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Published Under Auspices
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LM.CA. of the United States
T R e DECEMBER’ 12, 1918. % W ¥egsns _ ,NOfl
SILVER STRIPES TO BE WORN |
. BY MAN WITH HOME SERVICE
Government to Recognize Soldiers’ Readi
~ ness for Active Duty by Marking
Their Uniforms—Last Chance
" to Become Citizens.
Arrangements are now being made
to grant silver service stripes to mem
bers of the Army who have served in
cantonments in this country.
Official word has already come to
Meade of this intention on the part of
the War Department, and it is proba
ble that the machinery for its execu
tion will be in working order very
shortly.
Boys who wear th¢ uniform after
being discharged or those who remain
in the Army will have the pleasure cf
knowing that their services are ap
preciated by their government. lln
fact, it is pretty generally felt now
that the men who by force of circum
stances had to stay on this side of the
water will be given the full recogni
tion which. any soldier in this conflict
receives.
To Eliminate Distinctions.
Lines will not be drawn very closely
as to whether a man happened to be
serving in France or in the United
States. Everybody knows that thou
sands were ready to go abroad at any
moment. It will be natural for many
to admire tremendously the man who
actually got into battle; this cannot
be helped and ft should not be.,
An order has also been received to
extend the privilege to any enlisted
man in Meade to become a permanent
member of the United States Army. He
will be given the righ to choose the
‘branch of the ~service to which he
wishes to be assigned. He will then
be, placed in the divisions ranging
from the Bth to the 20th, or in the
Regular Army.
Demobilization has already been
completed in‘the 31st F. A,, commanded
by Col. Henry L. Stimson, who was
Secretary of War under President Taft.
The colonel had his regiment ready
for overseas duty and was commended
for his excellent spirit throughout his
service in the Army, which took him
through a training schoel and finally
into the active seryice-at the front
with an Upton regiment. He dined
Monday afternocon with Gen. Carter
and returned to New York immediately
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“REV. TORREY SAYS GOOD-BYE.
Epiphany Worker Holds Last Serv
ice at Remount S&tion;
. Rev. Arthur J. Torrey held his last
service Sunday at the remount station
before going to Epiphany Chapel,
Washington, D. C. ;
The service was held at 7 p.m. in the
Y. M. C. A. hut, which was crowded
with officers and men. Secretary Wil
son read the scripture lesson, Mr. Bird
offered prayer and both Maj. Meade and
Mr. Torrey made addresses.
At thé close of the service Malj.
the retiring chaplain. The work at
Down by the Loop Station on the canteen side, with
military police standing idly by on the other side of the build
ing, a score of soldiers were shooting “craps” Monday morn
ing. The hour was 10 o’clock. <
In the group were several negro soldiers and the blue
hat cords of the infantry mingled with the red of the artil
lery. Every race and color seemed to be present.” The green
dice used were rolling over the bare ground and dollar bills
were placed in the pot like the veriest gambling den in a big
city.
-~ As the craps were called a guard of the 72¢ Infantry
paraded by on his post and said not a word.
Outposts of the shooters were on guard, though, and |
when officers hove into sight there was a general scattering
of the clans. It must have been one of the places that “Bald”
: z::‘:b Il}:;e wss compiammg about when he spoke against the
i ling evil a week ago._ : gt sLt
}. A languid “M. P.” said when asked Mfiw&i
R T Beaiits OE, s GRS ReR N S N
The Foening Htar.
afterward, where he will resume his
practice of law.
Artillery Leaving Now.
The 33d and the 324 Field Artillery,
comprising the 11th Brigade, under
Brig. Gen. William E. Cole, will be
mustered out before the end of this
week.' Many of the men have al
ready received their discharges.
About 800 of these are Baltimoreans.
Those living farther away than 350
miles will be sent to other camps to
receive their final discharges.
Definite orders for the departure of
the 63d Infantry have been received.
This includes its going on guard duty
in New York state and being placed
under orders of the commander of
the Eastern Department. The regi
ment under Col. Croxton wiil be scat
tered by companies or battalions, ac
:_ording to the needs of the situa
ion.
Speeding up of the mustering out
process is already started, and. the
Depot Brigade will soon be a thing
of the past. Gen. Rivers is now mak
ing the time short for his men who
are going back into civil life. .The
development battalions, of course, will
be maintained until the sick men
there are cured.
