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Show 1 RESIGNS FROM ARMY; OBJECTS TO GUN FIRE Butte, Mont , April 16. Disgusted I with what he terms wholesale slaughter slaugh-ter and murder wrought by the Ho-j Ho-j witzer guns of Villa's rebel Mexican army, in which he accepted tin- post of captain, (' M. Van Aliker, actOl and adventurer, who received his commission whil in Salt Lake three months ago has resigned his commission com-mission He Is northern bound to return to stage life Vau Auker played play-ed in stock In Salt Lake and Buttf Van Auker is a graduate of an eastern east-ern military college, and fellow students stu-dents had secured for him a position in charge of a Howitzer gun in Villa s artillery He served in the Spanish-American Spanish-American war In letters Van Auker referred to the slaughter of the fed- era! army at Torreon before the gun? of Villa. He said human hearts could not bear the sight of Villa's bntcherv I He declares he could not stand the I sight of so many dying men He did not object to a square stand-up fiht but the death-dealing cannon quickly caused the stage hero to forsake the stern realities of war for the morf i cheerful and saff activities of military life behind the footlights. Dells Pringle, his actress wife, will meei , Van Auker in Salt Lake |