Show - ' ' - ' I 1 - 6C Sunaay Morning w Any Drtml Will Do - 4osi::‘Ne4 J A' ':' X' - ' t :: -- LOttpS Firöio'the PQys Geiger Field Wash "They shall have music where- ever they go" As long as there are five bugles a couple of drums and thLakenue :Int hotidyouonilg cnren between from Salt City now attached to the Thirty-ninth bombardment group at Geiger field Washington will have music with their marchingSome of them brouht instru ments with them from Utah Some didn't But by canvassing the field they managed to scrape up enough bugles and drums (including one empty oil drum) to form a drtim and bugle corps Members of the corps who Made their first professional appearance last week at a military review are Privates Glen O Buckland Roy L Bolle R Lewis EC Hastreiters George Berg G W Hartley Ed Dick and J A Begley Private Beg Icy plays the oil can "We're pretty good too" writes Private Buckland to his parents Mr and Mrs Olen Buckland of 1067 Russet avenue Next to drumming young Buckland likes to eat "I'm 14 pounds fatter now than I was when I arrived" he admits sheepishly "but it Ian ' t my fault They assigned me to re food vicsis surkchinathteemkiptetahtlen'onwhe i ' 4 - - A i 'Betsy Itosses ' i ! --- ig -- e- '"CrPs'' -- -- s — '- 6-- t1- 4 :::"''''''''4644'4 : mild ' T 1mleys Walk i - e '' my- 4 - : 001ao- 4- - - -- - - - ' - - '' - ' A'l''"-- -- 44- 4 ' - ir- - - lb 4 sw‘S - 1 Az 11:?" 't'tat'& 1141410017:41174 7 iiiiiiiittallibsafillegalatili - navy yards and received his diploma in March He will return to Philadelphia where he will continue his work in the electrical department It H Fullmer of 926 West North Temple street "All we do here is eat" he confesses happily in a letter to his folks "I am getting fat fast but the trouble is my clothes dont get fat with me" Young Fullmer is training to be a tank operator : - ' -1-—""--""vot: -4 1 I t' 1 " 1 "' x ' o t N N IZon i 'l ) ' k " 7 - ' - ' ' --- Itt ' ' '' k i - ' N A - '- is not a new make of automobile nor brand of foodistUffs but the same old' variety of British sailors who have roamed the seven seas for the past 15 centuries explains Ensign Roy Philip Gee The particular "limies" in question are marking time in Norfolk until their ship the English aircraft carrier Illustrious is repaired "Blimey the town is teeming with these blinking limeys' who go around spreading their English accent" reports Ensign Gee an assistant flight officer aboard the United States aircraft car- tier Hornet in a letter to his mother Mrs Helen M Gee of 1335 Logan avenue "The captain of the Illustrious gave' an Interesting talk at the naval air station on experiences of his ship during the present war' The old tub's had quite a time of it" Formerly of Salt fake- - City he attended East high school and the University of Utah where he was active in sports and other extracurricular activities Young Gee' always has shown SLR interest in flying Before his entrance in the naval air school he completed the C A 'A course at the university and earned his private pilot's license 's ' Dea: 3 t t N - - 4 i ' - '' -- k '" - -- 44 4 A ' 4 I e 1 00- 0 T ' - " - - - L - - - - - ( ' 03 :-- 1 -- - K - ' 'I ' I t t 0 x ‘1 - - el IN t - A N N" St -- - ''''N 4 '''''' - - 1 i 1 - - 1 JL1:d I 1 er 'k v -' r - - 1 ''''''' '''''0c - -n- N11' t - i r i-C 11141 - eiel A k ' -- - ASS 3-"- 1-- t :2 ? - - 1 ! 47S J c'f- VCt1 C 4 00--- of - - i ) "4-'C I 1 ‘ li 1 '- s' t '1"'" ' ' fl' Atiot 4 9 N 43 t :' ' ' 1 x -- k' 4 ' l- --- - 107r -- - 1 Lieutenant Randall A Diefendorf formerly of Salt Lake City Is shown testing the enginis of a "blitz buggy" obe of the army's revolutionary midget reconnaissance cars at the powered "jeeps" Lieutenant Diefendorf is attached to the 56th coast artillery harbor defenses San Francisco Cal prises All of a city's public utilities facilitiesthe quartermaster furnishes for the soldiers much in the same manner as the mayor and city commission He provides the water supply and the sewage disposal He runs the electric light plant paves the streets in camp builds parkways and operates the fire depart- Army Telephone Operator Lugs ONVII Sw4chboar4 - About time for mother date so will close with lots of love and remain As always Corporal Triggalm Lewis P S Will be home for pay day l ' oto"--1- - Cadet I‘I ay Cry When Ile s Washed Out' ' t ) "-- 4- -- Band Boasts Its al any 'Sons' Luckless Lad Tells Woes I -- Camp