The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-06-13
War 'SIDELIGnTS
INDICATE JOY OF
RETURNED TROOPS
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saw his captain killed Not long
after the captains death Wyche went
out 10 do some scouting At the door
of a vine cellar he saw German
He ordered the man to come ont, lie
did, and close upon his heels another,
and another until twenty Germans
had filed ou, oi that hole in the
ground And he took the whole bunch
into camp wlthou, a scratch.
A modest little man with q merry
smile is Capt. Lester Smith Of the
Nth. Smith has a croix dc guetre,
but he refuses to say anything about
how be got il. "Thc French gave
them out with packages Of cissrets,"
he says, and then changes the sub
ject.. However, he admits that hs was
IN the fight at Champagne-and that
he lives in Montgomery, Ala.
mo. we haven't very many decora-
tions," Col. II. Z. Baker Of the iiith
engineers said this morning, I'VE
weren't fighting with the French, you
know"
Johnnie +. Mahr OF the Oklahoma
City company, Company r." is the
cfflcIal9 press agent OF the One
eleventh Some selections from hi,
repertoire. follow:
g The lllth had their first casualte,
At Bonita Mcsson when ,hirty-iye men
were killed.
The sitith had q day, continuous,
Sighting at one time without relief
baths or other luxuries
On the day from Bouvenills
Woods 10 Verdun the lli,h travel
ed l20 mile, in six days, making
the wip' by night. part Of the time,
= knee.deep In mud. II was on this
trip that NorrS Barnes OF Okla
homs City died from exposure. c.
T. Campbell, another Oklahoma
City boy, died OF pneumonia at
Verdun the day they arrived
there.
In the Arsonne forest . party from
the lllth went out on mapping and
souvenir hunting expedition, ], was
on this trip that Corpl Paul Kuper
OF Elk City was wounded and PVT. D.
W. CLANCY, formerly employed at the
Wells Fargo here, was killed. kuper,
who held the University OF Oklahoma
miIe run record killed two German
captains and two German priva,es be-
fore they got" him,
Floyd Drake, son OF the superin-
tendent Of the Pauls Valley division
Of the Santa Fe, surprised the boys OF
the lllth by establishing the Hotel
De Paris" during their stay at ST.
luvjsp. The hotel which was built in
dug -out fashion served jam, fresh
Stew and cake For some time the boys
pvssied over the question Of where he
got hh supplies, Drake finally
confessed that he did his marketing
after night by the aid OF . few hand
aYenades and q lusty voice witt which
hc yslled Air raid" The IN. Ps"
proatptly deserted,she provisions and
nrsho was soon ready for another
Days business at the hotel.
Every man in the ilith divijion
n 4 hero whether he wears 4 war
cross or = mother hubbard" At
Sedan, where the boys found
French women and children stsrv-
IND, without clothes 10 the most
pintul condition, there wasn't q
man in the bunch who didn't
H,she come sort OF a>sacrIfice 10
relieve the sufferings OF those
unfortunste people, Blankets from
their packs shoes and stockings
from their feet we're willingly
turned over TO the needy peasants,
Robert NJ. Beavers Of Mineral
Wells, Texas, with the llith en-.
aineSsp. was attached 10 the Thirty
18th Division at Hoboken, N. J,
vAen the Eightieth division 10 which
Ne belonged, was split TO send men to
their nearest demobillling points. 81
was ne only fellow In the entire d.
vision going to Texss," said Beavers,
"snd this & my first visit to Okla
homa City. Sure fine city
Beavers said he was under fire
thirty.two days AZ Verdun.
Sesst. ], W, Long, Of the hesdquar.
tiers detachment, lllth engineers,
umped through the window Of his
coach Is the train sloyed up st the
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