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Chilean wine in a place on the South
Pacific thinking of those days and
those men. ..
There is no sight in all the pageant
OF war like young. trained men going
70 battle. The columns look solid and
husinesslike. Each battalion IS an
entity, 1000 men of one purpose.
They go on like river that flows
very deep and strong. Uniforms are
drab these days. but there are points
Of light on the helmets and the
bayonets, and light in the quick.
steady ewes and the brown young
faces. greatly daring. There is no
sinEing-veterans know. and they do
not sing muCh-and there is no eN-
element at ALL they are schooled
craftsmen. going up To impose their
will with the tools of their trade, on
another lot Of fellows. and there Is
nothing 10 make a fuss about.
Battles are not Saluhrious places,
and every file knows that great
MANY more are going in than VIII
come out again--hut that is along
with the job. And they have no illu-
Eions about the job.
There is nothing particularly Siori-
ous apout sweaty fellows. laden with
killing tools. going along 10 fight.
kreat deal more than 2S.00o individ-
Mals mustered into division. All
that is behind those men is in that
column too: the old battles. long for
gotten. that secured our nation
Brandywine and Trenton and York
town. San Jacinto and Chapultepec.
Gettysburg. Chickamauga, Antietam
FL Caney: scores of skirmishes
nearly every year--in which a man
can be killed as dead as ever a chap
was in the Argonne; traditions of
things endured and things accom-
plished. such as. regiments hand
down forever; and the faith of men
and the love of women: and that alb
etract thing called patriotism. which
] never heard combat soldiers men,
tion-all this passes into the for
ward zone. to the point OF contact.
where war is grit with horrors. And
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we'd like to chip in and buy her

we'd like to chip in and buy her
we We're goin' To-"
II see. sir. I see. You were go
ing to kill this COW, the property of
some worthy French family. You
will bear in mind. lieutenant. that
we are In France to protect the
lives and property Of our allies from
the Germans. Release that animal
at once. Your rations will be dis
on" The colonel departed, and
four or five us crashed into little
wood 200 yards up the road. There
were more shells in the same place.
Hi, Brother Boche must think
there's battery over there!-' We'll,
there amt The Marines sat down
in the wheat and observed the COW.
abandoned Z by vanished French
family.
II was a quartermaster sergeant
once, sir" said the platoon sergeant
dreamily. II remember Just what
the cuts of beef are. There'd be
fine sirloin on that cow.critter'
now. Mr. Ashby (another flight
of IT'S burst in the wood If we was
to take that COW over an tie her IN
that brush--she oughten to be out
here in the open, anyway-might
draw lire oIiCii A1t'tS ~ $500
anything, you know, sir--
Sergeant, you heard what the
colonel said. But if you think she d
be safer-I'd suggest volunteers.
And by the way. sergeant, l want a
piece Of tenderloin - the T-bone
part"
The cow was duly secured in the
wood. men risking their lives thereby
The Boche shelled methodically for
two hours. and the Marines were re-
duced to a fearful state of nerves
rs that heifer gonna live forever"
Two or three kilometers away fight
ing was going on. The lieutenant,
with his glass, picked up far, running
figures on the slope Of a hill. You
caught a flicker, points Of light on
the gray-green felds--bayonets. Dc
casional wounded F'renchmen wan
dered back, weary. bearded men, very
dirty. They looked with dull eyes at
the Americans-"Tres mauvais, la
bas, Beaucoup Boche. la The
Marines were not especially inter
ested. Their regiment had been
year in France. training. Now they,
too, were dirty and tired and very huns
cry. The war would get along {.
it always had.
A week ago, Memorial day. there
had been no drills. The I'd Division.
up from a tour in the quiet Verdun
trenches. rested pleasantly around
Bourmont. Rumors of an attack by
the 1st Division. at Cantigpy. filtered
in. Cantigny was a town up toward
Montdidier. Notions of geography
were the vaguest-but it was in the
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were going In tomorrow. The
men thought lazily on events and
lounged in the wheat and watched
that clump of trees-and at last an
agonized below came on the echo of
a bursting she'll "Well-shes
stopped one. Thought she musta dug
in Lets go get tt"
Presently there was lots of steak
and later a bitter lesson was repeat
green wood, where the Boche can see
the smoke. But everybody lay down
on full bellies. Before dark the last
French were falling back. Some time
during the night brigade sent battle
orders to the list Battalion Of the 5th
Marines, and at dawn they were in a
wood near Champillon. - Nearly every
man had steaks in his mess pan and
there was hope for cooking them for
breakfast. Instead. -.
r
THE platoons came out of the
woods as dawn was getting gray.
