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Show V. DAILY HERALD MOV, TJTAK '. COUNTS, WXDNESDAT. AUQUST t, 144 PAGE 3 Pfovo Lions Send Bigiilion To Chicsgp Meet Enthusiastic reports from the Lions' International convention held In Chicago, BL, August 1, 2 and 3, are brought home by the 10 Provoans who joined with some 8000 Lions delegates and guests for the three-day conclave. Included in the Provo group were: T)r. Da Costa Clark, president; presi-dent; Dr. and Mrs. W. Wool. Le Roy Johnson, , Clarence Ellertsen, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Smith and daughter, Douglas Peck and J. W. Thornton. All have returned home, with the exception of Dr. and Mrs. Woolf and Mr. Thornton, who are expected in a few days, With a large number of repre sentatives at the convention than the bigger Salt Lake club, the Provo Lions might well put a fea- ther in their cap. Fourteen na tions were represented at the convention, held in the mammoth Civic auditorium. Honor came to Utah with the election of D. A. Skeen of Salt Lake City, as president of Lions International. Also, the fact that Governor Herbert . B. Maw of Utah, was present to make one of the keynote addresses. - Bringing on a big ovation was tne singing or tne official uian Lions' song by the 40 or more Utah men and women. The words of the song, "A Utah Lion Am I' were written by the late Mrs. J. W. Thornton of Provo whose husband hus-band led the group in singing the song, which officially ushered in President Skeen after his election. elec-tion. He was presented with gifts from the various Utah clubs. Mr. Skeen presided at all ses sions, in the absence of the presi dent. Another signal honor out of the 14 different nations repre sented, the state of Utah had a "Utah Night', in which the dele gates gave an entertainment for all convention delegates and guests at the famous Midina club on Michigan boulevard. Defendant Fined In Juvenile Court William Hunter, 34. Lake Shore, was convicted in the 3rd juvenile juven-ile court of taking indecent liberties lib-erties with a 16-year old Spanish Fork girl. Juvenile Judge Dean E. Terry stated. Mr. Hunter, father of four minor min-or children, paid a fine of $100 with a jail sentence of two months suspended for a year 'on con dition that his benavior be good. The complaint against Mr. Hunter Hunt-er was signed June 21. OH BOY! I BET THEY'RE A! GOINQ TO GET IT WHEN! THEY PEACH HOME I'LL SAY-THiriL GIT 7 1 their Fibt. or riNB FOAMING MILK FPOM CENTRAL DAIRY HI V41S Men, Women In The Service Two former Brlgham Young university students were In on the Invasion of France June S one with an army engineer unit and the other skipper of an L. C. F. 221, landing craft. ' Cpl. Glen E. Allred is now somewhere some-where in France with the engineers engi-neers but in a recent letter home says "While making landing onto the beach I saw the LCF 221 on which Rolph Peterson is skipper. It, passed within 200 yards of me and at one time I think I saw lum. That is as close as he ever came, however. I was sure wishing he would be the one to take us to shore." SPRINGVILLE A letter was received from Lt. Vernon Tipton Monday, the first word his family have had of him since he was re ported a prisoner of the Germans, April 29. The communication was brief stating that he was okeh. and hoped the whole thing would be over soon. It was written at Stalog Luft No. 3. German camp, which is about nine miles from Berlin, and was dated May 17. Lt. Tipton was nearing his fiftieth mission, when his plane was shot down over enemy terri tory. He was stationed at a base in Italy. His wife, the former Norma Rus sell and baby daughter, whom he has never seen are visiting here irom Mesa, Arizona. SPRING VILLE Word was received re-ceived here Tuesday that one of the first ninth troop carrier com mand glider pilots to cross the Invasion coast in the D-Day attack, at-tack, and land on the Normandy shores of France was Flight Officer Offi-cer Boris Watts, son, of Mrs. Lutie Watts of this city. The communication which came from the ninth air force troop carrier base. European theater of operations, opera-tions, stated that he was one of hundreds of glider pilots, who after landing his