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THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAJf, .FRIDAY, 3IAY 23, 1J10. BHDTHERS DECORATED FOR VALOR ON FIELD Eugen and David Cohn, Inland Empire Men, Win Cross. DEATH SEEKS OUT BRAVEST righting, of 91st at All Times Hard and Effective, Though Toll of Bullets Heavy. Is ET COL.TX V. -DYMKNT. American Red Cross Searcher -with the 31st Division. FORTY-FIFTH ARTICLE. There were two Spokane officera in the Jlst, brothers, each of whom was awarded the distinguished service cross. Eugen Cohn. captain of com pany G. 34 6th infantry, won the cross for services in the Argonne, and David Cohn, first lieutenant, commanding company K, 363d infantry, for bravery on the first morning of the drive in IJelgium. The latter would also have teen a captain now, had he lived, the commission having- been authorized. David Cohn and his company were to go over the top at 5:30 A. M-. Octo ber 31, but just before the zero hour Jie -went a short distance off to see Lieutenant Gentry of company K, and while absent was gassed by a shell. "When he got back to headquarters platoon it was 5:50 and he was acting queerly. His eyes were inflamed and his nose was running. Four of his men had also been gassed, and them he eent to the hospital, as they were vom itintr and snittintr blood: but the lieu tenant, who should have 'gone back kimself because he could scarcely talk -.t- Krr- and because he had even lost tense of direction, said he was going forward. Both the Cohns were indom itable men on the battlefield. Bra-re Man Suffers. The two platoons were all formed nd the commander ordered double time forward to catch up with the first platoon, which having gone off at 5:30 -was now 300 yards ahead. Lieutenant Cohn asked Mechanic John Maher, an Oakland, Cal., man in headquarters platoon, for a compass, although he Jiad one of his own; he also told ilaher to eo to the end of the platoon and swing it off to the right, although it was c-nintr correctly. The lieutenant was not himself. Near a crossroad, a kilometer from the jumpoff line, 'JO or 30 Germans were eeen running across a field, of whom two had fallen behind. Lieutenant Cohn 1nlrt the men to fire at the two and Fhot at them himself with a rifle, I'rivate Leo Helford of 5S6 Fifth street, Portland, having given him five rounds of ammunition. One German leu ana the other hid in one of the numerous farm buildings that dotted this battle field. Officer Seeks Conflict. The lieutenant then tried to get the two platoons within range of the larger group, but the men, after running 100 v yards on the plowed ground, were all in, so they stood and fired, apparent ly without' result. Then machine gur.s opened on com pany K, and most of the men scattered to buiidincs. but Lieutenant Cohn. Me chanic Maher and Private Helford dropped behind a tree and a piece of farm machinery, where the lieutenant prot out his map; but was so far pone from the gassing that he did not seem to know just what he -wanted. A -machine gun opened from the left front, and it got him. lie was struck in the left side and the lung was touched. He fell over backward, but Ticked himself up, and with Maher and Herford rushed into a house. ran through to the rear of it and seized a pump-handle, but fell, unable to pump. The men got a cup, gave him water, Jut a bedspread under him, and began to take off his clothes. He asked that Sergeant Walker take charge of the two platoons, but just then Walker came in with a wound in the knee, so fee said to get Sergeant Hall. He was put into bed, and more bedding was got, as he said he was cold. Then he began worrying about the company. "When the company needs me, I'm tot there." he said, and his helpless ness troubled him. Milk was heated ttnd given him. He lay there till 4:30. He asked after Lieutenant Gentry of the other platoon, who, meanwhile, had been fatally hurt. At 4:30 he was started rearward, and that night an ambulance got him to evacuation hospital No. 5 at Staden, here he died the next morning at 8:55. Signal Brings Dentil. First Lieutenant Rowdy Gentry had ferot away at 5:32 A. M. For two hours his first platoon worked its way for ward by short rushes, getting cover in ditches, behind buildings and along hedges. Gentry was smoking the curved briar pipe that was commonly in his mouth while in action. About 7:30 A. . the lieutenant waved his arm from the ditch in which he was lying: his signal that another rush should be made. He was lying in mud and water. Perhaps a sniper saw the arm wave, for as the lieutenant crawled out of the ditch he was shot in the chest. One of his runners, Thomas Tiritilli, of 1414 Spruce street, Chicago, was two or three feet behind and saw his com mander fall back into the mud and water. In about ten minutes Tiritilli and another private tried to lift him