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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29
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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29
Business Methods.

Cierk-foung Van Sapp wants
suit on credit
clothier-Sell him something that
won't last over two months. He never
pays for one suit until he needs an
other.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29
Pinned Down.

Lawyer And what was the defend
nut d.inv meauwhllep
Witness lie was telling me u funny
story.
Lawyer Rensmi,rr, sir, That you
orr under auth
Witness Welt, anyway. he was tell
Ing me a sturs.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29

II you use Red Cross Ball Blue IN
your laundry. you will not be troubled
by those tiny rust spots. often caused
by inferior bluing. Try 1t and see.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29
Learn Wisdom THROUGH Folly

II Is great pity that we must ex-
)eriment with score of foliies. most
OF them hoary with age. before, we
can arrive at point of Wisconsin,
Richard Cooke.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29
When Aioft

II Was lust reading that an English
"A high rhuychmm. ehF"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29

~Ite has nn open tntnd
YES. That's the reason nothing
stays in a."
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29
FATONlg
Not Always Appropriate
ToR YOUR Ac1Ds1o

l@1M 4
During the Fifth Liberi! H
paign all country newspai
asked to insert between 'uea r.
some such quotations as hs'F
the job" instead Of the
dash. The quotations were
gar,iless of the substance
ticle. Sometimes eInharrass
followed. as when an articie nj
ed: Esteemed Woman :" 4
Dead" and below The o
Help Finish the job.
Every man thinks ne 80
pace if he weren't handieaW
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29
Eye for Music.

rw music. Il have found one time !
can recognize"
-stng Il"
II cant do thar, Hut when ! see
everybody standing M ! know It's ten
s-hancsw 10 one the baud l. playing
the Star Spnngled Banner +"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29

Fish and mosquitoes oftru begin 10
Rite At the same time
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-29

At SCI u muudredwelght "on the
hog Is degree of apulence
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-06
GOOD-BYE--42!
WELCOME-77!

