Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-09-12
GOT THIRTY HUNS
BEFORE HE DIED

scoTTY, YOUNGEST SOLDIER IN
PERsHiNG's FORCES, Is
MoURNEp BY ARMY.
HIS HEROIC DEATH RELATED
Red Cross Establishes Tailor Shop In
Berne to Supply Captured American
Officers With Uniforms-New Plan
for Training Flyers.
Grom Committee on Public Information.)
Observation-Disclosures Albert Il.
Scott, the youngest soldier in General
Pershing's army in France-he was
but fifteen years of age and Brook
line, Mass, high school boy when he
enlisteG-is dead, shot through the
head by a German sniper after ne had
laid thirty foes to rest, and the army
mourns it's boy hero.
A soldier writer for The Stars and
Stripes, the A. Z. F. paper, tells this
story:
"In the regiment they are talking
these days Of all the good pals they
lost in tho fierce, unfortgettable chase
they gave the Germans in the great
retreat from the Marine. But most of
ala little oftener and a bit more
fondly-they talk of Scotty.
HE was good kid, they say, and
he died on his gun.
Ellis great chance came when on
that historic July Is his regiment got
the order for which, through many a
month of dreams, it had lbnged-the
order to advance. It went 10 kllome-
tiers without stopping, chasing the Boche
up hill and down dale. fighting its way
through patch after patch of inviting
woods that would prove treacherous
with hidden machine guns.
I'm the first days of that battle, the
movement was so swift that more than
once small German rear guard and an
advance Yank platoon would meet in
the forest and fight out then and there
q complete and separate battle all their
own. So it was with the Indians, as
Scotty's regiment was nicknamed, one
afternoon, rs they We're making their
way past the bitterly won town of
En- eds.
At the cross road they saw troops
approaching them in column of squads.
The officer in charge caught tAem in
the focus of his field glasses. They
We're Boches, coming on. The Yanks
waited, itching to open fire, but hiding
their time. Suddenly the Boches de-
serted the road and came on them
through the forest.
'The lieutenant placed his men along
roadside ditch. He placed Scotty
and his sho-sho beside tree and
squarely opposite narrow woodland
path that opened across the way. He
could see straight down that patti, and
the Boches were bound either to come
along 1t or to cross it.
"'See that path, Scotty?' said the
lieutenant. That's your target. Not
one of them must cross it.
eyes. SIR said Scotty, and dropped
beside his gun.
"Then from the high branches Of
many tree and from many shelter
the German fire opened, and the Yank
fire answered.
"a gray figure darted suddenly into
the ,leafy path. He fell.
another appeared. He fell.
"There was perhaps ten minutes of
that, and what was left Of the German
party was withdrawing when handful
of soldiers scampereG along the road.
They were Germans, but they shouted
as they ran, Don't shoot, we're Amer
icans.'
"For moment, just for the space
that breath is held, Scotty thrust his
head up to see. From his perch in
some tree sniper shot him in the
forehead. Another bullet found his
heart. He fell forward, dead, ON his
gun.
'"They had killed him, but the mum
Der of their dead that are counted al
bis was thirty"
Roller skates US part of the speed
up program in force ut the Rock Island
arsenal, Illinois, have been adopted by
women messenger employees.
Women employed in the time divis
ion at the arsenal are voluntarily work
ing the first Saturdays and Sundays Of
each month closing the pay roll sheet.
so that all arsenal workers may bt
, paid promptly.
According to the arsenal Record,
! published by the employees, Rev. M. E
= Krotzer. pastor of the Presbyterian
, churches at LeClaire and Princeton
: Iowa, is putting in his five weeks va
. cation as an arsenal worker. The sam
} paper reports the fiftieth anniversar
. as an arsenal worker at Rock Island O
: Emil Beck, seventy years old, inspecto
4 in the tin shop, who went there whel
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