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Show .' - - 1 V . i '-i PROVQ -'(UTAH) ' SultoAY HERAL0, ' SUNDAY, -WbRUARY & PAGE SIX onoN-twa OUR BOYS In The War Provoan Reported Prisoner of War In Philippines Pvt. Lamar Wilkinson of the Coast Artillery Corps, son of Mrs. Erva Logan of 1207 West Center street, has been reported to be a prisoner of war of the Japanese government in the Philippine? Islands, accord ing to information informa-tion received by r e 1 a t i v es in Provo this week. Pvt. , Logan enlisted for service in the coast artillery corps in April, 1942 and was sent to. the Philippines for service in a few months. The last time members of his' family received direct word from him was in a llptter in November, 1942 at which time he was stationed at Corregidor. Ifef 9'i Pvt. Wilkinson Aviation Cadet Vernon D. Wilcox Wil-cox of Pleasant Grove, has received re-ceived his commission as a second lieutenant and wings of aerial bombardier from the air force advanced flying school at Kirt-and Kirt-and Field, Albuquerque, N. M., He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Iceland Ice-land S. Wilcox of Bremerton, Wash. Before joining the air force he was an instructor at Provo high school. More mn from Provo have reported re-ported for duty at the 1J. S. naval na-val training station at Farragut, Ida. They are Keith Richard Ma-loney, Ma-loney, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Alalonev; Keith Conrad Miller, .son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Miller; El-don El-don W. Harding, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Harding, and Morris William Wolf, son of Mrs. Frances Fran-ces Wolf. Corporal LeRoy B. Johnson, son of J. Joseph Johnson of 805 North Fifth West, found his corporal cor-poral rating waiting for him upon his return to camp recently. He spent two weeks at home on an emergency furlough due to sickness sick-ness and death of his mother. At present he is stationed at Camp Carson, Colo. Morris A. Thurston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Thurston of Provo, ensign in the LT. S. navy with an assignment as a civil engineer, stopped here recently whil en route from California to Virginia. He is a graduate of the USAC at Logan. Three other sons of Mr. and Mrs. Thurston are in the service. They are Kimball Kim-ball 1)., a first lieutenant in the air force; Ivin S., sergeant, and LaRue E., technical sergeant. A fifth son, Doyle Q., expects to, enter the service in April. Mr. and Mrs W TT Clammnn have received word that thieir son Max, has arrived, safely in North Africa after a short stay in Glasgow, Scotland. He commented com-mented in his letter thatthe African Afri-can fruits and bananas are delicious deli-cious and that herls comfortable in his new quarters. LEHI Lieutenant Frank Adams of Camp Hood, Texas, is jyifOting with his wife and baby in Lehi. He has recently been transferred to the air corps. Don Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Urban Johnson, left Monday to join the U. S. naval reserves In San Francisco, Calif. Ivan Colledge, son of Mrs. Nina Colledge, is visiting with his mother in Lehi from a camp in Oregon. Don Peet, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Peet, returned to his base with the U. S. air corps at Oakland, Oak-land, Cal., Monday, after a short visit with his parents. RETURNS TO LEI II LEHI Mrs. D. F. Martines arrived ar-rived in Lehi late last week after spending the past year in Sah Francisco, with her husband wl!o is stationed there with the U.S. navy. Mr. Martines has recently been transferred to a Pacific base and Mrs. Martines will visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Erickson and in Richfield, with Mr. Martines' parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Martines. Leland Rockwell has been transferred from Jefferson Barracks, Bar-racks, Mo., to a camp at Louisville, Louis-ville, Kentucky. Eldon Peterson, son of Mrs. Inez Peterson, a member of the U. S. army intelligence division of Los Angeles, Calif., visited in Lehi last week and attended the wedding reception for his sister, Beth. -He returned to his base Monday. LEHI -Mr. and. Mrs. Carlton Wilson received word this week of the arrival of their son, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Gene Wilson, at Camp Edwards, Ed-wards, Mass. Lt. Wilson recently received his commission from an officers training school and made the trip with three other officers by auto from Arkansas to Camp Edwards. LEHI - Second Lieutenant and Mrs. Barlow D. Brown visited Lehi relatives en route to Boise, Idaho, where Lt. Brown will be stationed at the airport there. He recently received his commission from an army air school in Texas. