Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
ID. c. BOYS To SHARE
| VIRGINIA WELCOME
Machine Gunners to Land
This Morning With Old
Dominion Heroes.
DOCK AT NEWPORT NEWS
From a STAFF Correspondent.

From Stan Correspondent
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. May "a
When the Washington men in the
312th Machine Gun Battalion land here
at o'clock tomorrow Sunday morn
ing son the transport virgfnian. they
will receive welcome from this city
which could hardly be surpassed by
their own people in the District
I Latest RADIO advices are that the
Virgin,an will enter the capes at s
O'clock in the morning and dock three
hours later. The reason Washington's
machine gun heroes are to be met
with bands of music and streets deco
rated in bunting is because they are
arriving with a big detachment of
Virginia troops.
The soldiers from the virginian will
march through the arch of triumph
erected in Newport News months ago
for the returning fighters. The whole
town is expected to be out on Wash
ington avenue to cheer the men
through the crowded streets. They
will proceed to Camp Morrison, out
side the city. There they will find
several hundred other boys in khaki
from Washington who are in the 110,h
Field Artillery Of the 18th Division.
Men Will All Look Alike.
The cheering throngs along the
streets may be thinking of their Vir-
GINA sons. but the men in line will
all look alike, and Washington's sons
will feel and appreciate the cheers as
| much as Virginia's boys. The local
welcome-homec committee expects Sec
rotary Of the Treasury Carter Glass
and several Virginia members of Con-
gress to take part in the welcome
Although Secretary Glass is a native
of Virginia. his long service in Con-
gress, and now in the cabinet, makes
him also a Weshingtonian. and he
will be able to cheer as freely for the
District boys as for those from his
native state.
The War Department records assign
only one officer and 160 men of the
312th Machine Gun Battalion to
Camp Meade for muster out, which
would indicate that there are not
more than that number in the outfit
from the District.
Division Formed in 1917.
When the 10Th Division, of which
the 312th is a part, was formed at
Camp Meade in August, 1917, the en-
listed men were drawn from Pennsyl-
vania. Maryland and the District of
Columbia. While at Camp Meade,
81, 900 were trained in the 18th Diyi-
sion, but all except $4,000 were trans
ferred to southern divisions before the
18th left for France. This largely ex-
plains why such a small number Of
District boys are returning now with
the 312th Machine Gun Battalion.
There probably are many District men
who started out with the 18th Divi-
sion now in a score of other divisions.
The District men in the 312th saw
fully two months of service under fire
and a number of them were wounded.
Among these were Sergt. Carl o. Alli-
son and Sergt. John Stanley, both liv-
ing in the 1900 block of Morse street
northwest. Washington. who were sent
home several months ago. Another
was Private Elmer Andrews of Ros-
lyn, Va, who only a few weeks ago
was discharged from Walter Reed Hos
pital, Washington.
Open the Way for Infantry.
On more than one occasion District
boys of the 312th opened the way with
their machine guns for the infantry
to advance on the boche trenches.
Some of the bravest fighting done by
District men was by the 312th in the
Grand Montague sector on the right
bank Of the Mouse river during the
secod phase of the Meuse-Argonne
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