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Show THE ‘Hansens Receive VOX POPULI By NEWS HOUND After seeing Carl Adams’ SEAGULL Saturday, December 11, 1948 They Strive To Avenge Pearl Harbor Letter From Son ine story last issue of how blood do- nations were the means of having his life after Pearl Harbor and talking to various other persons who have benefitted from such donations, your In Prison Camp inquiring reporter became interested in finding out how many NSD employes would like to give their blood to blood banks for use by the Army and Navy, provided facilities could be set up in this area for taking donations. Here are some of the answers. “I personally believe almost everyone would be happy to give his blood if he could,’’ declared » Mrs. Thelma | Eggett of Boun- tiful. Mrs. Eggett is a Clark driver and has been working at the Navy depot for the past nine months. ; Her husband is ~a Union Pacific fcar man and she has four Mr. and Mrs. Les Hansen, both employed by the Public Works department, received their most valued Christmas present last week, when a letter arrived from their son Lieut. Boyd S. Hansen of the U. S. Army, now a prisoner of war in Manchukuo concentration camp. Just a year ago at Christmas time, the Hansens received word from the war depaitment that their son, who had been reported missing in action, was a prisoner of the Japanese government. However, this is the first letter which has been received from |him since he was captured at Corregidor in May of 1942. His wife, a civil service employe at Manila, was captured by the Japanese December 30, 1941, and no word has been received from her since that time. Mrs. Hansen states that her son seemed in high spirits when he wrote the letter. He cauchildren. tioned his Dad to ‘“‘keep his chin Charles Huckaby, assistant storekeeper thought your re- up,’’ and said he would soon be home to help him hunt andfish. porter was leadHe added that ‘‘living conditions ing up to a gag are not so bad once you become when he was accustomed to them.’’ asked the quesThe Hansens have three lieu- | tion of the tenants in the service. The other week. But once two are at Arizona and Florida. he was convinced the ques-) tion was on the “Here you go, out to some lad level, Charles who’s waiting, declaredhe God speed you.’’ The man slowly would be glad rose, to donate his blood. A native: oo He’d been down on his knees for a moment, of Springville, Missouri, Charles spends his recreation time danc- At the endless labor which goes Into packing the million fraging and going to shows. ments “T’d be glad to put in my two pints worth,’”’ paraphrased Miss Which make up the mighty tide Belle Buchanan, a storekeeper, That goes out day and night from the homeland sat : ‘hen added serships iously that she To wherever our grey ride. was all for it and believed * most other em- God Speed you. The words softly spoken ployes would be Werelost in the bedlam of noise too. Before com- ‘God Speed You ing to NSD on As he meant they should be. But I wonder ... June 1, Belle worked in a Strange tales have come back drug store in the home town —Tremonton by : (er name. She likes anything in the way of sports, especially simming and roller skating. With two brothers in the Navy, one of which was at Pearl Harbor, Miss Pearl Pomeroyof Ogden would be ‘“‘more than happy”’ to donate her blood to wounded 4 servicemen. She: pointed out that. numerous peo - ple volunteered gm their blood for § ® the Turner boy this summer. and expressed. the opinion that employes would. way Amongthose at Clearfield Naval Supply Depotwho were in the midst of the Pearl Harbor attack were: First row, left to right: Fred L. Brame, pharmacist mate z/e; Lt. (jg) Rosella Nesgis (NC) USN; G. A. Bowler, chief signalman; Carl V. Adams, now a civilian employe at NSD; Walter Lynch, yeoman 2/c. Second row, James E. : Jarrell, yeoman 2/c; Homer Metzger, 1/c. Third row, seaman 1/c; Roy Husong, machinist, 1|c; Robert K. Gaisford, storekeeper e 0 r Ernest Love, marine sergeant; H. A. Mattson, marine corporal; geant. Fireman Describes Reaction Of People At Jap Sneak Attack amazing,’’ declares Fireman Joe Werner in describing the Jan sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, which he experienced that event- ful December 7. announcement by the Navy de- partment recently that wives of Navy men may now join the WAVES. Scores of wives of Navy men serving at home and have made port again make service with the Navy a family affair for the duration. God speed you! The crates and the boxes Which are packed with a whispered word! They go out to our ships on the seven seas And such prayers do not go unheard. wives again! The to donate blood | Lost And to the Army and Navy. Pearl came to the depot last April and LOST white gold emMr. is esinter- set and with Found having initials TS ruling, applies