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Show TWO LOCAL SOLDIERS DEADj ONE IS WOUNDED IN FRANCE i. Tl ! T EFT to right, James L. Altop, formerly of Lalt Lake, who died of ! disease, and V. R. Champion, Salt Lake, wounded in action. . j - p U x Kyi , One Man Killed in Action, -Ufiw- Whilc Other Death Is From Disease. TWO soldiers have made the supreme sacrifice and one has been wounded, according to messages received' in Salt LaUc yesterday. The dead : Albert L. Schneider, killed in action; .lame.-? L. Altop, died of j disease. Y. R. Champion of Salt Lake i was wounded October -i. Albert K. Schneider, brother- of .Mrs. Katrina Tlauserman. til-0 Navajo street, and Merman Schneider of Sa't Lake, was killed in action October M. Mr. Schneider was a nifiuher of the Tnirly-nJnth in- fantr-. l-le enlisted in September. 1917. received his training at Camp Lewis and i left for Trance last" June. j Mr. Schneider was years old. He j 'eaves his parents in Switzerland, his sis-i ter and brother. lie came to America sixteen years ago. Before enlisting he was ernploved at the Arthur mill at Gar- I field. - I .lames L. Allop of the amy aviation service died of disease in France, according accord-ing to a message to his aunt, Mrs.. Henry B. Good of Tooele. Mr. Altop enlisted 1 in May, 19 1 7, at Columbus, Mont., and was ordered to Camp - Me Art-bur, Waco, Tex., for training. He was born May 8, is;ig. at Kansas City, Kan. He Jiad resided re-sided at Salt Lake. Mr. A It op leaves his par-en Is. Mr. and ; Mrs. John L. Altop of Red Lodge, Mont.,1 two sisters and two brothers find his aunt. 1 W. U Champion, sou of Mr. and Mrs. K. T. Lowder. formerly of Salt Lake and now residing at Rfgby, .Idaho. was wounded in action in France, October 4. according to a message to Salt Lake friends. Mr. Champion, who was a mem-, ber of. the 362nd Infantry, Ninety-first, "division, was wounded in the shoulder,: the message stated, though the degree of; the injury was not given. Mr. Chamcion left Salt Lake for Camp: Lewis last July. . Before entering the army lie was employed by the Smith-Faus Smith-Faus Dru company. |