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I i CAMP 's, i ARMY NEWS FOR ARMY MEN AND THEIR HOME FOLKS 4- Society, Sty Sapeka SoutnaL Edition for CAMr FUNSTON, Fort Riley, Kan. Published Under Auspices of NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL Y. M. C. A.

of the United States II No. 15. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1919 VOL. 2. HIS NAME AND WORK WILL NEVER DIE HE CAPTURED 600 Sergeant Adams of 89th Ke warded With D.

S. Cross. WORD FROM 89TH First Went Into Action on 'foul Sector Sept. 12. OUR GREAT AMERICAN ISNOK cemetery.

All points of venture from which a view of the Krave could be obtained were throniied. When the hearse reached the cemetery the only floral tribute at the Brave was a single orchid, which some passerby had thrust into the mound of new. yellow earth cast up, beside Colonel Roost-velt'a last resting place. services nt the (irnvo. Services at the graveside were very brief lasting hardly more than three minutes.

Tho casket wan carried up i COL. ROOSEVELT BURIED WHILE A NATIHURNS Jlundreds Gather To Pay Their Last Tribute to. Him. With Only a Kevolver He Took Them by Himself. Interesting Story fold by J.

W. McCIintock. the Blood Clot In Artery Is Cause of Death. Mrs. Roosevelt Attended Only Services at the Home.

Col. Roosevelt Had lleeu iu New York Hospital. CLAY CENTER BOY TELLS OF IT Division's Wounded Are Now teaching Home Ports. They Back Wonderful Stories of Valor. GREAT AMERICAN AT REST WAS ROUGH RIDER LEADER Served as Governor of "ew York Vice President.

i i killed nnd captured many Huns, and the relieving forces captured fifty machine guns, McClintock suys, in getting to them. Made Good Show Ing. The Eighty-ninth division, McClintock rays, made such a good showing In its first action that it was designated for shock troops and placed between the crack First division of Infantry and the famous Second of infantry and marines, the Second being the unit that saved the day at Chateau Thierry. McClintock also tells of the bravery of Major Hobson of the 356th In the action on the Toul sector in which he was wounded severely but refused to stop. For his subsequent actions under heavy fire Hobson was awarded the distinguished service cross.

353d IU1 Good Work. Andrew O. Mutson, of Clay Center, told of the reputation made by the 303d regiment which saw heavy uction at St. Mihiel, the Toul and Argonne sectors. "First Sergeant Adams of the 35id won the distinguished service cross for capturing 600 Germans," he said, and that was but one of numbers of decorations awarded men of the Eighty-ninth.

As he waited the approach of the surgeon with fresh dressings, Jlatson described Sergeant Adams unusual feat. "It was in the St. Mihiel action," said Matson. "The Fritzies were going backward so fast that sometimes we had hard work keeping up with them. At this one place Sergeant Adams noticed a bunch of them up ahead making for what appeared to be a group of dugouts.

All he had was his revolver but he fired at them and they ran down the dugout entrances. He covered the doorways with his gun and called for them to come out which they did. By getting nil of the Huns who surrendered from the dugouts and rounding up a few outside he got almost 600 altogether and marched them back by himself. For this one-man surrounding of the Germans he received the D. S.

Music at tlie Church, and i a Short Ritual. Only ri In Body Is Laid in Grave Family Uurial Plot. ssumed Presidency on Death of William McKinley. the Rteep hill on the shoulders of the pallbearers and slowly lowered Into '-he grave as tho last words of the ritual were spoken. Former President Taft stood in the front rank as the casket sank out of sight, still draped in the flags.

He wept. A crowd of about 400 was massed on all sides. Hoards nt the gates turned the people back, hut Ihey swarmed over the fence. Among them were a number of aged men and many neerocs. The congressional committee stood just behind Taft.

The sun shone during the last moments of the ceremony and the fog out over the water lifted, so the whistle buoy censed its plaintive moaning. Capt. Archie. Roosevelt, wearing his decorations, stood at the head of the grave. About 30D wreaths and scores of big floral pieces were stacked up at the gates ready to be placed about the mound later.

