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Show 'Tic Frtdorn Shall Not Pemh" BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Phone First West Street How a 23 ! at Tremonton, Utah, as Second Class Matter October 15, 1925 at the Post Entered Office A. N. RYTTING, With Ernie Pyle at the Front By COIUER of Each Week no Thursday Distribution for Friday at Tremonton, Vtth, PubCished - Editor-Publish- 1 OUR er SUBSCRIPTION KATES In Advance) SOLDIER RATES ONE YEAR - $2.50 0015 "H SERVILE B-2- Bombing Crew Spndo Its Working Hours 6 Fighting an Air War Means Routine; Men 'Work9 About Two Hours a Day $1.75 By Ernie Pyle SAVING CROPS IS LOYALTY Last Monday evening the great Western Invasion began. We, here at home, are a part of this invasion. The man, boy, woman or girl who thins sugar beets, runs a tractor, rides the mowing machine, runs the cultivator, rides the hay wagon, or does any other job that will aid in producing and saving food shall fill their niche in helping to destroy the enemies of righteous iL 1 civilization. The storms and lack of sufficient help are forces that have contributed to some sugar beets in Box Elder County becoming extra large before they have been thinned. If the farmer has more beets than he can thin, it is the responsibility of every loyal person, who can, to assist in getting this job done. Why? Because the war effort needs the food. Do we need more thinners? Yes many of them. When? Now; whenever the weather will permit. All who can assist, please get in touch with County Agricultural Agent Robert II. Stewart NOW! PUBLIC HEALTH 4 r w WN w ,tm IMML Washington, D. C. DOUBLE HITCH? v Very quiet moves have been launched recently by the Dewey and Stassen forces to get together in advance of the Chicago convention. The approach was made through a close friend of Governor Stassen who came to see Governor Dewey the other day and suggested that while he couldn't speak outright for Stassen, the Stassen forces might be willing to get on the Dewey bandwagon if Stassen could be assured !of the No. 2 spot on the Republican STASSEN-DEWE- Y A decided improvement in the health picture of the state is re fleeted in the reports from local health officers submitted to the State Department of Health for the week ending June 2. A total ticket. Dewey replied that he had preferred Governor Warren of Califor-nlbut he would certainly be glad to consider Stassen for vice president providing, of course, the Minnesota governor withdrew from the Irace for President in advance. It was left that Stassen's friend would write to him asking him categorically whether he would withdraw from the presidential race if given the No. 2 place on the ticket, and also whether his forces would cooperate" to nominate Dewey. There has not been time as yet to receive a reply. What the Dewey forces want to (prevent is any remote chance of a deadlock at Chicago which might suing the nomination to Stassen, 'justice Owen D. Roberts or to While they have so many delegates they don't believe there is much chance of this. Nevertheless, they know that Pennsylvania's Joe Pew has been hoping for a deadlock which would throw the convention to Justice Roberts. NOTE Friends of Roosevelt are frank in admitting they would much a, Will-ki- e. rather have Dewey as an opponent than Roberts. The Supreme court Justice has cooperated with the President at Pearl Harbor, has an ven better record than Dewey's In breaking up graft at prosecutor of the Teapot Dome scandals, is tall, handsome, a powerful, brilliant speaker. However, GOP diehards consider him too much in favor of International cooperation. ' fold. The Chance Vought company, also making Corsairs (the same type of plane as Brewster), will continue largely because they operation, were the chief pioneers of Corsairs. Also, the Goodyear company will continue, they being about to start on a big new navy plane. But the Brewster company will now have to fight either for new war contracts or else for priorities for commercial planes. It will be an uphill fight. NOTE The Brewster plant near Philadelphia, built with U. S. government funds, will be taken over by the navy and will work on "modification" in other words, planes that need minor changes. The other Brewster plants around New York will finish up what they are working on and then fold. MERRY-GO-ROUN- C. D Mrs. Harold Burton, wife of the phio senator, complained that her husband's inside coat pocket bulged out with too many papers. So Burton now has his tailor put an inside pocket on both sides, to distribute the burden. C, It never leaked out at the time but, on December 7, 1943, the army was worried over a possible token attack on Pearl Harbor as an anniversary raid. The whole island was alerted for fear the Japs would repeat their original performance. News of 4-CLUBS H of 364 cases of. communicable di seases was reported as compared with 468 cases for the previous week. cases of communicable Thirty-si- x diseases were reported among non residents. A disturbing feature of the week's report is the fact that 14 cases of rheumatic fever were re ported. Since January 1 of- this cases ji ixua