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The Evening News, Harrisburg, Penna., Tuesday, September 3, 1918
112th Heroes Fought Beside Marines In 35-Mile Advance to the Vesle,
Says Lt. Long, Back From the Front; Harrisburg's Casualties Not Heavy
Telling thrilling details of how the boys of the 112th Infantry,
containing most of Harrisburg's fighters, battled the Huns for more
than a week in an advance of thirty-five miles from the Chateau-Thierry
district to the Vesle River, Lieut. James T. Long, 222 Briggs street,
for eleven years a postman here, and Lieut. Joshua W. Swartz, Jr., a
son of Representative Swartz, of this city, arrived home last night,
direct from the battlefront.
They are the first Harrisburg men who participated in the big drive
from its start, to come back. Accompanied by three other commissioned
officers they were sent to America to act as instructors at Camp Dix,
where they will report after seven days at their homes. As a result of
this service each will be promoted to a first lieutenancy.
Lieutenant Long is connected with Company M, 112th U. S. Infantry, of
the 28th or Keystone division, and during the preliminary fighting
before the capture of Chateau-Thierry, was gassed, but refused to be
sent back.
Lieutenant Swartz is assigned to the headquarters company of the
112th. Both men came in contact with many Harrisburgers during the
days of the fighting and both have seen enough fighting to satisfy the
average scrapper, but both are willing to get back again.
"The 112th stood up under fire like veterans," said Lieutenant Long.
"The morale of the men is fine just as is that of all the other
Americans over there who have the spirit of up-and-at-'em well
developed. In every action where the 112th or any of its units was
called upon to fight it did the fighting well. "So far as I know the
casualties in the 112th were comparatively small. Personally I know of
but one Harrisburg man who was killed, although I understand there were
others in the regiment who have met death. The regiment in action was
often stretched out by battalions and it may have been eight or ten
miles from one end to the other during the movement forward."
Lieutenant Long had a lot of military training before going to
France. For thirteen years he was a member of the old Company D, of
the Eighth. He was commissioned in 1916 and went to the Mexican border
as a lieutenant. Then when the Eighth was inducted into the Federal
service he was detailed with Lieutenant Lesher at the U. S. Army
recruiting office for ten months on special recruiting duty. He had
hardly reached Camp Hanthingy, Ga., after completing his work here,
before the new 112th Infantry, composed of the old Eighth and the
Sixteenth Infantry, from the vicinity of Oil City, was ordered to
France. He was in the Georgia camp just three days.
"We got our first baptism of blood," said the Lieutenant speaking of
the 112th regiment, "on the birthday of America. July 4 and 5 the
112th as a unit of the 28th Division was moved to Grand Forest and the
Harrisburg men who had had the opportunity of getting accustomed to the
whiz-bangs and the racket generally at long distance got a taste of the
real stuff. That fighting was just the preliminary work to the big
drive. It was down south of the Marne River which flows through a
valley as beautiful as the Cumberland here and well cultivated.
Into the Thickest They Go
"The regiment was there for several days and there was at that time
no great excitement. It was then ordered north - nobody knew just
where or what was ahead of us.
"Meanwhile my company was thrown into the 153d French infantry to
reinforce that command south of the Marne and south of Chateau-Thierry.
That was on July 14 and 15. The 112th was nearby, but we were sent
into the very thickest of the fighting and for twenty solid hours we
were under heavy bombardment from the Germans.
"Their artillery kept at it without stopping and we lost two men
killed and eighty some were wounded and gassed. Most of the injuries
came from the injuries caused by the high explosives. It was then that
I was gassed, but after treatment I went back to the scrap.
"Company M lay there with the French for eight days and then we were
sent back for a short rest before we were joined with our regiment
again."
Entered Chateau-Thierry
The company to which Lieutenant Long is assigned is composed of men
from Company M, of the old 8th from Lewistown and Company M, of the old
16th from Grove City. There are no other Harrisburg men in this
company, but the local boys by the score were in other commands and
were with the regiment when it followed the Boche hordes as the latter
were driven back.
"Just six hours after the Huns had turned tail out of Chateau-
Thierry," continued the lieutenant, "the 112th entered what was left of
that town. We had been brigaded with the French while attacking the
town and were just off to the left of the valiant marines that figured
so largely in the attack at that point.
