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Show EMPLOYER ADOPTS WOUNDED SOLDIER Special Cable to The Tribune. MUNICH, Jan. 3. Nine months ago Jo- ! soph Hauser. a 19-year-old clerk " from 1 Angsburs:. went to tho front in France In Ausrust ftp returned as a oripnle and inday he la the adopt.?. son and sole heir, of his employer, r rich nidnufauturcr. The young man was terribly wounded in May In on of the battles near Saint Allchiel. Hia ripht arm and his left lejr hsd to be amputated prid for several wXi he lingered between life and death. On hie return to bis native town his former for-mer employer, who hn.d encouraged bim to Join the army as a volunteer, promised to take cere of him. Artificial limbs were procured for the crippled hero and he took jii? old place In the office of the factorv asaln. Two months after his discharge from the hospltnJ the young: mnn received notice no-tice that the iron cross of the first ebiss hud been awarded to him. This pleased his boM" even more than himself and the manufacturer, who lias no children of his own, decided to adopt him and to maJte him his heir. |