The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-17
NEW HONORS WON BY
FIGHTERS FROM j. S.


hunter begins banging away at him with
shotgun" Sergeant Dixon and three
otherAmericans took six Germans prison.
ers and confscated their watches as
souvenirs.
shortly after this happened Dixon and
his companions. together with their pris-
oners. were surrounded by the enemy
and captured, whereupon the Americans
amid the jeers OF the Germans were made
TO disgorge the watches. rho story
ought to end here. but It doesn't, for
like the house that Jack built Dixon and
his friends and their prisoners. together
with the Germans who had Captured them,
were in turn gathered In by some more
Americans. whereupon the watches
changed hands again. Al last reports
Dixon and his friends were still In pos
session of the Teutonic timepieces.
Thrilling Dash to Fismes.
Harking back to the fighting on the
Vesle there is a rather remarkable
written record surrounding the ex-
ploits of Lieut.. Eugent E. Meyer
OF Lebanon. Pa. He was in the
woods near Dravengy when word came
that ammunition was badly needed for
the machine guns In F'ismes. He loaded
fifty boxes on two trucks and started Off.
The supply officer. Lieut.. Peter Stauffer.
Lancaster, happened to be there at the
time and he elected to go along. The men
on the trucks were Wagner Ira L. Ulrich.
Meyerstown, Pa; Wagner G. Thorn.
Friendly. w. Va; Privates Clyde w.
Steel. Stroudsburg, Pa; Fred Miller.
Philadelphia, and John A. Saeak. Pal
myra, Pa.
on they started to a place called
Lonetree. where they were told II would
be impossible to get through to Fismes,
as the Germans still held half the town.
which was reported to be burning.
Meyer kept going, however. and shortly
afterward one of the trucks broke down.
The load was then transferred to the
other truck and again the party started.
When they reached Fimes the town was
afire and the Germans from just beyond
were sending in streams of machine gun
bullets. Disregarding both the flames
and the bullets Meyer and his men drove
boldly into the main street and kept 60
ing until they found the Americans who
had sent for the ammunition. How they
escaped remains a mystery to all those
who witnessed the exploit.
Meyer to further show his disregard Of
danger wandered around In Fismes gath
ering up wounded and finally had twenty
disabled men on his truck. With these
he started out OF town the way he had
entered and In due time delivered the
wounded at a field hospital.
'.To whom II May Concern"
or great merit also was the perform
ance of a machine gun company that
NOD Irtr, tv,N4 ION
which had been described to them as Nm
pregnable. For hours these men hung
on until French and American units hac
worked their way around the TANKS of
the position, forcing the Germans to sur
render. This company was commanded
by Major NJ. f. Tydings of Baltimore, his
chief assistants being Capt. Larry Doyle,
Camden. N. j.; Lieut.. George 8. Butcher.
Newark. and Capt. Oscar Wild, Jersey
City.
Lieut. Charles c. Mcleod. Lynchburg.
W. Va. had made numerous daring
scouting trips for his commander. lead
ing what seemed to have been q charmed
life. Asked after one of these trips II
he had been hit by machine gun bullets
or shell splinters he replied: mo, but /
have been splattered by mud kicked up
by shells until my uniform isn't At to be
seem
on another occasion when starting of
on one of these trips he was cautioned
by his General to beware of the shell
having his number on It, 1t being an
army superstition that no shell will get
you unless II is the one bearing your
particular number. To this Mcleod re-
Piled: I'm not afraid OF the shell hav-
ing my number on 1t. 1t IL the one ad-
dressed To whom 1t may concern that
worries me-"
Escapes of Major Chipperheld.
Equally lucky has been Major B. NJ
Chipperfield. Canton, ILL.,, formerly
Representative in Congress from his
State. He has been doing liaison work
for his unit. involving many dangerous
trips between the lines and between his
own and other units. He was standing
on the bank OF canal when a huge
shell landed within ten feet of him, but
fortunately for him II struck the water
otherwise he probably would have been
blown to pieces. On another occasion
he stopped his car to give surgeon a
lift and no sooner had they started than
a monster shell tore huge hole in the
road ahead. in the exact spot where he
would have been had he not stopped.
Just before making one Of their at
tacks in the Argonne forest a stone with
picSc VI paper ticu " icli dIHOIB
some Americans Lieut.. Arthur c. Bur-
nett. Hopewell Junction. N. Y. picked
II up and found written on 1t in good
English; You Americans may win this
war. but there won't be enough of you
left going back to I'LL a rowboat" Bur-
nett took another scrap of paper and
wrote on 1t: Thank heaven there
won't be any women and children In the
rowboat for your submarine savages to
sink"
After tossing this note back and wait
ing for a few minutes for the message
to sink in. Burnett and his men charged.
cleaning out the position in front OF
them to the last man. The prisoners
were asked who had sent the note and
1t was learned that its author was
among the slain.
Those who distinguished themselves
in this charge, aside from Lieut.. Bur-
nett. were Lieut. c. F. Shenk. New Ken
sington. Pa. Sergeants Thomas Gaddls,
OIL City. Pa; Charles L. Inks. Pitts
burg Charles F. Aid. Pittsburg; George
Bonnins. Detroit: William Miles, Phila-