Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-13
SELDOM SMILES,
BUT WILL FIGHT
Indian Doughboy Can go Some"
In Own Way.
Ne HARDLY EVER SALUTEs
Has Unusual Scouting Abilities, Both
Hereditary and AequIred--wins
spangles on the vesle by Remark.
able Exploit In sIleneIns Enemy Ma.
chine oun-offIcer Wants German
! Field Glasses, "chlef" Gets Them.

"The Chief" has smiled for the sec
ond time since he came 10 France
and II is the talk Of the ----th infan.
try.
"Tho Chief" In Private Ross, q full.
blooded Ute Indian. About year ngo
he threw up his Job herdIng aheep In
the barren hills OF southern Arizona,
walked 80 miles down 20 Blsbee, "rodc
the rods" 10 lei Paso and enlisted. In
the training camp he was nicknamed
'yThe Chief" There also II was dis.
covered that "The Chief" had unusual
scouting abllitles-both hereditary ond
acquired.
He was assigned ns battalion scout.
Thnts when he smiled the first time.
Chief Ross IN hardly u model soldier.
He hardly ever salutes an officer and
says ugh" for ayes. SIR" and shakes
his head for mo. SIR" Although he
has fair command OF English he
talks very little: Once only he was de-
tected snluting nm ofilcer--thnt was
when he had gone TO the officer three
times TO nsk for leave pass. The
third time he saluted.
Wins Spaneles on vosle.
But "rhe CHIEF wiped out all the
little black marks for sins OF omission
In the lighting up on the vesle.
A lone machine gun In stone build
Ing about 200 yards In front OF tho
Americans was holding up the ad.
vance. II was brond dnyllght--three
o'clock In the afternoon. The task OF
sllenclng the machine gun was given
TO "ChIcf" Ross and O picked patrol
OF three other men.
The patrol disappeared into the
brush with "Thc CHIEF leading. with
his pistol ready and two hand grenades
In his hip pockets. The emplacement
was spotted" In the upper window Of
the stone house. Two men were left
out In front In the bushes to draw tho
are OF the gun. while Ross stealthily
worked UP toward one side OF the
building and his companion on the
other. Ross crawled up 10 the side of
the building unobserved and edged
around to where he could see the muz-
zlc Of the machine gun protrudlng
from window.
Two seconds later n well.placed
grenade burst In the room with the
Germans, killing two and shatterlng
the machine gun. The surviving Ger
man executed strategic retreat
through the rear window and slid
down to the ground behind the build
Ing where he would be protected by
another machine gun farther back,
Chief outwlts Enemies.
II was sure death TO try to reach the
running German from either side OF
the building. The German was cum
Ming but not so cunning us "The Chief"
He swung himself up to the window
and crawied rapidly up the roof to-
ward the rldgepole. From that point
Of vantage he could see the enemy
without danger to himself.
Three shots stopped the fleeing
Boche.
That was when "The Chief" smiled
the second time, the boys OF the -th
Infantry declare. Some of them aver
that "rhe Chief" emitted the Ute war.
whoop, surprising the Germans so
> much that they stopped firing for
few moments.
Once before the incident on the
vesle, so the boys say, "The Cher al
most smiled. A lieutenant expressed
desire for q pair Of German field
glasses within the hearing of Ross.
That night he went out and came back
In 40 minutes with fine pair of Ger
man glasses. As he presented them to
The lieutenant he merely said, Heap
EASY" and almost smiled.