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Show SIMPLE CEREMONY I MARKS RETURN OF I VETERAN'S BOD? NEW YORK. Aug. 14. Sim- Wsk pllcity marke'd the return todav !clt," of the- body of Major General Hs?! William C Gorgas, former Sur- !iHpvi geon general of the United Statea Ijjijjjjji army who died In London last month. Ki j Borne back to home shores on the United States transport Pocahontas, the casket was met Egg al Hoboken by r guard of honor, lowered to the pier and carried ; through a lane of army welfare ISjgi workers. Captain Richard H. Gorgas. the general's youngest tjftap ; brother, draped over the coffin Im! an American flag. That ended Isi (be ceremony. The casket was then taken to Wi New York and placed in a spe jft;f cial room at the Pennsylvania (jplf station to lie in state until de parture of the train for Wash jB i ington this afternoon. lJP |