The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-06

Washington and graduated year ago i
from the East Orange High School. He |
enlisted In the Seventh Regiment and
later was transferred to the Sixty
ninth. DR.. Falkner, who Is away on
vacation, is connected with the Alexan-
der Hamilton Institute. Manhattan.
Word was received yesterday by Mr..
and Mrs John van Weetering. River
street. Hackensack. of the death of their
son Frank j., killed in action, July Is. |
He was one of three sons in the SER
vice. iand according to an older brother |
John had twice been rejected because |
Of small stature before being finally !
accepted.
Columbia FootbSll Player Injured.
Gable advices reaching here yester-
day told of the wounding in France Of
Jefferson A. ("Jeff") Healy. who was !
captain of the Columbia football team
In 1916.
Jeff. Healy went abroad as Second !
Lieutenant OF Company I, Thirty-eighth
Infantry after qualifying for COM
mission at the officers training school
a. Plattsburg. The message gave ro
particulars. but said that "Jeff'' had
been wounded and taken to Base Hos
pital 81. The former Columbia captain
10 % years old and lives in Brooklyn,
but while at Columbia made his home at
the Sigma NJ house. $40 West 18th
street.
The message which was signed by the
wounded man, was addressed to his
brother. Ed Healy. who has also been a
member of the Columbia team for the
past two years.
Family Sad hut Proud.
Private Patrick Lynn, also reported
IN nti0 V,,l,, ,,,&sl. h
family at 5S7 Riverside Drive. He en-,
listed year ago and only last Satur-
day letter was received from him ex-
pressing the hope that he soon would be
able to return. He was member Of
| Company II. r65th Infantry. and
brother. also in France. is a member Of
the 126th. An official message from she
War Department was received at his
home last night.
I'VE are griefstricken, of course, but
| we are proud of him. a sister Of Pri-
vate Lynn said last night. I'VE hope
our other brother will be spared
| Private Russell William Long, killed
In action. was a member OF Company II.
l66th Infantry. His aunt, Mrs. Sarah
Long, 239 Howard avenue, Brooklyn.
! With whom he lived, received a message
from the War Department yesterday in
forming her of her nephews death.
|
| June, 1917. and went overseas last Oc-
tober. A letter received from him July
9 said that he was we'll and looking for
| ward'to quick action
Two houses in a single block that
| turned out almost en- masse to cheer the
old SiNty-ninth Regiment when it
marched off for Camp Mills late last
summer were plunged into mourning last
, night by the most recent casualty list
sent home by Gen. Pershing. In the list
were the names of Privates Joseph T.
Newman, 201 East Fortieth street. and
Theodore NJ. Sweet, 211 East Fortieth
street Both were killed in action.
Newman and Sweet were boyhood
playmates and a little later in life were
graduated together from Public School
81. They enlisted in the old Sixty ninth,
now the 165th, about the same time. but
went abroad in separate companies.
Newman with Company B and Sweet
with Company G. Newman was a
chauffeur and Sweet an elevator OPP
orator.
Hid Race to Join Goth.
Still another of 165ths men named in
the list was Corporal Louis Domb of
7S9 Flushing avenue, Brooklyn. He
wanted be a soldier three years ago
and picked out the then Sixty-ninth as
1.-THE regiment he wanted to fight with If
ever the chance to fight arrived But
he was Jew and he knew the SixtE-
ninth bore the reputation Of being an
almost exclusively Irish commoad.
So Domb, for the purpose of enlist
ment, became just plain Doan. and it
; was under that name he went abb Dad
with the regiment last fall. In his let
ters back home he said his company f.
\ hoI ha oil 90 tIa ts,rhr IT,
fIe said machine guns sounded to him
like rivettlng machine at work on a
; New York skyscraper and many Of the
gang know they are going to be dead
ones before it's over over here"
Sergeant John f. Lynch, also OF the
l65th, was killed July Is in the frs
days of the drive. He lived with hi;
mother at 10 South Eighth street, Brook
Ign. He was a member of the Seventh
Regiment. National Guard, but wal
transferred to the 165th when the ole
SiXty-ninth was made the nucleus fol
; the new regiment. He was employed by
, Lieut. Frederick H. Cone. who also wa.
transferred from the Seventh to thu
:. 165th. and who was reported wounded
!, just after the 165th went into action
Lynchs last letter to his mother sale
the only thing he longed for was a goot
. big dish of Yankee ice cream"
Engineers Also in Action.
That the Sixth Regiment Of Engineer
. | also had been in action was shown by tn,
q death in action OF Stewart F. Plat, wht
, was reported killed July is. He was "a
tand enlisted in October. His homo wa!
at Green's Bridge, n. ].
Max Marrs of 166 Belmont avenue
:. Newark, n. j., was notified by the Wa
a Department yesterday that his nephew
4 John Wasserman. 23. had been killed II
n action idly 1. Wasserman was born II
z Rumania, where his parents still live
i He came to the United States six year
ago and enlisted in May. 1916. He wen
h to France last September. Prior to hi
I. enlistment Wasserman was a clerk il
!. New York.
Private Samuel r. Schlimper, "a
d killed in action. enlisted about a yea
d ago and went abroad, with the Ninth In
g fantry. He lived with his parents a
a 291 East Fourth street, and had bee
d employed as shipping clerk UP to tn
y time of his enlistment.
: Thomas ORourke. listed among tn
O killed in action, lived with his father
5. mother and younger brother at 352 Yves
J. Seventeenth street before he went dow
It to Mineola August 10, 1916, and er
d listed in the 165th Infantry (Sixty
ninth New York;. He was 10 years @
= age and was employed as a longshore
r, man prior to his enlistment.
= Samuel Radin, killed in action, cam
| 30 I, to aSia 4an '