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THE IIOSriTAL BREEZE, AUGUST 2, 1919. LATE D. S. C. AWARDS.

CROIX DE GUERRE TO AMBULANCE MEN LITTLE BREEZES 1st cl. Kent Hagler, Pvt. 1st cl. Geo. W.

Hall, Pvt. John Stewart Halladay, Pvt. Clarence Hamilton, Sergt. Herbert Hammer, Pvt. 1st cl.

Harry 8. Hansbury, Pvt. 1st cl. Glen W. Ilar-ker, Pvt.

1st cl. Lloyd Hartel, Pvt. 1st cl. Herbert Harvey. Pvt.

Kenneth American Medical Men Receive Coveted French Award With Bronze Star. F. W. llerriott of the Red Cross, spent the week-end In Ottawa, Kan. FIFTY-TWO MEDICS GO OUT TOMORROW Pvt.

1st el. Ben Krelg has taken the place of Sgt. Raymond Waters in the registrar's office. WILL LEAVE 209 ENLISTED 31 E.N IN DETACHMENT. J.

J. Holloway, general secretary of the Knights of Columbus, is ill at his quarters, with lumbago. Forty.nlne Will lie Kelcaxed at Fort Riley Others Transferred For Discharge. A. Harvey, Pvt.

Robert Hausman, Sergt. 1,. James Heber, Pvt. John J. Heinz, Pvt.

lstcl. Gaylor Hensold, Pvt. 1st cl. Phillip A. Herrick.

Pvt. 1st cl. James Heurter, Pvt. 1st cl. Ivan G.

Hodson, Sergt. Lavitte B. Hoffman, Corp. Ritter Holman, Pvt. lsttcl.

Henry Hood, Pvt. 1st Sherman A. Hooker, Pvt. 1st cl. John G.

Hopkins, Pvt. 1st cl. Walter L. Hopkins, Pvt. lstcl.

Charles G. Hoskins, Pvt. Cieon W. Howell, Pvt. Lorenzo E.

Howell. Pvt. -lstcl. Leister How-ett, Pvt. 1st cl.

Julien Howze, Pvt. 1st cl. Edwin Hushes, Pvt. lstcl. George Hulse, Pvt.

1st d. James Huston, Pvt. 1st cl. Armold C. Hutchinson, Pvt.

1st -cl. Charles S. Jatho, Pvt. 1st cl. Frank Jernejcie, Pvt.

1st cl. Grocer J. Jobe, Sergt. Henning Johnson, Mrs. Charles Anderson of Kansas City, is the guest of Mrs.

Ida Parker and Mrs. W. Frank The Knights of Columbus has been having capacity crowds at its moving picture shows and dances. Many good pictures have been shown recently. Pvt.

Thomas ohnson, Pvt. 1st cby George Jones. Announcements have been received in Fort Riley of the marriage of James C. Killough and Miss Fannie Misch, at Rago, Colo. Killough formerly was in the medical detachment and on duty in the Red Cross Convalescent House.

TWINS TAKING IJE-EDITATION. Father Cornell, S. of St. Mary's College, substituted for Father Hon-nigford at the 8:30 mass Sunday at the Post Chapel. Father Honnigford said a 9 o'clock mass at the State Guards' camp at Detention Camp No.

2. Father Cornell is instructor in chemistry at St. Mary's College. The French Croix de Guerre with bronze star, has been awarded to the following enlisted men of the Army Ambulance Service: Private Thomas W. Agnew, Pvt.

Samuel Alldredge, Pvt. Harold M. Ailing, Pvt. 1st cl. Eliphabet F.

Andrews, Pvt. let cl. James Arnett, Pvt. Wesley O. Ash, Pvt.

Louis Astor. Pvt. Gerley M. Back, Pvt. Floyd E.

Baker, Pvt. Robert L. Baldridge, Pvt. 1st cl. Arthur Baldwin, Pvt.

1st cl. John L. Ball, Pvt. 1st cl. Lawrence B.

Baretto. Pvt. 1st cl. Joseph Barker, Pvt. Stephen Barrett, Pvt.

1st cl. George L. Baum, Pvt. George Beattie, Pvt. George R.

