Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-04
S City Heroes Die;
10 Are Wounded

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10 Are Wounded
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Private Moe Robins. 1921 North Six
teenth street.
Private Herman sabulsky. 1884 South
Beulah street.
Private John A. AIper. 4S3 Wharton
street.
Private George Bauman. $3.50 South
Front street.
PRISONER
Private Leroy Web. of Brooklyn. for
merly of 5146 Ogden street.
Eli FROM NEARBY POINTS
Private Harry w. Hart. Clifton
Heights: wounded.
Sketches OF Heroes
Private Alfred ID. Harmer. 446 North
Stafford street, who enlisted and went to
Camp Meade last April, died of injuries
i suffered in an automobile accident one
day after his arrival in France, accord
ing to a letter received by his mother.
Mrs. James Harmer. He. died July Is.
How quickly and unexpectedly death
came to Harmer is shown by the fact
ssthat in the mail with the death news
letter came one from the soldier in which
he said he. was safe and well. Mrs.
Harmer read this and then opened the
other message. 1t was from her sons
nurse and said he was dead. She gave
no details of the fatal accident.
Harmer was twenty-three years old
unmarried. and lived with his parents
before his enlistment He was employed
as surgical instrument maker in a
plant near Wayne Junction. At Camp
Meade he was made an automobile
driver and on July 7 he sailed for
France.
Sergeant James l.. St0rk, reported to
have died of disease on August a..
dated a letter he wrote to friend in
this city August 16, according to his
Z parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Stork, 1914
Parrish street. The letter told of his
good health at that time Washington,
however. has confirmed the report that
he died in France two days before the
date on the letter.
He was a drafted man from Local
Board No s. at Tenth and Buttonwood
streets. and left for Camp Meade in
October of last year He was made a
corporal soon afterward, and last June
was appointed a sergeant He sailed
for France July 18 with Company B.
311th machine gunners. He was twenty
two years Old.
Stork attended the Central High
School for year and one-half and then
entered the Philadelphia Trade School,
graduating from there in 1912. Before
he entered the army he was employed as
a shipper by the Warner Chemical Com
pany.
Sergeant Stork's brother. Frank. twen-
ty-five years old, is in the United States
navy. The last heard from him by his
father was year ago, when the sailor
!. was laying mines in the North Sea.
Private william Dewey Oxley. Com
pany NJ, 10th Infantry, killed in action
August 2. was the first Tacony soldier to
be killed in the war. He was graduate
of the Disston School and was a ma
chnist at the Disston Saw Works before
he enlisted He was nineteen years old
and lived with his sister, Mrs John
Small. 1850 Unruh street, Tacony. While
his father was attending a Liberty Sing
the official notification of his death ar
rived and his father was. notified.
Private. william Erdwein, Company
H, Eighteenth Infantry. was killed in
action July 20, according to a telegram
from the War Department to hts parents
who live at 4040 North Reese street. A
letter dated the day of his death was
received by his parents. In 1t he stated
that he was well. Erdwein, who was
twenty -four years old, was a paper
hanger before he became soldier He
was drafted last November.
:, Private Michael Billie, Company G
327th Infantry, whose home was at 21t
Tasker street, was one of the numerous
Polish young men who espoused Amer
ica's cause in this war. He made his home
, with his married sister Mrs. Theresa
e Loritus. of the address mentioned. His
young nephew. who adored his soldier
uncle, was grief-strcken when the new:
came on August 27 that Private Bilzt
had been drowned in France on Angus
Z IS. Bilze was twenty-seven years old
He went to camp on October last anc
sailed for France late in April.
Joseph Rubin, 852 North Marshal
street, enlisted IN June, 1917, in th'
Fourth Infantry, Company B.. He re
ceived his training at Gettysburg ant
sailed for France in April, 1918. H,
was reported wounded in action on Jul.
A. Last week letter was received from
him dated August g in which he says h,
is in the best of health and makes M
mention of his injury. Rubin is eigh
teen years old and at the time of hi
enlistment was employed In the grocer.
store Of his father at the Marshall stree
address.
Private George Bauman, reported
missing in action. is the author Of
letter received last week by his mother
in which he stated that he was in tn
big drive of July 80 and he would, :'b
home very soon.' His mother, Mrs
Elizabeth Bauman, resides at 253
South Front street, the soldiers family
having moved from 124 Ritner street
.