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Show Enlists for Immediate Service j&r But Brought Back After f$ 100 Miles at Sea. fe: CHICAGO, Dec 4. After having W been 100 miles at sea on his way to 'jf. France, Ervin Swolger is back at his - homo in this city. When called by tho exemption board he did not claim exemption and went to the cantonment at Rockford. Ho was i transferred to Houston, Tox., and then fy, to Mineola, L. I. He volunteered for 'A' Immediate service, was accepted and started for France. ;:; In the meantime, however, his father had been injured in a railroad accident and his mother was unable to support the home. She took "her troubles up with tho war department. A wireless mossage ordered the troop ship to stop while the youth was r taken aboard a tug and returned to an " Auantic port. Ho then came on to ' his home in this city. l |