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Edward C Wayne V By ANALYSIS Arthur MacLittle Arthur son of General and Mrs is starting early in MacArthur a possible war career Besides as a having a famous general a father Arthur grandfather he whom after Civil war veteran is named commanded a Manila forces brigade in 1893 when U S captured that city When war broke out in the his Philippines little Arthur and mother the former Miss Jean Fairdoth of Murfreesboro Tenn were reported safe on the island The next word that came through as to their whereabouts was when their arrival ixr Australia ' with the general and his staff was aih — nounced As Allies Strike Back in New Guinea la thees aalaaiaa Ikif (EDITOR'S MOTE—Whaa aplaleaa arc that al Ika aawa aaalyat sat aet eerily al thia aewepaper) (Released by Wetera Newspaper art ’ U A ' r A -- i JLL r ' simmd Dr Herbert Vert Evatt left Australian minister for external affairs belnf greeted by Actlnf Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Richard G Casey British minister of state In the Middle East at the Washington airport The selection of Casey former Australian minister to Washing ton to serve in the British cabinet raised a controversy between AuThe Ausstralian Prime Minister John Curtin and Winston Churchill tralian government disavowed Casey aa Australian representative v Arrit’Ki AUSSIES: See Turning Point A Whether the Japs were going to d attack by a navy task force the same which had turn aside from Australia and con- -' struck with devastating force on the centrate on India had remained con- Navy Strikes Twice Marshall and Gilbert islands had been delivered on Wake island and Marcus island the latter only 950 miles from Tokyo The latter attack scared Tokyo so badly that the cityt ordered blackouts for several days afterward it was : announced The delay in announcing these ab tacks apparently occurred because' in the first instance the navy force was on the way from Wake to Mar cus and didn’t want to “telegraph Its punch’ tii the latter island 5 As to the second attack the nci for delay was probably one of tw factors either that the navy fofcei war moving on elsewhere or else it was on its way back to Pearl Harbor for refueling and resupplying prob- ably the latter as the dispatches came from there Considerable credit for the four attacks as the latter two must be' considered part of the general on- -' alaught which included the Marshall and Gilbert islands was given to the commander of the force Vice s j Admiral W F Halsey : In the first two the navy had lost a number of planes but in the lat- ter two battles Ike only losses were two planes both shot down by anti- v r aircraft fire' i i Surprise had been an important factor in both attacks because at sea-- 1 Wake Island three planes had been found and destroyed before they got into the air and at Marcus island no air strength of any kind was found It began to explain the need for censorship— for the Japs had a nearly completed airfield on the island and certainly would have had planes there if they’d known’ our forces were on the way m 7 y 'vy View Ringside ' One reporter riding'on an aircraft carrier reported that its planes dumped 12 tons of high explosives ’ on Marcus island alone His ringside view of the significance of the battle was that it had shattered an important link in Japan’s chain of island bases connecting the country with its southwest Pacific theater of war Marcus also had been referred to in dispatches as "Japanese Hawaii" being a base not only potentially great for 'planes but for ships as well The Wake island attack was not completely a surprise as the navy ' surface ships encountered a Jap gunboat seven miles off the island and before she was sunk with one broadside she was able to flash word to the shore that the "Yanks were coming I" The Marcus island attack was in the darkness but the Wake island the battle was in full daylight shelling starting at 7:05 a m Just how little good a blackout rdoes was shown at Marcus island where a flight of bombing planes - was sent over the island with flares and the lighting their objectives first few hits started such huge fires thst the other bombing flights need ed no flares Shortly after the attack on Marcus started the radio station went off the air abruptly It had been struck by a demolition bomb and shot into the sky ' NYA: Senators Argue The press plus Senators McKeL lar and Byrd continued its attacks on the NYA and the CCC though President Roosevelt said that they both hod their places in the war scheme and that he favored their retention senators argued that the prl mary reason for the creation of the two agencies was to do something for youth during ths depression and They art not unemployment years needed now they said Tit siderable of a mystery but certainly their attack on Australia’s outposts had been slowed to point where theAussies began to aee the "turn-jn- g point right around the corner" Australian and American airmen were carrying out almost raids on New Guinea the Solomons New Britain and other objectives mrth of the continent and their dally reports of planes destroyed showed that they were biting a con- siderable piece out of the Nipponese strength in the air The Japs continued their bombing attacks on Port Darwin also on Katerine but the effectiveness was showing a downward curve Apparently the mahr Japanese objective" was Port Moresby on the southern end of New Guinea a perfect f point for air attacks on northeast Australia By land' through a big valley on the island they were approaching tha Australians’ defehsa positions around the Port while through the air from Salamaua and Lae they had been raining bomba on tha town attempting to soften It up for attackby land It waa "at these two bases Salamaua and Lae that tha" Australian and American bombers had been concentrating their attack'And the results had been favorable LABORt f in War It was felt that organized labor 'mads an important contribution' to winning the war also to peace in industry during the war efhad decision reached simulfort by taneously by the A F of L and the CIO to yield their demand for extra pay for holidays "The' executive board of the CIO