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Show News from the Washington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts j It Is Sergeant Madsen Now i The family of Miss Vclma Mad- j sen were advised over the week J end of her recent promotion to i the rank of Sergeant. This is 1 really making progress, as Miss 1 Madsen has been in the service H only since March 8 of this year. Stationed first at Des Moines, 1 Iowa, training school, she com- H Pleted the preliminary require- j ments in less than the usual time j and was transferred April 15 to 1 Camp Lee, Va., where she is still J located and is now secretary of H the chief headquarters company, 1 WAAC, personal division. Her work, she says, is thrilling, but j she is looking forward to the pos- j sible August furlough and a visit J in Dixie. i rw f -. " Pfc Buryl Lee Writes 1 A short V-Mail letter from Pfc. i Buryl E. Lee states that he has 4 recently been under hopsitalization J w'th a fractured right wrist re- ceived when he fell from a tractor. His arm is still in a cast but rapidly improving. Kc. Lee has written several interesting letters to the News and calls attention at this time to the fact that Hawaii leads the Nation in the sale of Bonds. pi la Pa Transferred to Ft. Ord Sgt Everett K. Dotson, husband of the former Ferril Prisbrey of Washington, was transferred recently re-cently to the military cooks and bakers school at Fort Ord, Calif., as an instructor. S-t Dotson was Mess Sergeant of the Second Army Sig. Bn Co. ?B for the past year. Mrs Dotson will remain with her husband at Monterey for the present. pa !&a Pvt. Bentley Wins Honors It's nice going for Pvt. Maxwell Bentley, son of Mr. and Mrs. W . O Bentley of St. George, who won honors as" "best shot" in a recent argct PC ;S Training Bn., at C Even though he had lost his Klasscs. on which he has depended fnr vcars, Max scored with lo out of a possible 200 ots wh.ch (Continued on page four) Hews from the Yashington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts (Continued from first page) hail to ' dipped off at different distances at t lie rate of ei'ht in '.',: seconds. Since he was old enough to take in the deer hunt, Max has been a better than fair marksman, and this Jit l If piece of good luck on his first military target practice makes him feel pretty good. r.i r i ri I.icut linu-ken Visits Here With just, a seven-day furlough at their disposal, Second Lieut, and Mrs. Ilamblin Bracken could allow themselves only 48 hours for visiting in St. George with Mrs. Bracken's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Jennings. They were Accompanied by their sister, Mrs. I'.UUm Lang, who has been visiting with her husband in Kansas City, Kan. Mr. Lang is now a Pfc. and is taking a course in airplane mechanics. me-chanics. The Brackens left Tuesday Tues-day for Camp Maxey, Texas. n n rs Stanley Schimitz Moves Moving around seems to be the general program thus far handed out to Stanley Schmutz, who is in the Army air corps. First he was at Sheppard Field, Texas, Then back to Arkansas, then at Sanla Ana, and now he is in Ellington El-lington Field, Texas. This is all right with Stanley, so long as he is accomplishing what is expected. According to his last letter (home, he had a real thrill last week when several relatives in cluding Mr. and Mrs. Marcel. Schmutz, their son, Ervin and "wife and daughter, and Mr. anc Mrs. Elmer Cox and baby called to see him. Mrs. Cox is a daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Schmtuz, and they had just taken her and her baby to Texas recently to be near her husband who also is in the air corps. Irwin is in that area in govern-'mcnt govern-'mcnt forest service work. Sort of makes one feel he isn't so far from home when he can have a visit from that many relatives and liave dinner with them. Pa Id Sa Completes Tre-fllght Training llalvor K. Jones, son of Mrs. T-Catio Aiifnsnn was one of seven boys from Utah' included in the latest class to complete pre-flight training for pilots at San Antonio aviation cadet center. With the completion of his pre-flight pre-flight training, Cadet Jones will go to a primary school, where he will be given flight training which, if satisfactorily completed, will lead to an assignment as a pilot in the Army air force. fa P3 rS Arrives In Colorado Pfc. Milton R. Nelson, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Nelson of St. George, has arrived on the campus of Colorado State College of Education at Greeley,, where he has been assigned to the training train-ing detachment of the U. S. Army an- 101-ces cecnmcai training command. com-mand. Before he entered the Army air forces, Pfc. Nelson was employed by the J. C. Penney company of St. George, Utah, as a clerk. He attended Dixie high school and Dixie junior college and the B.Y.U. at Provo. For eight weeks while he is stationed sta-tioned at Greeley, Pfc. Nelson will undergo intensive clerical training which will fit him for further duties with the Army air forces. At the conclusion of his training train-ing here, Pfc. Nelson