Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-12-11
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University Of Iowa Men and
Women Prove .heroism n
Great War
! MEMORIAL THEIR DUE

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a MEMORIAL. THEIR Due.
Iowa Memorial Union to Raise
100000 for Building
In Their Honor at +:
Iowa City.
! Iowa City, Iowa.-Every person
who has attended a football game @at
Iowa Field has heard the famous fight
ing cheer. This is story of how the
sons of the University of Iowa car.
ried that fighting spirit with. them
when they went abroad in Americas
cause to help make the world safe for
democracy.
On a cold gray day In November,
1918, Sergeant Frank Grub, who only
two. years before had been student
at Old Gold, was found dead on q
battlefield somewhere in France"
He lay near German machine gun
nest, in which were two of the enemy,
dead. In his hands was gripped a
crumpled scrap of paper, on which
he had managed to write before he
died
They got me, but l got two Of
them
Lieutenant William Paul ..Hyman
was senior in the University Law
School when the United States en-
tered the war. He enlisted, went to
Fort Smelling for training. and soon
was commissioned. He had reached
the other side by November, 1917.
In. July, 1918. after severe fighting
in the Marine campaign, Lieutenant
Hyman was on duty in the front line.
Word came to him that one member
of his company was missing. This
man, friend, lay wounded out. be-
hind some shrubbery, in the direct
line of enemy fire. Lieutenant Hy-
man did not hesitate. He went out
TO bring back his friend or die in the
attempt. He died under rain of
German bullets.
"Thfs act brings to one the words
Of the Scripture, Greater love hath
no man than this, that he lay down
his life for his friends wrote sena-
tor Kenyon, in sending word Of: the
heroisin to .Hyman's parents.
A Distinguished Service Medal was
awarded to Hyman for his heroism..
Ray A. Potter Of Upton enlisted at
Ottawa, Canada, in June, 1915. He
served as a sergeant lin the
machine gun corps of the second con
tingent of the Canadian Expedttionary
Forces through the third battle OF
Ypres, the Somme campaign and the
vimy Ridge fighting, until he was. shot
through the lung with piece Of shell.
He lay three months in French hos.
pitfalls and two months in hospitals in
/ England, until. lie was discharged
from the army as unfit for further
fighting because of this wound: For
more than three years he was; In act
i've service. He went over the TOP
fourteen times.
L.. When he was discharged from the
Canadian forces, he returned Ito this
country and entered the Y. NJ. CA
army service as secretary. He was
in that service when the armistice
was signed.
4 Lowell Lynn Forbes of JEFFERSON
enlisted in the infantry on September
s5,s1917. He was soon promoted, went
through an officers training school
and by August of the following year
was in service in France. On october
Ia, 1918, he, as Second Lieutenant
was ordered to occupy, with his pla
toon of 80 men and II Frenchspoilus
ruined village between the Franco
American and German lines. He oc
cupied the village, but was compelled
to withdraw before superior forces o.
i the enemy. Occupying that village
and retiring involved desperate hand
to-hand fighting, in which he per
sonally encountered five Germans IL
an old trench. He killed four ant
took the fifth one prisoner. :nciden
tally saving the life Of French ser
! geant. A few minutes later he en-
countered two more Of the enemy
killed one land made the second i
prisoner. He withdrew his mel
through heavy artillery barrage ant
got them safely into their own line.
! without losing one. Of, his command.
For this exploit the French Govern
ment gave him the Croix-de-G uerr'
with a. silver. star.
Homer Ireland Smith, of Clinton
twas sent abroad in September, 1917
with the famous italian Detachment:
of flyers. He didn't get to Italy, al
did Captain La Guardia, New Yorl
City Congressman. but was held Fl
England for training for night flying
He spent months in the extremel!
dangerous work of "Zepp strafing
and "Gotha chasing" to protect Lon
don and the. East Coast of Englan,
. and Scotland against the Hun ali
raiders.
| Henry Morrow of Iowa City becam
Captain in the Medical Corps: HI
was attached to the Base Hospita
]. Center at geaHne. where there wer
nearly 10000 beds. He and Captain
FC. w. Harned;y also .iof Iowa, estat
.'Ilshed-.a niaxillo.factai department TO
the reconstruction Of injured parts o
the head, face and neck Of soldiers
THE only dentist I'm the center VIII
could do jaw-fracture work, Capital
!. Morrow during. the ..:ArgQnne fightin
was frequently on active duty q
hours at q sfreteE .H4swas severe
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