Show gur joli job i 19 to dollars buy war B bonds ads i 4 lvery every P pay y day I 1 DALE REX DOES GREAT RESCUE JOB editors note dale rex son of mr and mrs samuel rex of randolph and all conference basketball center at the brigham young university is a war hero it is indicated in the following dispatch to the detroit news by its war correspondent john M carlisle some michigan boys boya were talking about the man from utah they said he was a terrific soldiering gent so there anything else to do but get in the jeep peggy oneill III with corp wilford J baragrey 23 years old of detroit arid and start looking tor for him 1 dale rex is a now sergeant ile he was EL a private that night when he was so busy helping the wounded soldiers who swim across the moselle river that it never occurred to him that one word described his unselfishness under enemy fire the word heroism pat rex had only been 13 days under fire when the orders came that night for the yank force to get back on the west bank of the moselle because its mission had been accomplished rex a former star basketball player for BYU is a giant of a man he stands six feet seven inches in his GI socks he once weighed pounds but rigors of war have reduced him to a mere pounds he was an ammunition carrier for a machine gun that night now he is a ful fledged machine gunner he had gotten across the river in the last boat then he looked back over the 75 yards of deep water he took a long long look ile he knew wounded were lying in to fox holes on tho the other side he knew some soldiers who not swim were over there he knew lt ross W stanley of new york a good swimmer had stayed there refusing to leave his men he know 4 it then but corp king who could ot v swim was on the other side so this utah private with the shells talling falling all around just stripped clothes and got into EL a boat he paddled in the darkness and saw another boat floating by with no one in it so he dived into the moselle and pulled it to his boat and towed it across some of the men cheered the soldier who swim put th the e wounded v in first pat rex made tour four trips on one trip he he salvaged another boat on the nex next t trip back to the east bank it sank under him due to shell holes on the last trip the soldiers were taken back A mere handful of them hem lt stanley was the last man to leave eave cal king and pat both g got ot back in those boats heck said tile the man from utah 1 I give it much thought our boys wre over there and I 1 decided they needed a hand all al but I 1 sure that night it was hard bard work paddling those boats the shells lit close and the water was cold mgt rex said it was a good thing I 1 was a good swimmer he had been a swimming instructor for or the navy before he be joined the army he did say in his modest way that he felt repaid the wounded me men n were very grateful lying in their litters several of them held out their hands and shook the hand of dale rex when they were being carried to safety on the other bank you could tell by the glint in mgt rex reas Is eyes that he would rather have had those handshakes than a dozen medals bleke everi PAY DAY WAR BOND DAY top savl SAVE |