Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-02
BELL" DAWSON RETURNS TO U. s.
 WITH GREENWAY
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[ | told Bill
 ~Bin declared that he was going to get aboard that boat. although I point ed .Out the guards to him and endeav- OTed to show him how impossible it was Bill pointed to one of the guards and said. If you will get somebody to talk 10 that guard and attract his at ! tentiOn while you are going through the gate. think can make it.
 Stopped by Captain
 T got an officer friend of mine to talk 10 the guard and Bill picked up my bags and followed me. To my sur prise he got through the gate without being seen by the guard and we pro eeeded to the gang plank There we ran into a snag The captain called out to stop that civilian and Bill was 1 held up IL was only mpmentarily. | however I stepped up and told the captain that he was a friend of mine. ! carrying my bags aboard for me and the captain permitted him to pass When Bill got into that stateroom of mine, he was the happiest man ever saw. If they get me off this boat | they will have to throw me and hog tie me and carry me off, was the way Bill put it as he sank into a chair and wiped his forehead
 ] We sailed that night at high tide and Bill staid secreted in my room. I would smuggle food from the dining room to him, but after two days of this Bill rebelled at having to live on cold food and declared that he intend ed having regular meals like the oth- CTS on board I told him that if he were discovered, the chances were that he would find himself in the brig, but he said he would risk it and out of my state room he went
 MingIes With Others Bill had just one chance. There were 150 civilians on board, going over for employment on government work l in France It was possible, but not aI ! all probable, for Bill to mingle with them and get by 1 went on to dinner in the first cabin and after dinner con- cluded that would look about for Bill expected to find him in the brig, i but he was not there I made my way to the dining saloon where the civil ian passengers had their meals and looked in:
 i At the extreme end of very long f table 1 saw Bill He was engrOssed in menu and was ordering the most delectable things to be found on it. that vessel Everybody got to konw Bill was in his element He needed no further guidance by me while on board | that vessel Everybody got to know Bill and he became a favOrite. Argu- ments were referred to Bill for settle ment and he was looked to among the civilian passengers as a general source of information, being consulted as to when we would arrive in the submarine zone, when we would land and about everything else that came up
 Struggled Ashore
 How to get Bill ashore at Brest was a problem that lOOmed large be- fore me, but it did not worry Bill to any great extent Power Conway was on board and l enlisted his services and between us We managed to snug gle Bill aboard the tug and get him ashore Now the question was to get Bill to Paris and in this I was assist ed by General Harbord. U. S M C. We arrived in Paris, where I was kept for several weeks at headquaT- ters- One night I returned home in Paris and informed Bill that I had been assigned to the First division and ordered up to the front Bill was de lighted and ready to put off at once and, although it seemed impossible to me, it never faxed him
 "It never occurred to Bill that he was a civilian in France, with no mill tary connection whatever and that it would be impossible Tor civilian to accompany me to the front. In this dilemma, 1 placed the situation before Colonel Malin Craig. He is a general now, and it made a strong appeal to him. He wanted to make Bill cap tain of military police, but Bill would have none of that He wanted to get ! to the front and to the front we started.
 Gets Close to Front
 Together we arrived within seven miles of the front line before Bill was [ finally held up He had come 1000 miles on his own responsibility, with out one line of authority from any | one and was now actually at the iron. and in the face of the enemy ana was still a civilian And it was there in the Foul sector that Bill enlisted and ! became officially what he had been at heart and in fact for many weeks i-one of the American expeditionar> force.
 i From then on Bill and I were to- ' gether without danger of being sepa- rated by army regulations. He became my orderly and remained so through out The only time we were separat- ed was when Bill was in the hospital, recovering from shell wounds. We came back together and Bill went with me to Hot Springs, Ark, where we both took the baths. We separated at Ft- Worth. Bill going on to Ajo by an- other route, while I came on to Bis bee"
 And that is the story of Bill David son, whose devotion to his chief is un- ! limited It causes him to do the i'm | possible" and to override all of the regulations of the war department It | is a story in the telling of which Con | Cr-a~,~r--r- ror Ha