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Show Utah Mean Who Have Joined Various Branches of the U. sTSghtSngJgreesjj RALPH P. WALKER. HAROLD E. KELLY. R. P. WATSON. lllfe mm S. LOCKE M'CORKLE. A. J. LUUTliWSUUK. il . Win ; r 5 V f ' J. E. EYPINSKI. 1 " it I ' ' '"'1 1 ' GUS TARGHETTA. li "1 GEORGE Z. KELLY. F. W. LOUTEKSOCK. -V I Lv 1 E - Special to The Tribune. SANDY, April 29. Word lias been received re-ceived In Sandy of the safe arrival in France of Loche McCorlde, son of Mr. and Mrs. George McCorktc of this city. Mr MoCorkle enlisted in D company, Thirtieth engineers, last January. H was first sent to Fort Mycr. Va., and later to. France. George McCorkle, father of the yo'ing man. is with the public service reserve at San Francisco. FRANK T. GARDNER. TJAU'H P. WALKER, who has been In training at the United States aviation avia-tion school at San Diego for the last four months, has entered Columbia univer sity. New York, after successfully passing pass-ing the government examination. At Co-umbta Co-umbta ho will take a course in the aeronautic aero-nautic school of mechanics in the naval division. After completing this course, he will receive a commission. Mrs. "Walker later will join her husband in New York. Mr. Wnlker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Walker of Salt Lake. CAPTAIN HAMILTON GARDNER. AMONG the western soldiers who have risen from the ranks to qualify as second lieutenants in the army is Robert Rob-ert P. Watson of Weiser, Idaho. Mr. Watson came to Weiser from I.ondon. Ohio, and was a student for five years at tlie Weiser schools. He entered Oberlln academy in 191:1 and was graduated In 1915. Mr. Watson was a freshman at Oberlin college when he left for home to enlist in June, 1917. He was sent to Fort Sill, Okla., and assigned to the Eighth field artillery. He was made corporal in September and sent to the third officers' training camp at Fort Oglethorpe. In December he was one of 100 men selected from this camp for advanced officers' training in France. He Is 22 years old. His sister, Mrs. R. B. Merrick, and his mother, Mrs. Jeanette P. Watson, reside in Weiser. CLYDE M'KELLAR. AFTER having been engaged In civil engineering and mining work in the I nited Slates and Central America, J. E. Rypinski. graduate of the Columbia School of Mines and a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, has enlisted In the United States marine corps. Mr. Rypinski, who is well known as a mining engineer at Bingham, where he has worked, left recently for Paris Island, S. C, to receive recruit training, after which he will be assigned to the mining and sapping school in Virginia. Mr. Rypinski is a Texan by birth. "I feel this is an excellent opportunity to devote my training and experience to patriotic duty," he said. "I was influenced influ-enced in joining the marines, also, bv the activities and example of First Sergeant Harold J. Read, through whose efforts an opportunity to serve in this branch is open." THOMAS KENT STEVENS. IT RACING his ancestry back to the heroes who came across the Atlantic from France to help the colonies win their fight of freedom under the leadership leader-ship of Lafayette, Gus Targhetta says he feels great pride in having the opportunity oppor-tunity to maintain the family virtues by enlisting in the cause of thef allies, Gus was born four miles from Verdun. Five of his cousins and two uncles are now fighting for France. Four consins and one uncle are with the Belgian army. He himself is with the United States infantry. in-fantry. SERGEANT H. W. JESPERSEN. nr ..nf iff I" """Nt 1 . mm i W' "I M I :J B I v i. $ f 1 H. W. LOUTENSOCK. i it' it CORPORAL ELMER E. KELLY. 'pug i g HAMILTON GARDNER, graduate of the University of Utah, where he was president of the student body and prominent generally in student body ai-fairs, ai-fairs, has been promoted to a captaincy, according to word received here. His a appointment came after five weeks' at tendance at the school of artillery fire at ?. Fort Sill, Okla. Subsequent to his graduation from the Utah state university. Captain Gardner took a law course at Harvard university. He attended the first officers' training camp at the Presidio in 1917 and there-'1 there-'1 after was appointed lieutenant in the field artillery and assigned to Camp Lewis, whore he remained until he went to Fort Sill. He is a member 'of the Sigma Chi fraternity? E. SMITH KIMBALL. Special to The Tribune. AMERICAN FORK, Utah, April 29. Frank T. Gardner of American Fork, I who was a graduate at the training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., is the son of James T. Gardner.