Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-07-10 | Page 2 | Local Girl on Way Overseas to Operate Phones

i Local Girl on onWay onWay Way Overseas to 10 Operate Phones Mss Miss Mary Marshall daughter of ot Judge J J J. A. A Marshall and prominent prominent prominent prom prom- society girl of Salt Lake and Miss Emelie Emelle Lumpert who left left Salt Lake February 28 for service service service ice in France as telephone operators operators operators opera opera- tors sailed sailed from an eastern port this week according to information given out by Judge Marshall to today to- to I day As great secrecy surrounds the departure of all transports the ex exact exact exact ex- ex act date is not known but as Mrs Marshall l who has been with her her d daughter in the East Is on her herway herway way home Judge Marshall believes that his daughter sailed the first of or the week Mrs E. E M. M Mansfield l East Seventeenth South street with whom Miss Lumpert lived has re received received received re- re no information from the young young- woman since June 19 at which time she was expecting to sail at any moment Miss Lumpert was a telephone operator in the Walker Valker Bank building before her departure Miss Marshall has had no experience e Inthis in inthis inthis this line but when the government government govern govern- ment mont called for volunteer er telephone operators for overseas service Miss Marshall l applied at the local telephone telephone tele tele- I phone station for instruction After serving her apprenticeship she pa passed sed a severe examination and was acc accepted She has traveled trav tray cled extensively in Europe and is familiar with the French Frenc tongue