In the Roosevelt plot there is room for only one more grave. The nearest grave is an unmarked one. There was little emotion shown. The minister's voice and the rattle of parth on the casket Ht the words in the ritual "Karth to earth, ashes to ashes nnd dust to dust," were the only sounds that broke the oppressive stillness. After the relatives and the minister had left, the others entered their automobiles and drove away and the crowd slowly dispersed.

Almost immediately laborers began shoveling dirt into the grave. Theodore Roosevelt was buried. Crowds Gathered Knrly. Oyster Bay, X. Jan.

S. Long before the hour set for the simple funeral services for Theodore Roose Oyster Bay, X. Jan. C. Colonel New York, Jan.

first word to come from the Missouri. Kansus. Nebraska, ti. Dakota, New Mexico and Arlzcna men brought to this country a man of the 88th division was given to a I'nion Pacific l'ress correspondent today by J. W.

McClintock at United States debarkation hospital No. 3. McClintock, who Is from Kansas City, fought with Company of the infantry until November Jnd, when he was wounded in an advance on the Argonne sector. Inlo Action fxptenilKT 12. When the Sluh division first went into action on the Toul sector on September 12th regiment was iu front of Mont Sac.

otherwise known as Hill 380, one of tho slrong-ert fortified positions In the German line. Both French and British had sustained enormous losses in former attempts to take it. With the crack First and Second divisions on their left and right respectively the 8Hth was assigned a 12-mile objective, including the taking of the hill, 4 days being given in which to gain it. The 8Sth went over the top at daybreak. Passing thru a ruined village in what had been No Man's Land they took a woods beyond and at the foot of the hill.

Tanks were used and the advance was made behind a five-hour intensive barrage that had the Huns the fortified hill sending up every form of S. O. S. flare, they had. Few Castiultics.

The left side of the hill was stormed by the 1st division, the 89th taking the right and making the top by it a. m. after a sharp hour and a half attack. There some 3,000 prisoners and over 1,000 horses with many supplies were captured. The Sath's casualties in the attack on Hill 380 were Theodore Roosevelt died in li is sleep Oyster Cay, Jan.

S. Except for two sons, absent as soldiers in their country's service overseas, the family, of Theodore Roosevelt assembled in Lie living room at Sagamore Hill shortly before noon today for the first of a trinity of simple services at home, trwfiL Ity 1 -'tumK at 4:15 this -Mug. The end came when there was no one in the room. The follow'- statement was made to the United Press by Dr. O.

V. Faller, of Oyster Buy, the physician who lust saw-the colonel: "Colonel retired at II o'clock lst night feeling much better. church, and graveside with which the body of the noted American was to le laid to rest. Mrs. Rosevelt decided not to attend the church services nor to join the procession to the cemetery.

It was At o'clock this morning he sim ply ceased to breathe. Dntth was New York. Jan. 8. The 85th division has gone into German', its men from Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and South Dakota, part of the army of occupation, but the wounded who fell at the Argonne and St.

Mihiel are returning. It is lying in hospital beds or hobbling about tl airy wards of Debarkation hospital No. 3 today, that many of the heroes from the middle west told the Union Pacific Press correspondent of tho conspicuous record made by the crack division Gen. Leonard Wood tiained at Camp Funston The S9th was first landed in England, according to the men today, remaining at Winchester for about a week, when they sailed from Southampton for Havre. After some time in training sectors they went into the line first at Woevre, a quiet position in which they saw no real action.

Crack Shock Trooira. "It was in our first action on the sector," said J. W. McClintock of Kansas City, as he rested a "game" leg on the side of his bed, "that the 89th made such a showing that it was designated as shock troops and kept between the famous First and Second divisions. We fought all of our most important engagements In that position." McClintock tells of the advance of September 12 in which the 89th and the First stormed opposite sides of the famous hill 80 on which both French and British had suffered terrible losses.

