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Show Pyle Accompanies Medics To Pick Up the Wounded Men ON THE WESTERN FRONT wSt witfourbatUllon medic? tol 5 CO I! I ll63uS VlCV tuck us wounded men wno nu been carried back to tome battered bat-tered houses just behind our lines, and to gather some others right off the battlefield. The battalion surgeon was Capt. Laden Strawn, from Morgan town, W. Va. He drives his Jeep himself him-self and goes right into the lines with his aldmen. We drove forward about a mile in our two jeeps, so loaded with litter bearers they were even riding rid-ing on the hood. ' Finally we had to stop and wait until a bulldozer fined a new shell crater in the middle of the road. We had gone about a hundred yards beyond the crater when we ran into some Infantry. They stopped us and said: . "Be careful where you're going. The Germans are only 200 yards up the road." Captain Strawn said he couldn't get to the wounded men that way, so he turned around to try another an-other way. A side road led off at an angle from a shattered village vil-lage we had just passed through. He decided to try to get up that road. But when we got there the road had a house blown across it, and it was blocked. We went forward a little on foot and found two deep bomb craters, also impassable. So Captain Strawn walked back to the bulldozer, and asked the driver if he would go ahead of us and clear the road. The first thing the driver asked was. "How close to the front is it?" . The doctor said, "well, at least it isn't any closer than you are right now." So the dozer driver agreed to clear the road ahead of us. While we were waiting a soldier came over and showed us two eggs he had found in the backyard of a jumbled house. There wasn't an untouched house left standing in the town, and some of the houses were sun smoking inside. Also, while were were waiting two shock cases came staggering down the road toward fas. They were not wounded but were completely com-pletely broken the kind that stab into your heart. They were shaking all over, and had to hold onto each other like little girls when they walked. The doctor stopped them. They could barely talk, barely understand. He told them to wait down at the next corner until we came back, and then they could ride. When they turned away from the jeep, they turned slowly and unsteadily, a step at a time, like men who were awfully drunk. Their mouths hung open and their eyes stared, and they still held onto each other. They were just like idiots. They had found more war .than the human spirit can endure. XXX Albert Hedquist, Resident of Provo, Called by Death Accomplishments; Fiscal Year Ends With a record of achievements beyond any previous year, the Utah National Parks Council. Boy Scouts of America, is closing its fiscal year. 1943-44, on September 20, with a surplus in cash, and within its budget in early every item, reported Mark Anderson, council chairman of finance at the executive board meeting held Tuesday evening. More than 3500 scouts have par ticipated in summer camping pro grams, reported Scout Executive Rulon W. Doman. Participation by the council in the United War Fund in its drive for funds this fall, has been agreed upon reported D. Cv. Wight, council president. The council budget for 1944-45 already set at 123,000 will be raised by the United Unit-ed War Fund to the extent of 31V.000 in Utah county, with the remainder of the budget to be raised in the various other districts. dis-tricts. Registration for the past year exceeded all previous records, with an actual registered enrollment of 5,119 boys, almost 2,000 boys more than at this time a year ago. A new slogan for 1945 was adopted by unanimous vote: "No Lapsed Troops Every Troop Alive During 1945." It is reported that the Boy Scouts have been commended for their cooperation with the U. S. Employment service and the forest service in the war food produc tion labor program and the camping camp-ing activities. Plans for the annual meeting Oct. 14, and election of council officers were initiated at the meeting with the appointment of an council commissioners as a program committee, consisting of Merrill Christopherson, A. A Anderson, H. Eugene Hughes, O C. Bowman, Cedar City; Harold Walker, Pleasant Grove and Roy Passey. Dr. M. W Merrill heads the nomination committee. zD. O. Wight was re-elected presi dent of the board of directors of the council, Monday night at a meeting of the executive board of the council, with W. R. Butler, first vice president; S. D. Pack ard, treasurer; and A. A Ander son commissioner. Officers who will serve ss members mem-bers of the board of directors are Alex Hedquist, one year term; ur. m. w. Merrill, two years; Henry A. Gardner, three year; Ray Davis, four year; and Mark Anderson, five year. " A PAGE 8 PROVO TJTAH COUNTY. tTMH WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1. 