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Show IDAHO YOUNGSTER 1 BRAVE CHARGE Ensign Paul Foster Led the Utah Bluejackets to Landing Land-ing at Vera Cruz. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, May 22. Idaho may be proud of the record of one of her midshipmen, mid-shipmen, now an ensign, Paul Frederick Foster, and his distinguished services at Vera Cruz. The young ensign was nominated to the United States naval academy in 1907 by United States Senator Dubois, and graduated from the academy in l'Jtl as ranking midshipman of his class. At the engagement at Vera Cruz lie was an ensign on the U. S. battleship Utah, and was given charge of tlie ilrs.t landing party from the Utah. They landed under tire and cleared the wharf and the streets before them, and finallv capture:) the municipal mu-nicipal building of Vera Cruz. As a recognition recog-nition of his success in leading tlie engagement, en-gagement, he was made tempoinry provost pro-vost marshal of the eity. a responsibility that rank's with the responsibility that Is usually placed upon tlie commanders in the United States navy. |