The hill, also known as Mont Sac, had been fortified by the Germans for four years. ered almost T.be "irst division lay to the left, taking that side of the mil while the 89th attacked the right. Starting at daybreak, McClin-tock's regiment, the 356th. passed thru a ruinet'. French village and took the ood at the foot of the hill, aided by tanks and following a most Intensive five hour barrage.

The hill itself was taken 9 o'clock with comparatively few casualties. In this advance, says McClintock. the 89th had a twelve-mile objective to make in four da-s. It took them just forty-two hours to gain it. including the taking of the A HUGEW0RK Much of Discharge Work Falls to Finance Department.

announced that she would bid goodby to the body of her companion in the house where they lived for many years, while her children would see all that was mortal of their famous father committed to earth in the family plot topping the highest hill in Young's Memorial cemetery, overlooking Dong Island sound. This observance consisted merely of a few prayers uttered by the Rev. G. 12. Talmage.

The funeral procession from the house to the church was composed of fifteen automobiles. Those assigned to the first car were Mr. and Mrs. Ni 'olas Long worth, Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, Mrs.

Richard Derby and Mrs. Douglas Robinson. Captain Ahead. Preceding the motor hearse ten minutes, c'apt. Archie Roosevelt and caused probably by a pulmoimry embolism." This pulmonary embolism.

L'r. Waller explained, is a blood clot upon one of the arteries of the lungs. runcrnl on Wednesday. The funeral will be held at 12:4.3 p. m.

from the Christ Kpiscopal church at Oyster Hay. The Rev. Dr. George Talmadge will officiate and Interment will be in the Young Memorial cemetery at Oyster Bay. There will be a service at the home first.

Both will be private. A the time of the death the only persons in the house at Sagamore Colonel his wife and-the servants. Colonel Roosevelt spent Sunday evening reading, conversing with 1 rs. Roosevelt and with Dr. who left him apparently much improved unit fn excellent spirits.

He also dic- PRESIDENT KOncvVTLT AS wu, vrvv-m vnvaVTKa 17. velt this afternoon, silent crowds of villagers and visitors collected in the vicinity of Sagamore Hill. Christ Kpiscopal church and Young's memorial cemetery. Many tried in vain to gain admittance to the spacious grounds of the Roosevelt estate but mounted police, special deputy sheriffs and detectives kept all on the move. Visitors were impressed with the hush that fell over the town as the hour for the services approached and the general uir of sorrow on the Houtine Work Is Handled by Capt.

Wm. Kichie, Jr. By Union Pacific It. R. Press The heaviest portion of the huge comparatively few, McClintock says, '-eing probably not over 500 all told.

It was on the first day's advance to Essy that Major Bland of the 89th killed. McClintock describes the freak of shell fire responsible, being within a few yards of the spot at the time. The major was resting, surrounded by his staff when shrapnel burst over them. By a strange chance Major Bland was picked off by one of the flying fragments, none of the others being touched. Dug In On Hillside.

That night the division dug in on His health had not been very good was taken to Roosevelt hospital in this for some time. city for the treatment of rheumatism A short time' ago he had under- aJu vL'iWUcA "XViulo in-th hospitHl. gone an operation at the hospital and reports became current that the colo-was practically deaf as a result of it i nel was more seriously ill than his Planned Trip to Europe. physicians would admit. Colonel Roosevelt returned to his home in Theodore Douglas Robinson went to countenances of the citizens.

School children dismissed for the day, as the ivy-covered church to make final arrangements. Kvery scat in the ated a number or letters, uespue recent return from me hospital. church was occupied. Europe to visit Quentin's grave, a his trip was be made as ooou as he sufficiently recovered liis l.ealth. The death of Quciitin was a severe shock to Roosevelt and is believed to have hastened his end.

here he was confine 1 for woeKS ny flfe-)la Vyhe 1 -in Christmas decorations giving work of discharging men at Funston falls on the finance department of the camp, for which the discharge work is in charge of Capt. William Richie, I jr. In addition to the routine closing of servito records, hundreds of diffi-j cult problems are presented for solu-i tion every day. One of the most novel cases is that in which the men have ttack of sciatica with painiui com- to thoughts of the holidays and good nlloatinnn. hp had mucll Ot I11S OIU Oyster Bay on Christmas day remark- i ing as he stepped to the porch that he i was "feeling bully." i Xcar Death nt Hospital.

