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I a a a a a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918. Beauty in Worship an element too often neglected in our Churches--beauty of form, beauty of color, beauty of sound. Each has its contribution to make, each its message to deliver. All of these elements find a place in the new COMMUNITY EVENSONG 7:45 o'clock at St.

Ann's Church. The form of service, adapted from ancient liturgies, is simple but impressive. Altar mosaics and the processional flag afford a pleasant touch of color, while harp, violin, organ and vested choir provide the strong appeal which good music makes to all of us--a service of real spiritual uplift and inspiration. Perhaps this is the service you have been looking for. All seats are free.

ST. ANN'S CHURCH Rev. G. Ashton Oldham, Rector Clinton and Livingston Brooklyn Mrs. Wilson, who carried an American flag and a bouquet.

Mayor's Speech of Welcome. presenting to you the Breton population. The 01 to this port is the the a auspices of which your pacific citizens IS in the grand cause of inder Under the same auspices tot ou bring to the tormented soil of Eu. ope the comfort of your authorized voice in the debates which will calm our quarrels. "Mr.

President. upon this Breton soil our hearts are unanimous in saluting you as the messenger of justice and peace. Tomorrow it will be our entire nation which will acclaim: you and our whole people will thrill with enthusiasm over the eminent statesman who is the champion of their aspirations toward justice and liberty. "This old Breton city has the honor of first saluting 1011. In order to perpetuate this honor to our descendants, the Municipal Council has asked me present you all address expressing their yoyitt being privileged to include themselves before the illustrious Democrat who presides over the destinies of the great Republic of the United The Mayor then presented the engrossed address of the Council, which said.

in part: "Being the first to welcome the President of the United States to France, we respectfully salute the eminent statesman who so nobly personities the ideals of liberty and the rights of man. n. In order to perpetuate this event through the ages, we direct that these proceedings be deposited in the city archives. Long live President Wilson! Long live the champion on and apostle of international justice!" The President delivered a brief address, thanking Mayor Goude for the Breton welcome given him. He then drove through the cheering crowd, the frantic ovation continuing until he reached the railway station.

His progress from the river his train was amidst a vociferous welcome from the throngs in the streets. President Wilson Brest for Paris at 4 o'clock this afternoon. A singular feature of the welcome to the President was the suppressed interest the German prisoners at Brest. It was evident that their interest in the visitor was as keen as that of the huge crowd thronging the town, but the authorities kept these Germans in the background. Among those who route to the station were delegations of patriotic societies and other organizations and throngs of people from the neighboring localities, attired in gala Breton costumes.

The first to greet the President, besides the French ministerial representatives. were Andre Tardieu. French High Commissioner to the United States; the Mayor, of Brest, Ambassador Sharp, Col. M. House, Gen.

John J. Pershing and Gen. Tasker SHE Bliss. Mayor Goude of Brest, in greeting Wilson as he landed, said: P'resident-1 feel the deepest LIEGE INVITES VISIT FROM PRESIDENT WILSON Paris. December 13--The town of Liege, where the Germans were halted several days in their first rush into Paris, has sent a delegation to Paris to invite President Wilson to visit the historic place.

President Poincare, Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch will be invited to accompany President Wilson. SOLD BRANDY FROM CART Luigi Carraggio and Iisdor Arcoma were arrested today by Deputy United States Marshal Daly on charges of selling liquor without a license, falsely labeling brandy and having in their possession liquor on which no revenue stamp had been placed. Assistant District Attorney Peter J. McCabe will arraign them this afternoon before Federal Commissioner Felix Reifschneider Jr. Carraggio and Arcoma backed a wagon containing ten cases of stuff labeled "brandy" at the curb in front wine store on Myrtle near Washington last Saturday afternoon and began peddling the liquor $27 a case.

Detectives William Brosnan and William Roddy happened along and, perceiving that all was not wholly regular in the dispensing of the alcoholic fluid, placed the two vendors under arrest on suspicion. Chief Revenue Zone Officer William Muller investigated the the case and today brought about arrest of the men by the Federal authorities. MISS E. G. HILTON, BRIDE.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Evelyn Grace Hilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Hilton of 34 Rugby road, to Douglas W. Martin, U.

S. son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Walter Martin of 625 1.

18th st. The wedding took place on Thanksgiving Day, at Pier No. 3. Hoboken, the Rev. R.

H. McLaughlin, a chaplain in the United States Army, officiating. There were present at the ceremony Miss Beatrice Hanrahan, Wililam J. Reiss, Chaplain Hugh A. Dalton, Capt.

Hesse Crook. Miss Mildred Lawless, Miss Deborah Readin. John Edgar Ketron, U. S. A.

and James D. Williams, U. S. A. The bride's father' was formerly president of the Invincible Club, also of the 18th A.