will receive a diploma presented by the commanding com-manding officer of the detachment. detach-ment. He also will receive a certificate cer-tificate from the President of the , Colorado, State College of Educa-k Educa-k tion.t vPrior to his call he had entered and been in the reserves. He was called to active duty in April, when he went to Atlantic City. fa fa Graduates from Marine Corps Pvt. Dale G. Covington of St. George, was recently graduated from the United States Marine Corp radio operators school at San Diogo. Calif. This 17-year-old youth, son of Mrs. Viva J. Covington, expects to be assigned to duty with a signal sig-nal battalion of a combat organization organ-ization for further training. Pa Pa Arrives At I're-FIight School Edward K. Iverson, of Washington, Washing-ton, is included in the group of aviation cadets that reported at the Navy pre-flight school, Del Monte, Calif., last week for three months of rigorous physical training train-ing as their first step toward becoming be-coming pilots. After successful completion of his course here. Cadet Iverson will be graduated to a primary training train-ing base for additional ground school work and flight training. Pa Pa Py Aux. Miekelson Assigned Auxiliary Alice Marie Miekelson of Middleton, has reported to the Army air forces' largest navigation naviga-tion school at Hondo Army air field, Hondo, Texas, for her first duty assignment as a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Aux. Miekelson, daughter of Mr. and Mis. Edward Miekelson, and who was a telephone operator prior to enlisting in the WAACS, has been assigned to the 3rd Weather Group, where she assumes as-sumes the duties of an Army air forces soldier now made available for combat assignment. Pa Pa Pa Appointed to liuml Pvt. Norman J. Hunt and wife wrote home enthusiastically this week to tell Mrs. Hunt's mother, Mrs. John Whipple of his recent acceptance with the Kearns military mili-tary band, an appointment they have been hoping for ever since Pvt. Hunt entered the military service. In the medical department of the Armv air corns Pvt TTunt has been stationed at Camp Kearns since his induction. He says he has plenty to do but welcomes this additional interest. There are 130 members in the Kearns military mili-tary band, including men who are from top-ranking bands and symphony sym-phony orchestras. He feels pretty much of a novice among men who have starred with Charles Bernett and Vincent Lopez and their nationally-famous bands, but he feels they are a pretty fine group to work with. Sleeping right next to Norman is Dick Travis of Hollywood fame, who is also with . the band, and he's a real fellow. During last 1 week Norman was appointed tc 1 play with the Kearns dance band 1 which also means something. Be-I Be-I ing nurse in the military hos- pital has its unpleasant moments, ! but Pvt. Hunt can forget these as soon as he goes to band practice. prac-tice. Pa Pa Pa Hears from Brother and Son A recent cablegram to Mrs. Brigham Randall from her brother, S.Sgt. Dilworth Ostensen, her first word for several weeks, says he has received her many letters and appreciates them greatly. He says he is in good health and keeping . busy. Although she can't be sure, Mrs. Randall thinks her brother is somewhere in North Africa. Another message that brought happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Randall was a letter received over the week end from their son, Burke Dyson Randall. This is their first word from him in nearly five months and was such a surprise, Mrs. Randall went home from town forgetting to purchase her groceries. In 'October, Burke will have been gone four years with the U. S. Navy and has been in the busy part of the Pacific area. He writes that he is mailing a photo of himself, taken two years ago, one he failed to get in the mail before be-fore mails quit going. His parents are anxiously awaiting the arrival nf thic nnrlrnop which should come any time now. PB P3 P Calvert Andrus Writes Among the many interesting soldier sol-dier letters reach the Editor's desk is one from Captain Calvert Andrus in Indio, Calif., on military mili-tary duty. Calvert takes the News and was interested in the stories of the M Men basketball teams, and having been a member of these early groups he sent some added information several weeks ago. Reporting h i s letter has awaited checking on some items as he requested. Along with other facts he tells of the part the stake recreation committee took in sponsoring these tournaments, and that the late George Brooks Jr., accompanied accom-panied the first team that went north to play in the all-church finals. And men from southern Utah, says Captain Andrus, really pioneered in the all-church basketball basket-ball and did a good job of it. First District Tournament According to Captain Andrus, corroborated by J. Clinton Snow, who was actively associated with this program, the first district tournament attended by local teams was held in Richfield in 1929. The team included: Bliss S. Jarvis, Frank Bringhurst, Calvert Cal-vert