"The 112th entered Chateau-Thierry under very heavy bombardment, but
did not hesitate there long after it was clear that all of the Huns had
been driven out. It kept right on with the 28th Division, which was
working with thirty other divisions. We never stopped long in that
drive until we had left the Vesle River behind us. That was a drive of
thirty-five miles.
Ordered Back Home
"The last fight I was in was the taking of a railroad cut just beyond
the Vesle River. We advanced 200 yards beyond the river and took the
cut and held it. During this advance the Allies captured 34,000
Germans and 600 to 700 guns of various caliber. I had to quit fighting
August 11 when I was given two hours to report to the regimental
headquarters, five miles in the rear. It took all of that time to get
there and then five of us were sent to Paris and thence to Brest and
New York where we arrived yesterday."
Lieutenant Long said that frequently on the drive the American troops
reached a former German stronghold so quickly and unexpectedly that
there were gallons of Hun soup in pots already for the serving.
"Did you eat any of it?" was asked.
"Not a spoonful," was the reply.
Saw Colonel Finney
Company D of the 112th Infantry is made up of fifty per cent of
Harrisburg men and fifty per cent from the old 16th Infantry. There
are also scores of Harrisburg and Dauphin county men in the 109th
Machine Gun Battalion which is brigaded with the 112th Infantry.
Attached to this battalion was Harry Miller, of James street this
city, who was injured about the time that Long was leaving the
battlefront. The Lieutenant said he had recently seen Colonel Maurice
E. Finney, former commander of the Eighth and now in charge of the
truck train of the 28th division; Sergeant Philip T. Meredith, of the
Headquarters Company, and many other Harrisburgers all of whom were in
excellent health.
In the thick of the fighting with him was Wesley Ashenfelter, of
Bartine street, this city. Captain Bretz, of the old Company D, he
said, has been transferred to the railroad division of the American
forces, and Captain Jenkins, of Company I, of the old Eighth, now of
the 112th, has seen all of the excitement without getting hurt.
15-Year-Old Hero
The returned Lieutenant is full of details of the big scrap and he
has a forceful way of telling it that makes the story interesting. He
told today of the heroic work of a youth named Collins, of Michigan,
who was fighting in the same sectors that the 112th aided in capturing.
He was 15 years old when he left home and his mother sent him games to
while away the time last Christmas.
The youth found himself in a woods when his command was ordered to
advance against the Huns. He found a place whence he picked off thirty
Germans, killing all of them before they finally got him by treachery.
One Hun, speaking English, shouted to him to cease firing because there
were English ahead. He stopped and then they killed him.
Lieutenant Long tells interesting tales of interviews with captured
Huns. He says they are afraid of cold steel, but will stick behind
their guns until surrounded when they throw down their weapons and
throw up their arms and surrender. Few are given a chance to go
through these actions, however, said the lieutenant.
________________________________________________
AT 15 HE WINGS 2 HUNS
MAPLETON, Sept. 3. - A very interesting letter has been received by
the mother of C. Fay Banks, 15 years old, who is now serving in France
in the Headquarters Company, Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division.
He writes that he is well and happy and that he has killed two Huns,
one with a bayonet and the other he "knocked out."
*******************************************
Local Lads Who Are in Service of Uncle Sam
Mr. and Mrs. George Blackburn, of Hummelstown, have received word of
the safe arrival overseas of their son, Dillman Blackburn. Blackburn
enlisted in St. Louis and was assigned to 812th Aero Squadron, Kelley
Field, San Antonio, Tex.
Mrs. Katharine Deckman, of Eberly's Mills, Cumberland County, has
just received word from her husband, Elmer Deckman that he has arrived
in France to fight the Huns.
S. W. Sprow, 1500 South Twelfth street, has received a letter from
his brother, John Sprow, now serving in France with the 58th Machine
Gun Company in which he says that they are all very busy chasing Huns
"over there." He believes that the Boche realizes at last that the
Americans are made of pretty good stuff and can make it hot for them.
He says every time his company has been in action they have put the
Germans to rout.
John R. Parker, 1421 Swatara street, left last Thursday to take a
course in mechanical training for the Army. Before leaving the city he
was employed by the P_____ _____ Railroad.
William J. Moore, of Middletown, former star baseball player on the
Middletown Central Pennsylvania League team, is among the lower end
boys who have reached France, according to word received by his
relatives here. He was left fielder on the team and was one of the
best hitters. He was employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Wolf, 639 North Front street, Steelton, have
received word of the safe arrival overseas of their son, Joseph G.
Wolf.
