The sun., 1919-07-28
THREE TRANSPORTS
HERE WITH TROOPS
Forty-seventh Infantry, Van
guard Of Fourth Division,
In on Mobile.
FIRST SMALLPOX CASE
Filipino Mess Boy Has Disease
and All Hands Are
Vaccinated.
FIRST SMALLPOX CASE

The Forty-seventh Infantry. vanguard
of the Fourth Division, which has been
for the last eight months with the Army
OF Occupation in Germany, got back
yesterday by the transport Mobile. orig
inally the Hamburg American liner
Cleveland, and was held in Quarantine
four hours because Carlos Carpio, a Fill
Pine mess boy, was afflicted with a mild
case Of smallpox. Most OF the 1913
brides, captured chiefly in France. be-
fionged to the officers and men Of the
gallant regulars. and all were vacci-
mated, as were other non-military pas
sengers, and that Is one of the reasons
the transport was delayed.
The luckless mess boy and three other
Filipinos who were In the same berth
were taken off the ship TO Hoffman Is
land. The army officers and men were
inoculated when the Mobile locked at
Hoboken, and to-day navy surgeons of
the port will vaccinate the ships officers
and crew. 1t is the first case of small
pox brought here in a transport and orig
mated in France, the mess boy having
day out.
The Forty-seventh departed hence
more than n year ago and went into
action against the Germans one year
ago to-day, when two battalions were
thrust in between two regiments of the
Forty-second Division, heavily engaged
on the line of the Ourcq. The battalions
captured the town of Sergy, which had
changed hands nine times. and in three
40 - .alN a
officers and 462 men. The regiment
FIRST fought as a unit at st. Thibaut, on
the Vesle, and in 1--WE days more than
1000 officers and men were killed,
wounded or gassed. In the Argonne the
regiment lost forty-etsht officers and
t.fo2 men.
Mitchell in Command.
Lieut.. Col. Manton c. Mitchell brought
the regiment home. its commander, Col
Troy H. Middleton of Galveston. who
rose from captaincy in five months
having returned a week ago. Ten Of
ficers and thirty-four men of the Forty
seventh wear the Distinguished Service
Cross, three have won the Croix de
Guerre and seven the Italian War Cross
Fifteen officers and thirty-seven men
have been cited for bravery in action.
These facts were given out by Capt.
Leon Dabo. artist Of this city, an aid to
MaJor-Gen. Hersey of the Fourth Divi-
sion, who has written and will illustrate
the divisions history. to be published In
the fall
The Tenth Machine Gun Battalion,
one of three similar units of the Fourth
Division. also got in by the Mobile, with
twenty-one officers and thirty-fve men
Of the Headquarters of the Third Army
Corps. OF the officers wives, twenty
seven are French. three Belgian, three
from Luxembourg and Scotch. The
men selected hfty-fiye French, thirty
seven Luxembourg, two Belgians, four
Russians and one italian as brides.
Other military passengers were Brig
Gen Thomas B. Dugan of the Fifth Divi-
sion, Col Charles z. Stodter. infantry (;
Col. James NJ. Graham of the General
Staff. Col. Orville G. Brown of the Medi-
cal Corps, Col Jerome G. Pillow and Col.
Frances w. Clark of the General Staff,
all of whom have been with Headquar-
ters. Third Army Corps, which was last
located at Neuweid, Germany. Colonels
returning as casual officers are Michael
H. Barry Coast Artillery; John T. Geary
Coast Artillery: Charles II. Hilton of the
General Star. Samuel G.. Jones, cavalry,
and Robert +. Mcmillan, Coast Artillery.
Four hours after the transport Santa
Teresa. in yesterday, departed from st.
Nazaire on July 15, with 1855 officers
and men, Private James Mcpherson, a
casual. jumped from the gun platform
at the ships stern. A lifebuoy and life
belts were thrown to him, but he would
not touch them, although plainly within
his reach. The transport was stopped
and the emergency life boat swiftly
launched, but Mcpherson had disap-
peared. The boat cruised about an hour
before giving up hope of recovering the
body. Shipmates OF Mcpherson say he
was unbalapced. He had UNDERSIGNED a
passage OF the Psalms reading II will
bring. my people from the depths of the
sea-" before he plunged to death.
Company q. Second Pioneer Infantry.
115 men. once the old Fourteenth Regi-
ment of Brooklyn. arrived by the Santa
Teresa. The men are mostly residents
OF this State. The only Brooklyn officer
IN the outfit, and he is a non-com, Is
Top Sergeant Alexander Walo. who said
the other companies of the Second Pr
oneers were guarding array property
near Neufchateau. France, and were
anxious to get home. Capt p. L. Ogel
OF Los Angeles. army surgeon eighteen
years, returned with two non-coms in
charge OF n ton and a half OF records
OF more than 100. 900 cases treated in
twelve hospitals at the great base at
savenay for the Surgeon Of
nee in Washington.
The transport Martha washington
brought 2,735 officers and men. chiefly
of motor transport companies and mill
tary police. with the officers returning
were Brighten. Malvern Hill Barnum.
head Of the Military Armlstlce Commits
sion. with many decorations; Col. 8. q.
Sharple. Lieut.-Col. John A. CutchinS,
Major Coleman d. Frank. head OF the
De Witt Clinton High School French
department. and Major C. L. Henlnger
Of Portland. Ohio.