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Show V.F.W. Encampment Speakers Nice, Nice, Nice Post Movies THURSDAY-FRIDA- Y June 9 Matinee Thursday 9 1 Evenings 7 and "Out of This World" Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn 28-2- mI SATURDAY mw " !tt June 30 Matinee 1 Evening 7 and 9 ' "One Exciting Night William Gargan, Ann Savage "RlnnHp Ransom" Donald Cook, Virginia Grey SUNDAY-MONDA- Y July 2 Matinee Sunday 1 Evenings 7 and 9 "Ernie Pyle's Story of GI Joe Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum 1-- OVER 500 MEMBERS . . . Attended this year's encampment of the Utah posts of the V.F.W., sponsored by the Hill field post last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Speakers shown above are (left to right) H. Goffe, Utah state commander; Lt. Col. Marland B. Millard, chief of management control at OATSC; Lt. Col. Harold M. Younger, acting: assistant chief of maintenance division; and MSgt. William H. Turner, commander of the Hill field post who was elected to serve as junior vice commander during the next year. Commander of Hill Field VFW Post Elected to State Office M. Sgt. William H. Turner, mander of the Hill field VFW or ganization, a veteran of Java and the earlier New Guinea campaigns, term as was elected to a one-yeof the Utah junior State department of Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the recently concluded 12th annual department encampment held at the Newhouse hotel in Salt Lake City. Attended by well over 500 members of the VFW and their auxiliaries, this encampment was noteworthy because of the passing of ts. ar er resolutions for the welfare and rehabilitation of returned veterans. Three full days of deliberation, beginning Friday, June 22, and climaxed by a stirring memorial service to the veteran dead on Sunday morning, June 24, completed the encampment. Sponsored by Local Post The entire Hill field organization turned out to sponsor this year's encampment, with the aux iliary aiding in committees on ar- - Aiding in the registra- tion of delegates and visitors on Friday evening were T. Sgt. Cecil L. Brown and Pfc. Mary Fisher. BanqUtet is Big Affair Highlight of the encampment was the huge banquet, entertainment and ball, attended by 500 veterans, auxiliaries and their guests on Saturday evening, June 23. The entertainment was a facsimile of the "Bomb Cigarette Hour," a radio show as presented by some of the entertainers as they were going overseas. . TUESDAY July 3 Matinee Tuesday 1 Evening 7 and 9 "The Cheaters" Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke WEDNESDAY "''fy July 4 Evening 7 and 9 "Two o'clock Courage" Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford THURSDAY-FRIDA- lBC Y July 6 Matinee Thursday 1 Evenings 7 and 9:10 "Along Came Jones" Gary Cooper, Loretta Young 5-- ... Hill Field Tops Ouota in Drive Hill field with the as a lilting tune is this PRETTY tf lovely . u msr s ... tier name is maxino im onnson t ys, it s jc; away look in ner eyes, h and she is a native oi ugaen. ene wotks in mimeograpn suo unit 2 of warehouse 12. Photograph was taken py Lt, .Madison Ge photographic officer at .'OATSC 'J'"'" 7 . Troutman Aids Fight Japs After Depression Battle (Continued From Page One) Those who participated in the hour and a half show were: M. Sgt. Jack E. Larsen, Pfc. Emmanuel Heifitz; Pfc. Frances Rosenblatt. Pfc. Charlie Quincannon, Pfc. Helen Barron, Cpl. Dick Schebe, Yeoman 2nd Class Gloria Chind gren, Steve Johansen, Paul Coburn, S. Sgt. Ralph Larsen, T. Sgt. Lewis Howard, T. Sgt. Ed Stoker and his "Flak-Happ- y Bombardiers," and T. Sgt. Ted Turner, master of cere . 