The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-20


 news items similar to those print cd below, about returning sol diers, sailors and marines. When your relative or friend who has been in the service returns to Bir- mingham. phone or write of the fact and the information will be gladly published. Among those re- turning yesterday were the follow ing.
 Capt. and Mrs Bracket Watkins have l returned to Birmingham and are visiting Mir and Mrs. B. o. Watkins, 1109 Hick- ory street. Captain Watkins is widely ! known in Birmingham. having received ] his education at the public schools here About four months ago, while in Paris, he married Miss Simone Auble. tal- 1 ented French girl of a prominent and l cultured family. Captain Watkins de- | clares that according to information he had while in France about 10,Ooo Ameri- can boys have married French girls Captain Watkins, who is a pilot in the aviation service, spent about year over- seas and was at various times on prac- tically all the fighting fronts, being used as a casual officer He refuses abso- 1 lutely to discuss any of his adventures in France, declaring that they are not | worthy of mention.
 First Lieut.. Asa Rountree, Jr.. an avia- tor pilot in the American expeditionary forces who has been in France during the past 15 months, and who has seen l active service lover there, is now en route home His parents, MT. and Mrs J. A Rountree, yesterday morning re | ceived a wireless message from him, say ing:
 IS. S. Canada. Radio via Cape Race | Newfoundland.
 "Homeward bound; land Boston early next week."
 Lieutenant Rountree is casual or ficer and has charge of company una. | he was assigned several weeks ago. IL is not known whether he will be dls- charged or not, but he is expected to ar rive in Birmingham the latter part oA the week.
 | Seryt Guy B. Dodd of the quartermas- ter corps has received his honorable dis charge and has returned to his nome III Birmingham. Sergeant Dodd enlisted about 14 months ago and has been sta tioned at Newport News TOT seNeiai months. Before entering .he sels'o9 au was connected with the Trustees Loan and Guaranty company, and is well
 
 known in this city.
 ] Jjeut lack wallace, who has been sta toned at the Aberdeen proving grounds has returned to Birmingham a1ter 10 months service, having received his non orable discharge Lieutenant Wallace at tended the second officers training camp at Fort Oglethorpe where he received Il commission as lieutenant in the fleid ar tillery He was later transferred to the ordnance department, and was in that branch at the time of his discharge. lie is well known in Birmingham, where ne was reared and is one of the most popu- lar young men in this city lie IS pelhs given a warm welcome after his absence | of IS months.
 Lieut.. P. c. Smith of the Fifty-seventh coast artillery has arrived in New 4ork after 10 months foreign service, accord ing to a message received yesterday oS
 his parents, MT. and Mrs. Algernon Smith. Lieutenant Smith went overseas
 with his division in April and saw active
 servive before the armistice was signed.
 He will be discharged from Fortress ! Monroe and is expected to arrive in Blr-
 mingham sometime next week. Cliff Johnson of the United States ship | Oklahoma is spending few days with
 his parents in Bessemer.
 | Sergt Herbert Moon of the 11Sth field , artillery has received an honorable dis
 charge and has returned to his home in
 Bessemer. Sergeant Moon was trained at Camp Wheeler. being member of the } l Dixie division. He was dlscharseu at
 Camp Gordon.
 Sergt Andrew J. Littleton, after IS months foreign service with the United
 States marines, has returned to the United States and is the guest of rea-
 tives in Bessemer.
 Private B. H. Holley of the Hist ma
 chine gun battalion is back in Birming- !, ham visiting his family at 1212 Twen- tieth street, north. Private Holley was overseas for several months. Ensign Rogan Jones of Aberdeen is the guests of his aunt, Mrs. N. L. Mil
 Ter on Crescent avenue. A card from Corp. E. Glenn Harris, the popular young Birmingham boy, de-
 clares that life in France is not so bar
 after all. "Skinney," as he was dubbed by his associates, is just "noncom
 in the aviation ground service, but he | is gathering a wide experience and a
 thorough knowledge of airplanes dur ing his stay overseas. He has been in : the service more than year and a half.
 The many local friends of Lieut.
 Tennant Simpson, formerly of Florence
 will rejoice to learn that he has com pletely recovered from his wounds at a French hospital in Limoges and has ] returned to his regiment with the army
 of occupation in Germany. heuten- } ant Simpson has just been promoted to captaincy.
 Capt. J. 1T. Hard, Jr., is with the
 American army of occupation on the Rhine, according to a letter just re.