Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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YANKS RESTING AFTER THE ST., MIHIEL VICTORY Perfect Red Cross Md Mark Made by Two Pieces — of Shrapnel ffpom “Whizz Bang.” -, 'Vx, Put on Liquid Diet Because of Dan- He Steals Food From "Joy Cart"—His Good Cheer Keeps Patients in Best of Humor. iV>ycn»X>a-...’ W«ratrrn Newajyiper linlon entrenched on a hill slope that over looked a valley of wheat fields beyond fwhtch the Germans were hiding In the woods of another slope. Ileill and his men had managed to cross the valley by running short distances at ton apeed and then dropping for a breath ing apace Into the wheat. Just its he ^Started up the slope two bullets hit him. one in the thigh, the other below thfcknee of hi ® wcitrra N»wtp«p*r Union tions there would be discarded In fn vor of an American “ace." N'o preju duke or count can huve certain accom laudations, that is. If any remain after life American soldiers have been serv- OM. As for the.dancing floor and soft- drink “bar," nonet hut Yankees need apply, Aix was designated as the rest and recreation center for the American s left leg, and as he fell a third -struck the* big muscle la- hU right forearm, so completely paralyzing qunllflcu'tioh tt that he had to jerk his, title loose .organization ■with his left j Cou ■\ Interested In “Eats.” V In the'Ml ~ Helll remembers rolling over Into a dollar easim shell hole, where, he lay; for hours be- Ming- place ;8s2 Yank engineers greeted in Siberia TURKISH DEFENSE. METHODS IN PALESTINE MOUNTAINEER LEARNS ' OF WAR. GLAD TO GO (own. Pa.—“Hell, f -the war?” asked Jn< if ter n moment of s frpdt ii the old' sfi • • iron. I’m d glacTT eame to • town." Harris, ft* Tuotmtaim ei * wWimricThg. his first visit ST t"fio~ • -AC PAGf TWO \ftz < z NAKNWELL 8KNTINZL, BA&NWKLL. SOUTH CAROLINA Paris.—All life long Private Jean Fouman of New York city will carry a cross on his back ns a sonvenir of the great war. The wound that'has marked him Is so unusual that he ldl known at American Military Hospital No. 1, where he Is now convalescing, as the “Red Cross Man," m.d doctors, nurses and patients have watched ids case with unusual Interest. Fournan Is a member of one of the American regiments recently engaged In the fighting near Solssons and Flames. He has been In France f^ince last October and went through "sev eral kinds of hell” on several fronts without ft scratch: And then, one morning a short time ago, just ns hi* company went over the top heuijed for a Roche machine gun nest, a “whizz bang” knocked ldin out. lie had a momentary stinging sensation and Ihen awoke to find himself on an American- sanitary' train, from which - he was taken by ambulance to the hos pital. When he was carried to the operat ing room the surgeon looked him ove r and then called the other doctors to come and look. The boy hud been hit by two pieces of shrupnel, one of which had gone down his hack so close to his spine thnt only a miracle saved him from paralysis. The other lmd crossed at right angles, leaving the mark of a perfect cross on his hack. Foumati has those pieces of shrnpnel In his Red Cross treasure bag. lie aays they’re “lucky pieces” because they “only left a scur.” Thoroughly Americanized. When Private . Fouruan is well enough to he discharged from the hos pital he means to spend several days la the south of France, where he was born. Rut after the war Is over, lie is going back to New York city to bis adopted country, where he has lived for 15 years. He Is so thoroughly Americanized tluit he prefers fighting with American troops, with whom he trained at Camp Syracuse. Just by chance the American..,! 0 the next bed to Fdurnan Is of German parentage. .“Frank Heill, Columbus, ©„" rends the card at the bead of his bed. and the corporal admits that his name is ns German ns it sounds. An uncle Who lives in Texas was so pro-Germnn thnt he disowned Helll when he enlisted for service. Helll felt that he had to live down Ids name, and so It was that he earned his cor poral’s chevrons shortly after he had gone Into truinlng.. He wears two service stripes now, and he boasts that It took three machine gun gullets to knock him out the day he whs wounded. fore / a patrol of Roche ; prisoners, guarded by an American sergeant, carrle by and found him lying there. Ho was carried into a field hospital* and later sent fnto Hospital’ No. t. The leg fwounds are healjng rapidly, but the right forearm Is still partially paralyzed. , . , “But what’s an arm as long na rdf getting, plenty to eat” says Corporal HellI. “There were three days durlng the fighting up at Che' front' s/hen I missed out on rations, and another 24 hours that' I was lying out on the field. Guess I never will get enough to make up for missing all those meuls. But they do sure treat us fine here. Plen ty of good food, a good looking nurse and a Red Cross chaplain