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Show Cake Finally Catches Up With Yankee Sergeant ! SAN DIEGO. Well preserved in I French wine, a fruit cake mailed in j Natchez, Miss., finally reached its destination here following a circuitous circuit-ous journey of several thousand miles. The recipient, Marine Sergt. Wil- ! liam H. Covington, disclosed the itin- I erary of the eight-pound delicacy j after it had been mailed to him by 1 his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Chis- j holm, last October. Addressed to a unit from which j Coving'ton had subsequently been de- ! tached, the cake was rerouted to ! the South Pacific base where the j marine s iormer outnt had gone. It fell by coincidence into the hands of Pvt. Robert L. Anway, who knew that Covington was still in San Diego. He sent it back to the mainland. On receipt of it here, Covington sought out Anway's wife and gave her a portion of the cake. Mrs. Anway immediately sent it on its travels again to her husband across the Pacific. i 1 |