D. Republican Club. and is a member of numerous other Flatbush organizations, Miss Hilton 'is an Erasmus girl and a graduate of Darlingaon Seminary, The bridegroom is stationed at Pelham Bay. FRENCH BANKER ARRESTED Paris, December 13--( Havas) ---M. Victoire, a French banker, has been arrested in Paris, according to the police, while preparing to flee to Argontina with 15.000 francs.

His liabilities are said to total 10,000,000 francs. TO INCREASE CONSULAR FORCE Washington, December 13-Increase of the consular force and appointment of 25 economic assistants 10 aid American industries in extending their after the war foreign trade has been urged by Acting Secretary of State Polk before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. CITY ABANDONS 27TH ST. PIER PLAN Shewan Sons to Enlarge Plant. "Too Much Gas in Estimate Dowling.

"We've heard too much gAS from members of the Board of Estimate and outsiders on the question of port improvements," said Borough President Dowling of Manhattan at today's meeting of the board, when a joint communication from various business organizations, including Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, urging speedy provision for increased wharfage facilities came up for consideration. "What I want to see," Mr. Dowling continued. "is oue big, comprehensive plan of all the new docks and piers needed. instead of the piecepropositions that have been submitted here.

Let the Dock Commissioner come forward with a real plan and he'll get my Borough President Van Name of Richmond declared that Commissioner Hubert had received no encouragement from the Board of Estimate in the matter of port improvements. "Where are those plans submitted! by the Dock Commissioner?" asked Borough President Riegelmann. haven't seen them. and I am very much interested in this question. Per- not a member of the Sinking Fund haps it is due to the fact that I am Commission." Controller Craig said he would like to make provements clear which his attitude been on port discarded deal as hostile.

have been charged with delaying the dock commissioners program. the carrying out of which meant the expenditure of about $200.000.000. The Public Service Commission wants $50.000,000 for the completion of the subways and the of Education wants an extra A $25.000.000. All these sums cannot be granted. I am not opposed 10 part improvements, but I want to see what am The Controller added that work on the proposed ash removal pier in Jamaica Bay was being held up pending a clearing up of the ash removal situation in Brooklyn.

"Instead of all this agitation about piors." said Mayor Hylan, "we should get together and decide what is the best thinng to be done under the circumstances. This is A big question and it can't all be settled in a day. All the newly elected members of this board are learning more every day about public improvements. We all know more about them than we did on January 1. I know I do." On recommendation of the Dock Commissioner the board decided to abandon proceedings for the tion of property between 27th and 28th South Brooklyn, in connection with the new pier that was tel have been built there.

Commissioner Hulbert informed the board that Shewan Sons were planning to extend their dry-docking plant so as to include the land 1 needed for the proposed new pier. He said this plant was of greater importance to the port of New York than the erection of pier in that particular spot. GERMANS INFORMED OF THE COMING WAR ON JULY 10, 1914 Continued from Page 1. interview with Prof. Stein, a German scholar, seeking to prove the probability of a combination of Japan and China against the United States.

He read a letter from Gustav Schweppendick. manager of the Hearst News Bureau in Berlin, dated July 27, 1916. saying he was forwarding two interviews written by Fox to Mr. Merrill, publisher of the New York American, and referring to Pox's prospective visit to Warsaw. Capt.

I Lester said Fox's article lauding efficiency of the German army were published in the Deutsches Journal, a Hearst publication in New York. article published by Fox, dated April 19. 1915, in the New York American, purporting to describe a night on the German firing line be- fore Ypres was described by Capt. Lester as "a fanciful account." Fox was not near Ypres when the article was written, Capt. Lester said.

He added that most of Fox's articles con- sisted of "imagination written on suggestions," and praised the courtesy of German officers, discipline of the men, the high state of efficiency and the invincibility of the German Army. An article published in the New York American April 29. 1915. was presented, giving Fox's account of a night on the Russian front with Field shal von Hindenburg. Captain Lester read into the record a list of names of American newspaper correspondents who were sent.

went on a tour through Germany in 1916. arranged by the German Government for the purpose of showing the physical conditions in that country to counteract published statements that it was on the verge of starvation. In this list Fox was referred to as the representative of Hearst newspapers in New York and Boston. Capt. Lester referred to Fox's assertion that his proposal of literary and film production agitating the question of a Japanese menace, suggested in a communication to Capt.

Von Papen, German Military Attache in this try, He was said not Fox taken had told seriously him by this Fox. plan had been devised in discussion with Karl Armand Graves, an American writer, as a means of obtaining money from the German propagandists. Capt. Lester said that the same suggestions made by Fox were Included in the film production "Patria." President Wilson saw the play in Washington, early in 1917, Capt. Lester stated, and subsequently asked Mr.

