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Show Former Judge Tel s of Life With Army on S aipan Island Japanese POWs received on Saipan, Sai-pan, the folks at home will have i no worry on this score." Colonel Jones concluded with the note that letters are the most I sought for commodity on Saipan and said, "don't be stingy with, j letters from the mainland. The j postal gang here can handle all the mail dispatched with ease." A brief picture of life on Saipan island since it was occupied t;. U. S. forces was revealed :n s letter from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis H. Jones, former judge of Utah's First judicial district, to the Cache American. Colonel Jones, who lived In Brigham City, is judge advocate for a large military unit. The letter, dated July 22, said the first moving picture show was enjoyed July , when Mae West, in "The Heat's On" was shown. Since that time, the 'judge wrote, the moving picture program has developed de-veloped until 25 shows can be held either nightly or periodically throughout the entire island. He praised the food served by the mess units, and said much credit was due to these men for maintenance of a high degree of morale among the army garrison force troops. "The food and service ser-vice are setting a wartime miracle for Saipan," he wrote. "The inventive genius of Rube Goldberg could never match the practical improvision of the many types of bathing apparatus plumbed plumb-ed together in this Mariana foothold." foot-hold." He reported that arrangements have been made by the voting officer of-ficer for every soldier on Saipan to vote in the coming election, and said religious services are held on the island with scheduled regularity. regu-larity. ''One of the outstanding and amazing jobs of efficient handling, was the one performed here in the handling of civilian and native internees," he revealed. "Saipan was the first Japanese territory captured by U. S. forces where the question of handling thousands thous-ands of Japanese nationals was involved. If U. S. prisoners of war receive the same treatment the |