Corporal Andrew A. Clark, now stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, is
home on a ten-day furlough visiting his family in Mechanicsburg. Prior
to his enlistment November, 1917, he was employed as a tool maker by
the Elliott-Fisher Company. Corporal Clark is well pleased with Army
life.
Charles Glocker, of Steelton, has received word of the safe arrival
overseas of his brother, Harvey C. Glocker. Young Glocker was born in
Steelton and was a former pupil of the State Soldiers' Orphans' School
at Scotland. He was drafted in Detroit, Mich., and assigned to the
339th Infantry, Headquarters Company, 85th Division.
John McAttee, 1086 South Ninth street, was given a farewell dinner by
his mother at which more than fifty of his friends before he left with
other draftees for Camp Lee, last week. Before entering the service he
was employed as brakeman at the Central Iron and Steel Company plant.
Raymond A. Stepp, of Enhaut, is home on a furlough of a month after
serving continuously on a United States warship for a year. He has
been in European waters for some time and says he likes the Navy. He
is learning to be a radio operator. He enlisted two years ago, before
the United States entered the war. Prior to his enlistment he was
employed as a clerk in the Enola yards.
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Parsons, 617 Peffer street, have received word
that their son, George E. Parsons, has arrived safely in France.
Parsons was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and enlisted in
Company A, 66th engineers, last April. He was stationed at Camp
Laurel, Maryland.
Norman F. Smith, Battery E, 108th Field Artillery, has been promoted
from corporal to sergeant, according to word received by his mother,
Mrs. Smith, 11 North Fourth street. Smith was a member of the
Governor's Troop and was later transferred to the artillery. He is now
serving with his contingent in France.
***********************************************Reedy Arrives in France
Mr. and Mrs. James Reedy, of Washington Heights, have just received
word from their son, James, Jr., of his safe arrival "Somewhere in
France." Private Reedy left Pittsburgh University, July 9, with the
Maryland boys of the Sixth Trench Mortar Battery. Before his
enlistment he was employed by the D. Bacon Co., this city, as
chauffeur.
***********************************************
SWARTZ EXTOLS 112TH'S DARING
Lieutenant Joshua W. Swartz, Jr., here from the front on leave, is
brimful of stories about the daring and bravery of the men of the 112th
Regiment. In the July advance, when the Germans were driven from the
pocket between Soissons and Reims, extending to Chateau-Thierry, he
said the Americans advanced so rapidly on the heels of the retreating
Germans that it was impossible for the supply trains to follow closely.
"Our men passed loads and loads of German dead," he said, and when
their supplies gave out they rolled the dead Germans over and ate of
the hardtack which they found on the Huns."
The lieutenant said that Company B, commanded by Lieutenant Nelson,
got into a German dugout and there found large quantities of hard tack,
canned beef and Kimmel. Nelson afterward told Swartz, he said, that
the "find was a life saver" because the men were very hungry and they
were far in advance of the supply train.
During the forepart of the period that Lieutenant Swartz was in the
thick of the fighting he was attached to the battalion staff and as
such was in charge of scouts, observers and snipers. Later he was
assigned to the brigade staff, and kept headquarters advised as to the
location of the fighting units.
This was his most perilous work, he said. He passed through several
barrages and was slightly wounded once. A piece of shrapnel struck him
on the shoulder.
Lieutenant Swartz has been recommended for promotion and he expects
that upon his return to the front - he leaves here September 9 - he
will be moved up to first lieutenant. ********************************************
Five Men Called to Go to Camp Dix Friday
Charles A. Rudy, 62 High street, Middletown; Howard Sellers,
Steelton; James L. Rosetta, Middletown; Rocco Pugliese, 261 South Third
street, Steelton, and David T. Harder, Highspire, were called by Draft
Board No. 1 of Dauphin County, this morning to go to Camp Dix,
Wrightstown, N. J., at 3.15 o'clock Friday afternoon, September 6,
where they will enter general military training.
They will report at the draft headquarters in the Electric Light
Building, Steelton, 9 o'clock, Thursday morning, September 5.
********************************************
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Word was received here yesterday that one soldier from the borough
and another from Enhaut have been seriously wounded in action on the
French front.
Mrs. George W. Hall, 586 Christian street, received word that her
brother Harry J. Geistwhite, was seriously wounded in action August 9.
Private Fred Koenig, son of Fred Koenig, Enhaut, was seriously wounded
in action July 26. Both men are members of infantry regiments.
