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260 NAMES SENT
FROM WAR FRONT
BY PERSHING
Greatest Number Missing in
Action; 48 Killed and 62
Yield Life
By Associated Press
Washington. Aug. 23.—0n the
army casualty list to-day there were
260 names, divided as follows:
Killed in action 4S
Missing in action 72
Wounded severely 53
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FRIDAY EVENING,
Died of wounds 42
Died from accident and other
causes 7
Died of disease 13
Wqjjnded, degree undetermined 25
Total 260
, The followingPennsylvanianB are
' | named:
I | KILLED IX ACTION
Corporals
Peter Schultz, Pittsburgh.
Mechanic
Curtis E. McQuillan, Pittsburgh.
Privates
Amos Deperro. Sykesville.
Charles J. Klein. Lewiston.
alter Madenford, Media.
DIED OF WOUNDS
Privates
Lyman Rohr. Ambler.
. Felix Wisowaty, Pittsburgh.
I Abraham H. Bretigan. Lititz.
i Corporal
William Junod. Philadelphia.
Sergeant
Albert J. Williams, Duryea.
Captain
1 Philip Mills, St. David's.
WOEXII ED SEVERELY
Privates
Walter Graeff. Pottsville.
Samuel A. Watkins. New Castle.
Jacob Weiner, Pottsville.
WOUNDED, DEGREE EXDE
| TERM 1NEI).
Privates
John McQulston. Philadelphia.
George Nolan. S.cranton.
Stanley J. Pastula, Shenandoah.
MISSING IX ACTION
Corporal
Carl Foresti, East Liberty. Pitts
burgh.
Privates
Fred A. Eberhardt. Monessen.
Harry W. Hare. Indiana,
i Frank McCaffrey. Milton.
Paul R. Ryan. Pittsburgh.
Robert B. Wetzel, Allentown.
August F. Schilling. Pittsburgh.
Tony Basile. New Castle.
John L. Gumbert. Dravosburg.
James B. McGurk, Muddy Creeks
Fork. York County.
The Marine Corps list contained 72
j names, divided as follows:
Killed in action 3
Died of wounds ~... 4
j Died of disease 1
! Wounded severely 10
Wounded, decree undetermined. 49
' Missing in action 5
1 But two Pennsylvanians are named.
WOUNDED, DEGREE ENDE-
I TEKMIXED.
Private
Joseph Seewerker, Connellsville.
MISSING IX ACTION
Private
Fred L. Pence. Erie.
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STATE SOLDIERS
UNDER HUN FIRE
DID NOT FALTER
Leader of Company A, 109 th
Machine Gun Battalion,
Relates Pursuit
FOR 27 days and nights Pennsyl
vania soldiers pushed forward
after the retreating Huns. The
American soldiers were members of
the 109 th machine gun battalion, of
the Iron division of former Pennsyl
vania guardsmen. Their gallant
advance under fire is described by
Captain William C. Rehm, of Lan
caster, commanding Company A.
This battalion, attached to the
Fifty-sixth infantry brigade, was
formed of companies from Lancas
ter, Columbia, Bethlehem, Allen
town and Philadelphia.
"Day and night we marched
through mud. rain and sunshine,
best and cold," says Captain Rehm.
"We were continually under gun
fire and gas attacks, without being
able to get any guns in action.
"The enemy's rear guard defense
was the only thing that saved him
from annihilation or capture. Pass
ing over the battlefields, we were in
constant observation from airplanes
and balloons, and as a result he put
down a heavy barrage that worked
the devil with us.
"I wish you could see my boys.
Such a ragged, dirty, determined
looking lot of fighters, full of grim
courage. They all received their
baptism of fire at Chateau Thierry,
and behaved splendidly, while shells,
high explosives, shrapnel and gas
were dropping every minute every
where.
No One Faltered
"No one faltered or turned tall.
On we went, ducking when shells
approached, dropping on our bellies
when half a house tumbled down.
It was hell, and it kept up all night,
and yet not a man showed a yellow
streak. It was our first experience.
Since then we have Jjecome used to
t7p to July 31, the captain wrote,
the battalion had suffered no casual
ties. Since then word has been re
ceived that Private Howard W. Shue,
of Company H. has been wounded.
His home is in Schaefferstown.
Two Lancaster men in the lOSth
machine gun battalion, of the same
division, are commended for brav
ery in a letter from Sergeant Her
man H. Xies. also of Lancaster.
They are Carl McConomy and Harry
Greiner. both with the medical de
tachment of the battalion.
These two men went out under
heavy shellfire to rescue wounded.
Earl Kyan. also of Lancaster, of
j the 151 st machine gun battalion, has
I been wounded for the second time.
I "IVe went through a pretty rough
j campaign," he writes, "but we drove
the Boche back and are happy."
In his last leter to his home at
Milton. Lieutenant Colonel Wallace
W. Fetzer, killed in action, described
some of the terrific fighting through
which he had passed. Colonel Fet
zer was superintendent of schools
i at Milton.
