The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-13
GOT THIRTY HUNS
BEFORE He DIED
scoTTY, YOUNGEST SOLDIER IN
PERsHlNe's FORCES. IS
MoURNED BY ARMY.
HIS HEROIC DEATH RELATED
Red Cross Establishes Tailor Shop In
6erhe to Supply Captured American
Officers With Uniforms-New Plan
for Training Flyers.

From Committee on Public Information
Washingt0n.-Private Albert Z
Scott, the youngest soldier in Genera
Pershing's army in France-he wa
but fifteen years Of age and a Brook
line, Mass, high school boy when h
enlisfed-is dead, shot through tn
head by German sniper aftey he ha,
laid thirty foes to Fest, and the arm,
mourns It's boy hero.
A soldier writer for The Stars an,
Stripes, the A. 3. F. paper, tells THU
htory: .t
I'm the regiment they are talkih,
thesc days Of all the good pals they
lost In the fierce, unfortgettable chas,
they gave the Germans In the grea1
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.
His great chance came when on
that historic July IS his regiment got
the order for which, through many q
month of dreams, 1t had longed-the
ORDER to advance. It went 10 kilOme-
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.
IN 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
complete and separate battle all their
own. So 1t was with the Indians, as
Scotty's regiment was nicknamed, one
afternoon, as they were making their
way past the bitterly won town of
Epieds.
AT the cross road they saw troops
approaching them in column of SQUADS.
The officer in charge caught them in
the focus of his field glasses. They
We're Boches, coming on. The Yanks
waited, itching to open fire, but biding
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 a tree and
opposite-a narrow woodland
path that opened across the way. He
could see straight down that path. and
the Boches were bound either to come
along it or to cross it.
See that path. ScOtty? said the
lieutenant. That's your target. Not
'ne of them must cross H.
"'Yes, sir said Scotty, and dropped
beside his gun.
Then from the high branches Of
many tree and from many shelter
he German fire opened, and the Yank
Ire answered.
"A gray figure darted suddenly into
he leafy path. He fell.
Another appeared. He fell.
There was perhaps ten minutes Of
nat, and what was left of the German
arty was withdrawing when handful
I soldiers scampered. along the road.
hey were Germans, but they shouted
5 they ran, Don't shoot, we're Amer
ANS
For moment, just for the space
nat breath is held, Scotty thrust his
cad up to see. From his perch in
ome tree a sniper shot him in the
'rehead. Another bullet found his
cart. He fell forward, dead, on his
IN.
They had killed him, but the num-
ar of their dead that are counted az
Is was thirty"
Roller skates as part of the speed
program In force at the Rock Island
'senal, Illinois, have been adopted by F.,
omen messenger employees.
women employed in the time divis-
q at the arsenal are voluntarily work. a
9 the first Saturdays and Sundays of .
cn month closing the pay roll sheets =
that all arsenal workers may b =
i'd promptly. !.
According to the Arsenal Record 4
blished by the employees, Rev. M. e. n
'otzer. pastor Of the Presbyterian I
urches at LeClaire and Princeton. =
wa, Is putting in his five weeks va. II
ton as an arsenal worker. The same ii
per reports the fiftieth anniversary =
an arsenal worker at Rock Island of a
nil Beck. seventy years old, inspector u
the tin shop, who went there when A
arsenal consisted of small group II
wooden buildings, relics of Civil war in
VS., and employed from 200 to 400 D,
n only through the summer months. tr
juba has closing law which shuts
stores. warehouses, shops, ETC., in th
larger cities at 6 p. m. week days. fir
all day Sundays. Retail food 81
res keep open until p. m. week Ft
's and 10 p. m. Sundays. Barber ue
Fps remain open until p. m. on DO
ndays and Fridays, II p. m. Satur- ha
%, but cannot sell perfumes while CT
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