The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-05
HEROIC N. Y. MAJOR
WINS DECORATION
Wounded Officer Led His Bat
TALON to Victory in Ar
gonne Battle.
MANY FROM HERE CITED
Crosses Awarded to Various
Troops for Valor on
Field.
MANY FROM HERE CITED

| Inc manner IN which MAJOR Onver
Allen of the Sixteenth Infantry, whose
home is at 600 West 1920 street,
won his promotion to his present rank
and at the same time earned the Dis
tinsuished Service Gross 10 told In the
citations OF officers and men who also
have been awarded CROSSES as made
public by Gen. Pershing yesterday.
| The exploit of Major Allen Ia thus de-
scribed: For extraordinary heroism in
action in the Forest of ArBonns be-
tween October and IL, 1918. Major
Allen (then a Captain) remained in
command Of his company after he had
been wounded, and after the battalion
commander had bsen wounded took COM
mand OF the battalion and led IL forward
under heavy FIRE from artillery and ma
chine guns. taking and holding all OBJ
| jectives.
Others who have boon awarded the Dis
tlrguished Service Cross are:
Major German II. Il. Emory tdscssssd).
! Major Guy S. Brewer. losth Infantry,
| Capts. oscar Koeppei. 1ssth Infantry,
Linden Heights, Ohio; Mortimer II. Jor-
Iicuis. Clarence II. schids, iIi,h intan-
try. Mason City. Ia; George j. Giger.
ss ouS III R HsG5y
Ia; Les 3. aaia..n. siitS insantry. Nor.
wich, n; T.; Peter w. Dbbsrt Ridsswood,
Greenviiis. Ohio; samuel A. Brown. 10Th
Infantry, Jamestown. N. T., George J.
Kies 'aS.h Intsn,Ty. f.ttsSu.t p. Fran.
Ninth Machine Gun sattsiion, Pittsburs.
dsa. SaS sycn' M snys Mo Sn' l.. a
P:Hrs4 COZ an' Erns. r. 4 sssS f%
Vile. Wis
Scr, ssrsssR,. Jhoma, . F; Byron: 1919 In
Ohio: Albert W. Herman. 1919 Infantry.
saSit.ns un, f 81 f Hon Pa gses
2. .Fahsy siitS infantry. Mediord. Mass;
Robert Ra.Soe, ia0,h Infantry, Reias-
SIn,h MaOsin. At Gun A ss,,s Al Dover
E Mains, n IN, y; Leroy g. BiSknsil. Ninth
Omar Clark Coz. lo5th Field signal Battsi-
ion, L. Toilette. Tenn; james ". Holland.
Wins.nciat, SIKH Machine Gun B.,,alion.
Marines, Dunkirk. ". Y: James 8. Butler,
co s ii oi inta m;:p. II s'gh .:
Edward e. Nickles. lolst Field Signal
Battalion Cambridge. Mass.
NeIpot ais coHH FtinaransKi SZVth imam
try, Pittsburg; Charles C. Cryder. lssth In
fantry. Irwin. Ohio: Michael Cooney. 1sSth
infantry. Roscommon. ireland; orvii L.
| Cotton. 1o5th Field Signal Battalion, Bun
toin. Tenn: Edward Bald. Sixth Machine
Gun battalion. Marines, Camden, N. j.:
Edward F. Murphy. lo4th Infantry. Fitch
burg. Mass: Russell X. Bourne. losd Field
Artillery. Providence, r. l.; John e. GIL
BERTHE, ac7th Infantry westport Conn: Roy
Yaeger, s?ist Machine Gun Battalion. Heb
Privates Edward H. Haws. Sixth ReEi-
meut Marines, Philadelphia william J.
Rineboldh Sanitary Unit b:%. Athens. Pa:
John Paul. Sanitary Unit 624. Paterson
19seph s. AldTidse, silth Infantry.
fantry. keansburg, N. J.: Theodore r. Lee
Ss2d Infantry. Ibaspah. Utah: Benjamin
Gonzales, Third Ammunition Train. Wa
tronous, y. NJ; John wrobble. losth Infan-
Try. Columbus. Ohio; Dudley II. Gibbs.
I5Cth Field Artillery. Miami, Okla; Adam
Dewitt HardlsOn lo5th Field Signal Bat
talon. Kenly. n. C.; Samuel Hin. s?0th
Infantry Apollo. Pa: George whitcomb
Ninth Machine Gun Battalion Helena
Mon; Harry Leonard. l6sth Intsntry
London, Ohio; Fred r. Weiss, Twenty first
Field ARTILLERY Chicago; Thomas G.
Cincinnati Ohio: ciifford e M.liea' 'i iotth
Infantry. Worcester. Mass; Abraham
Cohen, 1850. Infantry. .Needham, Mass;
Walter r. Lyons lo3d Field ARTILLERY,
North Attleboro, Mass; Louis Yseger, s2lst
Machine Gun Battalion, Hebhronville, Tex:
John A. billiard. 3osth Machine Gun Bat
Field ARTILLERY. CranstOn. R; l.; Norman L.
Torrey. lolst Field Artillery. Rowley.
Mass; George H. Kite. 1924 Machine Gun
Battalion. Grove Hill. Va