The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-07-04
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Corporal Walter e. Gaultney Eleventh In
fantry, Fifth Divsion.-CorpOral Gaultney
picked out by his commander example OF
his finest type OF soldier Gautney was wounded;
that couldn't stop him. Alert, ingenious, speedy,
needless of personal danger. he went at the Hun
like Samson with the well-known jaw bone-ony
this young Samsons jaw bone was that nice long
trench knife you see strapped along his pack
Just what this young fellow did Is not told; evil
IDENTIFY he is natural-born fighter and the regular
army training has made him pretty nearly 100 per
cent efficient all-around fighting man.
Private H. j. Devereaux, Company Nj, One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth Infantry, Thrty-second d.
vision.--When his company crossed the River
Ourcq and captured the Bois Pelger. the corporal
of his squad fighting beside Private Devereaux
wounded by machine gun fire. The corporal
fell to the ground and the enemy continued to fire
the wounded man. Mad clear through, Dever-
sprnted across the open and, single-handed
attacked and put the machine gun out of action
Greatest Feat Of War;
1t Is also known that Chase has painted por
.rait of Sergt Alvin c. York Of Pail Mall Fnntress
county, Tenn, Company G, Three Hundred and
Twentyeighth infantry, Eighty-second division 1t
Is be hoped that the painter did frstclass JOB
for Yorks exploit probably the greatest ind-
vidual feat of the York, then corporal, on
October g. 1918 killed 20 Germans captured 1872
prisoners, including major and three lieutenants,
put 35 machine guns out of business, and thereby
counterattack against the Americans on Hill 223
In the Argonne sector. Chatel-Chehery. He
outfought the machine gun battalion with his rifle
and automatic pistol. There were seven other
Americans with York, but it York's fight and
but for him not man Of them would have come
out alive except prisoner.
Moreover, the man and his home and his sur
roundings intensely interesting being entirely
out of the ordinary Here few outstanding
facts:
He born December ID. 1885, stands 6 feet
and tips the scales at POS pounds. He is red head
ed. He is dead shot-absolutely sure death with
either rifle automatic; In the of his fight
he killed German lieutenant and seven men who
charged him from distance Of 20 yards. He Is
fighter who gets cooler and cooler as the danger
grows.
He used to drink. gamble and swear He quit
in 1915 and joined the Church of Christ and
Christian Union, of which he is second elder and
singing leader He a conscientious objector
until convinced by Capt. e. G. B. Danforth at
Camp Gordon that the Bible proved 1t his duty to
fight. He believes In personal God and looks
upon his successful exploit as miracle Blessed
is the peacemaker,'" he says.
He is farmer and blacksmith and provides for
his mother one brother and three small sisters !;
the other six brothers and sisters married.
His forbears for generations Tennesseeans
When York landed the other day the Tennessee
society took possession of him and tried to make
him feel that New York city was his
OF course York having the time of his life
yet really, you know, he was regretting that he
wasn't home to lead the singing at the Postum
Trot spring revival
And at the Possom Trot revival, in the valley
of which Pail Mall with its 20 houses is the cross
roads metropolis, Yorks neIghbors prouder
over the fact that he had kept straight" than
over what he had done to the Hun Besides, while
. Alvin was "all right" God had had him in charge
since the day he enlisted 1T wasn't Alvin" said
Grace Williams. who is waiting for him, at was
the hand of God
Which reminds us of the first words Of the Hun
major captured by York.
''Brtish? he asked. ~
American" said York.
Good Lord !"