The sun., 1919-03-24
Gov. Cox Heads Delegation
From Buckeye State on
Trip Down the Bay.
BOOM FOR AN OFFICER
Lieut.-Col. Ralph d. Cole Ex-
pected to Enter Lists for
Chief Executive of State.

and otherwise, who greeted the soldiers
down the bay and at the Hoboken piers.
There were moro than $500 Of the
Thirty-seventh Division, originally the
Ohio National Guard, aboard the Hol-
land America liner Noordam. the cruiser
Huntington and the transport Won Steu-
ben, and none received more attention
than the mascot Of the machine gun
battalion. Bing Bang, a bulldog, very
properly born in a pup tent down in
Montgomery, Ala, where the machine
gun men were in training before going to
France
Bing Bang was burned badly by mus
tard gas in the Argonne on September
Il, when his gas mask was knocked off
while he was trying to succor a wounded
doughboy. He wears service and a
wound stripe on his blanket, in n pocket
OF which is an order permitting him to
do SO. From his collar bangles an alumi-
mum cross fashioned from a part of n
captured airplane. His company. D, is
from Dennison. Ohio. and he is going
there to pass the rest Of his days bark
Ing for the glory OF the town, which
left ffty-seven Of its gallant 112 fighters
dead in France. Private Edward Jen-
kins struggled Bing Bang into and out
OF France, being ably but secretly as
sisted by all of the division that hap
pened to be present.
Omcer doomed for Governor.
The Noordam also brought an Ohio
Gubernatorial boom. which Gov Cox as
q Democrat, did not refer to. his BUSH
ness as commander in chief of the Ohio
Guard being purely military and nom
partisan. The doomed one is Lieut. Col.
Ralph d. Cole, Republican. of Ffnlay,
Ohio, for three terms Representative
From his home district and in civil life a
lawyer.
Lieut. d. Cole was met at the pier
Nv his brother p. c. Cole. who has been
representing the district in the Coloners
absence. The boom came in custody OF
Lieut.. c. c. Chambers, steel man of
Cleveland. All hands interested said
they'd rather say nothing or little about
IL until after the official welcoming of
the Ohio division is over
OF the 1900 officers and men aboard
the Noordam nearly all were military
Ohoans. Among the other Ohioans.
non-military. who welcomed them were
Mayor Henry l.. David Of Cleveland and
Mayor Cornell Schneider of Toledo. Gov
Cox after shouting to the soldiers who
responded vociferously. went to the
liners pier in Hoboken and personally
gave them welcome.
Major Gen. Charles g. Farnsworth of
the Regular Army comma nded the Thir-
ty-aeventh Division men who arrived by
the Noordam, and with him came Col r.
Fuller. his chief of star. and also a reg.
ular: Col c. c. Chambers resident OF
Cleveland and chief divisional machine
gun officer throughout the Campaign,
and Capt. Philip G. Steers Of Brooklyn.
formerly State Engineer, who went to
France with the Third Division last July.
Commander Praises Ohio Men.
Gen. Farnsworth said his men were
returning in better shape physically and
in every other way than they were when
they left home. that their work had
made them better men than ever and
that there had been less sickness among
them than there would have been IL they
had stayed in their own State. Finally.
the General said: at has been an honor
and pleasure TO command them. What
ever they were asked to do they did and
did we'll"
Tho official reports show that the Ohio
men and their requirements occupied
larger part of the front in the period OF
lighting than any other division at one
and the same time. The mortality was
Ing been killed In action or died Of
wounds. and $3.50 wounded. The divi-
zion. consisting of $1,000 men, received
1852 Belgian citations. two crosses OF the
Order of Leopold. two Of the Legion OF
Honor and fourteen other French dec
orations, while 22l men got the Croix de
Guerre. The division was twice cited by
Gen. Digoutte. King Albertis chief OF
staff, and the King himself spent a day
hal u-If ha Anr
20, shaking hands with thousands of
them. congratulating them and leaving
the impression that he was a mighty
good fellow for a King, besides being
nne soldier.
The Ohio men saw their first service
in a sector OF the Vosges, Baccard. in
July and September. 1t was then sent
20 the Argonne. taking part in the great
drive which lasted until October Q II
was in the centre of the nine American
divisions which took part in the cam
paign. II entered ST. Mihiel on October
8, remaining there until October 16
when II was transferred to Belgium
serving there under French command.
While there II crossed the Rivers Lys
and Escaut, forcing the passage against
fierce Hun resistance and driving the
enemy tHo days without stops, building
bridges under fire 10 transport heavy
equipment.
Col. Lewis Tells of His Gun.
Col. Isaac y. Lewis, retired, inventor
OF the Lewis machine gun, who hitherto
has been silent TO reporters about the
effectiveness of his invention, came by
the Noordam. was inclined to be reticent
again, but consented finally to say some
thing about the gun but not of himself.
save that he had been in Paris on pri-
Nate business when I state" the
Colonel said. that there were 200 900
the armistice was signed that every
allied country was using them; that they
were used five times more than guns OF
any other type on airplanes. I think
nothing more need be added about
them"
Gottfred Kruger. head OF the New
ark brewing company named for him.
came back with his wife and his SON.
in-law. James Smith Sd. son OF former
United States Senator James Smith. Jr
lie said that he had been detained In
Germany by III health much longer than
he expected and that he and his wife
we're very happy 10 get back to their
family and friends
In February, 1918. \. Mitchell Palmer,
Alien Property Custodian. took control
OF the Krueger property under the sec
ton of law that gave him power to
hold the property OF Americans in Ger
many. The KrueEer wealth runs into
= The millions and besides the brewery III
1, tests he has "A large part OF the stock
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