-mayor of this city and bishop of the First ward. He was born in American Fork twenty-two years ago, is a graduate of the B. Y. university of Provo, and enlisted at Fort Douglas in June, 1917, in the Forty-third regiment. He was, promoted to the rank of sergeant before leaving Fort Douglas, and was made first sergeant after arriving at Little Lit-tle Rock. Hfi was sent to the training camp January 3. SERGEANT FRANK K. JAMES. K f - ' I Pa 1 i HW. J'KSPERSEN, 24 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jespersen, 1451 South Ninth East street, who is stationed at Camp Lewis with the 166th depot brigade, has recently been promoted to sergeant. In letters received from him by the family, he has expressed himself as being greatly pleased with the treatment accorded ac-corded him, and is very much interested in his work as company clerk. Prior to his going to American Lake he was connected with the Bingham & Garfield Railway company. HENRY GROESCHNER. pLYDE M'KELLAR, son of Mr. and Mrs. John McKellar, 196S South Eighth East street, enlisted in the engineering en-gineering branch of the service about three months ago. He was stationed at Vancouver barracks. Washington. He is 21 years old. Word has been received re-ceived by his parents of his safe arrival in France. Letters written before sailing .tell of the liking of the young youth for army life. HAROLD E. BAIRD. THOMAS KEA o.i-iilVENS enlisted in the aviation section of the United States army last December and recently won his aeirons as a sergeant in the S37th aero squadron, which is now stationed sta-tioned at Garden City, L. I. lie writes that the chances for going over there soon are good. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Stevens of East Ely, Nev. Word has been received that his brother, Henry Dewey, has enlisted and left for the training camp. J" AMES R. CRAIG, JR. WWWVW Sip A labia pbb m i tBsii THREE sons of Peter Loutensock of 919 Folsom avenue. Salt Luke, ore now in the service of their country. Tiiev are Sergeant A. J: Loutensock.. recently promoted, and V. V. Loutensock, botli of the medical department, who were recently re-cently transferred from Fort D. A. Russell. Rus-sell. Wyoming, to Fort Bliss, Texas, and H. W. Loutensock, who is In Honolulu with the coast artillery corps. The first two enlisted in May, last year, and H. W. -Loutensock in April, 1917. because of a war department order to that effect. As fast as vacancies are made we will fill the places." Young James is a grandson of the late George James, a hero of the Crimean war and one of the "Noble Six Hundred," who charged in the Light Brigade at Balaklava, immortalized bv the poet, Tennyson. He is a native if Salt Lake, where he was born on October 24, 1S94. An uncle. William James of the British I Royal marines, lost his life following the J bombardment of Alexandria in 1SS2. If Irr li; lip , riORPORAL ELMER E. KELLY en- j listed last May in the aviation corps of the United States army. He is a graduate of the West high school, where he was president of the senior class. He is now in training in England with the royal flying school. His brother, Harold E. Kelly, enlisted last December, and is now in training at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Fla. He is connected with the quartermaster department. de-partment. Another brother, George E. Kelly, is now training at Mare island, San Francisco. Fran-cisco. He also enlisted in December. All three are sons of the late George B. Kelly of this city. naval aero branch. Light weight was the only reason for his rejection. Mr. Kimball served three years as a member of the national guard of Utah. He was educated in the city schools and at the Utali Agricultural college, finishing at the University of California, from which he made his final effort at enlistment. V THAT all the boys in his camp are I eagerly looking forward to the great adventure "over there" is what Sergeant Henry Groeschner, well-known amateur sportsman of Salt Lake, writes from Lake Charles, La. Sergeant Groeschner Is connected con-nected with the Seventy-fifth aero squadron. squad-ron. He enlisted in Salt Lake last December De-cember as a mechanic in the aviation branch of the army and was shortly afterward sent to Fort McArthur at Waco, Texas. While there a baseball team was organized, or which Sergeant Groeschner was made captain. ' A KTER having been rejected rive times on voluntary enlistment In the defense de-fense service of the United States, persistence per-sistence finally has rewarded the efforts of EX Smith Kimball, and he Is now a member of the Sixty-eighth aero squadron squad-ron at North Island, San Diego. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Kimball, ij09 South Ninth East street. Mr. Kimball first made application for enlistment in the officers' reserve corps and successively In the navy, the engl- neer corps, the aero division and the PASSING his furlough in Salt Lake at his home, 91 Hillcrest apartments, James R. Craig. Jr., is recovering from an attack of illness, which came to him While on duty with F batten' of the 145th field artillery, First Utah, at Camp Kearny. The young man has been gaining gain-ing strength rapidly since his arrival home and expects to be able to rejoin his regiment regi-ment at an early date. MR. AND MRS. JOHN JAMES, 3S3 Seventh avenue, have received a letter let-ter from their son. Frank K. James, sergeant ser-geant in F company, 355th infantry, stationed sta-tioned at Camj Funston, Kanv to the effect he has , been recommended for a second lieutcnantcy, which he will probably prob-ably receive within the next thirty days. In his letter to his parents, lie says: "None of the men received commissions HAROLD E. BAIRD was one of the fortunates who were sent over to Fran re shortly after he enlisted. He la classed as a first-class gunner with the Sixty-fifth artillery. A battery. Prior to his enlistment he was a pupil in the Bingham Bing-ham high school. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Baird. 390 H street. |