Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
AMERICANS BRAVE
FIRE WORSE THAN
HE'LL IN BATTLE
ct Though Going Picnic, German Officer Asserts
Women Chained to Gun, Shamokin Man Writes; Halle
ton Lads Bible Aunts Gift, Recovered From Prisoner

Our aviators have II all over them
when il comes to aerial duels."
German Women Chained to Gun
An interesting letter on operations
in the battle zone. written by George
Whitehead. of Mauch Chunk. has
been received by John ]. Johnson,
foreman of shops for the New Jersey
Central railroad at Mauch Chunk, and
reads thus:
I'VE are kept busy and surely have
the Fritzes on the run. 1 am located
in a sector that is quite popular Just.
at present. Too bad I can't tell you
the place. 1t is a common sight. to
see prisoners by the hundreds coming
back, and when a fellow goes to the
front he sees dead Germans lying
right and left.
I'VE have all kinds of souvenirs,
such as helmets. gas masks. rifles
and bayonets. One of our boys has a
German machine gun. The boys from
our division went over the top last
week and captured lots of prisoners
and dugouts.
I'm one of the dugouts they cap
tured six German women chained to
machine gun, and in another they
found some women and a piano. The
boys were going to load this on a
truck and bring 1t back, but they
were prevented.
Am shipping a German helmet
back to the states. and IL 1t has the
good luck to arrive there you can
find 1t in my girls possession How
are all the boys? Tell Jim Campbell
and Dad that Paris has Hazleton
stopped hundred ways. Hoping to
be with you on March II, I'll close"
Sergeant Stewart Evans, of Mauch
Chunk, member of a United States
engineer corps in France, and. who
| fought his way to liberty at Cambrai
when entrapped by the Germans last
fall. has been promoted to lieutenant,
with position on General Pershing's
personal stan.
Blinded Hazletonian Gets Sight
Joseph Marshall a Hazleton barber.
who was gassed and blinded while
with the Twenty third Infantry in
France. has begun to see after three
weeks in darkness. The doctors in
the French hospitals have worked out
a method to heal the Inflammation
following tear gas in severe doses
Marshalrs cure was the subject of
great joy to his relatives when he
wrote home to say he had seen the
sun after resigning himself to perm
anent blindness.
I. L. Smith. of Freeland. who is in
| France with the Thirty-eighth In
fantry, has written to his aunt Mrs.
J William McCarron, of Hazleton, tell
ing her that the pocket Bible she
gave him when he went to war was
recovered from a boche prisoner taken
when the Thirty y-eighth reoccupied
trenches from which they had been
driven in the opening of the Marne
campaign. Smith said th,t the BOYS
were called upon to fight so unex-
pectedly that they left their belong
| ings in their dugouts and the Ger
mans speedily became owners of the
old American lines. Later the
"Yanks" swept forward and took
many captives
After Sergeant Joseph Murphy, of
Hazleton. was hit by a bullet, the
first face that he saw when revived
in Red Cross hospital was that of
his cousin. Miss Bessie Thompson.
with whom he had been reared in
Hazleton and who went abroad as a
trained nurse last summer.
Aviators From State College
Lieutenant R. S. Davis. an American
aviator who brought down a German
| fiier in duel, was manager of Penn
! sylvania State Colleges football team
! III 1910 eI1S was IN 1910.
He is the first of the many students
and alumni from that institution fly
ing in France to win an air victory
Davis went overseas in Y. NJ. c. A.
service shortly after leaving college.
He found his hut duties too tame and
enlisted in the French aviation CORPS
| After completing his training he was
| transferred to the American forces
and commissioned a first lieutenant.
| He has been flying on the western
front for more than a year.
Whitley" Thomas, a former Penn
state football end. is also chasing the
Huns through the clouds in France
Casey" Jones. a football and track
athlete. is an aviator with the Amer
lean troops in Italy. Walter S. Far
| ley. State Colleges lacrosse captain
and coach in 1915. was recently COM
| missioned a,lieutenant in the marine
corps.
Captain Sanderson Detweiler. COM
manding Company c, 10th Regiment.
has sent a German helmet to his wife
in Marietta and it is attrae ting much
attention in a store window. 1t was
taken from a man who was shot in
the drive against the Americans.
Detweiler sent another helmet to his
sister. Miss Beatrice Detweiler. of
Columbia
Mrs. Jennie Eddy, of Marietta. has
received word that her son. John NJ.
Eddy. has been wounded in France.
He is serving with the Canadian
forces and was admitted August 8 to
the hospital. He went to England as
a chauffeur for a physician in 1915
and while there enlisted in the SER
vice. He has been in the trenches
two years and this was the first in
Jury.
Shamokin in Casualty Lists
Just a week to the day after she
had received a letter from her two
sons, Privates Clyde and John Lytle.
Mrs. Catherine Lytle, of Shamokin,
received a telegram from the War
Department announcing that Clyde
had died of wounds received in action
on July IS. The joint letter from
the Lytle brothers was the first they
wrote after arriving in France late
in June. and announced that both
were we'll and on their way to the
firing line. Private Clyde Lytle is
the first Shamokin draftee to pay
the supreme sacrifice.
Mrs. Charles Haines, of Shamokin.
has been notified that her son, Pri-
vate Charles Haines, United States
Engineers. was wounded August 5.
A like message was received by Mrs.
Lulu Jacobs, of Trevorton, near here,
specifying that her son. Private Doll
nhin Jacobs also of the engineers