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CITY PLANS HIGH HONOR TO PERSHINGI.Ore at Reception Being MappediOut to General and Men of the First Division.PRESIDENT WILL BE HEREOfficial Hobday May Be Declared When Veterans Parade onFifth Avenue.Hoboken understand that' General Pershing will arrive about Sept. 10, and the last, of the troops before Sept. 12. It is believed the President may return for the review of the division, as it was intimated In Washington dispatches yesterday that he would be in the cityabout Sept. 19. ' . 4-General Pershing and the division Wul have the freedom of the city during their stay. The Mayor’s Committee Lhplanning' ft dinner for the General and the officers of the division and-for themen of all units. Dances and other entertainments are being planned by tne New York War Camp Community Service and other agencies.One officer who tHII ftid in' the plansof the American Legion for the reception is Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who for a time was commander of the 2ftth Infantry, one of the regular army regiments in the 1st Division. This was the old command of Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Bullard, who commanded one of the American Army corps.-A—•PERSHING CHANGES SHIP.• •• v■ii i ■——f—' 111 ....... —• —~ ... wWill Come on trie Leviathan Insteadof the Mount Vernon.WASHINGTON, Aug 23.—Because ofthe delay in the arrival of the transport Mount Vernon at Brestr General Persh-His cablegram to the War DepartmentIPROMISES TO RETURN BABYPlan* for the reception of GeneralPershing and the 1st Division when they. ■ •arrive at this port after two years’MX-vice overseas are being formulated hr the Mayor’s Committee of Welcome ,to the Homecoming Troops, veterans of j Ihff will return home on^the Leviathanthe 1st Division, the American Legion; , and the New ’York War Camp Com- | today from Paris said the date of hismunity Service. The Board of Alder- j sailing, Sept. 1, would be unchanged.men will be asked to declare an official holiday on the day the 1st Division parades in this city.Veteran officers of the division will meet at the Bil'tmore at 1 o’clock, Tuesday afternoon, td arrange their part of the welcome program. Most of these officers are members of the 1st Dlvislon-Jefferson Feigl Post of the American j Arthur Philip Wentz, who was stolen •Legion, and the Secretary of the post , | from his carriage at 150th; Street and has sent out a call to all 1st Division j Third Avenue on July 29, received an veterans to attend tire meeting. In | anonymous letter yesterday advising her naming the post, honor was paid to the j to rehearse the trip made on the day of memory of Lieutenant Jefferson Feigi, the kidnapping and suggesting that if Who was killed while with the 7th Field j she did this her baby might be returned Artillery. I to her. The letter, which was mailed atNo date has been set for the parade the Fordham Post Office and was signed of the division, but it is probable it 'will “A Friend,” **ead In part: be about Sept, 15. Some units.are at' “If you will take the baby carriageMrs. Wentz Gets Another LetterAbout Kidnapped Child.« •Mrs. Elsa Wentz of 725 Home Street, Bronx, mother of the kidnapped baby.Brest a-waiting transportation, and reports reaching the .Army Embarkation4 ,•» ‘ s •Service are that all the units have been'Withdrawn from Coblenz. : • Officers at* a %the Debarkation Station at Hoboken say all the units will be at Camp Mills before Sept. 15, although there may be some delay in the arrival of their equipment.When the division marches up Fifth Avenue here. a.nd_ in Pennsylvania Avenue in 'Washington, it will have its artillery and full field equipment, so that*• * • * , •aIV may see how an American division.appeared in the field. No other division has paraded in this country with full field equipment. A few days will beallowed after the arrival of'the equipment to put it in condition for theparade.Presidentthis afternoon over the route and to the place -where you left it at the time the child was stolen, he, in all probability,will be replaced In the .carriage.” It was suggested to Mrs. Wentz by the writer of the letter that the baby’s carriage be left unguarded, so that the person having possession of her son would bo enabled to return the boy without detection. Mrs. Wentz rejected the suggestion, declaring that the advice in the letter could not be' accepted seriously.* asthere was no reason why the baby cpuldnot be restored, if it was* so desired,♦without *he use of his carriage.* * ■Mrs. Wentz was shopping in Blum-stein’s department store on the day her baby was stolen. Mrs. Wentz denied a report to the effect that she 'had consulted a fortune teller at Mount Vernonintended to come here to greet General concerning her lost son, and had beenPershing members of the Mayors Com- .inittee asked the army authorities for told b the seer that a woman who^e infbrmation on the date of arrival of the i name began with the letter “ M. ” or division Jihd the General in the hope .. q ancj w^o passed the Wentz homePldent •idhe?eUid ”* ^ W!“‘* the j dally, had tel, boy and intended soon to Officers at the Debarkation Station at ‘ restore him to his mothei.
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Sun, Aug 24, 1919
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