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' - - '' - R t ' 1' 1 ' I ' - - ' i l i r t l' v - - - 1 ' irvilbunt'' i ' : ':gankt t 6c Sunday Morning 1 - 110011K i - L e tt ers Fr om:th e Boys Recruit Calls RCAF ' i i e t 1 I ' ' - l Pot' 'Melting ir 104 ----- --- 'e I - - Z's 1 ) 40 ---:" - ' I I - I I il 19 0 : 1 '! -- - I k-k r '' Serves As Officer "Ws have to work hardeat ( 41' well and sleep well in order to 1' 4 i it stand the grind But I am havI us : ''' ing no difficulty er::older "I haven't found -- '' men in this business They all l'' 'i from 18 to 23 years old range toit ore which seems to be the right age oo1 for this type of work "I have just finished serving t as a noncommissioned officer ' : for a week—in charge of 70 men I understand that It was i ' : J' a check to see whether I was oe's' i i1 1 good officer material and believe me I sure gave the boys ‘'' i under me a real going over i "While I was bossing this out T ?' 4 11 fit however the rest of my own flight left to go into guerti 1 duty I will catch up with thern again later but before they-lef- t Lyman F (Bill) Thohipson they gave me a swell with Het fly bombers for Canada an air force crest on It ring They're surely great guys 4 "The other day at the air- port I met a flight lieutenant's daughter and I am going on my first date tonight—to a dance which the town puts on for us every Saturday night I don't think I will enjoy myself because my heart is too much In my work In all my Me I have never seen such flying as these fellows do It's really Camp McQuaide Ci d something to look forward to in means "Over "Ohio" The word my training I am determined the Hills in October" to soldiers to get a commission out of this ex- Cal who McQuaide at Camp air force if it takes me the rest Alaska to transferred be pect to of my life" cluring that month But Utahns !n the 250th coast artillery Weary of Trains vented a slogan of their own In a later letter Pilot Thomp"Utah" 00 they adopted the word son wrote that he had been Alaska—Huto "Up meaning to new training transferred rrah!" station "We like to be original" wrote "Well I arrived at my new rrivato Burl Jensen formerly school and I am really in love at Salt take City in a letter to with the place" he said "I The Tribune "Utah is just as have been traveling for several good as Ohio any day Besides ' many of the men in the 250th days and have covered a heck of lot of miles I had a coast artillery came from Utah" Discussing the prospective trip snorting time on the train The to Alaska young Jensen conboys let down their hair for a few hours and had a good time tinues: "Most ot our regiment I rode the darn thing so long already is located in Alaska and however that I got sick of it the rest of us expect to join I have sten so many trains and them soon Battery D which is ridden so many thousands of my outfit will be leaving about miles on them that I hope I the middle of September and our in Alaska will never see one again location ' probKahl island "I am training at No 3 serv"Each battery will be sta- ice flying and training school and believe me It is a swell Itoned sac yuotu canorseel whmatas more planes than school time we are going to half you can shake a stick at I Up to Alaska don't know how long I will re-by ourselves main here but if it is anything hardly expresses our sentiments but we will do like the last school it probably tour best to enjoy it Will be four or six weeks Dur"Although we really don't my training the air force al-ing ithink much of Alaska and the lows me between 140 and 150 a prospects waiting there for us month to spend and the rest (if we are very determined to do our any) is banked" NrInty as we see it and let nothto ling stop us We are going we oclo our best up there until hhave served our time and are 'allowed to come home" More than 100 Utahns are sta : 1 --- - lb L - '-- '''' - 0C-'"- - ' ' i - - 0- 1 - l'- - i to 1 $ t ' - 'I '- ' - i r( - 1 - ::: t 1 i i i I : i i r 1 i - i --- I - Soldiers Form Slogan