that corner around every day with cigarettes.” “All right for you to talk,” * grum bles Webb La Polnte of Sheboygan, Wis., from another bed, “hut what do you think about me? Laid up here like an Invalid and I’ve never gotten a crack at n Boche.” * ‘ , La Polnte Is In a machine gun com pany oT one of the divisions thnt dis tinguished Itself In the fighting near Gompelgne. He lmd Jpst started over the top early one'morning carrying the tripod of a gun when a “Soilp wagon” came along and knocked him down. enrt) appeared, the sergeant would | \ arise from his “death bed” nnd men; food while the backs of the nurses were turned. After a while the doc tors listened to his urgent request Tor “regular meals,” and cancelled the or- | der that he was to have liquid dTefj trending his stay In the hospital. >Ser- geant Kelly is still at ^he hospMaL, where he Is now working da a hospital orderly, He Is eating as much as they t will give him nnd whenever possible sneaking “extras,” which he hides be j neath bis pillow. Rlttow and the other men in ward 238 have developed real appetites from watching him eat und listening to bis Jokes. They know as well as does the sergeant that; - any chance ao- cident v rafly dislodge the bit of shrap nel that lies beneath his heart, but as long as he can shake his fist at death f§*i nnd'laugh at his troubles, they laugh > with him. He spins yarns by the hour of his experiences In the Philippines, on the Mexican border and In France, where he has served 12 months now. And when he runs out of breath, Rlt tow catches the halhnnd tells his story of service ns “liaison” messenger be tween French nnd American troops who took Fere-en-Tardenols. Took Wrong Turn. He trained n,t Camp Mills with an- »p» other group of men from New York city, coming tp Franco last October His company was sent to several dif ferent fronts in France, and by odd coincidence every time' that they were relieved the company which replaced them suffered heavy -oasuaiUcs-fjfrjP 1 ’ * 1 [■ - J - - i r •• /• r 1 r . *» . -i—r-C 1 These Yankee fighters, part of live forces that cleared out the St. Mihiej sqjlent, advanced so far beyond thei* jcified objective that they hud to be ordered tc wait until ..the rest of iheJr contingent came up. BRITISH AIRPLANE HOSPITAL BEHIND THE LINES He was Tilt In th^ knee nnd elbow and attacks, raids or bombardments. Final now he is In the hospital grumbling, not because he is done up,In yards of bandnges-and painful apparatus that holds his injured leg straight, but be cause it will be some time before he gets back ftront airain fur a “crack at a Roche." . David ftittow of New’ York city 1y enure Hie day when' they were re called from the Champagne front and sent In to support the division}.that had pressed .on beyond Chateau Thierry in the early days -of the'July offensive. The day he was wounded he had gone back and forth for lSHionrs between I *! French and rAmerienn field Ucadquar- j another convalescent of No. 1 who.en- p>rs, carrying Important messages. Ilf Joys the food and the Red Cross j | m( ] j„s t started oil' on another trig cigarettes. He had several days -on j u j l<>ri n chance turn to the right in- M tinned rations when he was brought stead of to the left, as he had been in from the field and was losing hi’*! going, put him in-the path of flying strength because lie refused to eat.' shrapnel thnt Wounded him in the left In the bed next him was a sergeant of thigh and below the knee. the regular army who had been brought In to die because n piece of shrapnelhad lodged so close, beneath his heart that an operation to remove It was Impossible. . Steals Food From ‘.‘Joy Cart.” The sergeant, rejoicing in the name of Kelly and coming from the town of St. Joseph, Mich., refused to accept the verdict that he must die and dine on liquid ratlins. Whenever the “Joy wagon” (as the boys call the; food “Oh, the leg’s sill right,” he sings out cheerfully. “But I sure would have fieert gone if It hadn’t been for the sergeant there. I couldn’t make myself eat when they, brought’ine here —nerves, the doctor said'. Then I used to watch the sergeant -sneaking out of bed when be whs supposed to t, ( lie dying ahd swiping food from the. Joy cart. It tickled me so to watch ’ him fjint I began to get hungry—anil h* France now I'm getting fat.” This British official photograph shows one of the repair «rations for damaged airplanes behind the British line- Titled Persons Yield to Yanks FOR AMERICAN PRISONERS IN GERMANY HER0 0F zeebrugge attack Princes Have to Get Off Dancing Floor Reserved for Our • __ Soldiers. FAMOUS CASINO RESERVED Aix Is Rest and Recreation Center for American Expeditionary. Forces and American Soldiers Come First There. By WALTER KELLOGG TOWERS. Alx-lea-Bains, France. — Princes, dukes, counts and other titled person- Hc was fighting jiear Soissons when have to yield place to the Ameri- he “got his.” His