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Show UNCLE SAM IS ANXIOUS TO PAY ALL OF HIS MEN SAN FRANCISCO. Cal , Aug. 11 Uncle Sam is anxious to pay any dependants de-pendants of those who joined the army ;ltu1 to whom an allotment was made, buT who have failed to receive the al-lotnn-nL At W ashlngton, the army clerks have been busy with the records of three million soldiers, and the individual soldier who sometimes gets, tangled up with the great detail of records in bis case, has often made a mistake in address, name of other portion of the record, which explains cases where allotments were supposed to have been made out to parents or relatives and no checks have ever been sent out by the Kovernmenl Do not write to Washington, if you have failed to receive the allotment, but send a letter to the Demobilization Demobiliza-tion Camp, Presidio of San Francisco. San Francisco. Cal. asking for the form of a letter requesting deferred allotments. Captain C. C. Burch, per- j sonnel officer of the camp, said that more than five hundred allotments : i a cleared up in the past two months by this means. H Officers of the demobilization camp will answer your inter by furnishing i, form, Which upon beinc filled out by the allotee must be sent to the adjutant ad-jutant general of the army as address-"' ed on the form. This will get a return check. By writing direct to Washington without Bending the form and the information required as indicated on the form, time Will be lost by causing the busy war department officials at Washington Washing-ton to write back for additional information. infor-mation. Send -to San Francisco and the form and in forwarding this io Washington the check will be the |