Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 15 | Giving Instruction on Browning Guns

gib mm 1 OH Bill GUIS OGDEN. Aug. 17. Sergeant Jonathan S, Browning, son of Mayor T. Samuel Browning and nephew of John M. Browning, Brown-ing, inventor of the machine guns now in use in th3 American army in France, is teaching the Tanks, French Poilus and Tommies how to use the machine guns to secure the best results. He is a member of the aero squadron, in which he enlisted fifteen months ago. He made several flights in America before ifoing overseas and has done scout work for the army over there. The old saving that a Browning Is taught the rudiments of firearms before he can walk is true in the case of Jonathan, Jona-than, who has known almost since infancy in-fancy how to take firearms of many kinds apart and reassemble them in short time. He is also an adept automobile auto-mobile and gas motor mechanic, having served for many years as machinist and demonstrator in the Browning auto stores and shops in Ogden and Salt Lake. The young man enlisted in the army when America entered the war, April 6, 1917, at Salt Lake, and during the time he was stationed at Ft. Douglas he aided in recruiting work. He came to Ogden with a party of army officials in May, 1917, and addressed an open-air meeting at the city hall park, exhorting the young townsmen to "get in" early and avoid the rush. After two months at Fort Douglas, Mr. Browning was sent to Kelly Field for training in the aviation. After four months at the Texas camp he was transferred trans-ferred to Illinois, where he made one or two long-distance flights, Before going to France he was promoted to sergeant after being a corporal but a short time. In a letter to his father Browning sent a snapshot picture taken "somewhere in France."