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Brown of Seattle, Wash., formerly former-ly of Lehi, a grandson of Mrs. Julia Brown. Lt. and Mrs. Brown, the former Mable Williams of Brady, Texas, "were married on Valentine day. LEHI -Stanfofd Giles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Afton Giles reported at Fort Douglas Tuesday for induction in-duction into the U. S. Army. He will be stationed with a signal corps unit at Kohler, Cal. LEHI Private Rulon T. Broom-head, Broom-head, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Provo Girl Now With the WAVES PLEASANT GROVE Miss Edna Gillman, clerk at Pleasant Grove high school the past seven years, was honored at several socials so-cials before leaving: this week for basic J training with J the WAAC at Des Moines, la. She is well i known here and ....... .. '..j. 3 I ' good wishes of A leaves with the i 4 Miss Gillman received her education at Pleasant Grove high school and L. D. S. Busi- Miss Lambert ness college, and filled a mission for the L. D. S. church ih the Southern States. Promotion of WAAC Lois L. Blasendorf of Provo in the 35th WAAC post headquarters company com-pany to the rank of technician fourth grade has been made by order of Col. George T. Shank at Fort Custer, Mich. Sgt. Blasendorf Blasen-dorf entered Port Custer in January Janu-ary from the WAAC training center at Des Moines, la. P. G. High School Clerk Joins WAACs Ruth Lambert, former Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university student and daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. A. C. Lambert or Provo, has arrived in Cedar Falls, Iowa to . begin training as a member of the WAVES, women's wo-men's auxiliary navy corps. She was sworn into the service in Salt Lake City and received orders in five days to report to the State Teachers college at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she "will receive re-ceive two months training in communications. com-munications. She graduated from Provo high school, and spent two years at B. Y. U., following which she worked at the Goodyear Aircraft conf-pany, conf-pany, Williams Field in Arizona, and the Geneva plant. Miss Gillman WMifmm mm to oil your Motor-driven Electrical Appliances "You want your household appliances to serve you for the duration, at least. To do so they need proper care careful handling, regular cleaning and jrequent oiling, if they're motor-driven. Remember! It's far better to oil your Electric vacuum cleaner, washer, stoker, furnace fan, etc., too frequently fre-quently than not frequently enough. You can buy a can of oil at many stores or service ser-vice stations. If you haven't one, may I suggest that you purchase one immediately." immedi-ately." Yours for Victory Child Is Fatally Shot In Accident ii i. DETROIT, Feb. 27 (U.PV Nine-month-old Barbara Anna Wnuk was playing on the floor while her parents watched. Suddenly she pulled a scarf from a table. An alarm clock fell to the floor and started ringing. There was a rifle shot and Barbara Ann slumped to the floor, mortally wounded.. "I don't know why I did it," the father, Alexander Wnuk, 22, told police. "I was pointing the rifle down when the clock fell to the floor, but I can't explain how 1 shot her." The baby's mother, Mrs. Diana Wmk, 21, said Knuk. used to point the gun at her jokingly to frighten fright-en her. "I think he may have been pointing it down to frighten the baby when the clock went off," she said. . Police held Wnuk for investigation. Broomhead, is now stationed at a technical training school at Chi cago, 111. Ask for a FRE Copy WARTIME TIPS oa the Care and Use of Electric Applfeoce UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO Reddy Kilowatt Power the world's finest electric service produced for you by American business men is the kind of power that serves 90 of the nation, MAKE YOUR DOLLARS FIGHTING DOLLARS-BUY DOLLARS-BUY WAR BONDS LEHI Duane Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noble Evans, made a" surprise visit to his parents for a few hours. He has been in Los Angeles for the past three weeks studying electric motors. He returned re-turned to his base at San Diego this week. His buddy, Charles Barnes of Tennessee, came with him. - WRITES FROM AFRICA - It was a happy day for Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bigler of 137 North Ninth West street, when, after four months" of anxious waiting, they received a letter from their son, Mont Bigler. He wrote from Africa, arid along with love and best wishes to all his relatives and friends here, lie wrote: "We should thank God that we are Americans. Don't worry, about me for the good old U. S. A. Is taking tak-ing good care of her soldiers over here. The Biglers had another thrill recently when they heard a radio program from the Hawaiian islands, February 20, in which their son, Edgar Bigler, took part and they heard him speak. He is in the 145th F. A. WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES Highest Prices Paid for BONES . wool, muss PELTS FUHS v,,: . and dead or useless animal. Prit prices for dead and useless .sheep. - . Prompt Service UTAH HIDE & TALLOW CO. PHONH S3 8 Miles West of Spanish Fork Qri Pay ' t v -f ' s v. V- r- . For 35 years Quartermaster Clerk Uugh F. Deakins has been withdrawing only a portion of bis Marine Corps pay, allowing the rest to accumulate until it amounted to $21,269. Here he receives five $5000 War Bonds from teller Madelyn Jones of the First National Na-tional Bank of Quantico, Va., in exchange for $18,750 of back -salary which he collected recently on receiving a promotion to Warrant Officer. V. S. Trtatnr DtpmrtminM r-- (i Press Commended By OPfl Official WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 U.R) Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown today warmly commended the American press for its "splendid "splen-did handling" of the canned foods rationing program. In a letter to Arthur T. Robb, editor of the newspaper trade magazine Editor and . Publisher, can public has been performed during this war than the splendid handling