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Show News from Our Washington County People At Service Camps and the Nation's Battle Fronts By MABEL JARVIS j Europe Has Spring Too These fine spring days are welcome wel-come to -the boys in the foxholes in France, according to Cpl. Clinton Clin-ton Emett's letters to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Emett of Enterprise and his brother XaRue Emett of Central. He was home in December, 1943, and went across in January, 1944. This is his second spring in Europe, and after the mud and snow of the battle fronts the past few months, these bright, warm days are appreciated. 53 Pa S Visits With In-Laws Next to a visit home. Cpl. Elmer F. Cox, husband of Mrs. Pauline Schmutz Cox of St. George, appreciates ap-preciates his recent visit with his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mar-cell Mar-cell Schmutz, who .are in the eastern states on a mission. The three spent a week together recently re-cently at Baltimore, Md. from where they visited by telephone with Mrs. Cox and other family members in St. George. la & a For the 'Son of Heaven' Cpl. Howard Carter wrote recently re-cently of a little hop his B-29 outfit took to Tokyo to "deliver a few presents to the Emperor", all the ships returning, safely to the base in the Marianas. He says they have a beautiful air base and expect to put over a lot of missions. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T. Carter of St. George and husband of Fern Chadburn Carter. At that base, Pfc. John W. (Bill) Bringhurst of St. George and he get together each week and find much to talk about. Their Jan. 4 News reached them March 7, which isn't so bad considering everything. At the recent L. D. S. conference confer-ence held in that area, Cpl. Carter was made leader for his base, which he figures is really a responsibility. res-ponsibility. A large group of those who attended were shown in the March 10 Deseret News. a w Three Cannon Brothers The first word in six weeks from Lt George Cannon of the Marines, reached his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Q. Cannon in St. George last week. It was dated March 6. He said they had moved and were all set up again, having cut their new camp out of the brush and jungles. The enemies are no longer giving them trouble, he reports, and things about the camp are practically normal. Cpl. Arnold Cannon who is in England wrote recently of an interesting week in Scotland on furlough. A third brother, Ashly Cannon Rdm 3c has participated in the island invasions. He says that their ship came out of the Lingayen Gulf encounter without a scratch. a s S Visits in St. George Cpl. James H. Hardy stopped over last week in St. George to visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Giles Hardy. He was on delayed orders transferring from Alburquerque, N. M. to Douglas, Arizona. His wife and small son, Jimmie, who have been with him at Alberquerque preceded him here for the visit. He is a mechanic with the air forces and has been in the service for three years. He reports having hav-ing had a very enjoyable visit. Pa s a Imports for Further Duty After 50 months in the Central, South and Southwest Pacific, Sgt. Garth Hartley has had the privilege privi-lege of 4f5 days in Hurricane with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Hartley and other relatives.' He arrived Feb. 6, and reported last week for further orders. Enlisting early in 1940, he had his training in Hawaii, was there for Pearl Harbor and has since been in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines. His two major campaigns were Holland-asia, Holland-asia, New Guinea and the Philippines. Philip-pines. He figures there is a long way to go yet before victory, but says the Yanks are in solid and gaining with every move. '. ' His three brothers are also serving. T4 Quentin Hartley, left last week for Ft. Meade, Md. .after a short furlough home. This was the first time the two- brothers have been together in' five years. Carlos Hartley Slc is with the Seebees in Iwo Jima and Newell Hartley is somewhere. in the Pacific Paci-fic on Navy Patrol duty.' Newell and Garth met unexpectedly' in Hawaii in 1 and were able to fipend two (lays together. They tire planning ahead for when ull four can come home again. Receives Commission Lt. Loraine Woodbury, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Woodbury of St. George, arrived early Saturday Sat-urday morning from Blythville Army Air Field, Ark., where he graduated this month. He was awarded the pilot's silver wings and commissioned Second Lieutenant. Lieu-tenant. This marks his successful completion of his primary, basic and advanced flight training, and he is now ready for other assignment. assign-ment. His arrival in St. George was timed just right to permit him to serve as best man at the marriage mar-riage ceremony of TSgt. George Fry and Miss Lois Gardner, with whom he attended Dixie junior college. He is one of four brothers broth-ers in military service. fJ S 19 "Battle Mountain" Regiment Pvt. Donald DeMille, son of Mrs. Geneva D. DeMille of Rock-ville, Rock-ville, is field lineman with the 338th Field Artillery Battalion, Fifth Army in Italy. From their operation at Mt. Battaglia they won the title of the "Battle Mountain" Moun-tain" regiment, and have continued con-tinued to sustain their rating as an outstanding unit in their support sup-port of the 350th Infantry and in their more than 300 days of combat. com-bat. They went into action first on March 4, 1944, and have achieved success in every encounter, encount-er, including the cut through the Gothic Line. Their commander is Lt. Col. R. P. Lively of Dallas, Texas. Visiting In St. George Mason Barton AMMlc arrived March 12 from Norfolk, Va. to visit with his wife, Barbara Ray Barton, son David, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Barton and other relatives.. He admits it seems plenty good to be in Dixie once again and the young son is "tops" even if he does count his daddy as somewhat of a stranger. They have had little opportunity to get acquainted. Mate Barton entered the Navy in April, 1944 and has trained at Norman, Okla. and Daytona Beach, Fla. before being transferred in February to Norfolk. Si pa fea Home From Pacific t After two years in the U. S. Navy and 13 months of that time in the L. C. T. landing barge service serv-ice in the South Pacific, Merlyn Holt Mo. MM2c appreciates his leave home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Holt of Gunlock and with Mrs. Holt in Veyo. His crew was first to land on Pelelau and Anguar Islands. He says the landing was difficult and their barge was badly damaged but they made it. In his work on these islands he has contacted 30 Utah boys, mostly at church. When his chance came for a leave he only required 15 minutes of the allowed two hours to pack for boarding the plane. His first stop was at Guam, where he met Glen Kenworthy of St. George, a former schoolmate. He has great praise for the Red Cross, for he has seen them on duty overseas, and thinks civilians should never hesitate to contribute to this great organization. , n Returns to Post H. Duwayne Emett SSN(C)2c had a 21-day leave during Feb-urary Feb-urary to visit his mother, Mrs. Maude Emett of Harrisburg, his first time home in more than a year. Ho is a cobbler in the U. S. Navy and has been at Midway for a long period, but is temporarily tempor-arily located at Shoemaker, Calif. That sounds like the proper location lo-cation for a Navy cobbler, however, how-ever, he expects to go back across to the islands before long. On Christmas and Thanksgiving days of 1914 he was in Honolulu with his ' brother, Leonard, and they had a great visit together. |