Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-22
Odd Mark Made by Two Pieces
Of ShrapneI From "Whizz
Bang"
SERGEANT REFUSES TO Die
Put on Liquid Diet Because Of Dan.
osrcus Wound, He Steals Food
From "Joy Cart"-tiIs Good
Cheer Keeps Patients In
rs Best Of humor.

Edrls.-Al ire lOuB FrlVdte Jean
Nurpap Of New York city will carry
= cross on his back as Il souvenir Of
the great war. The wound that has
marked him IL 80 unusual that he Is
known at American Military Hospital
No. l. where he Is now convalescIng,
as tue "Red Cross Man. and doctors,
nurses and patients have watched his
case with unusual interest.
H EOurnan Is a 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-
erpl kinds Of hell" on several fronts
without scratch. And then. one
morning a short time ago. just as his
company went over the top headed
for Boche machine gun nest,
"whizz bang" knocked him out. He
had a momentary singing sensation
and then awoke to find himself on an
American sanitary train, from which
be was taken by ambulance to the hos
pltal.
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 hoy had been hit
BY two pieces Of shrapnel, one Of
which had gone down his back SO close
10 his spine that only 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 n scar"
Thoroughly Americanized.
When Private Fournan Is well
enough to be discharged from the hos
plfal he means to spend several days
In the south of France where he was
horn. But after the war Is over he
Is going back to New York city to his
adopted country. where he has lived
for 10 years. He Is so thoroughly
Americanzed that he prefers fighting
with American troops. with whom he
trained nj Camp Syracuse.
Just by chance the American in the
next bed to Fournan Is Of German
pArentpge. "Frank He'll, Columbus,
Ca" reads the card ut the head Of
hls bed. and the corporal admits that
is 10
Al uncle who lives in Texas was 80
pto-German that he disowned He'll
when he enlisted for service. He'll
fef that he had to live down his name,
ana so II was that he earned his cor
p0fal's chevrons shortly after he had
gone into training. He wears two
service stripes now, and he boasts that
HAook three machine gun bullets to
kn0ck him out the day he was
wounded.
He was fighting near Scissors when
he "got his" His company had been
entrenched on a hill slope that over
Looked a valley of wheat fields beyond
which the Germans were hiding in the
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 breath
itiE space into the wheat. Just as h"
sthfted up the slope two bullets hit
him, one in the thigh, the other below
The knee Of his left leg, and as he fell
a, third struck the big muscle in his
fight forearm, so completely paralyzing
II TINT he had to jerk his rifle loose
With his left hand
<sss n Interested In "Eats."
s.Heill remembers rolling over into
shell hole, where he lay for hours be-
fore patrol of Boche prisoners,
Guarded by an American sergeant,
came by and found him lying there.
He was carried into field hospital
and later sent into Hospital No. l.
The leg wounds are healing rapidly,
but the right forearm is still partially
paralyzed
Shut what's an arm as long rs I'm
getting plenty to eat says Corporal
He'll. "There were three days during
the fighting IN at the front when
missed out on rations, and another "A
hours that was lying out on the field.
Guess never will get enough to make
mp for missing air those Deals. But
they do SIRE treat us fine here. Plen-
tylof good food, good looking nurse
md Red Cross chaplain that comes
ABOUND every day with cigarettes,
s'.All right Tor you to talk grum-
blkE Webb La polnte OF Sheboygan.
Wis, from another bed. "but what do
you think about me? Laid up here like
IN invalid and I've never gotten a
crack at Boche."
= la POlnte Is In a machine gun COM
,plny Of one Of the divisions that dis
1inkuished itself In the fighting near
Compeigne. He had just started over
the top early one morning carrying the
Aripod OF gun when soup wagon"
eANae along and Knocked him down.
He WINS hit in the knee and elbow and
now he Is In the hospital grumbling,
not because he is done up In yards of
bandages and painful apparatus that
holds his injured leg straight. hut be-
cause It will be some time before he
gets'back front again for Il "crnck at
4. Rochsss si.ar a .f
David Rittow Of New York city Is
another c0nvalescent Of No. who en-.