The light was strong when they adj
vanced into the open wheat. now all
starred with dewy peoples. red as
blood To the east the sun appeared
immensely red and round. hand
breadth above the horizon: a German
shell burst black across the face of 1t.
Just to the left of the line. Men
turned their heads to see and many
there looked no more upon the sun
forever. Boys. it's A fine. clear
mornin'. Guess we get chow after we
get done molestin' these here Heinies,
hey?" One old non-com-was it Jerry
Finnegan Of the 49th?-had out a can
Of salmon. boarded somehow against
hard times. He haggled 1t open with
his bayonet. and went forward so,
eating chunks of goldfish from the
point of that wicked knife. Two hours
later Sergt. Jerry Finnegan lay dead
across a MiXim gun with his bayonet
in the body of the gunner.
1t was beautiful deployment, lines
all dressed and guiding true. Such
matters were Of deep concern to this
outfit. The day was without cloud,
promising heat later. but now 1t was
pleasant in the wheat, and the woods
around looked blue and cool.
Across this wheat field there were
more woods. and in the edge OF these
woods the old Boche, lots of him, In
fantry and machine guns. Surely he
had seen the platoons forming a few
hundred yards await rs possible
that he did not believe his eyes. He
let them come close before he opened
fire. The American fighting man has
his failings. He is prone to many re-
grettable errors. But the sagacious
enemy will never let him get close
enough to see whom he is attacking.
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back. He got to his feet with DELHI
Grafton, laid the gun across the wood
pile and sighted three Boche
with very red faces; their eyes look
ed pale under their deep helmets.
. He gave them the whole clip.
and they appeared to wilt Then he
came away from there. Later he was
i'm the little run at the foot of the
hill with three men, all wounded. He
never knew how he got there. 1t just
happened.
Later in the day the lieutenant was
back on the pine crested hill. now
identified as Hill 142. Capt. Hamil-
ton was there. one or two other off,
GERS and a handful of the 49th ana
67th Companies; a semblance of a
line was organized From the direc-
ton of Torcy counter-attack devels
oped; the Boche was filtering clever
ly and forming somewhere on the
Torcy road, In cover. The marines
were prone, sings adjusted, killing
him. IT'S a quarter-point right
windage@" Nav! not a breath of
air! Use Zero"
A file Of sweating soldiers, bur.
dened with picks and shovels in ad-
dition to bandoleers and combat
gear, came trotting from the right
A second lieutenant, reddish.
rough-looking youngster, dumped
up and saluted. You in charge
here?" he said to the marine officer.
I'm Lieutenant Wythe of the I'd
Engineers, with a detachment I'm
to report to you for orders" well
captains right up yonder-how
many men you got?" twenty-five.
six" Fine! That makes thirty
six of us, includin' me-just flop
right here, and We'll hold this line.
Orders are to dig in here-but that
can wait--see yonder-?"
Those engineers. their packs
went one way and their tools an
other, and they cast themselves
down happily. What range, buddy?
-usin' any windage-?" A hairy
non-com got into his sling and laid
out a little pile Of clips. There
was always good feeling between
the marines of the I'd Division and
the Regular Army units that formed
It., but the marines and the I'd En-
gineers-"Say, if / ever get a drink,
I'd Engineer can have half Of 1t!
Boy, they dig trenches and mend
roads all night, and they fight all
day. An when US guys get all
killed off, they just come up an
take over the war; They's no bet
ter folks anywhere than the en-
gineers.
tCopyriEht 1e2Al
CONTINUED in Next Sundays starr
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yards. face down on their rifles.
But they had done their job. The
men in the wheat were close enough
to use the split interval in
the firing. They got in, cruising and
stabbing.
Meanwhile, to the left. a little
group of men lay in the wheat un
der the very muzzle of gun that
clipped the stalks around their ears
and riddled their combat packs
firing high by a matter of inches
and the mercy of God. A man can
stand just so much of that. Life
presently ceases to be desirable; the
only desirable thing is to kill that
gunner, kill him with your hands.
One of them, corporal named Geer,
said: Let's get him." And they
got him. One fellow seized the. spit
ting muzzle and appended it on the
gunner; he lost a hand in the mat
ter. Bayonets flashed in, and rifle
butt rose and fell. The battle tore
through the coppice.
