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STAR NEWS AND EDITORIAL Music, Theatres, Motion Pictures NEBRASKA'S BEST NEWSPAPER SEVENTEENTH YEAR. LINCOLN, SUNDAY, JANTJABT 26, 1919. TWELVE PAGES THE LINCOLN Star's Suggestion France Brought to Write to Colonel Cosgrdve in 189 Letters. Former Jurist Explains1 Colonel "Bill" Hayward's Own Story of Twelve Day Battle In Champagne Offensive In Which Well Known Nebraskan. Commanded Regiment of Colored Troops Which Won Fame 11.1.

Bin I I mil We were almost constantly in an atmosphere of gas. wearing masks, but fortunately it was arsene and phosgene, not the deadlier mustard or yperite. which latter we had but once, I think. I have not gotten over the stuff yet and guess I never will. It took most of the lining out of our nostrlln.

throats, lunn and Ex-Nebraska City Man Says Artillery Preparation "Was Greatest of War Gannon Packed So Closely As to Form Solid Iron Link. NOISE WAS TERRIBLE For Fire Hours Seemed That End of World Had Come-' HAT WrtKU, Km I fc I Emialled Dante's Record With Many very Interesting thing?) to sei.ii. So very unlike tne gona V. S. A.

I have certainly seen all of the, horrors of war. Am well acquainted with burj ng saelM -nd bombs from tho I'run )otottr llth Ztth, I was in charts of thi burial of the dead in our divisional are. This work was earned on dally under u'lell tiro. -')i, what a picture. Notwithstanding the armistice, the war Is not yet ended, hence no more for the present on that subject.

Complying strictly with the censorship, I muat refrain from further utterances. On October 22 was honored by being; promoted nnu commissioned lieutenant colonel. Letter Later. I would be pleased to writs you a letter some length touching the different phases of this great war and what I have observed, but this I must defer until after I am out of the service. I know your patrlotio heart prompted you and you meant Well-but say when am I going to have time to answer all the man)', many very Interesting and charming let- ters received from my frlendi.

Write to Jim." They certainly did. I have just one hundred and eighty-nine of your "Star" letters unanswered. It would be stxtreme plea sure for me to answer each and all of them. I write home every day. Will do the best I can in the imlted time I have at my disposal.

In view of this fact, please tell my friends who made my burdens lighter by being the recipient of their tender messages and patriotic utterances, that I am profoundly grateful to them for their very kind expressions of good will. With best wishes to all, and personal regards to yourself, Very sincerely yours. P. JAMES Lieut. Colonel, J.

U. S. A. Headquarters Fifth division, American Ex. Forces, France.

As a result of The Star's publl- cation of pictures of Lincoln men in service abroad. In this paper's "write to him today" Campaign, Lieutenant Colonel P. James Cosgrave, of the Judgj advocate's department, former district Judge who resignetl to enter the army, recel ed Just 1S8 letters. "Write to Jim" was the slogan which evoked all the letters, and in a message to The Star, Colonel Cos-grave says he only he had time to reply to each one. He left Lincoln as a major assigned to the Fifth division, and has only rece been promoted-to lleu tenant colonel, he says in his letter.

This is his letter: Esch-zur-Alzette, December 26, 191S. Editor The Star: During our recent field activities we changed station so frequently that I did not- have an opportunity to write. Since the curtain has fallen on the greatest theatre in the world and closed the show of the world's most colossal drama, my time has been fully occupied with official duties. My department for several reasons is now an exceedingly busy institution. Since my arrival in foreign waters have been stationed in England, France, Alsace, Loraine.

Luxembourg and have been in Belgium on official duties. Expect soon to be in Germany. The all prevailing topio now is when are we going home' I have been and am now In best of health. Apparently very little sickness among our troops. The weather is very damp and chilly.

Rain nearly every day. In a few days we will be the throes of winter. Wonderful Country. France is a wonderfully beautiful country. It Is one grand scene of charming landscape, and natural beauty.

The Vosges mountains present a view of unexcelled nature's, handiwork. The city of Luxembourg is well worth a visit by any globe trotter. Many of the buildings, huge A arm HV 1 1 ma crt. Determined Mother Rears Family of Eight Children Ahne Now She Picks Rags and Refuses Any Form of Charity Ey WILMA WINTER. 1 ory.

