The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-04
BRAVE HELLO GIRL
BRINGS BACK D. 5. M.
Operator Who Tended Wires
Under Fire Only Woman to
Get High Award.
SECOND HEROINE ARRIVES
Miss Van Norden Decorated by
Three Nati0ns-Husbands'
Company Brought In.

the only woman 10 receive tne DiStht-
guished Service Medal in France. re-
turned yesterday on the transport
Mobile. Miss Banker was formerly
long distance operator at the Walker
street station OF the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company In Newark. and
she went overseas IN January, 1918. as
a member of the telephone section of
the Signal Corps. She served under
fire in the st. Mihiel drive and was COM
mended by her commanding officer for
her coolness and bravery on that &C.
casion, as well as for the generally high
character of her entire service She re-
turned In charge Of nineteen other army
telephone girls.
Another decorated American girl who
returned on the Mobile was Miss Cora
Van Norden. New Yorker. who went
to France in 1915 for service with the
Red Cross and who afterward did war
work for the Salvation Army. She was
decorated with the Serbian cross and
the Croix de Guerre with palm and has
several citations from the French and
American commanders. She served with
the First Division and will have a place
of honor in the divisional parade on
September 10.
Gen. Parker Returns.
The ranking officer on the Mobile was
Brig. Gen. Frank Parker. commanding
the First Infantry Brigade of the First
Division and division commander from
October IS until after the armistice.
Gen. Parker was on the ground early.
having been sent to France in 1914 and
assigned to study the methods of the
French War College. When the United
States declared war he was assigned to
duty as military attache at Paris. Later
was assigned to the command of the
Eighteenth Infantry and the First In
fantry Brigade. He was decorated with
the Cross of a Commander of the Legion
of Honor, the Croix de Guerre with two
palms, the American Distinguished Ser
vice Medal and the Order of the Crown
Of Italy.
He was met at the pier by former
aid, Lieut.. Robert A. Hall of 1855
Seventy fourth street, Brooklyn, who,
the General said, was one of the bravest
men in the A. Z. F. Lieut.. Hall was
wounded at Beaumont, at Mondidier. at
Cantigny and twice at Scissors and was
awarded the Croix de Guerre with two
palms and six citations. He was in
valided home in December and is still
under treatment.
The units Of the First Division on
the Mobile were the headquarters of the
First Infantry Brigade. the headquar-
tiers. supply and machine gun companies
and First Battalion of the Eighteenth
Infantry the Second Machine Gun Bat
talon and Second Battalion Of the Sew
enth Field Artillery. Also on board
were several casual companies. including
a special husbands casual company of
forty-nine men. Forty-eight of them
had their wives with them. The excep-
ton was Reglmental Sergeaht-major
Leo B. Mudd. Army Service Corps. who
lives in Sacramento. Cal.
my wife had to come on another
ship" Mudd said. land here they go
and make me travel with all these other
husbands and wives. That shows what's
in a name"
Many of the sixteenth Arrive.
On board the Amphion. which also ar
rived yesterday, were companies f. F,
G, 1 and X Of the Sixteenth Infantry
together with the headquarters. supply
and machine gun companies of the same
regiment, seven casual officers ard Ave
members of the Hoover food commits
sion. The Second Battalion of the Six
tenth Infantry was one of the first
American units to suffer casualties in
the war. While in the trenches In a
Lorraine sector in October. 1917, the
battalion was raided by the enemy and
one officer and forty-two men were
killed.
The Amphion, formerly the Koln of
the Hamburg Line. will be
turned over to the United States Ship
ping Board under the loss OF tonnage
clause in the peace treaty.
The Second Battalion of the Twenty
eighth Infantry, less Company II, re-
turned yesterday on the transport
Suwanee together with the medical de-
tachment and regimental headquarters
and Company A OF the Sixteenth Infan-
try. Major p. Z. Spragins OF Hunts
vile, Ala, was in command of the
troops on board
The Amphion was at Cavite, T. L.,
when the European war began. She
remained there until the American dec
laration of war, when she was taken
over and used as a cargo carrier. As
a troopship she has made four voyages
since the signing of the armistice. The
ship flew a homeward bound pennant on
her arrival yesterday, indicating the be-
lief OF her commander and crew that
this voyage was to be her last in the
naval transport service
The transport Callao also locked last
night, bringing additional First Dlvi-
sion units from Brest. She had on
board the Second Battalion OF the
Twenty-sixth Infantry. two companies OF
the Eighteenth Infantry and Company
of the Second Field Signal Battalion.