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Show UHCL3 GliVi, T,IAY C5ND. .: ?;wi5szips; 10 o2ghi Lieut.: Mafcum Gees TlirouiSalt; Lake, Carrjlns: . Scaled Orders for Vessels 'on Pacific Coast' ' Is Uncle Sam preparing- to Bend warships war-ships tpPor Arthur?. , -iThoma M. Marcum, a chief gunner, who. hold rank of Second Lieutenant, paused through the cltjr . Tuesday - en route to San Francisco, where he .will Join either th Iowa or the Texas. Marcum carries seeled orders and he will -not know his destination until the .ships weigh anchor and are- twenty miles from shore: ' ' "Although I cannot talk for publication," publica-tion," saidt Lieut. Marcum,'"! will say that I am- under scaled! orders and will Join either- the Iowa or Texas at San Francisco. I believe we wlU be ordered to Port Arthur. It look to me like we might have a little touch of war one of these days and I hope to be lu It." Lieut. Marcum Is Just from the Mar bead. He was on Dewey's flaghlj dur.;fls,te battje In Manila bey. Marcum' Mar-cum' Is aKentuckian and belongs to one of the fan us families of feudist In' eastern Kentucky. He Is enthusiastic over his hope of watching the fighting In the Far East. . . |