enlisted men; 14 nurse ; to know why his resignation had not ana they're agoin’ to rush me,’ I jut was transferred to the 2 th the Moroccans onthe| The Regina te Oy era nae ie vanced flying |}pean published, The Evening World . pas New nglan troops. yt, ¢ r om and has abow 2 ’ -' i C at y L. ol Mas b ned ¢ y al iT esigna tohim, ‘You better pass word Mm 1 ps, 1 ion (some of them are|and h aboard 2, sen, in d ahaa nt h Mortar Batter mmended for |} Bianas Akin ail dhe tantena to the lootn’ant. If they 1he had been invited with 1 ) 1 he wanted to}ciuding Supply Company, Medical] 7 aqds Camp Upton Men on an Army aviators, six of | tion, ar nounced by Borough Prosi. here and try to get in they m Neers of the %th to cat Chrisimas|side-step it olored man | Detachment and 2d Bi mn 1 ‘ m ad. Heading the list are |dent Riegelmann or by Join J. De fol liner w President Wilson laa ‘ Infantry, 30 officers and 931 « Return From France th who eueceeded Nathan I'll get t uttand 4 man | y pp ut m nov one Ww -|men. (colored), of whom 14 : 2 Thaw, Pitt < omm the ' tur and co ) } the {br >¢ and 441 ent men. are from | meek ; ; ' f i hand ny of the om rot w 5 b Upton; Medical Deta ; : : ; aa at i r nm, ¢ ¢ ' 4 1 \ 07 | tra r ‘a . 1 ) | * si or N al A Arti York, ‘ DoT iy Amer I i ROBERTS WOUNDED, JOHNSON ’ ‘ #0 4 - t : FIGHTS ON ' 1 t s aes \ € t 1 4 ’ ‘ M J 1. and d 1 ' H : | per ta pulp out of 4} ¥ t M Grapefruit, add 12 white \ : i | p y : eee 12 walnut meats, 4 diced r he , aschino cherries and 2 tablespoon= vould t and : at, Col. JL. } fuls®of their liquor. Sugar to taste, ( sf wounded ahu pan lor of : ) ¥ ; 1 . + nia, ae fon anal es ’ af tant *\Juiciest Fruit in the World”* . t ‘ " i adva ward ead » J ' Porto Rico Fruit Exchange, 202 Franklin St, ©. ¥ ; i io be A ee which eduled for on, D . t nt We took 1 and © xed from service he eb. Wh a Tue or ° ‘ said I bd fool 1. nore than 14 kilom 8 troopanin \vision ma Phil bacgiy | my Pe ‘ days, bu ost us 1,000 im ay r that ¢ = « 2 , a ton from B ; V ‘ Is A ! eph \ n ; ne regiment n took over Finland a v ied, aria 4 : h i t of Thann and remained 3,354 men M nt E we, Wilm: 1 : en with 157 1ognd I x a - 1 Ww } Tu sha fhiia ‘weith th ‘ us, with G8 8 from I rda — thine ith their the Woonsocket from Bordeaux, with|" The 77th ha i é They 157 men, Deatid to fall’ trom FRISCO TO TREVES, 16 DAYS. iu fore x sisheim, eee, a h i with | Guerre fo “ paraded bis) ALFONSO TO CROSS OCEAN. _ Pershing Renor pted by you rir J Ff ’ review and attached the | Woman Dies tn a 1 beg to tender my heavy few tt) Tew " No. 3 Guerre to the New York Spanish King WII Visit th am-| Upon reg ‘ WASHINGTON, By jon, J ost © committee busted Went 18 was one of Six! siate riaz, erica, Parin Hears, | hav gas 1 by Victor #hing notit War Department to-| An ter of resignation sent @Ah didn to ask no | Americ aviators who, during a\ “Amid profound silence,” said Col., paris, Feb. 12 AN Siebel, a dentist, a st 18tth day tha a eat pe A 4 fs if ‘“-lto the Borough President—but not | ductions er excuse myself, t Jeu | rain storm on July 10, near Coblenz,| Hayward, “the General kissed me on gpain has definitely decided to visit St Mire Georg twenty. Feb, 4, * “er | vet made public by him—was es fol- | sailed in, a-grabbin' out mah I’rench | rere. fonred. by ind enemy bereage both cheeks. 1 did not glance to- south Americg, according to the Gaulols.| the ‘dentist's chair and wal Ons This ia regarded as a ord mail 'OW8? bolo when mah gun went bad, Smith was held a prisoner in Ger. | W848 my men, but I did hear one He will go to Buenos Ayres, Montevideo the room, then fell screaming t0 the service," the despatch said, “Mail from “We, the undersigned members of Man, men land Rio Janeiro, it s said; but the date floor. She sank Into @ staie of coma, 1. iinited states is arriving satistace Local Board No, 28, hereby resign as *Ono musta been a smart guy, for' many unul after the signing of the|>oy say. armistice, be yelled in nglish, Ob, that black TT an rire di a t The health of the command was of the voyage has not yet been fixed. tear — au. dying before medical aid could be sum- moned, torily.” members of the Brooklyn Victory