It was a continual. story of Jru- Thls is the story of a Lincoln wo- I tality, shame and, degradation. The man who has struggled for ten years husband and father spent only a to keep life vibrant in the bodies of short time each year at home. The her eight children. Hers is the story wifc and mother tried to keep both of an indomitable spirit supporting the family and the little farm going, the load all too heavy for the frail Bit by bit Bhe has told of the hard-shoulders of a mother a mother who ships especially those of the winter I all mucous membranes.

We cried onion peelers and sneezed Jke the worst hay fever victims in the world and all had whooping cough. At the end of our twelve days wo came out with out division, what was left of which included twenty officers. It wasn't a bit of fun any of the time, and these guys who are chafing in the rear or in the United States Just thirsty for gore and glory may have my place next time. I enclose a page from French paper which I have marked, which shows where we attacked. It looks white enough to be snow, but it is Just the chalky of Champagne.

The 'town shown on another sheet, or rather the site of the now nonexistent town, we captured with cannon and prisoners. It was here Major Spencer was hit six times by machine gun bullets. He is baCly wounded and can never return to active duty again, I fear. The American army constituted the right wing of the great attack and were over to our east, the other side of the Argonne forest. An American general who was there told me they heard our artillery preparation (which was several hours longe than the American) and it sounded, even in the distance, like tho end of the world and looked like it too, the gun flashes lit everything up so.

Of course, It was the only way these terrible boche positions could have been overcome. And indeed it did practically annihilate his first line, but unfortunately not his Bee-'ond, third, which We later ran, or rather walked, into. One goes slowly, ever so slowly, in such an advance. I wanted to go faster. Indeed.

Colonel Pickering and with our group, found ourselves with the leading battalion several times, even ahead of it, and everybody with any aense at all knows that it no place for a well ordered and dignified colonel to be. I found no place suitable for a Christian or a gentleman to tarry In anywhere Ave went and as one could not very well go backward there was nothing to do but go forward, nnil I wanted to go fast, lameas I was. But the boche couldn't see it that way. My, how they stuck to every inch of ground Well, ifg done and guess the war's done, I the fighting part of it, or nearly so. I'm not sorry either.

believe me! As one of my boys said, "If I ever get back to Manhattan, If that old lady with the lamp in her mitt wants to see me she's got to do 'about Great numbers of the men and many of the oficers received the croix de guerre for gallantry. Won't I be the happy boy to get back to some other work than manslaughter? If you didn't know it before I'll tell you now, I'm a lawyer pure and simple, moderately pure, and altogether simple, and once I get my soldier camouflage off, off it stays! This is my second offense of going to war, and while the first (Spanish war) wasn't very serious, the third is going to be even less so! P. S. This morning comes the new of the armistice, the terms of which we Judge our great commander. General Foch, will have made tatamount to peace.

It Is the anniversary of our sailing from New York. The Germans In the trenches opposite us are firing rockets, throwing their caps up and tossing away grenades long before 11 o'clock. Numerous- red flags are appearing all along their lines. Terhaps socialism was nearer ready to break forth than any ef us dreamed of. It Is from this city that Germany's crack troops came.

As far as I can see, the only loss they have had is would come along and end it. add has had none of the joys of her motherhood but all of its throes. For over a half score of years she has fed---the--hungy-nwuths--andr-lrt)w the growing bodies of her boys and girls. Now the children have reached the age where they are able to use their own wings. Seven have left noma to nests of their owr, The mother is sorting rags at one Of the local junk Rhops to procure bread for herself and the vounsrest of her flock, an invalid lad sixteen summers.

There are no flower spots In this I .1 1,.. 111' I I 1 I has added a bright color note nlbng the sharp stoned path of many plodders that have met her on the road. Built Her Own Home. She lives on the edge of the city In one of those edifices which the passing world dubs a shack. It is only eight by ten In floor Bpace.

But she built it with her own tired hands after her hard days work. It is home to the boy who will never know any other. A couple of neighbor men helped her to erect the frame work I (Courtesy of the New York Sun.) ful valley and plain dotted with towns, lakes, chateaus and farms. This panorama spread out before us formiles- and the- gun-was-s-jbright as any June day. Here we saw what I'm sure so men had seen before.

