The sun., 1918-07-06
ROTARY CLUB GETS
FIRST GOLD STAR
Organization Pays Tribute to
Lieut.. Donald Miller, Filler,
Killed in Action.
BOY PATRIOT MISSING
New York Sergeant Who
Forced Way Into Army
Dies of Wounds.

The Rotary Club OF New York put
the first gold star In its service fiaS yes
terday. 1t was for Donald Miller, First
Lieutenant In the British Air Forces
who was killed I'm action in France on
June 30.
Lieut.. Miller was son of Thomas
Miller, an electrical contractor at
Eighth street and Fourth avenue. and
was 20 years old He was graduated
from Stuyvesant High School and was
in business in this city until last Octo-
Der. when he enlisted with the British.
He was trained in Texas and Canada
and sent overseas In February. A cable
message from the British Air Ministry
in London said that Lieut.. Miller was
killed in action. He lived at 2io East
17Sth street His brother Allison is
cadet at West Point and another brother,
Gordon, Is a seaman in the United
States Naval Reserve.
One of Youngest Missing.
One of the babies" OF the Pershing
forces is Paul Dieters Of 56s Court
street, Brooklyn. reported missing In
! his mother Mrs Charles Dietere, he was
| only Is years old when he Joined the
| Forty-ninth Infantry in Syracuse In
June, 1917. He was transferred to the
| Twenty-third Infantry and went to
France in September. He had attended
| Public School 81 in Brooklyn. The war
| Department notified the mother that her
! son was missing after an engagement
on June s.
! Sergeant John J. Herold. Jr.. OF 426
! West Fortieth street, reported as nav
/ ing died of wounds received on June 20
was only 90 years old. He was SO
anxious to get into the service that he
| told his draft board last year that he
was 81. He was so diligent at Camp
| UPTON that he was made corporal and
then a sergeant. He drilled recruits
until early in March, when he went
across with Company G, 3oSth Infantry
He wrote in May that he was enjoy ms
life. His father, brother Anthony. who
served an enlistment in the Regular
, Army, and three sisters live at 426 Wes'
| Fortieth street
Norman $. Bloodgood, 90 years old. al
electrical engineer on submarine chaser
on duty near Chesapeake Bay, wa
,wasl ed overheard on June 26. the Wal
Department has informed his parents
Mr.. and Mira. Samuel c. Bloodgood o
800 Fairmont avenue, Jersey City
Bloodgood entered the navy from Rut
gers College in his freshman year. Late
he was an instructor in naval engineer
ing at Columbia University. His brother
Dudley T. Bloodgood. Is a chief electrical
engineer in the navy. Their father salt
yesterday:
witt all our anguish | can say Nor
man could nor have died in better wa!
than for his country"
Family Well Represented
Private Martin j. Mailman of 80
schenectady avenue. Brooklyn. reported
missing after action in France on Jun
$ was b. X, T. conductor. He en-
listed last July. sailed for France Il
March With the old Twenty-thfd In
fantry. and was transferred to thu Mint
Infantry His brother Walter is in tn
: American aviation service in France
: and his brother Eugene is now ser
.ant at Camp Upton. On May Mar
tin Hallinan wrote TO his father:
Have arrived safe and sound. I ar
/ looking up Walter. | would love to SO
him. I | ore he likes this life as muc
l as do. We are all in mt condition an
e will go to the front any day. hope an
trust God will bring me back to safet!
: so that ] may writ long letter 10 No
telling of my adventure, If it is 10 h
e one. Has Eugene enlisted yet" II nC
= tell him to get busy
d Mailman was a graduate OF Publ
r School So His mother is dead.
d Private James J. kcogh, killed
q action in France. came 20 the Unite
5 States from England where his mott I
$ Is. He formerly lived with an uncle
235 West Nineteenth street. An aun
s Mrs. Farrell. lives at @76 Twentiet
. street, Brooklyn.