Beck, Pvt. 1st cl. George Beckman. Pvt. Herry Bee, Sergt.

Glenn Bellinger, Pvt. Paul B. Binder, Pvt. Robert Bishop, Pvt. John Borland, Pvt.

1st cl. John Brady, Pvt. 1st cl. Clarence Bransom, Pvt. 1st cl.

Mark V. Brennan, Pvt. Oswald Cammann Brewster, Pvt. 1st cl. Arthur Briokley, Pvt.

1st cl. Fred A. Briggs, Pvt. 1st cl. Walter II Briggs, Pvt.

lstcl. Richard D. Brooke, Sergt. John Brosnan, Pvt. Elmer L.

Brown, Pvt. Harry L. Browne, Pvt. William H. Brueckner, 1st Sergt, Leon Buckler, Pvt.

1st cl. Robert Burroughs, Pvt. 1st cl. Joe D. Bybee, 1st Sergt.

Patrick H. Calloway, Pvt. 1st cl. Thomas J. Card well, Sergt.

1st cl. William Carl, Pvt. 1st cl. Russel Car-leton, First Sergt. Walter Carr, Pvt.

1st cl. Raymond Carrol, Pvt. 1st cl. Samuel Chamberlain, 'Pvt. 1st cl.

Charles R. Chase, Pvt. Elwyes Chase, Pvt. 1st cl. Lars Christianson, Pvt.

1st cl. William Church, Pvt. 1st John A. Clapp, Pvt. 1st cl.

Coleman Clark, Pvt. 1st cl. Donald F. Clark, Pvt. 1st cl.

Harold Clark, Pvt. Willis R. Clark, Sergt. John W. Cook, Pvt.

1st cl. Edmund J. Coolidge, Pvt. 1st cl. Ralph E.

Cousins, Pvt. lstcl. Roy Crabtree, Pvt. 1st cl. Harold Crawford, Pvt.

John L. H. Crawford, Pvt. 1st cl. Luther Cruea, Pvt.

1st cl. Edward P. Curtis, Pvt. 1st cl. William Dabney, Pvt.

1st cl. Thaddeus M. Daly, Sergt. 1st cl. William E.

Daly, Pvt. Harold Darling, Pvt. 1st cl. Brainerd A. Davis, Pvt.

Roger C. Davis, Pvt. 1st cl. Boyd Deardorff, Pvt. 1st cl.

Thomas Deeves, Corp. Patrick P. Dermott, Pvt. 1st cl. Edward Dickinson, Pvt.

1st cl. Donald Dickson, Pvt. William Dodd, Pvt. 1st cl. Laurens Donahue, Sergt.

Charles E. Dougherty, 1st cl. George F. Doyle, Corp. Archibald Dudgeon, Pvt.

1st cl. Raymond Durney, Pvt. 1st cl. William Edwards, Pvt. lstcl.

Charles Emerick, Pvt. 1st cl. Edward Everett, Pvt. 1st cl. Lafe Fain, Pvt.

1st cl. John C. Farmer, Pvt. 1st cl. Dana Washington.

Aug. 28 Every disabled soldier presents a new problem to the vocational advisers of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. It is therefor interesting to find an occasional similarity, even in the case of brothers. Walter F. and Albert T.

Grierson are twins who enlisted in the A. E. F. on May 10, 1917. Both saw service in France, both were wounded, one received a gunshot wound through the ankle, resulting in partial ankylosis, the other received a gunshot wound through the right arm.

causing paralysis of the hand. Before they enlisted both boys were bank clerks. Now they have both applied for training under the Vocational Rehabilitation Law; courses in commercial work to be followed by special training in South American Trade Relations at the University of Washington have been approved for both of these men. Private Gray, a patient in Section has volunteered his services to the Red Cross. Gray is helping out with the police work at the Red Cross Convalescent House.

He is a mechanic of ability, recently overhauling the motion picture machines of the Red Cross and Knights of Columbus. Forty-nine men will be discharged tomorrow and three transferred for discharge. This will reduce the enlisted personnel of the hospital to 209 men. It is expected that several more men will be released next week. The forty-nine detachment men scheduled for discharge Friday follow Hosp.