glider, loaded with troops and equipment. fought his way back through the enemy lines to the beachhead, and was then evacuated to his own base in the European theater of operations. Naval Officer Tells of Invasion The Jerries had camouflaged pill boxes mingled with the homes on the beach and complete with chimneys and windows painted in the sides. They were identical with the homes, from all appearances, appear-ances, but made out of concrete three or four feet thick. These housed their guns, however their defenses were not quite complete, many foundations just beipg built. Another month and it wad id have been a heck of a lot worre." runs the description of the French coast by Ensign Keith Taylor, a Pearl Harbor survivor, now in the European invasion, in a re cent letter to his relatives here. Ensign Taylor says that he is well and sends best regards. He is the son of Mrs. Jennie Taylor and the grandson of Mrs. Nettie Taylor, 365 North First West. He tells, in his letter, of the robot bombs which are "succeeding "succeed-ing only in terrorizing the civilian civil-ian population", and of the walk which he took through the village of Corselles where he was greeted greet-ed warmly by the few remaining native French people. Ensign Taylor was aboard the battleship West Virginia when the Japs made their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. When the ship was bombed, he with hundreds of oth ers swam out to safety. I City Briefs Pvt. Clair E. Larsen, who . has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Bessie Larsen, the past 10 days, returned to Camp Fannin, Texas, Tuesday. He will then go to Camp Meade, Md., where he has been transferred. Gam V. Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vern E. Carter of 1920 West Sixth South street, has left for San -Francisco, Calif., to join his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.' Martin Boulton. He will be employed as a first class moulder in the naval moulding base. Mrs. Joseph Montorl and daugh ter, oiive- left today to return to their home in Concord, Calif., after af-ter spending the summer in Pro vo with their parents and grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Men-seL Men-seL Mr. Montori is with the Mer chant Marines, "somewhere" on the Pacific. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton B. Thatcher Thatch-er and sons, Farell Thatcher of Provo. and Pvt. C. L. "Bob" Thatcher, home on furlough from Camp Roberts, Calif., also, Mr. and Mrs. Elmo .Loveridge, at tended the Niels Petersen family reunion held at Fairmont park in salt Lake City, Sunday. One-hun dred and fifty descendants were present. Mrs. Paul Simmons is in Sacramento. Calif., visiting her n us Dana, capt. Simmons, of the army air corps. Lt. Norman Parker is here from Dalhart, Texas, on 15-day leave to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Parker. He has been transferred trans-ferred to Pratt, Kansas. Mrs. E. R. Shaw and children, Carol June and Teddy, of Los Angeles, Calif., have arrived to spend two weeks with Mrs. Shaw's mother, Mrs. Maude Knight. A sister, Mrs. Frank Fenton of Salt Lake City, will visit here Friday. Mrs. Lorraine Loose and daurh ters, Sharon and Lindon. are here from Boulder City, Nev., to visit ner parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Corbett, for several weeks. Clarence Jones, Mauray Payne, waiter Hansen, worth Allred and Jerry Jones, all Provoans, who left here June 8 for "boot" training train-ing at the Great Lakes Naval Training station, in Illinois, have been home on leave to visit their parents and friends. All are in the radio technicians group, and will leave Thursday to return to Great Lakes. Chief Quartermaster Cliffoord E. Christensen, stationed at San Diego. Calif., and his brother Norman Nor-man V. Christensen, seaman first class, stationed at the Oakland Naval Supply depot, .are home on short leaves to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Christensen, 647 East Fourth South street Norman's wife and baby son are alsa in Provo. Robert Joe Harris, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B. Harris, is reported to be improving improv-ing at his home, 1085 East Second South, following