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Show Army Chaplain, Prominent Matron Killed in Accidents of Utah and was attending Harvard Har-vard graduate school when he was called into the service. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Durham, 1123 Lake st. The accident in which Mrs. Neslen and Mr. Josephson were killed and Mrs. Josephson, Col. Neslen and Mrs. Norma Romney were critically injured, occurred as the party, returning from temple dedication ceremonies in Idaho Falls, crashed head-on into a car driven by a soldier, 17 miles north of Pocatello. Word of two tragic accidents, causing the death of persons well known in Salt Lake, struck home to The Bulletin this weeiv. Capt. L. Marsden Durham,, 27, brother, of Wilby M. Durham, Bulletin secretary-treasurer, was killed in a fall near Hilo, Hawaii, Tuesday night, and on the same date, Mrs. C. Clarence Neslen, wife of Lt. Col. C. Clarence Neslen, Nes-len, former mayor of Salt Lake, was killed in an Idaho highway collision. Mrs. ;Neslen was an aunt of Ted Cannon, Bulletin orlitm- and Mrs. Ma.rba C. Josephson who was critically injured in the same accident, and whose husband was killed, is his cousin. Capt. Durham, an officer in the chaplain's corps, was with the first troops to return to the Philippines at Leyte, and with the troops that invaded Okinawa Oki-nawa last April. He wis wounded wound-ed in action and had recovered ' from his wounds in Hawaii when the fatal accident occurred. A distinguished scholar, he had graduated from the University |