MEDFORD MAIL' TRIBUNE, tEDFORP, OREGON, THURSDAY, XUGUST 16, 1934.
Thelme, of Berkeley, Calif., were over,
night gueeta at the borne of Mra. Vet.
tel'a aleter, Mra. W. M. Kanaen Tuea
day. Mr. and Mra. Ed Tucker and Mr.
and Mra. Earl Tucker and children
enjoyed a picnic In the park at Aah-
land on Sunday of laat week.
George Brown and daughter, Helen,
and John Beam made a trip to
Huckleberry mountain last Thursday.
Mra. Jeese Glaae had as guesta on
Tuesday of last week Mra. Albert Glass
and daughter, Miss Irma. Other
guest at the Olaaa home on Friday
were Mrs. Blyham and daughters and
Mra. Askew.
Miss Dally of Medford la In charge
of Wright's store and aerrlce atatlon
while Mr. and Mrs. Wright and
the coaat. Bill 8waln accompanied
them on the trip.
Mr. and Mra. Percy Henry and
children or Imperial valley arrived
Tuesday for an extended visit with
their parenta, Mr. end Mrs. J. D. Henry
and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Tucker.
Gertrude Bloomlngcamp of Horn
brook, Calif., la a guest at ths boms
of her aunt. Mra. L. J. feobrer and
uncles, W. M. and O. A. Hansen and
families.
Use Mall Tribune want ada.
Beat Uer on Holidays
BRIDGEPORT, O. (UP) Married
In 1930. George T. Koch observed
Labor Day the next year and New
Year'a of 1933 by beating his wile,
Sadie, she charged In a divorce pe
tltlon. Brownsboro
BROWNSBORO. Aug. 19. (Spl.)
Mr,. Ruth Vettel and daughter.
children are spending a few daya at
BY RECENT DEATH
Jackson County Veteran Res
cued Wounded Comrade
From Inferno of Exploding
Munitions Dump in 1918
PXGE TWELVE
Edward Fswcett, who ws fatally
Injured Tuesday, at the head of El
liott creek In aisklyou county, la the
subject of the following Interesting
communication published tn the Med
ford Mall Tribune, November 10, 1023:
To the Editor:
This la a acoop on a war story that
broke more than seven years ago; as
big a story of heroism as the World
war or any other ever produced; a
story that merely proves that the
poet knew bis oil when he ssld: "Full
many a tale of purest ray serene, the
dark unfathomed eaves of alienee
bear."
When the medals and the war dec
orations are proudly displayed tomor
row on the chest of many a worthy
hero celebrating the Armistice anni
versary, one of Jackson county's stal
wart sons, E. C. Fawcett, will In all
probability be peacefully digging In a
mine In the alienee of the hills of
Jackson county, and yet for colfl
grey nerve, for Individual bravery,
Fawcett's feat, on the war swept
Vesle, back In August or 1918, has
parallel In the annals of war.
If you can get the picture of
continuous drum fire of falling shells,
of s big ammunition dump
with tons of big shells, band grenades
and explosives, on fire and explod
lng with the regularity of firecrack
ers on a Chinese new year; of a
wounded soldier with clothes on fire,
lying In the center of this Inferno;
of soldiers fleeing In ail directions
from the falling explosives; then you
can gather some Idea of Fawoett'a
remarkable feat.
Fawcett bad Just put In five days
And nights of volunteer service In
packing grub and ammunition thru
sv none awept by machine gun fire;
fee was weak and sick with dysentery,
but when his great opportunity came
he did ot hesitate or measure the
chancea. Here la the story, as writ
ten by an eye witness, Ollbert Stuart,
sow one of the foremost building
contractors In southern Oregon:
This happened I think, on the
fith day of August, 1018. When Jerry
fell back from the Marne river, he
left large dumpa of ammunition acat
tered along the roada. There was
one of these dumps (a big one) on
the road above Cherre Chartreuse, a
bunch of 150's some 77'a, lota of pow
der, hand grenades and all other kinds
of explosive Junk, This dump wan
about a mile or a mile and a half
from the Vesle river.
1 There was quite a war on the Vesle,
The Americans (we were with the 4th
division) crossed the river on August
4. but the German defense was too
atrong and our losses too heavy to
gain more ground.
"The fighting was heavy for aev
eral daya, but about the 8th of Au
gust the Americans quit attacking
and started building defensive works.
We, the engineers, were digging
ditches, stringing barbed wire, and
all of the other stuff that goea with
war. The company to which Ed Faw
cett and X belonged were camped
within about 200 yards of the cap
tured German ammunition dump,
dug Into the regular 'fox holes' for
alee ping quarters. We worked the
night of the 8th, stringing wire and
digging trenches near Munt Saint
Mar tan, and came back at aayllght to
aleep. O company, of the aame regi
ment were working In the woods near
where we had been atrlnglng wire,
but were sheltered by the trees so
could work In the daytime. Along
about 5 o'clock In the afternoon (we
of R company had slept during the
day, and were waiting for chow) two;
squads of O company men were com
ing back from their work on the road
that led by the ammunition dump.
I don't know what set that dump
off. There were lots of shells com
ing over, also German planes had
been bombing quite a .lot and one
or the other got a direct hit and the
dump blew up; first, a terrific roar,
and then the continuous explosion
of shells. Most of the men going by
were killed, several more were wound
ed. One of the men, badly wounded,
maa lying by the exploding pile of
shells. Ed Fawoett saw It happen and
saw the wounded man lying helpless.
It wasn't a pleasant place, sheila of
different sires wero bursting all
around, cast Iron was raining all over
the country, I think everybody that
could get under cover did so. I know
X did.
Ed didn't dive Into a hole, Instead
he wslked Into that Inferno of ex- i
plodlng shells, took that 300 pounds
of helpless wounded soldier and drag
ged him to aafety. Thai's about all
there was to the greatest exhibition !
of cool nerve thai I saw or heard i
about In the war." j
(filgned) GILBERT STUART, !
Ex-buck private, 4th engineer.
Had Fawoett served In the British
army, tt u safe to any that within
a week he would have been deco
rated with Britain's greatest war med-1
al, the Victoria Cross. Months after
ward, down In Germany, he received
a carbon copy of a citation, written ,
on paper that was but little better
than wrapping psper that a butcher
uses for meat.
Fawcett Is of the quiet and retlr- j
lng type. He was well past 40 when
he en ll.i ted for the war, and there '
are not In Jackson county, or the
state of Oregon, outside of hie com
rades in the service, a doren people
who ever heard of hla war exploits.
All of which goea to show the wis-:
dom of Grsy, when he wrote his fsm
ous elegy. K. K. KELLY.
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