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Show Miss Eccles May Stay In France . The possibility that Miss Marilyn Mari-lyn Eccles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Eccles, 2580 Jefferson avenue, Ogden, who has been stranded in France awaiting transportation home, may remain there to become a war nurse in the French sea coast town of Dinard was brought to light Tuesday. According to letters written by Miss Olive Decker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fera Decker, 1280 Yale avenue, Salt Lake City, who accompanied her to Europe to study last spring. Miss Eccles may remain in Dinard to aid wounded French and British soldiers. sol-diers. Miss Decker's latest letters, dated September 4, 7 and 21, were received simultaneously Monday by her mother. The first reported the Salt Lake girl left Dinard after most of the hotels had been converted into hospitals. Later she wrote she had gone to Bordeaux, In southwest south-west France, where she expected to obtain passage home eventually. eventu-ally. Miss Eccles remained in Dinard. According to Miss Decker's letter, many American refugees are in Bordeaux, frantically seeking passage home, some remaining re-maining on the streets In order to be certain they will not miss a ship. |