Hearst to have it modified. As a result, Japanese names were changed to Mexican names, said Capt. Lester, and "Mexicans were made the villains. although these Mexicans still wore Jap. lanese The play was suppressed in Canada, he added, where it was considered a piece of pro-German propaganda.

EAGAN HEADS INSURANCE MEN. John Egan was elected president of the Brooklyn Insurance Brokers Association last night at a meeting held at the Imperial, Fulton st. and Red Hook lane. Other officers elected were: John Boylan, vice president: Fred D. Robbing, secretary, and Louis Arnold.

treasurer. Albert H. Butler, the retiring president. was named chairman of the executive committee. A committee was appointed to arrange for annual dinner.

INDIGESTION DRUGGISTS 6 BELL-ANS Hot water Sure Relief INDIGESTION How to Invest January Dividends You cannot And a safer investment for surplus funds than Guaranteed- -Mortgage Certificates at They are issued in sums of $200 and upwards, and are exempt from personal taxation in this State. A substantial amount invested in this way is well placed. No investor has ever lost a dollar. BOND MORTGAGE GUARANTEE Capital and Surplus, $10,000,000 176 Broadway, New York 175 Remson 196 Montague B'klys 350 Fulten Jamaica 40 CITY FIREMEN WIN PROMOTIONS Promotions of forty firemen, including Battalion Chief George L. Ross of Manhattan, who is advanced to Deputy Chief, was announced today by Thomas J.

Drennan, Fire Commissioner. Brooklyn and Queens secured nine new lieutenants and twelve steamer engineers. The men were congratulated for their good work and the Commissioner paid a tribute to their services during the war period. promotions were: Lieutenants--John Johnson. 1190 Clay Bronx; Albert F.

Robertson. 43 St. Ann's Bronx: Albert Mueroter, 2163 Jamaica John F. Davis, 1642 E. 12th John C.

MeNeill. 654 Briggs Thomas Harper. 17 W. Ninth Joseph D'Azevado, 158 W. 83d Manhattan; Prank G.

Rowe. 670 Lincoln Witliam A. Stack, 307 E. 188th Manhattan: Rudolph Elzie. 449-21 E.

157th Manhattan; William H. Robinson. 9505 Farragut Robert Laird. 26 Westchester Bronx. care Murphy.

Michael Carey, 2111 Amsterdam Manhattan; John A. Coffey, 254 West 136th Manhattan: Albert G. Schwartz. 390 East 49th st: Henry Meyer. 2145 Amsterdam Manhattan: John G.

Catzert, 382 Sandol James P. E. McWilliams, 379 Rugby road; John J. Potter, 65 East 95th Manhattan. Engineer of steamer- -Charles L.

Husson. 958 Greene John J. Hynes, 222 61st Daniel A. Lyons, 159 East 31st George S. Ahrens, 285 Manhattan Robert J.

Evang. 337 East 26th John P. Walsh, 505 45th Jeremiah F. Collins. 316 East 69th Manhattan: William Leavy, 1921 Morris the Bronx: Martin C.

Willner, Eighth north of Jackson ave. Martin Clarke, 412A 17th James A. Walsh. 620 61st Abram K. Tice.

9324 Glenwood road; Henry Cyriacks, 1638 Hendrickson Patrick Herlihy, 1821 Holland Julius W. Deja, 337 18th Gustav A. Nussbaum, 439 E. 149th the Branx; Rudolph Wolken, 19 W. 116th Manhattan: James D.

Halloran, Hunt Edward M. Luft, 464 Miller and James C. Tuttle, 149 W. 42d street. POLICE READY FOR RED FLAG Discussing the gathering which certain radical elements announced would be held in Central Park this afternoon.

Police Inspector John said he did not believe that many per30n8 would attend the meeting and that if those who should gather would "simply walk up and down and talk over their the police could not interfere. The i inspector added. however, that if an attempt were made to make a speech or wave the red flag the authorities would be compelled to make arrests. As no per- I mit for a meeting had been applied for it was learned at Police headquarters that reserves would be held in readiness to quell any disturbances. FOUND DEAD; RIVAL IS HELD Jealousy over an East Indian Alvino Kops, 22 years old, of 250 43d is said to have been the cause for the slaying of Mohammet Scheere, 25 years oid.

of the same address yesterdav. Gerlouman Allhi, 30 years old. his roommate, is held for the crime by the police. charged with homicide. Both men were also East Indians.

Scheere, a 'longshoreman. was found in bed with his skull crushed by the girl yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock, after Allhi. who departed two hours earlier. had told her not to bother cleaning the room that day, as he had cleaned it himself and his roommate did not want to be disturbed. The men were roomers of the girl's stepfather.