We saw four divisions (twelve regiments) attacking abreast, with as perfect Uason between each other as squads could have. They covered a front of about four miles. My regiment was the center of our division, which was the right center of the four divisions we could actualy see. Our guns were close behind us and' the German artillery behind their infantry. And what a duel they had the way artillery generally fight duels firing on each other's infantry instead of on one another.

This made double belt of flame, smoke, tossed up men, earth and ile-bris, along our whole front. I Bhall never, never forget it if I forget all in life. The sky was full of aero dues, battles between great escadrilles of planes and antiaircraft barrages from ground batteries. 1 saw fifty-seven French planes In then if the nun came out and thawed us out we were afraid It Would. -When- wft-crosged the-JDorraois- fiver, where It widened into, a swamp, the boche was shelling- Industriously, and it looked like a hall storm on the surface of the water, I saw break from percussion when they hit the water the name as if they had hit th hard ground.

Much of the time we bad to lean over and shout Into each, other's ears to be heard, then again it would die away apparently. There were many frewsome sights continually before us. I noticed that our men and' the French were kilcd generally fcuddled up' in a heap. The boche, however, were all sprawled out. Maybe because we were nlways attacking and most of the time crouching down.

Both our dead and theirs looked like stuffed figures of wax works, except hose by shells. We crossed a smdll cemetery, used untl a few weeks before tho attack by the civilian community. Our artillery and theirs had pound.d this! spot until the graves were literally blown out of the ground. j.Tbg' dead soldiers. Just killed, w.ere.

by no means the most revo'ting sights at this terrible upot But what's the use? After four days and nights we gained our second set of objectives and surmounted a great ridge which looked down its far slope onto the most wonqCr- of the little building. She had some4.husband followed but was forcibly Twelve Days in llelL One of the most comprehensive stories of one of the deciding battles in the world war is from the pen of a well known Nebras-kan Colonel William llayward, commanding the 369th infantry, a detachment of colored troops. Col. Hayward's pitturesque description of the great allied drive in the Champagne under the direction of General Gour. aud appeared in the New York Sun of last Sunday.

"I do not think it was the un believable volume of roaring sound the guns made themselves nor yet the more remote but the terrible crashing of our shells as they burst upon the German lines, which made the most im pression upon me but the noise they made our heads, tens -of thousands of the noisy birds, big and little, every one delivering himself of a'whewes' and 4 Irishes' as he was on his way. They seemed not more than two feet above us. I wanted to stick my cane and touch them. One. could, actually feel them in one hair.

The breeze was from the north when it started hut they made the wind turn around and blow the other way. It was a solid ten million dollar roof of whistling hardware and not one to many for the chore." Colonel Hayward veS St Nebraska City and wai a candidate for congress In the First district About ten years ago. Later he removed to New York City and became a member of the public service commission. At the outbreak of the war he entered military service. Colonel Hayward's letter follows: Have felt ao upset from the haven't tried to write you or any one else anything Uke a coherent account of the big battle In the Champagno star' ins September 26.

I note In letter Just received you guess ua to be with the Yanks over Mett way. Now that we are clear out and in another part of France I can. I believe. Without violating censorship, tell you where we were. We attacked In the assault wave of General Gauraud's splendid Fourth nrmee, in which we served continuously from March 12 to recently.

We had. concededly, the worst boche stronghold from Switzerland to the sea, a. few kilometer west of Argonne forest, and attacked from practically our own sector, tha one last held, which was such a terror. Our French division was composed of two white French regiments (both splendid units) and rhy regiment for the Infantry, with the French artillery and engineers. The division came out of sector, all but two battalions, to be tuned up for the attack several days before the party started.

I was glad, because we needed the time and also' because It gave us a chance to see the wonderful preparations, the assemblage of shock units of Infantry (we were, in fast company), of artillery, pontcon trains, aviators, ambulances, etc. All Prepared at Night. Ammunition trains and supplies poured in for two days, or rather nights, because It was all done under cover of darkness and then everything was hidden by day In groves, ravines and villages. It was a Wonderful thing to watch going on. It went well' and apparently with sec -eey until the last day or two.

when It got so big it Just naturally overflowed Into the open spaces and all effort at concealment appeared to me to have been abandoned. AM this time we were well within range of the boche artillery, but odd-ly enough they let ua alone. 1 dirt not see or hear half a doien German shells in a many days, that Is on our back areas or roads. This was In marked contrast to their great attack In July, when for days ernl flournud pounded them hard Vlth his big guns. They must hnve known, too, for their planes were over us a'l the time.