The Germans had good sources OF
Practically opposite the border of Lor-
raine and Alsace we were in country
where spies might be expected to OPP
crate. The French themselves pro-
hibited civilians from visiting their
homes in villages Immediately behind
the line. This is not to impugn the
loyalty of the natives, but merely TO
point out that near region whose
Germanization had been attempted for
decades one might we'll be careful. In
Neuf Maison. 30Sth Regimental Head
quarters, omelets. vim rouge and peas
ants flourished-wlthin four miles of
the trenches. And the Boche consid-
cred the soil fertile for the sowing of
propaganda. Frequently his avions
flew over to release yellow parachutes
weighted and brought to earth by bum
dies Of newspapers printed in French.
Seemingly their aviators had undis-
puted superiority. One day a plane
ventured as far back as division head
quarters. fifteen kilometers back Of the
line. 1t was brought down by the
"archies," the first and last airplane
ever saw winged by anti-aircraft fire.
And air barrages were commonplaces
to the doughboys. The two occupants
of this plane were mashed so that not
even a torso could be distinguished.
The Propaganda Sheets.
Half an hour earlier these fellows
had been dropping propaganda para
chutes. Two OF their papers 1 OBJ
tanned. one an eight page magazine ex-
cellently printed by rotogravure pro-
cess. entitled "L'Anglais Tel Quill Est"
| What the Englishman Really Is).
Profusely illustrated with caricatures
of John Bull, 1.-The Unsuitable octopus OF
colonies" Joan of Arc at the stake
Daniel OConnell and Sir Roger Case
ment these sheets were palpable-so
Teutonically Observation-Disclosures OF
French antagonism toward their ally
Hostile observers hummed overhead
in the early evening OF June 81, when
the 3OSth went into the line at Badon.
vtller. And the men had barely accus.
toned themselves to their environs
when at 8 o'clock on the morning
OF June "a the Boche came over.
While no one in New York knew
that their own" were actually in the
fight. every newspaper carried con.
spicuously that day the following com.
munique:
| BERLIN (via London), June "a
German troops in an attack on
trenches In the Badonviller region
| Southeast OF Luneville), occupied
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denly stopped dropping on us, and
heads. 1t was at this point that the
Hun appeared and the men started
to greet him. One man especially,
Corporal Patrick Hendricks, who was
given the d. s. c. and afterward
killed in action. did wonderful work
with his automatic rife and accounted
for a good many Of them.
IT think we would have been all
right II they had attacked us only on
the front but evidently the French
men on my right were pretty well
torn up. The Germans must have
gotten in on them first, and then
continued against my right flank. OF
cout SO I realized that wo were done
for. as could see that they greatly
outnumbered us. But we were there
to hold the position to the last man.
We did.
FINALLY they managed to get into
the trenches with us, and then the
thing became a hand to hand fight
kicking. biting, stabbing, scratching
anything to get the other fellow first
I found myself in a turn in the trench
with my sergeant, Frank Wagner. and
my runner, Private Dietrich. behind
me. Six OF the Boches started down
the trench toward US, waving their
potato Washers German hand gre
nades).
"I shot the first two. but the third
ono in the meantime threw his ere
made. As he did jumped around thu
turn and yelled to the others to 1ooE
out!' The grenade hit the wall of thu
trench behind me and dropped be-
tween my feet. l looked down, saw
II and jumped. drawing both legs III
under me. At that moment it OK
ploded and tore of the right foo
about six inches below the knee, tn
leaiIer Of my shoe holding the foo
on. On both my legs 1t cut me vi
pretty we'll.
The Melting Pot vindicatcd.
Ornaments Of the same grenad
hit Wagner In the neck and Dietrich
in the arm and foot. The remaining
four Germans rushed on us then AM
went through our clothes, takini
everything we had. While they wer
at Il q little italian, Racco Rocco. cam
up the other end of the trench an
started after the four Of them Wit
his hayonet. One Of them threw
grenade which exploded under him an
he died T. few days la'er.
1.-THE fighting kept up a little Will
longer. when the Huns evidentl'
thought help was coming up to us
because they suddenly became great
excited and started back with thei
booty and prisoners.
AS nearly rs / can make out W
had fourteen killed. sixteen wounded
four OF whom died, and twelve take
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by French ard Americans, inflicted
heavy losses and brought back
prisoners, according to the official
communication from headquarters
to-day. The bulletin reads:
East of Badonviller shock troops
penetrated the Franco American
trenches and inflicted heavy losses.
They brought back forty priso-
ners."
In the historical records of the Chief
of Stairs Office in Washington there
appears this entry in connection with
the raid:
after heavy bombardment along
front line positions betweenChamois
and Neuviller enemy to
estimated strength of about one
battalion attacked our post north
of Neuviller and post at Badon-
viller. Little activity on part of
our machine guns. Same APP
plies to machine guns of enemy.
Activity our trench mortars, none.
Great activity on part of enemy
artillery, 5000 210 nm. shells. split
between high explosives, shrapnel,
piOS6NhN SpSI Nv
tween and 7 A. NJ"
Returning a. L. F.-ers, though the!
exhaust the dictionary. can give M
adequate description of what it means
to be in the thick of a barragc IL
which twelve big calibre shells of al
varieties are breaking at five SECOND
intervals for four successive hours.
what BOX BnrraEe Means.
The Boche put down box barrages--
or fire on three sides of a square,
cut off reinforcements-at two points
Neuviller. where the 307th was holding
and Badonviller, our regimental from
In raids of this kind for half an hou
before the attackers arrive every foo
of the trench objective is hammers
and pulverized by the fiercest fire. Ga
chokes and blinds the men; dugout
collapse and bury them; shrapnel jag
their flesh; II f scatters their limbs.
Human nerves must Withstand al
this. and among their dead the sur
viyors must prepare for worse-bay
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prisoners one of whom died and nearly
all severely wounded. The men who
fought exceedingly well We're Ser
geants Wagner Maroney (hoth d. S.
c. men) and Herold (died of wounds;
Corporals Mckee (died of wounds),
Higgins, Hendricks ID. S. CD, Nc
Bride and Privates Dietrich, John Sui
Ivan. Patrick Sullivan and Rocco"
Please think Of those names in COM
bination when the achievements OF
the Seventy-seventh are extolled.
Here were the peoples of the earth
banded together for the vindication of
single. stanch, universal principle
In last analysis that all men are Gre
ated equal. And they had vital con-
sciousness of that ideal. To me those
names, speaking not for New York
alone, but for all Americans, an
swered as nothing else could have
answered the question then uppcrmost
in the German autocratic mind: How
will these hybrid sw!nc-these drafted
soldiers-fight?"
How fight!
AS Sullivan fought-with his hands
alone-just before his Captors
thought they could drag him prisoner
into their trenches. His body was
recovered near their wire, nine bay
| oret thrusts through 1t.
AS Private Arthur Nandcrlip OF A
Company, 307th. fought, when after
taking a message into and reply al
most out of the harrage at Neuviller
he was hit in both legs and arms by
machine gun bullets. Despite his
wounds he was still crawling back
with his message when seven Boches
came upon him and against his grit
and wounds were contemplate enough
TO rob him of watch. money. helmet
and gas mask.
AS Rocco fought. one against four
with his bayonet first at high port.
then at ION guard" just as he hao
learned it at Camp Cpton--his bay
onet against their grenades.
1t was so that the Yanks--youl
own New York Yanks--fought, clean
~, fearlessly and against what kind o
opponent? Against offspring of bru-
tality who flew low in planes over
the trenches that morning, after the
raiders had withdrawn, pouring ma
chine gun bullets and dropping bombs
upon the tortured wounded
II had enough strength to move IN!
arm TO an aviator in a sort of Ccas
firing signal as I lay in the bottom
OF the trench" Lieut. Flood told m
afterward in the hospital. What
the use OF that wanted to yell t,
him. We're all through here III
saw the movement and few closer. hi
bullets kicking dirt off the parapet int
my eyes"
That was typical Of German "cour
age" II was courage of the same III
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-06

