The sun., 1918-08-01
FIRST DEATH AMONG
FROM ONE HOUSE
Son Of Landlady of Boarding
House Reported Killed in
Action June 3.
PROOF OF GOTH ACTIVITY
Lieut.. Young Of New YOrk's
Pet Troop Slain in July
Is Battle.
PROOF OF GOTH ACTIVITY

OF the seventeen young men who Ieft
the three story brick house at 20 HICKS
street, Brooklyn. at least one VIII never
come back from the battle lines III
France. He was Private James u. NC
Keever, and the mistress OF the house
Mrs. Ellen D. McKeever. was busy at
her manifold tasks yesterday when
messenger interrupted her with tne
word that her son had been killed In
action June 3.
well" she said. as she folded up the
brief message. "I am glad he was killed
and not captured, to be starved or
worse, by the Germans"
The house Is a boarding place. ana
since the selective d-aft> became opera
tive there have been many vacant chairs
about the big table in the dining room.
Mrs, McKeever said t1at. counting her
one son, the house altogether had given
seventeen men to the ranks OF the
army or the navy
Young Mckeever was 23--or Wouio
have been yesterday. He was the eines'
Of thirteen children, but ten OF tnem
were dead before he enlisted. He went
IN France In September and wrote home
that life on the battle front was for him
n realization OF his boyhocd dreams.
"For," he wrote. every day over mere
Is like Fourth of July in America.
Toll of victory shown.
The heavy toll Of American lives that
has been taken in the achievement OF the
recent allied success was even more ap-
parent in the casualty list sent home by
Gen. Pershing yesterday. Most OF the
names contained in 1t were those VINO
fell since the heaviest fighting began
on July Is. "
That the 1s5th Infantry. New York s
famous old Sixty-ninth Regiment, was
out there with the very first American
units for a crack at the Germans. which
turned their drive into a demoralizing
defeat was made certain by the repori
Of the death of First Lieut.. Thomas
Haldane Young, son OF Mr.. and Mrs
Marshall Young OF 319 Sixth street.
BROOKLYN. Lieut.. Young was attached
to Company F Of the 165th, and the
message that reached his mother from
the War Department announced ne mao
been killed July 10.
Lieut. Young was member or the
firm Of Thomas Young, Inc. importers or
linen. OF ~ White street, Manhattan
but quit his business to enter the hrst
officers training camp az Plattsburg.
He won his commission and was as
signed to the Rainbow Division when the
units Of that organization were ordered
10 Camp Mills. He was graduate or
Manual Training High School. He also
was q member OF tho Crescent Athletic
Club.
ut can be rightly said OF him. said
his mother. that he did his duty-no
man can do more"
Reinsurance Firstt News Later.
For several days Mrs. Albert Fl. Spence
has been wondering why her husband.
Lieut.. Spence. had sent her cablegram
July 10 containing the brief message.
"Feeling fine" Yesterday the riddle
was answered when, at her parents home
at Auburndale. L. l.. she received a
message from the War Department an
nouncing that he had been severely
wounded IN action on July 16 Mrs.
Spence said she had been assured that
her husband already was we'll on the
road to recovery.
Lieut. Spence's home is In Flushing.
Queens He is with a detachment OF
engineers. He Is a graduate Of Belfast
University, Ireland. 81 years Old and
came to this country twelve years ago.
At Flushing he was scoutmaster OF the
Boy Scouts of America troop attached
to the Flushing Reformed Church.
Another of the Brooklyn men wounded
July Is was Second Lieut.. Frank NJ.
Dixon. son Of Frank Dixon. well known
as a lecturer. and nephew Of the Rev.
Thomas J. Dixon, author of THE Clans
man." out of which was evolved the
motion picture The Birth of Nation. "
Lieut.. Dixon was &c years old and lived
with his parents at l6S St. Johns place
He obtained his commission after a pre-
paratory course at Fort Monroe, Nir-
ginia, and had been serving almost en-
tirely with French units as balloon
observer. He was A graduate OF the
University OF Virginia and had prac-
tised law at birmingham. Ala.
The third Brooklyn officer reported
yesterday to have fallen In the fighting
at the Marine. was Lieut.. Harry l.. Cal
win of 2017 Cation avenue. who was
listed as wounded. The last word his