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Show Family Hears From Shoes Sent During Dur-ing War The hectic days following the . war, when the people of war torn Europe and especially Belgium, ,vere in dire need of clothing and food, were brought to mind in a "ittle incident which occured in American Fork the ether day. Abc.it fn years ago a drive for -lcthing for the Belgian People was conducted in this city and Mrs. be Gudmundsen donated a good pair of shes for which she had no use, es clippers had become the jfashirn. Mrs. Gudmundsen, in telling tell-ing of the incident said "S3 many people hsd said that the clothing .. gathered rievrr would reach the ;nsedy in the foreign countries that just for fun I had my daughter write on a slip of paper and put the paper in th? shoes. The slip said: "Please write whoever gets these shoes, to Mrs. Abe Gudmund-isen, Gudmund-isen, Amtrican Fork, Utah, United ! States of America, and then we i forgot all about the affair". I A few days ago a man speaking very broken English presented the I slip of paper with the Gudmund-sen Gudmund-sen name at the Thornton Drug No. 1, and was directed next door to the Gudmundsen shop. His limited English made it hard for Mr. Gudmundsen to understand but he finally managed to tell that ;he had called at the woman's ! place in Belgium and she had asked him to deliver, when the opportunity opportun-ity came, her message to the Gud-mundsens Gud-mundsens here. It appears the man was an L. D. S. missionary ! called from his own country and he probably told the woman who received the shoes that he was coming to America. For six years he carried the slip , and it is now in Mrs. Gudmund-' Gudmund-' sen's hands, much creased but .faithfully preserved by a little woman wom-an in Belgium and later by a missionary miss-ionary who had been asked to carry her thanks to these unknown friends in far away Utah. i n |