Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-02
TWO FROM HERE
SLAIN in FRANCE
E. H. Foley and R. C.
Naegle Fall on West
Front
REPORT TWO MISSING
Two Soldiers From This CITY
Also Included in List
of Wounded
REPORT TWO MISSING

Two Philadelphians were killed in aC
tion on the west front during recent
fighting, two others are missing ano
two were severely wounded according
TO todays casualty list issued by the
War Department.
Killed
SERGEANT EDWARD n FOLEY
AS North SiXty-second street
4, G. NAEGLE, 52O2 North Mascher
street.
Missing in Action
BENJAMIN J. SPANG, IA Shirley
street.
JOSEPH V McGINN, 1l9 Mifflin
street.
Severely Wounded
SAMUEL W. ATZER, 1916 South
Sixth street
JAMES J. KENNEDY. West rhila-
delphia.
Had Ordered Christmas Dinner
Sergeant Foley had ordered his
Christmas dinner at home. confident
that the war would end and he woulu
be back with his relatives by that date.
according to a letter dated June . and
received Thursday by his mother. Mrs
Margaret Foley He was killed in ac-
ton June 10. according to a message
from the War Department.
Foley went overseas in June, 1911.
He was a native Of New Philadelphia
Schuylkill County. He served three
years in the regular army and re-en-
listed when Congress declared war
He was attached to Company A. Six
teenth Infantry. Two sisters. Miss
Theresa Foley and Mrs John Corday,
survive him. as does a brother, Thomas
J. Foley. All live with their mother.
Son OF German Parents
Naegle's parents, Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Maggie, have received no official con-
frmation of their sons death. They re-
ceived letter from him two weeks ago
in which he said that he was we'll and
happy and was enjoying army life.
Young Maggie was drafted and sent
to Camp Meade February s. He was
stationed there three months when his
regiment was ordered to France Be-
fore the war he was employed as a
baker.
Both of Naegles parents were born
in Germany, but his father was brought
to America when four years old and
became naturalized as soon as he was
old enough to vote.
Besides his parents brother. Charles,
Jr., and a sister Catharine live at the
Mascher street home.
Joseph V McGinn was twenty-three
years old. Ee lived with his sister, Mrs.
Gertrude Morgan, 2527 Cantrell street,
before enlisting. He was member of
Company *. Twenty-third Infantry and
enlisted in March 1917. He had been
in France since September.
Atzer reported wounded is unmar-
ried, and was in the January draft He
went to France in April, after receiving
training at Camps Meade and Greenleaf
His parents are dead and he lived with
his sister, Mrs. Minna Tabatzhnick. He
and brother were employed in a tail
oring establishment at Third and Wal
nut streets.
Private Spang, reported missing came
of a family of fighters covering Ave
generations. His grandfather, Charles
F. Hansell. fought through the Civil
War with the Seventy-first Pennsylva-
MIA Volunteers and was the only mem
Der of his company to escape Libby
Prison after the entire company had
been taken prisoner. He was wounded
in action eight times, but returned to
the front after recovery each time.
Spang arrived in France year ago
as member of the marine corps. hav-
Ing enlisted soon after the outbreak of
the war, when he was a telephone oper-
ator at the Municipal Hospital. He was
twenty-three years old
His mother, Mrs Clara V. Spang. to-
day exhibited letter she received from
her son a few weeks ago. in which he
enthusiasm over the prospects
of great United States victory.
'1'll eat my next Christmas dinner
in Berlin and will be home next sum
mer," he told his mother
Spang was a member. of the Forty.
seventh Company, Fifth Regiment, U. s,
NJ. C. and 1t is supposed. though official
information is lacking. that he was in
the thick of the recent big advances of
the marines in the vicinity Of Chateau