JENKS. IN ARMY. SWORN IN. Almet F. Jenks son of the presiding Justice of the Appellate Division.

who passed his bar examinations and was recommended for admission character commitee. is now in France with his regiment. He is first lieutenant in the 2d Cavalry of the Regular Army. Under a law passed this year he was sworn in "over there" during the present term of court, having taken the oath before his commanding officer. Lts.

Brady, Chandler Die; Capt. Comstock; Lts. Cooke And Pickering Wounded Lt. Thomas Vincent Brady, 25 years old, who was killed in action on October 8, was the son of John Brady of 375 Pine st. Mr.

Brady recently received a letter from Maj. Gen. Le Jeune, commanding the Second Diwhich the general offered consolation" to the dead hero's relatives. He also commended Lt. Brady for bravery.

On October the letter read, Lt. Brady was leading a platoon of men in the Champagne region when he was struck by a machine gun bullet and fell. One of the men in his command, a Pvt. Odell, dragged him into a shell hole to safety. Later the same private attempted to get him to a dressing station and when they had just left the shell crater, the lieutenant was struck by two other bullets and was killed.

Lt. Brady was drafted in September, 1917 and appointed to the Officers Training Camp at Camp Upton. After receiving his commission he was assigned to Co. Ninth with which he sailed for France in April. He was a graduate of P.

S. 108 and also attended Commercial H. S. He was enployed by the National Cloak and Suit Company of Manhattan. His brother, John 23, is with an American Ambulance Unit serving with the French Army.

Lt. William A. Chandler. Lt. William A.

Chandler, Yale, 1915, and a Phi Beta Kappa fraternity Inan, was killed in action on October 6. He was a member of the 7th F. A. Having enlisted at the very outset of the war, he was sent abroad in September, 1917. Last August he was wounded and invalided to England but returned to the front on October 1.

His wife was in constant communication with him up until the middle of October, when his letters ceased. Anxiety caused by his silence prompted his father-in-law. W. B. Scale of 573 East Eighth st.

to appeal to Congressman Rowe for aid, and his inquiries at the War Department revealed the information that Lt. Chandler had killed. The family has received no official advice up to the present date. Capt. George S.

Comstock. Capt. George S. Comstock. former commander of a Field Hospital and Ambulance Train of the 30th Division in Belgium, is in a.

base hospital near New York recovering from wounds and a gassing he received while working in the field when his unit was shelled by the Germans. Capt. Comstock is a well known Queens physician, having practiced for years on Woodhaven Woodhaven. Prior to entering the cal Division he was a captain in the old 13th Regt. Just when the captain sustained his injuries was not revealed, but according to The Eagle on November 6 Lt.

Col Bryer H. Pendry, who returned from "over there." reported that Capt. Comstock was enjoying splendid health. Capt. Comstock is expecting his release from the hospital shortly.

Lt. Clinton V. Pickering. Lt. Clinton V.

Pickering. son of Major and Mrs. Myles Pickering of Fulton Richmond Hill, was severely wounded on October 17. In a letter recently received by his parents, the lieutenant wrote that he had also been gassed. He was commissioned at Plattsburg.

His father was formerly head of the Salvation Army Industrial Home in Brooklyn. A brother. Albert, is also in France, and still another, Myles is in camp in Texas. Lt. William C.

Cooke. Lt. William Coverly Cooke, a member of Co. 165th has been slightly wounded. His mother lives at South Portland ave.

Lt. Cooke received his commission at the first Plattsburg Training School. He was in the heaviest of the fighting on the western front. He is a graduate of Polytechnic Institute and a member of the Sigma Delti Psi Fraternity. He is engaged to Miss Helen F.

Sargent. Lt. Cooke is a member of Holy Trinity Church enlisting was in the stock brokerage business with his father. Sgt. William Beckmann.

Church. Pyt. Frank Reuss. Sgt. William Beckmann, 25 years old.

1401 Jefferson was killed in action on November 5. Sgt. Beckmann was drafted on September 30, 1917. sent to Camp Upton and left with Co. L.

307th on April 30 for France. He was born in Brooklyn on August 30. 1893 and graduated from P. S. 123.

He was formerly employed as a clerk in the Lincoln Savings Bank. and attended the Salem Evangelical Put. Frank Reuss, 22 years old, who died on October 22 of wounds received in action. was the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Reuss of 1821 Palmetto st. Pyt. Reuss was drafted a early in April. sent. to Camp Upton and transferred to Camp Devens, where he was assigned to Co.

