Show Unfinished trust Sends Sends' Veteran Across Country it I 1 AA AAl l 1 E S S. S t 4 Ei S 'S 1 I George left who isI is near to the end of a y year six ar search I I for Mrs S. S R. R Holmstrom lower i I J right In fulfillment of a promise lie f made to his dying comrada comrade Carl Hagel upper right j By NEA Service PITTSBURG Cal Cat Aug 9 A A hell of shot and poison polson gas gas the American boys driving over the j battlefield of or Cierges and one of or them Private Carl Hagel wounded woun-ded to death searching his pockets for a few keepsakes he would like his sister r In California to have Somo omo way wat he prayed she would receive them v vOut Out of the came bud dy George good old George who vho never failed me yet when I needed a pal knelt by the tM side of the dying man did what he could tomake to tomake tomake make his going west easier easler vowed to fulfill fullIl the last request These thin things s. s budd buddy buddy I I I want my sister Ister Eva EVil to have them them you'll you'll find her herIn herIn herin In P Palo lo Alto The last words Hagel heard on this earth was answer All AIl right Carl Ill I'll find her That was October 14 H. H 1918 1018 the day when won the D. D S. S C C. refusing according to the citation citation citation cita cita- tion to go to the hos hospital although wounded and stopping by pis ils Is machine machine machine ma ma- chine gun fire tire an atta J t which Beached reached within forty yards of his i I position I I had Carls Carl's things in my ray pocket I and how could I have kept my promise If Id I'd been captured ex explains explains explains ex- ex plains simply Others came back and In the process of rehabilitation the war became be became became be- be came little more than an cal memory But to ItI It was always foremost in thought thought- an unfinished business of sentiment senti senti- I I ment meat trust and to be kept He wrote to Miss Eva Hagel the sister at the address Carl h had d given him A reply came back She has married and moved away no one I knows where Undiscouraged he wrapped the little bequest bequest tile the Distinguished Service Cross the Croix de do Guerre and other few things he had re received received re- re from his dying comrade comrade ln in ina a preserving covering and sent broadcast Inquiries to the War Var de deI department de- de I pai the Veterans' Veterans Buteau Bureau the American Legion and to former Companions in the old outfit the Machine Gun Battalion All efforts proved futile II Then Ill I'll go myself and find her declared f I lIe He sold his little home in Ecorse Mich bought an aged but usable I car with part Of the proceeds and dedicated the balance to a trip to I the Pacific coast upon which somewhere somewhere some some- someI someWhere I where was wils the woman he sought I It wont won't be enough to take me there he said so the be slow I will have to work in the harvest fields when my funds fun tun run I low until I can get enough to carry me on In this town lives a Mrs S. S R. R I Holmstrom One day unwrapping some parcels which had come covered covered cov cot ered with an eastern newspaper she he read the story of ot and his quest God bless him she exclaimed Prior to her marriage Mrs Holmstrom Holmstrom Holm Holm- strom strohl was Eva Hagel Now a new search has been started started start start- ed ed this time timo b by the American Amerlean I Legion seeking g to locate In the tho harvest fields of tho Middle West Vest that the Legion might aid his I Journey here to fulfill his mission I I I nr |