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Show 'Aviator Adopts Belgian Babe Fathers Nameless War Victim j i - LI3UTENAXT CHAELES BOP.N of Lansing, Mich., ond Eaby Born, v.-liom I the United Statos officer adopted v;ulo in Franco. 1 i ' i - , ' - V t ' v 'I f U - r v""" - ' - i ? - " - - s f ; N " , ; v 1 1 i vs , v I - , s tp 5 ' U. S. Officer Finds Child in Hospital After German Ger-man Invasion. THE spirit of the American army in Prance is demonstrated by the adoption of a lo-months-old Belgian Bel-gian baby boy by Lieutenant Charles Born of Lansing, Mich., who served eleven months as an aviator with the American expeditionary forces in France, and who is in ISalt Lak' en route to California. The baby was picked up by the Red Cross in a war-stricken village in Belgium, Bel-gium, where it was found in the care of some other children. He was taken to France by the nurses and placed in a hospital in Bordeaux, and it was how-e that Lieutenant Born first saw the babe and adopted it. Nothing is known of the baby's parentage, as no grown person survived the German invasion of the village in which the child is presumed to have been born. Lieutenant Born has become expert in the care of the babe. In discussing his young charge, he said yesterday: "The baby was a little sick coining over on the boat, but out-, side of that X never have any trouble with him. Ho is always hungry and I feed him everything. No, 1 have not had any trouble with the change of milk. He 1ms a cast-iron stomach, i guess, and he very seldom cries. I do not have to walk the floor with him at night. ' ' The baby and his adopted father are on the wav to the home of an adopted aunt in Santa Monica, Calif., where they will be under the care of a sister of Lieutenant Born until the young man marries, lion 't all speak at once, girls, but here is a chance to assist in a work of charitv. An able assistant in the care of Baby Born is his uncle, F.mile Born, who has recently been discharged from the service serv-ice in the navv. Entile is in Salt Lake with his brother. The two are detained de-tained here on account of the railroad strike which has tied up traffic in southern south-ern California.. |