Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — TEN YEARS IN ARMY. [ARTICLE]

TEN YEARS IN ARMY.

Fred L. Bince, son of D. B. Bince, came over Sunday afternoon from Wabash county, says the Albion Reg-1 ister, for a brief visit with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bince, leaving Monday morning for Chicago for a visit with relatives. Fred has a good military and naval record. He enlisted in the regular army when 18 years old and served six years with distinction in that organization, three of these being spent in service in the Philippine Islands. Upon his honorable discharge he enlisted in the navy at Chicago. After detailed instruction for several months he was assigned to the first class cruiser Milwaukee which cost $3,000,000, and was lost off the coast of California, while attempting to tow a submarine into port two or three years ago. After that disaster he was assigned to the destroyer Whipple, which patrolled the western coast of the U. S. and Mexico, and later guarded the Panama Canal. In the summer of 1917 the Whipple was ordered to Philadelphia for repairs and last September went to European waters, where all through the winter they were engaged in convoying between France and the Madiera and Azores Islands. For two months they were stationed at Gilbralter. In March his term of four years’ service expired and he was honorably discharged at .Norfolk, Virginia, after ten years’ service in the army and navy. Fred at once re-enlisted for another four years and is flow on a furlough of 30 days before returning to his ship for foreign service. Within this span.pf ten year sservice he has visited every continent of the globe except Australia and he says he has never seen any country half so good as the United States. The Mr. Bince is the young man who has been visiting his uncle, W. L. Frye of this city.