The machine Sunners were brave
men, and many of the Prussian in
fantry were brave men. and they died.
A few streamed back through the
brush. and hunters and hunted burst
in a frantic medley on the open at
the crest of the hill. -
Impartial machine guns, down the
hill to the left, took toll of both
Presently the remnants of the as
sault companies were painting in the
trees on the edge of the hill. 1t was
the objective of the attack, but dis
lance had ceased to have any mean
ing, time was not. and the country
was full of square patches OF
woods. In the valley below were
more Germans, and on the next hill.
Most of the officers were down, and
all hands went on.
THEY went down the brushy slope.
across little, run, across road.
where two heavy Maxims were
caught sitting. and mopped up and
UP the next long, smooth slope.
Some marines branched off down
that road and went into the town
of Torcy. There was fighting In
Torcy, and a French avion reported
Americans in it. but they never came
out again . a handful of impu-
dent fellows against a battalion of
Sturn -truppen. Then the
men who mounted the slope found
themselves in a cleared area, full of
orderly French woodpiles. and ap-
parently there was a machine gun to
every woodpile Jerry Finnegan
died here, sprawled across one of
them. Lieutenant Somers died here.
One lieutenant found himself behind
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CHAPTER I.
Attack.

IN the fields near Marigny, Marines
of the 1st Battalion of the 5th
found an amiable COW. There had
been nothing in the way of rations
that day; there were no prospects.
All hands took thought and desig-
mated robust Polish corporal as
executioner. He claimed to have
been butcher in former existence.
He was leading the COW decently
away from the road when a long
gray car doomed up. halted with the
touch of swank that Headquarters
chauffeurs always affect. and dis
gorged A very angry colonel.
Lieutenant. what are you doing
there he yelled.
sir. you see. the men haven't
had anything to eat, and thought.
sir-we found this COW wanderin'
arcund-we couldn't ind any. owner
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Illustrations by Capt John w. Thomason Jr u S. NJ c.

Common Men Endure These Horrors
Despite Reasonable Promptings of Fear,
and in This, | Think. Is Glory" Declares
Officer Who Records the Thrilling
Story-How the Fate of an lnoHensive
Cow Was Eagerly Awaited by Hungry
Fighters on the Battle Line-Heroic
Advances in the Face of Death by Ma
chine Gun Seen in Vivid Account of
One Who Was Participant.
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How the Navy Offered Brigade of Ma
rines for Service in France in 1917, as
Trained Soldiers in the United States
We're at a Premium-Story of the
Early Advance Against German Lines
When Prestige Of American Arms Was
at Stake-Patriotic Devotion to Coun-
try Under Whitening Fire Revealed
Daring Which Stirred Enthusiasm of
the World.
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A." EVEN years after the war
across the world from France.
| met ma jor Of the American
~ general staff who was on the
Paris Metz road that last
week in May. 1918. and saw the boys
going in. They looked fine. coming
In there" he said. Tail fellows.
healthy and fit-they looked hard
and competent. We watched YOU
going in. through those little tired
Frenchmen. and we all felt better
We knew something was going to
ia ppen--" and we were silent, over
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Introduction.

This story is a cross section Of the
Edr. As Capt. Thomson is marine
officer, naturally the actual names,
dates and places mentioned UiH bear
definite relation to marine activities
IN France; there is no intention, hoW-
erer. to OrerShddoW the rest Of the
fighting American units. This story
Is marine story, because the author
Is only familiar iCiLh the com bat er-
perienceS Of his Otcn men--but erery
dough boz uhO sac service in the trdr
U1H recognize these experiences aud
encounters as similar to his oUn
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FINANCIAL NEWS


I Commodity markets were reaction
airy. Active wheat futures showed
| moderate recessions after an early dis
| play of strength. Cotton showed little
| change in quiet trading. Raw sugar
| futures were one to five points net
| lower, and coffee futures showed de-
clines of five to "a points.
Call money renewed at Il per cent.
| advanced to and thence to 81, closing
at the top. The rise was generally at
| tributed to the heavy calling of loans
| by banks, estimated as high as $685.
| 900, 900 in connection with first of the
| month requirements.
Foreign exchanges moved within
narrow and irregular limits. Demand
sterling ruled around $4.S6a and ca
bles eased to s4.S6a after the opening
displays or strength. French francs
! were slightly lower around AIS cents.
| Renewed heaviness developed in Polish
zloty, which dropped 10 points to 1890
cents.