company had been 000 soldier In the famous casino of wealthy of Europe, but now Conducted by the American Y. M. C. A. for our soldiers, a tall, distinguished man In civilian garb wistfully \yatchod the doughboys caroming the Ivory balls. He wculd have liked to play u little billiards himself, but the doughboys from overseas had priority and* he was only a count, lie yens allowed the use of the casino, but only insofar as it did not interfere with the soldiers’ entertainment. Over on the dance floor a well-dress ed man nnd woman tried to participate 1n the merry maze where two hundred Yankees were Jostling one another cheerfully in-au effort not to miss their chance to dance with the thirty attrac tive girls wearing the Y. M. C. A. unb form. The couple not In uniform were' told tactfully but firmly that the danc ing floor was reserved fqr those In the uniform of the A. E. F., although the civilian dancers were known to be a prince and his consorts Passing through the swinging doors marked “Bar” one finds more bright faced American girls serving lemon ade, hot chocolate, cakes and cookies to the throng of enlisted men who line the rail. Here, too, the titled and dis tinguished men in “cits” are'denied ■tee: —7— — — •— Soak the Dukes. — The movies In the big hall are free to all and well attended. In thg qa- r slno’s big theater vaudeville Is pur veyed iifaWo scales of prices. In the front fow recently *a duke sat next to an American sergeant. Tire duke paid ten francs for his seat, the, ‘sergeant paid two francs. It wns five times,as advantageous to be tin American sol dier ns to be a duke. The Y. M. C. A. P-*11 winged that. - : i| At the Hotel de 1'EurQpe the boni- v|f Face “Daddy” Seder, who has vyhk- . coined royalty in other years, recently F„|L assigned three Yankee doughboys to itro- room onOoi—used by Queen Vic- | torin. lie had turned away a titled Englishman and Ids lady who doubt- { less would have given* much for the '■'queen's -room, or'any room. But the- first gentlemen.of Europe have to give way to the first gentlemen of An-t, licm* 1 he “Y” arranged that. And the Yan kee boys have proverv themselves gen-^ .v , i \ * tlemcn. ‘ t • • ■ f— I.leul. IT7T. O. Walker of tfie roya’ navy; who was the hero of the famous British tuivST attack on /eefirugg< Lieutenant Walker, who was an offi cer of H. M. S. Vindictive, had his arm blown off during the landing of the British sailors ami marines ou the mole. He is expected in this country shortly to fill an appointment with the British bureau of information. The Coming of Spring. An adorable mystery, this coming of H the spring (flb not’ try to explain It K iway).. and wi*. woriiing- # id puF gar- ■'dens, are at the. heart' of it. Small wonder that we can hardly wait to be- ar-M.,*. in ,\Vw York, nU o**,. M »"- v poostsoor of mus paeka-ges for American prisoners in Germany are rccinTed rmd .surfed. K .' n “ ”’ <ir< ' V s at * ,,s Mlls,)U 1 . H - • ’ ’ \ j that Ti^ could enlarge his area and in crease his -facilities. Ills neighbors ! greenhouse and hotbeds,' and frames. '»« provided at«a_sinall viVst ”\v —t— —————■, -nj, . i ‘ if'-j ■’iriV—— r RiciHiJ for hastening ;»iy ijiatu A - wotidertul ovation wa’s exiemieil to »lit* American troops aud other allies ' + opon their arrival In Siberia. Here 4k shown the ruilroa4*station -in Hnrbtb < “ pcofuoely decorated upon the occasion of the arrival of the American engineer j * 1 fpur.years when file po lice learned that h^ had no reg- iNtratlon caul. Ifarrls was ii, J ducted Into sendee at once. • o • • •a j arid pits, do-.look tantallzingty desir- -ftiibtcJ-JBttt even th)> ^inTrlhgarden can rr flth the ' maturity ’of many things.. Indeed,' tlie garden It- ■self, if rightly furnished, will he found -" rckixly with its ufdy gifts. The Fi'chcIi sorrel, -Aready marred to, VRumex Scutatus, is among jTiKfir.si, fts leaves, md yet h^lif;gSfown, are iqeltLDgly ten der anil spicily tart, ne< diijg only the .nddilioii of oil an.d a“tVioughtX s of salt w. provide a suhol “lit to set befohs^the ’ ing." Why a kitLet Us say fore a . faithful gardener.—Elizubelh I-kldy Norris, in the House Beautiful. About 1 .*i,< K"1‘d.()t Kl jiUl timber Tins 4 »ci i d tenge reported t- h.\ tlio boy scouts ■t* npirq by t.tuid/nA: government ln-liien + " gun.stock mid ].;• boy seuut$L>'end the nice '’rvtlik- Timber for »l." ■ The, r< ports to the for est serviAe. wher**-i)»e information Is " compiled,, and then ^forwarded to the w f.^ j war department The government It- - photog. 1 upii ilUuu.itcs some iif the methods employed by the Turks . se ^. ^ buying walnut, but in their vain efforts to check Gen«*ral All’enby’s advance, in-Palestine. Sharp- rs< lP.^ s but the information terTUailu- * ened stakes w^wv <lrlveil into the ground and heldivd them were steel hoops, i f nc t° rer s working on governmo^it (;on*« ditches and barbed-wire entanglpments. . y ~ . irmcto. ■Vd '"’P.i