144 DAILY HERALD At the far edge of the town we came to a partly wrecked farmhouse farm-house that had two Germans in it one was wounded and the other was just staying with him. We ran our jeeps into the yard and the litter bearers went on across the field to where the aid men had been told some of our wounded wound-ed were lying behind a hedge. The doctor sent the able German Ger-man soldier along with our litter bearers to help carry. He was very willing to help. I stayed at the house with the doctor while he looked at the wounded German, lying in the midst of the scatter ed debris of what had been a kitchen floor. The German didn't seem to be badly wounded, but he was sure full of misery. He looked middle- aged, and he was pale, partly bald, had a big nose and his face was yellow. He kept moaning and twisting. The doctor said he thought morphine was making him sick. The doctor took his scissors and began cutting his clothes open to see if he was wounded anywhere except in the arm. He wasn't. But he had been sick at his stomach and then rolled over. He was sure a superman sad sack. XXX Pretty soon the litter bearers came back. They had two wounded wound-ed Germans and one American on their litters. Also they had two walking cases one hearty fellow with a slight leg wound, and one S'ounrster whose hands were trembling from nervous tension The doctor asked him what was the matter and he said nothing was, except that he couldn't stop shaking. He said he felt that his nerves were all right, but he jusk couldn t keep nis nan as irom trembling. He was a machine gunner on a half-track. Captain Strawn talk' ed kindly to him. "Who sent you back?" he ask ed. "We've got a new lieutenant," the boy said, "and he told me to come back and report to an aid station for rest. The doctor thought a while. "1 can't send you to a hospital," the doctor said. "You're not in very bad shape, and they need men too badly up there." Just a shade of disappointment nassed over the boy's face, but he was game. That's what I told the lleuten- A.F.L. Editor Raps Thomas E. Dewey WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UP) An American Federation of La bor spokesman today criticized the Republican party and its presidential presi-dential nominee, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, for their "policy and attitude'" at-titude'" toward labor. Philip Pearl, editor of the AFL's weekly press service, took Dewey to task for declining, "due to pressure' of other activities, an AFL invitation to write a Labor day message for the union publication. publica-tion. 'And we do wonder," Pearl said, "how much time Mr. Dewey will be able to spare for labor if and when he is elected president since he finds himself too busy even as governor to perform the courtesy oi issuing a Labor day message.'' Pearl also rapped the recent Republican Re-publican governors conference at St. Louis which, he said, decided to make the party the champion of states' right "moth eaten, des-sicated, des-sicated, and hypocritical device for perpetutation of ugly prejudices Stringham Wins 6. 0. P. Nomination (Continued from Page One) feated for renomlnation, apparently because of opposition to their labor policies by the militant CIO political action committee. With the dull, expensive runoff out of the way, this is the way the state-wide ballot will look on Nov. 7: Office Senate Representative, 1st District Representative, 2nd District Governor Secretary State Auditor Treasurer Attorney General Schools Supt. Supreme Court, 10-year Term Supreme Court, 8-year Term Democratic Nominee Elbert Thomas Walter Granger J. Will Robinson Herbert B. Maw E. E. Monson Ferrell H. Adams Reese M. Reese Grover A. Giles E. A. Bateman Jama H. Wolfe Lester A. Wade Republican Nominee Adam S. Bennlon B. H. Stringham Quayle Cannon, Jr. J. Bracken Lee George E. Collard Sherman J. Preece Leland O. Gee A. Pratt Kesler Burton K. Farnsworth William M. McCrea Joseph E. Evans Commandos Slip Ashore to Clear Way for Invading Troops Albert "Bert" Hedquist, 74, well known Provo businessman, died Tuesday night at his home, 707 East Second South street. after several months' illness. Mr. Hedquist, who retired only two years ago from his shoe re pairing business, was bom in Salt Lake City, May 16, 1870, a son of Alexander and Anna Hoag- land Hedquist. He came to Provo with his parents in 1884, and received his education here. He married Fannie Stubbs, Novem ber 13, 1895, in Provo, after which they moved to Eureka. In 1902, they returned to Provo and the family has lived here ever since. At that time, Mr. Hedquist took over his father's shoe repairing business, which he maintained until two years ago. He was a member of Story lodge No. 4, F. and A. M. Surviving are his wife, three sons and two daughters, Leon A. Hedquist, Mrs. Ralph H. (Anna) Thomas, and Fred S. Hedquist, Provo; Ralph A. Hedquist, U. S. army. Camp Lee, Va.; and Mrs. R. E. (Marie) Homer, Brentwood, Brent-wood, Va. He also leaves 15 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, one brother and one sister, sis-ter, Alex Hedquist of Provo, and Mrs. Emily Jcx of Spanish Fork. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:30 o'clock in the Masonic temple. Friends may call at the Berg mortuary Friday evening eve-ning between the hours of 6 and 8 o'clock, and Saturday morning, at the family home. Interment will be in the Provo City Burial park. Italian Hanged By Negro Soldiers SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 16 (U Fort Lawton officials today investigated in-vestigated the death of a member mem-ber of an Italian service unit whose body was found hanging from a tree after a number of Negro soldiers raided the unit's barracks in a midnight attack Monday. The dead Italian had been identified iden-tified as Gughielmo Olivanta and post authorities said they were trying to determine whether he could have committed suicide. Home on Furlough From Alaska Duty Sgt. Vernon L. Peterson of the 11th air force service command, Anchorage, Alaska, is visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Peterson and other relatives here. This is his first trip to Provo in 31 months, since he entered the service in 1942. He worked for the Union Pacific before he joined up. Set. Peterson