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Show lO UTJUffi W KILLED III ACTION Another Dies From Pneumonia; Pneu-monia; Two Others Reported Re-ported Wounded. . Three I'tulms are dead in France. Two were killed in action and another died from pneumonia. Two Utahns were wounded and a third reported "wounded, degree undetermined' is gassed instead and Is recovering in a hospital. George Stevenson of Price died in the thick of the fight on the French front, according to a letter received by his parents. par-ents. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Stevenson. The writer was the friend of the local boy across the water. The government report that George .iad been wounded was in error. The Hun bullet struck him squarely in the temple and pierced his head. Death was instantaneous. Memorial services will" he postponed until the influenza ban is lifted. Robert McLaughlin, formerly of the Salt I,ake fire department, is dead in France, according to news received by friends here yesterday; Mr. McLaughlin, who was 25 years old, enlisted in the aviation service last January and was sent to Texas for training. He had been in France congaratively a brief time. Mrs. McLaughlin, who with her -1-year-old child had moved Jo San Francisco when , her husband left Salt Lake, had but a single letter from him. This announced Ills arrival overseas. Pneumonia was the cause of death, according ac-cording to the war department announcement announce-ment to Mrs. McLaughlin. News that Corporal Ralph E. Bell of Salt t-ake had been wounded In action on the French front was received yesterday yes-terday by his sister. Mrs. A. E. Harvey, 537 South Fourth East street. Corporal Rell. who is 31 years old, is a member of the Fourth engineers. The extent of Corporal Bell's injuries were not stated definitely in the letter Mrs. Harvey received from the chaplain of the regiment. He had been wounded by shrapnel and would remain in the hospital hos-pital several weeks yet, the letter staled. Corporal Bell enlisted soon after America entered t hewar. He reached France last I May. Ralph Clayton Smith of 168 Broad-1 I way. who was reported in yesterday's casualty lists as wounded, degree undetermined, unde-termined, was gassed about July 21 and subsequently detailed to office duty, according ac-cording to information received by his. wife. Mrs. Mazella Smith. The telegram to Mrs. Smith from the war department advised that her husband hus-band hud been wounded about July 21 and that no further Information was available. avail-able. Mrs. Smith received a letter from hor husband yesterday, postmarked In France October 2, in which he decln ren himself to be gradually reooverinc from being gassed and informing her that he he had been assigned to duty as personal per-sonal secretary at the central record office. of-fice. Private Smith left Salt Lake February 2S last and was assigned to the machine sun service with the Flftv-ninth infantry. infan-try. Alonzo Fincii of Llnwood is reported killed in action in the American casualty iist and W. Wllloughby wounded, according accord-ing to the Canadian list. |