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Show ATt-r, ivfK-Tov,- of E,:J;ri;c Utah, chief of tho c.i!iouna-o -i-..-'. : j tion or the Waited stlt..s ?nR?. iu i rramo, viio l1a:-, returned to Jnj !j to vvito the l,:si;ry of the c-fiitoiil ! H;i",o work of ti;c arr.-y. j ;' - V V "' ; ' i I 9r:''V;c.. ' ' '' '' ''''' : U A'' i'-' ' ' V .''l''"1 ; '. lITii Tfi ?mm f Lieutenant Colonel Hovard j S, Bennion Reaches America.. ' Lieutrnnnt Colonel ITovard S. Bon-nion, Bon-nion, of Boninore. ULnh, emjnandor-in-chief of the camoufla st; sectii.in of tho American expeditionary forces, arrived in New York from France several days nffo. Colonel Bennion, a captain in the Philippines when the war broke out. was dispatched to Europe at. the outbreak of the -war to. organize the. vitally important impor-tant camouflage branch of the United States army. According to his uncle. Harden Bennion, secretary of state of Utah, the soldier has been directed to write the history of the army's camou-, flas?e work during the war, and it is assumed as-sumed that he has . been sent to "YVash- I ingtori to prepare the history of his section. sec-tion. Colonel Bennion graduated from West I Point in 11)12. bing taken to the army school from the P.. D. S. university. Five of the Bennion family were in (lie war.-One war.-One brother, Kenneth, recently returned from Frame e, a ft or a year overseas. Af ., S. Bennion, another brother, a c't adua e' of Annapolis, was until recently lieutenant lieu-tenant commander of the battleship New7 Mexico, the largest a n-d newest na vy ship, and known as "the pride of the navy." . Commander Bennion is now' on snore duty in Washington, connected with tho bureau of ordnance of the navy. Kulon and Powell, two other brothers, were reecrPlv demobilized from the students' stu-dents' army training corns at the pTni-versity pTni-versity of Uta h. The boys are sons of Bishop Prael' Bennion, of Ben more. |