San Luis Obispo Cal Thirteen "sons"' but only one : "child"! That is the situation which has developed in the 115th engineers corps band at Camp San Luis Obispo Cal The home station of the band is Ephraim Utah which was settled chiefly by Scandinavians The band is composed mostly of descendants of these Danes Swedes and Norwegians hence the 13 "sons" (and Bens) The "child" was attached to the band recently His full name is Carling H Childs The "sone are Sergeants Lloyd L Christensen Fred N Mortensen and Ernest Poulson Corporal Seymour K Christensen and Privates Don L Christensen Mallard J Christensen Shrol R Ericksen Allen J Frandsen Paul M Hansen Max G Jensen O'Neil F Larsen- Keith H Olsen and Roger J Rasmusson Most of the other members of band Are also of the Scandinavian descent API arctic ed 41 Officer Seeks Papa For His Kittens i 1 Former Salt Laker Wins Promotion - 1 -- 1-- a - : it " ::: Octopus Rescues Aunt Millie Then Jóips lleiiii Lunch : ::!:: ' :7: ::: j :" : :'':-::::- ' 4''A : : ::':: -- - I :':'' -- 4:' ''' - 7:4r '''' - i feb - ' ' - ::"' ' - - PIYSDECKER :'" 4 I- - - - '(: :' N LOUISANA - - " - "" -- - - - 1:‘'4-- '1:Ldr"' Alitst t '1'1 :'‘:: 1 ''v:::-e HAMMOCK NOUSE INVENTED BY SOLDIERS 'TO KEEP FROM SIZIPING OM GROUND 4) ' s:'::'" !'' j' OMA- 10' r- '? 1 i! -' 1HE QUARTIRMASTER CORPS MURES IT TAKES NE WOOL FROM 210 ENE! 70 KEEP A MAN IN BLANKETS p t : 4ia: ' f": i!4- ' ':' ii::4-'''''' SOMEWHERE - - P4 :t'' Latest Style Camp Roberts CaL "Laundry in yet? Incraired a Camp Roberts trainee Dick Whaler of his supply sergeant Sam Stocks 'Not yet" answered Sam 111 usual "Well when It does come I hotie I don't get any more 'laughing shirts' like the last time" muttered Whaler "Laughing shirts! What d'ya mean? asked Sergeant Sam "The kind that comes back from the laundry with their gets "I am looking 'for infantry sides split" explained Private wear sir" wats the reply I Whaler sweetly The officer found one of his men searching through the department store "What are you doing in the children's department?" queried the man with the shoulder gad- - ) t A t Trainee Wants No More 'Laughing Shirts' ):-7- ' I I ' is ' I I N1:7-':i::- : - A taltakA ---- ---- Al 6 :::::: i-- "' "--- abr - ::::-:!:- have drowned but she was rescued by what at first she thought was the Princeton boat crew out for a swim but it turned out to be an octopus Aunt Millie was a good sport about it and asked the octopus in for a nicnic lunch on the sand But the poor octopus almost starved to:death because Cousin Davey could grab the food so much quicker than he could It's nice to hear you're getting along so well in the army Your tentmate wrote and said you laid so many eggs in milltary examinations they are putting you in with the carrier pigeons All our love your sister Gracie- Allen fi t ! ' Camp Ban Imis Obispo CaL It seems that soldiers can't be trusted on furlough Sergeant Claude H Anderson of Camp San LUis Obispo Cal married Miss Lucille Nelson of Roy Utah on his last furlough And he isn't the first one to get - ' - "hitched" Dear Millie: We're proud of father who's been working again This week he invented a new dandruff remover but there must be something wrong as we tried it on Uncle Everett and it removed him entirely except for the dandruff which is still there However why don't you tell your general about it as I think It would make an ideal camouflage for the army Just think as the doughboys go over the top they would apply father's dandruff remover ana all the enemy could see would be the dandruff and they'd think it was snow and maybe freeze to death don't you think so? Aunt Millie went in for a final ocean dip yesterday and le VIA' 1 4 28-pie- ce IL S Ensign Roy Philip Gee flight officer rubs elbows with Randolph Field Texas At Randolph field they're trained to take the tough breaks with a grin ItJs part of the cadet code Only one exception is made to this tradition When a cadet is told that he is to be dismissed —that he lacks the qualifications to get his wings—then he may cry without losing caste They know that in most cases It Meting the end of a dream for which he had sacrificed He gets silent sympathy In that picturesque air training base—called the West Point of the Air—the cadets refer to dismissal as "washing out It La a nightmare that haunts many of them Once eliminated most of the youths try to stay in ariation Some become bombardiers