Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — COL. HEALEY WRITES FROM FRANCE [ARTICLE]

COL. HEALEY WRITES FROM FRANCE

The following item is taken from the Indianapolis Star, the Nov. 20th issue, the article of their Washington, D. C., correspondent, Everett C. Watkins: “A letter received here yesterday by friends of Col. George H. Healey, commander of the 151st Infantry Regifnent of gave further , details on the death of Capt. Austin L. Loer, of Evansville, Ind., inteUi'gence officer of the Healey regiment, who succumbed t®. influenza while on board transport en route to France last month. Four Indiana men of the 38th Division also died aboard ship from the same cause. The dead enlisted men include Private David L Bums, of Goodland, Ind., a member of the 137th Field Artillery. Capt. Loer was a newspaper man at Evansville before he entered the National Guard service. His home originally was at Marion.”