The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-16
FIGHTING PASTOR
! BACK WITH TROOPS
Lieut.-COl. w. G. Everson, Gin
cinnati Minister, Saw Ser
vice in italy.
OHIOANS MEET SHIP HERE
rHair Breadth JIM Fortune,
Whose Middle Name Ought
to Be Good, Returns.

More men OF the Thifty-thlrd Infantry
who have been lighting on the Italian
front and who will join their comrades
In parade here on Monday arrived yes
terday by the White Star liner Canopic.
All are In command Of Lieut-Col. w.
G.. Everson. pastor OF the Norwood
Baptist Church Of Cincinnati, whose
congregation gave him leave Of absence,
refusing TO accept his resignation when
he went TO war. and also sent to him
while he was in Italy n memorial and
pm announcements that his salary had
besn raised.
The Mayors Committee steamer Cor
rection went down the bay thronged
with ohioans, Including John David
Everson. the nine-year old son of the
militant pastor. who welcomed the SOL
diers. Later. the Colonel met his wife
ana his eleven months old daughter,
Mary Louise, born while he was on the
nghting line.
Tho men who arrived yesterday were
IN the battle OF Tagliamento and cap
tufed from the Austrians the town OF
Cadroipo. losing one man killed and six
wounded. In January. when tho. regi-
mont marched into tho city of Fiumc
they found Jugo-Slavs and Italians In q
street fight. and Lieut. Edward W.
Jones of this State was wounded In the
lett leg by q stray shot.
=, Lieut.. q. w. Connolly OF Cleveland
lSd the first platoon into Fiume The
IuGo-Slavs had left large American
nag flying over the building. and the
Rtaiians had hoisted above II their own
nag. Lieut.. Connolly protested, and the
TWO hass were flown thereafter on an
equality. ~.
Makes Models OF Wounds.
Miss Eleanor c. Allen, who was for
imerly modeller In wax for the MIL
waukee Museum, came back from. stay
OF nine months In France. where she has
been making wax models of the results
OF plastic surgery. Her work will be ex-
hfbited in the National Museum In
washington. She said she took wax
casts and later colored them. showing
the appearance OF the shattered wound
before operation and the effects Of surgi-
cal reconstruction. Miss Allen also made
NE masks of tho members of the Peace
Conference, except President Wilson and
Col. House.
Six brides arrived by the GARLIC, and
nvs OF the wept when they learned that
thsy would have to part with their hus-
bands. who accompanied them, and not
go them again until they were mustered
cut at the various camps to which they
were sent.
The sixth bride, Mrs. Dudley Beekman,
. Partisan. was greeted by her mother
m-law at the pier and went with her to
her home at 50 East 12sthi street Her
husband. Lieut.. Beekman OF the Fourth
Regiment, Fourteenth Infantry, Is still
on duty In France. Mrs. Tom Kyle, a
Belgian. who married Private Tom Kyle
Of the 18Th Machine Gun Company Of
the Thirty-eighth Division. said she had
abandoned her maiden name and would
not reveal 1t, as she Is now Mrs. Tom
Kyle. American foreverm0re. =
The Edward Lucksnbach and the
Mexican. whose soldiers, and most of
the rest Of the ship companies. lost all
their spare change in betting that they
would get in before tho Floridian. which
landed her troops on Monday. said they
had good excuses for being astern. The
Luckenbach had engine trouble and was
forced to slow down, and the Next
cams superstructure was so tall that It
retarded her speed.
Hairbreadth Escape.
Aboard the Mexican was Capt. c.
Fortune OF Company L, 361st Infantry.
called Hair Breadth jim" Three days
before the armistice while the Captain
was taking his ease u "77" burst near
near him, knocking "a piece of range
scale off machine gun into his lap
The number left on the scale was three
lower than that on the Captains iden-
tilcation tag.
After noting this the Captain re-
marked: Believe me. boys, they're get
ting close to my number" The Captain
funk holes were unhealthy for other
soldiers. He dug one to avoid shell fire
and then went accommodating. When he
got back a Lieutenant was in the mole
They had dispute. the Lieutenant
claiming the hole as his own. The Cap.
tain gave It up and got into another. A
shell hit the disputed hole and killed the
Lieutenant.
A battalion commander had been
killed. and Naison officer came TO Capt
Fortune and ordered him TO take com
mand of the battalion. The Captain
came out OF his funk hole, and the liaison
officer dropped In to rest. A moment
later q shell also droppe min, and the
officer was killed.