11th Not Forgotten.
It is not unlikely that many men
of the 11th Division will have their
‘“walking papers’” before the first of
the year, as Gen, March has promised
that no time will be lost. Combat
;i.iq\{isions, of course, come last on the
ist. . -
The 351st Ficld Artillery, a colored
regiment once commanded by Gen.
Cole at Meade, has been designated
to return to America from France.
It is though likely that it will be
sent to this camp for demobilization.
Although the 29th Division is in
the army of occupation it is felt that
it will be brought here before the
boys are sent back to their homes.
The camp has, however, been desig
nated as a regular camp for de
mobilization, and troops are expected
to be brought here continuously for
a period of perhaps six months.
A final naturalization court will be
held here Monday.
It is understood that the Machine Gun
Battalian will be the first unit, of the
11th Division to go back to civil life.
Th;athnusterlng out will begin, it is said,
wit ten days.
M
the remount station will be under
taken from now on by the staff of
Epiphany house under the Rev: Mr.
Bird. Services will be held every Sun
day night at 7 o'clock and a communion
service will be held on Christmas day
at 8 a.m. in the “Y” hut.
Rev. George Copeland of St. Peter’s,
Weldon, Pa., has been added to the
staff of Epiphany house, Odenton, near-
Kellys Crossing, and sixteen services
are held each Sunday, including the
“Y” auditorium at 8:30 a.m., the Sig
nal Corps “Y” at 10 a.m. the base
hospital in the afternoon and the re
mount station “Y” in the evening.
There will be held a communion
service Christmas ddy in the “Y”
auditorium at 8:30 a.m. by members of
the staff.
Printed Weekly for the Y. M. C. A. by Courtesy of
Edition for CAMP MEADE Admiral, Md,
Soldier and Pal Who Carried Load
ed Dice Niscovered in Time in
Strange Barracks.
It is not uncommion to sce strange
soldiers visiting fri¢hds in barracks
not their own, but Saturday morning
there happened the unusual in visitors
to a certain barracks in “BB” block.
They came in right after inspection,’
one flashily dressed, the other just in
ordinary attire, and after looking
around, decided that the place was all
right and the “tailor made” one in
quired as to the possibility of a little
game of craps.
Dice Are Crooked.
Now, it isn't much of a matter to
start a game of dice in any barracks,
and soon there was a small game in
progress—fingers were snapping and
the dice were rolling fast. Shortly a
sergeant, a bit wiser than the others,
placed a coin on the floor, mentioned
his desire to play, picked up the dice
and began to examine them, as, these
being the dice of the two strangers,
this was highly proper. After “his
examination he recovered his coin and
refused to play, stating that the dice
were crooked, named them as what is
known as “six-ace miss outs,” and
said that the owners must be “dice
hustlers.” This was denied by them
both, angl one pulled out his purse and
produced a large number of hundred
dollar bills and said he would shoot it
all on one shot, adding that he won
all that in camp and could win much
more, and after deciding that they
would not fare very well they left,
with the remark that it was a cheap
bunch. The sergeant who had dis
covered them as ‘“dice hustlers” re
marked that they were not as cheap
as they were wise.
Wanted Soldier for Partner.
Inquiries brought out the fact that
there are a number of such ‘dice
hustlers,” who around pay day make
it a poiut to seek out “soft spots” to
glean up” in with their various
ooked methods. Marked cards in
“Black Jack” and poker, ‘strippers”
in “pitch” and “seven-up,” all go to
make them “sure-thing’” gamblers.
One soldier, who has been here for a
number of months, stated that he was
approached by a soldier who was evi
dently a professional gambler with a
proposition te enter into par(x:ership
with him, stating that with his
friendship and the gambler’s knowl
edge of dice and cards they would
prosper. "
“Bald” Jack Rose recently remark
ed that gambling was one of the most
serious problems of camp life. He
seems to have ample grounds for this
statement, and his coming to this
camp was very timely, and it is hoped
that the soldiers who heard him will
heed his warning to cease gambling.
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Flashes From Headquarters.
The meetings addressed by Mil
ton S. Rees, the evangelist, are
very successful, according to Sec
retary McWilliams, religious di
rector, who declared that in every
hut visited by Mr. Rees there
have been a large number of sol
diers who have promised to take
a fresh stand in favor of a vig
orous Christian life.
