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Show UTAH MAN DIES IN TALL DOWN SHAFT LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 Escaping death in a bomb explosion at Camp Pike, where he was chief gaa officer only to be killed in a fall down a midshaft mid-shaft at Tonopah, Nv . was thf tragir f:nale to the life of Lieutenant Harry Townsend Hobson, cousin of Rii hmoiid Pe-arson Hobson. hero of th Mem' mac. it became known here today following fol-lowing his funeral. Lieutenant Hobson married Mis.-Mary' Mis.-Mary' Tounsend, daughter of H. L Townsend of Park City, Utah, who yurvi-. him. Hf enlisted from Salt Lake, served seven months as sergeant ser-geant major at Camp Kearny, and was sent to Camp Lee, Va. He was later transferred to Camp Humphries, Va., where he received his appointment as chief gas officer at Camp Pike. Hm was a member of the American Legion. Le-gion. oo |