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Show FED C. SMITH TO SAIL FOR RUSSIA Following his appointment to the railway warboard for service in Russia, Fred C. SraUh, assistant superintendent superintend-ent of the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific has gone to San Francisco Fran-cisco for embarkation to the scenes of his labors. The board is composed of 200 American Amer-ican railway officials who have held executive positions on tho roads of this country. It is headed by George H. Emerson, general manager of the Great Northern railroad. Mr. Smith returned to Ogden from St. Paul, Minn.. Friday, where he received re-ceived appointment to the Russian service as trainmaster, with the rank I of captain. He received assurances that he would later be promoted to the rank of major. His railroad experience covers a period of more than twenty years, in the United States and Mexico, Mexi-co, as telegraph operator, dispatcher, chief dispatcher, trainmaster and assistant as-sistant superintendent He was a trainmaster train-master with headquarters at Sparks, New, when appointed assistant to Superintendent Sup-erintendent T. F. Rowlands of the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific, and was transferred to Ogden eighteen months ago to succeed H. L. Bell. oo |