Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-12
UlVHURT HVWAR,
DIES OF DISEASE
Philsdelphia Boy Had
Passed Through Fighting
/; at Meuse Unscathed
"a CITY SOLDIERS DEAD
Lieut. William H. Jessup
Named Among Those Report.
ed Killed in Action


Passing unsoathed through the teT-
rfhc hghtinG at the Meuse. where the
American troops slowly but surely drove
the Germans back from Verdun SEC
tor. Corporal Joseph Mckee. 1914 Chris
tfhn street. died OF pneumonia a week
efter he returned from the frcnt for
rtsb aha recuperation at a concentration
camp.
", The very evening OF his arrival at his
'birlst." a small village some distance
from the fighting. he was stricken With
spidemic Influenza ana died in a base
ASspitai ssveh days later.
When he reached the rest camp on
06tubsr Q Corporal Mckee found q
letter from his family awaiting him. and
answered II Immediately. He said he
had been fighting for a soiid month.
but had miracuiously escaped injury
and hoped TO have a good loaf before
toing back TO the front:
This letter reached his family last
vssk. Three days later came tho oH,elai
telegram announcing his death on octo-
ttr IL.
mGheG WAS formerly eTle
pioyed at the Frankford Arsenal and
made his home with his widowed mother.
Mrs. James X. Mckee. He whs drafted
Il, November Of last year. trained at
Camp Meade and attached to Company
D,%alSth Infantry.
- sixteen Cist soldiers Killed
Thsre are 1913 names on the com.
hIned casualty lists today. including l42
l. "a - IL AAt-
yAiA and district ia sixty-hve. sixteen
having been killed In action. Ave having
Aisd Of disease and three Of wounds.
Twsnty have been wounded and eighteen
art missing.
Ths death In action OF Lieutenant
William II. Jessup. Of the Sixth Field
Aftflisyy. has been reported TO his Ruit,
MA Eugene r. Christman, 2s0t De
LAncsy street. Lieutenant Jessup was
born IN Scranton. but lived for many
yVafs In this city. He was . graduate
u Yale University. clpss OF 1915. q
Anembet Of the Scroll and Keys Club
end leader Of the oles Club. Upon
oPaduation he came to Philadelphia and
eAgaged In the insurance business.
Tho names OF four other philadelphia
cfs,csrs Apear on todAys casualty list {:
Lieutenant John Harold Fox. OF Ger
NfantoSn, killed In action. whose fate
NNa made public through unohaciAi chan.
nsls hast week: Lieutenant Norman u.
y4nlSy, Of Germantown and Lieutenant
John Nervine Shinkei. Of Tloga, wound
"a and Lieutenant Henry Tetlov, OF
CHESTNUT Hill. gassed.
Sketches Of the Heroes
rSivsss Herbert Green. killed In action
Il: s't:.s W..s,s Tsos. wss sS' fs
III. ss.,. Sound ssi: :ssli:,:S :rff Is. t. 20 81
pAiIa. Trsiieys" isry. but hss enlist,
Ss sSrs oinss sns sSsi5s sss % sn.aS the var apa
sftss MOTT lfties Began. 'fs"s Hs was :; trained
at Camp Hancock and attached TO Com
pdny p, 1ioth Infantry. He happened
n uarrr,ns fSr rus ssTs so"1.SSs m.isS,
whSu his unit went to Francc. 20 dit
not sail on the tAfna transport. but fol
icfed two weeks later. In writing o.
s.s I "a ssas hs n. " ~ Ss n' .Ss
they came hurtlins townrd the American
tueHches sounded lust like q fat-whseiet
PhlAdtlphia trolley coming down long.
ssssp hi,l M toward where you are stand
1pssKins Of the fact that ne and tn,
Other rnsSnbers OF his squad had beer
kspt busy deepening their dusout. h,
d yn %i in ,ss s:s.s;fu a, IA o. .nsSs, ssr,
70 " sSen above the top Of the trench
rrfts would turn lose q machine gun q
IT, n was q queer thing even for z
On siSas a. sS Tas' yoS%s sS9S sS
di3sr siso mentioned that thyy did no
4ArS 10 sleep In tents or In tho .tfsnchel
1nlsse they had a corrugated iron Fco
shripiiei f,red By the antiairernft eun,
were likely I" eoms down and bear
fSfyat. Green was twenty-five year,
o|a and l!yed with his mother at +s'
SsivSts SsKH A., Jenny. reported q
mtg9ang In action on today's Official cas-
u9ity list u actually At a hase hospital
fiSpvmattSm,, according 70 letters re
xsssHam Jenny. of sSso East Hains,
S(ftSt, Germantown.
( IN the, ,htst letter. dated October 2
IA sssn II d. @ ho:p,. S 20 Tor nc soms ss'e tim. NJ
nut we4 slowly recovering. In another
letter, dated October 10. he said yhsr,
had been considerable Improvement y
% ssam r; from Sns sss s'x var ais Depart wss'
Sssn S nisslns .inss september nS' r. "A'
old, VS. drafted In April OF this wear
trained at Camp Meade. attached q
cptApany L. sitih infantry. and sent e
rvancH In July. He Il a graduate Of tn,
Pastefius School. OF 0ermantown ant
MAS Employed ~ a machinist In an aero
plAAs factory before being called to tn,
colefs.
pttvsts- Earl ouidsrt. wounded. livet
~ fifty-hfth and Walton avenue, wa
4, an Intimate ffisnd Of Private Herber
Green. In the latter's last letter ther,
10 q reference TO Quidort having beer
injured but nothing definite as to tn,
extent OF the latter's wounds.
Private Walter n. Schoultz. killed II
action. was drafted last fall and sen
20 Camp Meade on November I. 1917
Just one year later to the hour q tele
gram reached his mother. Mrs. Amandi
~ %x.s,S.e.