a major opera tion at the Utah Valley hospital, Monday. Sfdto Tax Levy To Be Lowest In UfahyHistory SALT LAKE CITY. Aug. 9 (EE) A state property tax levy of leas than three mills, lowest in Utah's history, was forecast to day by capitol observers. The prediction was based on the certainty that there will be no levy for the general fund, leaving only three education levies to compute. Observers pointed out that the high school levy is fixed by law at .2 mills. They , believe the dis trict scnooi fund will oast 1.6 mills, and the equalization fund one mill, making a total of 2.8 mills or. slightly more. They attribute the low rate to increased income from other sources, highest rate in Utah's history was 10 mills, in 1034. Cooking School Boys Fete Mothers Reversing the usual procedure. boys of the Dixon high schoo: cooking classes prepared and serv ed breakfast to their mothers Wednesday morning at 10:30. Mrs. Viola M. Knudsen directed this program. Children of the Maeser and Memorial park playgrounds, winners win-ners in the recent sand-box contest, con-test, will have a picnic and party together Thursday at Memorial park. This party is given as a prize for the co-winners. The Dixon junior high school girls cooking classes will prepare a picnic lunch, then hike to North park to eat it, Friday. Mrs. Knudsen Knud-sen will be in charge. All of these activities are sponsored by the recreation department under the supervision of Miss Jessie Scho-field, Scho-field, director. Utah Artillery Men Play Part In Salpan, Tinian Conquest f Editor's Note: The exololta Ofl Utah artillerymen are detailed In the following delayed dispatch from Tinian, written by Richard w. Johnston, former night man ager of. the Salt Lake City bureau bu-reau of United Press and now a UP war correspondent Covering tne American advance towara Japan.) BY RICHARD W. JOHNSTON United Press War Correspondent TINIAN. July 27 iVSt) (Delayed) The marines pushing down the rolling hills of this garden island pause once in a while to glance back across the narrow blue strait toward Salpan and bless the mighty guns which for two weeks have been sowing destruction here. The day Saipan was secured the tireless artillerymen began turning their guns and Howitzers around to begin the reduction of Tinian, and the rapidity of the marine advance is proof enough of their effectiveness. Many battalions of artillery are vomiting explosive shells into the Tinian towns and valleys and chalk cliffs, but none has been in action longer or done more ef fective work than a 155ram How itzer outfit made up largely of Utah boys. This battalion was landed on Saipan when our beachhead there was still under Japanese fire, and in the long days and nights of the tortuous advance ' up Mt. Ta potchau. into Garapan and along the ridges of Marpi Point the Howitzers sent hundreds of shells screaming into the Jap positions which delayed the army and ma rine advance. Not only did the battalion support sup-port the infantry and clear its path, both here and on SaiDan it joined othlr units in answering and halting Japanese counter battery fire and its advance sur vey units had to brave Jap snip- era and machine gunners. Staff Sri. Kendall E Rasmuson, 25, of Provo, Utah, a section leader in the battalion's medical aid station, descrbied one incident which was typical of the battal ion s battles. "Two of our men had been shot and then pinned down in a cane field by Jap machine gun and rifle fire while surveying a new battery position," Rasmuson said. "With two members of my sec tion, Sgt. Sterling M. Cherrlngton, 24, also of Provo, and Cpl. Stan ley C. Searl. 