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Show j Trio of Lawyers Returned I From War Open Offices Here ing school he was employed for a time at the Sugar House Lumber Lum-ber and Hardware Co. Mr. Hess also graduated from the U law school in 1939, and was the second LDS chaplain in the navy. He served in the Aleutians Aleu-tians with the 42nd Seabees for 15 months and succeeded Mr. Boud as chaplain at San Diego. He was in the service for over three and a half years. He and Mrs. Hess, the former Miss Fern Gregory, and their two children, Tad, 3, and Jerry 1, reside at Farmington where he is a member mem-ber of the stake high council. At college he was active in an. letics, being captain of the varsity var-sity wrestling team. Three young Utah lawyers, just returned from the service, have selected Sugar House for their location, and this week started moving into their new offices, 220 Granite Mart Bldg. The firm is Hess, Summerhays & Boud, and the members are Milton J. HesS jaf Farmington, Lawrence L. Summerhays, 1550 Ramona, and John W. Boud, 1120 Gilmer Dr. Mr. Boud and Mr. Hess were both lieutenant commanders in the navy in the chaplain's corps, and Mr. Summerhays was a lieutenant lieu-tenant colonel with the glider troops of the 11th airbourne division. di-vision. The three, who were in law practice together downtown down-town before the war, all served in the Pacific theater of operations. oper-ations. Mr. Summerhays who is well known as one of the top amateur ama-teur golfers of the state, returned return-ed home last Nov. 8 after five years of army service. His baby daughter Jane,, was born while he was away, and was 13 months old before he first saw her. Mrs. Summerhays, before her j marriage Miss Alleyne Hartley, Hart-ley, is from Mississippi. Mr-Summerhays Mr-Summerhays was in a number. ! of major air actions in the Pa-i Pa-i cific. including New Guinea, Leyte, Luzon and Okinawa, and his was the first outfit flown into the Jap homeland- He was awarded the bronze star and his unit received the presidential citation for their action in the battle for Luzon. A member of Sigma Pi fraternity, he graduated gradu-ated from the University of Utah with a law degree in 1939. Mr. Boud was the first LDS chaplain in the navy, and was stationed at the San Diego naval nav-al base for the first 32 months of his four years in the service. serv-ice. He later was in the Hawaian area for 16 months and still later la-ter at Midway. ' He also graduated from the U law school in 1939 after an active ac-tive student career during which he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi. scholarship fraternity, fra-ternity, and Sigma Chi, Skull and Bones, and Owl and Key, social so-cial groups. After graduation he served for a time as secretary to Mayor Ab Jenkins. From 1935 to 37 he served on a mission mis-sion to England where he was mission secretary. While attend- |