Show I JOHN D. D VAN con COTT GETS COMMISSION Utah Athlete Will Enter Service of Nation According According According Ac Ac- cording to Dispatch The news that John Dare Van Vati Cott of Salt Lake has been appointed a second second sec see ond end lieutenant In the United States army was brought here today in news news' dispatches from Washington He was enrolled in the officers' officers training camp campat at Plattsburg N. N Y Mr Van Cott Is a native nath-e Salt Laker about 23 years old the son of Valdemar Waldemar Walde- Walde mar Van Cott East First South street but who are arc at present in fornia Cornia Mr Van Cott graduated from East High school and later entered Williams Wil Wil- hams liams college where he was graduated with high honors standing first in scholarship He Ho broke the Massachusetts Massachusetts sette record for the tho yard dash and was also distinguished in other lines of athletics After leaving Williams college Mr Van Cott entered Harvard law school and at the time of the tho entry of the United States into the war he entered the officers' officers training camp at Platts- Platts burg He lie is a nephew of Miss Lucy Van Cott dean of women at the University of Utah He has two sisters Mrs Herbert A. A Hartman Hariman Hartman who is at present in Holland and Mrs John C. C Niven of California |