The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-13
LIEUT.. CADORE HOME
WITH DUSKY TROOPS
Brooklyn Pitcher, Wearing
Distinguished Service Cross,
In on the Regina.
PRAISES NEGRO SOLDIERS
Lieut.-Col. Pickering, Another
Arrival, Says Fifty Of His
Men Won Crosses.

The Transport Regina. which locked
last evening on the Manhattan side Of
the Hudson. brought the Second Battal-
ION final contingent of dusky lighters OF
the Fifteenth Regiment to hit the home
plate. as Lieut.. Leon J. Galore. pitcher
OF the Brooklyn Superbas, might have
expressed It.
Lieut. Galore wears the Distinguished
Service Cross won for leading his men
fearlessly. The Lieutenant. who is a
six footer, Is as modest as he Is alti-
tudinous, and refused TO tell OF his per-
sonal exploits. but he was warm for
giving credit TO his gallant black SOL
diers.
His most hazardous work was with
night patrol OF ten men who often
got a dozen Germans or more in Incur
sions into No Mans Land. One Incl
dent he recalls particularly:
Nearly all black folks are fond OF ROLL
ing the bones. or. to express II in more
familiar Americanese. shooting craps,
and most of them carry a supply of
dice in their pockets. A buck private.
as black as the ten OF spades, which
the humorist says Is ten times blacker
than the ace, was surprised to note
a high explosive shell hit the earth
about 1--WE feet from him and roll be-
tween his legs.
His Shade Lighters.
Tho Lieutenant noted that the face
OF the big private turned almost all
shades between his natural color and
white. Then he Owed into his pocket,
pulled out his dice. threw them on the
ground and. holding his right hand sky
ward as IL taking an oath. shouted
TREMENDOUSLY: 'Henceto'th. so help ME
Gawd. I leads a difr'rent life -
The shell proved 20 be a dud. where
upon the reformed warrior picked w
his bones.
Lieut.. Galore said he was going to
leave the service as soon as he could
and take up his old job OF pitching,
which. he understood was open to him.
He went to France with a machine gun
replacement company, achieved his Lieu
tenancy later and was assigned 20 the
369th. He had been fighting with this
fine outfit since October and always led
his men
Enemy Feared Negroes.
The Germans, he said. were afraid Of
the American negro troops and they
were sandwiched between two French
that they were Moroccans. of whom
they were not afraid. His men liked
lighting at close quarters and did not
relish attacks from the air or the
smashing Of big shells fired from dis
tances.
Lieut.. Col. W. A. Pickering. who has
command OF the Second Battalion. and
Is a Regular Army man. with residence
at the Lambs Club. and who wears the
Distinguished Service Cross and the
Croix de Guerre. said fifty men OF his
battalion had won the Croix de Guerre,
five wore the French military medal
and one had both the medal and the
Legion OF Honor decoration.
He praised the gallantry OF Capt F.
w. Cobb, formerly OF White Plains, who
was killed at the head OF his company
in an attack in the Champagne Capt.
Cobbs successor was Capt. John Holly
Clark of Flushing, who wears the Legion
OF Honor for brilliant work.
The man the battalion Is proudest or
is Lieut.. Robb, who after being wounded
Ave times refused to leave his men. he
was finally knocked out and taken to a
base hospital. where he is now. He
wears the Legion OF Honor decoration
and the military medal.
Engineer Long in Service.
Chief Engineer Claude c. Lapsley %
the Regina is the senior engineer Of the
White Star feet and the oldest liner
engineer in service on any OF the seven
seas He Is 20. but does not look 1t
and declares he does not feel II. He
was rather late winning a decoration.
simply because war did not come his
way until he was well on in the sixties.
He had the material OF a hero dor
mant. however. and 1t came out when
lie was in charge OF the engine rooms
OF the steamship Just!cia, torpedoed of
the Irish coast last July. He went be-
low after his ship had been hit and
went the length OF the tunnel shaft,
along the keelson, to see II he might not
be able to save his ship. risking death,
as she seemed TO be about TO founder.
That Is one OF several reasons why
they gave him the British D. S. Q. and
the Order of tho British Empire. He also
had seven brushes with German shb-
marines while chief engineer OF the
Baltic. He has been thirty-nine years
in the White Star service and has
crossed the Atlantic 500 times. One OF
the things he Is especially proud OF is
taking Gen. Pershing to the other side