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I s Y.- M. C. A. mon fixed up duf 1 annist ice was signed, and it bei j op?n. Here in the dimly lighted -j given the boys to write home, ii j as boxing. It was even possibh from actual trerch duty. SOUTHERN AVIATOR OIOS FROM PRISON AND SWIMS RHINE Calls "Y" Work In German Prison Carrp "Life Saver," While Con fined At Villing;n. New York, Feb. ...--Lieutenant George Puryear, of Memphis, Tenn., an aviator, was one of a trio of hardy American adventurers who were suc cessful in a wild dash for liberty from the Vil.Mngen prison camp on October 6. Sixteen men made the attempt, but only Puryear, Lieutenant Harold Willis of Boston, and Naval Lieuten ant Isaacs of Portsmouth, Va., got away. Word has just been received at Y-. y.. C. A. headquarters here con cerning their almost hopeless esca pade. The nen brought back remarkable accounts of' Y. M. C. A. work even at Villingen. "The 'Y* sent us books of all kinds and even sporting goods." said Lieut. Puryear. "We played basketball and .volley ball incessantly-our space was too small for baseball and football. 1 tell you. those games were life savers to us, ind they kept us in fair physi cal condition." It is reported that Puryear and his comrades slipped out of the canvi through a tunnel under the wire. All but the three named were headed off before they reached the river Rhine, but the intrepid trio swam the river & terrible feat in itself-and mad-. their way Vito H oil:', nd. Doughboys "Cleaned Pockets" for Home: Folks, When Se'urn From Fight Was Uncertain. Y. M. C. A. Has Delivered Million.-, ?f Dollars For /imex. Paris. Feb. ...-The steady unsel fishness of the American soldier, fhown by the way he "cleaned his pockets' of money before going inte action, to be sent home if he didn't come bick, is told byvW. J. Baker ol Portchester. N. Y., who served ?lever months as a V. M. C. A. worker witt the 2G h Dividion. His* particular charge was the third battalion of tb? 303rd infantry. He joined that uni' on the St. Mihiel front, went, wit I them to Chateau Thierry, and latei was in the famous St. Mihiel clean-uj and the drive before Verdun. "It wis just before tba. action be gun," said Baker, "that I saw the fines: example of the characteristic unselfish noss of the boys. They 'cleaned theil pockets' for the folks at home. The} knew they were going up against thc real thing, and they wanted all thei: money to go home in case they nevei came back. In all, I was entrostet with 8,(00.000 franos - upward? ol $1,500,0(0 - before that attack. W< handled such funds through the rfgu lar Y. M-C- A. service established fo: sending money from soldiers to rela tives in America." Baker lived with his battalion, an saw Uroly times, as the "Yank Division." as it was called, was 1 on the fighting front almost cor . (MUlZ. - Y lang le Dug-i r-outs with our men on the French fron same possible for the American veteran underground rooms, refreshments were idoor games were played and occasionall ? sometimes to put on a moving picture 9 IN SERVI Says lt Will Take Time For Public To Realize Value Of The Red Triangle Service To American Fighters. YA DeRoy R. Fonvilie. New York, Feb. . '..-So unusual was the service rendered by DeRoy R. Fon vilie of Burlington, N. C., in his Y. M. j ! C. A. work overseas that Major Gen eral Li. S. Upton bas written him a persona! letter in appreciation of hin efforts. Mr. Fcnville has returned to his home after ten months service with ibo Y. Mi C. ?. Ho was with the Fifth i and Sixth Marines and Ninth and Twen ty-third infantry at Chateau Thierry, Soissons and St. Mihiel. It was while he was in a trench waiting to serve ibe Marines when they "pushed off." thal a high explosive shell blew par ticles of rock into his eye, blinding it. The same shellfire killed James A. Bircliby, a Y. M. C. A. secretary from Pasadena, Cal., and wounded another Red Triangle worker. Thomas W. Wil but, Jr., of New Britain. Conn. The letter of appreciation that was sent to Mr. Fonvilie by General Upton rep.d as follows: "I have observed your work as Y. M. C. A. representative of ,' the Ninth infantry for some time and wish.to convey to you'my appreciation ol' the uncomplaining and soldier-like manner in which you?have undergone all without the glory that is attached to the profession of arms. The work which you have done had