From '1Jta1e Letters i I 1 i ' — It 1 - 4 1 I ' Pri- Irate Jensen reported - 'Poor Private Tepper' 3Iakes Good at Last l 1 ' - li Cansp Mk:Nokia 1 CALL Private John J Periplmeno of Comp McQuaide Cal used to pester the editor of' the camp publication to put his name in the paper At last omday when °Tepper" forgot to Mey orders theeditor obliged with this brief tiotice: fiepper didn't keep his date i1 -- - But he has my consolation They put him in the guard house 1! For insuttordination Re wanted his name in the paper i He got it in at last io read herewith the details iLbout poor Pepper's past Ili Attie Cousin Amy wants to thank you for the doll' you sent Amy's so sweet and helps her mother a lot around the house Yesterday she shot the finance man I suppose you know about 4 ''- 0 0 0 t c ' ' - 59 I i 1 l 1 i -- a r 1 it i I il 1ji ' 1 r - - ' ' Y - — 7wIty'' - - ' - - - ' : )' i - L - y - ' - - i I! NOM" I '4- - k -- 4444 AN - '" ”C r - s : ' - i ' ‘'' i i: I ': ! - 1 - 1 - Sandy Youth Deplores War I Expresses Views in Verse ' ' ' Three Months in the army at Fort Lewis Wash hasn't at- fected Private Delb:ert G Gt11 derson's outlook on war He still hates it Writing to his parents Mt and Mrs L C Gunderson ot Sandy he sums up his views vividly as follows: War Dark wet' clouds quickly gather for a strong and raging flood btt To the din of 'cannon thunder 'falls a drenching rain of blood There's the sickening whine of bullets roaring bombers overhead 'Mut a cry of help frowound! ed on a field that'4 strewn with dead Poison gas like fog is rolling couno'er the shell-t- o try's breath Leaving waste and grIM destruction in its br dening path of death - The gnawing fangs of famIne coupled close w1Jt all disease Takes a toll from every village from the mountain to the seas And 'vilat's to be accom )11shed In this struggle az d- this strife? For a large exacting p tyment must be made in human life Ever since the earth's bc Sergeant Mike Rescues Damsel in Distresx Camp Roberts Cal When an army truck knocked over a fire hydrant in front of the camp headquarters building at Camp Roberts Cal the general's secretary was left stranded outside the building Quick to the rescue Master Sergeant Mike Susko rushed to her aid picked her up in his RIMS And carried her safely acrosAthe ankle-dee- p puddle of water Soldiers watching the excitement cheered and shouted approval of gallant Mike's good deed - Aunt Daisy by now She marred a caveman and they've been In the hole ever since Aunt! Mabel is visiting us and mother's cooking is certainly doing a lot for her She has the most beautiful dreams This morning she woke up with an ermine coat on her tongue And that reminds me Aunt Mabel may have been a social butterfly before she married Uncle Tim but she certainly goes through his pockets like an old moth We want to keep a lamp In the window for you Willie but the window is so dirty you couldn't: see the lamp—and if we washed the window you wouldn't recognize the house Your loving sister Gracie Aliens Tribune Wants Photos from I :- 7 - - I furled Before the moving army as a - - thirft He covers all the leaders with medals and honor shields For their strategic 'victories- -mass murders on the fields How 'long will men be driven to these cruel and heartless goals As long as national honor's priced higher souls This storm shall rage forever and wars will never cease Til the coming of our Savior Son of God and Prince of Peace i than-homs- n Bear Trees Benefactor Somewhere la Alaska "NoBears Out Tonight" may be esimple chlid's game to most folks but it's matter of precaution to Private Ray Sanders becausel he tried to take a picture of a 4 black bear in a tree "ma hulking ruin was a regular caller at the small Alaskan army camp where it fed upon waste left by the kitchen Then one day Private Sanders decided to take Its picture climbing a tree He placed a piece of bacon on the trunk about ten base and feet up from climbed above the bacon in order to get a picture' looking down at the bear