Arizona republican., 1919-01-20
MAKE DEAD BODIES IF GERMANS INTO
 FAT, OFFICER SAYS
Four Ships With 1892 Heroes Arrive - Many Picked Men Included ] Wounded Uproario usly V Welcomed Home

NEW YORK, Jan. 7S-Four steam ships, their decks crowded with Ameri- an fighting men. hundreds of whom gazed upon the home shores from cots and convalescent chairs, passed the Statue of Liberty today amid din from harbor craft, bringing home 4,992 heroes.
 The climax of the demonstration came when the hospital ship Comfort bearing 371 sick and wounded, entered the upper bay and was hailed by cheers from the throngs on shore and the strains Of Home, Sweet Home" from a band on board a vessel carry ing Mayor Hylan's committee of vel come As the Comfort came abreast the Statue of Liberty, a great shout arose from her decks, crowded to the rails with soldiers in bandages, sup ported by crutches and canes or seated in easy chairs. Through the port holes of the hospital ship glimpses were caught of the more seriously wounded.
 The other steamships were trans ports the Lapland, which brought 2065 soldiers; the Sierra, with 1,515, and t5e Wilehlmina, with 1,041 aboard. Of the sick and wounded brought back by tAe Comfort, 129 were naval men
 
 the Lapland, for the most part, were casual companies, made up of men from base hospitals in France and England, and most of whom were con- valescent. One other detachment, the Hath trench mortar battery, which had not seen service at the front was on it's way bak to Camp Beauregard Louisiana. The casual companies and their destinations are: Nos. 211, PIP. 213, 214, Camp Upton; 215, 2l6, 23S, 419 Meade; AT, Gordon. The Lapland also carried 56 casual officers.
 Many Picked Men
 Among the troops on the Sierra were the 337th regiment of field artillery and 237 casual officers and enlisted men, the latter from hospitals ir France. The artillery reigment was trained at Camp Dodge. Des Moines Iowa, and comprises selected men from Minnesota, North and South Dakota ! Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. It had been in the Claremont section O. | France.
 | Of the men on the Wilhelmina, 40, were from the radio station near Bor. deau, where they were engaged in con | structing four radio towers. Ther, were also 200 men fthe naval aert squadron, with a base in northern France. Also on board were the 334tl and 336th divisions of the medical sup | ply unit, the 311th sanitary train 0 the S6th division, the headquarter field hospital, and three hospital unit and 172 wounded.
 Among the wounded officers on thu Comfort were Lieutenants Alfred M Barlow, Gallipolis, Ohio; Farrell Gal leger, Cleveland. Ohio; John R. Bos ton, Yorkville. s. C., and Benjamin F Malone. Monticello, Calf.
 The Comfort left Plymouth Januar, ,, and five days later put into tn Azores afte "a stormy passage. Tn trip from the Azores was. in smootl seas.
 Making Fat of Huns
 Germany was in dire straits whel the war ended. according to Captain Robert w. Hudgens of Laurens, $. c who arrived in the Comfort. He wa attached to the 11Sth infantry ,30th di vision, and when the town of Bellecour was captured, the captain said, tn Americans found the bodies of German soldiers being prepared to be rendere into fats A complete rendering plan was found in a tunnel beside the Belle court canal, Captain Hudgens said.
 Three wounded heroines also wer aboard the Comfort All were nurse and one of them, Miss Marie Smith o Berkeley Calif., was wounded in tn foot by shrapnel at Chateau Thierry while attached to a medical unit, wit one of the sbXteen-inch naval gu
 crews. Members of the gun crew de clared she kept on attending to tn wounded until ordered from the fielt by an officer.