Why one day a boche plane came over, pounced down out of a cloud, set Pre to our observation balloon, shot and killed with machine gun the poor observer who leaped from the flaming balloon and was peace, fully descending In his parachute. This boche Hunlre! then came st'll lower and darted over our. head-quarters so low that some of our men threw atones up at him. having no time to run and get rifles which were a few rods away. Attacked With Full Equipment.

We attacked In assault equipment, blanket roll, with emergency rations, chocolate, sardines, hard bread. eVx, carried In musette bags (like school hook satche's) slung over the ehoul-der. The main burden the men had to carry was ammunition, cartridge, grenades, wire cutters and, of course! the omnipresent gas mask and two canteens of water. Well, the fateful day drew near snd we finally moved up into position at nlcht and stowed the men away In dugout, tunnels, bo van snfl trenches. Still very little hoche shilling, though our roads were congested w'th big guns, wagon, motor trucks end everv conceivable form of -a kins or rolllnsr transportation.

Tha hours we waited were Inter- LIEUT. COL. P. JAMES COSGRAVE gates, bridges and towers represent the living work of art of the past eight or nine centuries. The greatest number of the magnificent buildings are modern throughout.

The streets and roads are exceptionally clean. In the matter of construction and the upkeep of roads we may learn much from this part of the world. Every branch and cross road is so well marked a foreigner traveling by auto or otherwise need ask no questions. Weather conditions do not affect road With but few exceptions all Puldlngs in France and Luxembourg? are built of stone and brick. The roofs are covered with heavy tile shingles.

F're calls, are very uncommon over iii're. months, of those long, long years. One season the grasshoppers came. Thev strinned the farm of all veg- not even guass for the few porkers that were destined to supply the winter meat for the family. The father was absent as usual.

The children were too small to render any assistance. So the little care-worn mother strapped herself to a cart there wtu-e no horses and made severnl trips a day to' the woods to gather the fruits of the sumac bush for the food for her pigs, kj Many Weary Miles. "With the berries ond the little food we could scrape together fioni table scraps, we managed to keep them alive until the weather became cold enough butcher," she would say. But the weary, weary miles 1 covered in those trips to and- from the woods." Then the husband came back for a brief reign of terror for both wile and children. The woman's father reached the limit of paternal patience and brought her and the little brood back to the plains of Nebraska, The sent back to the habitat of his cus tomary life.

He dies two years later, a man wrecked' by his own ungov-erned passion's. The years that followed are veiled ones in the hiBtory of that family. The only thing that is known about them is that the -mother slaved and worked that the children might hsyo at least the fundamentals of an education. Through the trials of all those W-3 have taken over a large Ger man fortress and barracks and con- iContlnued on Page Two). 1 OYD H.

BURNHART. Lloyd H. Burnhart. formerly of Lincoln, enlisted In 7th U. S.

Engineers In November, 1917. He sailed overseas the' following March and was Immediately sent to tha front, where he remained until the fighting ceased. He participated In several of the big drives and was cited for bravery at the St. Mlhlel frpnt He in now with the an of occupation In Oermany. Mis.

fc.irn-hart. formerlv llililur Holmstrom, Is mak'ng he- horn with her parents while her husband 19 overseas. Lincoln and Nebraska Boys, With American Ar mies of Occupation in Germany, and in Demobilization Camps, Write to Home Folks of Their Experiences years pride grew until it formed a formidable wall about her. She became a lonely woman, afraid of any sympathy for fear it might become charity. Life had taught her Its bitterest lesson.

Refuses Charity. So the story goes that one by on the children left the mother and began homes of their own. Of course they too had a Struggle -to get- a Btart. There was little that they could really do for the mother that had given everything for them. Besides she would not accept even the bit that they could offer.

The pride-wall had become too hard even her own boys and girls to pierce. There came a time when only the youngest remained with her. She and the Invalid boy came to Lincoln where she looked for work. She found it in the dump yards sorting rags. There was another struggle for bread but in time had set aside a little nest egg.

She bought a plot of ground on the northern outskirts of the city. It was a small plot -but it cost her 100. For two years she has been paying for it "kit by bit. A year ago she began to build her humble home. Some of the neighbor nfen lent a helping hand on Sundays and in the evenings after they had completed their own day's work.

