Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-09
PHILADELPHZAMS DIE AT FRONT

Podgorska, at 31s North Twenty-third
street. Before he was drafted he was
employed at the Baldwin Locomotive
Works.
Private Charles wahI. reported miss
ing. lived with his mother. Mrs. A. wan.
at 1888 North Fifteenth street.
Lieutenant James q. Graham. 71o
Pembroke avenue. Lansdowne. unofi-
cially reported missing in action July
IL last. formerly was general secretary
of the Lansingburg n. ", Y. M. L. A.
He Joined the New York National Guard
during the Mexican trouble. and later
went to the officers training camp at
Madison barracks. y. Y. AS nrst
lieutenant he was assigned to Camp DIX
and later to Camp Hancock. going to
France last April. The last letter re-
ceived from Lieutenant Graham by his
sister, Mrs. Robert G. Hale. Of Lans-
downe, was dated July 6. at which time
he was in command of Company b.
10th Infantry
Corporal Louis +. Nelson. Company
B. 109th Machine Gun Battalion. ls re-
ported missing in action August IL. lie
is twenty-five years old. graduate OF
the Southern High School and Is a son OF
Samuel Nelson. 2131 South Thirteenth
street. He enlisted in 1914 in the old
Third Pennsylvania Infantry. and was
transferred to the 109th Machine Gun
Battalion last December. Corporal Mel
son. in his last letter home. highly
praised the "doughboys" with whom
his battalion was fighting. in the ad-
vance from the Marne
We entered a certain town tChateau-
Thierry) about . O'Clock in the morn
ing after the Huns had hauled out.
he writes. and ii was pretty sight
The town rests on hill overlooking
the river: the same river In which we
had taken a swim week before.
The following morning we were tod
of the boches being on the run. and we
started after them. We received orders
TO push on, protecting the infantry.
"A bGche gunner had machine gur
at n point where he could command
four roads He ran out of ammunition.
and then stood up, calling 'kamerad !"
One of the doughbcys threw lemon
thand grenade). II blew his head on,
and he was plastered against little
tree We had had nothing to eat fol
three days. and hungry soldier sa"
him and called out, There's han
tree" ="
Private Louis A. Bregan. hit in tht
arm by two bullets. had the member
amputated at the base hospital behind
the lines according to word received by
was fighting by the side of his brother
William Bregan. i'm Company c. Elev
enth Infantry, when he was wounded or
August "A. William was not wounded
There Is third brother. John Bregan
with the 3l0th Infantry in France.
Private George Atkinson. who was
shot in the leg. is also a member of the
same company
Private John Atkinson. gassed. is his
brother. The Atkinson boys fell in the
same fight.
Private Russell Kolbe. also Of Doyles.
town, Is reported to have received his
| wounds when the Germans bombed q
hospital behind the lines. According tc
a letter received by his family. no less
! a parsonage that General Pershing visit
ed the base where the soldier was re-
covering from his wound and inquired
as to his condition, later telling him tt
write letters home at least once 8
week"
Private Frank W. AIltis. OF Mill Creel
and Gulf road. Ardmore. who recently
was reported missing since July 18. evi
| IDENTIFY has returned to duty. Two let
ters received by his sister, Miss Mary
Alltis, bearing dates of August ant
August Is. say he Is feeling well, ant
that he is with Company *. 109th In
lHHliS. III HIS IeNltt he SAID III
had been in three battles. o.
Cook Frank J. Stnisiatis, reported
seriously wounded in action, formerly
boarded in this city at 1859 Metros,
street. He has been in the service fol
seventeen. months and is twenty-five,
years old. Before entering the army h,
was employed as a tool maker.
Corporal Hugh !. Cook, of Company
NJ, Seventh Infantry, who was gassed OF
July IS, has written his father, Hugh
j. Cook, 1921 Fairmount avenue, thai
he is back with his company. The sol
diers brother. Corporal Thomas F. Cook
was killed in action the day Hugh wa:
gassec.
Corporal John X. Finney. eco Yves
Seymour street, Germantown, wa!
wounded August 6, according to advice.
received from the War Department by
his brother, Frank F. Finney. who lives
at the Seymour street address. Cor
poral Finney is in Company c. Fifty
| eighth Infantry. lie is thirty-eight year!
old When he enlisted in June, las
| year. he was a paperhanger. He wen
first to Gettysburg, and his training wa
! completed at Camp Greene, going I,
France in April. His brother has receiv
| ed letters from him frequently. the lates
coming last Thursday. In this letter h
| said fightlng IN the front lines wa!
| tough work, but that he had so fa
esca ped shrapnel. shell fragments anc
bullets. lie said he had been in the from
| lines six times
Sergeant Alfred Stevenson. of tn,
nth Infantry, who was cited TO
| bravery with eight other members o
that regiment last Thursday in a dis
| patch received from overseas, has beel
unofticially reported killed in action
| His home is in Marcus Hook, Pa.
The War Department has no recor'
| OF either the death or injury to Ser
geant stevenson, and there is nothing
to support the report other than tn
bare statement made in a letter writer
by another man in his company.