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Show iSUNDK LETTERS ARE BEING SENT TO SOLDIERS 'SALT LAKE, Oct, 25, Attention of federal officers was called yesterday to the fact that unscrupulous persons recently have -written to drafted men at Camp Lewis and other cantonments giving purported information to the ef-; ef-; feet that the -wives whom they left be-,! be-,! hind are conducting "themselves in an , immoral manner during the absence j of their husbands. , In one instance a young woman tear- I fully appealed for assistance in contra-, j dieting the allegation, and she proved A to the satisfaction of officers that not 1 only had she supported herself by j cleaning cars at the Oregon Short Line ( station, but had provided for the mother moth-er of her soldier husband for several J months. She said she had demanded j that the letters attacking her charac- tor be sent to her, butthat her husband hus-band had ignored the demand and had ) threatened to withdraw her allotment. The matter is being investigated by the proper branch of, the government service, and if the statements of the , wlfo are substantiated a discontinu- ance of the allotment will not be per-i per-i mittcd. There is a provision in one of the recently enacted regulations making it a serious offense to write letters to soldiers containing derogatory refer-, refer-, enco to their wives, and if the persons , I responsible for the unhappiness of the J Women who have made the complaints can be located they will beJ severely j: punished. |