But, she did the most of It herself. It was -hard for her to accept even the offer of this much assistance. She be-' came radical on the subject. Refused Ground. One of the neighbors told of the extent she would go rather thajn ac-dept help.

When Bhe purchased her lot he marked off the plot for, her. Since It adjoined his own ground, he offered to plow It when he plowed his own for the garden. She finally consented to that In so doing, he over lapped her space a bit, giving her nine feet from his own lot. She became suspicious, hired a surveyor to come out thero and paid him ten -of her hard earned dollars to find the true division line. She did not use one inch of the proffered ground.

Of a summer evening she works her little garden spot. The few vegetables that she can raise helps to solve the summer grocery problem. Sometimes there is a surplus that can be preserved for winter consumption. But lifo did not "leave her many hours to learn the art of food preservation or even train her in scientific food production. Very few friends have been able to pierce the pride-shell that encloses the life of this woman.

She clings to that -one attribute of gentellty with the tenacity of ivy to an established -rock. The mystery of existence- has been an awful problem for her. The romantlcfancles of her girlhood were too rudely broken off to have left even a memory to brighten the dark days that have continued through the whole course ot her life. er Dodv Is stooped, her face lined, her hands worn, and yet she is tar irom halfway century mark. She Is just an old woman that lives In a chicken house looking hut on the edge of the city.

Passers-by would give but one glance at the bent figure that carries its bedraggled skirts down the road each morning -and evening. Yet she' has ennobled -motherhood her sacrifices. Her, heart throb is making its contribution to the pulsating life of the city of Lincoln. Wolf Hunt at Hardy Nets 6 for Red Cross 'Special to The Btar.1 HARDY, Jan. 2i.

Hundreds of farmers and sportsmen joined in a community hunt and drew a cordon around a ten square mile area yesterday, ond In the net caught six wolves not far from this town. Five of the catch of six were oio at auction, and the proceeds of H2.J5 were turned over to the. Bed Cross, according to J. W. who reported the event The chase began early in the day, when huntsmen came by automobile from miles around to take their appointed place In the line.

The sport continued the greater part of the day, causing much intorest at tua close when the line neared the game nnd the wolves could he been scurry' ing away in tha dlsUnca to. seek, protection. 1 mlnable, or seemed so. The artillery preparation or the French wing was to for 6 hours and 25 minutes, starting; follow at a. m.

The French KencrnJ told me we had the greatest concentration of artillery behind our division ever assembled In one spot in the world's history, and when 1 heard It, 1 believed him. At any rate I know there were literally hun-dreds of cannon provided for our divisional artillery for the occasion, mobile guns such as we call field or horde artillery. You could not have put them in a single line, hub to hub, behind us. They were divided between the three regiments and theoretically each1 third was under command of tha infantry colonel after the Jump-off. Then in addition there was the heavy stuff of the army corps and nrm.ee, and back of all the monster American railroad artillery with their snouts up in the trcetops, the ones that' throw over boxcars and ceolc stoves at Fritzy.

Counted the Crawling Minutes. So we waited ami counted the minutes which crawled by, made eur prayers, nibbled chocolate, looked at certain photograph, yawned, stretched and tried to appear cheerful and absolutely normal and unconcerned. There was the usual sector har-rassment fire by both artilleries, only a few of our old and long stabilized batteries, however, firing. The creat mass which had crawled in night after night remained mute until the hour, There seemed to come a lull even In this desutory fire for a few minutes before 11, and Just a tew seconds, ten or fifteen maybe, before 11. one big baby away up westward toward Rheims spoke, then another and another and she rolled down our way.

Suddenly a 75, which seemed to bo at my elbow, spit out the nastv, sharp crack they have. We iJl jumped a little, and then and then the world lit up liko the Great White Way, and all the tall buildings existence betran falling on tin roof. Nature blushed at her poor, efforts at earthquake and the party was on.i 1 do not think it was the Unbelievable volume of roaring nound the guns made themselves, nor yet the more remote but terrible crashing of our shells as they burst on the German lines which made tho most impression on me, but the noise they made going over our hears, tens of thousands of the noisy birds, big a'nd little, every one delivering himself of a hundred "whews" ibid "shlshes" as he was on his way. They weemed not more than two feet above us. I wanted to stick my cane up and touch them.

