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Show Second Division Soldier Has Hard Time Enlisting HI:0 U. nAATPS-'ON. now Cor- Fportl Tavhlson of the signal corps of the Second dl vision, .iunt landed In New York from FYance. tried hard to get Into the irvcc of t!ie United JUates at the nuthrenk of the wat. A chivnlcte of the efforts which finally led him to t:-p front line., where he was wounded, wound-ed, reads as follow: KlrM attempt Applied for enllnt-ment enllnt-ment In the. navy; rejected for tlefl-cient tlefl-cient vl(m. Second at tempt Tried to enlist In the army; turned down on defects e vision. T he third and fourth ait empte-, one In the nut lonul guard ami one In the m.iriim corp.. had the minip results. And ut t.vt, Pavid-pon Pavid-pon wiii one of the hest cnl-'herp a mot ik tiie 'oral semlprofesMonal hali plnern and hahltually tuittel closp to .(in). At leant he could fee n Ktc-hu'l. Ktc-hu'l. lll'i laMt nnd nuccensful attempt w Innd verl ent . He relumed to lh armv recruiting nervlec mid Ue.1 he Ber- '.' - - ' - ' graph operators. He . tlonej thnt accomplishment of hip he-fore. he-fore. T.ie e:-geant mndo one grit for the necessary blank and wired to RKhtngton where w.uver we-e nc cured on Isvldon'js one Ind ; f t e-ent eort of nn optic, and lie In VTmt. he waj. sent to Fort U.tvm-worrli U.tvm-worrli for trulnlni;. then to (.amp Ii then abroad, and then to the fighimg urea. He hadn't Ivcn at tMe Utter vrry lon ween a r'icll oame Mt -ing his outlast siRiial si;itlon nnd'ie't Rome menu-nt oes m hla per. von. Tiir hofspttnl got niost of thoc oirt m'tor a w hile, and back w ent 1 ; tdon to where tlie s.rap whs fil.-kest. Tn fall I -ike 1 widMn wu- 0-n plord bv the Wrli'in f:non com -pnny fome rars ago, h,vi, chrre of their office at USnhnm, n-u ' Inter h.d been on the :;p:-;v.t; v t o The Tribune Mc is th,. ;:on o' Trf leopard Stone, for simpv e,- a revuMent of sal; tke, who 'ow live ;t lnf.nii;i!i, Moet. lie will proh-My proh-My te sent to l-'orl P. A Kusrll for rti-v barge prior to returning to .,'t |