Tighter money conditions imposed
some restraint on bond trading today,
but failed to hamper United States
or foreign government obligations,
the strength of which gave the mar
ket firm appearance. Profit taking
succeeded the recent speculative OPP
erations in traction and oil company
liens, but fresh buying developed for
other public utilities, industrials and
rails.
Virtually all of the United States
government bonds duplicated or
eclipsed their previous high records
for 1926. Buying of these issues re-
flected the growing tendency of in
situations to build UP their holdings
of high-grade securities, several OF
which sold at New York prices. Co
incident with Sterlings approach to
par, both the United Kingdom Ia
percent issues rose to the highest
levels of the year. as did German
Is and Czecho- Sloyakian Z LIS.
Realizing sales halted the advance
in local traction liens, which was the
feature of last weeks trading. Most
of these gains were materially re-
duced today, and losses of j to 2
points also were recorded by Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railroad Company,
Seaboard adjustment IS, Sinclair Oil
IS and New York. Westchester &
Boston LIS.
AS buying interest in recent favor
ties waned, the attention of investors
was turned to issues which had been
neglected Southern Railway 1-2s.
New Haven convertible 6s and Erie
General As were active in the rail
group and other bonds (which Joined
in the upward movement included
New England Telephone 5s, Bell
Telephone of Pennsylvania 5s, Vir-
ginia Carolina issues, Eastern Cuba
Sugar 1-2s, South Porto Rico
Sugar Is, Dold Packing 6s and Do
minion Iron and Steel SIS.
The ease with which the invest
ment market absorbed the heaviest
volume of January financing in his
tory has led bankers to prepare for
several other large flotations New
York City is expected to invite bid
soon on a $75,000,000 bond issue 70
retire corporate stock. butt bankers
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NEW YORK MARKET
FEATURES Of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks

new York, Feb. 1.-(By the Asso-
sated sPress)-Higher call money
.s,ss apparently inspired sufficient
selling in today's stock market to
sasck the rising tide of prices. Clos
.as quotations disclosed considerable
a.esularity, both the rail and indus
uaal averages losing ground although
~senl specialties were marked up
s ..s 70 nearly IL points. The reduce
Sa N The volume Of trading was at
nipated in some quarters to the dis
. tva,.lon on the part of many large
Ssus1s to await the publication of
we akures Of brokers' loans before ex-
"saing their commitments.
wv, TWO OF the most interesting devel-
~ OF the day were the approach
sserhhg exchange to within lie of
s,s sent OF gold parity, the highest rate
M s.nce the early days of the war, and
MIA suvance Of 25 cents a barrel in
., .rs crude prices. but neither
I'eo any influence on stock prices.
.h. matter of fact, most Of the oil
sSn. lost ground. indicating that the
nance nance had been widely discounted.
a.. ponds, however, were firm, new
-, .secords being established by sew
IL ISSUES including United Kingdom
,,s. ua. OF the standard industrials lost
n.t I a U. S. Steel common showed a
nsd oss OF IL at 1924, Baldwin drop
can S%eariy a point to 1875 and Ameri-
selnnA an closed lower at 2S74 after
a no,e as high as 291. Net losses Of
sucs s or more also were recorded by
representative rails as New York
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Central, Rock Island, Reading and
Union Pacific, and Chesapeake & Ohio
dropped over three points to 1888.
Food specialties again attracted
widespread speculative attention be-
cause of the publicity given to reports
of huge combines in that field. South
Porto Rican Sugar scared over IL
points to a record high at 146, closing
within a point of the top. Great West
ern Sugar closed 80 higher at 1923, and
net gains of point or more were re-
corded by Postom Cereal, California
Packing, Ward Baking B and White
Rock.
Motors enjoyed temporary outburst
of strength on buying influenced by
reports that January car sales had ex-
ceeded expectations. General Motors
was run up to 1923, the highest price
reached this year, and then sagged to
1914, where 1t was up IL on the day.
Hudson closed fractionally lower at
III after having touched 1873. Nash
Motors was run up from 534 to SAB
on relatively few sales.
Other specialties for which there
was a good demand included Brooklyn
Edison, Dupont, Famous Players,
American Brake Shoe & Foundry, Con-
tinental Can, Gold Dust, Peoples Gas
and Twin City Rapid Transit.
Otto Eisenlohr, which was listed
last week, was traded in for the first
time and an orderly market developed
between 1913 and 20f.
