Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1919 — SOLDIER IS "LOST” RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA [ARTICLE]

SOLDIER IS "LOST” RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA

To have their son classed as a deserter by the War Department whale le has been suffering agony in a camp lospital all the time he was reported missing, is tlje experience of a. Hammond couple. s , Am old-time top sergeant of the regular service once said that the army kept better track of its mules than its men. The case of Herbert Prevo, son of'G. W. Preyo, a grocer, 361 Indiana avenue, Hammond, bears out the statement. After being turned down twice when he offered to enlist, Herbert, 29 years of age, was taken in the draft. After two days at Camp Taylor, Ky., ie was sent to .the hospital for an operation. Following the operatioh—ast August—blood poisoniog developed and later an abscess formed. He ias had eleven since the 1 rst one, four times entrely conscious; Excepting the first two days he has been in the hospital ever since, flat on his back. Herbert has never stuck his nose outside Camp Taylor for a minute. Yet his parents received a letter from the government a few days ago stating that he had been missing since Sept. 21st, and could not be located and that unless he was located he would be classed as a deserter. The parents wrote back and told »‘the government to look in the hospitals at Camp Taylor. -They have received an answer that Herbert has been located. It appears he was “lost” by being moved from one bed to another. The Prevos are naturally very bitter over the treatment their son has received.