4Mom' people have redeemed some or all of their war bonds and that one every four has redeemed at least one bond. In money the redemptions amount to something By Polly McQuown f like 12.98 per cent of all bonds "Mom" Troutman they call her issued from the beginning. The over in the wing service section of rate of redemption has aecnnea in manufacture and repair where recent months. she's been emulating "Rosie the monies. It is also true that the great bulk Riveter" for the last couple of id of redemptions comes from bond weeKsmom Wa buyers who have bought their Wichita, Kansas, where she ran an. ll pay-rocounter deduction on the and bonds sinking dimpler li This is due mainly to the chine for 1three years before corn-fas 'to? that war bonds represent a inf mjite universallv ad of the and young savings known as "Mom" by old larger proportion hi of other earner than any whether it be in Salt Lake by wage aiike, earners group of Americans. Wage situa- - city or Caney, Kansas, because her often run into the kind of a ready sympathy and kindliness, tion which demands a quick dip coupled with a Yankee forthright-int- o savings. People who used to ness especially fit her for this on a life insurance policy tie. But her real name is Edith M. or make a withdrawal at the sav- - Troutman. and at an age when ings bank now redeem a war bond. most women are knitting by the fireside, she's right in the thick of Bonds Are Savings Capt. Murphy further points out things. With enough patriotism to susthat under justifiable circumstances tain a dozen persons of her , me i uit war uuuus per- .- i saints half reaempuon . j; r suuaiaiiuait mmuuiviu, a service wmcn is recogmzea . iorms ,an,.ontitiv as necessarily one of the functions "i MkTJhZTr.m a V" """" "" as Lady Liberty her- f and "Mom" Troutman equality means a of foremost raising money self and much more articulate. to prosecute the war. They are To deprive her of the hum I i also an investment for those who Lived in Dust Bowl anH sometimes flownru Kuctlo can spare some of their current Back in the thirties when the of war industry would MEMBERS OF THE 1029TH . . . Had to crab for their gas masks income to put away for ten years dust clamor storms were sweeping the cen K from when a cloud of tear gas descended on them last Saturday during a at a favorable rate of interest. tral states, Mrs. Troutman, located like taking the lion away sham battle. Soldiers in the battle are shown here wearing their Finally, however, war bonds are in the heart of the bowl, lost Jungle haunts or separating masks (you'll have to take our word for it) as they are partially hid- - part of the savings of the people all the money anddust jar-she property clouds is in den of gas. the and it essential that savings be had accumulated. With only $450 small boy from his cooky liquid and always available for use in her pocket, an ailing Chevrolet, would be lost without it in emergencies, and for the reasInveterate as any husband, she lour surance of the insignificant minor and an toinvalid to stake has rnnu un the hard way Kansas, Caney, neyed ity who may be influenced by silly last ew dollars on a new chin up, she intends to keep h ru- uiu pemaps war is over, mors to tne effect that war bonds house Dwindling resources, uncertain- -- chin up until the after the war. intimiw!?Lbe repua1,? would have insecurity the government could ty, dated a lesser woman, but not so Ttn men were killed and onef contour map in selecting the site notObviously H ask people of small means to "Mom" Troutman. weeded in the battle of Hill field for two machine gun nests at the put their savings in federal secur- - "If I died one day, I'd want to be saw members of the 1029th crest of the hill. Some of the de ities, however great their patriotic resurrected the next." she says in a Cente keep their money telling sentence which indicates wT.,fTrice squadron wipe out one fenders manned these while others determination towar for the effort, without her healthy love for life, gun nest Deiore being were placed in strateeic Dositions working a Irllvivw .... nhtoo vnt sonaration center! making it possible for the investors Awn by a second. cut it armed with flour grenades. to their when get money J they f bad as it sounds as the When the attacking group ar needed it. t the GI with enoughhaspo in Caney. she was the living ex provided M I .a part of the training rived, they drove up the slope, but who motion. After or age to his creditand is head "XY the' members of the were forced to pause momentarily -i ample of perpetual wvtr ArtimAO hand thA etohiliiintf familir his f in lr-- . MIC AOlllllJ AVI VUlira paper JtOWUlfalllSj the defenders and a- at the crest when they encountered f me cxv up a hospital of her