Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1919 — LIEUT SPITLER DECORATED [ARTICLE]

LIEUT SPITLER DECORATED

DECORATED. FOR BRAVERY ACCORDING TO ARCHANGEL .. DISPATCH. T > Second Lieutenant Woodhull I. Spitler has been' decorated with the French Croix de Guerre according to an Archangel report of Saturday, which reads. “Archangel, Saturday, April 6. (By the Associated Press). Americans serving in the Khadish sector have been decorated for gallantry by the French. Among a score receiving the croix de gurre with the bronze star .are: —• • Second Lieutenant Woodhull I. Spitler, of Rensselaer, Ind., and Private Samuel B. Darrah, of Noblesville, Ind.” Lieutenant Spitler is the son of Miayor and Mrs. C. G. Spitler of this city and has been in Russia for several months with a small American force. Following his graduation from an officers’ training school he was sent to Camp - Custer, " Mich where he remained for but a short time before being sent overseas. Since arriving in Russia he has seen almost constant active service against the Reds. The Archangel dispatch failed to particularize on the. deeds that won the honors except to say that the gallantry was shown in the Kadish. sector, Spitler and others of—Shiloh’s platoon held the line against superior forces for fifteen hours, entering the engagement with sixtyfive men and losing five killed and twenty-nine wounded.