bv the nation's nress of the OPA processed foods ration ing program." "It is not an overstatement,' Brown added, "to sav that with out this cooperation, the present high degree of public understanding understand-ing of this huee ratioriine nro- gram never could have been achieved in the short space of a rew weeics. :inSiyi IDAHO BANKER DIKS BOISE, Ida., Pen. 27 (U.E) . a. v.. . . xL-xiswortn vv. sorter, 77, secre Rmum . , i uiiowonn w. sorter, 77, secre- ?c?Y? 52 toESFZ gle. serv- tory of the Idaho Bankers' asso-ice asso-ice in tne interest nf thr Amt- j a . . --...wi- Lmuua ana wen Known political The title ofc the movies original ly name ,KeUo' Frisco, HeDo? has been changed (ati least for northern California distribution) to "Hello, San franclscd. Hello at the request or Stayor Angelo tUmU who . explained that . Sah Francisco residents had an avers ion to hearing their city referred to as "Frisco.,, Fred Locher, cartoonist origin ator of "Cicero Sapp and "Homer Hoopee," 56, died last night in Hollywood Martin De Lazago VnaUe, 41- year-old millionaire sportsman and diplomat known :in Hpllywood circles as Macoco, n&s, xueq an nulment papers -against Blonde Actress Kay Williams, 25, charg ing she had no intention of carrying carry-ing out their marriage relation- shin after their Nov. 25. 1942. wedding. Michael J. Haas, V. S. depart ment of labor representative-, says he believes that,. Alaska will be he believes that Ataftka will be the war because .of the opening of the new Alcan highway and development de-velopment of air transport service. comedians Bud Abbott and uaa Oostello, the nation's' number- one box office team, will chttfk up their 300th army camp perform ance at Ft. MacArthur in San Pedro next . Week. K. W. McCbrd, chief of the county patrol at Lexington, Ky. said he knows "definitely" that J. Edward Madden, 48, scion of one of America's leading families of the turf who was found shot to death yesterday, had Commit ted suicide. . Ernest B. Schoedsack, director-cameraman, director-cameraman, is suing Walter W anger an-ger productions for $200(000, charging the studio used his aerial combat shots made in England for the film "Eagle Squadron" without with-out giving him screen credit. figure, died yesterday at his home in Boise. Porter served as state senator from Latah county in 1923, and as state commissioner of finance. 1 x i. ?r. i . BoOing pennies into bis private bank has made Deacon just about the busiest fellow at New York's Bronx Zoo these days. Not so long ago Deacon was a hoarder, hiding pennies under trees. Now he's saving those pennies for War Stamps. U.S. Trttuury VfPtimu ed in anese Incornofat Army of Jap CHUNGKINO. Feb. 28 ftJ.R) Chinese youths in, occupied territories. terri-tories. We. being incorporated into the Japanese army, military circles here said today. They asserted the Japanese were Using their present "breathing "breath-ing spell" while the United Nations Na-tions concentrate on Germany to train Ih young Chinese oh equal terms with their own soldiers. These sources said the troops of Wang Ching Wei's puppet govern- . since they seemed willing to desert at the first opportunity, but that the Chinese trained and used by the Japanese array already have proved good fighters in the southeastern south-eastern sector of Burma. First community church in the United States was built at Ben-nintgon, Ben-nintgon, Vt., in 1762. PIN BALLS BLAMED FOB DIVORCE SALT LAKE CTTT. SVh. 27 V) Cora Hays Van Dyke was granted a divorce here today from Gerald John Van Dyke, Jr whom she charged "gambled with marble mar-ble machines' so much that he "lost much of his earnings," leaving leav-ing his "wife without sufficient (food and fuel." In addition, Mrs. Van Dyke charged that when she complained to her husband he told her to "get a job or get out." FOH BETTER UISIOH Buy NEW LIGHTING FIXTURES -ati mil ELECTOIG 46 North University Avenue Phone 418 We Stock a Complete Line of FUSES - LIGHT GLOBES - MOTOR BRUSHES MOTOR BEARINGS - VACUUM BELTS Utah County's Retailers say MM 8 MB fc ' . ' r i-v-'-r :- We know that America's needs come first! We know that the more workers and materials used to make planes and tanks and guns and uniforms, the less civilian goods we'll have to sell . : . And the sooner America will be able to knock the stuffing out of the Nazis and the Jips! And that's what we want! So when we're 'short' of this and 'out' of that, we're proudremembering that the things we might hare made a profit on are part of a Marine's Ma-rine's steel helmet now, or part of a bomb or a plane heading for Tokyo. We're proud of that! We're glad you're spending fewer dollars with us. because it means more fighting dollars for Utah County fighting men! We're glad to offer you part of your change in War Stamps and gladder still when you say, "I'll take all of it in War Stamps." Because it means Utah County has got the will to win, the courage to rih! It means that Utah County is going to win the war and the peace, tool - By putting at least 10 percent of Utah County's pay every payday in War Sailings Stamps and Bonds now, Utah fCounty is going to have what it takes to buy what it wants when the war's over. The money we save NOW is what's going to keep our industries' pay rolls booming THEN! It's going to keep America and Utah County "on top of the world!" That's what we want ! 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