year, a total oi disease has been reported. In addition, a total of 52 cases of this disease has been reported among non-residen- Salt Lake City reported 1 case of epidemic meningitis. The patient is a boy, 3 years of age. Two cases of this disease was reported among One case of tularemia was reported from Wasatch County. Ac cording to the attending physician, the patient became infected thru handling dead animals. Only one new case of pulmonary tuberculosis was reported for thej week the patient is a dent. The totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 75; influ enza, 4; measles, 66; German meas les, 16; mumps, 54; pneumonia, 5; scarlet fever, 33; tularemia, 1; whooping cough, 51; gonorrhea, 32; syphilis, 11; rheumatic fever, 14; epidemic meningitis, 1; and Weil's disease, 1. Effective June 3, a quarantine of all dogs was promulgated by the State Board of Health for Davis and Tooele Counties. The quarantine will be in effect until further notice. non-resi- -i . TABU. MEATS, stamps A8 indefinitely. W8 became FATS, ETC Red through W8 are good Stamps U8, V8 and valid June 4. PROCESSED FOODS Blue Stamps A8 through V8, Book Four are good indefinitely. Stamps R8, S3, T8, U8, and V8 became valid June 1. Maybe war leaders are superstitious or maybe there is something to the old system for shaking the dice. Anyway, The members of the Thimble Stanley Arnold of Cleveland has Nimble SUGAR Clothing club met ThursStamps No. 30 and worked out a calendar of the war of home Zella the at 1st June Book are good indefinite31, day, Four, Showing that every significant event has happened on either the seventh Hill. The lesson waa given and ly. Stamp No. 40 for canning is or eleventh of the month. Here is then the different colors were valid. Take Spare Stamp 37 to the calendar: Harbor rtrl Declaration of D. Invanlon of Slneapore. ran of Correeldor .rek. 1, 1M1 war Germany and Italy,.. Dm. 11,141 of Guam rail ....Dec. 11, mi ran. of Wake Dee. 11, 1M1 lavarion lavaiton May of Kltka Jan of Guadalcanal Invasion of No. Africa. .Nov. Af. lavailon of anoeenpted France Not. 11,1941 1, 1M2 1, 1MZ 1, 1S4! T, 1MI 11, IMS Betaking of Tunis and Bfcerte May 7, IMS Krtaklnt of Attn May 11, 1M1 raU of Pantelleria June 11, 1M3 Finally Mr. Arnold points out that the recent renewed. attack on Italy started May 11 at 11 p. m. e BREWSTER AXED The navy has decided that the controversial Brewster Aeronautical corporation will be the first to feel the axe of discontinued war production. This Is good news for the country lo that It means that j war losses of airplanes are leas than expected and that the nary will not need so many replace discussed. A very enjoyable time local rationing board, for canning was 8 pent and delicious refresh- sugar. ments were served SHOES Airplane Stamps No. The next meeting will be June 1 and Book 2, Three, are good in8th at the home of Irene FridaL definitely. South Tremonton Club held GASOLINE Stamp No. 11, their meeting at LaMar Heslop's 'A' Book, good for three gallons, home, June 2nd. Games were play- expire June 21. ed and delicious refreshments were Applications for supplemental served to the boys. Our next meetrations must be mailed in be will gasoline held 7th at ing Jim July to the boards two weeks before and Ned Palmer's home. Jim Palmer, Reporter gas is needed. They must be sign ed, endorsed, and accompanied by The Thatcher Sewing Club met tire inspecitlon record. at the Thatcher school house, FriRemember two red tokens plus day, June 2nd, under the super- four cents for every pound of used vision of Mrs. Ruth Zollinger and See your butcher. fats. Mrs. Lois Summers, the leaders. Mrs. P. E. Ault was a visitor at KILL THE BLACK MARKET-ENDO- RSE the meeting. YOUR GAS COUPON! The following were chosen as officers for the club for the coming Mrs. Clarence B rough left Mon season: Jean Roche, president; day with her uncle, Henry Burbank Watt, vice resident; Lama of San Francisco, for a visit in Nelsen, secretary; Ann Wood, song California with relatives, She will and cheer leader; Deon Christen-se- visit her brother, LaRatae Marble reporter. while on the coast 4-- H Va-ie- ne n, doii vvicjsiow sm. BUY 5TH. WAR LOAN BONDS TO BOMB THE ENEMY. AND GIVE BALM TO OUR FIGHTING LET'S MEN' 8 bat missions. Every plete tour the same everybody one of them is perfectly willing to go through another com of missions if he can just be home for a month. I belieJ . thing is true of almost at this station. And it's seas needs a definite Ume Umit a new experience to shoot for. Naturally It for me, because possible right at this moment t most of the comsend many people home, tad the bat men I've fliers appreciate and acctpt been with before that fact. But once the invasion wanted to is made and the first period ot forever finished furious intensity has passed, oar when they went veteran fliers hope to start r home. tag home in greater numbers. Every one of "my crew" has the distinguished flying cross and Ernie Pyle the air medal. with clusters. They have had flak ' numerous plane through their has ever of none them but times, been hit. They expect it to be rough when the invasion