"Safe and well," he wrote on July
j 26. "In all seriousness I say "Thank
1 God.' I suppose you read of the
battle beginning July 14-15 at mid
i night, and not yet over, although
things are quiet just now. Let me
t say I was in the first line in one
of the fiercest parts of the fight from
; Sunday night to Tuesday morning.
; attached to a French regiment with
some of the American troops ,and the
French colonel told me we had
passed through one of the fiercest
bombardments he had ever been in.
"I have had fygh explosives burst
. ing around me, machine gun and
| rifle fire at my feet and around my
1 head. Americans are brave men,
! and America can feel proud of her
soldiers.
French Fearless Under Fire
"I admire the French soldiers I
saw. They are absolutely fearless.
I saw them walking about with their
canes swinging as though they were
walking down Broadway. Shells were
bursting and machine gun fire was
, likely to strike them any moment,
i We lay out in the open all night un
der fire and slept through it."
Colonel Fetzer was with the 110 th
I infantry of the Iron division. Addi-
J tional casualties reported from this
regiment indicate the terrific char
acter of the fighting through which
it has passed.
Duncan Mclntyre and Bernard
1 Robison, of Company G, Altoona, are
j missing. Private Willis L. Strouse,
| of Sunbury. a wagoner with the One
| Hundred and Tenth, w{A killed in
j action.
From the One Hundred and Elev
j cnth Infantry, B. F. Smith. Jr., of
i Company B 4 whose home is in West
| moreland county, is recovering from
J a gas attack. From the One Hun
• dred and Twelfth, Clair J. Fry of
j Company M, of McVeytown, was
I wounded July 18.
"We have the hellish Boche on
j the run and are after him with a
! vengeance," writes Captain H. c.
Harper, of New Castle, a medicai
! officer with the Iron division,
i Charles F. Evans, of Pottsville,
with Company C, One Hundred and
Third Engineers, has been wounded,
: bringing the total casualties of this
company up to fifteen. Company D,
! of the same unit, recruited at Potts
ville, has had nearly fifty casual
ties.
I Lieutenant, Charles B. Seely. of
Williamsport, a dental officer with
| the One Hundred and Third En
j gineers, in a letter written July 27,
, tells of the part the Pennsylvanians
1 played in the Marne fighting when
a majority of these casualties oc
curred
"This regiment was the first of the
Twenty-eighth division to get into
I action, and nautrally the first to be
| at the front," says Lieutenant Seely.
"We also had the first casualties.
"When the Hun started the offen-
I sive on July 15, we were busy for
thirty-six hours straight, but there
i were very few serious cases—mostly
minor and gassed cases.
"The outlook for the war for the
Allies is very promising. I think it is
only a matter of time. The French
claim December will end it, and I
think it will soon break. The French
say the American infantry are crazy
because they are so fearless, and the
American artillery, they say, are
drunk because they shoot so damned
often and accurate.
"The colonel Just came In telling
us It is all oft. The artillery bom
barded for three hoivs this after
noon, and the Huns retreated back
over the river Ourcq. They are
afraid to fight the Americans. The
Twenty-eighth division is sure mak
ing a wonderful name for Itself.
Two drafted boys from the state
have been killed in action. They
were Oliver Shoemaker, of Mount
Bethel, and Robert F. Sollenberger,
of Williamsburg. Sollenberger, who
was with Company C, Three Hun-
I dred and Nlnteenth Infantry, was
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
drafted April 3 and trained at Camp
Lee.
Captain H. F. Sleppy, formerly of
Northumberland, was killed in action
August 13, while serving with the
Fourth Engineers. Lieutenant Karl
L. Knecht. of AUentown. with Com
pany C, Forty-seventh Infantry, was
killed in action July 31.
Private Horace L. Layser, of Mill
creek township, Lebanon county,
was killed in action July 18. Private
Raymond Borofsky. of Shenandoah,
with the Thirty-ninth Infantry, was
killed on July 15. and Sergeant An
thony Scanlan, Sixteenth Infantry,
and Private John Rosomowltz, Twen
ty-eighth Infantry, both of Shenan
doah, were wounded July 20.
Mechanic O. D. Eckman. of Lan
caster, was wounded August 11. John
W. Lauffer, Company D, One Hun
dred and Fiftieth Machine Gun Bat
talion, of Greensburg, was wounded.
From the Marines. Private Alvin
E. Long, of Hickory Corners, was
killed in action: John E. Bard, of
Lancaster, is missing, and John Mc-
Callen, of Sharon, was wounded.
Mrs. A. L Hawkins, of Washing
ton, Pa., has received word that her
son, Frank B. Hawkins, has been
made colonel of the Three Hundred
and Fifty-third Infantry, now in
France. He is a son of the late Col
onel A. L. Hawkins, commander of
the Fighting Tenth in the Philip
pines campaign of the Spanish-
American War. Young Hawkins was
a captain in the Tenth in that cam
paign under his father and entered
the Regular Army. He was lieuten
ant colonel of his regiment when it
sailed. His brother, Clyde Hawkins,
is colonel of the Three Hundred and
Fifty-second U. S. Infantry. The tir,-
usual condition thus presents itself
of a father and two sons as army
colonels.