Secretary 'Sweot declared that
the boxing shows at the Liberty
Theater to be given by the camp
athletic board next Thursday,
; December 19, would be a2 hummer,
Those wishing to meet the title
holders still have a chance to en
ter their names for the show. -
Mr. Campbell of the Department
of Labor has an office in the “Y" §
and is meeting soldiers between
11 and 12 o'clock each day except
Sunday for the purpose of finding
jobs for them in civil life. - Secre
tary Harbold is co-operating with
Mr. Campbell and is also furnish
ing instruction in much-needed
branches of leayning.
Secretary Sampson said one of
the greatest attractions of the
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TOMPKINS TELLS HOW 79TH
BOYS STORMED HILL NO.
Meade Troops Were “in at Death” of
German Army and Won Glory--“ Ken?
Clark Still Singing for “Y.". ,
BY CORP. R. D. GOODWIN.
Welcome news of the 79th Dlvision
reached America through an inter
esting article by ‘Raymond S. Tomp
kins, staff correspondent of the Bals
timore Sun in France, g
Tompkins tells of meeting up with
that division at the front the day be
fore the boche began to run away
from the battlefleld of Verdun. The
Meade boys had relieved the 29th
Division in the hilly, wooded and ‘ma
chine-gun-infested sector east of the
Meuse, just north of Verdun. Both
divisions being Marylanders, the
netvspaper man found himself amid
an avalanche of news.
After nearly a month of steady
fighting the 29th retired far back of
the lines for a well earned rest. This
sector is considered one of the worst
of the war, where the Germans were
fighting harder to hold than any
where else. '
Blue and Gray Division soldiers,
from their foxholes on Le Differende,
had looked longingly across Hill 378
and wished they could go over there
and get it. ‘Tired they were, almost
to .the point of collapse, and the
descent of the cliff and the storming
of the opposite hill would have been
a bloedy job, but they wanted to do
it. The orders never came and they
turned over the mountains and
forests they had won through three
weeks of deadly fighting to the 79th
Division with Hill 378 still in the
hands of the enemy.
In a terrific offensive that began
November 2 the 313th and the 316th
Infantry regiments stormed and cap
tured Hill 378. A battalion of the
313th, the Baltimore regiment, was
leading in an attack on the left of the
line November 7 in order to push in
another salient. This battalion was
commanded by Capt. G. Collison
Burgwin and met with great success.
Another very interesting bit of the
Tompkins' story was the telling .of
his meeting with “Ken” Clark, Y. M.
C. A. man and former Fosdick man at
Camp Meade. He stated that “Ken”
was still manufacturing music on the
same old melodeon he used at Meade.
The part that the Maryland boys
played in the Verdun .sector is told
probably most impressively in the
close of Tompkins’ dispatch:
Thus, before the men whose sternly
plain barracks at Camp Meade you at
home used to contemplate on pleas
ant Sundays with mild, smiling in
terest, mixed, perhaps, with a faint
pity that the “poor boys had it so
hard,” did the German army flee from
the battle fields around Verdun. For
four long years the Hun had strug
gled there to get his clutches on the
citadel. Now he struck with all the
might he could muster, and now he
lurked in his holes in the green hills
to the north and gathered courage
and strength to strike again. Men
died by the hundreds. of thousands;
the crosses on their graves are spread
_in the valleys and on the slopes like
ripening corn rows. And from Mont
faucon the- imperial crown princé
watched the battles and nursed evil
hopes.
Now the evil hopes are gone. The
German army fled. The 79th Division
—Maryland born and bred—was in at
the death. s ik
~ Private Benjamin Pearsall, officially
reported as missing since early in
September, has rejoined his company,
according to a telegram received by
his mother, Mra. Julia Pearsall, 337
West Broad street, Quakertown, Pa.
He was trained at Camp Meade and
‘went to France as a member of the
313th Infantry.
‘Wilson G. Gorr, Allentown, received
a letter from his brother, Private
- John Gorr, Company D, 314th Infan
- try, stating that he is in a hospital in
¥rance recovering from an attack of
fnfluenza. He reports that he was in
a number of battles, and had the sat
isfaction of capturing several Ger
man prisoners, all without a physical
scratch.
