The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-07
| WAR MEDALS
A WA ING
TEN HEROES
Government Seeks Men to
Whom Military Honors
is Due
Times Washington Bureau,
1899 Nom Vork 40

partment today in an effort to de-
liver thirteen medals for heroism.
won during the World War, which
still remain unclaimed.
Ten of the men. so far as the War
Department knows, are still alive;
the other three are dead. But months
Of searching throughout the United
States has failed to locate either
those who are living or the relatives
of those who persisted
Between the lines in their crisp,
cold-fact service records that repose
in the army's archives here, one may
read thrilling stories of bravery,
blood and sudden death. The deeds
Of these missing men would form
glorious chapter in American his,
tory,
Floyd Cline Sought
There's Private Floyd Cline of
Company C, Seventh Infantry, last
heard from when discharged at
Crown, w. Va. A distinguished serv-
ice cross awaits him for his gal
lantry at La Tuelerie farm, near La
Charmed. on the morning Of July %,
1918 Under a heavy fire, Private
Cline voluntarily crossed a 2OO-yard
open space directly in front Of his
company's lines to bring back a
wounded conirade who was calling
for help.
An Italian Croce di Guerra. sent
here by the Italian government.
awaits Corporal James .>O'Connor,
Company I, 165th Infantry, last
heard from at Manville, N. J. After
his entire squad had been killed or
wounded near Landres on Oct. IA
1918. Corporal O'Connor continued
the fight single handed and silenced
German machine-gun nest by kill.
ing three of its men. He then car.
ried three Of his fallen comrades
from their exposed positions to
safety.
A d. S. c. awaits Sergt. Luther
Ruhl, Company F. 18th Infantry,
last heard from at McAlester, Okla.
AT Fleville on Oct. 4. 1918. after his
commanding officer had been killed,
| Sergeant Ruhl reorganized his
I IteAAOOils 0iiQN1l BEdNY 1IEt ana leu
/ it forward in a successful attack on
a machine-gun nest, killing or cap
turing its crew, after which he or
ganized tho position for defense and
held It until relieved
Croix de Guerre
A French Croix de Guerre. with
gilt star. is held for Corporal John
/ *. Irons, Company x, 18th Infantry.
| last heard from at Steubeville. Ohio.
| Although wounded in the foot by a
machine gun and in the leg by shrap-
/ mel near the Bots de St Claude on
Sept. IL, 1918, he continued In the
| advance all day without medical
attention, except his own first aid.
! Decorations also await Private
Harry Carlin of Base Hospital No
SO, last heard from in Detroit; Pri-
vate Charles Cartona, Company 1,
I'd Infantry. Waterbury. Conn; Capt
Peter Dohes. ambulance service.
New York; Private Emmett r. Luns-
ford Company A. 31st Infantry.
Claremore. Okla; Capt. Clayton r.
Pollan. ambulance service, FIT
! Smith. Ark
An Italian medal Is held for Sergt
Chester II. West, Company D. 363rd
Infantry, who was awarded the Con
gressional Medal OF Honor before
| his discharge at Firebaugh. Cal
! Beyond and above the call OF
| duty" In the Boise de Cheppy on
Sept. 26, 1918. Sergeant West single
handed attacked two machine guns,
KILLED two men and one officer and
put the nest out Of commission.
Posthmous Awards
! More thrilling still are the deeds
Of the three men who were killed in
action and for whom posthumous
awards Of the Distinguished Service
Cross were made.
First Sergt Edward G. Mason.
Company D, 55th Infantry, won his
red badge of courage at Jaulny, just
the day before the arnistice was
signed. In the teeth OF a deadly bar
rage. Sergeant Mason walked up and
down his company Sector, caring for
! the wounded and encouraging his
men on. He started toward two
other wounded men who were crying
for water-and a bullet got him.
Mason came from Toledo, Ohio.
| With utter disregard for his per
sonal safety, the record says, Private
Frank Arkman, Company L. 305th
Infantry, and three soldiers advanced
in the face of heavy machine gun fire
and grenades and brought back Ave
seriously wounded men to a first aid
station. Later he was killed Ark
man enlisted from Bellingham,
MINI, and had no known relative.
But we1l let the brief War De-
partment record. itself, tell you the
story of Sergt Carl G. Carter, Com
pany A, 7th Infantry. Fresno, Cal,
who went west" in Belleau Wood on
June 81. 1918, because it couldn't
say more even if volumes were add
ed. You'll find this in the citation
of w. d. General Orders No. 10,
dated March 20, 1920
Sergeant Carter fearlessly led his
platoon in an attack until shot down
by machine gun bullet, after which
he arose to his feet and urged his
men onward and then plunged for
ward, dead.
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