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Show Arnold Barney Gets Word Of New Baby Somewhere in the Pacific The 1 Marine father of the Utah baby ' whose name was chosen during ! the battle of Iwo Jima took the news of his third child's arrival ' with relative calmness, i Almost one minute after mail ' call recently a wild shriek rang ! through the tents of the Third Mrs. John Barney nf , First West street f.1JH, Corporal Kunkei " tive godfather wasYi Ptfe a bit by the ar 0 had predicted that h sifl'-Robert, sifl'-Robert, would have ? come president meay.' "By the time Jeanie he said, after u T1 i young lady's arrival 0! ' a woman president i House." n lf; Marine Division's Ninth Regiment area. "Hey, fellas!'' shrieked Marine Corporal Arnold A. Barney of 540 South 4th East street, Springville. "9 pounds!" "What's 9 pounds?" growled a big leatherneck, "those biscuits we had this morning?" "No. My kid, my kid," shouted the 24-year-old corporal, waving his letter under the noses of five Marines. I "And it's a girl. Jeanie. I've got j a perfect family now." I Then they got the idea, and 1 crowded around Barney trying to read the letter waving shakily in his hand. All were members of the unit which, across foxholes near Mo-toyama Mo-toyama Airstrip No. 2 on Iwo Jima, had held a contest one evening eve-ning to name Barney's expected child. Between the burst of mortar shells and the singing of sniper's bullets they had settled upon Robert Rob-ert for a boy and Jean for a girl. Robert hadbeen the selection of Marine Corporal Robert Kunkei of Auburn, N. Y., and his leathery lungs rising above the battle's blast also helped Father Barney win with Jean in case the stork delivered a young lady, which it did. "I wanted a girl because I have two boys and a girl makes it just perfect," Barney said. "Boy, am I, happy now!" Announcement of the baby's a'r-rival a'r-rival came to this base in a let-1 ter from the corporal's mother, |