was a football and basketball letter man at Pro vo high and later participated in freshman athletics at the Brigh- am Young university. He attended the Branch Agricultural college at Cedar City one year, winning let- ceedlng ters in both major sports. ABOARD ADMIRAL LYAL A. DAVIDSON'S FLAGSHIP, Aug. 15 (Correct) (OLE) The navy got 'em here but the Commandos unlocked the door. Under the protection of boom ing naval guns, tens of thousands of American and French troops ooured across the beaches of southern France along a 40-mile front. But they did it only after desperate bands of troops had slipped ashore tlx hours before H hour, scaled unscalable cliffs and overwhelmed or slit the throats of crews of formidable coast bat teries so troop transports could approach the jumping off point with a minimum of danger. The plan was so imaginative In its conception and so daring in its execution that orisrtnally it was ruled out by the navy as being im possible but the army insisted it could be done and the tough Ranger - Commando type boys made good by capturing the islands of Levant and Port Cros just off the mainland, silencing all euns before daybreak. While this heavy cruiser and scores of otner cruisers, oaiue-ships oaiue-ships and destroyers of the Allied navies, including one ureex ae-stroyer, ae-stroyer, maneuvered four giant convoys into position, uie iroops slipped into small boats ana were escorted into a maze or rocxy inlets in-lets and coves by a tropedo boat flotilla led by Lt. Gilbert Reid of Kalamazoo, Mich. "We'll get anybody ashore that wants to go ashore," the big blond skipper said. The first wave hit the beach and marked the landing area with signal lights. Within an hour suc- waves were ciamoenng up cliffs and from that moment on lt was a matter of waiting for those of us aboard the warships; until they signaled that the guns had been silenced. Davidson was an anxious yet confident man as the hours wore on and he paced the signal deck We could see the outlines of warships, like dark blurs on an inky sea, as they patrolled the lanes. Suddenly gunfire broke out off the port beam and twin tongues of flame leaped across uie water It was a destroyer and some body yells: "My God, two of our destroy ers are shooting at each other. The rasping clatter of the com muni cations speaker put a stop to that It was a message from the destroyer saying she had been chasing a ship which had refused to Identify itself. The destroyer brought its guns to bear on the fleeing target and scored a direct bit with its first shot An enemy tanker burst into flame and became be-came an inferno which lit up tha summer sea. PAPER PM Ml 1 III I MM-V Put Y9HT scrap POP0' in the war! 1 WASTE NOT, WANT NOT is a good thought for whiskey purchasers these days, too. Drink Old Sunny Brook conservatively and you'll be able to enjoy it just that much longer. -CttEETtFLL AS ITS NABOB r SUKHYBEOO 7i BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY National Distillers Products Corp., New York, N. Y. 86 Proof Infant Gull SPANISH FORK Graveside services for the infant daughter of Lynn and Ruby Skinner Gull, who died at a local hospital soon after birth at 2:30 p.m. Monday, were conducted Tuesday in the rovo City cemetery. The baby is survived by the parents four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Gull of Spanish Fork, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Skinner of Orem and two sisters. Emily Irene and Gloria Mae Gull. Burial will be directed by the Claudin Funeral home. I HELPS HEAL I h idm KTR0UUM JIUV PfA 1 BURNS st- rums At vcx to BtJP nonouuE Collections By Teachers Stopped SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 16 0T.E) The LDS women's Relief society announced today its visiting teachers teach-ers would no longer collect charity char-ity contributions after Oct. 1, when the church welfare program will take over all such work. WOMAN PAYS FINE ON CHARGE:. SAEeT LAKE CITY. Aug. 16 (HE) Mrs. Claudia Miller King, 20, today had paid a 75 fine after pleading guilty to illegal disposition of the body of a stillborn still-born child last week. Her sister. Mrs. Thelma Miller Ashley, 23, who assertedly tossed the body over a creek bridge paid a $25 fine on the same charge. Allied Invasion (Continued from Page One) behind Cannes and saw French paratroops who landed safely before be-fore diwn yesterday. Kngineers and equipment for building and repairing airfields were among the first cargoes put ashore, the broadcast said. (A German transocean agency dispatch recorded by FCC monitors monit-ors said port establishments at Nice, Cannes and St. Tropcz had been blown un by the Nazis. "Violent "Vio-lent fighting" was racing immediately immedi-ately behind the landing places, the dispatch said.l (A German DNB dispatch said the "Center of Gravity" in the assault as-sault appeared to be near Theoule, across the hay just southwest of Cannes, while a CBS broadcast from Rome asserted that the Allies Al-lies had begun a battle for the port of St. Tropes, mldwav between be-tween Cannes and Toulon. Major air-borne forces were dropped near Le Muy, nine miles inland from Frejus and St. Raphal, DNB said.) Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wil son, supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean, reported in his second communique of the invasion invas-ion that operations were "proceeding "proceed-ing according to plan," but gave no details. Too Late For Classification FOR SALE MISCELT.ANEOIS WEANER pig. 98 South 17 WmI. 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