The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
First American Soldier Sent To France Comes Back Sadder and a
 Bit Wiser
CRIES TELLING STORY
Back to Arizona She Must Go and Start Again to Grow Her Hair She
 Shipped Off

NEW YORK, July 16.-(By Mail) The first American soldier to come back from France stood on the deck of an army transport last night and gaZed out of troubled brown eyes on the twinkling lights of city ever so many times as big as Douglas, Arizona, and in it's tender foot way, ever sO~~ many times as wicked There was damp streak on the soldiers cheek that must have been the trail of a tear. and the soldiers underlip trembled in it's effort to frame words that would sound brave.
 'T reckon said the soldier. 'I reckon must be afraid, and to prove it Private Hazel Carter, U. s. A. (retiredD, who wanted to go to the front with Pershing so bad that he jumped up and went, broke down and cried in manner so unreserved- ly as to shame the warlike O. D. brooches and shirt and the canvas leggings that clothed her.
 Cuts Off Her Hair.
 Some three thousand miles away specifically in Douglas private Car ter has other raiment than the field service uniform in which she has been living for weeks. Conceivably, too, she has extra hair in the dress ing table drawer in that distant home. But when she came ashore today to seek ways and means of getting to Arizona and mother she was to all appearances what she set out to be-a dough boy"
 So long as Private Carter resists the impulse to say something her disguise is complete For she made complete job of it when she set out to join the army and sacrificed a head of hair that was the envy and admiration of all Douglas.
 "The private's voice is a silvry soprano, pleasant to the ear. But she managed to keep her thoughts to herself so well that for eight days on the troop train which brought her regiment from the border and for five days more at sea she was ac- cepted at face value by the 1,100 men and officers on the France bound transport. Silence became Op- pressive on the fifth day of the voyage and Private Carter forgot herself. She permitted her voice to tinkle and the jig was up.
 Private Carter doesn't know what is going to happen to her. Techni- cally she has been under arrest ever since the exposure, with stateroom for a cell and a military guard out side the door The guard was more or less a formality, for Uncle Sam has not any intention of administer ing punishment. Now that she has been safely brought to the home shore, she is free to go wherever her little store of money will carry her.
 But military law may not deal so lightly with Corporal Ed Carter, U. s. A., (active) who Is private Car ters husband Somewhere in France officers are sitting up late nights with the regulations, looking for some paragraph that covers the or fense of aiding and abetting stow. away on an army transport in war time. Before Private Carter had gone out on deck and looked at the lights and become completely un- manned, the story had been told. It goes back to December IF. 1916 when Corporal Carter and Haze Blauser walked into the office of [ justice of peace at Pirtville, Arizona and Corporal and Mrs. Carter walked out
 Just as soon as we were married I decided that if ever Ed had to go to the big war. I'd go along nursing. Ed is about my size and his uni forms fitted me as well as my own clothes.
 .The day the regiment sntrsined