Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15
TWOPENNSYLVANIA
MEN HELD CAPTIVE
rl!!tsourgh and Reading Res
idents Among Guards
Taken by U-Boat
fHlLADELPHIAN IS SAFE
WASHINGTON, Aug. IL

-. WASHINGTON, Aug IS
Inc names of two Pennsylvanians an
pear In the list Of armed guards oa,c,a,,v
announced by the Navy Department as
oe"'s heid prisoners by the Germans as a
result Of the sinking OF the Campana bv a
o-poat. Residents Of the keystone State
reported held are Fred s, Jacob. second.
class seaman. of Pittsburgh. and Charles
Lovan Kline, third-cass gunner's mate, OF
Reading.
In n second list of other members OF ,Ae
armed guard who were landed safely at ,
frehch port appears the name of George
Allan McCausland. of Philadelphia. whose
nome address IS given as 4426 Frankford
avenue.
The names OF armed guards reported now
held, including their rank and residence. Is
as follows:
James Delaney. chief gunner's mate: hex,
OF Kin wife, Eleanor, IL Cleveland street.
Maiden. Mass. Delaney commanded the
gun crew WIG
William Albert Miller seaman second
class mother. Elizabeth Grebeck, ss45 Rur.
ley street, Chicago
Fred ). Jacob. seaman. second class !.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ray Roap, boatswain's mate second class
mother, Elizabeth Garn, AIS Poplar street
Boyne City. Mich
Charles Lovan Kline. gunner's mate third
class; father, H. C. Kline. 240 West But
tonwood street, Reading Pa
The other members of the armed guard
who were landed safely at a French mort
are
Henry Montgomery Lusk, second class
seaman. Ennis, Tex; George Franklin VIII.
cox. second-class seaman. 1905 Kuehle
street. Cleveland; Karl Melvin Smith sec.
ond-class seaman. 4203 Holly avenue. ST
Louis; Wray Ernest Metzker, second-class
seaman. Williamsport, Ind. George Allan
McCausland. 4426 Frankford avenue. Phila
delphia; Barney V. Artle. 727 East 11Sth
| street, Cleveland; Cornelius Reilly, 5sA
Henry street, Brooklyn, and Roy Angus,
Voigt, Sl5 East 144th street, New York.
PITTSBURGH. Aug 15.-Fred Stephen
Jacobs. enlisted in The navy July G, 1915
and was detailed to serve on the Campana
| as a gunner when war broke out between
| United States and Germany. He made sew.
eral trips across the Atlantic in safety as
| a member Of the gun crew of the merchant.
| man. During January he was home on q
| furlough Jacobs is twenty-three years Ole
and was employed as a clerk in Pitts
DuIbn StOTe DelOTt lie eHhlSleu
| READING, Pa, Aug. 15.-Charles T
| Kline, Of 240 Buttonwood street, this city
| has been in the navy service for two years
| His father, H. c. Kline, when told of hi
| sons fate, remarked:
| well he has been in tight places befor
and usually knows how to get out. Charlie.
| is a good American boy
| The family here has not heard from tn
| son in several weeks. They knew that h
was on the Campana. Kline is twenty-s
| years Of age. He worked here as a ma
! chinist His father. married brother
| Floyd Kline. and single sister, Agne
| Kline, reside in this city.
! George Allan McCausland is one Of tn
hundreds Of young men who answered tn
| appeal of the navy orators on the City Ha
Plaza about five months ago. He can
home one morning and told his father. Wi
| liam A. McCausland, that he had enliste
and that night he went to the Norfolk Nav
Yard
George Is but twenty years old and til
| only SON. He has two sisters, Nell
Blanche, nineteen, and Anna Mabel, mir
years old His mother is dead. He Is a
tached to the battleship Pennsylvania.