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Show American Legion Is Striving to Clean Up Many War Mysteries The American legion Is carrying on the search for solutions to mora than 2000 Individual death and dl.iappcar-.uico dl.iappcar-.uico mysteries among soldiers and -.nor of the American expeditionary f orcoa. These are cases where official offi-cial action has run its couro and terminated ter-minated with the alwaya brief and sometimes conf llcilrik' report of "missing "miss-ing In action," "killed In battle" or !"presutn,'d to be dead" In each case It it claimed that definite or detailed information has not been received by the family of the soldier or tailor In question. How many more than 2000 such cuses there niu be i s not known, but the American Legion Weekly hat re-oelved re-oelved ih. ii number of letters from . tho kin and friends of missing men. There are instances where it appears I that men sailed for France and straightway disappeared from tho facol of the earth No conclusive word overj haa been received of their fnte. There me cisea by tho score of men reported i "wounded" or "slightly wounded' and! no other word, until, months later, I perheVJMi the curt official announce-nu-nt of "presumed to be dead " Cases' are reported of men reported dead, then wounded. Inter missing, latur "re-l turned to duty." nut the men halve not come home There are cases whore! men have been reported dead on a certain date, but members of their i miliei receive letters written b their soldier kin's own hand at later date. There arc caaet whore faml-U faml-U havo received unofficial report that their soldier kin was seen alive alter the date of his official demise. MAN) LETTER6, By far the largest class of lettorB, hov-er, aro those from gold-star mothers seeking word from a com-radf com-radf who was with her son when ho 1, A. The war department whic h, ci usidet Ing eve rything, has been re-matkably re-matkably uci urate in accounting for caeualtlei haa reported the date and place Mother desires simply ouch details de-tails as will enable her to reconstruct In her mind so many write the Oene In which her boy made the great sacrifice. The "Roll Call" department In the Ameriuin l,elon Weekly tv here these communication are published Is the most poignant personal column In the world Every item carries its burden of human sorrow or breuthes a hope that will not die. It Is a column which, in bald brevltv, sums up the heroism ul ' ho manhood of America and the ii lals of those who stayed behind and day by weary day carry on tho search foi those who did not come back. Tho greateot human Interest etorica in the world uro told In scant paragraphs such ns these HUMAN UTTKREtTT. H4th Aero Squadron Homer Key,, box 116, Holdenvllle, ukla . would like io hear from someone who knew LleUt. I Kaymond .1 SJunders. and who could' five detail! riatie to his death In i i ince. and where he wnt burled. Lost ;eecn in combat with twelve enemy planes over Brculllt. abiut fifteen lilies northwest of Verdun. Oct. 22, 1 l y i s. John W. Hot?, formerly 36th Co., 152nd Depot brigade, Camp Upton, N. V. Who knows whether he went to I 1 ranee and was killed or pulled through? Address Miss Gertrude Hotz. 486 Second St.. Brooklyn. N Y. Mising In Action Private Leonard L'elbeit rhilo. tt6th Co , Sixth marines. Keported wounded In Solssons drive., Jui 19, lilt, in September, my, mother received notice that "Phllo1 Lionnrd" had died and was buried in I France. She does not bellaVf It Is her bo. " omrades are reported to have' Men him alive and well in the fall ofj I 1918. Address his el6ter Mrs W H. Johns. 107 Glenwood Ave , Battle Creek. Mich. 309lh Inf.. Co. M.. Lieutenant Dun-cap Dun-cap Campbell, '.sounded Nov. 1, 1918; died Nov. 4, No news after leaving' first dressing station. Information I inted bj vslte. Mr. Campbell. 19 W Oth St , New York City. 104th or 194th F A.. Batt F If. the parents of Joe H. Johnston will communicate with I. M. Adams, 19 j East Verona Ave.. Pleatant vllle. N. J.J they may receive a Testament and i In - f m ipshoU belonging to Johnston. )ih-h were found on a battlefield in France. 866th Inf.. Co. M. 'Will the eoldler' who was with Bgt. John W Smnlloy no, i no i mrgf.i a macnine gun neel and wat killed near Vllcey, Prance Sept. 12, mis. writ Florence E Ber- noy 404 Walnut St.. Alexandria. Ind 7 1 126th Inf., Co. I Will the sergeant who wa8 saved by Pvt Homer Whleler1 on Oct. 9. 1918. at Romagne. write to . hlsler s mother. Mrs Mary E Whla-! ler. HllUboro, u, R F. D. 117 Information Infor-mation concerning her son'a death wanted by Mrs. Whlsler. 66th Nurses Unit Ruth O. Morgan, last heard of on way to Franco Aug-uM Aug-uM 1918 Information of her fate u .Mired by E. B. Bauman, box 364 Flemlngaburg. Ky Missing in Action Pvt Arthur Hill, 361st Inf.. wounded In October In Ar-gonne Ar-gonne and seen walking off the flold. A buddy saw him in a hospital In France. Since then nothing has been heard of him. Famll fears he Is a mind case In some hospital and haal heard rumort that he Is under treat- , ment In the I'ntted Slates Address cousin. W R Cawthra. 10 Clay St., i Wore ester, Mass. 109th Inf., Co. B Pvt Charles James Hunt, wounded, gassed, captured captur-ed nn. 1 reported died of wounds Mother would bo grateful for any particulars par-ticulars of the enff&ejemonl In which her son was wounded and taken. She ulso wants to know what kind of gat it was and how It affects men Write Mrs. John L Hunt, Route 29. Mount I. rnon, Po 69th Inf , M Q. Co. Pvt. Raymond m. Schmidt, reported wounded j. t 3 or 4 1918. and died ct. 8 at Fourth Field hospital, Cussey. France Mother wants to hear from anyone Who vav. hei boy shortly before he died and knows whether "he said anything on his deathbed." Address Mrs Matthew Bchmldt, 507 Rush St., Dubuque, Iowa. U. S- S. Otranto" Pvt Clyde Mott went down with this vessel when she s.nk In a storm off tho Irish coast. His parents want information about his death from survivors Write hia brother-in-law, John C. Doollttlc-, Sa-vannah, Sa-vannah, Ga. 103rd F. 8. BN.. Co C Otis Lylo Canady, (aeeed and died int.-r In hospital hos-pital at Cuincy. Sept. 9. 19 18. t.n way to hospital ho gave his personal effects ef-fects to Sgt Tracy in charge of am-I am-I uUnco to bo mailed to his father. Sgt. Tracy gave them to a Y. M. C A-worker A-worker to attend to it Any ono knowing know-ing thla "Y" man wrlto to his fatner, C. M Canadv, C18 Park Road, Am-bridge, Am-bridge, Pa, Will the nurso or doctor with Pvt. Canady when he died also w rite? 1:3rd Inf.. Co. I PvL Floyd Holt. -Led July 29, 1918, after having been wounded at Vaux July 1 Government 1UM can furnish no other Information. Informa-tion. His mother died last November while mourning for him. Details of hts death are sought bv lister, Mrs. Florence Tlvlaa. 83 Bridgeport Ave.. Devon, Conn. |