Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
ID From This City
Die on BattIefields
.Continued from Page One

NOutiuueu from rage Vne
killed in action in France July 20. ac-
cording to a brief telegram to his father
from the Adiutant Generals office in
Washington, received this morning. Cap
tain Mccall fell when he had been In
France less than three monhs. He was
twenty-seven- years old and until he
went into the service lived with his
parents at Forty-second and Walnut
streets
Captain Mccall went to the officers
training camp at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga.
1aet spring, and was there commissioned
captain after he had completed the
course and passed with honors. He was
placed in command of a company OF
the Fifty-ninth United States Infantry
4 and sails for France June 8.
Captain McCall's brother. Joseph B
Mccall, Sr., is now in the officers train
ing camp at Louisville Ky.
Captain Mccall was a University of
4 pennsylvania man and won some fame
as an athlete. He was a member of
the 1903 football eleven. and in 1913
was graduated from the law school,
1 Not lcng before he entered the officers
training camp he was admitted to the
Pennsylvania bar, but he had not begun
TO practice.
One of Three Brothers
Sergeant Harry Ireland was one OF
i three brothers over there" He wa.
twenty-six years old and enlisted ir
I May, 1917, in the Ninth United States
Infantry His father, David Ireland
works at City Hall.
They may get me, but I'll get som,
of them first" wrote Sergeant Ireland
4 in recent letter to his parents.
II rra arrira6 A,,n,,.. . , 4,
One of his brothers, Joseph C. Ireland
4 IL in the 109th Infantry, somewhere IL
France" Another brother, Frank TWEEN
i ty-three years old, is in the navy, anS
~ come time ago was assigned to dut,
VI overseas. Leroy. another brother wht
A xtS an artist, has made several unsuccess
= ful attempts to enlist in the camou
nage department of the army. He Il
still trying. and expects soon to Join hi
81 brothers in France.
q Leroy Jury was a demonstrator en-
a ployed by the Franklin Sugar Refinin,
Company. He stopped at Green's Hotel
Eighth and Chestnut streets, when Il
\ this city. His friends say he was 4
this city recently.
n Bugler Ulearey enlisted a year aR
u on the day following his eighteenth
i birthday. He received his early training
ri Gettysburg. and was later sent t
III
4 G. Fifty-eighth Infantry, which sailed 70
France last May.
4 He was a son of Conrad z Uieare,
1875 West Passyunk avenue, but whe
he was three years old his mother die
n and he went to live with his grand
4 parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Ulearey
1s4l South Thirteenth street.
Had Been Gassed
xyhn yyaG
WAS reared by an aunt, Mrs. ]. Spark
1t the Sixteenth street address He wa
In the Twenty-sixth Infantry. A lettt
"a was received but few days ago frol
4 4 him, sent while he was recovering froi
gas attack in a hospital 'I will 500
be out and get square with the Huns
he wrote.
Cozzie was nineteen years old and e,
listed February 2s, 1917, and was sent
France a year ago. He is survived /
his parents, five sisters and two brotl
Z \ ers. all of whom live at the Pierce sire
address.
A few hours after telegram a
I .1iounced his death,in action, Mrs Loui
q Heckroth, 3525 North Thirteenth sire,
xeceived two letters and thirty post
y <<Ards from her soldier son, Vernon Bo
Nier Heckroth.
The mother received the brief tel
(, gram from the War Department la
q ninht. This morning a letter carrier d
Y 1ivered the cards and letters.
* Vernon Heckroth enlisted in the al
q nulhnce corps 3iay 16. last year. a
11k1ncd at Allentown. He sailed 1
rance January of this year
Heckroth was born in Germanto-
~ attended the Kenderton Gramm
Hool- His last employment in this c
- rs clerk at the Ritz-Carlton Hot
The bereaved motheH today opened G
the letters mailed by her son and re
y description of life near the fr,
[Zne1- After six months active sery
- was sent back 10 Aix-le- -Bains for
xost 1t was like going from hell
4 h6aven." he explained. The young m
~ two days In Paris and was l
X ncoGsed nightly with the American
f "a C. A. headquarters there.
On the way into Paris. the young m
DotA there were few signs of W
'z rnD m the city itself by day there W,
= w ovidsnces of war, except for I
~. on leave like himself. But
: -DoWurfm searchlights iliurpinai
~ wtsssis scCut planes droned o'
- 1n{l lt1eiF ~heeling lights