Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
NOLDER WINS PRAISE
FOR SNAPPY SALUTE
General Kuhn Makes Ardmore
italian Happiest Man in
Camp Meade
captain TO TAKE BRIDE
n,,,;s;on officers Busy on Plans for
Rig Hike to Baltimore This
Week
Hy a star Correspondent

Meade. Admiral Md, April Z.
n YOU want to find the happiest and
.,,a.s, man at Little Penn, just visit
y. barracks OF T. Company, 3o4th
.-.,unition Train. that Is nestled away
-ra,v the trees near the Admiral sta
NJ. and call for private Feline Petrini.
,-nless you speak Italian it is not
,,Lsiv that you will get much informa-
Ian either about Petrini or tne am
.,nn,tion train, for the soldier, VINO halls
sr;,m Ardmore, Pa, speaks out little
English. y
r,,, nerseyerc and call one Of the 1tal-
,.rs comrades and very shortly you
lin learn that the Ardmore man, a
..,sr in civil life. is Camp Meade's hap
o,.st soldier in the art of saluting.
csrsral Joseph Il. Kuhn, commander
y ne Liberty Division, is authority
y, ihis statement and as West Pointer
ss,th nearly thirty years experience in
~ army. General Kuhn ought to be
s@nething of an expert in judging
soldiers.
rh. other day while Petrini was do
A.. sentinel duty on the concrete road
mat skirts the camp, General Kuhn
rode mast. Petrini saluted his com
,rander by presenting arms. and did II
-gl,h such a snap that Camp Meade's
hs chief, after learning the soldiers
name. sent a letter to Major Mckenny,
commander of the ammunition train, In
rhIrh he remarked that Petrini had
sven him the most military and prop
srly executed salute that he had seen
IN Camp Meade
Petrini is Mighty Proud
Naturally the major was very pleased
IA think that one of his men should
bs paid such a compliment. and when
The men in the train were assembled
ne read General Kuhn's letter. Petrini
Is mighty proud and. through an in
tefpreter, told the newspaper men that
before the war is over he will prove
himself worthy of the generals tribute
F1t is my first army experience" says
the Italian, but I am trying to make
good My captain tells me to put the
snap and punch into my salute. | am
doing It,"
And another proud member OF tht
ammunition train is Captain Vincent A
Carroll, who before making his debu
as an army officer was a Philadelphia
lawyer living at 1908 North Fifteenth
street Tomorrow .he Captain and Miss
Rosalie NJ. McMichan, of Rosemary
Overlook, will be married i'm the .churcl
Of Our Lady of Lourdes, Overlook.
Plans for the hike to Baltimore anC
parade In that city OH Saturday arc
being worked out by General Kuhn anc
his staff and will be made public a,
soon as they are completed. Not NOR,
than 10000 men or approximately one
third OF complete army division will
participate but that number is sufilcien
% execute the maneuvers that are plan
ned
Definite information is lacking and al
that division headquarters will give ou
today for publication is the fact tina
the detachment from the Libert,
Division will march to Baltimore TO
the purpose of protecting that metropolis
from an imaginary German invasion.
Troops Prepare for Defense
The maneuver, according to Genera
Kuhn. Is based upon the proposition
that the American navy has been dis
posed Of and that a fleet of German
warships and transports is reported ap
preaching the middle Atlantic coast.
"Our troops" says the official in
formaton ARE concentrating in tn
clhity Of the principal railroad center
near the Atlantic coast. A large de
Achment from Camp Meade is orere,
TO Baltimore"
officers Of C Company, Twonty-eightl
Engineers, have given up the task o
trying to find a pair of shoes that vii
NJ Private A. L. Bum, of Kansas City
80 they have decided to have a pal
made TO order. Bum is a mining en-
gneer and spent many years in Mexico
nut does not possess the feet of sol
aer' The Government issues shoes a
small as size three and a half, bu
iney are miles too big for Bum. Henc
pair OF made-to-order boots.
First Lieutenant John McInnes Som
efs, Of the 316th Infantry, mas bee
promoted to a captaincy. Lieut.. Eugen
w Vanlucas, of the 304th Engineer.
pas been transferred to the Sixty-sixt
Engineers