Andrus, Don Bleak and Milton Mil-ton Walker. They were defeated the closing game. The trip was sponsored by the recreation committee com-mittee which included William Brooks. George Brooks and Arthur Paxman. many citizens and every business house contributing. J. Clinton Snow, who was then president of the Y. M.M.I. A. did more than any other individual to get this all-church basketball going in southern Utah, says Captain Cap-tain Andrus, and Mr. Snow admits ad-mits that as an M. I. A. officer he was highly interested in the possibilities of this set-up, and had good cooperation from the boys who made up the team and the townspeople generally. Captain Andrus is interested in any such activities which add to the wholesome recreation for young people and says these boys used to have great times on these trips and really made some good plays. He also expresses interest in the "Seen and Heard" column of the News, and from his present activities in the field of investigating investi-gating juvenile delinquency, urges the leaving up of stop signs on the city streets, as one method of slowing down the reckless speed of youth. "One accident, or broken arm", he says, "would pay for the stop srgns, and it is better by far to stop several times than be responsible for one accident". acci-dent". Pa Pa pj j Ffc. Seaman Tells Experiences Missionary experiences for Uncle Sam can be plenty thrilling and turns a variety of angles according accord-ing to Pfc. Ted Seaman, who was home only a few months from his L. D. S. church mission to Canada, when he entered the military mil-itary service and was assigned to Naval M. P. duty. His first assignment took him to the New England states and for four months ho trainoH at ,-,11 Camp Custer and at Indian Gap. But before long came the real assignment. as-signment. For several weeks his famliy had no word from him, then came a phone call from Cool-Idge, Cool-Idge, Ariz., telling them he was on home soil again and safe. Long letters since have told somewhat of his experiences as policeman on the transport Alexandria, which he Nazis claimed they destroyed, but which made safe delivery of its cargo of soldiers and returned with a like cargo of axis prisoners. pris-oners. It was a trip to remember. On fluty long hours when they must take their meals standing, for 3 they were on a portentious mis-, mis-, Bion and the soldiers must and . did reach port safely, despite what - may have been a torpendo attack , ne dark night, the night no ; doubt the Nazis thought the Alex-. Alex-. andria went down. The return voyage was equally dangerous, though the cargo of prisoners seemed only too happy to be coming com-ing to America, and they received every consideration, and are still being well treated at their internment intern-ment camp. But policeman Seaman Sea-man wonders what they tell their folks back home when they write. Just when he can come home and tell them more about it,' he has no idea, but he says he is 'well, working plenty hard, and hoping the job wiU be finisher! sooner than most, conditions indicate. indi-cate. Pa Hawaii Leads In Bond Sales Hawaii's Lei Day compaign of April 27th to May 3rd brought the sale of War Bonds to a total of $18,000,000, while the quota for this period was $16,700,000. (Lei Day in Hawaii is May 1st). Hawaii's own holiday, June 11th Kamehameha Day was celebrated in the form of buying Bonds "to the tune" of $140,250 for the one day. Of this amount, $90,250 worth of Bonds were sold at the special Bond booth near the statue of Kamehameha in Honolulu, a very fitting salute to Hawaii's ancient ruler, Kamehameha the Great Nearly all holidays are suspended sus-pended for the duration, but Bond sales are heaviest on such days, including Pearl Harbor Day, Dec! 7th. Secretary Morganthau of the ' U. S. Treasury, made the state- ment not long ago that Hawaii has and still leads the nation and other territories in Bond sales. Every day is War Bond Day in Hawaii. She will always "Remember "Remem-ber Pearl Harbor", nor will she stop here. Some Japanese-Americans delivered several thousand dollars recently to Lieut. Gen. Robert C. Richardson Jr., who on June 1st succeeded Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons as Department Commander and Military Governor of Hawaii, with the notation that "this money is to be used for bombs to be dropped on Tokyo". Even the OCD office in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, admits that the Hawaiian OCD has made far better bet-ter achievements than has been done on the mainland. There is no absenteeism here from work because everybody including in-cluding children, complies with Territorial Governor Stainback's, "Work to Win", campaign which says, "if you have a job, keep it if you don't have a job, get one". The eighth induction for the Army service has now been completed. com-pleted. Kawaii will not be outdone by any state or terriotory of the United States. I am not alone in expressing the opinion that Hawaii is qualified to become a state in the Union of states of the United States of America. |