All went well The bear climbed the tree got the bacon and Sanders got his picture Then the bear returned down the tree squatted at the base and proceeded to take its time eating the meat Meanwhile Sanders remained In the 00-pou- nd tree After the bear' had flubbed the bacon It started up the tree again This time Sanders was worried Ile wasnt' sure whether the bear was after more bacon or him But be didn't wait to find out He proyed his heritage and outclimbeC the bear foot by loot hollering bldbdy murder all the time One of the other fellows at the camp noting the situation threw another piece of bacon at the bear Bruin 'preferring the bacon to Sanders came down I the tree and tooli home the ba- con ! - : ' 't -- "' - z - t 4 '' ' ' i k ' ' i tt- At 1 ''-- ' - - --- : 1 - J4 ‘ ) - r- : t- 4 ' 14 I 11 -- -- - -- 11 i - - de -- -- - W C 7 Replies to CI SP And Sjiarks Begin to Fly i the army own a camera? Corps? you have received Rookie Seeks Tap Gets Burn their quarters in other states Ha urged them bluntly to "lay oft" and "sed yourself as others see you for a change" Then he went on to say that Salt Lake City wasn't so wonderful either and that he preferred sand and dust storms any day to the "soot that I cannot strub off" Now from poraway Fort Henning Ga cornea a rebuttal—a by fiery' verbal !counterattack n a hot miserable Fort Denning The Tribune become a party but in fairness out- standing pictures from one of the men in the nation's armed forces mail them to the Army Camp Editor in care of The Salt Lake Tribune Better Mill If you happen to plan a trip downtown' drop into theteditorial rooms of The Tribune at 143 South Main street and let the editor see your pictures He willhandle them carefully and return them promptly Remember Along With the lettersb you send us from the boys in camp Inclose a snapshot now and then And if possible Inclose the negative with each snapshot This will enable our photographers to enlarge it for better newspaper reproduction Barra'chi lionolulu Ilawail "I've been' tryi g to get a sun tan but it IMMO that an I get is sunburned" tuoans Private Keith Hedrick of Idaho 1411111 Idaho now stationed at Schoy field barrack Honolulu Hawaii "Schofield barracks is supposed to be the largest army post in Hawaii" he continues in a letter to relati el "The gun battery of which II am a member holds 80 me —with about IetaI1 instru80 in the wire ment and aignal Øectlon That is located on the second floor and the rest arson the third floor The firing battery is divided into four Sections altogether Each section has a gunner- corps ammimition corps and a chief of section "I am in the fout section llth field artillery I Would tell you all about our gun but I don't I don't know whither I to think we are "We are not located directly on the shore Instead we are about 28 miles friim Honolulu It doesn't take long to reach the shores however!' Private Hendrick ended hie letter with a p:ea for letters from the states—for a frIend "I have a friend" he explained "named Emmett Pribbk He's a nice guy and will be a corporal in labout three weeks He would Iike to hear from someone from the states so won't you pleasewriter dust-lade- - Schofield Thumbing Banned So Rookies Salute for Ride sem Camp Roberts Cal Courtesy on the highways has been given a new meaning by at least two soldiers of Camp noberts Cal Bearing in mind that it is against army policy to "go thumbing" the two buck privates were seen standing at the south edge of Paso Robles Cal facing the stream of traffic As each motorist approached the smiling fellows would snap to attention and offer each driver a brisk military salute ' ' ' : I: rookie who I came from Utah and wishes he sere back again His letter is !pr nted in full as follows: "I see you have a fellow who doesn't like Salt Lake City He would rather have sand and dust Well las for us fellows here at Fort Denning Ga give us the soot any' day and send those dust lovers down here There are ab4out 15 or 20- soldiers in the eordnance who