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Show . Thursday, December 13, 1941 A Personalized service It is apparent in every Berg service the personal touch that transforms a ritual into an impressive tribute the thoughtful details ... a. that nHrl slionifo V, ' jJjf service and provide MclA comfort to the sorrow ing family. With Oar Service Boys & Girls e-i iiift10 fclUul As BMbte ggaT! it . sr AND Refrigerators AND Homo Freezing Boxes '7 Will Soon Be Available AT Simmons Lumber and Hardware Co. (Year Trading Center) Phone 048R2 OREM WIRI NG FOR RANGES AND liter . $ -J..A . Changes Crystal Electric S3 Tears of Electrical Service. Walter H. Hendrick, Licensed Electrician Opposite Utah Power & Light Phone O60-R5 Orem mil" HOME AGAIN Cpl. Von R. Brereton, son of Mrs. Jane Brereton, of Edge-mont Edge-mont has received his honorable release from army service at Fort Douglas, following two years' action 18 months of which was spent in the Philippine islands. His wife and three "children have made their home in Spnngville during his absence. ab-sence. v SSgt. Ray Downs, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Downs of Orem, husband of Mary Allen Downs, is at home after being overseas for two years. He has been in service four years, and has just seen his little son, Den nis Kay for the first time. GOES TO FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA Pvt. Karl L. Tucker has completed com-pleted his basic training at Camp Roberts, California, wnere he nas spent the past six months. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Tucker, and will report at Fort Sill, Okla, after a ten day xuriougn. HOME ON LEAVE Booth Maycock, S 1-C, USN, irom tne ss Benjamin D. Wil son, arrived home for a thirty day leave, Saturday. Booth is. tne son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Maycock, and came directly from the Japanese mainland. He has been in servicv 18 months, 12 months on the Benja-man Benja-man D. Wilson, and has completed complet-ed two trips into the combat area of the Pacific. He will report re-port in Salt Lake City for reas signment on January 10. HOME FOR BRIEF STAT Pvt. Hardy Bean, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Horace Bean, is at home on ten day furlough. He has Just completed a 17 weeks' basic training course at the AAF, at Fort Bliss, Texas, and will report re-port at Fort Ord, California, for overseas assignment at the end of his furlough. TO BE STATIONED AT HAWAII Ensign Samuel J. Green, son of Mr- and Mrs. W. L. Green of Pleasant Grove, and sister of Mrs. Howard Ferguson of Edge-mont Edge-mont is home on short leave from-Port Huemene, where he recently graduated as Port Director. Di-rector. He will soon leave for Hawaii, where he will be sta tioned. VISITS SICK HUSBAND Mrs. Lyle Adams Clinger has left for San Pedro, California, where her husband, Aaron (Ski) Clinger is confined to the naval hospital there. He had been ill before his ship docked, and he was removed to the hospital. He is awaiting his honorable discharge dis-charge from the navy, where he has served four years, and the young couple plan to return home together as soon as Seaman Sea-man Clinger is well again. bridefbouquet of red roses, and the attendants wore appropriate corsages. Little SusAnn Jepperson and Bobby Kitchen, niece and nephew neph-ew of the bride were tralnbear- ers in the bridal march. Bishop Arch Pulham was master of ceremonies during the dance and for the fine program rendered. The gift room was presided over by the groom's grandmoth er, Mrs. Robert L. Elliott and Mrs. Orson Prestwich, an aunt. Refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs- 'Hawkins were married October 20, in Boston, Mass., where Ensign Hawkins had Just received his' commission. commis-sion. They went to the' Salt Lake LDS temple on -Tuesday, Dec 11, and were remarried by Elder Joseph Fielding Smith. The parents of both young people peo-ple went with them through the temple. Ensign Hawkins leaves for Hawaii on Sunday, where he has been assigned. His bride will accompany him to San Francisco and remain until he sails. Both are well known here and are graduates of Lincoln high school and seminary. Venue J. Loveless Tells Experiences" 1 Ensign and Mrs. Hawkins Honored With Reception Ensign and Mrs- Richard (Dick) Hawkins (Elizabeth Gordon) Gord-on) were honored Wednesday evening with a reception at the Joseph Smith building by the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Gordon. The hall was beautiful with potted plants and Christmas motifs. In the receiving line were the parents of the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hawkins, Mrs. Gordon wearing a lovely wine colored gown and Mrs. Hawkins in blue, with corresponding corsages. cor-sages. Lamar Edwards was best man, then the groom and his lovely bride, in a white brocaded brocad-ed satin gown with sweetheart neck, entrain, with a finger tip lace and net veil, caught up with a cornet of orange blossoms. Her sister, Susie Jepperson was matron of honor and Salley Hawkins, sister of the groom, Fae Gillespie, Donna Hafen, Dorothy Cordner, and Cumorah Gordon, sister of the bride were bridesmaids, in lovely pastel formats. The bride carried her The following letter was re cently received from Vernie. J. Loveless, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs, Vernle J. Loveless, of ..Orem. Utah.