MACE, TANALUND

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Marin Journal
Thursday, January 13, 1921
Page 1

Two Meet Death At Fort Baker

Two fatalities occurred in the vicinity of Ft. Baker last Saturday, resulting in the death of a soldier and a young woman.

Miss Hazel Tanalund, of San Francisco, was riding with a girl companion, Miss Leitha Long, and two men, Sergeant Smalley and J. A. Beekley, when Beekley, the driver, lost control of his automobile, the machine overturning and pinning Miss Tanalund beneath it. She was hurried to St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco in an unconscious condition from which she did not rally. Miss Long was but slightly injured.

The members of the party were en route to Ft. Barry to visit Private Milford George, a soldier stationed there. Sergeant Smalley was the owner of the car.

The second death was that of Corporal Luther Mace, known in Sausalito and San Rafael as “Soldier” Mace.

Mace lost his balance and fell between the side of the Army Tug Slocum and the piling of the wharf at Ft. Baker as the vessel was making a landing. He was crushed into insensibility and was dead when the body reached the Ft. Baker hospital. Mace was 30 years of age and is survived by a mother in Jam?????, Tennessee, to which place the remains were shipped by the army authorities.