The sun., 1919-05-31
1892 TROOPS HERE
ON SIX TRANSPORTS
Col. Gordon's 320th Infantry
Lands Exactly a Year From
Sailing Date.
CAPT. ELSIE JANIS is IN
Discharged Men on the Santa
Clara Have Crap Game
Lasting Eleven Days.

Six transports carrying 1e.so2 military
passengers arrived yesterday from
France and all docked except the Rot
terdam OF tho Holland America line,
which spent the night in Quarantine
and will tie UP at Hoboken this morning.
permitting the landing OF 2.3s1 officers
and men, including Capt. Elsie Janis.
The other ships are the Mobile, Saxonia
Ryndam, Great Northern and Santa
Clara.
The chief unit aboard the Mobile was
the S20th Infantry complete. command
ed by Lieut.-Col. w. w. Gordon, which
sailed from this port on Decoration Day
and had the distinction Of returning
Just one year later to day. Col.
Gerdor's command, first of the Eigh-
tieth Division troops to get back. vas
In three major offensives in the Meuse-
Argonne sector, had 1000 casualties
and has a record equal to that of any
American regiment
Brig.-Gen Lloyd NJ. Brett. the rank
ing officer aboard the Mobile. COM
manding the 1e0th Infantry Brigade, is
an old Indian tighter. Besides the Con-
gressional Medal he won in his Indian
campaigns. Gen Brett wears also the
decoration of the Legion of Honor, won
by gallantry in France. The casualties
Of his command Of 1900 were $500.
The Mobiles troops came from thirty
i've States. but the majority hailed from
Pittsburg, and Mayor e. V. Babcock
and nine members Of the Pittsburg City
Council and nearly 400 fathers and
mothers welcomed them down the bay.
Company @. 143d Infantry. Thirty
sixth Division, made up mostly Of men
Of the Oklahoma and Texas National
Guard. Is the first unit of the Thirty
sixth to get back. arriving by the
Cunarder Saxonia- The division lost In
killed 81 oficers and 4ss men. The total
Congressional medals, 30 Distinguished
Service Crosses and 12s French war
crosses.
Other passengers were Col. H. c.
Stebbins, formerly q merchant Of ~
Leonard street. and Lieut. Col William
A. Larned, once tennis champion of the
United States and a member of the Air
Service.
Soldier Lost From Ship.
Private Lynster n. Kerr, a young
farmer Of Oklahoma, disappeared from
the Saxonia on the third day out Com
rades had heard him say that the ocean
had a fascination for him that he could
pot explain and he spent most of his
time leaning over the rail watching the
waves curling from the bows and rush.
ing along the sides of the liner. 1t is
supposed that he either fell or jumped
overheard. There have been other cases
Of seagoers unable to resist the invita-
ton of the sea TO drop IN.
Private Jerome Carron. Belgian born
and resident of New Brunswick, N. j.,
returned by the Ryndam with his wife
and two daughters, Fflomene and Flor
ence, respectively 6 and years DID,
whom he had not seen in more than
four years until their reunion at st.
Naxaire six weeks ago. Carron was
badly wounded fighting in the Belgian
army in December, 1914; spent months
in hospital and went back to fight In
the fall OF 1915. He was badly hurt
again and was discharged for disability.
Then he went to sea as cattleman be-
tween American and English ports and
finally landed and got work in New
brunswick. He went out with the 3l0th
Field Artillery OF the Seventy eighth
Division when America entered the war
and while in a rest camp near st.
NaBaire told the Red Cross about his
lost family and got them back safe and
sound. He learned that he had lost
three brothers in the war and that his
father had died of broken heart. His
mother died before the war.
The Great Northern's biggest cont'n-
gent was the 111th Engineers, in com
mand OF Col. Horace S. Baker. which
saw service at st. Mihiel and the Ar.
come, and was at the front sixty-three
days. losing twenty-five killed and
wounded. With the engineers wa.
Lieut.. Gordon T. Granger. former cham
plon runner with the New York Athletic
Club.
Brig.-Gen. Arthur Johnson, in com
mand of the Fifty-flrst Infantry Brigade
arrived with two aids. Lieut. F. A
Roche OF this city and Lieut.. Johr
Sneed of Chicago. Gen. johnson went e
France in November. 1917. and tool
charge of the service supplies, havini
under his direction at one time 270.00t
men who kept supplies moving to thu
front He received the Cross of TIT
Legion OF Honor from France and tn,
d. S. c. from Uncle Sam
Rickenbaclcer's Airmen Here.
The transport Louisville, due to-day
has, aboard the Nnety-fourth Pursui
manded by the American ace OF aces
Capt. Eddie Rickenba cker. The Ninety
fourth was the first U0rsuit squadron OF
the American front, brought down sixty
nine German planes and many observa
ton balloons and lost ten killed. nv
wounded and three taken prisoners.
With the returning outfit are II
Weir Cook OF Indiana. Sam Kaye q
Mississippi and Joseph Dawson. Will
Palmer and John LETTERS OF Los Angeles
all aces. They will be met by Capt
R!ckenbacker. Major Neissner, Cap
James y. Hall. Capt. Douglas Campbell
Capt. Thorne Taylor, Lieut.. Judson Hill
Lieut.. Edward Green, Capt. John Went
worth and Lieut.. Alan Winslow.
one OF the longest crap games o.
record lasting eleven days. was playe
aboard ;he transport Santa Clara, whic
locked at the Bush Terminal. Tn
players were discharged soldiers VIII
had received their pay and suspecte
they could afford to invest. Darkness
put an end to the daily performances
which were resumed at dawn. Nearl
all the ships company was made up G
doughboys discharged on the other sid
The United States transport Yosemite
which sailed from st. Nazaire on Ma
Is. arrived last night and locked a
Pier 2. Bush Terminal, In South Brook
Ign. The troops on board include on
officer and sixteen men OF the Thirt,
third Ordnance Convoy Detachment. on
of9car and Thirteen men of the Thirty