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Show Utahns Young and Old-Contribute Knives r "" " """" I 1 J i 1 1 - v r i i ?. - ? A Quartermaster Sergeants A. B. Crosser, left, and Burton E. Graham, of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific in San Francisco Fran-cisco prepare to crate 384 kritves collected in a "Save a Life With a Knife" drive from residents of Utah for shipment to leathernecks in the South Pacific combat zone. U. S. M. C Official Photo. "I hope my knife will help you come back home safely. My son. Private First Class Ira D. Miller, USMC, of Carlson's Marine Raiders, used it many times for hunting." (Signed) Mrs. Ira Miller, Mil-ler, Dividend, Utah. So read the note attached to one of the 384 hunting knives which arrived at Marine Corps headquarters in San Francisco last week. The knives, to be used by Leatherneck fighters when they next go onj the offensive, were contributed by state of Utah residents in response re-sponse to the Marine plea, "Save a Life with a Knife." Vital weapons in jungle warfare, war-fare, the knives, each with a note' attached, range in size from a small picket knife to a formidable! looking 15-inch blade. The contributors, who unselfish-j ly surrendered many handsome: blades and treasured souvenirs be-1 cause they knew the cause a worthy one, also varied in size. 1 There was a small knife donated j by six-year-old Dick Shulsen, of; 1931 South West Temple street, Salt Lake City. Then there was an ancient-looking blade that its mature donor, Samuel Gould, of 326 Almond street, Salt Lake City, explained was "a relic of the Zulu war in South Africa." Edwin Butterworth, 343 Center street, Salt Lake City, made the most "unusual" contribution an official German Youth Movement knife, with a brilliant swastika set in its handle and "Blut und Ehrn" (Blood and Honor) etched into its six-inch blade. From a 13-year old Morgan girl came a knife with the follow, ing note attached: "Please give this to a Marine and tell him to pick the beggars clean. From a tomboy, Joyce Flaherty." Lee Lovinger of 319 South West Temple street, Salt Lake City, contributed several weapons which he hoped would "cut up both the jungles and the Japs." Another one came from Glen Thompson of 5S8 East 17th South, !Salt Lake City, who wrote: "If mental telepathy has anything to ' do with it, I'll know when the ! point of my dagger has reached its I objective. Good hunting." The contributors, too numerous j to mention en toto, also include j I Jess Fox of Farmington; 11-year-' i old Marvin Schultz of 302 South j Third East street, Springville; ; j Stan Worthen, business manager of the Motion Picture Machine Operators Union; R. White of. Sandy City, and Robert Jenkin of ' Layton. There was a dagger "handmade j with deer horn handle" sent by , j Earl L. Allen of 1S83 South East . street, Salt Lake City; one from I George McGrath of Woods Cross; I and another from Cliff Stallings ! of Corinne. I The knives are being crated by Corporal Perry H. Peters and 'Private First Class George J.' I Summers, of Marine Corps head-I head-I quarters, and soon will be on their j way to fighting Leathernecks at i the front. ' Some 25 hunting knives were .' collected in Milford and duly shipped to San Francisco in re-; sponse to a campaign set up by Jim Smithson of Milford. 1 J |