Sgt. George T. Hawkins. Hosp. Sgt.

Clarence Naland. Sgt. 1st cl. Floyd B. Lore.

Sgt. Carl R. Schmidt. Sgt. Hiram II.

Miller. Sgt. Harold V. Batchelor. Spl.

August Epp. Cook Fred Sehultz. Cook Harry Vester. Wagoner William W. Vasse.

Pvt. 1st cl. William II. Ebersole. Pvt.

1st cl. Abraham C. Eitzen. Pvt. 1st cl.

Jacob R. Ewy. Pvt. 1st cl. John R.

Fesmire. Pvt. 1st cl. John P. Fleming.

Pvt. 1st cl. Wilhelm W. Franz. Pvt.

1st cl. John II. Gaeddert. Pvt. 1st cl.

Jacob D. Giesbrecht. Pvt. 1st cl. Philip Giljohn.

Pvt. 1st cl. David D. Hoter. Vxt.

1st cl. Jorgen M. Jorgenson. Pvt. 1st cl.

Daniel D. Kaufman. Pvt. 1st cl. Earl E.

Keim. Pvt. 1st cl. Roy J. King.

Pvt. 1st cl. Nick Klasson. Pvt. 1st cl.

Albert J. Langenwalter. Pvt. 1st cl. Daniel Mader.

Pvt. 1st cl. Edward W. Miller. Pvt.

1st cl. Walter M. Pennington. Pvt. 1st cl.

Joseph Ratzla. Pvt. 1st cl. Jacob F. Richert.

Pvt. 1st cl. Paul J. Schneider. Pvt.

1st cl. Adolph J. Schroeder. Pvt. 1st cl.

Stanley Sker. Pvt. 1st cl. Elrick Smith. Pvt.

1st cl. Richard R. Stuckey. Pvt. 1st cl.

Walter H. Unruh. Pvt. 1st cl. Allen T.

Wall. Pvt. 1st cl. Jacob E. Wiens.

Pvt. 1st cl. John C. Willems. Pvt.

1st cl. Paul A. Zook. Pvt. Isaac B.

Androes. Pvt. David Boese. Pvt. Ben M.

Hiebert. Pvt. Jacob M. Regehr. Pvt.

Gustav A. Reimer. Pvt. Peter R. Schmidt.

Pvt. Harry Zimmerman. The following men will be transferred for discharge: Sgt. Matthew Lowenstein to Fort D. A.

Russell, Cpl. Lansing Judd and Pvt. 1st cl. M. Babiel to Camp Grant, 111.

W. M. Godwin, representative of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, closed up his work in Fort Riley Thursday. Mr. Godwin has given an indispensable service to the patients by giving counsel and assistance in matters pertaining to vocational education, government insurance and other subjects.

To the Boys at the Base: rJ The Red Cross dance Friday was up to the usual standard. Sansome's Orchestra furnished excellent music and there were enough girls present for all the boys who cared to dance. Many of the civil service girls were present Friday night as well as a large group from Junction City. Cake and punch were served. Additional awards of the distinguished service medal and croaj to Army Medical Officers and men have been announced.

The luedal has been conferred upon Major J. It. Cuiken, M. for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service when in charge of Camp os-pital No. 1 at Camp I'piou, N.

during the serious epidemic of influenza in September and October last. Due to his great energy and unwillingness to meet defeat in any iomi, remarkable results were obtained at this hospital. Private F. IV. Meeks, Medical Detachment, lltb.

Infantry, wa? decorated with the cross for heroism la action in Fiance. He disting lulled himself by untiring efforts in administering first aid to the wounded, not hesitating to expose himself 10 In searching for the wounde 1 on the field. While making his way thiough unusual heavy machine gnu the to a wounded soldier whom ne had seen fall, Private Meeks was mortally wounded. The medal will be presented to his father, John S. MeeKs, of Smithfield, Ky.

Captain Albert W. Lindburg, M. 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, crawled out over shell torn ground and in the face of direct machine gun fire rescued a soldier whose leg had 'been shattered by shell fire. He performed an amputation while constantly exposed to sniper and machine gun fire and removed the soldier to safety a few hours later. His home is Ilills-boio, Illinois.