would gladly trade at any time "We not put up with the dust hereoly lpu rain and mud as well When it rains here the clouds real y burst and when the sun shines we can hardly breathe And with those half trucks !an scout cars scooting all ove c the place it nearly drives la an crazy dear editor send some of those felloWs vithol love sand and sun down here and let us soot overatcome borne where people greet you With a smile and not wtih a hand rust out for your pay check "This letter ls written especially for thell benefit of the fellow who broadcatit his dislikes of Utah on your page Au- gust 10 Please give him a taste of Georgia and listen to ' 51 him holler "If he couleaign himself as C S P and get away with it I'll just sign mYpelf W C W " - - Tle - 41- Soldier Camp Roberts Cal During a Mapireading class In they field near liCamp Roberts Cal Private 1:1411s1 Brown was visited by a thiee-foo- t rattler which anugg1edup beside him ' Ji fit 17 r AND MGM MY MONT 11 to OciP7k 11(1L (-- 171--1- f mole rr tEND t 4 ANO - TO A MITTIOUS AOORESSJ fitt fl - 1 eso 'gNisniciED:ei siotEmumetoalwoley Co 10 t 601L Mite 000y6LL" v :t ' tte 11 EASter4tt I I Feat OFF-DUT- Y ‘ - io -1- id0 I to -- À' LIC141 ' OP4 STATIS' 0 tly7 AiteerWitt WENt ALA ' yjtif : WERE ESCAPED CIRCUS It) --- - q1 It I - 1 -- a - C111 1kcj la uAvANKAKLi: A COMPAN' CiARK 114E ORDINANCE PEPOT WAS POUND USING A HIV RISSON-LES- S EXPLAJNED HE WAS EcoNoorurEkkon NE THOUGHT OFHIM t SOON NAV1 A NEW OXFON AT DANCES AN) ' : oP TYPEWRITER wRitimc HIS TO TgLA HIM WHAT ' 1441171":mmismmitant91ffrommie4 : 121 nlogos A 1 ' 4 - 1 1 a e ) — - ''' - $ - I i i t1 4 1 in various communi- - - reports from the I i 4 number of the commanding of !leer of Litah's 115th Engineers Colonel William Weiler answered "Bill said the chief of staff "we've got a real job for you You've got 220 feet of pontoon bridge besides approach trestles to lay across Willipa bay at Day center That's about 150 miles ' from your headquarters At high' tide It Is 200 to 300 feet across tide' It is 40 to 50 feet across and the Infantry can - - I: ittoin smaaltkbo - apttnttrturout01: Utah's 145th feld irtillery which Is supporting the troops Cat you do It?" Colonel Weiler answered at firmatively rolittiona lIeseribett a rainy 10111tt the 2d23arkmneesns of the of the 115th Engineers trucked their pup tents loaded their equipment (including extra salt boats and extra cans of gasoline) picked up additional pontoon material n at a aid pulled out for Willapa bay on the Padfle ocean north of Astoria Ore reason for this action was that the "enemy" forces having landed at Winans bay had struck due east from the coast and moved Inland for a distance of 35 miles where they entrenched themselves In a court termovement the troops of the 40th division moved down' from the north supported by Utahl 222nd field artillery and California's 143rd field artillery thea continued west to meet the in vaders head-o- n For two days the 40th troops and the"enemy Invaders" had been !coked in "mortal combat" with neither advancing Meanwhile another battalion of infantry supported by the 145th field artillery moved south then west along the Co- lumbia river to the coast and un behind the enemy Such tae' tics if successful would have placed the invaders In a trap and cut them off from retreating to their naval vessels ' Job ?lel Completed Job of the 115th En:flows was to provide a crossing for the troops of the 40th division which having driven as far north as desired had to strike back In land at the enemys rear They would have been delayed untess a crossing was effected at Bay center on Willapa bay Success of the Engineers In constructing the pontoon bridge tit real one not simulated) under probable aeral attack would have determined whether the and its supporting field artillery could have advanced within firing distance of the In vaderst rear flanks But the maneuvers ended just as the Engineers neared the site of the project Their preparetzon howevir Indicated that the