The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-22
CHINATOWN GETS
FIRST GOLD STAR.
Private Richard Bue, % Pell
Street, Dies in France
of Pneumonia.
LIEUT.. KELLER KILLED
Son of President Of Society Of
Illustrators Makes Supreme
Sacrifice Abroad.
LIEUT.. KELLER KILLED

Chinatown. no longer Of evil reputc for
opium dens and mysterious wickedness,
but q sober. sedate community, proudly
patriotic. has added a gold star TO its
service nag. News came to the quarter
yesterday that Private Richard Bue OF
25 Pell street. who was indicted into the
service in the draft of January. 1917. Is
dead in France. n victim OF lobar pneu-
n,onia. He lived with brother. Leo
Lum. So far as Is known Private Bue
was the first Chinese to lose his life with
the colors.
An artist Of note was killed in action
on August 1, serving as Second Lieu
tenant in the 126th Infantry. Mrs. Ar
thur I. Keller OF Riverdale, y. Y. was
informed by official telegram from the
War Department that her son. Lieut.
Arthur i. Keller, a designer and interior
decorator, a member Of the Society OF
illustrators and son OF Arthur 1. Kel-
Ter, president of that society. had lost
his life in combat. He was % years old
ana had been n member of the old Sew
enth Regiment, with which he served
six months on the Mexican border.
PIattsburg Captain Killed.
Capt. Allan Waite OF the 372d Infan-
try was killed in action ir the heavy
fighting in the Argonne September 20.
He was a son of Byron 8. Waite, a
member of the United States Board of
General Appraisal and a former Judge
OF the Circuit Court Of Michigan. Capt.
waite was graduated from Plattsburg
in August, 1917. and was assigned to
f3partanburg. receiving there a promo
fion to be First Lieutenant In March,
1915. he went to France with his regi-
,nent A few days before he was killed
ne wrote to his father and mother in
forming them that he had been selected
~ regimental adjutant
He had been regimental liaison officer
for some time when he wrote the letter.
Before he went into the service he was
q student in the Columbia University
Law School
In the early morning, September 8.
Corporal Irving w. Bridgeworth of LAG
West 126th street, who left the receiving
teller's desk in the Gotham National
Bank. Columbus avenue and Fifty-ninth
street. to join the drafted men in Sep
teuber, 1917, made the final sacrifice for
his country. The corporal and a squad
were cut of from their supports by the
enemy's machine gun fire. Bridgeworth
was killed as he was attempting to lead
his men back to their base. He was at
tached to Company F, 307th Regiment
Policeman's Son Killed.
Tho son Of Police Lieutenant James
King Of the Canarsie station. Brooklyn.
fell July Is. his breast pierced by three
inch projectile. his face to the enemy.
Young Thomas f. King OF Company E.
sixth United States Engineers, was sta
toned in a position which was heavily
shelied by the Germans.
Wounded and gassed. lying in base
hospital in great suffering, Lieut. Will
lam John Macheski OF the 12Sth In
fantry. wrote to his four-year-old daugh-
ter on August 8. four days after he had
been lifted from the battlefield. ard said
no word of his wounds or suffering. In
stead. he wrote happily. enclosing pansies
he, had picked from the battlefield be-
cause, as he writes, they looked so
pretty growing in such an unnatural
place." Lieut.. Macheski is a Plattsburg
man and went to France with the New
Hampshire division. He was born In
Georgia and eight years ago married
Miss EVELYN McElroy. Brooklyn. She
BOt WOfQ OF injuries
their home, 1T Woodruff avenue.
Will Not Believe Son Is Dead.
The father and mother OF Private
John F. Jones, 305th Infantry, simply
will not credit the news that he was
killed in action September u. They have
received two letters from their son
dated September 20 and September rs,
respectively. and in the latter he stated
that he was "in Paris having good
time" He had been in a hospital suf-
ferfng from rheumatism acquired in the
trenches. He was 20 years of age and
lived in 764 McDonough street.
Capt. Alfred ]. rHeureux of Hacken-
sack. formerly a teacher In the Newman
School. has been wounded in action.
Passaic heard that Private Richard
Googin of the 312th Infantry was killed
September "a by bursting shell when
he was a despatch runner.
W. II. Dennis of Dennis & Young,
public accountants in Nassau street.
has received from one OF the heroes
of Chateau Thierry. 'Sergeant-major
John II. Quick, an account OF the c!x-
cumstances OF the death of his son,
Lieut.. Clarence A. Dennis of the
Eightieth Company, United States Ma
rine Corps. Lieut.. Dennis was killed by
enemy shell fire June s, 1918, while he
ives holding a support position with his
platoon. He was mentioned In general
orders. the highest honor that can be
paid to a soldier.
Lieut.. Hostetter Probably Dead.
=. The secretary OF the British Air Min
tstry has cabled that apparently re-
liable information determines that Lieut..
Theodore r. Hostetter of the Royal Air
Force, previously reported missing, is
dead. The information was Received by
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arson w.
Burchard. of New York and Locust VAL
ley. L. ].
Lieut.. Hostetter failed to return from
flying duty September 81. In August.
1917. he enlisted In the Royal Air Force
and received training in Canada, and
subsequently In England. He was com
missloned In January, 1918. On April
IL. 1918. when attacking the enemy on
the British front. he was wounded, but
succeeded in getting his plano down be.
hind his own lines.
Lieut.. Hostetter was born in Pitts
burg October 3. 1897. He was edu-
GATED at Pomfret and was OF the Har-
ward class OF 1919
James p. McGovern. private secretary
10 Henry Byrne when the latter was
City Commissioner OF Jersey City, was
killed In action In France September
26. according to a letter received by
Mrs. Anna T., Kutschini OF 215 Bruins
wick street Jersey City, from her