Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-30
DANIELS lAUDS RECORD
OF OLD HICKORY DIVISION
Secretary OF Navy Recalls How
Veterans of Thirticth Smashed
Iindcnbcrg Line.
tBy Universal se:v:oa.l

ASHEVILLE. " c.. Sept. 90
Achievements of the Thirtieth tOld
Hickory Division as the force that
broke the Iiindenburg line" were
recountcd In laudatory phrase in an
address tonight by Secretary Daniels
TO members of the division assembled
here in annual reunion. Asserting
the military primacy" OF the Thir-
tieth Division could not be sscribed
to superiority in training of tactics.
the secretary declared IL was due
rather TO the devotion of its, soldiers
to tho holy cause that beckened
them and their individual re-
sources and initiative"
Led Assault Near Deili Court.
Recalling the success OF the di-
Visions Sixtieth Brigade in leading
morning OF September 20. 1918, tina;
broke tho lIindcrburS line OF de-
iemse, Mr.. DanieI-; declared every
pciual hanpimess'' in the fact that
two regiments OF infantry and one
engineer regiment from that state
composed the brigade. When that
unit swcpi through the Hindeuburg
iine TO take practically every objcc-
i've assigned to II the backbone OF
tho once heralded impregnnble de.
tense was Drokcn he asserted AMI
chill Of despair was sent into the
very marrow of the German hordes."
IL was not by chance or accident
tth ina XIV men NO. Of The Th.,ie,h broke
continued. You veterans or one
Hundred and Nineteenth and one
Hundred and Twentieth, who made
me Inc assault had been prepared by
long months of training. Your of
ncers mad planned every detail of the
movement. You knew the objcctiyca
10 he gained and you looked forward
without fear to the zero hour wbicE
nf RI -,
to you. s u uea i"
though YOU perhaps had little
,.nWuEmt on landing in France that
you would be selected for the as
sault forces TO smash the linden
nurG line. the call came. and what
an tne Germans thought you could not
Went Far beyond Famous Line.
Inc Secretary also praised the d.
VISIONS record in the lighting pre-
Gd "nhmry TO the assault on the lin
uenpurs line and that which later
oaarf 1 IT far beyond the famous line
Nashville, Tenn. was chosen as the
Thirtieth Division reunion at ~ S
hnal session OF the second annual
co f,oSnnd1 here today.
nndP"d and HtHG Th e 0I fsalGiFh one
i;ery' was elected president. succeed
InE colonel Holmes r. Springs. or
K r"%nXiiie' &c s; C.; Frank d; owen. OF
rctary. ce-presidcnts arc Ser
Ecah' MAJOR Guy May. OF Tennessee.
nrst: Harold Turner. South Carolina'
second; and Harry BaumEartncr,
AShcvillc. third :
INC Reunion will close tonight.
~ 10 Honor to Dead Soldier.
The celebration and mcrryinakinp
or inc closing hours of tho reunion
wero hushed today as simple burial
ceremonies were conducted in River
ssidc cemetery for Sergeant Jesse c.
S,nrGan. OF tho Ono JIundrcd and
rlith Signal Battalion. of the Thir
ticth Division. Nearly two years
ago Sergeant Morgan was first
buried in France. Immediately after
me division had broken the linden
burg line.
Today tho same platoon that served
as firing squad for the ceremony
overseas. again performed this rite,
ana Tor tho second time the hody o1
the soldier was inferred. The cere-
monies here were held undr the aus
pices of the kim Rockweis Pos
Of the American Legion. tho bod,
lhAytnE AeEtHed today frnm o9ar1esS