Others become observers Many turn to commercial airlines ix ground capacities What makes them fail' Of- fleets say that in many instanc esl it is innate fear of the air Some fail for physical reasons not at first detected Others simply lack the necessary deft touch Randolph field Is only 10 years old as a flight training ochoo l yet it already is rich in tradition There the cadets spend the most critical time of their training period The field has 400 instructots and 1300 recruits It covers 2300 acres 'It is a striking city of tan stucco buildings Morale is The officers say that keen operations are efficient despite & tremendous increase in enrollment since the emergency The field had been In operation long enough to absorb the new load without losing precision The annual production rata of flying cadets is about 4500 Constantly this figure is being stepped up T -- -- 0 Furlough Trouble - )1 "4 - rain-drench- - - i - - 1 moa sion! will make or break you and I Camp San Luis Obispo Cal have made up my mind that it There'a a difference between never-wilbreak me" operating a commercial switchment' board and an army artillery unit Covers Large Area 1 In the first place the army N :' Practically twice the size of has no dial system There are 3 IT ' the next largest corps area (over '' no buildings to hold the equipk r a million and a quarter square il ment no teleptione poles on miles in the Ninth compared I ' which to string the wires and no with something over 600000 to dial numbers anyway square miles in the Eighth) I The daily procedure is differthe Ninth corps area commandAu ed by Major General Ernest D ent too Instead of going to the t ‘ switchboard to "plug in" each Peek presents problems much i4w 1 more complicated than mere I morning the army operator ' distance takes his board along with him f i Alaska and Montana exper-- - Usually he lugs it to the top of - t ) t ei i a into he burrows where hill ienced temperatures ' --mow work before and have the beginning grass Oregon Washington 4 1 Camp San Luis Obispo Cal Then instead of asking for' areas throughout r fl I Private Arnold Nielsen of the all does "number please" he the many months of the year also ti 115th medical detachment high altitudes and other excalling and gives his own num4" i II tremes of elevation climate and bers it nit 111 TI San Luis Obispo Cal 12 125" drum "Plateau might transportation which tax the was named the unluckiest solconstitute a typical phone call of the highly trained faciljties - "You see" explains Private dier in camp list week go organization that is the quarter Don Wells assistant switchmaster corps of the army Movie Star Preston Foster in board operator for the 145th 4 vited him to Hollywood for the ' I field artillery Camp San Luis r4 c 41 :le week end to forget his troubles t we must conceal 041 Obispo Cal —which were as follows: ourselves at the top of a hill 4 so that we can see the target He had a girl in Aberdeen us" without it seeing Md named LaVonne Stone so In a letter to his mother Mrs t he asked for a transfer to the Nellie Wells of 2383 Eighth East Camp Roberts Cal ordnance department there Martinez "Our of continues: street he posiSergeant Roy Wishing to see his parents in tion on the hill 43 called the 0 P rumploOnemploko Camp Roberts Cal Is looking Compton Cal before his posfor a tomcat to be a father to ' (observation post) where we t sible departure he journeyed his kittens for firing the guns data compute there for a visit My job is to operate the phone Every time he opened his supHis parents he discovered I under the direction of our first week last drawer ply sergeant's had gone east on vacation But he found an old gray cat which lieutenant He gives the firing W ikko they had left behind the family commands to me and I relay IC he regularly tossed out on Its ' 1 automobile which he borrowed N771 ear wondering At Its Insistence them to our guns over the phone and wrecked man fastest down Finally when the I'm at say bedding rrhey When he arrived back in In the battalion for the job The shelf he glanced at a near-b- y camp two letters awaited him reason—a charmhe beheld the first man to get his communiThis is Private Don Wens One was a transfer order—but cations through you see is choslittle feline family of four ing on colonel to looks he the how the transfer was to Pendleton en to operate the phone when Im Mr Tom E Cat doesn't