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Show News from Our People In the Armed Services Anyhow, They'll Do German typewriters are good machines, says T-'Sgt Neil Adams, who hurriedly borrowed one early this month to write a few lines home to his wife, Elizabeth C. Adams. He is where things are happening rapidly and says he has collected some very interesting souvenirs. In August he sent two pair of wooden shoes and an enemy medical kit from somewhere some-where in France. m s Sgt. Wayne Vance's Letters Having had the privilege of reading several letters recently from Sgt. Wayne Vance, s6n of Mr. and Mrs. John Vance, formerly for-merly of St. George and now of Long Beach, makes one wish every indivdual on the home front could have access to these or similar letters giving the service man's angle on a number of subjects. sub-jects. Sgt. Vance is now in New Guinea and serves on the supply lines. He admits having to take a. lot of ribbing from the frontline front-line men, whom he really envies for several reasons, but he does know the importance even to them, of the smooth working supply sup-ply line. He was there when supplies sup-plies were short, and is grateful that this part of the picture is rapidly changing, though the road is still long and tough. He says the boys out there are generally tolerant with each other and with the war program, but they have, some very definite cen-ture cen-ture for the men in vital war production plants back home, who strike for pay increases, often, as happened at Wewah, causing the loss of hundreds of lives because the necessary equipment and supplies sup-plies fail to arrive. This makes a $60 per month soldier really boil, he admits, knowing the salaries being paid plant workers. The usual severity of Army officering of-ficering is tempered by understanding under-standing in the jungle warfare, he says, when a new man comes along with more acid tactics than his job requires, he soon gets his wires uncrossed, when he sees what the boys there have suffered and are still enduring. He's also seeing the workout of the furlough fur-lough program, and says he will be glad when his turn comes in six or seven months. And "thanks ! to the Yanks" the malaria situ-1 ation is under control and the program is progressing. Miss Dorothy Gregerson is here; from Salt Lake City visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Gregerson. |