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Show f WANTED TO I SEE MOTHER IrNinetccn-Year-OId Boy JA Deserted From the I . Navy A 5 Buffalo, N. Y., July 21. To spend (li. three hours with his mother on her 'Ik rthdav aftJr he had been separated ' from her for more than a year, Geo-TpFraUck, Geo-TpFraUck, a 19-year-old Denver boy, ftrv risked his life and committd an of- IH&fnse against the United States govern. JKrment by deserting from the navy. Af-f;' Af-f;' ter the few hours with his mothur f here he gave hlmsolf up to the fed-r fed-r oral officers and tomorrow will be j, taken to Now York, a prisoner. Vi fe Though he must now face a court-Uf court-Uf martial, Fralick declares that iz m three hours with his mother was H worth It. Mi, "It was the first time that I was fM ever away from nome," ho told the AT police here ''An attack of homeslck- m ness overcame me and I deserted H 1 , while the ship was on the Pacific I( I ; coast, Penniless, I started from San gtti Diego for Buffalo, riding freight trains f and walking sorao times a hundred H miles without food I nearly starved II while crossing Death Valley and again ' fcln the south desert. I was In a hos- I pita In Grand Junction, Colo.'' |