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Show News From Our Washington County People At Service Camps and in the Zones of Occupation By MABEL J AH VIS Aboard USS Santee in Pacific Lyman W." Gubler Slc, USNR, of LaVerkin serves aboard the USS Santee, the only carrier to take a loaded Kamikazer through her top and a torpedo through her side in the same action without with-out halting operations. She was also the first carrier to support a landing, to intercept a blockade runner, to wage successfully suc-cessfully antisubmarine warfare, and the first to be crashed by a suicide Jap. ts K Two Sons Home Mr. and Mrs. James S. Cornelius Cor-nelius of Virgin had a genuine surprise Thursday when they came to St. George to meet their osn, Grant Cornelius RM2c. At the bus station they were joined by their other son, Jesse Cornelius Slc, who is home on a 30-day leave after three years overseas. This is the first time they have had both boys home in more than four years. Grant has also had extended overseas service in which he lost one eye. For the past year he has been on shore duty at San Pedro, but he is home now to stay and says, "It's a pretty wonderful feeling," iri 3 Friends Get Together " Tuesday, August 9, gave Pfc. R. E. Seaman his first opportunity to attend L D S services since he went to Europe several months ago. On that day he attended a conference somewhere in Southern France and at the conclusion of the services had another meeting with Dixie boys which was really a celebration, according to the letter let-ter he wrote that day to his parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Seaman of St. George. The group of Dixie boys included in-cluded Vernon Hemenway, Alvin Cottam, Bob Riding, Leslie Ashby, Bud Harris and Wendell Crosby. They had a great time isiting. eating and going to meetings. This was the first time he had met boys from home, although his duties have often taken him up through Belgium, and into other locations, helping convoy trainloads of war prisoners. The boys are all grateful grate-ful that the shooting is over and hope soon to come home. Em la One of Mighty 41st Pfc. Warren D. Hall, brother of Mrs. Ellis Larson of St. George, has donned civilian clothes again and gone back to his old job at the Cedar City laundry, having been given honorable discharge after 30 months of "faithful service" ser-vice" in the South Pacific. He counts himself lucky returning from the swamp lands with nothing noth-ing worse than malaria. Going overseas in 1942 he is one of the division whom General Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur first called "The little Boy Scouts," but after they drove the . Japs from New Guinea, he labled them his "Mighty 41st." Their voyage from New York to Australia in March, 1942 was filled with plenty of hair-raising experiences, ex-periences, including close ups from Jap subs. He wears the American defense service medal, Good Conduct Con-duct medal and Bronze Star. He returned to the U. S. September 30. 1944 and has since been at various hospitals until his discharge. dis-charge. He attended high school at Dixie, completing his fourth year in 1935. His one military boast is that he was never assigned as-signed to K. P. duty. n n n Writes form . Pacific Seaman Jack R.eber of Ivins, took time off Aug. 15 to write the Editor from somewhere in the Pacific. He says in part: "We received re-ceived the news about the end of the war last evening. The fellows , almost went into hysteria with joy. Every ship in the harbor, and there are many, blew their horns and air raid sirens. Immediately, a two-day holiday was declared, ant the ship threw a big party. Now we are looking forward to that day when we will be back home with our loved ones and friends." Wish we could answer his interesting inter-esting questions about the proposed pro-posed water storage projects in this county. All we know is that the St. George to Enterprise road, the Rio Virgin storage dam and the S;inta Clara storage d;im are all listed as major post war projects. pro-jects. We hope with, him that there will be definite reports on (hern soon. Meantime the News, the Chamber of Commerce and others are keepjng the powers reminded of them. "Give Me Land" "Any sailor feels like singing, "Give me land, lots of land under starry skies above," and don't think that land isn't on a sailor's mind, along with women, and I do mean WHITE," says Denzil Light-ner Light-ner EM2c in a letter to the News on August 19. And