The sun., 1919-01-16
FORMER LAWYER IS
KILLED IN ACTION
Lieut.. Frank J. Falbel. Platts-
burg Graduate, Died in
Battle in October.
POLICEMAN'S son DEAD
Private James L. Murray, Jr.,
Reported Missing, Is Now
Said to Be Killed.
POLTCEMAN'S son DEAD

Private Joseph Aranow's last letter
home was written when he started with
his regiment. the 32sth Infantry. for the
front last September. -Four days later.
At the end of tedious hiking. ho went
into action and was killed. His name
appeared on the casualty list yesterday.
He was &c years old, and formerly lived
with his sister, Mrs. Harry August.
1909 Tellar avenue. He was drafted In
September. 1917. went to France in April,
1918, and was killed almost year to n
day after his entry into the service. In
OWL life he was a clerk.
Lieut. Frank j. Falbel. 2i6 West
Eighty-ninth street. reported missing In
action and now reported killed in action,
was 90. He was commissioned from
P1attsburg in 1917. He was attached to
tho Twenty eighth Infantry. Before the
entry of America into the war Lieut..
Falbel was a lawyer with Offices at $50
broadway. Although his death took
place In October, his father was notified
only yesterday.
Private Frederick j. Lamphier, 435
West Thirty-sixth street, was gassed
October 3, 1918, and recovering, was
sent into action. He was killed Novem-
Der 6. Ave days before the end of the
war. He leaves wife. He was "A
painter and decorator and was rs.
Policeman's Son Dead.
Private James Z. Murray. Jr., son OF
Police Lieut.. James f. Murray OF the
Vast station -
viously reported missing. is now reported
dead. He was killed in action October
10. while building bridges near the Hin
denburg line with the 1929 Engineers.
Private Murray was 81 years old and
served with the Twenty-third Engineers
on the Mexican border. In civil life he
was a bookkeeper for the General Elec-
trio Company. His parents live in All
West 16jth street.
Sergeant Vincent Barry. 20, grad
uate of Fordham University. was killed
in action with the Thirty eighth Infantry
June 80, according to word received yes
terday by his father, John Barry, 2o3
East Seventeenth street. Mr.. Barry has
received a letter written by his son the
day he met his death Sergeant Barry
previously was reported missing in &C
tlon.
Lieut. Kenneth F.. Kramer OF Glovers-
Vile, reported wounded, recently was re-
ported missing in action. He Is attache 4
to headquarters company. 310th lnfan-
try, Seventy-eighth Division. II has be-
come known here that he was wounded
and captured by the Germans. receiving
treatment for his injury in the Darn
stadt Hospital.
Can't. Robert F.. Gordon az West Phila :
delphia also appeared on tie casualty
list yesterday as dead from disease in
France December %. He commanded
the lo3d ammunition train. had been In
action unsCathed. and was taken fatally
i'll with pneumonia when on leave. He
was a former member of the Pennsylva-
MIA National Guard, and went to France
as an artillerist
Lieut.. Edward n. Baker of Pittshurg
Pa. an aviator is reported killed In
action. He was trained at the ground
school OF the University OF Texas He
had been at the front since last June.
Reported Dead. hut Lives.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Flcury of Wood
haven, l.. l. were advised yesterday by
the War Department that their son. Fri
Vate Fred Fleury of the 306th Infantry.
whom they have mourned Tor more than
two months as dead, is in a French hos
pital recovering from slight wounds. The
War Department first reported the sol
der killed in November.
Several days ago the Fleurys began
again to hope that their son might be
alive. when n letter was received by a
neighbor from Il soldier who was fight
ing beside Fleury when the latter fell
The letter said that both men had been
taken to a hospita! and were recovering
Sergeant Fred II. shire, killed in a
motor truck accident in France Decem-
Der 81, was the son OF Mr.. and Mrs
Henry w. Shire OF 1916 Vine street
Morris Park, l.. I. He was IS anu had
been a year In France