The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-04
Morgan City Boy Tells
Wonderful Tale Of
His Adventures
"Over There
Joe Bulge, Back from France,
Wears Gold Chevrons for Ser
vice. Wounded at Bat
tie of Scissors


Joe Bulge, son of Chief of Police
Sam Bulge, is home on a furlough
from Camp Logan H. Root,in Lit
tie Rock, Ark. Joe only recently re-
turned from France with the wound
ed soldiers who landed at Hoboken
N. ]. He wears, besides the gold
star as distinction of having gone
over with Pershing and his first 50,-
90, a wound stripe on his right arm
and the regular overseas chevrons
on his left. He volunteered his SER
vices when Uncle Sam decided to
roll up his sleeve and go after the
Hun, and he has more than done
credit to himself and Morgan City.
" Joe was in three big drives over
| there. He was in a machine gun
company of. the 9th regiment, End.
division. He participated first in
the battle at Chateau Thierry, where
he says he had grand time In fact,
his regiment was having such a good
time that when they were relieved
they remained right there in the
ruins of the town. He was in the
drive against the Boches at Voeux,
and last at Scissors, where he "got
his" He also participated in sever
al trench raids, and on several occa-.
sions found himself in tight places
He tells of an incident which occur
red one day when he and a comrade
went scouting through a deserted vii,
lage for good things. They had dis
covered a cellar filed with Cogniac,
and were on their way back with the
booty when they were spotted by the
enemy, and shells began to fall all
about them. One shell exploded near
the other fellow, and he dropped the
sack full of precious bottles he was
carrying and fell, causing several
bottles to break. Joe caught the sack
and jumped behind large tree Well,
of course, he needed no coaxing to
sample the wine right then and there
At the battle of Voeux, Joe went
over the top several times and WORK
ed his machine gun like a moving
machine on the Hun lines. 1t was
here that he experienced thrilling
adventure with Boche prisoners.
"Our artillery had sent a terrible
barrage over Voeux," said Joe, relat-
ing the adventure, "and had nearly
leveled the town. After we entered
the town, 'doughboy from Roches-
ter and myself were going down
what had once been a street, when
we passed cellar. 1t looked like
a good hiding place, so my partner
fired into it and a Boche promptly
squealed "kamerad" We ordered
whoever was down there to come
out, and four big huskies came out
with their hands up" Joe went on
to tell how they started to the rear
with their birds, when suddenly they
remembered that they, being in the
machine gun division, were not to
take prisoners. "There was but
one thing to do," he went on to say,
so asked my friend If we had not
better be starting for the front again.
My friend got the hint, and prompt
ly shot his two prisoners. Ny two
turned and were about to break away,
SO / put As bullet in each of them.
We then went back to TIE front and
took our places at the machine guns"
At the battle of Scissors, Joe went
over the top with machine gun
strapped to his back, and had gone
nearly two miles when the German
machine guns got busy and "got him"
The bullet struck him in the thigh,
and completely shattered the bone
He was picked. up and taken to
French hospital, where he was taken
care of for six weeks. Later he was
taken to an American hospital, and
remained there nine weeks. His leg
was broken twice after having near
1y healed. He has many souvenirs of
the big war, among them being the
machine gun bullet which struck