112th Heroes Fought Beside Marines In 35-Mile Advance to the Vesle,
Says Lt. Long, Back From the Front; Harrisburg's Casualties Not Heavy
Telling thrilling details of how the boys of the 112th Infantry,
containing most of Harrisburg's fighters, battled the Huns for more
than a week in an advance of thirty-five miles from the Chateau-Thierry
district to the Vesle River, Lieut. James T. Long, 222 Briggs street,
for eleven years a postman here, and Lieut. Joshua W. Swartz, Jr., a
son of Representative Swartz, of this city, arrived home last night,
direct from the battlefront.
They are the first Harrisburg men who participated in the big drive
from its start, to come back. Accompanied by three other commissioned
officers they were sent to America to act as instructors at Camp Dix,
where they will report after seven days at their homes. As a result of
this service each will be promoted to a first lieutenancy.
Lieutenant Long is connected with Company M, 112th U. S. Infantry, of
the 28th or Keystone division, and during the preliminary fighting
before the capture of Chateau-Thierry, was gassed, but refused to be
sent back.
Lieutenant Swartz is assigned to the headquarters company of the
112th. Both men came in contact with many Harrisburgers during the
days of the fighting and both have seen enough fighting to satisfy the
average scrapper, but both are willing to get back again.
"The 112th stood up under fire like veterans," said Lieutenant Long.
"The morale of the men is fine just as is that of all the other
Americans over there who have the spirit of up-and-at-'em well
developed. In every action where the 112th or any of its units was
called upon to fight it did the fighting well. "So far as I know the
casualties in the 112th were comparatively small. Personally I know of
but one Harrisburg man who was killed, although I understand there were
others in the regiment who have met death. The regiment in action was
often stretched out by battalions and it may have been eight or ten
miles from one end to the other during the movement forward."
Lieutenant Long had a lot of military training before going to
France. For thirteen years he was a member of the old Company D, of
the Eighth. He was commissioned in 1916 and went to the Mexican border
as a lieutenant. Then when the Eighth was inducted into the Federal
service he was detailed with Lieutenant Lesher at the U. S. Army
recruiting office for ten months on special recruiting duty. He had
hardly reached Camp Hanthingy, Ga., after completing his work here,
before the new 112th Infantry, composed of the old Eighth and the
Sixteenth Infantry, from the vicinity of Oil City, was ordered to
France. He was in the Georgia camp just three days.
"We got our first baptism of blood," said the Lieutenant speaking of
the 112th regiment, "on the birthday of America. July 4 and 5 the
112th as a unit of the 28th Division was moved to Grand Forest and the
Harrisburg men who had had the opportunity of getting accustomed to the
whiz-bangs and the racket generally at long distance got a taste of the
real stuff. That fighting was just the preliminary work to the big
drive. It was down south of the Marne River which flows through a
valley as beautiful as the Cumberland here and well cultivated.
Into the Thickest They Go
"The regiment was there for several days and there was at that time
no great excitement. It was then ordered north - nobody knew just
where or what was ahead of us.
"Meanwhile my company was thrown into the 153d French infantry to
reinforce that command south of the Marne and south of Chateau-Thierry.
That was on July 14 and 15. The 112th was nearby, but we were sent
into the very thickest of the fighting and for twenty solid hours we
were under heavy bombardment from the Germans.
"Their artillery kept at it without stopping and we lost two men
killed and eighty some were wounded and gassed. Most of the injuries
came from the injuries caused by the high explosives. It was then that
I was gassed, but after treatment I went back to the scrap.
"Company M lay there with the French for eight days and then we were
sent back for a short rest before we were joined with our regiment
again."
Entered Chateau-Thierry
The company to which Lieutenant Long is assigned is composed of men
from Company M, of the old 8th from Lewistown and Company M, of the old
16th from Grove City. There are no other Harrisburg men in this
company, but the local boys by the score were in other commands and
were with the regiment when it followed the Boche hordes as the latter
were driven back.
"Just six hours after the Huns had turned tail out of Chateau-
Thierry," continued the lieutenant, "the 112th entered what was left of
that town. We had been brigaded with the French while attacking the
town and were just off to the left of the valiant marines that figured
so largely in the attack at that point.
"The 112th entered Chateau-Thierry under very heavy bombardment, but
did not hesitate there long after it was clear that all of the Huns had
been driven out. It kept right on with the 28th Division, which was
working with thirty other divisions. We never stopped long in that
drive until we had left the Vesle River behind us. That was a drive of
thirty-five miles.