27, of Pasadena. Cal., we started out to try and reach them and give them medical aid. "We got to the edge of the field but the Jap fire became in tense and we finally had to take shelter behind a Jap farm build ing. Other members of the medi cal station force attempted to approach from other directions. "The Japanese fire continued intense and during the afternoon two men were killed and four wounded trying to reach the pair trapped in tne field. When we finally got to them, both were dead." The Jap shellings from Tinian. were not effective and the battalion bat-talion lost no men to the Nip gunners. gun-ners. Rasmuson said, and his buddies bud-dies agreed, that the dirt, dust, occasional rain and necessity for prolonged "foxhole living" actually actual-ly were worse than the enemy threat. effective firing In support of the ground troops. Among the members still with the outfit, as far as known, are Major Ralph Morgan, executive battalion officer; Sgt. Paul D. Clark, Sgt. Lamar D. Eggertsen, S-Sgt. Bud Madsen, Corp. Ed. Bigler, Corp. Jack Scott, Sgt. Wilson Wil-son Madsen, Sgt. Kay Wood, Sgt. Ralph Winterton. Corp. Robert Stewart, Corp. Ted Hardy, Sgt Alton Peterson, S-Sgt. Kendall Rasmuson, Sgt. Sterling Cherring ton, Sgt. Grant Johnson, Sgt. Alton Meacham and Sgt. Earl Sorensen. The cadre of the United States Marine Corps includes 15 types of sergeant. Bound Over For District Court Leon Moore, SO, was charged with failure to provide for his four minor children and was bound over to the district court for trial, after a hearing in the city court Tuesday. Mrs. Moore, the defendant's divorced wife, who lives with the four children in Salem, signed the complain Moore was released on his recognizance. CHILD DROWNS IDAHO. FALLS. Ida., Aug. H UE Funeral arrangements were pending today for Ronald Obrey, 7, who drowned in the children's pool, Idaho Falls, yesterday. The butfit referred to above, is probably the 145th field artillery, which left Provo before Pearl Harbor to train at San Luis Obispo. Cal. and later stationed in the Hawaiian Islands. They made a fine showing in the Kwajalein invasion in the Marshalls campaign and the unit won a citation from the commanding general for their KBMrTAGE ter .buying extra war bonds TBEAf YOURSELF TO HERMITAGE Kentucky Scnifht&ubcaWfakkty Baavo ' Attend to important war duties t Then, as a simple way of reward-ing reward-ing yourself, treat yourself to this good Kentucky whiskey. National DisuUen Prod. Corp.,N.Y. 16 Proof SUGAR EXPERT COMING TO UTAH SALT LAKE CITY. Aug. 9 UP Dr. Robert C. Hockett, scientific scientif-ic director of sugar research foundation. foun-dation. Inc.. New York, and described des-cribed as one of the world's foremost fore-most sugar experts, will arrive tfi Salt Lake City Sunday, it was announced an-nounced today. - 11 1111 'I WG ps. Leave me out of it I'd rather skip any new car rush worse than a nylon stocking sale after War. More cars have already gone out of the running than ever were built any year! Howll everybody every-body get his new one overnight? J3ut I've come this far with my engine oil-plated, so I figure IH be all right. I'll just keep it safely ouPL4TED by staying with my good old friend Conoco Nf A motor oil. If you think you can beat it; okay. But remember, any engine - Is bound to have acids inside from every explosion. Therefore you'd risk too much grief from corro-Ekm, corro-Ekm, as I understand, except that oUtFLattng is made to check it. The cans of N' A oil tell you about a modern synthetic that does the oil-plating. You'd imagine it's kind of magmMfoed to working parts, making a protective surface to shed off acids, before the worst happens. Good thing you needn't wait for an oil-plated engine; you can have that whole improvement improve-ment now, using Conoco NM ofl. CONOCO TTOtf MOTOR OIL JET U7j v V 1 M ;'w: r g '-sK ) ' 4 '- " k W . i 1 1 ? 1 i V fc" U 'Lv V - - ' ' ' S'Vi "ik 4r f The women who wouldriir sit and wait It ISNT EASY to say "good-by"to the family, and to friends, and to nice long week ends. . It may not be natural for a woman to salute and stand at attention and say "Yes, sir". But ask any Wac if she'd change places with anyone any-one in the world and the answer would be "No!" For deep down inside, every Wac knows the enormous satisfaction of being truly useful at a time of critical need. The Wac spirit is a gallant spirit. The spirit of women who would rather be in the war, than sit ting and waiting for it to end. The Wac pride is an honest pride. In a job well done. In being part of the Army of the U. S. You really have to hand it to the women of the WAC... For they symbolize everything that is America He Ipmg wounded soldiers improve their vision Good soldiers... 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