- Vernie is serving at Fire man 1st class aboard the USS Casablanca, an escort carrier. He has been In the service since November 1944, and has seen much action in the Pacific aboard his present ship.' The letter tells of the recent airplane tragedy that took .place In the Pacific area. November 4,' 1945, At Sea Dear Dad and All: just a few lines to let you know of our recent experience, Yesterday morning, November 3, our ship received notice that an airplane had crashed Just 90 miles ahead of us, and that we were to proceed to the wreckage wreck-age and assist in the rescue of the survivors. After steaming for five hours at full speed, we arrived at the scene of the accident. With Us were five destroyer escorts. The escorts are smaller and faster than our ship, so our skipper gave them orders to scout around and pick up all the survivors they could find. After search ing for four hours, a total of 15 passengers were found, seven of the 15 being dead. Our ship was in charge of the rescue and being the largest in the group,' was better equipped to care for the survivors. As It was getting dark and the weather weath-er was getting worse, we had to hurry with the transferring of the survivors to our ship. Despite Des-pite our efforts, we managed to get only three of them aboard before the sea became too rough, Jap Prisoner Among Victims Among the three was a soldier that had been liberated from the Japs. After being uoerated,- he was enroute to Pearl Harbor, where he was taken ill with severe attack of pneumonia, After recovering from that, they proceeded to fly him back to the States, only to end up in the sea with more trouble to his credit, He has a large cut over one eye. that being his only visible ail ment. Also among the three was a girl who had been workMig at Hicken Field, Pearl Harbor. She was acting as stewardess aboard the plane while enroute to the States.,, She is really a beauty; not very old either. The doc said she had some ribs crushed and a cracked or broken pelvis bone. The third was a civilian. I don't know much about him except ex-cept for the fact that he is suffering suf-fering from shock and a few bruises. They waited until morning morn-ing to bring the others aboard. We haven't heard how they are yet, but they looked pretty bad when they came aboard. Six of the seven dead are civi lians. The other fatality was a' beautiful blonde WAA.C. who had served three years overseas. She reminded me very much of Peggy. As near as I can describe the plane to you, is that It Is a converted B-24. It was eviden tly converted into a passenger plane to facilitate the return of troops to the states. Perhaps Cliff can tell you more about it Plane Badly Wrecked When we found the plane, it was in -two sections. The tail section was already submerged and the remainder was floating nose aown. one or the fellows made a sketch of It; I will enclose en-close It in this letter. We were going to try to pick the remains of the plane up this morning but the captain received orders to proceed to Pearl Harbor at once, We are on our way to Pearl now. As near as we know, the plane had 28 passengers aboard, including in-cluding the crew. That means that 13 of them are still unaccounted unac-counted for, as only 15 were recovered re-covered at the scene of the acci dent. The Mother ships are still searching in the area, so they may have found more of the vlcv tims. This morning the radio man reported that another plane had crashed about 190 miles be hind us. Well Dad, that's the size of the news out here for now. How is everything at home? I was afraid I couldn't think of so much to write about the crash, but I have surprised myself and you again- If Elaine ever again mentions wanting to be a stew ardess on an airline, give her a darn good licking. Right now I wouldn't trust a plane as far as I could throw it. Well Dad, I've rattled long enough for now, so I had better sign off. f " y-y w i i i rn. I ft mm OUEM PHONE 048-J2 Center ; PHONE 150 There are not many shopping d ays , left before Xmas! Better hurry if $m want to get any of those gifts at your B, and II .Pharmacy. . i T& k Dolls 98c to 7.50 Hardwood Scooters . . . ." 2.49 Gift Stationery ........ 1.49 Box Candy 1.00 to 3.00 Glades, Sweets, Whitmans and Shape Williams Prescriptions filled only by ail experienced Registered Pharmacist Gift First Aid Kits 98c i , l . I, , Hit It t Hunting Coats ,-., '12.75 Wcarever Pen Sets . . Character Dolls ; . 