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Show "WILD PECK" HOME; HAS GREAT RECORD XEW YORK, July 20. Colonel Robert Peck of San Francisco, familiarly known in the A. E. F. as "Wild Peck," ,was among the officers arriving today on the transport troop ship Plattsburg. He went to France & major and returned commander com-mander of the Eleventh infantry, which at the signing of the armistice found itself opposed by a '.regiment of the famous fa-mous Prussian guards. Colonel Peck wore numerous decorations for bravery and individual heroism, including a distinguished dis-tinguished service cross for capturing an entire battery with the aid of two runners. Another passenger who returned after two years of exciting experiences in northern Europe, was Miss Elizabeth Dickerson of Seattle, wr.o went to Russia for the Y. M. C- A. in 1917. She fled from Moscow when the revolution broke out and af t'jr passing through many of the critical uprisings in that country made her way to 'Archangel, where she established estab-lished the only hostess house in that section. |