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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1919)
5 OF 91ST Hats for Men Dunlap, Stetson Trimble, Connett Smart Shapes in the Spring Color Tones Men Incur Any Permitted Risk .. to Help Comrades. ARMY MEDICS UNDER FIRE EraTery Displayed . While Battle Hugos Slakes Warm Feelings in Doughboys' Hearts. Five Dollars to Eight THE MOEXIXG OltEGOXIAN, SATURDAY, MAT 17, 1919. W ED 6VEN 6000 CARE .117 A bj"U i n MntiiitfuBia BT COLIN V. DTMENT, i&merlcan Red Cross Searcher with the 91st Division. THIRTY-MXTH ARTICLE When a 91st man was wounded bs (was usually given first aid by members cf the same company, then taken back o a dressing station, sometimes called tattalion aid .stations. There were times when infantrymen had orders to Btop for nothing-, not even for wounded Jnen; times when the issue depended on Speed; and then the wounded were left Sor the medics, or until the doughboys Said reached their obiective. It is true that wounded sometimes lay out quite a while; true that at times the trip to the hospital took a long- time; true also that some did not get first aid for an hour or more; but emergencies were to blame, for it is also true that the 91st tried hard to protect its wounded, and that the men would incur any permit ted risk to help in a comrade. Each large unit like a regiment or a machine-gun battalion had its medical corps. Each regiment had an infirmary when not in action, and in action had an advanced dressing station. The regimental stations were behind the battalion aid stations, when the latter were operated, and were from half a mile to a mile and a half behind the tnost advanced line. Look Journey Xeceaaarr. Behind the regimental stations, again, fwere the field hospitals, four in num ber, usually about six miles from the most advanced line and so fairly free from the shellfire. The field hospitals fed the evacua tion hospitals, 12 to 18 miles from the 91st lines, and from the evacuation hospitals the men were sent to one of the hundreds of base hospitals all over France. Thus the normal experience of a wounded man was as follows: To be picked up by companions or medics, given first aid, carried in a blanket or a slicker or on a stretcher to bat talion first aid or a regimental sta tion, go in an ambulance to the field hospital, go in an ambulance to an evacuation hospital, go by train to a base hospital, then by train to another base, and so on, until in two or three weeks, if not too badly wounded, the soldier might be 300 miles from his or ganization. Major Sellwood Man of Conrage. The 361st infantry station followed Its men very closely, and from Septem ber 29, to October 4 was in the south of the Bois de Cierges, two-thirds of a mile behind the front line as it stood during Hundred Hours. The regiment al surgeon of the 361st in the Argonna was Major John Sellwood, who was transferred from the ?3d field hospit al company before action began. The courage of tnis Portland physi cian under the Argonne shelling was much talked of by the boys, to whom he was a bold and picturesque charac ter. Captain Paul Brown, a Minnesota physician, also worked all through the Argonne under haavy fire, a shell at one time falling at the edge of his Cierges Woods station. killing and wounding several. Lieutenant L. C. Mcintosh was another 361st physician who saw some hot action. Major Van Clove Tnder Shell Fire Major Archie "Van Cleve of Portland was regimental surgeon of the 362d. His wound stripe was awarded for gas. In the Argonne the 36i'd station was also, under much shellfire, and near Epinonville. It lost a good man on the night of October 3, the night of relief, when Private Robert D. Mason of Oak land was killed. Mason's courage was great; he was always ready to go to the front; on this night he said a good deal of shelling had been going on up aneaa ana tnat ne mignt De neeaea. The major wanted to send another man in his place, but Mason, though he had been up most ol the time for nights. Insisted on going. The advanced dressing station of the S62d was then in the Boise de Cierges; the regimental station was near Epi nonville. Mason was dressing a victim of the heavy barrage of 5:04 to 5:40 when a shell fragment took off his head, bruised the back of Lieutenant Kussell C. Parr of Davenport, Wash., a. 362d physician, and injured a second attendant. Northwestern Men in Hospitals. From the 364th regimental station Jn Eclisfontaine, the 363d southwest of Eclisfontaine, the 362d at Epinon ville, and the 361st in the Cierges woods, ambulances from the 29th to the 4th had to pass through Epinonville, "Very canyon and Very to get to the field hospitals. The 364th field hos pital company had its tents between Very and Cheppy, after the 2ath; the 363d, 362d and 361st were in the north west corner of Cheppy woods, two miles southeast of Very. Because these field hospital com panies were recruited so largely from northwestern men, some account will be given of their movements and work. Together with the 361st, 362d, 363d and 364th ambulance companies, and headquarters, they composed the 316th sanitary train. They were quar tered at the village of Brabant, south, of the Foret de Hesse, for the first three days of the drive, but handled there only about 400 men. Brabant was hard to reach because the ambu lances had to travel south over con gested roads that were carrying most of their traffic north. It was no joke to be stuck on the road 10 hours with an ambulance load of wounded, as once or twice happened, or to spend hours getting a few nriles back to the front. So early on the 29th, the whole out fit moved up, pitching tents in the new location that evening, and receiv ing wounded at once. - Staffs in the Argonne. In the Argonne a part of the field nospital staffs was as follows; 361st Major William H. Breuer, St. James, Mo., commanding officer; Cap tain Walter S. Lay. New Haven, Conn.; Captain William Rice of Wisconsin, Captain Dunn, Xorth Dakota; Lieuten ant (now captain) Griffiths, Montana. 