New York. Jan. (i. Colonel Roosc- suffered a pulmonary embolism which nearly cost him his life three weeks before lie left Roosevelt hospital on day, it was learned i today. Nothing regarding this approach to death lias hitherto become iiiKiwn.

but it was revealed today by 1 Hector Richards in telling of the colo- vimr when Dr. Fuller left him cheer were still in place in the church. Kvergreens were in the chancel and attached to the roof was a nmwiTli was laughing and called Archie Roosevelt, another son. was noundo' "jy on the Toul front and was decor.itcd itli the French war cross as he lay on the operating table. This cross was Colonel Roosevelt's must prized posses "good night" mast cheerfully.

Retired at Midnight. seen foreign service in England A. midnitrht he retired. Mis. Roose France, Italy or even Russia and have velt sat with him for a while, then as he fell asleep, she went to her own sion.

incurred obligations or have been par room At 4:15 a. in. the man servant tially paid in the currency of those hKMinc alarmed and called a nurse. countries. As the rates of exchange vary from Theodorc Rocsevclt, was gassed nel's exact condition during his last during th fighting at Cantigny.

illness. Kermit Ri jsevelt fought with both! Feeling Bad Then. British arid American armies. Col-. the (lav ttro Christmas v.hcn Roosevelt was forward coi.mei Rosevelt left the hospital to a reunion of the whole family when lere the holiday in Oyster all his boys returned from the war.

lav snicker si.id. he was in time to time the date of payment or sembled in the streets and talked in subdued whispers. The droning of the motors of the army airplanes that hovered over the Roosevelt mansion, seemed to accentuate the stillness. Business was virtually suspended. Many buildings were draped with crepe and flags drooped at half mast.

Only the immediate members of the family were present at the prayer service at the house, prior to the rites at Christ church, as follows: Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Rep and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Captain and Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt.

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Richard Derby, Douglas Robinson, the colonel's sister, Mr. and Mrs. T.

Douglas Robinson, the former being the colonel's nephew; Rear Admiral W. S. Cowles, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Alsop, Kmlen Roosevelt and John K.

Roosevelt, cousins of the colonel: Mr. and Mrs. K. Reeve Merritt, Mrs. J.

West Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Lang-don Warner, Mrs. Hilbourne L. Roosevelt, John E.

Roosevelt, Mrs. Fuirman Dick. Mrs. Monroe Robinson, Jiis. Langdon Oeer, Mrs, John E.

Roosevelt, Mrs. A. Roosevelt, Mrs. Frederick Roosevelt, Samuel Roosevelt and Miss Nellie Tyler. Admission to the littie village church There was nothing that could be done.

Roosevelt was dead. Mrs. Roosevelt was called. She took the shock bravely. Dr.

Faller arrived a few minutes later. Roosevelt lay As an explorer, nc consiuci sljht at intervals, but apparently ible fame. The river of Doubt as if still sleeping. He did not move in the bed as died, but just as he was when his wife stepped out hutre green Christmas bell. The body was carried into Christ church shortly before 1 o'clock and the simple funeral service, began at once with reading of the ceremonial, then Psalms 39 and HO.

The fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians was read as the scriptural lesson. His Favorite Hymn. Afterward the minister recited the words of Colonel Roosevelt's favorite hymn, "How Firm a Foundation, Y'e Saints of the Lord." Then followed the creed, the Lord's prayer and other supplications. There was no music whatever, even the customary playing of soft chords by the organist before the service being dispensed with. Colonel Roosevelt's coffin was placed in the chancel, its foot toward the altar.

