New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
lanes F. Ward Obtained
Parents Consent to
Enlist Year Ago
Had Worked i'm Bank
Herman Datz, New York
Newsboy, Also Among Those
Slain in Action

lanes F. Ward, who was listed yes
,erdsy as killed in action, was only six
..on wears old on June /, 1917, when
be nersuaded his parents to allow him
"a enlist. His home was at 1S1 East
lood Street and he vas employed in
the Bank of Commerce when he Joined
machine gun company. His mother
Mrs. Margaret Ward, had received
cheerful letter from him only a few
hours before the War Department tele-
rram. He wrote that he was in the
4mix-up" at last.
For ten years before his enlistment.
in 1914, Herman Datz, another private
who was killed in action, sold news
papers in City Hall Park. He was also
member of machine gun company.
His brother Joseph, eighteen years old,
was on the point of enlisting three
months ago when he lost finger in an
accident. They are the children of Mrs.
Max Datz, of 3S3 East Fourth Street.
Mrs. Rose Schwartz, of 292 Cherry
Street. was attending services in a
synagogue when an awestruck young
ster Of the neighborhood informed her
that a telegram awaited her at home.
1t told of the death in action of her
son. David Schwartz. a corporal in an
infantry regiment of the regularsarmy.
He had been in France for almost
year
Telegram Puzzle
The telegram announcing that Cor
poral Joseph H. Buckley had been Sc
riously wounded on March 21 was
puzzle to his brother, George Buckley,
president of the Crowell Publishing
Company, of 3S1 Fourth Avenue. Mr..
Buckley received a letter from his
brother. which was written on March
23. saying that he had just been dis
charged from hospital as cured after
slight shrapnel wound and that he
had sent the bit of shrapnel as a SOU
yenir
Moreover. the War Department tele-
gram described Corporal Buckley as a
member Of an infantry regiment,
whereas. his brother said, he had en-
listed in Chicago, his former home, in
an Illinois artillery regiment. In
letter dated May 16 ne wrote that he
was back at the front again He is
twenty-three years old and an alumnus
Of the University of Wisconsin.
John W. Lafferty, who died from
wounds, was a carpenter, forty years
old, living at 443 Bleecker Street,
Brooklyn, when he enlisted in an en-
gineer regiment in May. 1917. He went
to France within a month.
Quit College to Fight
Joseph A. Drozdzweski, reported Sc
riously wounded, gave up a course in
st. Peters College, Jersey City, when
he enlisted, in February, 1917. He is
twenty-five years old, the son of
Thomas Drozdzweski, of $50 Steuben
Street, Jersey City.
Y0NKERS, N. Y, June s.-Sergeant
Edward Nesterowicb, of 1856 Parsons
Street this city, who died in France
from wounds, was an Austro-H -Hunga-
ran. although native of Bucharest,
Kumanla- He was twenty-five years
cid, and enlisted year ago.
NEWARK, N. j.. June 8.-Corporal
Clifford R. Manchester, reported killed
IN action. was the only child of Mrs.
hate d. Manchester, a widow. He was
twenty-five years old, a member of q
supplemental gun battalion and en-
nsted May 29, 1917. Before enlisting
ae was elhplOEeC DE the PuDlc Service
corporation. Last night the mother, at
her home. % Watson Street. Newark,
was rejoicing with friends over the re-
ecept of a Mothers Day letter from
her son.
PORT JEFFERSON. Long Island.
June Second Lieutenapt Howell
Iassert, of the Marine Corps Reserve
IS dead in France, according to infor-
nation received to-day by his mother,
MRS. Joseph Lynch. A defect in vision
which was not discovered until after he
was in the service could have been used
by him to avoid active duty, but he in
sisted upon a fighting job and was sue
cessfu in being assigned to Persbing's
hrst expedition.
he was twenty-five years old and a
student in New York University Law
School when he entered the service last
year.