The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-01
Odd Mark Made by Two Pieces
Of Shrapnel From "Whizz
Bang"
SERGEANT REFUSES TO DIE
Put on Liquid Diet Because OF Dan
perous Wound, He Steals Food
From "Joy Cart"-His Good
Cheer Keeps Patients in
Best of Humor.

Paris.--All life long Private Jean
Fournnn Of New York city Will carry
cross on his back as Il souvenir OF
marked him is so unusual that he Is
known Mt American Military Hospital
No ], where he Is now convalescing.
as the "I,ed Cross Man." and doctors,
nurses and patients have watched Ills
case with unusual interest.
Fournan Is u member OF one of the
American regiments recently engaged
In the fighting near Scissors and
Fismes. He has been In France since
last October. and went through "sev-
erei kinds OF hel' on several fronts
without II scratch. And then, one
morning short time ago, just as his
company weht over the top headed
for Boche machine gun nest.
"whlzz bang" Knocked him out. He
hnd a momentnry singing sensation
and then awoke to find himself on an
American sanitary train. from which
he was taken by ambulance to the hos
pital.
When he was carried to the Operat-
Ing room the surgeon looked him over
and then called the other doctors to
come and look. The boy had been hit
by two pieces of shrapnel, one Of
which had gone down his back SO close
to his spine that only a miracle saved
him from paralysis. The other had
crossed at right angles. leaving the
mark Of perfect cross on his back.
Fournan has those pieces Of shrapnel
In his Red Cross treasure bag. He
says they're lucky pieces" because
they 'only left scar"
Thoroughly Amerieanixed.
When Private Fournan Is well
enough to be discharged from the hos
pital he means to spend several days
In the south Of France, where he was
born. But after the war Is over he
Ia going back to New York city to hts
adopted country. where he has lived
for ID years. He IL so thoroughly
Americanized that he prefers fighting
with American troops. with whom he
trained at Camp Syracuse.
Just by chance the American In the
next bed to Fournan Is Of German
"Frank He'll, Columbus,
o." reads the card Mt the head Of
his bed. and the corporal admits that
his name IL an German as 1t sounds.
An uncle who lives in Texas was 10
pro-German that he disowned He'll
when he enlisted for service. He'll
felt that he had to live down his name.
and SO II was that no earned his cor
poral's chevrons shortly after no had
gone into training. He wears two
service stripes now. and he boasts that
It took three machine gun bullets to
knock him out the day he wus
He was fighting near Scissors when
he got HIS" His company had been
on hill slope that over
looked a valley OF wheat fields beyond
which the Germans were hiding In tho
woods of another slope. He'll and his
men had managed to cross the valley
by running short distances ut top
speed and then dropping for u breath
Ink space into tho wheat. Just as he
up the slope two bullets hit
him. one In the thigh. the other below
tho knee OF his left leg. and rs he fell
n third struck the big muscle In his
right forearm. so completely paralyzing
L that no had to Jerk his rife loose
with his left hand.
Interested In "Eats."
He'll remembers rolling over into a
shell hole. where he lay for hours be-