The sun., 1918-08-15
MORRIS LIEBMANN
FALLS LEADING MEN
Northumberland of the 9th
Division Reported Killed
i'm France.
ENLISTED II YEARS AGO
Lieut.. Jerome of Aviation
Corps, Listed as Missing,
Died in Battle.
ENLISTED II YEARS AGO


enty.seventh Division (New York
x,ronaI Guard), was killed when lead
,,r his men in action August s. accord
ING to a message from the War De-
,,r,rert 10 his father at Ill West
rlghty-fourth street.
He was formerly second in command
q, the old Twenty-third Regiment of
prooklvn and was transferred to the
,o;,h, the old Seventy first Regiment.
Y y G.. when the Twenty-third was
made into the 106th Infantry at Spar
,.rburg. :, c., last October He Is the
6,s, officer of the division reported killed
IN France
Although no announcement had been
made. Col Lehman was engaged to
marry Miss Evelyn Van Horne, 5s4
Park place, Brooklyn. Col Liebmann's
lame has not yet appeared in the
casualty lists
The dead officer enlisted as a private
In Company I. Twenty-third Regiment.
seventeen years ago. He rose through
all ranks. finally becoming captain
While the regiment was in service on
the Mexican border in 1916 he was made
rcgimental Adjutant April 23, 1917,
col Frank \. Norton announced his
nomination as Lieutenant-Colonel
Served in spanish War.
Col Lehman was a graduate of the
University of Nebraska and served with
a Western regiment in the Spanish
American war. He was vice-president
and secretary of Foote, Pierson & Co.
Manhattan. manufacturers of electrical
Instruments and had been with them
more than fifteen years. In addition to
Ms father. Morris Lehman, he leaves
brother. Walter.
The death of Major Maynard 4. Wells
o. the Regular Army from wounds re-
CaIved in action was reported in yester-
days casualty list. He was born in
Virginia. December 23, 1878. and en-
listed in Battery y. Fourth United
states Artillery. later the Forty-seventh
Company, c. \. C.. July 81. 1899. He
was commissioned a Second Lieutenant
october 2S 1902. and assigned to the
Thirteenth Infantry.
When the United States entered the
war Major Wells was a Captain in the
sixteenth Infantry. stationed at the
Army Service School, Fort Leavenworth,
Kan. He was promoted after his arrival
in France.
Lieut. Gilbert y. Jerome of the Avia-
ton Corps. reported last week as miss
ing in action. was killed July Il. accord
Ing to a message received yesterday
from the American Red Cross by his
mother in New Haven. Conn. He fell
In the fighting at Berdenal and was
buried at Bamont. according to the
message. Lieut.. Jerome was graduate
Of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
W the class Of 1910 and had been active
IN the Boy Scout movement in Connecti-
yut
William r King 1O5th Infantry, once
the old Seventy-first, is In the first list
~ New York National Guard privates
reported killed in the Twenty seventh
Division. The news Of his death was re-
celved at the same time as that Of Col.
Lehman. He and his two brothers and
tNo sisters formerly lived at 2O7 West
Nretr-fifth street. He has a brother at
III" Pelham Pay Naval Training Camp.
King was killed July 81, according to
,ne War Department message. He was
- and before enisting was employed
p3 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Mother In Bellevue Clinic.
Another member of the 105th Infantry
}ll!ed July 81 was Private Thomas ].
German, who leaves a widowed mother,
|rS Della German. 81 East Twenty
if'n street. She is employed at the
'Ihercular clinic at Bellevue Hospital.
where her son formerly worked. Private
German went to France with the l65th
Infantry and was later transferred to
'e l05th. He was among the first to vol
'n,eer when the call for men was issued.
Private Joseph Piuggi. reported killed
~ action July 81 in yesterdays casualty
'.si had been in France about a year.
rrriIing there with the first contingent
he was "a and formerly lived with his
cousin, Mrs. Maggie Piuggi, 401 East
ln0th street.
Iohn Welsh, 3i3 Hamilton avenue
BROOKLYN. killed in France July 80. en-
listed in the Fourteenth Regiment year
aso when he was Il. He was trans
TERED to Company |, 10Gth Infantry
Welsh was a graduate of Public School
No. - and attended ST. Mary's Roman
Catholic Church. Before enlisting he
vas employed at the Crane shipyards.
lrrol}n.
Nike Van6k, killed July IS, wrote Mrs
Anna kanatky, 1l3 Madison street. Ho-
roken, with whom he boarded. that the
war would I've over next October. The
"''er was received shortly before the
receipt of the news of his death. He
SAID he had already taken part in the
NgNting. His mother lives at 1877 Jack
SON street, Hoboken.
Arthur WOrme. who died of wounds
July 81, served on the Mexican border
hetor" going overseas. He enlisted in
n" Twenty-third Regiment, being trans
ie'rel later tn Company l.. 106th 1nfan-
NY tie was 90, and worked in a Wall
street brokerage office.
fryate Joseph Becker. %. Company
a Ninth Infantry. was killed July IS,
according to a War Department tele-
gram received yesterday by his sister,
MrS Loretta Roessler. los High street,
college Point, l.. l.
=, Miss Helen Roche, 40 Central avenue.
Moh'clatr y. j., received official news
trsterday OF the death in action OF her
brother Private Michael A Roche, July
tc' He was 80. and enlisted in the
'N,A Engineers last September.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Danko of Pas
sd1e' \. j., have received word that their
. I'm A!hert :. Danko, of the Field Ar
merry has been killed in France. He
enlisted in the Marines two and half
EARS ago. when he was II, and was
later transferred.