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Show GAPTIAN E. H. WALTERS DIES IN FRANCE The sad nows reached Logan last evening ot the death of Captain E.J H. Walters ot pneumonia in France. One year ago he enlisted In tho Medical Med-ical department at Washington, D. C, where he was at that tlmo in the service ot the government at a chemist. chem-ist. Young Walters was born In Wells-vllle, Wells-vllle, Cache county, Utah, Oct. 20, 1887, being the only son ot Edward Walters and Hannah Haslam Walters. Wal-ters. He attended the public school at Wellsvlle and Logan, completing -the latter tn the spring of 190S and entered the Utah Agricultural Col lege In September ot that year, and graduated In 1909. During his junior year he was assistant chemist In the experiment station. While at the collego he took great interest In the public life ofther Student Body and during this year he was an active member ot many of the collego literary and do-' hating clubs. lie was appointed assistant as-sistant In chemistry In tho col logo for tho year 1909-10. He was awarded a scholarship at tho University ot Berkley, Calif., at which Institution ho tool: out 1:!3 mastcr'si nud doctor's Ciarec, r.ftcr which La vsa ctic.qZ .rr.d ncjojlsd a position with, tho' cpvxrsaicnt, at ,7ui!lnsl02, P..C., .r.o fl. cuomtat, at which placo vhe;'enlistodtln4917audi wont dii'fcct to Franco, being ono ot the, first to enter tho service in his lln." Slnco his arrival. In Franco, he has be'cu rccocnlzed as, ono ot tho leading lead-ing chemists ot tho department, and he has made discoveries which have been of great service In the army. Tho following is an extract from a letter, dated August 16, about one month before his 'death, to his mother: moth-er: "Last weok I got out two clrcul-(Contlnued clrcul-(Contlnued on Page Four) Capt, Walters Dies In I France I i (Continued from Page One) ' 'I urs on the storlllzatlon ot drinking fl water far troops in tho field. It has I been sent to tho sergeant gcaeral's I .ofllce and to all organizations and I Is being UBedvcry successfully and H I am also glvlnglnstructlous'to all I the sanitary corps men just arriving R Tho second circular was on tho pre- p pnratlon of an artificial fluid to re- I place lost blood. I linyo Worked out I n good preparation and It Is very sue- I ccsaful. It Is In great demand and I 9 am making It in largs quantities. I Last week I made about ono thous- E and quarts, nnd wo arc sending It I out to tho various hospitals." II lie leaves his mother and one' sis- 1 tcr, Mrs. Sarah Stewart, wife of Dr. 1 K. I. Stewart of Logan. |