out, but he said. "Don't move me." He could not breathe very well, he told them. Finally they got him into the shell hole where Tiritilli had been lying and put a blanket over him. At 11 A. M, he was carried back to a building, un der fire, where coffee was made for him ana Cry socks put on. He was later taken to Staden, 25 miles away, where he died on the night of the 31st at 10 P. M. His father lives in Green ville, Tenn. The loss of these two lieutenants brought great sorrow to men of Company iv. Breathes Defiance to Last. Lieutenant Clinton K. Coburn was another officer to meet his end -with characteristic 91st bravery, on the morning of October 31. He had a com bination of first and fourth platoons and was in the l-ad of an assaulting company L of the 362d. At 8 A. M. he was hit in the chest, as Cohn and Gentry had been. He lay in a ditch until 4 P. M. A runner named Shoe maker lit a cigarett&for him and asked If he could do anything for him. The lieutenant said, "No, tell the cap tain if I could breathe as a man should, those wouldn't stop me." It was then still forenoon. At 4 in the afternoon Lieutenant Van Dusen and a party went to him, hut he would not let them move him till they had gone forward to see a corporal and a private, both of whem they found dead. Then he wanted them first to move Sergeant Otto Fackrell, but they took the lieutenant out. He died in ten days from pneumonia. "It made the company sorry the war as over when it heard of his death It wanted one more crack at the Ger mans because of him," said Alex Tait, a sergeant of Dillon, Mont. Battle Area Tricky. Two other lieutenants killed the Same morning -were John P. Mahon and flohn A. Kelley, both of. K, 36-0. Ala hon fell about 6:15. Sergeant Simon Hyo found him, shot through the stomach, and the lieutenant askfed if he could give him first aid. Hoy Baid he could, and the lieutenant rolled i over to permit his belt to be loosened. As it was loosened, blood gushed out and he died. Kelley, a lieutenant of wit and humor, had risen from the ranks on the battlefield. He Is said to have been a private In the Chateau Thierry drive. Meanwhile the resistance was of the nastiest kind all along the two and a half mile front. Fritz was full of tricks. He would wait till men got well com mitted to an area, then open fire from flanks. Machine guns were found chained to cover a certain spot that troops must cross; the gunner had noth ing to do but shoot the gun. Certain companies were punished hard. Com pany L of the 363d had 13 men killed or fatally wounded the first forenoon; two from Wyoming, two from middle west states and the others from California. Californlans Are Killed. Company I had five killed, all Cal- ifornians. Company K had three men. all Californians. killed, in addition to Lieutenants Gentry and Cohn. One was Corporal Louis W. Eatchelor of 176 Sixth avenue, San Francisco, who was taking a German prisoner to the rear. The prisoner had been caught in a ma chine gun nest of four, and the remain ing three had been killed. Possibly the prisoner steered him to ground cov ered by a rifle sniper: anywav. he doubled up, fell and died almost at once. "Tell my wife I died happily and eas ly," said First Lieutenant Gerhard F. Hartwig of the medical corps of the 363d infantry, who had helped estab lish a dressing station in a Belgian building right at the jump-off line, and into whose surgical room two shells came about 6 A. M. The first man in at this dressing station was a walking case, whom Lieutenant Hartwig or dered dressed, and evacuated. Mean while Lieutenant Huberz of company C, 363d, was brought in on a stretcher with wounds in his shoulder, spine, one leg and right arm. Sergeant Spurgeon began dressing the lieutenant and had just looked over to see what Lieutenant Hartwig was doing with the walking case when the first of the two shells tore a hole in the east wall and blew a door from the dressing-room, but hurt no one. Shell Demolishes Station. Sergeant Spurgeon had stooped over to continue his dressing when, in 15 seconds after the first shell, a second came, lifting him out through the door onto another wounded man. a walker who had just arrived for attention. Lientenant Hartwig lived between 30 and 50 minutes. His -last words were: "Get Captain Johnson and run the sta tion till he comes." The lieutenant was from Wadena. Minn. Lieutenant Sidney Vermilyea from Dresden, N. T., also of the 363d infantry medical corps, died the following day at Mobile No. 9 at Staden. having been strucK Dy the second shell. A fine big Seattle soldier was killed about 10 A. M. of the 31st Private John G. Shanahan of 15 West Boston street. ith Lieutenant Cobb, Lieu tenant Rogers and Sergeant Andy Law iuji, an vi company tj, 3b3a, ne was well out in front, when 25 or 30 Ger mans around farm buildings about 200 yards