Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-07
STALLINGSBACK.
BADLY WOUNDED.
BUT DECORATED
Former Member of Journal
Staff Who Fought With
Marines at Chateau-T Their
ry Now Out on Clutches

Captain Laurence T. Stallings. Jr.,
formerly member of The Atlanta
Journal staff, now veteran of Cha
teau-ThIerry with a wound stripe
Monday morning to see his old
friends on the paper who babe him
gOdo-by in the fall of 1917 when
lieutenant in the U. S. marine corps
he was commissioned as a second
and embarked upon a great expe-
rience.
Captain Stallings fought with the
TWO regiments of regulars and two
regiments of marines-when they
stopped the German drive at Cha,
ieau-Thierry in the month of June,
1918. He went into action about the
ltth of June and fought twenty days.
Then German machine-gunner got
him in the right leg with seven bull
let's. Since that time he has been
recuperatlng in various hospitals
here and abr abroad: and has been pro
tain. He is now able to walk on
crutches. His right leg is gradually
getting back in shape. It is stiff in
the knee. but Captain Stallings es-
teens himself lucky to have any leg
at all.
fine figure of a youth who went from
The Journal in the fall of 1917 to
play his part in the great world war
He has got back his weight, got
back his vigor. got back his strength.
He swings around on his crutches
with remarkable a1ertness and ease
He is as happy as lark and tmpa-
tient to return to citizens clothes and
resume his chosen profession OF
journalism, for which he is splendid
ly- fitted by education and natural
TO Ba Married soon
There is reason for his happiness
for on next Thursday he is to be
married to Miss Helen Poteat. the
daughter Of the president of Wake
Forest college. who was his sweet
heart in his boyhood days when he
went to school there and played on
the football team and won high hon
ors for scholarship. They are to be
married at the home of the brides
PARENTS at Wake Forest, N. c., next
Thursday.
Captain stallings arrived in At
lanta Saturday afternoon for short
visit to see his family and friends.
He will leave Tuesday for Wake
Forest and then go east on his honey
moon.
Like most of the veterans who
saw the "rea1 works." Captain Stall
ings prefers to talk of other things
first and then of the war. Said he
NIbIiudN IHOEIiIllS-
when 7 got back to the hospital
the doctor said to me: Young man.
YOUR fighting days are about over
7 said: What are you trying to do,
Doc. frfghten me?
The boys tried to get him to tell
about the Croix de Guerre, but they
did not succeed very extensively.
Capital nStallings arrived in New
York on the steamer France last
Christmas Eve day. He was sent to
hospital at Railway, N. J., where
the surgeons have been engaged in
reconstructing his leg. for two
months. They have not finished vet
The finishing touches will REQUIRE
an hour a day for three months or
more-hence he will have to stay in
reaching distance of the hospital.
Captain Stallings went into action
with the Second division when Gen
eral Pershing picked them to stop the
Russian Guards at Chateau-Thierry
The great German offensive was at
It's height. The French and British
were falling back from the channel 70
Switzerland The outcome seemed
very doubtful for the allies. Prepar-
atoms were made to evacuate Paris
and move the government to Bor-
deaux.