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Show APPROVE RETURN OF LOST SOLDIER Body of Unidentified Yank Will Be toterred in New Amphitheatre WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. The return re-turn from FJanders field of the body of ah unidentified American soldier j for interment in the new amphilreatre (at Arlington National ceme.ter Was approved Tuesday b Secretary Qak-v, ! General Pershing ami Major r,. nt raj I J. A. Lejucne. commandant of the I marine corps, and one of the war lime , commanders of tho famous Second di islon of marines and regulars In a letter read to the house mlll-iary mlll-iary committee considering r resohi-tion. resohi-tion. Secretary Baker said he could j conceive of no more fitting Inaugura- j lion of the use of the ajnphitreatre "than to place there the body of a ! soldier whose name and identity are lost, but who will typify and represent ! the imperishable, part of the sacrifice Which he and his comrades made fori their country." Predicting that ultimately the Arlington Ar-lington amphitheatre would become "the Westminster Abbey ,,f merica -heroic dead," he snld no plice could be more suitable than It for "this; Significant and symbolic interment." General Pershing approved the pro-1 poaal as s fitting national tribute to J the other Americans who fell In tile war. He suggested that n . Memo- ' rial day be selected as the time for. the burial. |