away opened fire with light field guns, and at the same time machine guns opened from the right rear. See ing tney were almost surrounded, the lieutenants ordered a retirement. Shan ahan was lying in a ditch. The sergeant cauea to mm as the party retired, uitih on, we re going to the rear now." The sergeant heard no answer and Shanahan was soon after fatally wounaea. Turnip Patches Bad Place, While the battle of the turnip patches is not talked about as the righting in the Argonne is. it was nasty fight nevertheless, especially on the first day, when the oldtimers were reminded of the tough machine gun and sniper resistance on the Plateau Uiil 1 - ltrprz i . n- Clothes that Serve You Well Men of good judgment know that the clothes sold at this store are in all respects worthy of being worn. My personal guaranty of entire satisfaction through out the life of every garment insures you against the pos sibility of only mediocre quality. rAs a matter of fact the clothes I sell are the best ready- for - Service clothes made in America; fabric, style and workmanship are -required to be in perfect harmony. You will say that these clothes are very fairly priced. $18 to $60 Morrison street at Fourth; sn "LJBEJCTY CQgNHtT t-' LAST TIMES TODAY AND SATURDAY SO DON'T ? MISS (1 t THIS 2251 THE PICTURE EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Ethel Clayton in "VICKY VAN" John Hunt, a Seattle eurgeon, and a Spokane surgeon. Captain Herbert E. Wheeler, was one of . the ' operators. Captain Sam Standard of Huntington, Or.; Lieutenant (not captain) W. F. Brinkman of' Red Lodge, Mont., were other operators from northwestern states in what had the reputation of being a high-class surgical Qutflt. In tomorrow's installment the fight ing of November 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 will be described, and on Sunday the serial will be concluded. above Very canyon and in the Epinon vilie orchards on September 27, and when the new replacements got a taste of action at close quarters on a line that r'ritz wanted to hold if he could at least until a retreat in the rear could be cleanly effected. The handling of wounded was con sidered fast and good in Belgium. The division had ambulances of its own In this drive, and it was possible for these vehicles to go on good and fairly cafe roads right to the jump-off line. Men did not have to wait so long as in the Argonne, and the experience of 'the Argonne enabled a fast system to be built up. The efficient surgical outfit of the 362d field hospital company, with its Spokane, Portland and Seattle person nel, operated first at Oyghem. but on the night of November 1 moved up to Waereghem, to which the 363d and 364th field hospitals also came, 361 re maining at Roulers. The commander of the 362d field hos pital company was Captain (now major) JURY DISAGREES ON GUILT Testimony In Assault and Battery Case Given by Charles Chilton. Warren Brown, aged 20, clinched an argument with Charles Chilton, aged 55, with such strenuous measures that Chilton spent a week in bed before h could swear out a warrant against his assailant for assault and battery, waa testimony in the court of District Judge Bell yesterday. . Brown went to the home of Chilton, 997 East Thirty-first street north, on May 12 and in an argument ensuing over unpaid bills is said to have knocked Chilton dawn twice In the lat- ter's home and twice on the side walk in front of the house. The jury disagreed yesterday and a retrial will be necessary. Persians Want U. S. Aid. NEW TOP.K. Mav 22. Persia would like to be "taken under the wing" of the United States, John L. Caldwell, American minister to that country said today before going aboard steamship to return to Teheran. He was recently called to Paris by President Wilson, to furnish information regarding affairs in Persia. VANCOUVER PLANS BONFIRE Bov Scouts and Commercial Club to ''' , Celebrate Peace Treaty. VANCOUVER. Wash., May 22. (Spe cial.) To help the Boy Scouts proper ly celebrate the signing of the treaty of peace, a committee from the Com mercial club was appointed by the president of the club last night. The appointment was made at the request of Scout-master-W. L. Zabel and F. C Bennet, who appeared before the club and said that the scouts would cele brate the occasion by a big bonfire. The committee appointed are: E. E. Beard, juvenile officer; P. J. Flynn and A. W. Calder. Secretary E.. N. Livermore was in structed by the club to get into touch with the congressional committee, for the purpose of ascertaining if a lease to certain government-owned water front property could be Becured for dockage purposes. Seattle Man Bishop of .Nebraska. OMAHA, May 22. The Rev. Vincent Shayler of Seattle, was Bishop of Nebraska at the Episcopal Diocesan convention today. 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