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Show GRAVE RECORD ; BEING CHECKED ! OVER IN FRANCE PARIS, Dec. 14. American army officers believe very few unidentified bodies will lie mong America's sol-, sol-, r dead in France when the arm? -raves registration service completes thorough reeheckinp of records now n progress. Every grave record is be-no be-no checked against the army's ualtyftst Each little white cross r ?i: p 'inted star over the Jews is aving n embossed aluminum strip laced on the back, duplicating the i me. rank and organization already ilnted on the marker. This is being I me -is a precaution against the poe-ibi'ity poe-ibi'ity of winter weather wearing waj the stencilled Information. Nearly TO.OOO American boys are irled in tho eleven districts of .Tance, the Belgian battlefields and bo Duchy of Luxemburg There are cemeteries of 300 or more graves, cared for by discharged soldiers. The largest of these is Romugne, north of j rdun wh, re lie 23,000 of our mn no nevt j sizr. S lhaf at Thlacourt "h 4,500 graves .Many of those who 'I m battle nre sleeping in British 11,(1 French military or the French immuna cemeteries, a few were ' ft where they were first put in tho around, as in the Yosgoc-. mountains. All graves are under-the care of the commanding craves ofricer in the eleven elev-en districts and a caretaker watcho over them. Officers make periodical inspection. Where practical, grass har. been sown on the battle burving I grounds and in the spring this work, previously hampered by the iask of grouping the bodies, will be carried on. When the present graves service ad-, ad-, ministration took over headquarters in I Pans in August the records were found o contain a list of 12,000 names of men buried bin without giving the ex-arr ex-arr location of the grave The present check includes the compilation of a complete directory of every American grav.- in the first 18,000 gaves recorded re-corded a fourth of these unlocated ones were found and properly marked inspection of battlefield burying grounds have been the slowest but the American officers said they expected 1 the work when finished would leave jfuw of those tragic mounds wherein I would lie an American soldier, name I unknown." Many of these are expected to be Identified later when the description of the body, marks in the clothing, and sometimes a letter from home to "Dear Jim," sent back to the var department, aro seen by those who have been grieving over their boy listed among tho "missing." N'one of (he bodies may be returned to the families yet but mothers and fathers have been coming to France to look at tho grave of their boy. Welfare Wel-fare organizations have organized' services to facilitate these visits and at several of the American cemeteries the Younrr Men's Christian association has provided rest rooms. They get lazy quite often yjur bowels then you feel pun'c all over. Holllster's Rocky Mountain Tei fills j them with n w life and energy Mc-Intyre Mc-Intyre Drug Co. Advert liemunt |