Dauphin People in
a Red Cross Benefit
A festival benefit for the Ameri
can Red Cross will be held at Red
Bridge, miles two and one-half
north of IJauphin. Saturday eve
ning. Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, chair
man of the Harrisburg chapter, and
others are expee'ed to make short
addresses. There will also be com
munity singing led by one of the
Middletown aviators and an entire
squadron of aviators will be present.
Miss Sue Meyers, chairman of the
committee, requests that every one
attending bring reading material or
a cake, if possible, and the chairman
will see to it that all books and mag
azines donated are sent to our sol
diers in France.
There will be on sale good old
fashion chicken corn soup, in addi
tion to cake, ice cream and other re
freshments.
The committee has extended an
invitation to all near and far to at
tend as all the proceeds will be turn
ed over to the Red Cross fund.
THE DEED^OF
HARRISBURG'S HEROES
are recorded in thrilling detail in the special Pennsylvania Hero Section to be
issued with the Philadelphia PUBLIC LEDGER on
Next Sunday
August 25
All the information that has come from France, describing the heroic exploits
of our boys in battle, is here collected and presented in complete narratives. All
of the PUBLIC LEDGER'S many news resources —Raymond G. Carroll's cables
from the front, dispatches from the news associations and official communiques— *
have contributed. !
It is a collection of stories of individual courage that will thrill the heart of
every Pennsylvanian.
The Hero Section will contain photographs of Pennsylvanians killed, deco
rated or to be decorated; it will give the history of Pennsylvania regiments in the
firing line and letters from the boys to their "home folks" describing their -experi
ences in France. ,
Nothing like it has been published since the war began.
The edition will be limited. To avoid disappointment place your order at once
with your local newsdealer.
Philadelphia
PUBLIC •£*& LEDGER
. Harrisburg Agent
R. Brinser, Harrisburg News Agency
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Col. Frank R. McCoy Is
Made Brigadier General
Jp ' Ut
s£g£ .;
COL. FRANK ROSS McCOY, U. S. A.
Yesterday President Wilson sent
to the Senate the names of thirty
two colonels who he had promoted
to the rank of brigadier general.
Among the number was the name of
Colonel Frank R. McCoy. Colonel
McCoy is a native of Lewistown, Pa.,
and is a son of the late General
Thomas F. McCoy. He is a West
Pointer of the class of 189". He went
to France in 1917 with the first ex
peditionary forces and until June last
was assistant chief of staff to Gen
eral Pershing. He has for the past
two months been in command of the
165 th Infantry, formerly the famous
fighting 69th Regiment of New York
in the Rainbow Division, a regiment
that has been in the thick of the
fray on the western front. The col
onel is a nephew of George F. Ross,
of this city.
Jewish Youths Need Not
Register on the Sabbath
Washington, Aug. 23.—Because
members of the Jewish Orthodox
Church object to registering for mili
tary service on their Sabbath, Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder an
nounced yesterday youths of the Jew
ish Taith will not be required to reg
ister next Saturday with others who
have become 21 since last June 5.
Their registration wll be accepted
by local boards on Monday, Aug. 26.
U. S. Order Closes All
Gettysburg Rum Shops
Gettysburg, Pa., Aug. 23.—Without
warning all the hotels, clubs and
wholesale bottling works were order
ed closed at noon yesterday and once
again Gettysburg is dry.
Deputy Marshal Harvey L. Smith,
H rrisburg, appeared yesterday and
notified al! the proprietors to cease
the sale of liquor at 1 o'clock. This
was the first intimation the liquor
men had that such action was to be
taken this year. The order covers all
liquor houses within five-miles of the
camp and includes the villages of
Bonneauville and Huntertown. which
were closed yesterday afternoon.
BIBLE CLASS AT CORNROAST
Two hundred men of the Men's Bible
Class, of the Derry Street United
Brethren Church, with their wives
and sweethearts, are being entertain
ed at a cornroast by the teacher. O. P.
Beckley, at his home. "Oak Colony."
near the Colonial Country Club, this
afternoon. H. L. Carl is assistant
teacher.
REGISTRAR APPOINTED
The county commissioners to-day
appointed Btiford Ambrose, of 325
Buckthorn street, as registrar for the
Second Precinct of the Fifth Ward.
He is a Democrat and fills a Vacancy
caused by resignation.
NEW' MINISTER TO LIBERIA
Washington. D. C., Aug. 23.—Jo
seph L. Johnson, of Columbus, 0.,
was nominated by President WMlson
yeste-day as Minister resident and
Cot kul General to Liberia.
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BOLSHEVIKI PUSH
THE ALLIES BACK
[Continued from First Page.]
Daily Mail from Harbin dated
Wednesday. /
British and French troops are
engaged in the battle but the
brunt of the fighting fell on the
cossack and Czecho-Slovak
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troops. Japanese units aided in
the retirement.
Bolshevik monitors, oper
ating on Lake Hangka are har
rassing the allied left and have
detained additional Czech
forces. Commands are being
given the Bolsheviki in German.
The Ussuri river forms thoa.
I eastern boundary of Manchuria.