Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-24

Railway Division, reported missing. has
cabled his parents
N1steI II, o;,oo, that he has been
100" released. He was
Released From captured and taken
to Camp Karlsruhe,
days before the ar.
mlstice was signed, but had the good
fortune TO be held there only a short
time. Gilbert has been overseas Since
last December. after training at ROCK
ford, III. He was educated at the North
east High School and the University, OF
Pennsyiyania, taking a degree in civil
engineering at the latter place in 1914.
He is ~twenty-four and single. Fer three
years previous to entering the service
Railroad in the maintenance of way de-
partment. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas wolsey Gilbert, who live at ALL
Chancellor street, where he made his
home.
Private Mack Gabrack, reported as
having died of disease, was twenty-four
years old and had been In Frames only
three months. A friend living at 6OoS
irving street was notified OF his a
his being i'll. Garback's parents are
dead, He came to this country from
Armenia several years 60. ,,,,
Corporal Andrew A. Ccniin, Jr, kiiied
S25th Infantry, having. been drafted in
New Jersey while working for the Penn.
sy, Atlantic City branch, and raine
at Camp Dix before being sent overseas
two Years old and formerly lived with his
parents at 2505 Ellsworth street. Con.
lin was killed on October 10, y the
official notification OF MS death Es nc y
lust two months later. His last letter
| was written on october IL, the day
before he died. In It he. remarked that
his rife was his best friend IN france.
and predicted that the war would DC
Corporal Harry NJ. Thomas, s1S North
Th%irty-ninth street, died Of pneumonia
in the latter part OF November, aeSorqs
wife. Mrs. Bessie Thomas, q few days
ago. A letter, she avs dated November
"a, had said that he was, in, the best of
health and she was shocked to hear of
his death. He was a member of the
32bth Field Sergeants' Battalion, having
enlisted last April and trained at Camp
sherman two months before sailing he
later the Phiiadeiphia Trade School,
where lie graduated as an electrician.
Private Chester 9. Burns. Company A,
missing, has returned 70 his company.
A telegram from the War Department,
dated December 10, told of his being
missing. 1T was ifty-six years ago
Killed I'd in the civil War, and I was much
frightened when the telegram came"
says a sister, of 6013 Lansdowne venue
But" she added, he wrote a few days
pany and all right" Burns is thirty
five years old and for the last few years
had been working In Altoona as a boiler
maker. He enlisted at Columbus. O.
and was in training only three weeks
before sailing.
Bugler Theodore +. RietzlnRer, re-
ported missing in action in today's cas-
ualty list. wrote his mother. who lives
lntf 100 West (tnmhrip atTpat that hh
had completely recovered from wound
in the foot and the effects of being
gassed, and was cooking for his COM
pany. The Washington telegram stating
that Rietsinger was missing came on
December Is, and caused his family
great distress until a letter from the
soldier written December I arrived a
few days later telling of his temporary
assignment as chef de cuisine Rlet-
ginger is a member of Company A.
Eighth Machine Gun Battalion: He is
twenty-four years old and enlisted In
July, 1917. He was ain a Camp
Greene. We
Private Isaac westle writes his pa
rents. Mr.. n Mrs. Peter Westle,f 1924
have q fear of thirteen, for on July i3
he was severely wounded in action and
still has TO use crutches when he walks.
Apparently this brave soldier has been
hiding the full extent of his injuries
from his parents, as he. has often writ
ten that he is getting along well, but
the crutches tell the true story. The
first report that Private Westle had
been wounded in action came from
/ Washington On October Is last, stating
merely that he had been injured on July
10. Another telegram came from the
War Department on December IS, stat
ing that he had been wounded on OCto-
Der 20. The statement contained in the
last telegram and the letters 10 his
family from the soldier are at great
variance, and his relatives are now in
a quandary as to whether he has been
WniInded once or twice. -