Inspection day Ore The other was a letter show up to claim his family there is a battalion 0 P (three from LaVonne She was on her rve won the job Martinez plans to turn batteries) Sergeant way to Bite in Los Angeles them in for salvage every time but once We have the fastest battery By the time she gets here In the regiment and it certainpoor Private Nielsen will be in Pendleton about as far away ly feels good to be on top We as liver relect Howard always have plenty to do and Each week hereafter Preston Iaft8Sified that keeps our minds off being Fort Sill Okla Foster will fete the unluckiest homesick many words but Ernest Abridge formerly of in class 541" private from the camp "They say the army either Salt Lake City graduated from officers' training school at Fort Sill Okla last week with a A I MOLD second lieutenant's commission È ikr!:AvA 1 ' rrask w ITI - 11111IN according to word received by his parents Mr and Mn Otto qL::::: lotinN li Asbridge of 217 Browning ave:y:: C nueH:::: i:i:17 A member of the national 'n guard Lieutenant A a b ridge A joined the nation's armed forces in 1929 Stationed first at Fort " Lewis Wash he later was - ‘ t to a :::::::i::iii:: transferred 1::::::: post at Des ''"::!::::::Moines Iowa where he was i::!::: : 00' 11 promoted to the rank of top ser:: :::1::' ''''''''''':::::::'' ''':7Vi iiMiNGTOIANC4' SOLDIERS eoom geant He entered the competitive NAIL POLISH — 'IVEY SAY IT TAKES ) ::: f::)::i::::::i"::::::::' :: examinations for admission to L our wsecr or rroi srrEs I:ii‘ the officers' training school : I 3 ! early this year and graduated 1 honors on September 30with ::: :: : it lit ' ' ' og v14en erel one of seven men chosen was He 7 ' :!:: ' ::' g10401 1r-2 Aot A from t the 01 large graduating class ) 4 pt! 6fr4 rl 4 417'Atl to remain at school in the ca4 :"Ii!:4-ltir r s :::: sc 4 " :: an of Instructor pacity lo cf – Np : that wind was something to i howl about soon there Will be nothPretty trig more in Los mgeles to picket then they will have to picket the picket lines The U S 0 picks some of the quaintest places to pitch a tent One In particular is located right in the heart of Pershing square but they have a very good crowd at all hours of the: day And the professional er like flies In the canteen the other day I heard a Jewish ooldier tell the manager the reason he wou1dn1 buy a patriotic ring was that if he did and the U 8-- hap- pened to go to war it would be his ring just his luck to have 1 finger shot off By this time I guess the big-ger part of thdripped txt fur- back to loughs have camp As yet I sin not homesick for 11 L O but who knows I prob ably vrill be broke soon and have a different story to telL Some of the things I do not miss while on furlough are as efoollomz:n:d Thtoe tefrgiLutantrut's hacking drill for bugles whistles etc reading in the paper that It is Jewish new year so at this time let me wish the entire corn- pany a joyous and happy Jewish New Year I am accumulating some new addresses for the boys and I have a girl's home number for the oldest looking corporal in the divi- e 1 1 IIV - 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Well I finally made Los Anirides after a long hectic niKht's ride In a rumble seat Boy bra ' ' rail- A VI 4' ates the laundry and the shoe to conrepair shop in additionstore and dutting the clothing managing countless other enter- - Keeping in step with the national defense program the Salt Lake Tribune last month issued a plea for pictures of the boys in camp soThose pictures are still welcome or friend in any branch of If you have a the service who is sending you personal snapshots of life "behind the scenes" don't be selfish Let the rest of us see them too ' Just mail a couple of your prize snapshots (preferably action pictures) to the Army Camp Editor in care of The Salt Lake Tribune Better still if you happen to plan a trip downtown drop into the editorial rooms of The Tribune at 143 South Main street and let the editor see your pictures He will handle Ithem carefully and return them promptly If poslible enclose the negative with each snapshot This will enable our photographers to enlarge it for better newspaper reproduction Good cartoons are acceptable too from one letter And of course there is always room ' of the soldiers sailors or marines of Norfol—whicah fillestreets - ' the middle of the Mojave desert 135 miles from its base