Private Louis J. Gruber, twenty
three years old, 2431 Clifford street,
was wounded in action shortly before
the smfnloo was signed. He was
drafted in May and inducted into L
Company, 314th Infantry, Camp Meade
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W N el e A R
ARMY NEWS
FOR ARMY MEN
AND
THEIR HOME FOLKS
R BT ST o
the future that President Wuaotgf Va
afraid to fight” e
Roy Fink, son of A. C. Fink, resigs
ing on Rural Route No. 10, is t
boy from that section to be wounded:
according to’ reports received by the
father. He i 3 in Headquarters Coiis
pany, 316th Infantry, and was stragi
by shrapnel. ‘' He left for Camp Meads
Novomb:‘r 3, 1917, and is twenty-thre
years of, age, R
-Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ritchie of Litits,
who had received a telegram from the
War. Department stating thelr Son
Private Elmer L. Ritchfg Compe
E, 316th Infantry, had been miss 2
since September 28, have been :
lieved of their anxiety by recelyis
a letter from Elmer, dated Nove: 5
12, at Blois, France. He says nothl
about having been “lost,” but tel
of the great celebration soldfers &
civiliang in Blois had together whai™
news of the armistice was recelvesd
They had a band out, American angs
French flags were paraded to tw 6T,
and they ‘“‘sure were a happy bunchs
The soldiers owned the place and
were cheered by people eve nere, 101
all were glad the war was over, -e
Private Joseph . Cherry, ¢ g
North Myrtlewood street, porte:
missing, has not_ been heard £l
since August 26. He was attached @
Company C, 316th Infantry. An offis
cial telegram came to his fathe:
Isaac Cherry, last week, saying %
young Cherry had disappeared QOg¢tos
ber 21. All attempts to locate’ hims
have failed. Relatives living in 8
land have tried, as has also the Amers
ican Red Cross. It was learned f
hés original commanding officer
dead. Private Cherry in Septem!
1917, was sent to Camp Meade;
fell sick and was discharged th
months later. However, he was ¢l
back last May and salled for ¥ran
almost immediately. LR
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Corp. Harry J. Walsh, wounded, ¥
member of Company C, 315th Ing
try. His mother, Mrs. Thomas Wi
recently received a lntterd‘tio n |
fgon, saying he was woun i
latter part of October, but wa
ting along very well and expected !
be back with his company in a i
time. : L
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Sergt. Earl 8. Wood, repos ;
wounded, is a member of the 31 *
fantry and has been in France si
early last spring. He was p omo
first to a corporal and then to he &
sergeant on the fleld of battle fi 7§
lantry in action. He has been gas
shell shocked and wounded, but {8
lieved to be back with his regf
again, as his injury occurred om |
- tober 17 and was not very serious, {
~ cording to his letters. L
- Sergt. Wood is twenty-five 3
old and formerly lived with his g
~er at 4531 Lancaster avenue,
~delphia. : ’-3‘ s
, _ One of the boys who assisted in |
building of Camp Meade, .C&?.
bert J. Schultz, recently li in :
' casualties as having died of wom
~ formerly held a position with Sm
' Hauser & Maclsaac, of Baltimore,:
' resigned to enter the service at @
' Meade, in November, 1917. He 84
' for France last March with =
i supply unit. Dissatisfied
work after arriving overseas, he gi=
' plied for transfer to a fighting &
~ and was assigned to Company I |
. Infantry, a regiment compe ed
| Michigan men. By this transfer
was reduced to the rank of priw
* but later was promoted. -
' _Schultz went through the fighting
L Chateau-Thierry and later at St."
- hiel, and in the last letter recei
from him he told how “every one
" France knows the 32d Division”'s
' also said that his regiment had B
mentioned twice in the Fren
" orders. According to the gover
| telegram, he died of wounds O
. 9. Hia parents, however, have |
: heard how or when he was woundes
Another of “Baltimore’s Own¥,
Lewis _J, Rosenthal, son of Mr.
| Mrs. John Rosenthal, was ‘ree
> cited for bravery. Maj. Ros
- was serving in the Medical Corps
. the 79th Division, and received &
! commendation from Maj. Gen, 3
1 E. Kuhn. Gen. Kuhn, in his el
. said: 32
s attenrtyion has been cal
| the extremely méritorious ran
which you performed your dm
ing the offensive against Moni
- and Nantillois, September 2§
, inclusive, 1918. Your actien
y shellfire, and tmm Yy uns
.flroof‘mlm
n administering to th
'64 and in evacusting the
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