Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-21
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MEN GIVE LIVES
Two From Chester. Three
From Shenandoah Among
Dead
ENGINEERS HARD HIT
Poi,sville Company Loses All
but Sixteen. but Builds
Three Bridges

Several more PENNSYLVANIA boys have
been killed in action. or have died Of
wounds received in action.
Among them are Private Clarence
Blythe and Private william Smith. OF
Chester. both members Of Company r.
Eleventh Infantry. Blythe was seven
teen years old when he enlisted, and
Smith was twenty-six years old
Pennsylvania boy in the Thirty
eighth Regiment has died Of wounds
received in action az the Vesle. lie Is
Sergeant Harry l.. Hodge. of Hazleton.
with Company L. Word of his death
was received yesterday by his parents.
Three Shenandoah boys have been KILL
ed in action: Private Morris Lazar
Company NJ. 111th Infantry: Adams
Kweder. Company l. Fifty-rjghth In
fantry, and Roman Borofsky. Company
r. Thirty-ninth infantry
Private Isaac Preston McShane. of
Jeffersonvlle. has been killed in action
Sergeant Frank James Mitchell. of Bat
terry A. lo'th Field Artillery. of Beth
1ehem, was killed in action August -
Lieutenant William T. Helliwell. OF
Company T.. 1llth Infantry, old sixth
Regiment. has returned from the war
zone and is visiting his friends in Ches-
ter. Helliwell was formerly OF COM
pany G, one of the Chester companies
but was transferred after reaching
France. He was with the Pennsylvania
boys in the drive from Chateau Therry
to FismeS, during which he was under
fire constantly. Lieutenant Helliwell
has been assigned as instructor at Camp
Dix
Bridges Built Despite Snipers
John S,erner. of Company y. Penn
sylvania Engineers. in a letter to his
parents at Pottsville confirms stories
that his company has suffered more
heavily than any other command at the
front. He says only sixteen serviceable
men were left OUT of the company. but
the company put up three bridges.
Relatives of members of this company
take comfort in a letter of Captain
Jack Reese TO his father. Representa-
tive Frank c. Reese. in which he says
all wounded men of Company will
recover
MIR and Mrs Edwin r. Brel. Of Read
ing, have received notice of the death
in France of their son, Walter Briel He
was a machine gunner in the Rainbow
Division. No details have been received.
Ammon Hohl. of Geigers Mills Berks
County, has received a letter from his
son, Harmon II. Hohl, a musician in
France in one of the army bands. He
describes how another BerkS man in the
same band. Ray A. Master. of Topton,
was killed recently in battle. Hohl also
was wounded. The men in the band
were in service as stretcher-bearers.
Mrs. j. S. Beck of Shauesville, has
received a message that her son. Edgar
Raymond Beck. was seriously wounded
in France August 90
Sent Money From German Dead
Mrs Frank Baumens, residing near
Portage. has been notified that her son,
Frank Baumens. is missing in action.
He is attached to Company NJ. Sixteenth
Infantry. and was among those who
answered the first call in 1917. He has
been in France more than year.
Joseph Smconski Of near Port Car
bon. has received word that his son,
Private Frank Sinconski. is missing in
action He enlisted November >, 1917,
in Company II, l12th Infantry, and went
overseas in February, 1918. His mother
received a letter from him the day after
she was notified that he is unaccounted
for. In the letter was some German
money taken from the dead.
Private Walter w Ireland. of Park
ers Landing. a member of Company l.
320th Infantry. has been severely
wounded and gassed in France.