One could actually feel them in one's hair. The breeze was from the north when It started, hut they made tho wind turn around and" blow the other way. It was a solid, ten million dollar roof of whistling hardware, and not one too many for the chore, After an hour or we (those of us who could get Into a deep sap whore the crashing Toar was Mime-what muffled wont to ep. I have learned men can and Mill sleep any Assault Lasted Twelve At the assault was launched, an rssaultt that kept on assaulting so far as our division was eoni cemcd. for twelve days.

In whlc we crossed rivers, captured owns, cut and climbed through acres and acres of barbed wire entanglements, stormed slopes and bluffs and rldjs and hlUs for fourteen kilometers eU the way fac'ng stubborn and terribly effective artillery and machine r.m fire of the boche. How long was TJante in hell? We wee in twelve days. I saw so much, endured so much, worried so much I can't remmT half of It. Som day; nno ever ntht It rained. We snt In hole I'ke foxes, when we alent.

eV In can. tured boche roM. oh. so cold at night, wished. rrr.

assistance in putting on the roof, but the side walls were Mounted, the floor laid, the cracks tar-papered and the little paint that she had applied with her own patient hands. The woman came to Lincoln from a farm in Missouri two years ago. She was a Nebraska girl but married a man from the more southern state. The years she lived with him remain as tragic pictures in her mem- the casualties, lack of meat, milk and flour etc. Their clothes are good, I and c.ean, I RAYMOND LAUGHLJN.

Raymond Laughlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Laughlin of Firth, Is with the 850th company, 89th division, which Is now stationed at Andllly, France, about twenty-five miles from Met. In his letter Laughlin says his division was in the trenches for' a few weeks before the armistice was signed; that he got to see some of the big battle it the war and that his regiment missed the biggest scrap which the American troois were engaged in by but a few hours. He expects to be sent home in the spring.

ll 1 one neet. xney looked lor all thiJ world like a great flock of wild geesjr On the Missouri, flying shaped. point1 in front. At that, it looked llKe the boche planes could come over at will and by shooting off fireworks in the air succeed in Jalon-ning our lines for their artillery to get the range on our men. mans, invaded so far Into France before they were stopped, for everything is efficient, military and cleafn.

in- 'if GEORGE A. KLAUSE. George A. Klause, nephew of Henry Rletz, 11 Charleston street, has been in France since March, 1918, and has seen active fighting at the front, participating in some of the most important battles just previous to the signing of the He is with Co. A of the 7th U.

S. engineers and a great part of hi work was constructing roads ahead of the rapidly advancing Yankees. went to Fort Leavenwo-th In Jurte, ,117. He has a medal for A German orchestra in Cob-, lenz on the Rhine played "The Star Spangled and other patriotic American tunes for the United States army of occupation on Christmas day. A letter written on that day by Sgt.

Jjarold P. King, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. B.

King, 2503 0 street, has just reached Lincoln, after having been a month on the way. Sergeant King said that lead ing American actors and, act resses gave an entertainment in the evening in the biggest theater in town, leased for the purpose of the Y. II. C. V.

and the Red Cross gave eaen soldier a Christmas package. This is his letter: i 'Coblen, Germany, 'Christmas Hy Dear Folks: Merry! Chlstmaa. Havi certainly neglected writing, but we have been working every minute getting; the hospital set up. It Id nearly completed, so we have a little breathing apell at last. I hardly knoW how to begin mv letter, for I have so much to tell you about my trip and surroundings.

On the night of December 13 we out of Vanbecourt, France, headed for Germany, officers, nurses and men all in box cars. Our trip was uneventful, except for the wonderful scenery and battlefields we passed through. One thing was the Verdun railroad Umnel in which two French divisions wero trapped and by the Huns. Crossed the bordered Oermany following along th bo ry line of-mxemburr. un-tlVAro reached thieautlful city Of CoblWix on.

the of the Rhine river. mJ. Now 1 do pot wejWcr.hy tha Ger i i i i i 1 A. J. CULP.

A. J. Culp of Denton, Neb, went to France with a hospital unit of the 88th division. In his letters to friends at Denton he tells of tha incidents of bravery and courage 6n the part of the wounded Nebraska and Kansas men of bis division when brought Into tho hospital for treatment He says he has failed to find a pirt equal to that of the Tanks. Culp Is a nephew of Mrs.

II. M. Deasber of Denton, -J 1 i' -Wpsll'uuung. hi 4(1 V'.