B. 303d Inf. He left on July 2 for France. Pvt. Reuss was! born in Brooklyn on April 16, 1896, attended P.

S. 77. He was a member of St. Leonard's R. C.

Church. He was a machinist for a Manhattan concorn. He is also survived by four brothers, two of whom are in the servtee and two sisters. In a letter to his mother. dated October 3, he said he was going through hard fighting, but hoped the battle would be over soon 50 he could spend Christmas home.

Sgt. Harry J. Keller. Sgt. Harry J.

Keller, 25 years old, of 1369 DeKalb died of pneumonia on September 22. white aboard the transport Louisville. He enlisted in Co. K. 47th two years ago, but Saved His Wounded Brother; Dies as Result of Exposure Pyt.

Gerge J. McLaughlin, a member of the old 23d died in France of pneumonie. the result of exposure in saving the life of his brother. He and his brother, William, enlisted together at the outbreak of war. trained together at Spartanburg and when they reached the other side went into the trenches together.

The younger one, William. 20 years old. said he enlisted in order to take care of his brother George "if anything should happen to him." It happened that the tables were to be turned. When both went over the top. side by side, William received severe shell wound and his brother George threw aside his fighting parapherna- dropped beside his brother.

bound up his wounds, administering first aid and after hours of hiding from the enemy, dragged him back to the first aid station. William was sent tot hospital and George took up the gun again. But he suffered from his brother's absence and was soon ill himself and taken to the hospital, where he could be near him. There he contracted pneumonia and died on November 13. Put.

McLaughlin was a member of Co. E. 106th and before he went to camp was employed as chauffeur. He was a member of St. Teresa's R.

C. Church and a graduate of St. Ann's Parochial School. The mother of the two soldiers, Mrs. Elizabeth McLaughlin, lives at 641 Grand ave.

Onderdonk of the 106th Mortally Wounded in Action Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. (Special Cable to The Eagle.) Paris, December have gleaned 13--1 some further details in regard to the members of the baseball nine of the famous 106th, of which cabled yes. terday. Jack Onderdonk. outfielder.

in the hospital, mortally wounded. Al Formosa was recently commis. sioned a lieutenant of his division. war was declared he was transferred to the 381st Casual Company. Sgt.

Keller trained at Spartanburg and left for France on September 11. He was born in Brooklyn on August 23, 1893, and graduated from P. S. 33. Before his enlistment he was a clerk for a Manhattan 'concern and well known in the Ridgewood section.

Pvt. Thomas A. Savage, who died of pneumonia on September 25, was one of three brothers in the service. His widowed mother, Mrs. Johanna Savage, lives at Greenpoint ave.

Thomas was born in Greenpoint, 23 years ago. He was graduated from St. Anthony's School, and when he was assistant foreman in the Eberwas drafted, "to September, 1917, he hard Faber Pencil Works. He was at Camp Upton for several months, when he was transferred to Spartanburg, and went overseas with the 105th M. G.

B. About the same time his two brothers, Patrick, 26 years old, and Alexander, 29, were called. Patrick going to Camp Meade, where he was assigned to the Medical Corps, and the other brother to the infantry. The father worried over the probable fate of his boys, and died soon after. Only la few days before Thomas died, after being ill for two weeks, he wrote his mother that he was feeling all right and that he was sure he was going to get home all right.

The next intelligence Mrs. Savage received about Thomas was a brief letter from the Red Cross, stating that the young man had succumbed to influenza, which had developed into pneumonia. Pvt. Alexander Simonovitz. Pit Thomas A.

Savage. Pvt. Alexander Simonovitz. 26 years old, who was killed in action on October 16, lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Alexander Simonovitz, at 4615 15th Borough Park. Pvt. Simonovitz was drafted in May last and went to Camp Upton, from where he was transferred to Camp Dix and assigned 310th Inf. He sailed for overseas in June. Before he entered the service he was a musician, Pvt.

Charles Ambrose Locke. Pvt. Charles A. Locke, aged 25, of 198 Warren was seriously wounded on October 30. He lived with his sister, Mabel.

Pvt. Locke enlisted in Co. K. 14th in June, 1917. He trained at Camp Wadsworth and on May 10 embarked for France with the 106th to which he had been transferred.

In 3 letter dated November 17, Pvt. Locke said he vas recuperating in rest camp and soon would be back with his regiment. He' was an agent for the Prudential Insurance Company before he enlisted. Sgt. August H.

Wiegmann Jr. Sgt. August H. Wiegmann 24 years old, was wounded in action on September 30. His wife, Emma, lives at 5 John Jamaica.

Sgt. Wiegmann is a member of Co. 106th Inf. He enlisted in the 23d Regt. in June, 1916, and served on the Mexican border.