if the old home town looks the same when he returns as when he left, it will have his okeh. At his location they celebrated V-J day news all night long. "Every ship in the harbor let go with everything they had, flame, rockets, lights of every Color, along with the deep blasts of fog horns, whistles and sirens. Even at times you could hear the shouts from the crews of near anchored ships. The radio was jambled with chatter. "All in all, I was the happiest I've been in two years," he writes. "I've been aboard ship for a year now and we've shoved her nose on a good many beaches. The L S M (landing ship medium) is a busy little bee, and the work horse of the Navy." When he wrote they had warmed up the engines and were again headed out to sea. Though he couldn't say where, he did say, "There is still a lot of work to be done and a lot of G. I.'s will stay to finish it up. But at least, we know our turn at coming com-ing back is a sure thing for sometime some-time in the future. I'll sure be glad when my ship gets nosey for the States." )s ja ra Arrives in India "" The first word in seven weeks from Pvt. Rex Peterson reached his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Peterson of Littlefield this week, and told of his arrival on August 1 at a port near Calcutta, India. He reports that the weather is terrifically hot, and the natives are very different to any he has been used to seeing. India is also quite a change from the Aleutians where he served for 20 months, and he was happy to have had four months in the U. S. before this present assignment. fa n n Aboard USS Iowa off Honshu David Spencer Esplin, 19, Sl.'c USNR, son of Mrs. Lucy Graff of Santa Clara fought aboard this 45, 000-ton battleship when she and other Third Fleet battleships, cruisers and destroyers staged a daring midnight bombardment of industrial targets on this main Japanese island, just 70 miles from Tokyo. Standing only a few miles off shore, the Ie?wa hurled more than 200 tons of flaming projectiles at war factories. S sa H Reports for Reassignment Cpl. Arnold Cannon left Wednesday Wed-nesday morning for Fort Douglas where he will report for reassignment reassign-ment after a 30-day furlough. He admits he'll not object if the assignment as-signment is. civilian. His parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Q. Cannon entertained at a chicken dinner in his honor Monday evening, and two of his sisters entertained for him Sunday evening. In a recent story we called him Cpl. Richard Cannon. Sorry. ft Id Rl Another Daddy The News received announcement announce-ment this week of the birth, Aug. 9, of a 7 lb. 8 ounce son to Mr. and Mrs. Faunt W. Mayhew at Corpus Christi, Texas. The son has been christened Faunt White Mayhew, Jr. With the Navy Air forces, Mr. Mayhew has been assigned as-signed to instructor duty at Corpus Christi sinca he returned from extended overseas service. He was lucky enough to be home in time to say "hello" to Junior on his arrival. The infant's greatgrandfather great-grandfather is Levi C. White of St. George, who is looking forward for-ward to a visit from the three. ft n M With Destroyer Crew In charge of the torpedo workshop work-shop on one of the U. S. master destroyers is Leon P. Miller, tor-pedoman tor-pedoman 2c of Washington, Utah a son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Miller of Cedar City. He has been serving on this warship for more than three years and during that time has participated in many major Tacific campaigns. Veteran of Guadalcanal, Santa Cruz, the Aleutians, the Gilberts, the Marshulls, the Carolines, New Guinea, the Marianas, and the Philippines, his ship has accounted for two enemy aircraft and destroyed de-stroyed one Jap submarine off Truk Island in the Carolines. On the destroyer, he works with depth charges, torpedo tubes and machine guns. Returning from War Zone Monday's listing of Utah boys returning from the war zones included in-cluded the name of Sgt. Harvey C. Blankenagel of St. George. We have had no word from him in a a long time and are glad to know he is home again. ru n. Returns to Duty After a month in Whiterocks, Utah with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oz B. Fry, and in Pine Valley with Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Gardner, parents of Mrs. Fry, TSgt. George B. Fry has been assigned to begin his refresher course in air training at Victorville, Calif. He completed his flight missions over Europe several months ago. |
