Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-28
LOCAL ELKS HAVE
 FINE WAR RECORD
Gave 7S Men, Highest Rank ing Officer and Man Who Stayed to Pull Down
 Flag.

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 It's a record which includes a 100 per cent service of the eligi- ble men, the highest ranking of ficer from Pine Bluff, the man to stay abroad the longest and the only local Y M. ll, .. men to see overseas service.
 When the call to the colors came in 1917 the younger mem- bers of the lodge responded free ly and within year practically every man of fighting age and a few of the old timers. who were way outside the age limit set by Uncle Sam, were with the ar my, the navy, the marines or the auxiliary organizations. On ar mistice day there were members of the Pine Bluff lodge in camps turnout the United States and in all parts of Europe where there was an American flag.
 Seventy-eigh of the 400 or more members of the lodge today have their honorable discharges and are lack in civilian pursuits. In rank they ranged all the way from buck private to a major. The Pine Bluffian who held the high est rank in the army was a mem- Der of 149, and 149 furnished it's share of the common or garden variety of soldier, the slum-eating buck.
 The record is rounded out with one who gave his life for his coun- try. Paul Byrd, member of Pine Bluff lodge, was one of the few sons of Pine Bluff to die on the soil of France in the service of the allied cause. Paul, who was but 25 years old, passed away last October, just a short while before the armistice was signed. He died at St. Nazaire.
 Brings Home the Flag Pole. Maj. Dan Taylor was the high est ranking member of the lodge in the recent melee. Likewise he was the only Pine Bluffian who attained that rank. Major, Tay Tor went to France in October o1 1918 and stayed until November of 1919. He was a judge advo cate at Chaumont and later al Paris.
 Pine Bluff has another soldier who has the unusual distinction o. having the longest overseas ser vice of any local man. And { service, which by the way, is long CT than nine-tenths of the me1 who went over. He is Capt. J Frank (Potchie) Lieberman, medi cal corps. Potchie, likewise { member of 149, went to war early in 1917. He only recently sailed from Brest, coming home witl what was left of the peace delega ton, fact in itself enough tt show that he had stayed the linn it. Potchie went over as lieu tenant, served conspicuously a the front during the Meuse-Argon ne and St. Mihiel and was re warded for coolness and devotion to duty under fire with a captain'' commission. He is on his wa! home now and may be in Pin' Bluff during the coming week.
 Captains-there were quite ; few beside Lieberman. Franl Bloom attained that rank, as di' Will Alexander, J. c. Cone, win shot down number of German while an aviator on the westerl front; L. M. Mccullough and Hen ry Roberts, who took over Pin Bluffs only all-Pine Bluff unit, ; motor truck company.
 The local lodge of Elks was wei represented in the old 39th di vision of former national guards men. the 87th and the variou technical and special units.
 Those Who Served.
 And then when all of the young CT members of the lodge had gon with the army or navy, Pine Bluff lodge sent two of the foremos men overseas with the Y. M. c. A these were M. D. McNeil, pas exalted ruler and a shining ligh in all of the Elks social and mu sical affairs for a number o years, and Dr. J. l. Norris. Ma went to France and played in ev cry Y. M. c. A. theatre fror the channel to the Mediterranean and Dr. Norris did yeoman ser vice for the "Y" in the days whe hard work was needed to keep u the spirits of the boys.
 Among the Pine Bluff Elks .wh served were Frank Allen, w. f Alexander, o. B. Alexander, w. + Adams, H. E. Bluthenthal, F. E Bloom, P. P. Byrd, c. L. Barne: s. N. Bloom, Boyd Bonney, Arm strong Barrow, c. B. Bowling, Jo Coles, Joe Clement, J. c. Cone Sam Cook, Jessie Core, D. Stanle Dreyfus, Henry Davis. Harol Fowles, Rags Fitzhugh, Lex Flu. Ter, Lev Flournoy, Lev Goodricl Shep Galligher, Don Goree, Sar Hilzheim, Bob Harris, Clarenc Hanf, Fred Ingram, Tod Jorda1 Ray Jaggelin, E. |. Kirchgrabbel A. S. Klarberg, Tom Lyle, J. I Lieberman, Leland Murphy, Tor Madding,. Ed. McCammon, l. I McDaniels, M. D. McNeil, J. Norris, G. w. Nichols, Fran