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Show JC l.L C i,I C !, 1 1 . .Uil )J.l. IjClu.IU.L (j .i.J.V.1. V .J...U .i..i.l!.iLl A. Campaign Launched to Enlist Women In Four War Services Utah Council Of Defense Sponsors Parade And Show To Recruit Women Of State, Thereby Delaying Induction Of Essential War Workers Probably the greatest aggregation of nationally known figures in the amusement world, will be in Springville Monday, May 15 as a Dart of a statewide tour of 26 days, including; 46 cities, towns and communities, it was announced today. to-day. To promote enlistment in the Women's forces in order to delay as long as possible the induction of fathers and heads of families in Utah, to keep essential agricultural agricul-tural workers on the farms and essential industrial workers in their plants, women are conducting conduct-ing a drive for enlistmnt into the WACS, WAVES, SPARS, and the MARINES. Every armed service is cooperating in the campaign. For every woman enlisted, a man. will be released for service. A full hour's fine open-air show will hp nresfinted at 1:00 t. m.. at Memorial Hall, to which everyone is invited. The program will include in-clude the nationally famous Fort Douglas band, presented through the courtesy of Colonel Samuel White, commanding officer. The bandmaster is Warrant Officer G. D. Montgomery, formerly with the Elliott Roosevelt Texas State Network. Net-work. The master of cremonies is Cpl. Red Thompson, former band leader. Among the nationally famous fa-mous artists, many of whom appear ap-pear in special numbers are: TSgt. Torger Halten, trumpet, Blue Network, Hollywood; Sgt. Ol-lie Ol-lie Hantack, drums, Ted Lewis' band; Sgt. Bill Kaylor, trumpet, Joe Reichman's orchestra; Sgt. Ed Kerchner, accor d i o n, National Broadcasting Co.; Sgt. Clark Smith, trombone, George Hamilton's Hamil-ton's ochestra; Cpl. Christian Con-ney, Con-ney, sax, Jan Garber; Cpl. Hymie Gunkler, trumpet, Kay Kyser; Cpl. Bill Treadwell, drums, NBC; Pfc. Vernon. Arslon, trumpet, Al Donahue; Dona-hue; Pfc. Clyde Dale, sax, Jack Teagarden; Pfc. Tony Di Misco, sax, Ben Pollack; Pfc. Lee Scott, Woody Herman. Marine Sergeant Sidney Curry, a native of Illinois, and much decorated dec-orated hero of the world war, will be in attendance. Sergeant Curry, only 24, took part in the two earliest battles of the South Pacific, Tulagi Bay and Guadalcanal, the battles th a t started the United States on its march back to the Philippines. He fought heroically in both battles but came through unscathed. Then he took part in the bloodiest of all, the battle of Tarawa Bay where Marines were forced to wade to shore directly into murderous fire of Japanese machine guns the battle where U. S. casualties were heaviest. Like so many others, Sergeant Curry was wounded in that battle and invalided back to the United States. For his heroic action he was awarded two presidential citation and the order of the Purple Heart. Lt. Richard L. Hendee, of the U. S. Army, is master of ceremo-n.ipa ceremo-n.ipa nf the rnravnn show, and ac- companying the group, in addition to sixteen units of ordnance and other equipment, are women of the armed forces themselves who will visit with the local people. They are: Pvt. Emily M. Craddock and Cpl. Sally Miller of the WACS Lt. Margaret L. Steelhead. WAC officer; offi-cer; Yeoman 2c Clara B. Joiner and .Yeoman 3c Gladys Gilles-hammer, Gilles-hammer, SPARS; officer, Jean Richards, Ensign, SPAR; Staff Sgt. Bette Cium. and Sgt. Lila Shaffer, MARINES; Yeoman 2c Maudie Mathews, and Sp. 1c Betty Bet-ty Jo Allen, of the WAVES. The caravan will include also utility trucks with displays of ordnance ord-nance weapons, utility tucks, platforms, plat-forms, station wagons from all services, staff cars, jeeps, amphibious amphib-ious jeeps, trailer recruiting trucks, sound equipment, motion picture trucks, and other equipment. equip-ment. The caravan includes approximately ap-proximately fifty-five membrs of the armed forces and from one to three civilians, all members of the representatives of the Utah Council Coun-cil of Defense. |