This is the second of series of
three narratives of the overseas
adventures of New York City's
Own. the Seventy-seventh Division.
by Lieut.. Arthur McKeogh, for
merry of THE EVENING SUN
editorial staff. He tells how the
seIective service men proved them
selves real fighters in their first days
in the front line trenches and re-
lxtes many instance of individual
heroism. Then he takes the reader
to 1.-THE He'll Hole" of the VesIc
Valley where the division gained
more glory in battles of major
scale.
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So much so that to test the calibre
Of these citizen soldiers he was NOV
ing a Hindenburg travelling circus"
crack raiders-opposite our front
even as we were taking over.
We relieved the Forty-second, or
Rainbow Division. and the Sixty first
French. The 305th was the first to
60 in, on the night Of June II. For
while the French remained in the
line with us. The front was extensive
and the trenches lightly manned. for
both Jerry and frog" (our boys did
not so term the poilus in derision)
considered this sector a rest area.
There seemed to be a tacit agreement
between them that only pretence at
the amenities OF trench life would be
observed--patrols, observation work,
&C. Peronne, for instance, our bat
TALON headquarters. was not to be
shelled as long as Bremnil. known to
by the corresponding Boche "HQ." was
untouched.
A Placid Truce Broken.
placid interchange of harassing artil-
lery fire or occasional patrol clashes
would have been disturbed had not the
German high command known that the
first of Americas selective troops
were about to submit themselves to
the baptism of fire. The Bochc intel
ligence service was surely aware of
our entry. While l cannot state 1t as
a fact personally verified. some Of our
men asserted that following the re-
lief a Boche observation balloon ex-
posed a pennant bearing this inscrip-
ton:
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MAP Of the IT," D~istoN the osE A!sNE OFFENSIVE