Ordered Back Home
"The last fight I was in was the taking of a railroad cut just beyond
the Vesle River. We advanced 200 yards beyond the river and took the
cut and held it. During this advance the Allies captured 34,000
Germans and 600 to 700 guns of various caliber. I had to quit fighting
August 11 when I was given two hours to report to the regimental
headquarters, five miles in the rear. It took all of that time to get
there and then five of us were sent to Paris and thence to Brest and
New York where we arrived yesterday."
Lieutenant Long said that frequently on the drive the American troops
reached a former German stronghold so quickly and unexpectedly that
there were gallons of Hun soup in pots already for the serving.
"Did you eat any of it?" was asked.
"Not a spoonful," was the reply.
Saw Colonel Finney
Company D of the 112th Infantry is made up of fifty per cent of
Harrisburg men and fifty per cent from the old 16th Infantry. There
are also scores of Harrisburg and Dauphin county men in the 109th
Machine Gun Battalion which is brigaded with the 112th Infantry.
Attached to this battalion was Harry Miller, of James street this
city, who was injured about the time that Long was leaving the
battlefront. The Lieutenant said he had recently seen Colonel Maurice
E. Finney, former commander of the Eighth and now in charge of the
truck train of the 28th division; Sergeant Philip T. Meredith, of the
Headquarters Company, and many other Harrisburgers all of whom were in
excellent health.
In the thick of the fighting with him was Wesley Ashenfelter, of
Bartine street, this city. Captain Bretz, of the old Company D, he
said, has been transferred to the railroad division of the American
forces, and Captain Jenkins, of Company I, of the old Eighth, now of
the 112th, has seen all of the excitement without getting hurt.
15-Year-Old Hero
The returned Lieutenant is full of details of the big scrap and he
has a forceful way of telling it that makes the story interesting. He
told today of the heroic work of a youth named Collins, of Michigan,
who was fighting in the same sectors that the 112th aided in capturing.
He was 15 years old when he left home and his mother sent him games to
while away the time last Christmas.
The youth found himself in a woods when his command was ordered to
advance against the Huns. He found a place whence he picked off thirty
Germans, killing all of them before they finally got him by treachery.
One Hun, speaking English, shouted to him to cease firing because there
were English ahead. He stopped and then they killed him.
Lieutenant Long tells interesting tales of interviews with captured
Huns. He says they are afraid of cold steel, but will stick behind
their guns until surrounded when they throw down their weapons and
throw up their arms and surrender. Few are given a chance to go
through these actions, however, said the lieutenant.
________________________________________________
AT 15 HE WINGS 2 HUNS
MAPLETON, Sept. 3. - A very interesting letter has been received by
the mother of C. Fay Banks, 15 years old, who is now serving in France
in the Headquarters Company, Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division.
He writes that he is well and happy and that he has killed two Huns,
one with a bayonet and the other he "knocked out."
*******************************************
Local Lads Who Are in Service of Uncle Sam
Mr. and Mrs. George Blackburn, of Hummelstown, have received word of
the safe arrival overseas of their son, Dillman Blackburn. Blackburn
enlisted in St. Louis and was assigned to 812th Aero Squadron, Kelley
Field, San Antonio, Tex.
Mrs. Katharine Deckman, of Eberly's Mills, Cumberland County, has
just received word from her husband, Elmer Deckman that he has arrived
in France to fight the Huns.
S. W. Sprow, 1500 South Twelfth street, has received a letter from
his brother, John Sprow, now serving in France with the 58th Machine
Gun Company in which he says that they are all very busy chasing Huns
"over there." He believes that the Boche realizes at last that the
Americans are made of pretty good stuff and can make it hot for them.
He says every time his company has been in action they have put the
Germans to rout.
John R. Parker, 1421 Swatara street, left last Thursday to take a
course in mechanical training for the Army. Before leaving the city he
was employed by the P_____ _____ Railroad.
William J. Moore, of Middletown, former star baseball player on the
Middletown Central Pennsylvania League team, is among the lower end
boys who have reached France, according to word received by his
relatives here. He was left fielder on the team and was one of the
best hitters. He was employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Wolf, 639 North Front street, Steelton, have
received word of the safe arrival overseas of their son, Joseph G.
Wolf.