1.39 and up Cory Coffee Makers ; , .a ' ' .. ... - . Money Orders And We Always Have STAMPS - - Traihrays Bus Depot fflee at Orem, Utah, under the Act ef March 8, 1879. - v mmm 1 u f m S. EBB uuvi -waw as secona-ciass matter aavemoer. - ' Published every Thursday By Utah Valley Publishing Company, Prova. utan. ELECTRIC RANGES Give her the Christmas Gift she's been waiting for IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Also small electric heaters with fan for instant heat Ideal for bathroom See at once at GENEVA SUPPLY COMPANY OREM, UTAH 053J5 0S2J2 We have franchise for DEEPFREEZE" the Genuine Home Freezer Love, Tour son, Vernie. DELMAR DAVIS WRITES FROM JAYA The following Interesting let ter was received from Delmar B. Davis, aboard the SS A. B Hammond from Batavia, Java, by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd C. Davis of Geneva ward: November 8, 1945 "Dear Folks: We have been out so long and everyone is on edge. It's been over six months since I came on this ship. I dare say the longest period of my life. The mail service is very bad here. We don't get any at all and the mail goes out once a week; a group of U.S. Ferry Command are doing that for us four Americans Ameri-cans hips here. They say they will mail them in Brooklyn. I suppose you have heard about the revolt down here. But you can't guess what It's really like. HI give you the facts as the time goes on. Here's my view of Batavia: First American Ship Into Batavia We came in Batavia on the SO of October, (Halloween). We made about the fastest time of any Liberty ship, we averaged 14 knots for four days. When I came out on deck this morning at 6 o'clock as usual I saw the wierdest sight Tve ever seen, The harbor was full of little ships, about as big as the show boat on Utah Lake. They were made of wood and had long sweeping bows and square sterns. They were the first Jap ships I had ever seen that were still floating. Most ships are made of steel and have square or perpendicular or almost straight bows. We anchored out over night and went In the next morning. We were the first ' American ship into Batavia Ba-tavia since the peace. We saw a large harbor filled with warehouses ware-houses and large cranes, and had high hopes of getting out of FOR SALE OR RENT Pianos, Accordions, Guitars. Gui-tars. Phone 940R, Prof S. fV. Waiiaras. 308 E. S South. Provo. I buy, sell, rent, and teach. 0 SPEAR LUMBER COMPANY PHONE 34 See Us For ASPHALT ROOFING 195 W. 3rd South PROVO here and home for' Christmas. But the place was empty except for some Dutch, guards patrol-ing patrol-ing the water front. Pretty soon the little kids started coming with fruit and sandals to trade, and then the women came. But the captain wouldn't let them on the ship. "Good thing, too, s Explore City That afternoon Norman Wright from Salt Lake City, and I went out exploring and found that the city is about six miles inland- We visited a German submarine that the Dutch had taken away from the Japs. It was-a monster. We went all through it and looked the whole thing over; some boat. We also found that for a pair of long pants. you could buy the city; and that due to the lack of mon ey they were still using Jap In vasion currency, at about 43 gilders to a dollar. Java Very Rich Place As you probably know al ready, Java is a very rich place. It has all types of mineral resources re-sources and huge rubber and sugar plantations. Batavia, it self, you can hardly describe. It is' composed of the 3 groups of Oriental people: the high class, or colonists; the middle class, which has some of the white and mostly . higher and richer natives, and the poor farmers and fisherman, the run of the city type, and I almost forgot the beggars what things the human race can be. I nave heard that all this country down here is this way, literally thousands thous-ands of beggars, who sleep on the sidewalks at night, eat whatever what-ever is dropped by the wayside and are dressed in nothing but patches upon patches. ril never forget one young Chinese girl about 17, I guess. She stands on a corner of the Chinatown area, in front of a sporting goods place called "Popular". They pronounce It "Pop-E-lar". She was good looking and would be "alright" in decent clothes and food and home. She has a baby about 8 months old which is deformed, perhaps sypholictic, whlcn she carried with her. She was dressed in one ragged mass of patches. I don't see why she, wore them, they didn't cover up anything and she might get rid of a few flees without them. She stands and wails a high mourn ful, monotonic sentence that means, "Give a little to a poor beggar with a child." Beautiful Section of City The Dutch residential district is the most beautiful place I've ever seen. It is like one great big park with their beautiful mansions all through it. Well, so much for that To Complete Trip Around World Now, Pice really got some news for you. I've been over a week trying to get this letter off to you and meanwhile the Japs have us almost unloaded-Wa unloaded-Wa have received our orders to sail to Singapore and pick up rubber and then go to Colombo, Celon and get something else, then up through the Red Sea to the Suez, and Port Said and get oil, then out through the gates of Gibraltcr and to New York City, N. Y., USA Yes, clear around this bloody did world. Boy, am I a happy guy. We won't get there until the middle jas ever, your son, DELMAR." of January, Fll call you then, PIKES 'PEAK' FLOUR VIW4 SXTM DAiano ADVAtJTAOeS 50 lbs. 2.27 Pykes Peak Coupons fv vi Good Herex .1;! BUNKER FARMS Hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Weds.- :'' Phone Provo 016R3 j FLOUR I 1S III nnsias Gifts What Finer Gift could you Give than a .0 SHEAR PIN " Available Immediately No down payment. As long as three years to pay for iC .;" , L- SEE THEM AT 1 Geneva Supply Qo. 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