The immediate family had places in front, iu the center of the church. Senators and members of the house of representatives who arrived on a special train, occupied the pews on one a a hillside at six ociock. ai eigm o'clock an order camo to move forward and an advance of five miles was made almost without opposition. At four in the morning they dug in once more and made a final advance to their objective at eight. It is a notable fact that tho SWth in this first heavy action made their 4-day objective in just 42 hours.

Once there they dug in permanently and held their position until relieved against heavy attacking and shelling. At one time on this front the entire division was subjected to 55 minutes of the most intensive shelling by tho Huns, with only a few casualties thru the fact of an exceptionally heavy combat patrol being mistaken for a general attack. On returning after a night in No Man's Land it was found that one man had become lost, and just at daybreak the patrol went out again to find him, with the result of the shelling by the frightened Germans. The lost man returned to the American trenches late that afternoon, having become separated from the patrol and crawling all of the way to the German wire before he found out that he was going in the wrong direction. There he had heard voices in German and had spent the rest of the night and almost all day in getting back.

The Eighty-ninth division went over the top on the day after they arrived on the Argonne sector, advancing to Romage against stubborn resistance. In this attack it took the troops from the middle west six days to go forward five miles. The division occupied Romage until November 1, when it again went over the top between was far from being seriously ill. On the Sunday previous to his departure for his home he had dictated articles I for the Kansas City and other publications from 11 a. m.

until 2 p. m. lie ate well and slept like a child. I So marked had been his improve- ment under the regimen provided at the hospital that Mrs. Roosevelt who i at the beginning remained with her South America was ma.iped by him.

Immediately after leaving the presidency he went on a ig game trip to Africa, where the natives called him "Bwana Twomgo." lie wrote a number of books on big game hunting; and outdoor life and died in the midst of his trophies. ord in Xew York. of the room shortly after mionignt. The man who was with Roosevelt at the end was James Amos, a negro, who has been his personal attendant ever since he was in the White Hoxise. A slight convulsion of the colonel's face was noticed by Amos, who called the nurse.

hill. It was on this advance tnat Major Bland was killed, McClintock being but a few yards away at the time. Andrew O. Matson of Clay Center, told of the reputation made by the 353rd Regiment which saw heavy action at St. Mihiel.

the Toul and Argonne sectors. "First Sergeant Adams of the 35.3rd, won the distinguished service cross for capturing 600 Germans." he said, and that was but one of numbers of decorations awarded men of the 89th. As he waited the approach of the surgeon with fresh dressings, Matson described Sergeant Adams's unusual feat. One Man Took 600. "It was in the St.

Mihiel action, said Matson. "The Fritzies were going backward so fast that sometimes we had hard work keeping up with, them. At this one place Sergeant Adams noticed a bunch of them up ahead making for what appeared to be a group of dugouts. All he had was his revolver but he fired at them and they ran down the dugout entrances. He covered the doorway with his gun and called for them to come out which they did.

By getting all of the Huns who surrendered from the dugouts and rounding up a few outside he got almost 600 altogether and marched them back by himself. For his one-man surrounding of th Germans he received the D. S. Leander Richardson was with Company of the 356th Regiment until New York, Jan. tJ.

Col. lheodore husban continually was importuned Word Sent to Jnlilrcn. "rs. Richard Derby, daughter ot obligation due must be determined. Then the amount in pounds, francs, rubles or lire must be translated into the American figures' in accordance with the rate of exchange in force at that time.

The whole thing presents a task that keeps many experts busy. In the final paying off of men in the finance office of Capt. R. T. Mary's the paymaster, has established a record of 407 men in an hour.

The cantonment finance department as a whole is under Capt. C. J. Burson. Two thousand men a day can be discharged from Camp Funston when all portions of the big demobilization organizations are running at capacity.

This means the closing of the military affairs of 2,000 men by the Depot Brigade battalion to which they are attached 01. their arrival in camp. The payroll on 2,000 men with all of the incidental problems arising must be finished and the railroad routes and ticket rates figured on that number. It has not been found necessary to operate at the capacity rate yet. The 19,000 men so far discharged have gone out at a rate of as high as 1,800 Aiken, the colonel, has started from Roosevelt died at his home in Oyster, to rest.

