Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-04
CAMP MEADE MEN
SLAIN IN BATTLE
Stirs Draftees in Training Who
Are Anxious to Get
at Hun.

Camp Meade, Admiral, Md, Sept a
Men from this camp are now figuring IN
the casualty lists from France, and friends
left behind are growing more and more
impatient to get over and have hand
IN the great Hun chase. The tankers
who were picked up here before the 18th
Division went over have had chance
10 speed the parting kaiserites. Some
of these have fallen and there is no IN
formation rs to what the other have done,
but those who knew the spirit of the
crowd feel certain that it was plenty.
The Camp Meade Tanker volunteered
for the service in order TO get over sooner
Many left the officers training school,
then here because they were more anx-
ious for immediate service than Tor COM
missions.
Meade men Of other branches of the
service have been on the recent llsts
Work has been received here that Lleu-
tenant James Gyhcr, of the 3l6th IN
fantrv. was killed while sniping at the
| front G,yhcr made fine showing IN
target practice here, and those who
know his ability feel certain that he
brought down Roche or two before
his own tragic end.
Paul IowCrcc, who was successfui
naval aviator until he had tall oi oou
feet into the ocean, is here with the latest
draftcCs from Baltimore Lowerce, who
had n commission and was an instructor,
was discharged after the accident be
! cause the medical officers insisted that his
nerves were impaired. Here the officers
who examined hlm find he is fiji IN every
way. and so he is hoping to get back his
commission II was a shock TO hun to
| learn that he could never fly again, but
he Is glad to have his chance 10 night
| At present Loweree ls IN the base hos
! pltal suffering from slight cold. As
| for nerves, he insists that he has none.
or rather, that he has plenty OF the night
| kind and mono Of the sort that fail IN the
! face Of danger II Is all the same to hun
/ however. land or sea. IN the air or on the
! level he IS glad 10 he back N the war.
| His fall was due 10 the fact that his pupil
was not strapped To his scat and fell on
| the controller while executing n nose dive.
! The two took the dive 500 feet down,
/ and landed in the unylelding water In
| the hav Of Pensacola, Fla
| Sergeant Gus Rochelle. who gave up
| his Job as assistant chief Of police OF
! the Panama Canal Zone to get IN the
army. is given the unquestloned rank OF
| broncho-huster at the remount camp
| There have been other aSplrants for that
| honor, but in the real tests they have fallen
| down Some have fallen very hard
indeed. and some have had legs and arms
| broken. not TO mention bruises and
scratches When the worst horse Is
| found in any lot Of new arrivals Rochelle
enters the corral and there is a sight to
| Stir the sporting instinct Of every observer
! The horses come here with wonderful
tricks learned bv instinct from unriddcn
! sircs Of the plains Rochelle do' not
care how bad they arc lie was famou,
| in several States for his ability to hreab
wild horses, and when he saw some of the
! kind that were going into the army hc
| decided that his place was in rcmount
| camp
A solost Of the Mexico City Opera
/ House has arrived with the 63d Infantry
| He Is A. Coenen. Jr partner IN music
| store IN Tucson, .Ariz, Coenen Is oi
Belgian ancestry, but was born IN the
! United States. and picked as a musical
/ prodigy while very Young tie studied
! FIVE wears under Severen. master OF the
| Mexico City Conservatory. Coenen has
sung Faust IN the opera Of that title and
as the Duke IN "RIgoletto. Before
coming 10 camp he was sohst at big
| knights Of Columbus concert IN San
I Francisco He was a sOloist IN the
famous ST Francls Church there.