On April 7, 1917, Wiegmann married Emma Margaret Wolff of Jamaica, and a little son, Harold, I was born while he was at Spartanburg. Sgt. Wiegmann has not yet seen the youngster, As he sailed for France on May 10 without first visiting his home. Wiegman was born in Manhattan and lived fourteen years lat Jamaica. He was graduated from P.

8. 82, Jamaica, and has been employed as A salesman. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.

H. Wiegmann live at 32 Highview Jamaica, and he has two brothers, Christian and Henry, and sisters, Anna, Johanna and Augusta. Pvt. Falward F. McCullough.

Pvt. Edward F. McCullough, 28 years old, who was severely wounded on September 5. is the son of Mrs. Anna McCullough of 276 Heyward st.

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MANUFACTURERS AND PACKERS ESTABLISHED 1867 surance office when he was drafted last spring and sent to France with Co. A. 308th Inf. He was born in Brooklyn and graduated from P. S.

122. The family has learned through letters that he was wounded twice in the leg and on his head. Pet. Peter J. Murray.

Prt. Peter J. Murray, 26 years old. was severely wounded on September 29.. He is the son of Mrs.

Catherine Murray of 78 South Ninth st. Murray was born in Brooklyn and graduated from St. Vincent de Paul's; Academy. He was a clerk in a when mer- he cantile house in Manhattan last winter. He went to was drafted from Camp Meade with Co.

A. France Inf. In a reecnt letter to his 316th mother Pvt. Murray told how he went the top to get a. pal and both over shot.

The pair fell into a were dugout from where they were afterward rescued. Put. Louis Kessler. Put. Louis Kessler, 26 years old, was wounded either on July 14 or 16, according to a telegram received by his parents, David and Ethel Kessler.

He drafted in December, 1917, and was after training at Camps Upton and Greene was sent to France in April. He is a graduate of P. S. 35 and was employed us a salesman by his father. Prt.

Richard L. Henney. Put. Richard Leroy Henney, 31 old, of Goodground, L. a years member of 105th was wounded in his hand and in the leg on October 15.

He is making satisfactory recovery in a base hospital in France. Pyt. Henney married Miss Myrtle Squires of Ochren, in August, 1916. He trained at Camp Upton and Spartanburg, and went overseas in April. 156 Brooklyn-L.

I. Men On Today's Honor Roll KILLED IN ACTION. Lt. Thomas V. Brady, 375 Pine st.

1 William A. Chandler, 573 East Eighth st. Sgt. William F. Beckmann, 1401 Jefferson ave.

Louis Emil Ammarell, 2028 ave. Corp. Eiler V. Bolvig, 2205 Old Ocean ave. Corp.

Frederick E. Schwencke, 256 Montauk Wagoner 'Harry M. Anderson, 1031 16th st. Pvt. Emil Joseph Bohm.

Islip, L. Pet. John T. Gray, 984 Pacific st. Pvt.

Frank J. Herm, 271 St. James place. Pvt. Patrick H.

Martin. 80 Eagle st. Pyt. Edward P. McAleer, 290 Albang ave.

Pvt. Gustave Olson, 811 Dean st. Pvt. Moses Optofaky, 94 Leland st. Pvt.

Alexander Simonovitz, 4613 15th st. DIED FROM WOUNDS. Pyt. George Bastrom. 46th st.

Pet. Thomas E. Bates, 42 South Portland ave. Pvt. George F.

Higgins, 1307 East 26th st. Pvt. Frank Rouss. 1821 Palmetto st. DIED OF DISEASE.

Sgt. Douglas Norman Campbell, 1230 Ca Carroll st. Sgt. Harry Keller, 1369 DeKalb ave. Francis Vasseur, Hempstead, L.

I. Pvt. George J. McLaughlin, 641 Grand Pvt. ave.

Thomas A. A Savage, 243 Greenpoint ave. Pvt. Arthur A. Schnorr, 1034 Walnut Richmond Hill.

Pvt. Archibald R. Walker, 26 Edsall Glendale. WOUNDED SEVERELY. Lt.

Norman Kinkel Toerge, Locust Valley, L. I. Clinton V. Pickering, Fulton Richmond Hill. Sgt.

Harry Schlesinger, 315 Bush-'ave. wick ave. Corp. Timothy Downing. 355 Maple street.

Corp. Hugh N. Dunwoody, 829 720 street. Corp. Harold S.

Gerstner, 774 East Third st. Corp. William W. Hamilton, 90 Sterling pl. Corp.

William Loretto, 796 Bedford avenue. Corp. Charles Rogers, 2511 Woodhaven Woodhaven. Corp. Walter C.

Truax, 49 Terrill Patchogue, L. I. Neil C. Walters, 412 Leonard st. Mechanic Staib, 259 Sumpter st.

Mechanic Stutze, Stanton Baldwin. L. Cook Joseph F. Nolan. 809 Union street.