She went to Oyster Bay early today. i Bay. returning two or three times a News of the death of the former i y.pek to visit him und bring him table president was received hero by Miss delicacies of which he was especially S. C. tV.

Emlen Roosevelt, a cousin, was among arrivals at Sagamore Hill dur-ine the morning. Others were Mrs. Josephin the colonels secrc- fond. tary in a telephone message trom irs. uwo separate niooti tests nan Doen Roosevelt.

made at the hospital, oin by Dr. Miss Strieker said that the colonel Richards and the other by Dr. Hart-had suffered an attack of infamnui-1 well, each of which confirmed the where the colonel worshipped was by card and was limited to less than five hundred. President Wilson was represented by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, the army by Gen.

Peyton ('. March and the navy by Admiral C. McR. Winshw and delegations represented both branches of congress. Gov.

Alfred E. Smith and leaders of both branches of the legislature represented New York state. Among the Douglas Robinson, a sister; Theodore D. Ro'nson. a nephew Joseph Bishop if York, an old friend, ana n-ion ff.

Hooker, former treasurer or tne tory rheumatism on New Year day diagnosis ot the other, i nese tests, nmi had since been more or less con- it was said indicated that the colonel Progress ve party, cablegrams were fined to his room. ilispntched to Kermit Roosevelt, who was entirely free from any organic disease and that his trouble was the Inflammatory rheumatism. This ail- The attack of rheumatism mainly in Colonel Roosevelt's right in France, and to ineonore, wno with the Americans In Germany. n-licro fnlnnol vplt close friends of the former president invited were: I A delegation of rough riders, who served under the colonel in the Span- side. General March, chief of staff, and former President Taft came late and had much trouble getting Into the church, owing to the crowd at the entrances.

After tho church service, attended by less than 300 relatives, personal friends, political and literary associates of the former president and representatives of the American allied governments, the cortege moved to the cemetery, halting at the entrance, the casket was carried to" the Roosevelt plot a short distance away. After the brief committal service of the Episcopal church the body was lowered Into a grave lined with concrete. Flag Covers Coffin. The body was committed to earth at 1:4 3 m. The coffin was wrapped in a United the First and Second divisions, advancing four miles.

On November 2, hand and Mrs. Roosevelt sent at once ment was only pronounced nis leit for a nurse in the village of Ovster i lK. but at times it affected one of hi3 Bav. His condition did "not at first hands and arms. VVill be buried was picked out by him- per day only.

At present in addition to casuals ish-American war. held places of seem to be alarming and the turn fori He Ate Heartily. the worse is believed not to have come If you Cf(ul(, see the (rayful of foml honor This contingent included: Col. John C. Greenway, of Bishee, Arizona, until bunday night.

that is Hent illlo Colonel Roosevelt's in announcing coionei lioosevtn death. Miss Strieker said: famous football and baseball player in his college days: Maj. Rosco Channing. former Princeton football player: Maj. Robert Channing, tennis player; the Eighty-ninth made one and a half miles against heavy artillery resistance.

This portion of the advance was made under cover of what is described as the heaviest rolling barrage ever laid down to protect Ameri-ican troops. Wounded by Fragment It was here that McClintock left the division, being wounded by a fragment of German 77 M. M. shell which killed two and wounded two others, all of room at dinner tune, said a triena of the family, "you would think he was certainly on the mend. He has the appetite of a vigorous, healthy Mrs.

Roosevelt called me on the telenhone shortly before 7 o'clock, say Capt. W. K. Dame, of Las Vegas, N. Sagamore Hill.

On Saturday, the colonel dictated two editorials. This was his last work. Roosevelt returned home Christmas day from Roosevelt hospital where he had been ill for some time with sciatica. Immediately after he died, his son Archie Roosevelt, who Is in Boston, was notified. He started for home at once.

The house at Sagamore Hill was clos.d and nobody allowed to enter the grounds after the colonel died. Colonel Roosevelt was 60 years old. ing that the colonel had died early schol boy." M. Capt. Arthur F.

