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FORM NO.381

NATIONAL OFFICERS
WOODROW WILSON, PRESIDENT
ROBERT W. DE FOREST, VICE-PRESIDENT
JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, TREASURER
JOHN W. DAVIS, COUNSELOR
STOCKTON AXSON, SECRETARY
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
CHAIRMAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE
ELIOT WADSWORTH, VICE-CHAIRMAN
GEORGE E. SCOTT, GENERAL MANAGER

THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
WASHINGTON, D. C.

RED CROSS WAR COUNCIL
BY APPOINTMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
HENRY P. DAVIDSON, CHAIRMAN
JOHN D. RYAN
CORNELIUS N. BLISS
HARVEY D. GIBSON
GEORGE B. CASE
EX OFFICIO
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
ELIOT WADSWORTH

January 6th 1919.

Re. Pvt. Walter Jacob Slover

My dear Mr. Slover.

The American Red Cross sends most sincere sympathy to you in your anxiety, and wishes to assure you 
that when a man is officially reported missing, every avenue of information is used in order to trace him.

This search is begun automatically by the Red Cross as soon as a man's name appears on the list of missing.	
Men who were in the engagement with him are questioned, to find out if possible, from eye witnesses what 
may have happened to him; also inquiries are made at the hospitals.

It is possible that the names of some of the men for whom we are searching may appear upon the lists of 
prisoners released from the prison camps, not having been formerly reported.

We must therefore, ask you to be as patient as possible in spite of your great anxiety, feeling that 
nothing is being left undone in order to obtain definite information, which will be forwarded to you 
immediately.

Sincerely yours,
H. R. Castle

Mr. James H. Slover
Youngstown Mo.

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THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
WASHINGTON, D. C.

U.S. POSTAGE
3 CENTS 3

WASHINGTON D.C.
Jan 11 4PM 1919

Mr James H. Slover,
Youngstown,
Mo.

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