Arizona republican., 1919-05-10

Ills name was John Fruit and he had the ran! of corporal.
 Corporal John Fruit was an expert { rifleman. so designated bv Uncle Sam. ' But to the Hun. he was B master | "dev.l deg" a literal torpedo in the heart of German hopes
 Few men. if any. made greater strides. sinSle-handed. against the Prussians than did Corporal Pruitt. lie smashed. crashed. dashed his way into | the thickest of the fighting. he landed right and left and he landed blows with telling effects upon his opponents. In hand to hand battling against over whelming odds, he employed steam roller methods with steam roller eff fleets. lie swept all before him.
 He defied death invited death that he might achieve his aims. his ob jectives He fought with a fierceness that becomes only the man instilled with q fighting passion. He was there jo fight, and by heavens. he did fight,
 Fight if was with Corporal Fruit from the time he entered the thick of the shot and shells until he was killed October 1, 1918.
 He was only youth-he was killed 
 fought with all the determination. all the fierceness and aggressiveness of the 1.-the panther and the cunning fox. He used new methods, a dashing type of fighter he was, and he got away with it. He jumped into the cannons mouth as it were, and then took back the cannon as battle prize. And those Huns who yelled "Kameradl' rather than give hattie. he took back as prisoners of war
 For five long months he fougA, and was victor. Almost daily he defied death. He was there in the thicl.est Of the shell fire from the beginning until a suipers bullet ended a career | crowned with seemingly impossible achievements.
 The hoy had his chance-and he made zoos as few boys have. He grasped the opportunities thrown open | to him and he always came back 1 crowned with victory-only to be cut ! off by a chance bullet.
 Corp. John Pruitt was a member of 1 the sixth Marine regiment-tha world famous fighting organization that wrote history at Chateau ThieTry- i of two marine units that turned the ! tide of victory to the allies. And Cor | poral Pruitt was there from start to 1 finish doing his bit, and his bit' was always five or six mems work. Again at Balleau Woods, then al Blanc Mont Ridge, then further along 1 the line-Corporal Fruit was always fighting. He was 9 devil dog" from the word go. There was no stopping him.
 And then on October came the opportunity. A German machine gur nest had been menacing the regiment for hours. This nest must be obliter- ated. It was Corp. John Fruit whC started out, single handed, 10 make ol break that nest.
 The minutes passed and his mer eagerly awaited his return, but he diC not come The minutes dragged into an hour and of a sudden, fire from thu nest ceased. Surely Corporal Fruit could not have conquered, single hand ed, the entire nest. But steady look out was maintained and a few minutel later they saw an object approaching dragging something heavy. The objec was Corporal Pruitt and the something heavy was the machine gun.
 Later in the day, another machin gun nest was menacing the Americal forces. Again Corporal Fruit starte,
 on perilous mission. This time h
 returaed with 40 prisoners.
 On the next day. Corporal Fruit wa assigned to snip.ng duty As state