added great ly to the contentment of the men and thus to the efficiency of the com mand." "My experience gave me an apprec iation of American men and what they can go through," said Mr. Fonvilie. "Our division was a shock unit. It never went any way but forward. Our division alone captured 12,000 prison ers. Those men appreciated the Y. M. C. A. and understood the difficul ties it had to contend with in getting supplies up to the front. I have no complaint to make about losins the sight of one eye. that is war, but it bewilders me to have known what I do of the work of the 'V in F'-ance and then conic horn* io learn of the criticisms being circulated here. I believe that in duo time, the fu!i ap preciation of the Y. M. C. A.'s work for vickory will be general." "hit ( Overseas t in the bad old days before the s to take their recreation out in the served, and an opportunity waa j some more athletic games such show for the boys In their time off . io tmm I HELPEH?BGHBOY Corporal Irvisg Abrahams of New i'ork has just, returned from France. Just because the Y. M. C. A. men iverseas had gone out of their way o treat him well, he took the trouble ;o make bis way to the Headquarters Building of the National War Work "ouncil, Y. M. C. A., New York City, .:nd found some one on th? 9th floor at Headquarters to tell how much he .ap preciated the service of tte Red Trian Sil?. This ia just a part of what he said: "I returned from France on tho 27th of January. Have been wounded three times. Am feeling Ine, but the first time when we landed over in Franco in. A-n~u, i?17^ we'^^<u._.+j[,rt^ position up ort Chateau Thierry and"" .he Y. M. C. A. was right with us and brought up on the filing line choco late, cigarettes, and also pears, bis ?:\;A and done the best aid all he could just to pienso the boys. "And in August when wo drove the Germans back he came up under heavy shell tire and biough: us the .ame chocolate, cigarettes, and if the boys didn't have any money he would sive it. to us just the same. "And un on the Argoine Forest he wont under heavy shell fire and hrought up all the candy and choco late, and alf?o spoke to the boys*to send our money to OUT mothers and which we did, and also he told us to send our money home and he will do all he can for us, and also the boys of the Third Division is very well pleas ed of the Y. M. C. A. and also thank ihem ever so much; and also when we got relieved from the Argonne woods the Y. M. C. A. entertained us, gave us a grand time, and we thank the Y. M. C. A. with our full heart and we shall never forget them. "So I don't see why the fellows are coming back from France and kicking the Y. M. C. A., and I can speak to anybody and ask ihem why they are knocking the Y. M. C. k." Rod Triangle Man Tells Of Serving Ai Chateau TEiierry The Y. M. C. A. has been criticized because it was said that it had no one at the fighting in the region of Cha teau Thierry. Tho other day, Ernest C. Bardwell, a New York man, came back from France, broken in health because of his strenuous work in that region. Mr. Bardwell was one of a party of V. M. C. A. men who entered Cha teau Thierry vi?lage with supplies at 10 o'clock on the morning of July 22 and worked all day and far into the night serving the boys who were l>eat ing back the German counter-attacks. The last German prisoners, he said, were taken out of Chateau Thierry at S:30 o'clock on the same morning. THE Y. M. C. A. IN FAR EAST The work of the Y. M C. A. in Mace donia is rapidly extending over the newly-opened areas, and in the present state of flux heavy responsibilities de volve upon C. W. Bates, the secretary n charge at Sal?nica. ' Centres have -eon opened in Serbia at Vranja, iish, Monastir and other towns, and n the capital city, Belgrade, the Y. ?. C. A. is now established in a good milding. 'Percival "Whitley, son oi hf? deputy speaker of the English ' u-e of Commons, is developing the i-pcfation's worlt in Northern Bul v.'hile on Turkish soil Mr. How rd Bradley bas planted the Red ..r.r.gic in Constantinople itself. Is your farm help scarce and high? Why not grow the same size crop on smaller acreage WITH TRADE MARK R EGJSTE RED, OEDEE NOW AND AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. Norfolk, Va., Baltimore, Md., Toledo, 0., Tarboro, N.'/C. Charlotte, N. 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