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Show Thursday, September 21, BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, TREMONTON, UTAH Page Two 194. cough were reported. The totals for the week wer,' as follows: chickenpox, 10; were reported. , Eight ca,es of pulmonary tuber-- man measles, 2; measles, 8; pnet. week the monia, 2; mumps, 7; scarlet fevti for were culosis reported Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Week 7 of whom are residents and one 6; tuberculosis, 1; whooping coug or Friday Distribution 4; gonorrhea (resident), 14; Phone 23 First West Street 1; syphjK is encouraging to note from orrhea It decline in the num- - the weekly repoit that only 8j (resident), 7; syphilis (non-recontinued A Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton, Utah, as Second Lber of cases of communicable di cases of measles, 6 cases of scarlet dent), 6; poliomyelitis, 2, and dy.j Class Matter October 15, 1925 seases throughout the state is fever, and 4 cases of whooping sentery, 1. D C. Washington, shown by reports from local health A. N. RYTTING, officers for the week ending SepFEAE OF CASUALTIES SUBSCEIPTION RATES (In Advance) The inside story can now be told tember 15. Only 69 cases of com- e an RATES SOLDIER $1.75 $2.50 ONE YEAR regarding one of the greatest wor Imunicable diseases were reported as ries of the Allied High Command in low record connecUon with the Normandy in- compared with 72 for the previous vasionnamely, casualties. It was week and 191 for the correspondI feared they would be terrifically ing week in 1943. Utah and Weber counties each high. . . . one case of poliomyelitis, Prime Minister In Churchill, reported fact. That's Joe talking. Every night when he stops in for who had bung back from a making a total of 17 cases for front for two years, feared his coffee and sinkers he has plenty to tell the boys about Allies the he might suffer losses comand should he's be run. war how this maybe Maybe right to the early days of the last parable isn't war, when the cream of British The important thing is that he can say what he thinks manhood, then relatively untrained, FILES out loud. Right in front of Tom Burke, the cop. He couldn't was mowed down in Flanders fields. THROUGH THE LEADER AGO YEARS He frequently told FDR that he was FIFTEEN OP or in any of the nations worried about losing the "seed" By Ernie Pyle do that in Germany or Japan Order. New tiie of Britain. that have been "liberated" by ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Delayed) .Soldiers are1 Stricken Hilton Asa Into This worry gives an insight But Joe is an American. made out of the strangest people. the sudden change between the type By Death I've recently made a new friend just a plain old Hoosier ' of slow fighting during the first few P. Hilton, of Garland, died Asa who is so quiet and humble you would hardly know he was And because Joe is an American, he has more privileges weeks In Normandy and the head- of a heart attack, Tuesday, SepYet in our few weeks of invasion he has killed four around. than can be found anywhere else long onrush of today. and more opportunities tember 17, 1929. He had Just been of the enemy, and he has learned war's wise little ways of Allied orders during the early to lunch when he was stricken in the world. were to ad- with a severe pain near his heart. destroying life and preserving your own. weeks In If he doesn't want to work for somebody else, he can vance underNormandy a "curtain of steeL" As The doctor was called at once, but He hasn't become the "killer" line It's harder on t operate a business of his own anywhere. Joe is a free agent. a result, the greatest artillery bar- he lived only a short time after type that war makes of some sol- man infantryman. at that age. was In down laid ever history rage ad diers; he has merely become His future is under his hat. Like millions of other Americans thrown at the Germans in advance he arrived. As Gayton himself says, "Whej , to an obli-justed of has in life on a that you pass that 30 mark you begin to I cash can on the way up, Joe way of Allied infantry. It was en artil- Fair Days new pro- slow gatory up a little." world lery barrage so heavy that it wiped fession. brought America the highest standards of living in the It's harder for you to take th' out almost everything in its path. Vast crowds attended the Fifth His name is hard ground and the rain and th by a big margin. and Rodeo Thomas sleeplessness However, It was slow. It took annual County Fair George of inherited and the unendini American boys are fighting for the right time to unload big guns on shallow which opened Thursday, September Back Clayton. of all. And yet at T it wracking It all of us, wherever we live, or whatever we do, to live our beaches. It also took time to bat- 18, 1929 at the fair grounds.varhome he is known he elected to back. go from the was .people as Tommy. In the Jives tne way we want to live tnem. And when those boys ter