Corporal Andrew A. Clark, now stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, is
home on a ten-day furlough visiting his family in Mechanicsburg. Prior
to his enlistment November, 1917, he was employed as a tool maker by
the Elliott-Fisher Company. Corporal Clark is well pleased with Army
life.
Charles Glocker, of Steelton, has received word of the safe arrival
overseas of his brother, Harvey C. Glocker. Young Glocker was born in
Steelton and was a former pupil of the State Soldiers' Orphans' School
at Scotland. He was drafted in Detroit, Mich., and assigned to the
339th Infantry, Headquarters Company, 85th Division.
John McAttee, 1086 South Ninth street, was given a farewell dinner by
his mother at which more than fifty of his friends before he left with
other draftees for Camp Lee, last week. Before entering the service he
was employed as brakeman at the Central Iron and Steel Company plant.
Raymond A. Stepp, of Enhaut, is home on a furlough of a month after
serving continuously on a United States warship for a year. He has
been in European waters for some time and says he likes the Navy. He
is learning to be a radio operator. He enlisted two years ago, before
the United States entered the war. Prior to his enlistment he was
employed as a clerk in the Enola yards.
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Parsons, 617 Peffer street, have received word
that their son, George E. Parsons, has arrived safely in France.
Parsons was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and enlisted in
Company A, 66th engineers, last April. He was stationed at Camp
Laurel, Maryland.
Norman F. Smith, Battery E, 108th Field Artillery, has been promoted
from corporal to sergeant, according to word received by his mother,
Mrs. Smith, 11 North Fourth street. Smith was a member of the
Governor's Troop and was later transferred to the artillery. He is now
serving with his contingent in France.
***********************************************Reedy Arrives in France
Mr. and Mrs. James Reedy, of Washington Heights, have just received
word from their son, James, Jr., of his safe arrival "Somewhere in
France." Private Reedy left Pittsburgh University, July 9, with the
Maryland boys of the Sixth Trench Mortar Battery. Before his
enlistment he was employed by the D. Bacon Co., this city, as
chauffeur.
***********************************************
SWARTZ EXTOLS 112TH'S DARING
Lieutenant Joshua W. Swartz, Jr., here from the front on leave, is
brimful of stories about the daring and bravery of the men of the 112th
Regiment. In the July advance, when the Germans were driven from the
pocket between Soissons and Reims, extending to Chateau-Thierry, he
said the Americans advanced so rapidly on the heels of the retreating
Germans that it was impossible for the supply trains to follow closely.
"Our men passed loads and loads of German dead," he said, and when
their supplies gave out they rolled the dead Germans over and ate of
the hardtack which they found on the Huns."
The lieutenant said that Company B, commanded by Lieutenant Nelson,
got into a German dugout and there found large quantities of hard tack,
canned beef and Kimmel. Nelson afterward told Swartz, he said, that
the "find was a life saver" because the men were very hungry and they
were far in advance of the supply train.
During the forepart of the period that Lieutenant Swartz was in the
thick of the fighting he was attached to the battalion staff and as
such was in charge of scouts, observers and snipers. Later he was
assigned to the brigade staff, and kept headquarters advised as to the
location of the fighting units.
This was his most perilous work, he said. He passed through several
barrages and was slightly wounded once. A piece of shrapnel struck him
on the shoulder.
Lieutenant Swartz has been recommended for promotion and he expects
that upon his return to the front - he leaves here September 9 - he
will be moved up to first lieutenant. ********************************************
Five Men Called to Go to Camp Dix Friday
Charles A. Rudy, 62 High street, Middletown; Howard Sellers,
Steelton; James L. Rosetta, Middletown; Rocco Pugliese, 261 South Third
street, Steelton, and David T. Harder, Highspire, were called by Draft
Board No. 1 of Dauphin County, this morning to go to Camp Dix,
Wrightstown, N. J., at 3.15 o'clock Friday afternoon, September 6,
where they will enter general military training.
They will report at the draft headquarters in the Electric Light
Building, Steelton, 9 o'clock, Thursday morning, September 5.
********************************************
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Word was received here yesterday that one soldier from the borough
and another from Enhaut have been seriously wounded in action on the
French front.
Mrs. George W. Hall, 586 Christian street, received word that her
brother Harry J. Geistwhite, was seriously wounded in action August 9.
Private Fred Koenig, son of Fred Koenig, Enhaut, was seriously wounded
in action July 26. Both men are members of infantry regiments.