Crosby, active In today. Blood pressure tests, it was said the work of the military training "She did not give me any particu- showed that the patient had arteries of lars. and I am leaving at once for a man forty instead of sixty years. Oyster Bay. One of the things that is believed October 22 when he was wounded in the Argonne Forest.

"Our company got ahead of the line in the Argonne," he said, "and we got so scattered in the underbrush that there was only a platoon and a half left together under the command of Lieutenant Schwin, when we dug in for the night. The going was awful and in addition to a driving rain, the mud underfoot was slippery and deep. The treea had been fairly shot to pieces by shell fire but the brush was so thick that you couldn't see a man 25 yards away, and it was full of Hun machine guns. That was the worst fighting we had. but the men from the Middle West stood up wonderfully and earned many commendations." Richardson is from Maryville, Mo.

More than a hundred of the wounded from the 89th are at Debarkation Hospital No. 3 here or have been sent on to other hospitals for final recuperation. About equal numbers have been sent to Debarkation Hospitals 1 and 2. Attack Very Sudden. "The attack must have been very to have contributed more than any other to the colonel's breakdown was the eath last Jall of his son Lieut.

'ontluneil on I'asre Two. sudden. On New ir's day. inflam matory rheumatism developed in THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT Colour Roosevelt's Physicians 'Jell of T. TOLD THE TALE Initials Vscd Almost Entirely-Coined Many Catch Words.

T. R. expressed to the average man in this and many other countries the full name of Colonel "velt. head writ Colonel Roosevelt's right hand, which became very much swollen. I Mrs.

Roosevelt sent for a nurse in the village and the colonel as made as comfortable as ossible. It did not occur to me at that time that he was seriously ill." HI Nearly a Year. Colonel Roosevelt's lant illness may from overseas and other camps and the 10 per cent of the Tenth division, there is a complete battalion of United States guards in camp from the Rock Island arspnal awaiting demobilization and discharge. 26 TOnFo'f RECORDS From A. E.

F. Received by War Risk Insurance Depurtmcnt. Twenty-six tons of insurance records from the American expeditionary forces were received in Washington on one day by the bureau of war risk insurance of the treasury department. They represent $1,600,000,000 of government insurance written on American soldiers overseas. The records will be merged with the other records on file, representing a grand total of more than thirty-eight billion dollars of insurance and more than 4,000,000 allotment and allowance Almost 40,000,000 separate card records are kept on file and under statistical control by the bureau of war risk insurance.

The records from overseas left Tours on December 22, in charge of five officers and twenty-four enlisted men, and were shipped on the Mauretania. guarded by a detachment of United States marines. The insurance and allotment work overseas was handled by the war risk section of the service of supplies of the American expeditionary forces, under the supervision bf Col. Henry D. Lindsley who has Just been appointed by the secretary of the treasury as director of the bureau of war risk ln-( surance.

l-Jx-President's Ieith. Oyster Bay, N. Jan. 7. The following official statement regarding the death of Colonel Roosevelt was given out here by the colonel's phy- n-s name wo ions be said to date from last tebruary.

States ilag. The flag of the First volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, was also draped upon it. On top of the coffin was a small wreath. Just as the body was borne into the church, the sun came out ior the first time today, glinting on the snow which covered everything. There was a solemn silence broken only by the shuffling of the undertaker's professional pallbearers.

The most tense moment seemed to be when the mortal remains of Colonel Roosevelt were carried slowly up the aisle, while Doctor Talmage impressively uttered the first sentences of the Kpiscopal funeral ritual. The service in the church lasted just eighteen minutes. Many in the crowd were weeping when the coffin was brought out. Among those who stood in the road were many old men who had known the ex-president for years. They seemed deeply affected, leaning heavily on walking sticks, their white heads bowed 1n grief.