Pvt. Philip F. Brennan, 219 Sixth avenue. Pvt. Edward Cardwell, 432 Hancock st.

John Caulfield, 1156 Fulton street. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears Signature of the Car hit Continued on Page 11. Put. George J. Craig, 36 Sherman street.

Put. Richard V. Davis, 220 Cortelyou rd. Pvt. Louis Pox, 125 Varet st.

Put. Sam Friedel, 298 Pennsylvania ave. Pvt. Charles A. Garvin, 285 Hicks street.

Pvt. Samuel F. Gibson. 885 Kent avenue. Pet.

William M. Hall 928 Lafayette ave. Pvt. Harold Benjamin Helgerson, 857 52d st. Pvt.

William Hemler, 2121 85th st. Pvt. George A. Herrman, 89 DeSales pl. Pvt.

William J. Howard, 755 Macon st. Pvt. John F. Hunt, 2408 Putnam avenue.

Pvt. Emanuel Levy, 5411 Sixth av. Pvt. James J. Mahoney, 57 Flatbush ave.

extension. Francis T. McGinn, Inwood, L. T. Pvt.

Andrew M. McKay, 80 Hewes st. Pvt. Edward M. Merneh, 102 Front st.

Pvt. William Meyers, 1631 8th ave. Pyt. Frank L. Miller, 1820 Decatur st.

Pyt. Peter J. Murray, 1232 78 S. 9th Bushwick st. Pvt.

John A. Moore, ave. Pvt. Frank Nauth, 3909 Chichester Woodhaven. Pvt.

William Parrahm, Park Babylon, L. I. Pvt. Richard L. Penny, Good Ground, L.

I. Pvt. Louis C. Pils, 892 E. 94th st.

Pvt. Albert Reimer, 576 Morgan ave. Pvt. Stephen F. Rooney, 5603 7th ave.

Pyt. Pasquale Santacrose, 513 5th st. Pvt. Charles Smith. 9 Third pl.

Pvt. William Soehngen, 231 Troutman st. Pvt. Oscar Stiehler, 562 Onderdonk Put. Charles O.

Strahle, 182 Sheffield ave. Pvt. Gerard Threet, 51 Utica ave. Pvt. Edward J.

Tonry, 388 Henry st. WOUNDED. DEGREE UNDETERMINED. George S. Comstock, Woodhaven Woodhaven.

Sgt. Horace. B. Conway, 52 S. 8th Rockaway Park.

Corp. Adam J. Duerr. 1291 Greene a ave. Corp.

John Leonard, 739 Nostrand ave. Corp. Samuel Zimmerman, 1030 38th st. Pvt. Bilcardi Anichino, 566 President st.

Pyt. Frederck S. Bunce, George Babylon, L. I. Pyt.

John Carrig, 1334 St. John's pl. Pvt. John J. Carrigan, 65 Third pl.

Prt. Anthony P. Castellano, 779 Myrtle ave. Pyt. John E.

Davis, Woodhaven. Put. Charles E. Deitsch, 156 MeDougal st. Pyt.

Samuel Edelman, 1559 47th st. Put. Robert D. Farrell. 945 Park pl.

Put. James K. Ferguson, 6203 18th aVe. Put. Harry A.

Fredericks, 1071 Lafayette ave. Pvt. John Froehlich, 479 Grand View ave. Pet, Lawrence J. Graner, 59 South Grove Rockaway Beach, Pvt.

Samuel S. Kaufman, 1237 44th street. Pvt. Louis Kessler, 925 Glenmore avenue. Pyt.

Edward McCullaugh, 276 Heywood st. Pvt. James McFadden, 7117 Fifth avenue. Pvt. Patrick McKenna, 1011 Seneca, ave.

Pvt. Elwood C. McLean, 570 Atlantic ave. Pvt. John Malowantzyk, 557 Graham ave.

Pvt. John W. Marshall, Broadway and Tenth Bayside L. I. Pvt.

Guiseppe Marzitelli, 135 Vernon Long Island City. Pvt. Charles E. Masterson, 261 A Monroe st. Pvt.

Henry Milan, 39 Park View Glendale. Pvt. Edward J. Miller, 141 Walton street. Pvt.

James J. Murphy, 805 Rogers avenue. Pvt. John Petelensky, 348 Oakland street. Pvt.

Walter J. Quackenbush, 61 Washington Flushing. Pvt. Frank Samuel, 145 Prospect street. Pvt.

Frank Sigmund, Remsen st. and French Jamaica. Pvt. Joseph Silva, 380 Grant ave. Pvt.

David Steward, 1741 West Tenth st. Pyt. Isaac Weinberg, 66 Graham avenue. Pvt. Harry Weiner, 814 Myrtle ave.