down German positions. But ious reportted The invasion turwj an of ways towns and cities enjoyed once these positions were battered army he is some-tim- out to be all very new to Tomrtjf come home they want too find again, the basic rights and down, and the much. rim of German de- themselves very called Clayton. fense was broken, the Allies found freedoms on which this country was built. George, but usuIt was new to thousands of othea I ally just Clayton. also, for they hadn't been train We Americans all the Joes,, the Tom Burkes and every- what General Eisenhower knew was A. L. Cook Poisoned the case a complete military vacHe is from Ernie Pyle in hedgerow fighting. So they hif While Treating Grain body else 130 million of us have more to fight for than uum inside. where to learn it the way a dog learns 1 our is in victory In other words, the Nails had A. L. Cook, of Tremonton, met he lived with his sister. He is a frontany other people in the world. Our stake f swim. They learned. staked everything on holding the with a mishap while handling line infantryman of a rifle company free way of life. Let's guard it faithfully! This Tommy Clayton, the mflif chemicals for treatment of grain. in the 29th division. rim, had no defenses In the inest of men, has killed four of tti I ("The Gilcrafter," house organ of the Gilbert Paper Co.) terior. That is the explanaHis leg had been inoculated with By the time this is printed he will enemy for sure, and probably tion for the headlong rash of Alcopper carbonate and for a time be back in the lines. Right now he ens of unseen ones. He wears n lied forces la recent weeks. was threatened with a serious case is out of combat for a brief rest. He expert rifleman's badge and soa TTHE G. I. The Nasls were gambling on of blood poisoning. spent a few days in an "Exhaustion will have the proud badge of coa I their Atlantic wall, a wan which by Russell Kay In some way the chemical got camp," then was assigned briefly to bat infantryman, worn only by thott i eoald not stand np under Bradin his left knee and he had to be the camp where I work from a who have been through the mflL f If you were home, my G. I. friend, of steel." "curtain ley's taken to the hospital. He passed camp for correspondents. That's You'd find your problem wouldn't end; Three of his fonr victims he NOTE General Montgomery! the danger sign during the week how we got acquainted. la one long blast of his rot G. wte folks home aren't I., For while cautious advances In Normandy and returned home a few days latautomatic rifle. Be Browning We have a tough time getting by. probably reflected In part Church- er. was stationed in the bushes at j Clayton is a private first class. ill's worry over casualties. HowHe operates a Browning automatic a bend la a gravel road, cover f Instead of Brass Hats and M. P.'s, ever, he has been cautious in other rifle. He has turned down two a crossroad about 88 yards tog We have the Bureaucrats to please. areas also. Before the BatUe of Death Takes Little chances to become a buck sergeant ahead of him. El Alameln, when the British army Darrel Holmgren and squad leader, simply because They regulate our daily lives, Suddenly three German solhad been pushed back and back diers came out la side road and son of Mr. he would rather keep his powerful seven old Protect our children, guard our wives; The year across the desert toward Cairo, foolishly stopped to talk right hi and Mrs. David Holmgren died B. A. R. than have stripes and less Run our business, grow our crops, Montgomery queried his chief, Genprotection. personal the middle of the crossroads. ninea after 1929, 18, s. eral Alexander: "What casualties September And set the price on He landed in Normandy on The B. A. R. has 2a ballets la a was loved He illness. teen by day can I take?" Alexander, with the on the toughest of the beaches, and was for clip. Clayton held her down for If we, by chance, would go noted and his playmates fate of the Suez canal at stake, rewas in the line for 37 days without the whole clip. The three Ger- his sunny disposition. We first must ask some guy's permission. plied: "One hundred per cent" has had innumerable narHe rest mans went down, never to get of the community row The heart Caution, of course, is no reflection We have no trouble getting bocae, I escapes. up. out to stricken went the grief on courage. Twice, 88s hit within a couple His fourth one he thought was I j But must have coupons for our shoes. family. of arms' lengths of him. But Jap when he killed him. In the earlj f We're told to check the ceiling price both times the funnel of the conSAILOR'S OUTMODED UNIFORM days of the invasion lots of soldien cussion was away from him and On everything from nuts to rice. Now that Adm. Ernie ("Clothes thought they were fighting Japs, be didn't get a scratch, though scattered in with the German' We stand in line and wait our turn, Horse") King has finally relented the explosions covered him will let troops. They