midshipmen, to warrant cers, and enlisted men of the the attack on Joe Werner, an ex-Marine who was employed by navy contractors at Midway during the time of the attack wounded while his father, also in the navy, and his mother a civilian nurse, were fatally wounded from falling bombs. Mr. Adams was released from the navy last August and today is still dcing his bit at the depot. The other naval personnel who time of the dastardly and after, who assisted Brame, he is a memberof Post 104, Regular at the Navy vard manning ma- blood banks is little enough pay- ment for our part in the price of freedom,’ fireman. asserts the NSD Mr. Werner worked at the dryattack in the docks and at Ford Island and at Queens Hospital and the em- ergency stations should have the matching highest praise we can give,’ four with table chairs. Call at 35 Hill Villa continues Mr. Werner. ‘‘No one in Layton or contact H. A. who has not actually experiBuick of Engineering depart- enced such things can realize pharmacists mate 2/c, at naval hospital in Pearl Harbor; and Homer Metzger. seaman 1/c, aboard U. S. S. Pennsylvania. Each of these men saw action against the Japanese. As usual the Marines were in the thick of the fight with Ernest Love, Marine sergeant....cboard the US. Sst. -bouls:.c nil O’Brien. Marine sergeant, and H. A. Mattson, Marine corporal LOST strand of pearls. Return work and who gave their blood was assigned to the air corps to Helen Boothe at Disbursing to save the lives of the wounded at Hickam Field for voluntary office. after Pearl Harbor. Navy. Wives of commissioned officers may still not enlist in the WAVES, but as formerly WAVES may marry Navy men are out to even the score with after completing their basic the Japs include: G. A. Bowler, training. chief signalman, on U. S. S. '|Trever; Roy Husong, machinist 1/e, aboard U. S. S. Helena; Robert K. Gaisford, storekeeper 1/c, aboard U. S. S. Nevada; | Welcome back to Mrs. Eula James E. Jarrell, yeoman 2/c, | Clark of the mimeograph department. Mrs. Clark has been re- aboard U.S. S. Enterprise; Walter Lynch, yeoman 2/c, Aboard cuperating from an accident for U--S. ~S..> Maryland; Frea-lL. was returning to Wake Island the past three months. en- years ago. “The people and the servicemen and women who were present on the Isle of Oahu at the FOR SALElight oak dining room the last two years. Miss Nesgis chief nurse .at Clearfield, worked night ang day in the naval ‘Welcome Back JOE WERNER wrist watch when the Japs bombed Pearl four blue sapphires Harbor and Hickam Field «wo graved on the back. Return to Mrs. Edith Harding of automotive spares department. Re ward. new of officers, non-commissioned offi- Mr. Werner was employed by —Ruby Carmen the naval contractors on Midway Islands in 1940 and ’41 and given a chance | fought the enemy constantly for and later at Pearl Harbor, is now a memberof the fire department at the depot. Carl V. abroad are expected to take adAdams, radioman on the battlevantage of the new ruling and ship Oklahoma, was severely The days won’t be too long, for most Wives Of Navy Men May Now Join Waves Family ties scored a victory hospital If we who work for the Navy in D-7 is “all for it’? and believes that would be the reaction Continue Fight Against Japanese over naval regulations with the Are worthy of our fighting men, is now secretary to the labor foreman. Marvin A. Wickre, storekeeper NSD Personnel WhoSaw Pearl Harbor When they’d been given up in despair. if. marine ser- Two years after the infamous Pearl Harbor attack the above “It was hard to realize that group arestill fighting the Japs. They were at Pearl Harbor and we were actually being attacked are nowstationed ov employed at the rapidly growing Clearfield but after it happened the calm- Naval Supply Depot. a err ness of the participants was >» Each of these people has from our boys — Not only of planes that have some how “Come™ in “on “a wing and a prayer,”’ But of ships and of men who we'll work with a song Until our boys come back home and Phil O’Brien, emergency military service while in Hawaii. An ex-Marine -Veterans association of Honolulu. chine guns as well as assisting Joe’s from Missouri but likes with removal of debris after the the helpless feelings of an un- the people and country here and raids. ment. eral hospital in armed and insufficiently pro- expects to make Ogden his perDenver. Before and Wearever salesman in Web- tected population.”’ manent home. Very fond ot LOST small oblong watch with coming to NSD ster, South Dakota. His wife is “What we can do to help our hunting and fishing, he regrets gold elastic band. Return to ; n4a year ago, Mr. Mrs. Violet Wickre of the In- service men and women by buy- the absence of catfish in Utah’s Electa Veeman, storehouse Wickre was a Fuller brush man spection Report section. ing war bonds and giving to the waters. E-9. |