The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-26

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 About the Fighting o0th)
 Throughout the World War, the German Kaiser always sent a greet ing card to his enemy, King George V of England, on his birthday and Christmas The Kaiser used to watch the progress of the World War from a perch in a tree. He had . winding stairway built around the tree trunk and he used to climh 1t and look through strong tele- scopes that had a range of more than ten miles 7. The last man killed in the World War was a photographer. When the siren sounded announcing the Armistice, Lieutenant Ralph Estep, who was with the A. E. Els photographic di- vision, jumped out of the trenches and snapped a phoso of the battle field. A German soldier who hadn't heard about the Armistice shot him!
 One of the outstanding heroes of the Fighting 60th, which was strictly an Irish-C Catholic regiment, was Sergeant Abe Blaustein, a Jew ish lad. Gle won the Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Ser vice Medal0 !. When war was declared with Germany, the Fight ing 69th sent their trucks around New York's streets with placards saying, Don't join the 69th unless you want to be among the first to 50 to France" :. The tests for the Fighting 69th were SO rigid that volunteers were even rejected fot not having clean skin! '. An- other big hero of the famous regi- lnent was Captain Henry A. Boots whose father and three brothers were in the German army! At the Battle of the Ourcq River, piece of shrapjnel went through Boots chest, just missing his heart, 1t was later learned that two of his brothers were with the Germans at the Battle of the Ourcq, in which he was younded.
 The only branch of the fighting forces during the World War that traded courtesies with the enemy was the aviation service. When an aviator was killed, it was cus- tomary for the enemy to fly over and drop a note to his comrades telling where he was buried
 When the Army of Occupation went into Coblenz, the doughboys discoy- cred that soap was more valuable than money. (They were able to trade a bar of soap for a bottle of champagne) The. American Way: Father Duffy, chaplain ot the Fighting 69th, officiated at the services held at Quentin RooseveltS grave. Father Duffy, who was Catholic, said the Protestant prayet for Quentin, whose entire family were members of the Dutch Re- formed Church. X.
 When the war broke out, Musso- lini,g who was editor of the official Socialist newspaper in Italy, an. nounced. s"Our neutrality must be absolute. When French interests offered him money to try to change Italy's attitude toward the war. Mussolini started to cl9nor so vio- Ter tly for war against the Germans that he was tossed out of the party and the editorship When the D., S. entered the World War;. ar contemplating salesman induced ths governments purchasing agents k buy twelve dozen 48-incf wrenches
 After the wrenches were bought and paid for, it was discovered that there was only one nut (which was specially inade} in the U. s. that the wrenches would fit That nut was attached to the turbines at Mi agera Falls! Y. When Woodrow Wilson declared war against Ger many, he said that it wasn't war against the German people, but against the German king. (Does that sound familiar?)
 {. Colonel Henry T. Reilly, who had been a war correspondent in China for the Chicago Tribune, was in Command of the 149th Artillery oi illinois during the World War
 Serving under him as a lieutenant was Joseph Medill Patterson. part owner of the Chicago Tribune (Which is probably the only case osl record of reporter being in a spot to give orders to his publisherD
 Captain Eddie Rickenbacker America,s outstanding World War ace, orioina]ly went to France as Gen. Pershing's chauffeur. and Pershing fired him! The Al lies during the World War, trying to think up nasty name for the German soldiers, called them Huns not knowing that the Kaiser him. self described them as Huns .a.
 When the Allies refused to pay Neil war debts to the U. S.. Abe Mar. tins classic comment was. "All wt got out of the war was outl"
 The U. s. had 2.S4S millionaires before the World War, and 5.52t