The sun., 1919-08-02
20 MORE YANKEES
HONORED FOR VALOR
Dead Named Among Those to
Be Awarded ID. s G. for
Deeds on Field.
NEW WORKERS ON LIST
Officers and Enlisted Men
Share in Highest War
Decorations.

The War Department announced yes
terday the award by the commanding
General OF the Distinguished Service
Cross to twenty additional officers and
enlisted men Of the American Expedi-
tionary Forces
Private Daniel ]. weiner, Company G,
Thirty-eighth Infantry, whose next OF
kin is his mother, Mrs. Rose weiner,
234o Woodburn street. Brooklyn, re-
ceived the decoration for carrying mes
sages through a heavy barrage in dis
regard Of his personal safety near Mezy,
France. on July 15, 1918.
Sergeant Sidney H. Palmer. Company
H, 305th Infantry, whose home address
is BIS Beaufort avenue, Richmond Hill,
Staten Island. volunteered to crawl out
under enemy machine gun fire and locate
three missing members OF his platoon
He found one of the missing men, seri-
ously wounded With two companions,
in spite of the increased fire drawn by
their efforts, they dragged the wounded
man to safety Corporal Fred Schick,
who lives at 4S Edgewater street, Rose
bank. Staten Island. and Corporal George
Werner, deceased, whose next of kin is
his mother, Mrs. Suzanna Werner, 163
Second street. Albany, were Sergeant
Palmer's companions in this exploit In the
Bots de la Naza, and both got the Dis
tinguished Service Cross.
To Lewis H. Swezey, private, first
class, Company G. 305th Infantry. the
cross was awarded for gallantry ir
| action in the Bots de la Naza. He re-
- ,, lie In dat
ton after 1t had been nearly wiped out
by enemy fire. He was killed while Oh
patrol next day. Mrs. Hiram Swezey
mother, Grove avenue, Patchogue, l.. l..
is given as his next of kin.
A Cross was awarded posthumously
| to another member of Company G of the
| 305th. Sergeant John A. Casey of Cold
| Spring Hudson, although mortally
wounded by enemy shell fire which hat
caused heavy casualties in his platoon
reformed his men and refused to have
his wounds attended to until the outpost'
were paced so that the position coult
be held and the other wounded evac
| uated.
Corporal Charles Cain of Company D
| 165th Infantry, whose home address !!
| 3 Moody street, Waltham, Mass, Is cited
for the Distinguished Service Cross fol
extraordinary gallantry in volunteering
to search for ammunition on the bodies
of the dead under enemy fire when thu
cartridges of his companions had beer
| exhausted. He made repeated trips until
all the survivors of his company haI
been supplied.
| Lieut.. Arthur E. Westphal of the Sew
enth Infantry is cited for conspicuous
! gallantry in operating a battery o
| Stokes mortars near Fossoy, France, OF
July is, 1918, and preventing the enem!
from crossing the Marine. Lieut.. West
phaps address Is 1876 Greenfield street
Hartford. Conn.
Others cited for the decoration are
Private (first CLASSY Carl c. Gentry. Com
pany ID, 139th Infantry. Trenton. Mo.
Private FIRST CLASSY George E. Duncan
Company X, 139th Infantry, Dearborn
Mo. Capt Martin C. Rudolph, Eleventh
Infantry. Charleston, S. c.; Sergean
Rufus Bean, Company G, Seventh infan
try, Poplar Bluff. Mo-; Lieut. James
Roach. Company c, Eight Machine GU
Battalion, South Boston, Mass (; Lieut.
Joseph A. Mendelson, Marine Corps SAM
tary Detachment 305th Infantry, Wash
ngton, ID. c.. Private John G. Frye, Com
pany NJ. Sixth Regiment, U. S. NJ. c.
Bernie, Mo. Private Saxon g. Foss, de
ceased, Company F, Ninth Infantry
Somerville, Mass. Private George A
Fratus, Company F, Sixty-first Infantry
Providence, r. l.. Private (first class
Pietro Formica, Company A. Twenty
ninth Infantry, Turin, Italy Privat
ICharles E Epler, Company A, Twenty
ninth Infantry. Dayton, Ohio: Privat
Guy l.. Bordman, deceased. Company a
Fifty ninth Infantry Hughson, Cal.