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SERGEANT
LOSES LAST
GAME FIGHT
AN A.MKKK'AN HOSPITAL IN
l- UANi'K. Nov . •> - a they’it »•
going to bring the Sergeant back t**
the ward. boy..”
Thos** wore exactly the words th«
nurse used. Hut the tone of her voice
and the look in her eyes said more.
The little group in the ward which
had been playing cards on one *»f th
beds to forget the tension they fe:‘.
while the sergeant's operation wa
taking place. stopj* d -suddenly . aH
attention, all hungering for good
news.
“You don’t mean the sergeant »
•.'■one .do you? exclaimed one.
•‘Yes boys, the Sergeants’ gone.
hour operations were just too much
or his strength. He never regain <•
••
consciousness.
The little group of patients and t'n*
nur>e were silent.
The chap with one leg gone hn<
half a deck of cards in his hand.
Dazed, he relaxed , and the cards f .'
Jo the floor, scattering over half the'
ward. The chap with one leg gon
never noticed then).
He Was a Game Hoy.
“Gee, the Sergeant’s gone.” he sa*«i
Duskily, “he sure was a game hoy.”
“He was the best fellow I ev* r
viicw." said another, “and the cheer
fulest. too. j ’ve seen then) dressing
his leg tini • and again and gosh! but
it hurt. Hut did the Sergeant ever
-ay anything? Not the Sergeant —he
never batted an eye.”
“.Ju>t to thin; . in-.sed the third, *’it
a*; -n't huh* a * hour ago when we sav.
him go out . I shouted, ‘Good luck,
- 1 -T- . —:: .■
I
Surge,’ when th<* stretcher was car
i ried through the dour, and he smiled '
i and said, "Thanks, I’ll be*back in a
1 few minutes with you."
!
I They sat there together, the half a j
dozen of the Sergeant’s bunkies, all ;
invalids, with the nurse of the ward- 1
1 just musing and talking like that, try
ing to realize that the Sergeant was
gone. Mess time came and went,
and no one paid any attention to »t j
—they were thinking only of the Ser- j
geant.
The Sergeant was Frank Carbaugb
of (Jrccneastle, a member of the
7th Machine-gun Sanitary detach
ment. His mother is Mrs. t arbaug*. ,
i and no mother ever reared a braver
i son.
Didn’t Talk of Deeds.
The Sergeant , who was a teacher
of mathematics before the war, was
wounded when his outfit was rushed
I into action near Chateau Thierry.
None of his bunkies knew just how,
because as one of them explained,
"The Sergeant wasn’t the kind of a
fellow who’d talk of himself. You
can bet he was wounded doing som* -
thing for somebody, though.”
They did know that the Sergeant
lay out in the open a long time after j
he was wounded. Medical records
showed thut. His leg was badly j
smashed, and they operated at the
first hospital ho reached. 1’ut gan
grene had set in, and four operations
had followed in an effort to save hit
They have had lots of brave patients j
that doctors and nurses and patients,
admired alike, in that hospital, but
never one just like the Sergeant, who j
said little, was always joking an i
cheerful, and never had a complaint
The rest of the boys in the ward
would do anything in the world for
“the Surge.”
The little group sitting on the cot-,
with the nurse, had been talking o/
the Sergeant for a long time when one
of the boys said, “You ought to write1
to his mother, Miss Cutter. The
Surge thought the world of his mothc i
you know.”
“I’m going to,” replied the uurs:\
“You boys write out what you think j
of the Sergeant, and I’ll send that,
too.”
What the Boy* Wrote.
The boy did. and here are a few
lines from them; »
Private Klmer Hyland wrote, “l
was w ith him as soon as ho came j
fiorn the operation, and l cried when
he went. He was a great boy— a j
clean fellow through and through. 1 !
| wish my foot was so l could walk |
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with him to the cemetery.”
