Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 24 | Three Utah Boys Killed Two Others are Injured

THREE UTAH BOYS KILLED; TWO OTHERS" ARE lNj"uREE) TWO Utah soldiers killed in Tnince and one Salt Lake City j, wodnded marine. Top, left, Charles Densley of Bluffdale; j; riffht, Leon Haws of Mammoth; bottom, Carl Elof Johnson, ma- j rine, of Salt Lake, .shot twice in arm on western front in France. j . i i C ) u ' V -r 'Aft s v Is W !ll 1 i 1 1 J lf I s iK.sx- --' - ! t$x it) t ? " x ' ' . . K -if I Leon Haws of Mammoth and Charles Densley of Bluffdale Dead. Casualty reports, official and unofficial, unoffi-cial, received yesterday in Salt Lake, tell of the death of three Utah boys, the wounding in action of one and the accidental blinding of still another. Leon Haws, son of Mrs. A. B. Haws of 215 West Fifth South street of Salt-Lake, Salt-Lake, and grandson of Mrs. "VV. H. Greene of Silver City in the Tintic district, dis-trict, was killed in action in France on the front July 21, according to word received by his mother from the war department. He was boru in Mammoth. Mam-moth. He was just over the draft age and went to Camp Lewis, Wash., with the national army contingent September Septem-ber IS, 1917. He arrived in France in July. No word had been heard from the time of his leaving until word of his death was received. He has a brother in France, William G. Haws, who is with an engineer regiment. Leon Haws was serving; with a machine gun company at the time of his death. Charles Densley of Riverton was killed in action in France July 21, according ac-cording to the official casualty report of this morning. He was 25 years of age, and went into the national army, leaving Salt Lake November 3. He first went to Camp jwis, and was transferred to an embarkation port in New Jersey. He landed in Lngland Christmas day, and two weeks later was over the channel in France. He was iu many engagements, according to letters let-ters written his grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Densley of Bluffdale, with whom he lived, his" parents both being dead. Memorial services will be held in the Bluffdale ward chapel this afternoon at 2 o 'clock. ' William C. Morris, reported killed in a recent casualty list, which gavo his address as Fort Lauderdale. Fla.. is the son of Mr. and Jdrs. Charles I. Morris. The family moved to Salt Lake some vears ago from Qjreeley, Idaho, and lived here four or tive years on Sixth South street and also on the west side. The father was employed by the Sam Sh'arman Automobile company. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Johnson of 321 Xorth Main street were surprises yesterday yes-terday to receive a letter from their son. Carl LTof Johnson, a United States marine, in which he stated that he had been twice wounded in the arm by machine gun bullets on June 2o. The parents had received no previous notice of the injnrv to their son. Johnson enlisted en-listed in the marines June 5, 1917. lie trained at Mare Island, Cal.. and Quan-tico. Quan-tico. Va. Three weeks after his arrival in France he went into the fighting zone. He was working for the Oregon thort line in Idaho when war was de-cia de-cia red. Mrs. Toeo C. Brooks, 333 East Third South street, a.-tively engaged in Red Cross work in this city, received word vesterday that her son. Sydney C. Brooks, who enlisted in the army scleral scl-eral months ago, but who was recently employed in the government shipbuilding shipbuild-ing vards at San Francisco, had been' hurt" accidentally, the injury affecting both eves. Mrs. Brooks left for the coast last evening.