New-York tribune., 1917-07-16
Bride Who Sailed as Doughboy
With Army Returns in Tears
Private Hazel Carter Went Eight Days Troop Train
and Five at Sea Before Being Dscovered-Sacri-
feed Her Hair to Stay by Her Husband

The first American soldier to come
back from France stood on the deck Of
IN army transport last night and gazed
out of troubled brown eyes on the
coldly twinkling lights Of city ever so
many times as big a. Douglas, Ariz.,
ard, in its tenderfoot way, ever so many
times as wicked.
There was damp streak on the SOL
dier's cheek that might have been the
trail of tear, and the soldiers under
lip trembled in its struggle to shape
words that would sound brave.
Il reckon" said the soldier, 81 reckon
| must be afraid"
And TO prove it Private Hazel Carter,
L. S. A. retired, who wanted 10 go 10
the front with Pershing so bad that she
Just up and went. broke down and cried
in a manner so unreserved as to shame
the warlike o. D. shirt, the khaki
breeches and the canvas leggings that
clothed her.
Some three thousasnd miles away
specifically, in Douglas Private Carter
has other raiment than the field service
uniform in which she has been living
for weeks. Conceivably, too, she has
extra hair in the dressing table drawer
in that distant home. But when she
comes ashore to-day 70 seek ways and
means Of getting 10 Arizona and moth
er. she will be to all appearances what
she set out 10 be-a 'dough-boy.'
SO long as Private Carter resists the
impulse TO say something her disguise
is complete For she made complete
lob of il when she set out 10 JOIN the
army and sacrificed head of hair that
was the envy and admiration of all
Douglas.
The prvate's voice is a silvery So
prano, pleasant TO the ears and she
knows il. But she managed to keep
her thoughts to herself so well that for
eight days on the troop train which
brought "her" regiment from the bor-
der and for five days more at sea she
was accepted at face value by the LOO
men and officers on the France bound
transport.
Silence became oppressive on the
fifth day of the voyage. and Private
Carter forgot herself She permitted
her voice 10 tinkle, and the jig was up.
Captain Eugene D Rideout. the COM
missary officer aboard the transport,
heard. He traced the voice TO its own
er, and half hour later Company X
was shy one man
Technically Under Arrest
Private Carter doesn't know what is
going to happen TO her. Technically
she has been under arrest ever since
the exposure, with a stateroom for a
cell and a military guard outside the
/ door The guard was more or less of
a formality, for Uncle Sam has no in
/ tention of administering punishment.
: Now that she has been safely brought
/ 10 the home shore. she is free TO go
! wherever her little store of money will
carry her.
But military law may not deal so
! lightly with Corporal Ed Carter. L. S.
! A. (active), who is Private Carter's hus-
, band. Somewhere in France officers
arc sitting up late nights with the
regulations, looking for some para
{ graph that covers the ofense of aiding
/ and abetting a stowaway on an army
/ transport in wartime.
As Private Carter told her story 10 a
J Tribune reporter she broke of more
: than once 10 plead:
/ "Oh. do hope you can do something
/ for Ed. Il wasn't his fault. He kept
/ begging me TO 90 back when ! was on
I the train. and he almost cried when
/ he found me on the ship
Before Private Carter had gone out
on deck and looked at the lights and
become completely unnamed the story