The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-04-17

locate the nests for the artillery The,
succeeded fully. Indeed. before they
returned the two men put one Of the
nests out Of commission. killing the
/ five men manning IL Mr Dakir
SAYS hs thinks two sf the Germans
were killed by FIRE from their own
guns.
For about 500 yards the volunteers
had TO crawl on their faces over an
open, bare field. The German machine
gunners observed them and began FIRE
While the German guns could not be
tilted low enough for their bullets 10
reach the men. the stream Of lead cut
away their packs and shredded the
clothing on their backs. After they
had risen to charge the nest put cut Of
business by them. Mr.. Dskin's com
rade was shot through The side He
continued his task. despite tbs wound
Mr.. Dakin, who contemplates a tech
nical college course at the Oregon Ag-
ricultural College next year. charac-
teriZes as extremely interesting his
war work. He operated as an electri.
clan in wiring and firing bombs that
carried liquid fire over the German
trenches. The Gas regiment men,
working under cover of night, buried
the liquid fire mortars in no man :
land. They were set off at distance
by electricity. The huge mortars were
buried with their butts against a great
metal saucer. The explosion. which
carried the great bombs destined to
shower the Germans lines with liquid
fire, would hurl the mortars and sauc.
ers out of the earth
Setting off the liquid fire bombs, !"
saws Mr.. Dakin, "always created a
great interest. 1t was called gas
show.
The returned service men who were
at the recent dinner rendered in their
honor by the Hood River valley moth.
ers were as follows;
Ulrich Gray, j. H. Scott. Earl K.
Dunbar, Virgil Cameron. Karl l.. Won
der Abe, R. l.. Jeffries, Carl d. New
man, G. A. Mellon. Franklyn Gilbert,
X. j. Barr, Geo. t. Bragg. William +.
Coshow. John W. Allen, VIM. j. A.
Baker, Edgar Franz. Rozelle b. Crone,
Cecil c. Cutler, Carl c. Copper, Floyd
l.. Wright, Eowin Sonnichsen, Hursey
A. Dakin. Leroy j. Clemens. H. "
Farrell. Floyd L. French John r. An
nala, Arvo Hukari. A. G. AnnaIa. Geo.
r. Wilbur. Ernest J. Ford, Walter
Ford. VIM. d. Chandler. Leonard W.
Bentley. c. V. Johnson. Selman Gass-
away. Forrest l.. Moe, Reeve Claxton,
J. W. Sifton. E. W. Van Horn. Walter
W. Shay, Hayes l.. Bickford, Albert
M. Miller. Monroe Sparks, Clement
West, Alva West, Arthur johnson,
Ivan II. Scheer, Gordon Boyington.
John T. Carson. Martin Plog. Charles
Tirpitz, Delbert Slutz. Robert McCuis-
tion, Joseph r. Vannier, Brondel A,
Beck, Ill F. Parker, VIM. W. Cochran.
j. T. Tompkins. G. b. Campbell. L. +.
Campbell, W. T. Robbins, c. c. Col
Inns, W. A. Davidson, A l.. Weinheim
er. p. E. Holtz, Edward Krieg. Fran.
els l.. Blagg, Geo. +. Ogden. v K.
Abraham, G. B. Shoemaker. Robert
Burns. Ralph W. Forbes, W. o. Shep-
pard, Lee Z. Allen, B. Y. McCarty, {.
B. Compton. Leon A. Littefield, Hen
ry f. Haas. Uel f. Parker. Edwin c.
Eberly, Lloyd c. Regnell, Walter b.
Regnell. Allyn C. Button, Corbett
Alexander, W. M. Bailey. Earl Weber,
Bliss l.. Clark, Arthur G. Lewis, Fred
A. Thomson, Stuart f. kimball, Geo.
Cutler, Kent Shoemaker, Oscar W.
Krussow. Ralph b. Sherrieb, l.. Har-
old Sexton, Berry Webster, Ebert
France and Clifford A. Wells.
Four Hood River men are members
of hospital corps and sanitary train
of the 9lst Division reported Saturday
to have embarked for home. They are
Sgt. Harold Hershner, Sgt. l.. j.
Bronaugh. Robert Bragg and Ivan Da-
kin.
Sgt. Bronaugh and Miss Frances
Bragg were married just before the
former sailed for France.