Pvt. Thomas Yates, 1493 Gates ave. Pvt. Elmer J. Young, 14 Olive Forest Hilis.

Pvt. Isidore P. Zeitz, 215 S. Third street. WOUNDED SLIGHTLY.

Lt. William Coverly Cooke, 19 S. Portland ave. Lt. Harold V.

Raycroft, 184 Amity street. Sgt. Harold W. Dann, 1760 Elmore place: Sgt. Fred Rauschkolb, 108 Cooper street.

Corp. Frank J. Cashin, 1451 East 14th st. Corp. William A.

McBride, 362 Greene ave. Corp. Otto A. Pfeiffer, 936 Seneca avenue. William F.

Pierson, 171 Jetferson ave. Corp. a James M. Quigley, 728 East Ninth st. Pyt.

George D. Banta, 104 Hallick st. Pvt. Joseph Arthur Burr, 60 Forber Freeport, L. I.

Pvt. Carmine Caperno, 77 Washington Corona. Pyt. Joseph Corio, 144 North Elliott place. Pvt.

John P. Dennehy, 5 Poplar st. Pvt. Frank J. Duffy, 183 Sheridan avenue.

Pyt. Thomas J. Hart, 1211 Fulton street. Pvt. Nicholas Kallmeyer, 240 Linden st.

Pvt. William J. Kineke, Farmingdale, L. I. Pvt.

August Knuth, 1710 Stanhope street. Pvt. Thomas J. Lenihan, 471 61st street. Pvt.

Carroll F. McGinniss, 66 Willoughby ave. Pyt. Harold J. McGowan, 225 Smith street.

Pvt. Philip Mastroianni, 435 Myrtle ave. Pvt. Cyril Nicholas, 1726 East Seventh st. Pvt.

John W. Onderdonk, 469 Prospect pl. Pyt. Robert Pinkerton, 557 Tenth street. Pvt.

Bronislaw Plawski, 170 Clinton Hempstead, L. I. Pvt. Giuseppe Foretto, 234 Sackett st. Pvt.

Arthur T. Prendergast, 1233 39th st. Pvt. James Purcell, 20 Columbia pl. Pvt.

Edward J. Redden, 238 93d st. Pyt. Eugene C. Reynolds, 248 Grand ave.

Pvt. Edward F. Sauer, 39 Bushwick ave. Pvt. Richard A.

Serenbetz, 11 Weirfeld st. Pvt. Edward Schiesser, 966 Halsey st. Pvt. William P.

Shaw, 171 Marcy ave. Pvt. Louis Shear, 101 Meserole st. Pvt. Emilio Simonetti, 402 Metropolltan ave.

Pvt. Michele Speranzo, 139 Hamilton Pvt. Stapleton, 223 Pacific st. Pvt. Theodore Stoothoff, 89 Harrison ave.

Pvt. Joseph James Sullivan, 321 Park pl. Pvt. Theodore Tamborski. 38 Dia" mond st.

Pvt. Thomas F. Valleau, 455A Prospect ave. John Villani, 199 Jackson st. Pvt.

Young, 594 Bergen st. Pvt. Doane MISSING IN ACTION. Samuel A. Kyle, 1301 57th st.

Pvt. John Otto Behnken, 643 76th st. Pet. William Denton, Glen Cove, L. I.

Pvt. Edward F. Mahon, 736 Washington ave. Pvt. Fred Muller, 23 Duckhill a st.

WOUNDED, REPORTED KILLED. Pvt. John F. Jones, 764 McDonough Edwin Horsley of 2 Seeley attached to Co. C.

is safe. Herman Zachman of 359 St. John's place is now in hospital, having been gassed. Central Records Office reports Ralph E. Van Valkenburg.

134 Rutland road. of the 105th Field Artillery, killed on September 6, but gives no further tails. SANDSTED. The Eagle norted November 18 the death of Ralph E. Van Valkenburg A8 killed in action September 26.

ON DUTY, REPORTED MISSING. Pvt. James P. O'Connor, 495 Kings Highway. Pyt.

Edward Kowalski, 4118 Ave. P. Pvt. James F. Scully, 295 14th st.

Pyt. Robert Van Cott. Rockville Centre, L. I. Pyt.

Thomas Dunn. 24 Prospect pl. DIED OF DISEASE. REPORTED MISSING. Pet.

Louis J. Springer. 9 Jackson pl. WOUNDED, REPORTED MISSING. Corp.

Charles E. Wrede, Richmond Hill. Pvt. Edward H. Steffans, 196 Lenox road.

SICK. REPORTED MISSING. Pet. Anthony Muller, Lynbrook, 1. Private advices to The Eagle.

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