The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-16
KILLED" SOLDIER
is GIVEN D. S. C.
Hero Reported Dead Is Decorated
for MeritoriouS Service on
Field of Battle.
LEFT ON FIELD FOR DEAD
Wounded Forty-Four Times in A.
tempting to Clean Out Machine
Gun Nest at Chateau Thierry-
Wife Insisted He Wasn't Dead.

Omaha, Neb.-Lieut big Jim" Han
berry, formerly a teacher in Kansas
Manual Training Normal at Pittsburg,
Kan. who was killed" at Chateau
Thierry, and for whom funeral serv-
ices and memorial exercises were held
in Pitfsburg, Tulsa and Enid Okla,
and several other places, was called
| before the commandant at Fort Crook
and before 1000 soldiers decorated
with the distinguished service cross
for meritorious service on the field of
battle in France
Before pinning the cross on his
breast the commanding officer read to
Hanbery personal letter from Gen
eral Pershing and another from Gov
ernor Allen of Kansas, each commend
Ing him for the service he had per-
formed. Although he was officially
killed at Chateau Thierry, Hanbery
is now newspaper reporter in
| Omaha
Wounded Forty-Four Times.
Briefly. this was the service for
which Hanbery was decorated:
At Chateau Thierry he undertook,
with platoon of men, to clean out a
German machine gun nest. He was
wounded A times, left for dead on the
battlefield for SO hours, crawled and
rolled three miles to the American
lines, spent many months in a hos
pital and today carries one bullet in
his body and four pieces of high-ex-
plOsive shell in his head
"Big jim" Che stands six feet two
inches in his bare feet) was teaching
at Pittsburg when the war broke out.
He didn't wait for the draft, but en-
listed at once. He went through one
of the training camps, was commits
stoned lieutenant and married to Miss
Nellie Crane, teacher in the same
school at Pittsburg He was lieuten-
ant of Company L, Fifty-ninth infan-
pacity went to France.
The War department cabled his wife
In Pittsburg and his parents In Enid
OF his "death." When the funeral serv-
ices were arranged Mrs. Hanbery re-
fused to attend
"Jim is not dead" she insisted.
pitied her. But she insisted
'Jim Is not dead"
Papers Played Up His Death.
Kansas and Oklahoma papers played
up his death"
"Big Jfm's" family got all the clip
pings they could. They wanted to keep
them to read in after years Now big
Jim'' has them all nicely rasted in
scrapbook and can read his own obit-
larry whenever he pleases. In addition
o the clippings there are half hun
lred kilograms of sympathy, the Off
'ial notice from the War department
md several soliciting letters from
lealers in tombstones and monuments.
But Mrs. big Jim" insisted Jim was
lot dead.
One day a couple Of months after
Big Jim's" funeral services, Mrs.
1anbery received letter from Lieu
enant Hanbery. He was all shot to
ieces and In hospital in France, but
citing along pretty well.
Il told you Jim wasn't dead" was
bout her only comment
In time Hanbery was brought back
} the States, spent many months in
ospital and finally was we'll enough
} get back to work. He came to
maha and became a newspaper re-
orter
And that's why he was called down
Fort Crook and in the presence Of
lie entire garrison officers of the Sew
18th army corps area, officers from
ort Omaha, members of the War
others, Overseas Girls and other pa
lotto organizations had pinned to his
east the bronze distinguished serv-
e cross.