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Show pffi -HEROES : IfflW FORT I. vaIescents Given Chick-. Chick-. Dinner Before Being Assigned to Wards. . Report Many Good Times En Route From the East. . (llVal0j,'Oiit soldii-is from the ill; riain states urrivel. yosti-rdiiy at Salt L:iki-, cumin,!; from New j'rtfro they have boon rc-oiviii" ''011t ior pounds n'reiveil in the 'T, overtoils. Tlio men were met '.,1'iiion Pacific station by Captain' ' lonos, persniinel adjutant, of tlie ."p',.-ii'las general hospital n. L'7, Oeorse M. .Miller, field " of the Red Cros.--. After beiii" 1 refreshments by the eanteeu tlie men were carried iu ainliu- 'from the station to tlie reyis-office reyis-office at Fort Douglas. a cliiekon dinner vras served ' , later thev were registered ..-i'lieJ to wards i" the hospital. f the men were si von passes to iu tin- afternoon. The mimes and ' tnnns of the men, as registered, ' (1u Poeock. 1'itio Eolith Ninth . s3lt Lake: Krlend LiaUken, Wi-Mnnt.; Wi-Mnnt.; William Leinum', Cocur ,r, Idaho; William L. Jensen, I 'j'M.'iit.; R. P. llambljn, ,Bagar. Maurice Lenihan, Kutte, Mont.; . Walker. Union, I'tah: John Shu-' Shu-' ."ft" Timber. Mont.; Joseph Vance, i fills, Idaho; Erastus Uichl, Filer, tertained En Route. men report having a splendid jlm" the route. "They were enter-i enter-i Va bauqnet at the Biltmore in Now York just before leaving, a ,linuer and theater' party in and treated to dinner and a e"t parte iu Omaha, besides reee.iv- ovation at practically every town - ro.joil through.' Another c:ir of ..leifPiits accompanied them as far ;.!?ii. leaving them there to proceed , . , li.ioraia. I j aion from Fort Keogb, Jiont., l , i-:ol vcstcnlay morning and reported II general hospital for' treatment. I L;.; ntre Herbert Kitehie and Frank an Sr A. D. S. McCoy, medical corps, I - :;fl yesterday for duty in the sur-f sur-f r-fadmeiit of the general hospital. I; i McCoy has been in France, for ll i -i vear. attached to the First army. ; iii in the thick of the fighting at i ''Jreat battles in the time between rlv v. and tin- armistice, escapii,,. - "aptain II. 1;. Kst,.,, .,,, Li,.,,.;1t A. Matthew,., f ,,,, ,,. .,,.,.. l"'eventii.n of tl. ,ua 1 1 erma-tei' made an ,,,, , , ,,, ,1't.ug t,-,,,l,,.s , M vl,Ml,r,.,v I " l'st. department was kept on he .,,,, all day l,v t. ,,(,.,.,,, hu tnim.M. ,,, several different, alarms to "ley toiniil the taciliti,.s i v,.,.v , .hape and lclt later i ,,e afternoon tor. i'niv.T on rout,. tn Va.-hi,,gton to atf-nd a conference f tlwir department. Ma.r Lincoln 1 1. Kellv, Conner -tare auditor ol I'tah niid'umv in the field accountine- section, cmistructi,,,. ,;. visum, yesterday started an inspection et the ncc. Hints of the construction department de-partment f the quai-t.ermaster en, its at eo't Douglas. lie will b engaged in the work to,- several da vs. Two officers from . I :, nip Lewis. ash have been assigned f Fmt I'ouglas and are due; to report anv da v. they are First Lieutenants Kaljih Nt. -Manning and Lynn II. Ilenkle. On arrival arri-val thev will be assigned. t dutv with the third guard companv of tlio war prisnn guar.l. French Hand Plays. The French aruiv baud ' vostordav I Played to the convalescent "soldiers a't fort Douglas. Thev were taken to the .post by the newly reorganized lied Cross motor corps, and.plaved at the post recreation hall and a 'number of the wards. , Thev were . iinuienselv pleased to meet the overseas soldiers and talked with them in the "sobliur-1; "sobliur-1; t ench ' patois. A number of convalescent men will be taken for a ride todav bv the Ked Cross motor corps, and will ' be shown the places of interest in the vallev Lieutenant W. li. Ceorge, Jr.. Yesterday Yester-day received his .discharge from tlie service at the Fort Douglas genera hospital, hos-pital, whore he has been receiving treatment treat-ment for wounds received overseas. He will remain in the city for a few davs before returning to his hemic at Billings, Mont. Lieutenant George holds a number num-ber of citations for braverv in action, and wears the Croi do Guerre and the blesse medal militaire for valor awarded bun by the French government. Jle has accepted a request made bv the government govern-ment to tour the western 'states speaking speak-ing for the Victorv Liberty loan. Discharges were granted vest.erdav to Kalph Harvey and larrv" Mann.' patients pa-tients at the general hospital. Sergeant Victor Ji. Selleek and John F. Swigart, medical detachment, were discharged also. Elmer J. Pearson, Earl P. Bnrger, Ralph J. Harvey and Joseph Fickule were transferred to Fort D. A. Kussell, W yo., for discharge. They were members mem-bers of the hospital detachment. Alfred J. Fuller and Clarence H. Ha-' gen were transferred' from the hospital detachment to Camp Dodge, Jowa', for discharge. Sergeant John F. Brown. Sergeant Frederick Lamphier and 'William T. Groves were transferred from the hospital hos-pital detachment' to Camp Funston, Kan., for discharge. Sergeant F. G. West of the quartermaster quarter-master corps at Fort Douglas was recently re-cently -appointed sergeant first class. - |