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Show YOUNGER CONGERS HERE ON FURLOUGH After four years service on the American Amer-ican torpedo boat destroyer Balnbridge, C. B. Congers, son of Dr. E. H. Congers of this city, has returned home on a thirty days' leave of absence. Ho expects ex-pects to re-enlist at the expiration of his furlough on one of the new' destroyers at San Francisco. At the time of his enlistment Mr. Congers was assigned to the Philippines, after which he was sent to do patrol duty near the Straits of Gibraltar and about the Mediterranean sea. His principal duty, he said, was chasing German submarines, sub-marines, three of which were sunk by his destroyer. About two months and a half ago his boat answered the S. O. S. call of fourteen merchant vessels which were attacked by the subsea vessels in the Mediterranean, but the undersea boats dropped under the water and out of sight before the destroyer could arrive on tlie scene. |