were actually Mooofficers and naval shed their To buy a mop or coffee urn. and Us rifle with dirt golian Russians, with strong Orien- - jt jackets under certain conditions in While jobs are plentiful today, Then a third one hit about 10 feet tal features, who resembled Japs to j hot weather, a lot of sailors wish Tuesday, a number of the Relief away, and made him deaf in his the untraveled Americans. he would also examine the uniform To get one you're obliged to pay, Society members met at the Relief right ear. He had always had On this fourth killing, Clayton wm f of the enlisted man. Initiation fees each time, house and cleaned trouble with that ear anyway ear covering an infantry squad as it enlisted men would whoop Society meeting went to Most while others ward the it Or else fight through a picket line. child. Even a as worked aches and forward things along a hedgerow. with joy if their present, hall and quilted two quilts, so the in the army back in America he There were snipers in the trees is If you protest and ask "How come?" uniform was discarded. What ladies were very busy and are to had to beg the doctors to waive the front. Clayton spotted one and ; most people don't realize is that the They term you a "subversive bum." commended for their splendid ear defect in order to come over- sprayed the tree with his automatit be uniform was designed by the sailor's And so you see, my G. I. friend, seas. He is still a little hard of hear- rifle, and out tumbled this man h British about 200 years ago and is work. burst thought was a Jap. ing You're not so bad off, in the end ; now just as outmoded as the sailing Peach Day celebration was at- but in that ear from the shell j back. it's gradually coming comship. tended by several from our But since I've given you the dope, When finally left the lines To show how little anyone wfef Take, for instance, the broad col munity on both days. The celebra- he was Tommywell When you come home I surely hope, done and his pretty up been through war can knot hasn't lar worn over the shoulders. It was tion was different from otther wanted to send him to a about it do sergeant You'll like the G. I. Home Front less, you want to know ho for so the because designed many of ships years, he begged not to go for Clayton located his of the 1700s, when sailors had to be young men and girls are serving hospital, but sniper? And straighten out the whole blamed mess. fear he wouldn't get back to his old Here's how and a broad collar was m our country's service. deloused of Gilbeit the (From "The Gilcrafter," house organ company, so they let him go to a When a bullet passes smack ove practicable to catch the tar oils used rest camp Instead. And now after a your head it doesn't zing; it pop! came Sunhome Veda Gardner a in sailor's hair. Paper Company. Los Angeles, couple of weeks with us (provided the same as a rifle when it goes of x trousers day morning from Again, the the correspondents don't drive him That's because the bullet's rapK Mr. to California her visit parents, which flap around the ankles and frantic), he will return to the lines passage creates a vacuum behind It ' good indefinitely. (Blue tokens nearly trip the wearer when he runs, and Mrs. James A, Gardner. and the air rushes back with sud; Schaffer Hazel Mrs. and will not be In use after Septemdaugh- with his old outfit. were designed for days when sailors has worked at all kinds force to fill this vacuum that B, her-.Clayton on were friends ters ber 30.) calling roUed their trousers up over their of things back in that other world of collides with Itself, and makes a re SUGAR Stamps No. 30, 31, legs to scrub decks. Today, dunea Sunday. civilian life. He has been a farm sounding f "pop." 32, 33, (Book Four) each good for rees are provided for this sort of tH Lestter Pierson received word hand, a cook and a bartender. Just I causd know Clayton didn't what five pounds, are good Indefinitely. work. last week that his brother, Chancy before he joined the army he was this, and I tried to explain. for canning sugar expire Again the drop .front. in the Chrysler OrdPierson, had passed away at Ru- a gauge-hone- r Red Stamps "You know what a vacuum is," I MEATS, FATS, ETC. 28, 1945. trousers were designed for a day pert, Idaho. He was 83 years old. nance plant at Evansville. February said. "We learned that in bigs Z8 A8 A5 and stamps through SHOES Airplane stamps No. two centuries ago when tidiness was When the war is over he wants to school." Mra O. W. Snow and daughter 1 and 2 (Book Three) have no ex nothing like what it is today. through G5 (Book Four) are good And Tommy said, "Ernie, I nevtf j Barbara, visited their brother and go into business for himself for the indefinitely. piration dates. One thing which Bert Dewey and family, at first time in his life. He'll probably went past the third grade." uncle, particularly PROCESSESSED now FOODS GASOLINE Stamp restaurant in Ev the enlisted man is the But Tommy is Intelligent