362d Captain (now major) John Hunt, Seattle, commanding officer; Cap tain Herbert E. Wheeler, Spokane: Cap tain (now major) Frederick II. Coller, Los Angeles; Captain Samuel C. Stan dard, Huntington, Or.; Captain George Perkins Tolman, Watsonville, Cal.; Lieutenant (now captain) W. F. Brink man, Red Lodge, Mont.; Captain Will iam F. Beitsch, New Brighton, Pa.; Lieutenant-Colonel Harry B. Reynolds. Palo Alto, Cal., attached to surgical unit in Brabent and Cheppy woods. 363d Major Irwin, Montana, com- tnanding officer; Captain (now major) W. Carlton Smith. Salem, Or.; Captain Peterson. Vallejo, Cal.: Captain Richard Ross. Salt-m, ir. 364th, Major John W, .Colbert, uim- r "" i.:.3frirrte z...,..-.. -. J Teaching the Boy to Look for the Label! Saturday Is Boys' Day at My Store IT TAKES a good suit of clothes to wear one of my labels. I can't afford to have them sewed on anything; that is not worthy, because, in the first place I don't want to sell that kind of clothes and, in the second place, inasmuch as I guarantee the buyers' entire satisfaction with any thing bought in my store, only clothes that will give full serv ice find a place here. Bring your boys to me to be clothed ; teach them that the label stands for something for a principle in business affairs, just the same as they know that the emblem of a nation stands for a principle in world affairs. It will do the boys good to learn how to buy how to look for the label, whether it be a piece of paper, a piece of cloth, or a good name ! Two-Knicker Belted Suit Regularly Priced $15 and $16.50 Only $11.85 This is a genuine saving on a lot of mighty good boys' suits. Look them over with the boys today. Wash Suit Special $2.50 and $3.00 Wash Suits priced at $1.08 $1.50 Wash Suits 98 These are well-made suits in white and in fast colors. On display today. Great Blouse Special $1 and $1.25 Blouses. .. .7o The best blouses in Portland at the price. Trade -marked kinds K. & E., Bell, etc . In light and dark stripes. Boys Shop, Second Floor exiSelllxi 4i-iMorrisoiiStreet at Fourth BEN SELLING LEADING HATTER Morrison Street at Fourth manding officer: Captain (now major) Marion M. Jones, Portland. Or.; Lieu tenant Vanderboget, Seattle, and others. The staff of the 362d, the enlisted personnel of which was largely from Portland. Spokane and Seattle, handled the surgical work In the Cheppy woods Doctors were on shift 12 hours and averaged 12 to 15 cases a shift, apiece. By this major cases are meant; most of the minor cases had been fixed at the regimental stations so that they could go on out to the Aire river valley to the evacuations; other minor cases were handled outside the main operating room. From the nieht of September 29, when the 361st. 362d and 363d field hos pitals pitched their first tente In the Cheppy woods, ft October 6, when they took them down, they handled about 2000 cases. Gas cases-went to a spe cial tent for observation by Major Ray W. Matson of Portland, division gas officer. The term s,hell shock was not recognized In the Argonne. Men hurt by actual concussion were termed wounded men; those who were un nerved by the- shell ire. as can happen legitimately enough, were called men tal and nervous cases and came to Major Robert Percy Smith of Seattle. The triage work, was handled by the 361st. Surgeon'! Work Wonderful. Many a man has har'ted back to the wonderful surgical work done In the Cheppy woods by the surgeons of Major Hunt's unit. Though they worked In a tent on bare ground, wHh makeshift light and inadequate water, In day and night , shifts without proper sleep and food, the Seattle officer and his fellow surgeons turned off case after case as well done as they are done in the best equipped hospitals at home. Even the hardest kind of abdominal surgery was done; it had to be done, regardless of the surroundings. The four ambulance- companies car ried four doctors each, besides the commanding officer. These companies did not have their own ambulances in the Argonne. The work of the 91st was done by -4wo S. S. U. units. The com manding officers were: 361st, Captain John Eberle Kuykendall of Eugene, or, who died at LeMans, France, in February of tubercular meningitis, and who received notice of his promotion to major on the day before- he expired; J62d, Captain (now major) Harry Moore. Portland, Or.; 364th. Captain (now major) Carl J. Swenson of Port land. The director of ambulance com panies in the Argonne was 1 Captain Floyd Lewis. When Captain Lewis was wounded Jn Belgium, Major Swen eon became the director. Lirntenant-Colonel Slrohm Commended, lhe division surgeon in the Argonne was uoionei feter C. Field, of the regu lar army, who was succeeded in Bel gium ty Major (now lieutenant-col onei) buy Mrohm of Portland. The sanitary officer of the division was .Major (now lieutenant-colonel) J. M. Mount of Oregon City, Or. These two men have received much commenda tion. Jn addition, each machine-gun bat- la-uun, tne signal Dattaiion, the am munition train and the 316th engineers, naa medical men. Each field hospital and each largo unit bad a dentist. The division had a neurologist, Lieutenant Pius Rohrer, Spokane; a mobile field laboratory man. Lieutenant William J-coss, and a water inspector. Comman ders of the whole sanitary train were Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds at Camp "wis, in tne naute Marne and at Rare- court; Major Stanley H. Berry of Oak land in the Argonne and Belgium, and Major v uuam t. Breuer Jn the em barkation area when Major Berry be came division athletic officer. There were thus about 60 physicians accompanying the Slst. To many world of personal praise is due. It is no wonder the doughboy came out of the Argonne forest with a warm feel ing for army medics. In the 40th installment the writer will tell how the division was tempo rarily .f,tit arir o.-tobpr 7. part go i"S southward to rest, part going back for the second, phase, of the Arsonne drive. The second fighting of the 181st brigade north of Gesnes will be begun. Early Strawberries Sold. HOOD RIVER. Or, cial.) Strawberries May 16. (Spe in commercial quantities are arriving here from the Hood. Wash., ranch of Wilbur Galligan. 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