bridge would have been a au& cess and their secret movement was branded as one of the most spectacular advances of the en' " near-bytow- - ' '' $ - f: - - i - i i ' ' ' - I I i - f - 4 - 3 " - - ' ' i 1 ' Th : 1: ' ' '' ' 1 ''' - a as no desire to to a revolution t o all interests The editors feel that both sides of a question shtuld be aired It all started when an anony mous soldier who signed himself as C S P W)bjected to the way Utahns were criticizing It challenge to the world Fighting for a leader they struggle in the fray While he directs the battle from ai thousand miles away lie eats the choicest food while his subjects have the worst He drinks the finest sherry while his soldiers die of 1 :t ' - ' C Has he sent home snapshots of his camp and his buddies to give you it tint-han- d view of life in the barracks? Or how about That boy friend who Is serving In the navy or that chum of yours who signed up for the marine The crooked cross is waving with its colors dull un ' ' i 'e Does your son who joined - I t k e- ' '' i - f ' I 5 Boys in' Camp and until the old worldis end We find the cruel aggressOrs while others must defend Their lives i their homes and families from those who would succeed To gain their selfish glories goaded on by lust and greed ' i'' - : ‘ 4 1!: ' 7 ' i ''s back to Camp' San Luis Obispo Calo front war maneuvers at 145111VieWp Wash Left Private Bryan and pet Pooch The dog is Mascot for company II and 8 of the 115th Center engineers corps Technical Sergeant B I r d owner of the dog takes time out for a snooze Right Private Bryan in his workaday clothes He is a cook for company II and S ii t ' ! - l it ' ' ' L - Fort Lewb Wash ' 4 'ts ': : :' -- q ' ' - k it '- i ' - - - ' In quick response tal The Trib une's plea- - for pictures last week Mrs Horace- E Mired submitted these from her son Private Buell G Bryan who is en rout' 4‘ ' - - k '- ' - ' 0 - !!rore1!tr11 ' -- t - ij 4 r ' t : - - - ' 'I ' -- i 4 x t Th& story of that strategic move as compiled from the reports ls given as follows: The 40th division chief of staff sutudied the situation map picked field telephone and called "repair six" which- - was the troaavkee - a ts i ' - - 4111k '1"I ' t - 1 ft N 1 - At-lo- ' ' 1 ) - ' - i ' - ' - i ' I - 1 - '- s t- L - - ' 1 5 I - '- - - 1 4 t l1 - ---4- I 1 It 1 t 'f 4 a - t 1I i I :: "w - t ' lik :' a ' I - I ' - - ' 1 - - s - ' : ' ' 1 11 S' ! b ok li I i : - I I would go all agalnl for the sake tivotuhgh loi experience 15 es: reesa1 Iwal" lucky 'that it wasn't A memher of the 115th Engl - Aer' -- 1 - ' 4 tpwe:trasuwiahrkirrx ohueetstleafnrdenntews ' it 0741 described - ! : :in motettlitise t - - ) Silkworms Arriye to SpinSocks Attack Woodwörk Instead Dear Willie: It was sweet of you to send that family of silkworms so we could raise our own stockings- -but is it possible they might haye been termites? Last night the nortrt wall of the houie collapsed Crandlather's wooden leg was gutted and even the draft board who came in for tea wat rather badly marked up Aunt Millie had her face lift In fact the family has ed thought of chipping in and buying her a stationary balloon to anchor it to - N 4 I k i : 4 - w0 lioned at Camp McQuaide :'''N - s - i 0 s' 4' ' 1 neers' corps from Camp San' tuts Obispo Cal Private Bryan was one of the youngest soldiers pax" ticipating in the mock battle' In fact he played a part in one pened se Ouickly that It didn'a hurt much anyhow" Ile admitted howe'ver that his for a couple logks were !polled ' of days beF41 the lithtailirdrYAndtarYllhalinuaetesscold"nelell:o the f the gas stoves blevi up in my face to the i tune of Minor burns And the next dayi II cut the back of my thumb while sharpenina butch- er knife I had to have stitches taken-p- the first I have ever seen do not worry because II tuePleasc - - ' AO - t - -1- ''''''''4 '11 '-- 0 - : - 4: - 44444 - Can-ads-"- I hich ! the maneuvers': more Than "'I was bunged up anyone else Is our outfit but the experience was worth it I don't regret a bit Of it" he