Show 1 a ar at DENTIN I ROOSEVELT'S DEATH TOLD HtA 11 a- a EI B IN I DOWN S 'S Sl l t OF f fH H s s. s I It t I J I first Sergeant C. C F. F Meyers l J I 1 j A En Route to Pacific Coast r Tells How v Son of Former f. f i f President Met His Fate Fatel l t I IRED with ith the nervy bravery r. r S that was a characteristic I Slit ut lit handicapped by bj limited ex- ex 1 in in combat Lieutenant lentin Roosevelt dashed into intoe I e e air alone in a a. single-seated single plane j four tour enemy enem planes and was hot down after alter a gallant fight This c Is tho the statement of or an It- It ess First Sergeant C C. 1 P. of or an Diego a bronzed veteran who assed through Salt bait alt Lake today with J troop train of or aviation casuals en ute mite to tamp amp imp Kearny Cal from ranee rance Movers Meyers U was a 0 member of e Thirty sixth sixth squadron commanded y Lieutenant Roosevelt and with of or 1 the he command watched his cadei ader as he put up Uin his hopeless fight the four German Geiman planes and aw w w him plunge to earth carth near Chateau According to tho ser sergeant lieutenant Roosevelt was Instantly tilled flied b by a machine gun gut bullet which his forehead IThe ca casual ual detail to which Sergeant leers leyers was attached arrived ed at the regon Short Line station at 10 o'clock nd left leet Salt Lake for foi San Diego at it oon Two hundred d and fifteen m men n nere ere on the tho traIn under command Hof of Paul Stockton Mr r c army Tho The mon man were 1 atheR of or practically Ily ev very every rv division rind nd 4 f them hem had bt been with the army arm of occupation in Germany six ty-six of oC I the hl men were mc members mb Is of or orthe the Thill y- y si f Rooe I squadron squad squad- ron of ot the seventh Thirty Bucl ee I division Ilon 1 t |