1st Lieut. Samuel J. Marks, M. 314th advanced with the foremost element of his battalion, dressing and removing the wounded under machine gun fire for twelve hours. When his aid station was shelled, several patients and attendants being killed and.

wounded, this officer tho himself wounded, remained at his post caring for patients who had received fresh wounds and asisted in their removal. His home is Phillipsburg, Pa. Pvt. 1st class Walter R. Hanson, Medical Infantry, when his battalion was forced to withdraw three times within 48 hours, each time went out in front of the line under intense machine gun shell fire and rescued wounded men.

His horn is LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Pvt. 1st class J. A. Householder, Medical Department, Section 590 U.

S. Ambulance Service, while proceeding along a road with a detachment of seven ambulances, stopped his car when fired upon 'by a German sniper near the roadside, and though unarmed himself atacked and disarmed the German. With the aid of the other ambulance drivers he attacked a patrol of Germans capturing five. His home is North Ervin, Pa. Private Alva Kane, Medical Attachment, who was stationed at the prisoner of war enclosure at Richelieu, performed services for which he re-con ed a decoration.

After two Medical Officers atached to his battalion had been gassed and removed, he took over and operated the first aid station, remaining heroically at his post though surrounded by heavy shell fire. He remained continuously on duty until by mustard gas He is from Still well. Kans. The distinguished cross has also been conferred upon the following: Major II. Humphreys, Medical Corps, 130th Jnfao'iy, of Union, N.

Y. Major HumphrejB, then a Captain, was seriously wounded in the head while on his way to take up his work at the regimental aid post. He refused to be evacuated, but continued on duty caring for the wounded. He later proceeded under severe artillery fire to th battalion aid post, where he continued his work under most trying conditions. First Lieutenant Ralph E.

Powers, Medical Corps, 337th Ambulance 310th Sanitary Train, met his cleath in the prosecution of his duties overseas and the decoration will be presented to his next kin, Dr. A. W. Powers, of Amherst, Ohio. Lt.

Pow era displayed heroism in action at Ust Padenga, Russia, January 20 to 23, last. While his dressing station was burning as a result of having been struck by a shell. Lt. Powers successfully eevacuated all his patients, numbering forty. He then moved to a new location and continued to work for two das under shell fire, until his dressing station, too, was struck and he himself was mortally wounded, whereupon he gave orders that the other wounded should be removed first and that he be left until the last.

First Lieutenant Joseph A. Mendel-son, M. Sanitary Detachment, 305th during a heavy enemy bombardment in France, with gas and high explosive shells, worked for more than three hours picking up wounded and gassed men and securing their evacuation, being forced to remove Do you know that The Durland-Sawtell Furniture Co. would be Delighted to see you? Many have found something nice for Dad, Mother, Sister or "Her." You may, too. Ylctrolas and Records.

117-119 W. 7th St. Junction City Kans. THE CIVILIAN SUSPECT. The Red Cross held a picnic for all the hospital patients Thursday evening at the Bridle Path.

Four ambulances conveyed the men to the picnic grounds. A big spread was prepared in which ice cream was an important item. Croquet and teatherball were among the games played. The weekly picnics formerly were held by the sections in turn, but owing to the small number of patients, all who are able to go are now taken on these outings. ARMY JiUKSE CORPS Miss Pitts has just returned from a pleasant vacation spent at Canadian, Okla.

Storrs Felton, Pvt. 1st cl. Erwin iero, Pvt. 1st cl. Robert J.

Fitzgerald, Sergt. 1st cl. Forest Fletcher, Pvt. Louis Floro, Pvt. 1st cl.

Alvin M. Fonda, Pvt. Torey S. Ford, Mechanic Paul M. Foster, Pvt.

1st cl. Harold Fraser, Pvt. John Freeman, Pvt. 1st cl. Frederick C.

Frick, Pvt. 1st cl. Wiliam Gardiner, Pvt. 1st cl. Arthur Garland, Pvt.

1st cl. Domin-ick IF. Garrity, Pvt. 1st cl. William Samuel George, Pvt.

