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    1. Article: Topekans "Over."; April 16, 1918
    2. Jim Laird
    3. The Topeka Daily State Journal Tuesday April 16, 1918 Topekans "Over" Fourteen In Doniphan Detail That Is in France. They Will Attend a French School of Instruction. The overseas detail of the thirty-fifth division has safely arrived on French soil, according to cablegrams received in Topeka. Themen in the detail include men from every branch of the service selected for overseas work in a trench military school in advance of the main body of the division. The men in the detail were named early in March but the order to entrain was delayed until nearly the first of April. The men will attend the school in or near Paris for a period of six or eight weeks when the division is expected to be on French soil. The detail will then split up and each man will return to his unit to act as an instructor. Fourteen Topeka men were in the detail. They are: Lieut. Marshall CRAWFORD, Lieut. Paul McFARLAND, Sergt. Major Howard S. SEARLE, Sergt. Harold SMILEY, Sergt. Dick LINDEMAN, Sergt. Reed MORRISON, Sergt. James CARNAHAN, Corp. Frank FABLE, Corp. Marion SMITH, Corp. Sanford JARRELL, Corp. John I. LEWIS, Corp. William REES, Corp. Charles McArthur, Corp. E.A. FRITZ.

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