The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-04-25
WAR SCARED VETERANS
WITH THE TROPHY TRAIN
Several Washington State Men Who
Went Thru the Big Fight Will
Tell Their Experiences


the instruments of war as used by
both the allies and Germans in the big
struggle just ended in Europe, will
arrive in Leavenworth about 7:30 a
m. of the morning of May 5. The col
lection of souvenirs gathered from the
battlefield is said to be a most inter-
esting one and arousing much interest
thruout the country. An airplane is
accompanying the train and arrange
ments are being made for flight be-
tween this city and Wenatchee.
There are a number of interesting
personages on the train who are ex-
planning the war material aboard, tell
ing personal stories of how and where
they met the Hun and vanquished him.
There are number of heros from the
northwest, among who are Major E.
P. Lowry, Capt. E. K. Brown, Lieut..
Norman Archibald, Capt. Jack Haz-
lett and Sgt. G.. H. Bunch.
Major Lowry after graduating from
West Point left the army and entered
the commercial world. When war was
declared he left his bride of a few
months and Immediately was sent
overseas. Major Lowry engaged in
some of the heaviest fighting in
France, remaining there for Is
months. He has been decorated by the
French, British and American gov
ernments for exceptional bravery in
action, and is the proud possessor of
the Medal Militaire, the Croix de
Guerre, and number of other army
decorations, among which are the Or
der Of the Lion and the Sun, the Order
of the Liberator of the Republic, and
the Cross of st. George. Major Lowry
is every inch soldier, and his exper-
fences on the western front will be
worth going hundreds of miles to hear.
Capt. E. K. Brown is an Ellensburg
boy who is veteran of both the
Spanish-American war and the great
world war. He served in the world
war for eighteen months. He was
cited for distinguished service in the
Argonne, where he was in continuous
fighting for forty-three days. He saw
some of the hardest fighting on the
western front-narrowly escaping
death several times. He was in the
battles of Cantigny, Scissor, St.Mihiel
and the Argonne.
Lieut.. Norman E. Archibald, Sc
attic boy, enlisted in the air service at
the outbreak of the war and was sent
to France for training, where he was
placed in the pursuit squadron. After
having almost impossible experiences
in the air, he was shot down inside
the German lines. 1t will be never
to-be-forgotten pleasure to hear Lieut..
Archibald tell of his experiences while
a prisoner in the German prison
camps.
Capt. Jack Hazlett, another boy
from the northwest, who was ranch
ing at the time the war broke out,
left his home and family to enlist in
the infantry. He was afterward
recommended for the Officers Train
ing school and was sent to Fort Riley
where he was commissioned a captain
in August 1917. He was later sent to
Fort Sill with 'Cy' Noble, another Sc
attic boy, to act as instructors in the
Infantry School of Arms. Capt. Haz-
lett specialized in bayonet fighting
and attained such degree of eff
cheney that he and 'Cy' Noble were
opponents in the tournament for the
highest honor in bayonet fighting, in
which "Cy" Noble was successful.
Later on Capt. Hazlett was sent to the
89th Division as division instructor un-
der Major-General Leonard Wood and
sent to France with that division in
May, 1918, arriving in combat lines
August first of the same year. Capt.
Hazlett was engaged in the closest
fighting, where cold steel played a
prominent part, until he was wounded
in the head at st. Mihiel. He was
picked up after lying in No Mans
Land for eleven ohurs. He rejoined
his outfit again in October at the
Meuse-Argonne, where he suffered
shell shock which deafened him and
placed him in the hospital where he
remained until the armistice was
signed. Capt. Hazlett was recon-
mended on August 18th for excep-
tional bravery in the Argonne in hand
to-hand fighting, and would have re-
ceived his Majority had the war lasted
He acted as scout officer of the 353rd
Infantry and the experiences of Capt.
Hazlett in hand-to-hand fighting were
the killing of ones opponent by quick
ness and initiative is the only means
of saving ones own life will be told
on this trip.
Sergeant D. Fl. Bunch, a Seattle