Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
us. BRINGING HOME
ARCHANGEL DEAD
Bodies of IS Doughboys to
Be Buried in Detroit
Next May.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LENINGRAD. Russia. october IA
Banked along the stone quay of the
placid Neva River opposite the grim
fortress of SITS Peter and Paul, await
ing transportation to their native soil,
Michigan, are the bodies of "a I'M
identified American soldiers who died OF
wounds or disease in the Archangel
campaign of l9l8-l9l9.
In their unadorned metallic collins
these nameleSs soldier dead form part
of the S6 American doughboys whose
bodies have Just been retrieved from
their bleak places in the frozen North
by the Joint efforts of the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars and the Polar Bear Asso-
citation, the last named being composed
of 4,477 American officers and soldiers
who fought in the original Archangel
campaign.
Relatives of these anonymous heroes,
who are called "Detroits own" will be
given an opportunity to do homage TO
the memory of "a unidentified at great
funeral in Detroit to be held next May.
Soviet Places Guards.
Eager to render the traditional honors,
the Soviet government placed Red Army
guards along the Neva quay and these,
with members of the American commits
sion are keeping a constant vigil. Within
a few days these long rows Of metal
collins containing 86 of Michigan's sons
will be en- route to Havre, where
United States battleship will convoy
them homeward with the highest honors
within the gift of the American Nation.
Of the 86 bodies recovered in scat
tered sectors of the Archangel front
and brought to Leningrad, 81 have
been definitely identified by members
of the American Graves Commission.
Twenty-four of these, whose names
follow, were found in local cemetery
in the Port of Archangel:
Second Lieut.. Marcus Y. Casey, Com
pany c; Harold Bayer, Company F;
Chester w. Berryhill, Company F; VIII
liam H. Busabalon, Company l.; Leo
N. Finnegan, Company B; Alfred w.
Fuller, Company K; John T. Hanley
Company L; Frank L. Hodgson, Com
pany M; Jesse C. Jackson, Headquar-
ters Company; Joseph Kalaska, Com
pany /; Andrusci Kiecz, Company G;
Herbert Kistler, Company I; Clarence
A. Malm, Company G; Angus Mac
Donald, Company E; Frank j. Mueller.
Company e. Matti I. Meimi, Company
M: Arthur Num-, Company M; Ray
mond A. O'Brien, Headquarters Com
pany: Sylvester Tatrizycki, 337th AM
hu'ance Corps; j. B. Tits, Company G;
John E. Shaughnessy, Headquarters
Company; William G.. Teggef, Head
quarters Company; William L. Wads-
worth, Company I, and Michael Zlot-
cha. Company E.
Five of Fifteen Identified.
The bodies of Is soldiers, all from
Company A, were recovered from the
Shenkhurst district of the Dvina River,
but only of these were positively
identified, the other 10 having been
buried in common grave. The S
were:
First Lieut.. F. w. Cuff, First Lieut..
Ralph e. Powers, Pvt. Carl G. Berger,
Giuseppi d'Amici and William j. Le-
mann.
Nine unidentified soldiers found In
Che common grave are believed to be-:
Sergt. Yates K. Rogers, Corpl. Milton
z. Gbttschalk, Corpl. August K. Ritchie,
Pvts. Elmer B. Cole, Sebastian Lemcione,
Ralph M. Patrick, Frank w. Briggs,
George j. Smith and Victor Stier.
The tenth body was clad in an Amer
lean uniform. but it was not possible
to identify 1t.
From the Caska district on the