viroteaft-- 1 erward to hi mother Mrs ticir-l-t' ace E Allre of 3141 Soutti ev'nth East street "It all h111- - 4 - l :i : Ik‘‘ - 4! Is still glad he participated' - I ' i ' - :L-- i ' Nursing ailacerated thumb and a few minor burns on his fact probably the Most serious in- juries of ended last liweekBuell IgnivBryleawn Private l - i 1 The royal Canadian air force—foreign legion of the air—is a "melting pot" of English speaking youth Take It from : Lyman F (Bill) Thompson of Salt Lake City an RCA F trainee whose buddies hail from Australia New Zealand England II ' United States and "even a few from Canada" of u "I am quartered with o group of Americans--4- 0 d we are the only American pilots here" he reports in a fete tcr' his parents Mr and Mrs Cy Thompson of 173 WeniwOrth avenue "Altogether there are Australlins New Zealandersn: " Englishmen and Americans but very few Canadians" i'' )I And if the skeptics still aren't tonvinced that the RCAF is a Is now a ring of brilliant red' Otherwise-am black gig a no "melting pot" young Thompa son invites them to visit 'his No wonder for I am In- gm doors eat only long enoug:to in school Canada training and sleep" Who Weuldn serious tone Writes: young Thompson he will melt here" "Anyone "I am working here as 1 never them "It musst be 110 I11111111tIll in worked before I just mill 'lark the ohmic that is if ‘hard enough to suit ryselt My there were any shade around three months away frord home here Don't let anyone tell you have seemed like a thousand It that it never gets hot in years It has been hard too but I am gradually growing has been so hot here that i used to it we have discarded o u r long "I don't know what the air ' breeches and adopted shorts force does to a fellow but It You should see my Instead certainly does something I ' been have - legs where the shorts have changed so much that Vtoo short and my long socks hardly know myself 'half of ' not long enough That particuthe time When a fellow comes lar stretch of unadorned hide Into t this station he usually Is the boisterous unsettled typo -— But when he leaves he Is trained so well that be 'could g''' t —:e" o' match Manners and discipline with the president 0 - 1it'aak Longview --" f - 1 P:1 - 41:: 4554 Wuh Somewhere in Canada i -- - - s i V ( Says It's Hot 'Null 1 4 411i -- - v' ' I i I '- 4 i ISalt Laker Cuts Thumb Burns Face But Enjoys Maneuvers Anyhow 1 -' ' i A - - 1 August 31 1941 ' - 4 - I s' '54 - :!$e4 r-- 7: I- i I i 4 t - il l l ' - 11110011 L 1 4- ' - i ' 1 t ' Vile Dalt z i - - - : - ' 0 t - r try 41 tire "war" Enjoys Bermuda V 8 Mattel All the automobiles In Bor muda belong to t h e United State e government and meet of the houses are built of coral which is taken Out of the hill sides according to fiallor Jo seph 8 Quinn of the rlY 8 S Mat - tole Writing directly from Bet' muda to his mother Mrs Gen" ' ova C Quinn of North West street young Joe dei Temple scribed his visit to the Island "We have been to Bermuda again"' he began "And this went ashore The sup time ply officer and myself pedaled ' half the length of the Island and back on bicycles then changed to a carriage for a kwhile You sees the only cars on the island belong to the U S In t government "Most of the houses are built of coral which Is taken out of the sides of hills The en tire island Is coral with just a few inches of soil on top Never theless there are cedar trees and palms growing abundantly "We discharged part of our cargo on the English docks and one of the dock officials came aboard with his wife and daughter After a picture show on deck the captain walked tam- through the yards with the b fly and got dragged to dance "Finding himself very much OUt of place he had the father come down to the ship and ask me—or rather order me—to come to the dance On the way we met two other officers from to the the ship so we dance It certainly was 'corney but at least It was a change If we had stayed there much longer I would have developedan English accent all-we- nt -- - - |