at Camp Haan Cal Soldiers of the 65th coast artillery commanded by Utah and Idaho officers use the range Just a Reminder Norfolk Va are - ' Norfolk Va Uniform Fails to Keep Pace With Eating ' v:- Friends of — Fort Knox Ky Draftee Gaylen Fullmer is getting too fat for Ids breeches according to word received by his parents Mr and Mrs W ' anti- This three-inc- h rcrasz gun speaks with a voice that can be heard for That is the reason it is isolated on a target range in Mr Taylor served four years as apprentice electrician in the Industrial department of the - - : Voices in the night Robert L Taylor who is stationed at the Philadelphia navy yards is "pending his vacation at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Robert W Taylor 3499 South Thirteenth East ' - '- "' '' em' Navy Worker Spends Vacation With Folks street ----- 4 ' 4A -- - Quartermaster Depot Philadel- - ' phis Pa The modern Betsy Ross still sews in Philadelphia Pa birth- place of "Old Glory" She is any one of hundreds working at the Philadelphia quartermaster flag - - st i -- - 1 - 1 - - ' tt depot where all the flags used by the United States army are vied& These flags include the silk colors carried by the president the chief of staff the secretary of WILT and all the assistant secretaries: the silk colors and standards carried by all regiments the garrison post and storm flags displayed at every military post: automobile and distinguished flags used by the 'various general officers as their personal flags: various flags used on army harbor boats and transports and guidons used to mark all troops batteries and companies The most stirring sight at the quartermaster depot is the making of the flag There were 13 stars and 13 stripes in the original flag and by a strange coincidence 13 operations are now necessary to manufacture the modern stars and stripes After thorough inspection of the cloth to insure that it comes up to rigid specifications the bunting is marked and cut with an electrically driven cutting machine into strips of two lengths for making the flag One hundred strips are cut in a single operation The blue field fork the stars is cut in the same manner The material for stars is stamped out with a steel cutting die on an electric-drive-n stamping machine The alternate red and white stripes are joined together on a double needle sewing machine Each blue bunting field is carefully marked for its stars and stars are stiched on with a special machine that produces a rig-za- g stitch Other operations complete the making of the - - e Philadelphia - '" 0 e Sew Flags in b - Camp Saa Luis Obispo CaL An open letter to "Company K was printed last week In the Sunburst Sentinel official paper for Camp San Luis Obispo CaL The staff sent a copy of the tete ter to The Salt Lake Tribune for publication on the 6Lettere front the Boys" page ' the ' ' working us too hard they feed 'us too welt "There are many boys from Utah here and we are having the time of our lives The army Is great-- I believe I'll stick with - - k I Presidio San Francisco Cal From ballistics to logistics is ! a tmpsition very familiar to a United States army officer who is today an important factor in the west coast defense program I I O W Lieutenant Colonel Humphries quartermaster of the Ninth corps area Presidio of San Francisco luta a first- hand knowledge of ballistics— which has to do with the science of gunnery—through active participation aa a combat officer in World war L Today in his present field of logistics—and the dictionary tells us that this has to do with that branch of military art which embraces the details of transport quarters and supply troops—he has a job of direc— tion supervision and management which not only includes a lot of territory but carries with it a comparable responsibility Keeps Busy ' For the quartermaster in the United States army is not merely the ice and coal man He is also the haberdasher the restaurant man and the hotel-keepHe runs the taxi service and operates the trucking transfer and storage business as welL ge is the garage man and the operator of the gasoline - - ashere t Army Officer Does Work Of Many Men - "If theywant the other boys to have anything to eat they better get me out of t quickly That's the trouble with this man ' s army Instead of It ef Rookie Tells Vivid Story of Vacation II : For Cadets i October 12' t 1911 gukt rellitint irbe Dalt 11 |