starts, but they're anxious to get it over with. In the past they have usually flown one mission a day over France, with occasionally two as the tempo of the spring bombings increased. But during the invasion they will probably be flying three and sometimes four missions a day. They will be in the air before daylight and they will come home from their last mission after dark. They will go for days and maybe weeks in a frenzied routine, eating hurriedly between missions, snatching a few hours of weary sleep at night, and being up and at it again hours before daylight to shuttle back and forth across the Channel. They and thousands of others like them. Lieut. Bill Collins, who joes the name of Chief, is what as a "hot pilot." is by known He used to be a fighter pilot, and he handles his Marauder bomber as though it were a fighter. He is dar. ing, and everybody calls him t "character." but his crew has a fanatical faith in him. Chief is addicted to violent evasive action when they're in flak, and the boys like that because it makes them harder to hit They'vt had flak through the plane and with-i- n a foot of them, but none of then has been wounded. When they finished their allotted number of missions which used to give them an automatic trip to America, but doesn't any more -Chief buzzed the home field in celebration of their achievement He got that old wound up in a steep glide, came booming down at the runway, leveled off a loot above the ground and went screaming across the field at 250 miles B-2- 6 only a foot above the ground all the way. And at the same time he had to shoot out all the red flares he had in the plane. They say Fighting purely an air war as it looked like a Christmas tree flying down the runway. this one here has been up to now Chief used to be a clerk with the is in some ways so routine that it is Aetna Life Insurance company like running a big business. crewman "works" back in his home town of Hartford, Usually a 25 now and doesn't know only about two hours a day. He re- Conn. He is turns to a life that is pretty close to whether he will go back to the Ia normal one. There is no ground nsurance job or not after the war. He war to confuse him or disturb him says it depends on how much they or even inspire him with its horror. offer him. His war is highly technical, highly Lieut. Jack Arnold is the one they organized, and in a way somewhat Red Dog. He is only 22, acall academic. Because of this it is easy to get lthough he seems much older to me. bored. An air crewman has lots of He enlisted in the army almost four spare time on his hands. Neither the years ago, when he was just out of officers nor the enlisted fliers have high school. He was an infantrymas any duties whatever other than fly- for a year and a half before he finally went to bombardier school ing. When not flying they either loaf and got wings for his chest and around their own huts, writing let- bars for his shoulders. He figures that as a bombard-ie-r ters or playing poker or just sitting he has killed thousands tf in front of the fire talking, or else and he thinks it is sa Germans, a they take leave for few hours and excellent profession. He says go to the nearby villages. They can the finest bombing experience he go to dances or sit in the local pubs has ever had was when they and talk. missed the target one day and And every two weeks they get two quite accidentally hit a barracks days' leave. That again is something of German troops and killed full new to us who have been in the many of them. Mediterranean. Down there, fliers Red Dog is friendly and gay do get leave to go to rest camps, and yet he is a fundamentally and even to town once in a while serious man who takes the war if there is a town, but there's nothto heart. The enlisted men of or automatic about it ing regular crew say that be isn't his These boys up here get their two of anything, and that the afraid a leave month twice days' just like true of Chief Collin. is same clockwork. They can do anything a cool pair, yet botk are want They with they it are as hospitable and friendly si Most of them go to London. Othyou could imagine. ers go to nearby cities where they have made acquaintances. They go i to dances and night clubs and The plane's engineer-gunn- e shows. They paint the town and Sgt Eugene Gaines of New OrlesM. blow off steam as any active man He is distinct from the rest became who lives dangerously must do now he married a British girl last D and then. They make friends among cember. to the British people, and they look up They have a little apartment E field. these same friends on the next trip town eight miles from the to town. ery evening Gaines rides his then They do a thousand and one things stays till about midnight, on their leave, and it does them rides back to the airdrome. For y good. Also, it gradually creates an never know when you may be routed understanding between the two out at 2 a. m. on an early missios, peoples that the other is all right and you must be on hand. 1 in his own peculiar way. It takes him about 45 minutei te and ride the eight miles, After a certain number of mis- made the round