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Show News from Our People In the Armed Services By MABEL JAR VIS Kenneth Charles Heme from War Foster Charles of the Shevwit Reservation figures this is a pretty pret-ty good world after all, since his son Pfc. Kenneth Charles arrived Saturday from extended military service in England, France and Germany. Pfc. Charles says he's had too many experiences in this war to try to relate them. He is happy to have a 30 day furlough and hopes he will be given honorable honor-able discharge before long. His brother, Pvt. Peterson Charles, who has had extensive overseas service, is still at Fort Slocum, New York, but hopes for a furlough fur-lough sometime in January. n ts n Dilworth Ostenson Arrives Home SSgt. Dilworth Ostenson arrived arriv-ed recently after nearly three years service in Europe, and will years service in Europe, and by December will have had several years in military service. He is with the 85th Division and has seen action in all of the major Italian campaigns, since going into campaigns, since going into Europe. His brother SSgt. Clair Ostenson Osten-son was in Normandy when he wrote last but hopes to be back in the United States before many weeks. Both boys are sons of Phillip Ostenson of St. George. S R R Allen Too Clever for Own Good Just too bad for Cpl. Allen Reusch that he learned a little Japanese while he was stationed in New Guinea, because now they need his help in Japan, and he won't be home for a few months even though he had plenty of points for discharge when V-J Day came. "Taint fair" says Mrs. Reusch, who with her small daughter, Jane, has awaited her husband's return several weeks. Ra sa Fa "By the time you receive this letter I will be on my way home" wrote Cpl. Bliss S. Jarvis on Sept. 18 from Panama to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Jarvis, of St. George. He has been in uniform almost four years, having served 18 months in the Aleutians before going to Panama. He anticipates discharge on his arrival at Fort Douglas. Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis also had word Friday from their son, George Jarvis, who has spent the past three years on a research assignment in connection with the War effort at Cambridge, Mass., serving most of 1944 in Italy in structing the airmen in the use of the gadgets they have perfected. perfect-ed. He has now been released and is back at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, to complete requirements for his Doctor's Degree De-gree in Science. Ka ta 3 Among the first 15 of the 1600 U. S. doctors returned to the United States last week from Europe to help relieve the shortage here, was Capt. Alma H. Cottam, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cottam, St. George and husband hus-band of Naomi Melville Cottam, who with their two small sons, Stephen and Bruce live in Salt Lake City. Captain Cottam arrived ar-rived 'in New York last Thursday and will reach Fort Douglas this week. He has been overseas two years with the medical detachment detach-ment of the 9th Air Service Command Com-mand and served in England until after D-Day, and since then in France, Belgium and Germany. pa pa Lt. Col. Howard Cannon left on Friday for San Francisco, where he will visit his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Don Carlos Car-los Schmutz and small son. He will return by way of Flagstaff. |