Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-01
PENNSYLVANIANS
in %DARING-FEATS
Keystone Division Com
mander Leads Company
Into Battle
CAPTURE BIG GUNS
Correspondent Relates Heroic
Deeds of Officers and Men
From Here
CAPTURE BIG GUNS

An attack by a German ~airplane on
a party of American officers in which
were three Pennsylvanians. Captain
Theodore Davis Boal, of Boslsburg
Lieutenant Edward Hopes, of West
chester. and Corporal Olin Mcdonald.
OF Sunbury, is described by Raymond
g. Carroll. war correspondent of the
Public Ledger, in his dispatch appearing
today.
This and other experiences OF the
PennsylVanians of the keystone Division
are told in the story of how an American
major general, who is believed to be
Major General Charles II. Muir, COM
mander of the Keystone Division. led a
company into battle and later fought a
duel with a German airplane with a
rife how the keystone Division captur-
ed three big guns, and how General
Pershing himself cleared up a motor
train jam on the road.
The vicinity of Bots d'Apremont, a
small wood in the great Argonne forest.
which was cleaned up by boys from
Pennsylvania, is the scene Of Mr.. Car
rolls story.
The American major general with the
Pennsylvania troops. who is called
Uncle Charley III the dispatch, com
manded a company which was prcpar-
ing to storm "A machine-gun nest in a
thick woods. Shells fell all around and
the machine-sun fire was heavy. but the
oNAaa 49, 81
,ured several points.
Later. near a village south of Exer-
mont just before the Americans cap
turcd it, German airplanes were circling
round Suddenly they swooped down
and spattered the party of Pennsyl-
vanlans with machine-gun bullets. The
same general seized a rife that had
been dropped by a wounded private and
fired at the closest aviator, who made
off.
General Muir's Fighting Record
Uncle Charley" undoubtedly is Major
General Muir. Captain Beal is a menu
Der of General Muir's staff. General
Muir succeeded Major General Charles
H.. Clement, of Sunbury. as commander
of the division. He saw service in Cuba,
the Philippines and China. during the
Standardization war and the Boxer
rebellion
He had several bille,s in the Panama
Canal zone during tbe buildiny Of the
canal, and two years ago he was
colonel of infantry. Afterward he was
assigned TO Camp jackson az a brigadier
general. and on November % 1917 was
promoted TO ma ior genera, and nIaccd In
of the Twenty-eighth Diyision.
German Abandon Liv. Rabbits
The cor,,ns ,o,, h.b,,a ar,..s
Of live rabbits when they ~hapdo
yarennes before The onsla ppht. of The
Pennsylvania ,roons and after The hoys
Z of the keystone Diyision swent into IN,
Z town they had a feast ON tlsse rab,
bits. ~
p .
80 ADULTS the "erlnahs ie.t pe-
10y numerous saIuens' ana the ienn-
( ~" ~ ea'ins wen now WIN
.nese '"i"ss auueu 10 the'r regular IA
''ous.
YEA u German battery III me Ar
sohhe FOREST tue men OF General Mulrs
coI''lahu iouhu the pfeech OF a German
se'ehty-SeNeh gun lhat had peen hidden
ny artillerylnen VINO imagined they
wouiu come PACK 10 that u The
preecn was restored to the cannon and
VAN cap.ureu ammunition was turned
against the boche.
me gun was fred many lines during
tne oa't'e oy the fehhsylNanlans.' MI