Passing Of the Pacific Mills dividend
for the first time since 1888 probably
inspired selling OF American Wooden,
which closed IL lower at 3Sa. Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining. Beechnut
Packing. Central Leather, Fox Film A,
National Biscuit, Remington Typewrit-
err and woolworth also showed pro-
nounced weakness.
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lambs out of second hands 1880 q 1875
desirable, yearling wether6so lS.ooQ
1925; bulk fat ewes S.00Q9.00.
New York. Produce Market
New York, Feb. LAP.

New York, Feb. 1.-(AP).
FLoUR-Quiet; spring patents and
hard winter stratghtS 9.1OQ9.50; soft
winter straights S.40@9.00.
WHEAT-Spot easier: No. dark
and rail 2.01s; No. 2 hard winter b
lake and rail 1884; No. 2 mixed durum
Dc O. 1'ssi; No Manitoba do in bond
CORN-Spot easy; No. 2 yellow f
track New York all rail 965: No. yell
oATs"spot barely steady; No. 2
PoRKZsteady: mess $3.50: family
80. 90 @42.00.
LARD-Easier: middle west $500
BUTTER-Firm: receipts s4s2;
do. extras, 90 score. 46a@47; do firsts,
IS to 81 score, 44@46: packing stock
current make No. 2 81.
EGGS-Irregular; receipts 1894;
fresh gathered extras 36A@3S: do. ex-
d35.: do. storage 26@2S; fresh gath
onds s and poorer re@ S5ass; hearty hem
merry whites closely selected extras 43
a a.; nearby and nearby hennery
whites fi l,,, to average az extras ss@42;
merry brown extras Al GA: Pacific coast
whites extras 41aQ42; do. frsts to ex-
ira f1rsts 1904.
POTATOES-DulI: New York bulk
per 1870 pounds 7.25@7.65; Long Island
do. 800: Maine do. S.25 @S.50.
CABBAGES-Dull; New York white
per ton 43.00@5O.00: red unquoted:
Florida per IL bushel hamper ALSO
1925.
While there was no change in the
raw sugar market today. offerings
were more liberal with only a light de-
mand. The only sale reported was
5000 bags of Cuban for late February
shipment at APT duty paid.
Price changes in raw sugar futures
were narrow, but the understone was
q little reactionary owing to the in
creased offerings in the spot market.
Prices declined one to two points under
commission house liquidation but rail-
lied partially on covering and closed
unchanged to one points net lower.
March closed 2.46. May 2.5S. July 2.69,
September 2.79. December 2.S4.
The refined sugar market was I'M
changed at $40 to $50 for fine granu-
lated, with good Withdrawals but not
much new business reported.
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Chicago Produce Market
ByBeck
(By the Associated Press)

NHICdkO, req. i.
Surprise that the United States WIS.,
ible supply of wheat showed a decrease
of only $4,000 bushels in the last
week gave a jolt today to friends of
higher prices. Largely as result the
wheat market closed unsettled, 30 70
&c net lower, May (new) 1.75a to 1.75A
and July 1921 to 1853, with corn &c to
5c down, oats gGsc to &c off, and pro-
visions varying from 10c decline to
rise Of &c.
1t has rather generally been expect
ed that the wheat total in the domes-
would show a much larger reduction
than proved to be the case. This error
was due to unofficial reports which in
dictated a decrease of about 100000
bushels in the stock at Buffalo, but
the reports in question concerned Ca
madam wheat as we'll as United States
grain. When the size of the actual de-
crease of the United States total was
announced as being less than hanf OF
what was looked for early buyers made
suddenly dropped. Notwithstanding
had risen as high as s1.7S bushel.
Aside from the effect on the mixup
over the size of the visible supply.
some selling of wheat grew out OF
current advices that arrivals of domes-
tic wheat in parts Of the. southwest
were Increasing and that demand for
both wheat and flour lacked vigor. On
the other hand, st. Louis mills report
ed larger -four business. Early In the
day, too. houses with eastern connec-
lions were active buyers here of future
deliveries of wheat and there were re-
ports indicating absence of any pres
sure Of Argentine offerings in Europe.
Some notice was also taken of a decid-
ed FULL in in the farm movement OF
Canadian wheat and Of frmness Of the
cash wheat trading basis In Minneap-
oils.
Corn and oats were easy throughout
the day, Influenced by liberal receipts
of corn here--545 cars.
Packers selling of lard weakened
the provision market.