Show i ''' WthiC tt ''''"'''"''''''''"'''"t'-'"ä'N'''''''t---tt-tt-t--"'ttt-'ttrtt'---'ttt-'''t'''tt't------t't--r---littt- t 1 t i - i V i - 11 A trribune IZake - Sunday Morning February Wounded Yank Relates Holiday Experiences r-7-- 7--: Mc Han of Pocatello Richard A Mc Han wounded in a dogfight over Malta inJuly 1942 described the Christmas celebration in the base hospital where he is confined in - - t England ----- S' ' in - 011- A ' ----- :: ' t 9 4 7C ''''':''! N:t: Vq- - r 4 '''''''''' N 4sw h t r 1 efg' 4:::' :::':' i' - '1'2 - 4: I?iNPV'5' ' ''' - '!- 4 ' i'l' z s A 1 X? r - t ---- -- i part: "I am writing this from a royal pre-Vail- & i : - r-- ::- - --- i He said In "This Christmas the second I have spent in wartime England has somewhat surprisingly been one of the happiest I can remember All my previous conceptions of Christmas day in a hospital ward have been radically changed "I an American have been made to feel the real meaning of the words 'welcome' and 'home' in a way which I find hard to describe We are a very mixed company here In the bed on my left Is a Pole who answers to the name of Mike opposite me is a Canadian and next to him a South African: farther down the ward with both legs broken but always cheerful Is a Free Frenchman known to all and sundry as "Blitz" This is just a small cross section of the inhabitants of No 4 officers' ward Yet despite the dif— ference in looks and temperament of the inhabitants a wonderful spirit of cheerful comradeship "Christmas day was heralded by the usual grunts and artificial snores of sleepy patients as the nurses and sisters brought in the early morning tea It wasn't long however before we all awoke to the fact that it was Christmas day For at the foot of each bed hung a large and bulging stocking 'Look what is to me' shouted Blitz suddenly holding up a bar of soap— scarce in England these days—as 'he chuckled with delight In a Very- short time the ward resounded to yells of laughter and cries of mock ecstacy as the veterans ef stiany an air battle delved deepr ir to their 'El Dorados' "Everyone was out to have a -- - t ' England air force hospital somewhere - - - letter received Saturday by his parents Mr and Mrs H L In a ' i l' '':- ' ' 41 ' ''':' 5 : 1- s Is i 41 — z'- - ' 4 n Flight Officer Richard A Tells of :of R A F uproarious Christmas in EngMc-Ila- lish hospital The knowledge that good time we were spending Christmas away from our homes served somehow to bind us together "Above the beds hung the national flag of each patient The whole ward was decorated in traditional style "Toward midday the far from sedate atmOsphere of the ward became lively in the extreme Sisters (Engl:sh name for nurses) coming into the ward were put screaming and kicking into the nearest bed and promptly kissed and blessed by the inmates Nor were the doctors to escape They in turn were placed in bed kissed by the sisters and then given oxygen "Dinner was a great success judging by the appearance It seemed as if the whole scheme of rationing had been scientifically avoided It was everything a BOISE UP)—First Lieutenant James M Stewart motion picture academy award winner in 1941 came to Gowen field Satbomber urday as a four-motpilot He will serve here as a heavy bomber Stewart instructor came here from the Hobbs He enN NI army air base listed as a private March 22 1941 and received his first lieutenancy last July In filling out registration blank forms as part of the routine at Gowen field he listed Tribune Intermountain Wire GREEN RIVER Wyo—Most of the men in the armed service are buying war bonds as an investment and do not regard them as a gift to the government Chief Officer Homer D Williams Petty of the U S navy told the annual Father and Son banquet in the Congregational church hall Thursday night in connection with a talk on his experiences in the present war Chief Williams is here visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Joe Williams Williams in response to questions from his audience declared the Japanese have never fully taken the Philippines but that groups of American troops fighting as guerillas are still active in the Islands including Mindanao and Luzon He described the Japs as "plenty although he also said that tough" American surface vessels had been badly outnumbered in every battle except that of Midway where he described the forces as "being equal" and also said that the Japs had taken their worst whipping the there In some Instances Japanese sea forces have outnum-as bered United nations forces high as 10 to one he added Williams was at Borneo on a out destroyer when war inbroke seven enHe said he had been gagements including the warfare around Java and at Singapore seeing the loss of both the Prince of Wales and the Repulse soon after He parthe outbreak of fighting ticipated also in th(3- Solomon and Midway engagements Drunk Driving Costs 850 ROCK SPRINGS Wyo — Joe Chikado of Rock Springs paid $50 and costs into the city police court when Police Judge Glenn Stanton found him guilty of reckless drivChikado allegedly collided ing with a car owned by Pat O'Connell of Superior on Rock Springs city streets Sunday Christmas dinner should be but even so there was a general gasp of amazement when six bottles of champagne were reverently placed upon the table "By midnight quiet reigned the ward The sisters had distributed the favors upon us and by kissing us all good night d had departed to seek a last-Christma- s well-earne- rest "Christmas day had come to an end—and throughout its spirit never faltered" -- -- St -- 4( -- it fie-htinc- Sugar tongs Salad forks Jelly servers luttor Pickle forks Sugar hails Cott spoons Carving silts lstalnlass stool blados1 Shack sitts tstalnloss tut blades) srvers 4( In -- -- -- Gornto )t sits lstalatoss steal Wallas) These Distinguished and Popular Patterns Love Lac Ambassador Lady Hamilton 4( Porno fly Tours Sylvia Milady 4( First 'Lou Adoration Lgacy Coronation 4( 417 : -- 3( 4( Strut Siturwore—Auerbach's Floor native-bor- n citizens" -- ' ' Tr 0 O 4P I 4( 7 4( L000 1 ) 33 O o ' 1 i Al q 79th 41f-- YEAR-SI- NCE 1864 - 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For Wedding Gifts or Your Own Silver Chest -- al The soldier already NILS facing on chargem army court-martiof impersonating an officer and of telling tall stories about heroic LANDER Wyo (UP)--O- ne the few remaining links with the fighting against the Japanese days of the real wild west ham His mother Mrs W Seward Webb been removed with the death of of Delray Beach Fla arrived Sherman Sage Arapahoe Indian Friday night to be told her son who fought with his tribesmen had fled the base a strong personality against the encroaching whites and"Jakie has like doesn't ani later served as a U S govdiscipline" she ernment scout and on the Indian told newsmen Saturday police force Mother Agitated The Indian brave died recently Mrs Webb frail and agitated at his home near Ethete He was paced the floor of her suite Fribelieved to be 99 years old night while police stood guard Sage told length" tales of tribal day to pick up the errant Webb if wars between the Ara na hoes he to find his mother try was Crows and others and claimed to He should or the way knew the a have sealled number of war"1 saw Jakie this morning" she He denied ever riors Saturuay "He was nervous atrainst white men bilt history said and depressed but happy to see chows the A ranaboes of him time me I think he has been on a did most of the datracre to early drinking spree" setflementa of the valley with Colonel She conferred The Werqor narticirtated in a John ofN Jeffers commanding tribal raid into the territorl? ficer of the base and came away whore DerlYer row stands to steal her sen would have saying horsem—beliaved to he a mark soberly court-martiand she to stand of skill and not a crime at that would or in Holhere for it wait Sat:re said he obtained 12 time lywood with another son William for his strinfr in the raid Seward Webb Jr an assistant di- He claimed him Ability with a rector at Universal studio rifle kept lawless Indians well in Webb was under observation at hand the hospital when he departed unBeceremoniously bathrobe-cla- d count the sides the impersonation WV0111 ItTrorTieS discharge on included S "bringing uniform" the U grace 1"oPfl ac Mksina Varied Career WASHINGTON D C Feb 13 His mother sadly outlined her CUM—Wyoming youths an- son's career Saturday