The highway from Christ church to the cemetery was lined with automobiles, old fashioned country wagons, and by peoj le who had come from New Ycrk and from the small towns ot Long Island. As the cortege started for the graveyard, the church bell toId and the moaning of a fog horn on Long Island sound added a melancholy note. The crowd became denser nearer the m. r. 1 jA be ers, used well in her.ds, contracted On February 5, it was announced that I siciars: camps association during the war: George and Charles E.

Knoeblauch, Charles Mills. Edgar Knapp, J. Lori-mer Worden. W. Davidson, Kenneth D.

Robinson and Guy Murchaie. A sleet storm swept over Oyster Rav today as mourners gathered for the funeral of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The weather was very bleak and gloomy, with a cutting wind. Flowers Iu Profusion.

Flowers, coming in on trains and motor trucks, were heaped in many rooms at the Roosevelt home Sagamore Hill; they were piled up in the little church and stacked in the Oys-ted Bay postoffiee. This in spite of the family's request that there be no floral tributes. A detachment of 24 New York patrolmen and a squad of mounted men the latter officers who had been promoted by Roosevelt when he was New York's police commissioner were on the scene as a guard of honor Ostensibly they were sent to preserve order. The plain oaken casket containing the body of Colonel Roosevelt was placed in the lower room, scene of the family services', during the night. This casket was severely plain, its only adornments are six silver handles and a silver plate with Roosevelt's name, the date of his birth, and that of his death.

CHINA WANTS LANDS the initials. whom were farther away from the explosion. In the advance on the Argonne Mc-Clintock's company was featured in one of the most important captures made on the sector. Together with one platoon of company and a Stokes motor platoon of headquarters company of the 356th, they had become lost in the Bois de Rimain in heavy rain and mud. Taking possession of some deserted German billets and trying to find out where they were they heard a voice in German outside asking if it was the "Fifth company." One of the men who spoke German answered that it was and to come in.

The man was captured and he proved to be a German artillery observation officer carrying maps which disclosed the location of every gun emplacement for miles around. The men, who were in command of Lieut. F. P. Welch of Kansas City, were highly commended for the capture.

The men were surrounded in the Bois de Rimain for seventy-two hours without communication. After twenty-four hours they ran out of food and water, and with machine guns potting at them from all sides they were in ahad way until they were located by an airplane. In holding their precarious position they i It was typical of the former -j--'- "pj-gonality. He was i i he had been removed from his homej "Colonel Roosevelt had been suf-in Oyster Bay to the Roosevelt hospi- foring from au attack of inflammatory tal in this city following an operation rheumatism for about two months, on one of his ears. Soon after his ar- His progress had been entirely satis-rival et the hospital he underwent factory and his condition had not two more operatioiiH for the removal given cause for special concern.

On of diseased tissue in his infected ear, Sunday he was in good spirits and and it was admitted at the time that! spent the evening with his family, dic-hs was seriously ill. He remained at tatlng letters. He retired at 11 o'clock the hospital until March 3. at 4 o'clock in the morning, his During May and June the colonel man, who occupied an adjoining room, made a number of addresses, speak- noticed that while sleeping quietly, Ing at Springfield. and in New Colonel Roosevelt's breathing was Vork.

In June l.e made a tour of the i shallow. He died almost immediate-west during which he suffered a Blight, ly, without awakening. The cause of attack of erysipelas in one of his legs death was embolus." Will Ask for Hot urn 'or Kiao Cb-; From the German-. New York, Dec. 30.

China will of the peace conference the retunoiH Kiao Chow, the former German coir-trolled province captured by Japan early in the war. and a readjustment of international trade relations to place China on an equal plane with other nations, Lu Cheng-Chiang, Chinese minister of foreign affairs and head of his country's peace commis-soion. declared on his arrival here to vitriolic in coram tuiucu any catch words which have he-come part of the national speech, le popularized: he bis The rnollyco-'JIe. The pussyfooter. The Anan'as s.

The malefacf- of great wealth. Ilace suicide. The short and word. The strenuous life. Bully.

Delighted. an but refused to give up his enuage-l Kmbolus was a blood clot in ments. Karly in November the colonel artery supplying the lungs. day on the way to Paris. A i.