own, for the "life of Riley," which w 1 ttars wcJTmembers of the same taer gas. After donning gas masks. A A ICS setting she orffanfzpd SunHav Rchoola. and sheets, "OfZttMb ss2 no one was really they separated into three two between squads preached the gospel, nursed the sleeping or wc3j4 just declared so two attacking one machine gun that is strictly I suit a and of ing hundreds sick, performed nest and the ather attacking the A .m nast CUrfeW, norto other tasks incidental any feature of the second nest The larger group ..,1 O't mal existence. also She her Henrie L. Miller, information i not tear gas, the used smoke bombs and tear gas to opened battel he can give a convinj - home at various times in her ca- - viding to War II so far cover their attack, losing two men soecialist in th m,hii. only fc" i prove there is good the aged and boys story VLd. The only wnue nauidatine four of the nut. office at OATSC, was married to feer to see ( . orphans, choice. such son for in need of mothering. Miss Doris Treno Waii,.- 1 U Wie battle was lying defenders and real -ra:. out win neart I Gl the The wiping lucky But when the war broke out I 4,- .I Cor"center Young of macnine gun nest, according to the lv earden roromnn. the separation even this was too tame an exist homo in k Izl-1. X chemical war-f- ir juages. t.." ence for her, so she closed up her current assignmentsatisfactonr i Svho was blinded Hold Defenders dividual presents ttttCt?; a tear gas bomb changei The second nest proved to be nn1 .1 b(6c hi diiccw lumbal wviAi unco dence of a permanent him near and the empW of gas rl offer Ployed at bein taking the kinks out of war residence or better defended than the first and the Fmrt hXfr, into his face. xf i,tst Cen" work ever since. In simple Gl lingo: w-- j j I?. vi the attackers were stymied and un AA East of Field is iAisan, to aoie take the nosition. oioraao, ' .... Wants War to End has since moyi in the action, a re- Jpating The man declared wounded was transferring to Hill Field. ' on their basic training were "'""',ni he released i yti t) the utah- Because many of the boys she William H. Holmes of T.v ssgt. Agricultural college at Lo- helped grow up are now in the Fort 'Douglas to prevent ugj XlecScnant R. E. Jordan and Lieu- donvllle, N. Y. He supposedly suf Ite,Utah, gan, and met his wife whii tami in tenant C. L. Cross, and approxiii:nn 4 k. Anv.. sary travel ana was im natiurea leg employed as assistant editor of the ews and a foster son she's more range, through eaJf$e7 mately 50 enlisted men from the treated Dy medical corpsman Cor 1029th. The battleground selected poral James W. Presley of Brewer Western Farm Life in Denver, than eager to see "Johnny come marshes and back Miller was a former national vice marching home nffain " Shp' an was a farm just east of the field ton, Ala. After snlints Second example: where a steep hill, covered with plied, four soldiers carried the ser presiaem oi tne iuture Farmers eager, in fact, that she's expended dense underbrush, was available. geant to the ambulance on a lit of America. every effort in aiding bond drives. f. ""7" Washington, m iy The men were divided into two ter. drives, and the like. upon reiewc presenteeism wi pe ji center an officer in with A The sham battle was arranged to noral Yonnt groups charge . champion bond buyer at Wich- your separation . h ic4.of each group. Meade. Maryland. eJg?i$i give additional training to the men One group, the defenders, left the m extended order vuuiiiik iu inn neia. uuring is vou have to prove nrrf v nnn t drill, scouting motor and a half hour and patroling, her first week of employment heri reason to change convoy field by and t. E' Cheney-- 1 she started things off with a bang center from nog yj" ahead of the-"They used a tnemicai wariare.camouflage, . Helping Cor Slle , liames oy inVesung ouu in bonds. Lobster Gulch, Maine. . -u I Gas! -ma-pla- ct ? r .. - lo I - i H Soldiers of 1029th Use Gas in Sham Battle East of Field er I enemy-sponsor- ea GI Can Choose Separation , , Ak . il.. . k4 Nu "t t.ii t.fjt r ry A,, X, Sy Milllilrl In Denver, Colo, wlnm.r I J 1 tw, ' UnrsVarrBolder t-.J- trgaTn-?onvaIes,ce- nt. l "' WW . rZJ ?u' wi"' i t. |