and M St George on their return trip set up a Hesmall Blue stamps A8 through Z8 and good for 4 gallons, expires Decern gripes waist of his said ansville. his brother-in-laCalifornia. which from blouse, sensitivities are fine. You don't hart A5 through L5 (Book Four) are ber 21. has to be slipped on and off over his Mr. and Mra Hyrura Montgom would back him. to know the reasons in war, jot head. If a sailor is dumped Into the ery, of North Ogden, were guests only have to know what things indwater and has to swim for any of Mr. and Mrs. James Gardner i icate when they happen. Tommy was shipped overseas after only two months In the length of time, It Is almost Imnossl here, Sunday. Well, Clayton had learned that ble to get this blouse off. It Is tlnht. the pop of a bullet over his heai f Mr. and Mrs. Lester Pierson and army, and now has been out of sticks to the body, and you can't daughter, Lois, attended the fun America for 18 months. He is preceded the actual rifle report mediom-slzevery well swim and at the same cral services for Mrs. Harriet Ker has by a fraction of a second, be-On the banks of the PoUme hold two arms above your a mustache little cause the and Mon in the sound of the rifle ex- Wilkenson Tremonton, tomac River not far by head while you wriggle out of your st-looking head of balr was had to travel some dls- Wilkenson Mrs. a yon sister plosion from Washington, day. Mount Vernon ever saw this side of Buffalo tance before hitting his ear. So j middy. stands the gracious of Mr. Pierson. home of the first presBUl's show. Some of the boys wish that Ad the "pop" became his warning Sunday evening at Sacrament ident of our country. While his division was killing time miral King would take off his new meeting, J. L Roberts, of the Bear signal to listen for the crack of George and Martha In the last few days before leaving a sniper's rifle a moment later. for school uniform, designed River high Seminary, waj Washington are buried . he and three others deHis Majesty's tailor in Lon the special speaker. him England, by In a mausoleum on the much practice he had Through i don. long enough to experiment with Mra Lowell Burbank and daugh cided to have their hair cut Indian learned to gauge the direction of tin V""' grounds. a In the water. They ter, Susin, of Thayne, Wyoming, fashion. They had their heads sound almost exactly. And so out think that, despite a century's de are spending a few days here with clipped down to the skin all except this animal-liksystem of hunting h ridge starting at he had the knowledge to shoot in'.' lay, he would then design for them Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Burbank of for a the forehead and running clear to the a new uniform overnight. right tree and out tumbled this place. the back of the neck. It makes them "Jap" ' and Marble Mrs. and Mr. sniper. Henry children spent a few days In Idaho look more comical than ferocious, as they had intended. Two of the In a long drive an Infantry comvisiting relatives. BraiU Distinctive four have been wounded and evacupany may go for a couple of da' Brazil has many distinctions ated to England. In a time of War, Amerwithout letting up. Ammunition f tucked away In its ica ban been spared the history I chatted oil and on with Dayton carried up to it by hand, and occr as Portuguese colony, Independent of its destruction for several days before he told me ionally by jeep. The soldiers somf shrines. But her sons empire and modern republic. It Is how old he was. I was amazed; so times eat only one K ration a da; have seen war's dethe only American country ever to much so that I asked several other They may run clear out of water struction at the four America Frco govern a European land (Portugal), to guess at his age and they Their strength is gradually whittle, people corners of the earth. and the only one to have a dynasty all guessed about the same as I did down by wounds, exhaustion case Established 40 Years Duy ruling on its own soil. Brazilians about 28. and straggling. are alone in South America in BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH Actually he Is 37, and that's pretty Finally they will get an order' speaking Portuguese. well along in years to be a front f sit where they are and dig in. 1944. PUBLIC HEALTH DEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER pe riod For the corresponding in 1943, 216 cases of this disease ci COLUMN non-reside- nt (non-residen- t), s. j Editor-Publish- er With Ernie Pyle at the Front all-tim- Front Line Infantryman Learns' How to Kill Enemy "NOW, IF WAS DOWN THERE IN WASHINGTON cross-chann- el Not a Killer at Heart, These Boys Soon Develop Accuracy LOOKING BACK 8 ... ) : 3' es j ; 1 df HOME FRONT lolly-pop- y, : DEWEYVILLE - . long-outmod- ! j 1 i, vermin-infeste- d ! bell-shape- d rumen mt ; rAU A-1- 3, tight-fittin- g w bonds ovsn mmm d, dark-haire- d, : funnie- grey-gree- n middy-bloua- ; e e 01 two-inc- hi- A 414-ye- S. NORMAN LEE Keep War Condi ABSTRACTOR |