that they dsplayed--seven of them
after robbing Vanderlip. already
wounded in four places. They shot
him again.
Diviston's Primary school.
II is not surprising that veteran Ger
man troops were superior at raiding
in the Baccarat sector. which really
served as the divisions primary school
of front line experience. The price
| paid was not excessive, although the
criticism was heard that the sudden
change from British to French auto
matte rifles and bombs deprived the
men of an effectiveness and confidence
in repulsing the enemy which would
have been theirs with the old familiar
weapons.
One raid, executed by Company b,
307th Infantry, upon the German line
at Barricade du Carrefour, south OF
Montreaux. ended disastrously for our
attackers. 1t was a daylight raid.
without artillery. led by Capt. +. Blan-
ton Barrett, formerly n reporter for
the New York Tribune. With fifty
two men and lieutenant, Capt. Bar
rett left our trenches at o'clock on
sunday afternoon, July Il.
Crossing No Mans Land and pene-
tratng the Boche wire apparently con-
sumed time sufficient for the Boche.
who saw the party coming, to lay a
hasty yet elaborate ambuscade. So
complete were his preparations that as
our forces dropped noiselessly into the
enemy Misunderstanding met not a
single shot of resistance up TO that
point-a bugle blast pierced the quiet.
1t was almost STACEY" From the left
flank and front a hail of grenades and
rifle fire showered upon the raiders.
Again the bugle-as a signal this time
for the machine guns. From right,
left and front four heavy guns opened
with streams of frontal and cnfiladinS
fire. The raiders had walked into an
empty stretch of trench sown at every
foot with death.
That they fought to the last was at
tested by the fact that practically tho
entire detachment was wiped out after
an hours engagement Capt. Barrett,
IL was learned afterward from German
prisoners, was buried with full mill
tary courtesies at Circy-sur- Nezousc,
behind the German lines.
, How Capt. Mills Died.
Another officer whose loss was keen
Is felt was Capt. Philip Mills of Com
pany q. 30Sth, "A former all American
} football star and New York clubman.
He was conducting rifle grenade prac-
5 tie. rear of the line. when grenade
} exploded prematurcly. bursting the
tromblon, or grenade holder affixed To
Continued on FoHoigina Page.
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onet, grenade, pistol, trench knife. For
when the barrage lifts through the
smoke come gray green uniforms.
Lieut.. John V. Flood, an old Sixty
ninth Regiment man and a first camp
Plattsburger was in command Of the
raided platoon-,of c Company, 3osth.
To-day for the valor that was his that
morning he wears the d. 8. c. and
the Cro!x de Guerre with gold star.
Only six men OF his platoon of forty
eight came through unhurt. The whole
platoon-kllled, wounded, missing.
prisoners-was awarded the French
war cross.
Floods own story.
asked "F1oodie"---oh. am not con-
cealing my pride in him--to write for
me just what he saw that day. Here
is his description, as straightforward
and unassuming as he Is him self:
You no doubt remember even bet
ter than l do the dispositions of the
G. C.'s combat groups) on that Sec
tor. G. c. 8 was held by a French pla-
toon of about twenty-eight men.
held G.. c. 10 with forty -eight men and
G. c. IL was garrsoned by about fif-
teen Frenchmen. At $3.50 A. NJ. / or
dered stand to- and went up and dowr
the line once to see that every man val
in position. ] finished with this in
spection at 1865. l was sitting in my
dugout, with my hands lying listlessly
on the table in front Of me. when ex
actly at 8 o'clock there was a terrific
explosion which shook the old dugout
My non-coms Immediately gave the
gas alarm. It seemed to me that fol
about ten minutes the Boche sent owe
gas shells, when they changed to H I
and shrapnel.
"Of course all the men except thu
sentries took to the dugouts. / de
cided. however. that Il WAS more dan
gerous in them than out OF them
so ordered all out to their positions
and made them lie fiat in the bottom o
the trenches, with the sentries stand
ing watch.
THE barrage lasted about twent!
minutes longer, when the shells sud
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-06

And, finally, II you would attempt
grasping the huge proportions Of field
operations in modern warfare. remem-
Der that a single division, big though
1t be, is to the whole force engaged
merely like a squad of eight men to a
company OF $50. In the Meuse-Ar-
COME offensive, as has been said. no
fewer than twenty-one American divi-
sions were engaged. eight of them put
into the front line twice. And against
us the Boche used forty!
While the infantry was trekking for
Lorraine the 1921 Field Artillery
Brigade pulled UP stakes at Souge.
near Bordeaux, where. under the
French, they had a month OF training.
Brest had been their landing place
early in May. We learned later, to the
accompaniment Of the choice COM
ments that a doughboy makes of a
redleg, that the New York artillery
men had swanked in big Fourth of
July parade in Bordeaux just before
entraining.
Before we had been holding the
line long our own gunners were sup
porting us-the 304th and 305th Field
WIN TIC oVOtH Win tlc
"heavies," or 155s. Their equipment
was completely French. and because of
differences in French and American
| artillery methods they had to unlearn
nearly everything that they had
learned in the States. Parenthetically,
it may surprise many to know that
every gun in the A. +. F. OF these
types--the real barrage layers Of the
war-was French. with the pathetic
exception of 109 los. For alt our mu-
milton plants in this country there
were, according to Gem Pershing, only
1O9 American made los In France at
the signing of the armistice. Which
is another commentary, surely, on the
ancient shibboleth of a million men
| sprung to arms overnight"
Baccarat Is Unforgettable.
What officer of the Seventy seventh
will ever forget Baccarat, division
headquarters, on the Meuthe, with It's
officers club--its Reunion des Oftcersl
Or the piping sing song of the poilu
waiter as he threaded his way from
group to group around the pool tables
hurting over his shoulder to his COM
rade at the serving counter the de.
mands: "TTois peek! Gig peek!
Peek was his own Gallo abbreviatior
OF beverage called pick me up" {
connection OF champagne and orange
juice, in universal favor.
1t was In this room, gay with proud
cambria flags, that many an officer saw
his friends of another regiment TO
the last time. For at no place in tht
endless rush Of subsequent fightinl
was 1t possible TO meet so many mer
OF other organizations as in the quie
Baccarat sector of the Vosges Noun
tains In Lorraine.
or course at that time, new to tn
front, we could have imagined a sec
tor somewhat more trdnQuilIe. An
} we We're not exactly underimpresse
, by the fact that we were the FIRST Ma
tional Army unit in all history to TAX
over front line trenches.
Jerry-I have no explanation 70
that nickname-was impressed. TOT