Arizona republican., 1920-07-20
LONG SEARCH
 MESA MAN FINDS
 SON IN HOSPITAL

MESA, July 20-After weeks of anxi ous and seemingly fruitless searching along the entire railway route from Robinette, Oregon, to this point, in an effort to locate his son who was last seen or heard of at Robinette on May 24. J. H. Thomas, a Mesa resident liv- ing on the Chandler road just south of town, last week located the missing man at San Bernardino, California.
 Taylor Thomas, who is 46 years old, last spring was afflicted with attacks of influenza and small poX, and as soon as he had recovered sufficiently he started from his home near Robin cite, Oregon, for Mesa, where he in tended to live with his parents. More than a month later. the parents here upon learning that he had started for Arizona became anxious as to his whereabouts.
 The father, J. H. Thomas. left at once for Oregon, but inquiry there re vealed nothing beyond the fact that the son had departed on May A for this point. Railroad officials seemingly could not trace his travels down. Re lentlessly the father continued the search. and enlisting the aid of an old friend, a conductor on a short line, in Oregon, the inquiry was continued. A week later the father gave up the search in Oregon and returned to Idaho
 
 another son and the search continued from that point
 Meantime the old friend of the fam fly had been working on the case and traicing Taylor Thomas ticket down from conductor to conducted. he finally discovered that the man had left the train at San Bernardino. There the missing man was located last week in a hospital where he had been for more | than month and half recovering l from a sudden relapse in health sui fered during the trip on the train. The father joined the son there last week and together they came on to the family home here where the sick man l will remain until he recuperates Tribute Paid Honored Dead | High tribute was paid to the Mesa | boys who made the supreme sacrifice l in the world war. at the memorial 1 service held here Sunday night under the auspices of the local post of the American legion. More than 1.500 citi- l zens of the town representing all de-
 nominations gathered at the union | service conducted in the auditorium i and listnede with keenest interest to i the short addresses that were made in commemoration of the second anni- | yersary of Americas great offensive 1 on the European battlefield, and in
 memory to the six Mesa boys who sac | rificed their lives that right might prevail.
 | Judge Henry D. Ross of the Arizona
 supreme court. Rev. w. c. Miller of | the Mesa Methodist church and Major
 L. M. Mckinley of Phoenix, addressed
 the gathering paying due honor to all 1 of Americas soldiers who lost their
 lives in the great conflict. Major Me | kinley in presenting the French Me morial certificates to a relative of each 1 deceased Mesa soldier, recounted how | America had entered the war when
 the darkest hours overhung the allied | forces then on the battlefield. and how | her men and arms finally meant vic- | tory to the allied cause.
 1 The memorial certificates given by | the French republic were presented to
 relatives of the following Mesa sol diers: Marion r. Rodgers, headquar- | ters company, 18th Infantry; Henry H. 1 Rithrock, 18th Aero squadron William H. Clark, Company A, U. guards: Joseph S. Morris, Battery c. 340th F. A.; Allan B. Newberry. Con. pany B. 359th Infantry: Jack Melrose, Company | c, 5th marines.
 Expresses Regret Cannot Attend l Keenest regret was felt on the part l of members of the Mesa post of the
 American legion Sunday when a teIe- | gram was received from Colonel l Francis C. Marshall, commanding Of