Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-13
5SONS WOUNDED;
FATHER LAID OFF
Parent of Heroes Loses
Job at Frankford
Arsenal
LIST FOR CITY SMALL
Nearly Half of These Are Cor.
rections Made in Other
Reports
LIST FOR CITY SMALL

With five of his fourteen children
hshting for Uncle Sam and with all
OF them wounded at one time or an
other. Morris Knable. 1405 North Thir-
teenth street has been laid off at the
Frankford Arsenal, where he has been
working as a machinst since this coun-
try declared war on Germany.
In order to take a part in the battle
Tor democracy. Knable had to sell
business he had built up through many
years of hard work He was glad to be
able TO help the cause along. and never
hcsitated to make the sacrifice His
sons each allotted $40 month of their
pay, and with this sum and his wages al
mechanic he felt that he could support
his family in comfort
But he did not figure on the stupidity
and delay in the War Department, for
though his boys have been in the service
OF their country for nearly two years,
their father has never received a cent Of
the money due him under the allotment
agreement.
Lieutenant Joseph j. Knable. the old
est OF the five sons. is twenty-three years
old. He was wounded on November H.
n few hours before the armistice was
signed TIE young officer had been a
member of the 109th Regiment for the
last three years and was with that unit
at the Mexican border. He was with the
109th during the battles of Chateau
Thierry. st. Mihe and several other
battles in which that famous regiment
took part and escaped uninjured until
an hour or two before hostilities ceased
Sergeant Harry knable. Company 3,
Fourth Infantry. was wounded In the
early part of November. He is twenty
one years old and with his brother,
George eighteen years old, enlisted In
the 109th Infantry. from which they
were transferred to other regiments.
George was wounded on September 6
and has since been in the hospital. In a
letter to- his parents he writes that he
is on his way home, but cannot say
when he will arrive.
Corporal Abraham Knable has been
a member Of the 10th Infantry for
the last four years. He is twenty years
old and was promoted during the McXi-
can border campaign. He was sent
across in the early part of April, 1918,
and was wounded on July 10. as a re-
suit of which one of his ribs was re-
moved
Sergeant Percy Knable, Company II,
Seventh Cavalry. was gasscd In the early
part of September and has since been
sent home and honorably discharged
from the army. He is seventeen years
old.
There are only 71e names on the
combined casualty lists for yesterday
and today, the smallest weekend total
since last September. OF this number
only eighty-one are from Pennsylvania.
indicating that the toll of dead and
wounded from this Commonwealth has
been nearly completed.
The honor roll for Philadelphia and
vicinity totals tweuty-nine. nearly half
of which are corrections of previous er-
roneous reports. Ten are named as
killed in action, two of whom have pre-
viously been reported missing and one
previously reported wounded. An en-
listed man has died of pneumonia,
twelve. enlisted men are reported Sc
riously wounded, one having previously
been reported missing a lieutenant is re-
ported as wounded, degree undcter-
mined, two privates reported miss
ing, another is said to be sick in
hospital and two. previously reported
missing. are now declared to have re-
Joined their regiments.