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Show mm Mil CAMP KrMY TOPIC j Contest for Championship New Year's Is Chief Center Cen-ter of Interest. MEN VISIT SAN DIEGO City Holiday Headquarters; Many Salt Lake People Among Visitors. . By STAPF CORK E S P 0 NDEN1 CAMP KEARNY, Oil., Per. 30. Thft holidays have arrived again at Camp Kearny and the huge cantonment presents pre-sents the appearance of a largo city suddenly sud-denly evacuated by all people. Today was probably the most uneventful ono since the arrival of the Utuh lads here . for training and, besides tho movemoin.p-of movemoin.p-of the guards on their posts, there was practk-ally no activity. The Utah boys are scattered .over southern California with San Dieo getting get-ting more than its share of visitors. It appears as if the Utah camp had suddenly sud-denly been transferred to San Diego, with Its headquarters at the San Diego hotel, where the majority of the artillerymen and their parents, relatives and friends from the Beehive state are staying. The Utah people here have been fln$ with the enthusiasm, which Is at fevrr heat at present, over tho coming football struggle between the Utah warriors and the navy eleven for the championship of southern California.. This will be decided Now Year's day at the San Dlogo stadium. sta-dium. Manv of thorn had arranged io stay only during tho Christmas holidays. However, How-ever, the wonderful Interest In the coming game, which Is now the whole subject of conversation In San Diego, has inspired in-spired them to remain and witness the famous Beehive team in action in tho biggest game of the year. Visiting Relatives. Among the prominent Utart people who will attend the Utah-Navy game are Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. King, parents of Creighton ("Pat") King, Utah center, who in the previous game was the keystone key-stone of the team. "Pat" Is just recovering recover-ing from illness and will be unable to play in tlie coming contest. Mr. and Mrs. Ashby Snow will also be Interested witnesses wit-nesses of the game. Others who will attend are E. L. Thomas, Mr. a.nd Mrs. M. P. Morris, J. E. Young, Joseph Gcog-hegan, Gcog-hegan, D. H. Livingston. R. W. Madsen. Mrs. J. P. Burton, J. P. Bransford and Mr. and Mrs. Nevis Evans. Practically all of the cw Zcer of the regiment have their homes in San Diogo or La Jolla and are spending the holidays there. It Is expected that they will all attend the game, together with tne majority ma-jority of the enlisted men, who are scattered scat-tered around the ocean resorts. Watch night parties and services at f each of the five Young Men's Christian Jf association houses adjoining the parade j!? grounds at camp will be the feature of the New Year's eve programme after the big community celebration at "Y" No. Z, in the e arly part of the e ven i n g. Tlie serial hour will start at 10 o'clock and will be followed at 11 o'clock by a watch night Bervice. Churches Are Hosts. Members and pastors of San Diego churches will be present to help entertain the boys and conduct the services. The Utah men will gather at Young Men's Christian association hall No. 2, which is the building used by the Sixty-filth brigade. j Major General Frederick S. Strong, divisional commander, granted permission for tlie holding of tho parties and services, serv-ices, and every manwho attends Is assured as-sured a good time. I&freshments will be served and each man has been requested to take his own cup "empty." The Young Men's Christian association officials and the church members liave promised to do the rest. Mrs. R. B. Spangler and her niece, Roho Milter, are liere and will remain during the holidays. Mrs. Spangler has a son, Ralph, with E battery. Sergeant Thomas Kearns, son of former for-mer Senator Kearns of Utah, has now fully recovered from his illness and has returnPd from Los Angeles, where ho was visiting his father. Sergeant Kearns has passed his tests for the aviation corps and expects to be called into the flying service within the next two weeks. |