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Show State Guardsmen Spend Two Days At Training Camp The local company of the Utah State Guard spent Sunday and Monday at Duck Creek, on an annual an-nual encampment and field training train-ing trip, which proved to be the finest training Die company has ever hdd. Four officers, Capt. E. W.' Macfarlane, 1st. Lt. Thomas Cardon, and 2nd. Lts. Theron Ash-croft Ash-croft and Mark Webster, thirty-one enlisted men, and Edwin Webb, cook, participated In the event. Sunday afton ion was devoted to training In chamlcal warfare with 1st. Lt. John H. Maloney, of the Ch nilcal War Service from the Ninth Service Comand Headquarters Headquart-ers at Fort Douglas, as Instructor. This phase of the training was especially es-pecially Inter, sting and beneficial to the men. . Monday afternoon was devoted to firing practice with .30 calibre and 22 calibre ilfl s und with Tommy guns, under the direction of Lts. Ashcroft and Webster. Sunday Sun-day nlKht special training In Forest For-est Ftre Fighting and conservation conserva-tion was given under the direction of Albert Albertson of the Forest Service, and Calvin fcroft and Ed. Murdock of the Grazing Service. Utah State Guard offlc rs In attendance, at-tendance, were Colonel Comer E. Smith, commanding officer of the Guard; Major Riser, and Captain W. B Murray of th- Regimental Staff at Salt Lake City; Col. L. M. jtirs. Cedar City, commanding officer 2nd. Battalion; Major W. J Pace, Richfield, and Captain N. S Madsen, Monroe, of the Second Battalion Staff, and First Lts. Harold L. Oldroyd and J. Jay Mc-CI Mc-CI Hand, of Richfield, observers. |