saying he nounced wounded by the war de- never had finished school had partment Saturday were Private joined the navy at 16 got an hondischarge through his on of Mrs °rabic Elden F Grovum father's request a year later had Emma Grovum of Casper and Pri- married twice joined the army the on vate Charles W Vanderpas after war was declared and day of Mrs Ellen B Hansen of Grey-bu- ll had run away soon afterwards from Fort Monmouth N J He tanker to took a Norwegian Both young men were enlisted in South and back turned America the Unite States marines himself in did 60 days In the guard house and then was sent to Fort 1847 Eogers Bros ilolmes and Odwards Community Plate 4( UP)--T- Saturday atitônally:Kwij SilverplatO Flatware iC he RENO Nev escapade of the red bathrobe Saturday night appeared likely to end in an for Private army court-martiYork Jacob L Webb 24 playboy and descendant of Com- Death Takes Indian 99 ilt -- I - BRIGHAM CITY—Honoring F1 A Hinckley who next Thursday' will retire from the principals of the Box Elder high school after 26 years of service the county board of education will hold a pub- lic reception in the high schoc ( gymnasium Thursday evening Leaving the post on the date his seventieth birthday Mr Hinck-flewill be succeeded by All Free-- i man former principal of Box E:de:i junior high school and former Brigham City mayor Mr Hinckley came here in Ju 1917 from Brigham Young academy at Logan where for severs years he had served as dean othe high school division of thainstitution Under his leadershir the high school has grown from: a small single building to a moderr:' educational plant with facilites for more than 1000 student& Tribune Intermountain Wire 'courses will be to increase the EDEN Wyo — Eden valley production of eggs and milk the number of farmers are to receive a short without increasing units term intensive course on increas- producing The course in farm mechanics ing poultry and dairy production will be held in the F S A shop and another on the maintenance building at Farson the F S A of their farm machlnery it was project here having offered all reported after Jack Ruch of the of it's shop facilities for the instate vocational education de- structional plan Practical means partment had spent several days of extending the life of farm maIn Eden valley cOmpleting ar- chinery to lessen the demand for machinery and for new parts rangements for the course and se- new will form the objective of this farmer cooperation curing Joseph B Young of the Eden course valley F S A project staff and a practical farmer and dairyman will conduct the courses in poul- Mines Bureau Adds Office try and dairy production open-i- n ROCK SPRINGS Wyo—An exz here on Tuesday while A D plosives licensing agent of the local Sitzman machinist and federal bureau of mines is now will lead mechanic the garage instruction in care and repair of located in Rock Springs eliminatfarm machinery ing the trip to Sweetwater counThe course in dairy and poul- ty's courthouse at Green River try production will meet four George W Bird attorney has times weekly for two weeks with been appointed a representative of a total class time of 20 hours the explosives control division of said Mr Ruch Chief aim of the the bureau of mines Reno Escapade his civilian occupation as "actor" and placed a question mark after the word Captain E L Davis public relations officer said Individual Serving Pieces! Carving Sets! In the Three Leading Lines of --3( - Vanderbilt Scion Nabbed After or s - Valley Farmers Wait ITeacher 70 To Retire Course Poultry Dairy k Of Experiences At Green River POCATELLO Idaho—American parents can be assured If experience of a Pocatellan serving as a flying officer in the R A F and lying wounded in a hospital are indicative their sons in the armed forces in whatever part of the world'they may be will brive cheerful holiday celebrations In fact he reported a hilarious Iden al Navy Chief Tells RAF Flier From Pocatello Confined In Englislalospital Describes Joy During Yule Celebration - Screen Actor- Playboy Faces Takes Post Double Army eit Gowen Field Court-Marti- Service Men Buy Bonds Says Officer 1943 14 - - - ' ' - " -- - 4'- - 11 X ' - - r - -- ' - - ' - 44 - |