1st cl. William Gilger, Pvt. 1st cl. George W. Glace, Sergt.

Edward Golden, Pvt. 1st cl. Harry L. Golden, Sergt. 1st cl.

Edward B. Gordon, Sergt. lst cl. Walter J. Gores, Pvt.

1st cl. Richard E. Goss, Pvt. 1st cl. Walter B.

Grane, Alfred Greason, Sergt. Dudley Griffin, Pvt. 1st cl. Benjamin Griggs, Pvt. Earl O.

Haas, Pvt. Walter A. Hafner, Pvt. BOON MARKET Now a real Market, with everything good to eat, Including Meats, Groceries, Fish, Oysters, Poultry Misses Roberts and Cleary are on vacation. Fresh Fruit and Vegetables and Dairy Products.

BOON MARKET The following nurses havo received their release from Army Nurse Corps: Josephine Nimocks. Iona L. Gessner. Vena II. Unruh.

LLIi.m X. Vosburgh. KaUurinc McFarland. Edna Ziegelbein. their gas masks in order to accomplish this Though he was almost exhausted from fatigue he proceeded to the aid station of another battalion and assisted in treating hundreds of men.

Though suffering from the effects of gas the Lieutenant refused to go to the hospital upon the completion of this work as all the other medi Phones74-336. 706 N. Washg'ton. The symptoms: The patient who already has a healthy case of homesickness develops a quickened pulse upon learning that his time is coming. He soon experiences a desire to give back to the government the greater part of his equipment.

He becomes free with his money and buys cigars for all of his friends and a dinner for a selected few. He is full, of the old pep that has not come to the surface since November 11, 1918. He feels that ho can let by-gones be bv- pones and shake hands with all his pet grudges. He begins to feel sorry for the poor boobs who are stuck, and offers them sympathy by slapping them on the back. The fear of missing the first train out causes him to be at the station two hcurs ahead of time.

Nc te So far as is known the disease is prevalent only in the army camp and its victims peculiarly are all either soldiers or nurses. Soldiers of all ranks are susceptible and once taken with the malady the victim soon succumbs and enters the promised land. A study of the disease at Fort Riley shows an alarming increase of the number of cases within the past two weeks. There is absolutely no cure for the disease unless the patient can be made to experience a change of heart and re-enlist. Pvt.

Boyd Wilborn has been assigned to the office of the detachment commander and is assisting with the work of discharging detachment men. Patience They call that young fellow a "muff." What do they mean by that? Patrice Why, you know what a muff is, don't you? It's something a woman holds in her lap. cal officers had been evacuated. Lt. Miss Granburg, formerly at this post, but more recently of Denver, is visiting friends, enroute to her home, having received her Miss Fuchslin is again on duty, following recent illness.

The House that Makes Service a Personal Consideration. Readr-to-Wear Millinery Dry Goods Notions Hosiery Underwear Corsets In the Basement: Trunks and Hand Luggage Men's Wear The Taylor Dry Goods Co. Junction City Mendelson is a Washingtonian. Sergeant Samuel R. Yopp, Med.

119th while directing the evacuation of the wounded was severely gassed but refused to be removed and continued in charge of the dressing station to which attached. He displayed morked fortitude and personal bravery, working constantly to help the wounded. Privates Herman Woll and Henry F. Ruland, Ambulance Co. 357, 315th Sanitary Train, left the shelter of a wood and went to rescue a soldier who had fallen wounded on a hill, under constant machine gun and shell fire.

While carrying him back on a litter the litter was struck twice toy machine gun bulets but the rescuers succeeded in carrying him to safetly, thereby saving his life. Woll is from Estherville, Iowa, and Ruland from Brenham, Texas. Miss Fannie Mallory is being trfjns ferred as a patient to Fort Sheridan, 111. Miss Carrie Fennie is accompanying her as escort. "How's this, Dauber? You've painted Father Time with a mowing machine instead of a scythe." "That's all right.

We artists' must keep up with modern inventive progress, you know." A Pittsburgh minister says he would rather see the women going about the streets nude than dressed the way they now are. Well, maybe he would at that, New York Mail..