trip nightly all wasions a crew is usually given two ter, in the blackout and through iweeks' leave. Most of them spend it ndescribable storms. Such is traveling. Our fliers often tour Scot- course of love. land on these leaves. It's amazing Gaines is a quiet and the number of men who have been young man of 24. He way a carpeto Edinburgh and who love the nter before the war, and he fiorei w place. They have visited Wales and that will be a pretty good trad North Ireland and the rugged south- stick to after the war. But if 0' western coast, and they know the pression does come he has an v Midlands and the little towns of Eng. in the hole. He has a farm at Fen that w land. Elver, La., and he figures cw These leaves don't a farm in the background you substitute in the fliers' mind for always be safe and IndependentrM a trip back to America. That's Gaines wears a plain weddinj all they live for. That's what on his left hand. I've noticed ne they talk about most of the time. lot of the married soldiers over A goal Is what anyone over wear wedding rings. B-2- 6 Grazing Service Holds Fire Fighting Training School non-residen- 4-- H seven-come-elev- By Comdr. Frank Marlines; -- 0 RliTIOn The Penrose boys held a meeting last Monday evening at the home of Fred and Dee Len Petersen, County Agent' Elmer Broadbent visited Fred Petersen Thursday. Fred Petersen took two lambs to the Livestock Show in North Salt Lake. D. L. Petersen, Reporter Don Winslow of the Navy Lt COLUMN . B-2- 6 feel x ments. Actually our losses in the Pacific have been about 5t per cent less than estimated. Also, the news is extremely significant for the airplane because Brewster will be the first big plane company to be turned loose on its own to manufacture commercial planes if it can get priorities. If it can't get them, it will have to BASE IN ENGLAND. "My crew" of two officers and tW A boirhT enlisted men have been flying together as team in their since before leaving America more than a year ago. Every one of them is now far beyond his allotted number of eonj. Wednesday, May 31. under the direction of D. E. Jenson, district grazier for the Promontory Grazing District, thirty grazing service fire fighting per diem euards and administrative officers of the crazing Service and Forest Service met in an all rfa session at the Promontory Grazing District headquarters at Brigham, The primary purpose of this conference was to organize fire fighting crews throughout Box Elder and Rich County range and forest areas, also to review accepted and proven practices of fighting equipment and control methods. Other Grazing Service personnel present at this training school were: As sistant rlegional Grazier HamM Burbank of Region 2 office at Salt Ke --ity; Regional Fire Lee Young, and Assistant Rw. tonal Engineer O. P. DeJulio, Ross Cobb, improvement foreman of the Promontory Grazing District; and Ar tucnaras, junior ranee ex. arruner. Sheriff Warren of aer county, who isHyde Deputy state fire warden of Box Elder County, was also in attendance. The following individuals have been selected as leaders and fire fighting per diem guards in their respective areas and will organize crews within their areas for securing early action on control of any range or forest fires withing their given areas of responsibility: Newell Richins, Grouse Creek; mond Tanner, Grouse Creek; RayJohn Hadfield, Grouse Creek; Valison Tanner, Etna; Raymond Lind Lynn, Utah; Carl H. Yates, Yosf' Ervin Jones. Naf, Idaho; James Campbell, Naf, Idaho; Ferris James, Muddy Creek; Charles Kunzler, Rosette; Roy Pugsley Rosette; Guy Rose, Park Valley-RaCarter, Park Valley; Archie Rose, Snowville; Warren Hickman, Snowville; Roy Showell, Snowville-BlynWells, East Promontory'; Leo Flint. East Promontory; Claud Staples, Conner Springs Ranch. S. Oleen Josephson, Plymouth-RoHolmgren, Bear River Ben Weston, Laketon; J. L. City Willis Leo McKinnon, Rani Laketon; dolph; Jacob Norris, Randolph; Theris Corn la, Woodruff; Ralph Ellis, Woodruff; Mark Thackeray Morgan; Achel Jacobeen, Randolph; DeWitt Palmer, Kelton-JohShandrew, East Promontory-ArnolWhitaker, Promontory Station ; Jack Mathews, Perry; Claud Allen, Mantua; James E. Ward, North Willard; Wayne Woodland. Willard. During the conference, it was brought out that the entire area of the state of Utah has been declared a fire district by State Fire (Continued On Page 3) y y . bicyels-home- two-we- ek ; Crewmen Include Student, 4Cowboy From Arizona n d , The radioman-gunne- r Is Sgt. John Slebert of Charlestown, Mass. He learned to fly before the war, although he is only 23 now. He had about COO hours in the air as pilot Yet because of one defective eye he couldn't get into cadet ichool. Ht had two years at Massachusetts InstltuU of Technology, and ht hopes to go back and finish hen the war is over. .P Sgt. Kermit Prultt, gunner of the other day. is the tail coboy in "my crew." He's an old from Arizona. ,w He twj Prultt is the talking kind. and sings on the glifhtert P ton tion. He likes old cowboy in once They say that every co he will start singing some interphone songs over the run. actually on a bomb whom they're 1 |