Show Utah Engineer Carries Ice in Japanese Camp Herman Wilcox Burton who was graduated in 1926 from the University of Utah as a mining engineer is now an iceman in a Japanese internment camp at Manila according to the first direct word in in t two vo years ears received Thursday by his father H. H K Burton superintendent of Salt Lake City waterworks The long silence on exact whereabouts and safety of his son law daughter and their three children was vas broken by a letter in H Hermans Herman's handwriting the fa father father father fa- fa ther reported The triple censored censored cen cen- communication is believed to have reached this country on the international prisoner prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner exchange ship It confirms a radio report received by H H. 1 K Burton in inJune June from Tokyo Try to communicate with us through the Red Cross read Herman's Hermans Hermans Herman's Hermans Herman's Her Her- mans man's appeal to his father Ware We W Weare Weare are all fine fine Since t the e middle of May 1943 weve we've all be ben been n together We reside in ina a grass shack I am camp iceman part of of the time and family laundryman n between the theother theother theother other duties Mr Burton was was employed as s an the GoldMine company a British firm in Baguio when the Philippine islands were captured by the Japanese The former Salt Sat Lakers are are now at Santo Tomas as one time one time site of a university Mrs Mrs' Burton was formerly Alice Be Beck lc of Bakersfield Cal Roger 10 Michael 6 and Mary Frances 3 ire are their children The Internees fath father r said his unconfirmed information is that his bis daug daughter h law daughter ter- ter law and gran grandchildren grandchildren dren for a times time after the family was was wa made prisoner were compelled to reside to-reside reside at a different point in Manila The veteran water engi engineer engineer en en- gi eer was overjoyed to learn the family has been reunited and is well |