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Show CLASSMATE IS KILLEO IN IE WAR IN FIANCE Attornej Rineharl ".ideon today re-oeived re-oeived notification of the death, somewhere some-where in France, of Howard Lines, 2' u'ir old, his former chum and class mate at Harvard university, while serving in the hospital corps of the i French army. -Mr. Gideon and Mr. ' Lin wer- pradualed in ihe clas.- in 1015 and Mr Lines enlisted in the French army in the fall of 1915. I The decedenl was a son of a wealth) New York family, residing most of the I lime in Fran'f Mr. Gideon said the news of the vming man s passing would cause grief wherever he was known, for lie was ! a youth of heroic and lovable charac- '. ter. "While this younc hero was unknown un-known locally," said Mr. Gideon, "thf news shows that the great war is universal uni-versal in scope, touching humanity in every quarter, bringing sorrow in ev-1 ery part of the world My fneud was assured of a brilliant career in the legal le-gal profession, but he gave up home and honors and finally his life in de fense of the country whose noblr sons so greatly aided the colonial Americana Ameri-cana in their var for independence." |