Wagoner John Trask wrote, "Our
Sergeant i* gone. Why, I loved thui
fellow like my own brother. I've se
other fellows go but I never felt like
this."
Sergeant Vincent Sauer wrote, "i
never felt worse since 1 came in
fight. He was game to the last, a1
iways cheerful, and when 1 call'd
“Good luck to you' he answered it*
“Thanks, I'll be 0 K. soon.' We f •
•
ways had fun around his bed, he wi *
so cheerful. He was one of the fine t
fellows l ever knew.”
Arthur Strain, who knew the Ser
geant better than the rest, the ho; s
say, because “he. and the Surge liked j
to dabble in poetry,” wrote a poem i
to send the Sergeant's mother.
They buried the Sergeant in the IP- !
tie American graveyard in a pretty j
Lorraine valley, with an American |
flag over the coffin, as eighteen so • i
<
diers fired three shots over the gniv*
and the bugler gave “taps". Then
some of the boys whose injuries pr •
mitted their attending the funerrd
gathered flowers in the vailey and
the nurses placed them on the gruv*
with red, white and blue ribbon * j
around them.
RAZOR DISPLAY
PUT NEGROES IN
THE FRONT LINES!
!
WITH THE AMERICAN TROOP.;}
IN FRANCE. Nov., 5- (Corrcspor. ]
donee of The Associated Presa)—
American negro soldiers in Fran i
are u source of now-ending intc’vrt
and amusement to the French, who
.to not tire of watching and listening j
an they weild picks and shovels, and!
.hunt us they work in a wierd nrnorj
ker.
They have ehoun a fearlessn» -j
amounting Almost to utter indiff< * j
ence if their white officers an? with
them -- a carelessness nhere personel [
danger is involved that is at once am-;
aging and sometimes annoying to th*
officers, and a desire to fight th •*;
amounts to a mania.
The American negio soldier, in the j
words of colonel who commands u re* \
giment of them and hus for yea* s j
known a good deal about their elm • j
acterustics, is very close to a fntah'i;
when it comes to fear. Repeatedly h^.
own troops bandy ivmorks among!
then)selves, the gist of which is about •
as follows:—
‘‘Don’t worry' about that shell, Rav- j
tus. It ain’t got your number or. it.”}
Ami the shell scream* by, the ne
groes who believe it has not their*
number stand idly around and expose
themselves as they should not The
colonel frankly admits being *fr.ii<;
when big shell? an- flying al>oMt, and
seeks cover.
The first i*cg;ment which went i«
to action, long i go now, went in pri
marily because it threatened to de- ;
cimate itself in inactivity. Razors and ;
knives came more and more freely in*!
to play, and the men demunde 1 so fre
quently and m> ,nsi8tantly of tS*ir of
ficers why they might not get some
action that it was finally ammgvd j
for them. They proved quite as siren- j
uous *ighter» ;n the h'ne «« they had |
behind it.
It goc* without saying that tlw ««• -!
gro soldier is ns boastful as any in j
x. similar profession. The Marines;
had just covered themselves with i
glory in the Cfvtteau Thierry f^*»t j
when u delegation from a negro regi
ment in tine in a quiet sector Wftjted
cr the commandinr offieec and n k< J
if they l<*> might not get in on th'*
“fun”. i
* J
"Let iv- go in. colonel” they stM. j
“We the only real fightc*j. Thu j
Marines are all right of eours . but!
iiwt let us hare a \7hack ut the Bocbe, j
Then tl o Man won’t be in It. And i
if for ten t, i.ord they don't count
at all.*'
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e.lien properly custodian. This
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Hawaiian augur industry and also
means the destruction of th© center of
German propaganda in the Pacfic.
Kskimo reindeer herders of Ala&a
are being orgartiwd in ©Her that
they may systematic the care if
deer. The organisation is to be known
as the Reindeer Men’s Association
and will be controlled by th© head
herders. Government teachers are as
•iitiog; the. Native* to organic.
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