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Show CONVALESCENT MEN REACH F0RT1RGLAS 23 Sick or Wounded In-termountain In-termountain Soldiers Arrive. Twenty-three sick and wounded soldiers sol-diers from eastern debarkation hospitals, all of whom have been overseas, arrived in Salt Lake yesterday afternoon over the Union Pacific railroad. They were met at the depot by Captain R. M: Jones, personnel adjutant of the Fort Douglas general hospital, and taken In ambulances ambu-lances to the fort. After a dinner in the hospital mess hall the men were, registered and assigned to wards. In the evening many of Ihem weroi permitted to visit the city. All of the men are residents of the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain states, several of them being from Utah towns. A list of the arrivals follows: fol-lows: Sergeant Elmar Dickey, motor transport trans-port corps; Sergeant Wallace G. Webster, Web-ster, Twentieth engineers; Sergeant Lea-lie Lea-lie Morgan, 311th tank corps; Corporal Albert Jones, Tenth pioneer regiment; ! Howard Smith, 127th infantry; Curtis ! Peer, base hospital No. 50; Leon V. Surus, ; Third service battalion; Theodore Koop- ! man. First bakery company; Alias Betts, 361st infantry; Albert A. Acord, Eighteenth Eight-eenth infantry; George E. Hall. 345th field artillery; Thomas N. Patchen, 146th field artillery; Donald V. Wade, 146th field artillery; ar-tillery; Guy McFerrln, 301st infantry; William liircher, Fifteenth cavalry; Thomas Johnson, 318th infantry: Elmer Lyons, Fifth field artillery; John J. Johnson, John-son, Forty-eeventh infantry; Hilmer Sie-tagen. Sie-tagen. Twentieth engineers; Earl Whito, Twenty-third infantry; Thomas Thompson, Thomp-son, Sllst machine-gun battalion; John J. Peterson, Twenty-third infantry; Xenepon Rempelos, embarkation hospital No. 20. 1 Many more arrivals are expected during dur-ing the week. According to information received by the adjutant of the Fort Douglas general hospital, twenty-three men will arrive next Thursday and 135 are expected Friday in a special train. |