Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-09-13

scoTTY, YOUNGEST SOLDIER IN
PERsHiNe's FORCES, is
MOURNED sY ARMY.
HIS HEROIC DEATH RELATED
Red Cross Establishes Tailor Shop in
6erne. to Supply Captured American
Officers With Uniforms-New Plan
for Training Flyers.

Tor training F'yeTs.
(From Committee on Public Information.)
Washington.-Privat Albert E..
Scott, the youngest soldier in General
Pershing's army in France-he was
but fifteen years of age and Brook
line, Mass, high school boy when he
enlisteG-is dead, shot through the
head by German sniper after he had
laid thirty foes to rest, and the army
mourns it's boy hero.
A soldier writer for The Stars and
Stripes. the A. E. F. paper, tells this
story: &c.,.
in the regiment they are talking
these days OF all the good pals they
lost In the fierce, unfortgettable chase
they gave the Germans in the great
retreat from the Marine. But most Of
ala little oftener and bit. more
fondly-they talk of Scotty.
He was a good kid, they say. and
he died on his gun.
Ills great chance came when on
that historic July Is his regiment got
the order for which. through many
month Of dreams, it had longed-the
order to advance. It went is kilome-
tiers without stopping, chasing the Boche
up hill and down dale, fighting It's way
through patch after patch Of inviting
woods that would prove 'treacherous
with hidden machine guns.
I'm the first days of that battle. the
movement was so swift that more than
once q small German rear guard and an
advance Yank platoon would meet In
the forest and fight out then and there
a complete and separate battle all their
own. So it was with the Indians, as
Scotty's regiment was nicknamed, one
afternoon, as they were making their
way past the bitterly won town Of
Epieds.
AT the cross road they saw troops
approaching them in column Of squads.
The officer in charge caught te.em in
the focus of his field glasses. They
were Boches, coming on. The Yanks
waited, itching to open fire, but hiding
their time. Suddenly the Boches de-
serted the road and came on them
through the forest.
"The lieutenant placed his men along
Q roadside ditch. He placed Scotty
and his ,sho-sho beside q tree and
ssQuarely opposite q narrow woodland
path that opened across the way. He
could see straight down that patti, and
the Boches were bound either to come
a1nn1 ~ NJ n <rnQo ~ =
"''See that path, Scottyy said the
lieutenant. That's your target. Not
one Of them must cross it. Ia
"'Yes, SIR said scotty, and dropped
beside his gun. X ~
'Then from the high branches Of
many tree and from many shelter
the German fire opened, and the Yank
fre answered. r
"A gray figure darted suddenly into
the leafy path. He fell.
another appeared. He fell.
"There was perhaps ten minutes Of
that, and what was left Of the German
party was withdrawing when q handful
of soldiers scampered along the road.
They were Germans, but they shouted
"a they ran, Don't shoot, we're Amer
leans !a@
"For a moment, just for the space
that breath IL held, Scotty thrust his
head up to see. From his perch In
some tree a sniper shot him in the
forehead. Another bullet found his
heart. He fell forward, dead, on his
gun.
"They had killed him, but the num-
Der of their dead that are counted -
bis was thirty"