Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
SKETCHES or THE HEROES
CORPORAL JAMES r. WEBB

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killed in action prophesied the date
of his death with remarkable accuracy.
Just before leaving tor France he told
friend that four months after he
reached the fighting zone he would
have been dead month" His pr.dic-
ton came true to the letter.
Corporal Webb is twenty-five years
old. and enlisted in the old Sixth Regi-
ment. y. q. T.. just prior To the MeXi-
can border campaign. Later he was sent
to Camp Hancock for training. and went
overseas in June of this year He was
killed on August -. The young soldier
ma de his home with Mrs. EWma McCabe,
% North Forty-first street, and it was
to her he made the accurate prediction
as to the date of h' death.
PRIVATE JAMES J. DO\AHtE. Of
ficially reported AS killed in action. was
really only slightly wounded and is back
with his regiment. according To let
ter from "A member of that unit. the II lth
Infantry. Donahue. who is eighteen years
old enlisted in July Of last year, was
ira ined at camp Hancock and sent to
France in May of this year. About a
month ago his parents who live at 507
south SiXty-seCOnd street. received word
through unofficial sources that he had
been killed in action. Later word came
that the first report had been erroneous
and that he had only been wounded
Last week, however. an official tele-
gram from the War department notified
them that their son had been killed in
action. \ few days later a letter from a
soldier friend was received 10y neigh
bor in which IL was sad that young
/ DOnahue was back with his company
The youthful soldiers parents and
friends do not know what to believe and
have hesieged the War Department with
requests for definite information as 10
his fate.
SERGEANT WILLIAM :. CANNON,
officially reported killed in action in to-
days list. is actually In French hos
pital recovering from a severe wound In
I the hip. according to "A letter from ths
Young soldier to his mother. Mrs Mary
Cannon. ~ south Fifty-ff,h street
4 telegram fruin the War department
received last week stated that Sergeant
Cannon had heen killed on July is. Hi;
mother has heard from him every weel
since he went 10 France in May of thi,
year with the lo9th Infantry. His las
letter. dated September ). Informed hel
that he was improving rapidly and ex
pected to be out and about again soon
Mrs. Cannon cannot understand how tn,
War Department happened TO make sucl
mistake
PRIVATE WARREN .. GRAVES
killed in action, was only seventeen
years old when he enlisted in the old
Sixth Regiment. y. a. r.. In the summer
of 1917. When that unit was reorgan
lied ms the llth Infantry. Graves wal
assigned to Company l.. lie was trsi sineo
at Camp Hancock and sent overseas
in June of this year,
Private Graves's father who died Il
April last, was veteran Of the Spa n
ish-American War, having been a mem
her of the old Sixth Regiment. y. q. p
for fifteen years and a. Lieutenant q
Company for Ave years Young Grave
was employed at the Commonwealth
Trust Company when he Joined the col
ors. The family formerly lived at 631
SaybroGk avenue. but since his father
death the young hero's mother, Mr.
Edith Graves. has moved to 25ii Sout
FELTON, street
PRIVATE JOSEPH JACKALITZ
died OF wounds teceiNed In action. wa
only seventeen years old when he Ell
listed in the Third Re,iment. ~ q. p
and went To the Mexican border. III
was only nineteen waen he died o
September I. He was severely .wounde
on August 25. but made a gallant igl
for his life and survived for week b