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Show 15 FIFiST U! BOY KILLED i SERVICE Earl P. Brown Run Down by Motorcyclist on Long Island Road. Fatally injured by being run down by a motorcyclist who left him for i lea it on the country road near the Mineola, Loug Island, army concentration concen-tration camp, Earl P. Brown, 21 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank .1. Brown of S2 South Fourth East street, died yesterday in the military field camp." The body will be sent west immediately, im-mediately, and upon arrival Tuesday or Wednesday ariangcmer.ts will have been completed for the funeral services and t he burial in the family plot at Tooele. The dead soldier is entitled to full military honors, including a military funeral, and arrangements to that end are being considered. Yo.mg Brown, who had a host of friends in Salt Lake, joined- the army aero service April 15. Be was first sent, to Fort Douglas, thence to Leavenworth, Leav-enworth, Kan., and finally spent the summer months learning the fundamentals fundamen-tals of the aero service at the San Aji-tonio, Aji-tonio, Texas, field. Bo had been at Mineola. with his unit, the Twenty-third aero squadron, out three weeks when killed. A student in both West and East high .schools, he was active in educational educa-tional life. lie played the cornet in the school band. At the time he entered en-tered the aero service he was employed in the engineering department of the Utah Copper company at Garfield and during evening3 attended the Salt Lake Business college night school. lie was an 'active member of the Y. M. C. A. and of the Deseret gymnasium, gymna-sium, at which place he took part in practically all branches of athletics and gymnastics. Tho shock to the mother of the first Utah victim of the preparations for war was especialy keen as she had, a moment before the word of death came, received one of her "three times a week" letters from her devoted son. Bravely taking the sad news, the mother moth-er declared her pride that her ,boy had died while in the service of the country. |