The sun., 1918-07-25
DEATH OVERTAKES
CHUMS IN BATTLE
Lads Who Came From Same
Shop Go Over Top to High
est IIOnOrs.
THIRD IN FAMILY FALLS
Lally. Severely Wounded, Had
One Brother Killed and
Another Hit.
THIRD IN FAMILY FALLS

and George pfahl had been manager a
q quiet store in Brooklyn not so long
ago. but the last letters the two sent
home from France left no doubt OF what
both had become In the lines and be-
tween the lines IL was written they we're
soldiers as out and out soldiers as II the
whole OF their lives had been spent at
the profession OF arms The news they
had to tell was trat their regiments. the
Upton trained 305th Infantry and the
307th, had been ordered at last TO move
UP to the front lines. The long school
ing was over they were to be graduated
now into the war as full fedged fiShting
men: they were glad OF the chance to
get to bayonet points and grenade grips
with the Boche at the same time cas-.
ualty percentages were such and such.
so what right had anybody to worry
about them that was the gist of both
letters.
Parents Of American boys in France
get letters OF that sort every day. but
the parents who got these will get no
more. Charley Cranes of the 305th and
George Pfahl OF the SO7th topped the Of
ficial casualty list yesterday, under the
heading "killed in Action"
Pfahl's people. who live at 6T4i Ever
green avenue, Brooklyn, were informed
that their soldier met death on the field
June "a. Pfahl was a private IN D
Company OF the 307th. He was % years
old, and before he was selected for ser
vice in the Nationa, Army last Septem-
Der had been manager for L. G.. Web
ster Sons. slverware manufacturers. at
622 Atlantic avenue. Brooklyn.
Cranes. also % and also a private.
lived at s51 Kelly street, The Bronx.
He entered the National Army in De-
Cember and sailed overseas in the same
convoy with Pfahl last April. Harris
Cranes, his father. received a War De-
partment telegram Tuesday announcing
the boys death.
Third of Family.
John F. Lally. reported severely
wounded is the third Of his family to be
war victim within a year. The others
were his brothers. Charles Lally and
William LaIly, British soldiers. Charles
was killed last fall and William. the
youngest Of the three. was wounded sew
erai months ago. Until called in the
draft John Lally was employed in ST.
Joseph's Cemetery at Dunwoodie. He
had no near relatives IT. America and
the notification he had boSn wounded
was sent TO his friend. Charles Geier, at
IL Palisade avenue. Yonkers
Corporal Thomas ]. Fischer .Ir.. OF
the 307th Infantry. who was woundxd in
action, lived at 504 Lincoln avenue
Brooklyn, and was a brokers' clerk when
called TO the colors His employers were
Quinn Bros. IS Wall street. Fischer
% and graduate of Public School IS
had been with the firm four years. The
notice received by Corporal Fischer's
mother says II was on June he wa:
wounded, but in his last letter. dated
no, no.,
in battle. Many men Of the 3o7th fell in
action on June "a. and IL is believed
likely that Fischer was among therffsh-
Word has been received by Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Arts. 7s4 East Fourth street
Brooklyn, that Edwin Arts, their son, Is
badly wounded. Arts. who is 25, was
formerly in the insurance business
When he went to Camp Upton las,
March he was assigned to the Machine
Gun Company of the 3o7th. otherwise
the Suicide Club" on June 10 ht
wrote his parents that he was 70 60 into
action for the first time that night
Corporal Son wounded.
Mrs. Isabella Moler of Maspeth. L. I
was Informed by the War Depart
Tuesday that her twenty-three-year-old
son. John W. Moller. corporal in the
3o1th, was wounded June "a MolleI
was drafted in October and was one al
those who sailed for France in April
He hau been clerk for George F
Taylor. a New York broker
Eugene J. Reilly OF East Orange. listed
as having died Of disease. had seen ser.
vice with New Jersey artillery regi
ment on the Mexican border, but hat
been transferred into the Quartermastei
Corps before he sailed for France ir
July of last year. He was "a. and as
civilian had been in the plumbing bust
ness with his father.
Dominick J. Marion. another who diet
Of disease, is not known at the address
given as his in the casualty list, 80,
East Thirty-third street. At $40 Jen
nings street. The Bronx, no information
was to be had concerning Private Der
nard Albert, reported dead of wounds
II was said his sister, a Mrs Sands, haC
gone to the country for summer, and
War Department telegram addressed Il
her in Jennings street had not been de
livered.
Joseph Angrisini's mother hasn't seer
her boys name In the casualty lists. bu
she does know he has been wounded
Joe himself has sent the news in let.
ter to his home folks in Jamaica.
II was on my way to my post or
June 4 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
when a high explosive shell hit about
twenty feet away from me-" he wrote
"A piece hit me Just a little below tn,
but or