Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-21
D. c. MEN AGAIN
CAMP ON HOME SOIL
104th Field Signal Battalion,
Including Washington SOL
diers, at Camp Dix.
COMMENDED FOR HEROISM
COMMENDED FOR HEROISM

By a STAN Correspondent.
CAMP DIX, May 21-For the first
time since June IS. 1913. Company B
of the 104th Field Signal Battalion.
composed principally of Washington
! boys Is spending a day in camp on
| American SOIL They arrived here last
| night from Hoboken, where the Iowan
| landed them during the morning.
Every one of the boys is veteran
1t is estimated that 500 miles of tele-
phone and telegraph wire were strung
| in six months by these men, which
| would be enough to stretch from
| Washington to New York and back.
And most of the work was done under
Are.
Communication Chief Trophy.
The trophies brought back are null
| titudinous and varying, Chief among
| them is a commentator, of which
each man has copy. Gen C. G. Nor
| ton, commanding the 29th Division, in
an official communication to the COM
| handing officer of the 104th Field Sig
nal Battalion, says:
| ION the eve of the dissolution of the
18th Division I wish to express to you,
| and through you to your officers and
men, my greatest appreciation of the
| skill and dash displayed by your bat
organization in this division There
| was no consideration of danger during
action that deferred your men from
performing their duty. even though
| that duty necessarily deprived them
of the privilege of returning the
Your battalion has always been my
particular pride and my best wishes
will follow each officer and man as he
goes out into the pursuits of civil
life
Dispatch Riders Souvenir.
Dispatch Rider G. w. Langhenry of
venir that would have been valuable
to the boche had he received it per
schedule: 1t Is message from the
| leg of a German carrier pigeon, Sc
cured in the Argonne. Langhenry was
coming back from the front line with
dispatches for headquarters last Oc-
tober, when he noticed pigeon with
a broken wing limping along the
| woodland path. He got off the ma
chine and picked up the bird. Tied to
| the leg was message from Ger
man airman to the artillery forces
giving them certain ranges. American
Army experts are said to have discov-
cred the key to an important German
| code from examination of the mes
sage. Langhenry has the original
| message yet, but the pigeon died dur
| ing a cold stretch in February.
Taken From Hun Top Sergeant.
p. H. colman of 1417 Buchanan
street northwest. in another of the
trophy takers. His souvenir is a Ger
man Steyr rifle, taken. they proudly
say, from a top sergeant of Hun ar
tillery" When asked how he came to
get it, he declared: He started at me
in the Argonne. and it was me or him.
1t was him. So 1 took this along to
show the boys I wasn't kidding with
any Germans
Harry Yokayama of 1921 Georgia
| avenue northwest has a German iron
| cross.
body chirped. while he was exhibit
| ing it.
| .sYup," answered an adherent of
Yokayama, but don't forget, buddy,
he killed the boche before he took
| the cross"
Abe Libow Most Popular.
Who's the most popular man here?"
was asked last night.
ABE Libow," shouted a chorus.
| who's he?"
| WELL" replied a lean. lanky signal
man, his official title is cook, and
some call him cook, and he supplies
us with what is called food. but the
only real title he ought to have is
| chief of the K. p. for the Lord knows
what he turns out. It can't really be
called cooking. He has had to tell
us what we were eating before we
| knew what 1t was"
Abe bowed acknowledgment and taps
sounded, putting an end to the talk for
| the night. D. r.