recommended to all its unions that they forego all overtime pay for Saturdays Sundays and holidays when such work was dona within the boundaries of tha week William Green of the A F of L at the same time issued a statement that hif organization had "assured the government that It would waive tha double time payment for Sunday and holiday work in all war industries for the duration of the war" Philip Murray however said ha wanted it clear that tha unions would not relinquish their demand for overtime for work dona on tha sixth or seventh days of the ordiwork week regardnary less of what days they fell on ' The request union men said had been made by President Roosevelt and War Production Board Chief Donald M Nelson General Douglas MacArthur A fighting a for fighting mad peopla it h4 General you are going to see some real fightin- gis what thousands tof persons said some of whom might have said it to you when word was flashed fronV that General Douglas MacArthur was down there to assume the supreme United Nations command in "that region Ever since the war in the Pacific region began the storyo! the ground warfare has been continually and dishearteningly the same but with one exception j Newspaper and radio accounts have related of continual retreats and NOW TC? WT V ir - k c V ' i 4 i ' r- - t - y ? i £ I Xil K 4 VOLUNTEERS: Get 40 Planes The initials AVG American Volunteer group or the "Tiger Fliers’’ of the United States still held the spotlight of attention when it came to knocking out Japanese planes 'Their latest exploit had been to fly over the main Jap airdrome in Thailand with such a Chiengmai perfectly timed offensive that they were able to shoot to pieces 40 enemy aircraft on tha ground before the Japs could get tha motors warmed enough to get into tha air The victory (like so many) had its tragic aide for the only plane lost to the Americans in this attack had brought death to the squadron leader Jack Newkirk of Scaradale N Y The pilots returning to their base in Burma from the fray reported that most of the Japanese pilots of the grounded planes were killed as instead of seeking cover they ran to their ships and tried to get them atm ted Americans The low diving machine gunned the planes at close range destroying most ef them a C TANNER ‘‘J i ±1 A-- : u j Since General MacArthur has taken his new command in Australia to stop and then pash back the Japanese drive Maj Gen Jonathan M has been apWainwright (left) shown talking with Gan MacArthur pointed to the command of the forces that entfonght despite 29 to 1 odds the Jap forces on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippine Islands General Douglas MacArthur and hi deceased father Lieut Gen Arthur MacArthur experienced military lives exceedingly interesting because of their sinking similarity as available information proves Lieut Gen Arthur MacArthur like his son Douglas waa advanced over the beads of many older testers to more important posts Both father and sen Arthur an showed grea Douglas MacArthur talent One of tho fa strategical ther’s Civil war tactics of batilo eventually became a war department standard enter examination The son’s strategy In the Philippines Is wtU known to all newspaper readers who have been following his brilliant leadership COMPANY lahe Weet tad Seutb Salt Coal and Electric Used Ranges election ta th weet 111 to ITS Folly I year tome reconditioned guaranteed LVTERMOUNTAIN UTILITIES V State St Salt Lata Oty Utafc goath m iarreat 19oi’06 On three difmission ferent occasions he' saw extended army service in the Philippines In 1935 he’ went to Manila as the commonwealth’s president Manuel Quezon’s military adviser to 'That his advisory capacity' President Quezon was of a successful nature is now seen in the successful manner in which American troops Philippine scout professionunder als and Filipino reservists his command fought 50 after many of So at the age t as y?ars of active service it lookedmilithough General MacArthur’s tary life was at an end It seemed that he was then destined for obscurity-after being chief of Staff for five years Rut it has often been stated that it is the seemingly little incidents in a person’s life which eventually develop into significant iextremely important matters What would have happened had MacArthur upon being "retired" not been lent to the Philippines to shape up a military force there is impossible to say Once again MseArthor’s life Is showing that fact is oftentimes more Here In nterestlng than fiction ilacArthor yon see a story book finally surrenders by the Allied armies But the brilliant exception to all this defensive warfare is end was thef actlvity of General MacArthur his that "MacArthur if the man for aides and his native and American the Job’’ A student on his way to troops fighting on the Bataan penhis elsss at university said that If insula anyone can snccessfolly "Slap the Not only did MacArthur stop the Japs” MacArthur Is the one that can da It A not too busy: auto Japs— and therebycausing the com fnander Gen Masaharu Homme to salesman said that' tha general’s commit hara kiri— but he also put appointment was tha most Importantsince the United States through two brilliant strategical of- -move fensives which prevented further was stabbed in the back enemy advances at the time Such opinions as these of Mr and Reason for Australians Respect Mrs America reflect— it is almost Such immediate of certain to say— tha opinion of this background nation and all Allied nations as a thia brilliant general this Number whole Even in London tha newsOne officer of the United Nations was the cause for the Increasing papers there commenting on the clamor of the Australian! to have first time that a foreign general has MacArthur come down there and taken command of defense in British dominions had nothing but enhelp them with American British Australian and native soldiers re- couraging hopeful and optimistic sist the Japs in the last Pacific re- words ' orstand So After Career Ended after Fame gion receiving ders on Washington's birthday from Fame came to General MacArthe President to go to Australia thur after his career had ended I MacArthur made plans with his sucFor it was in 1935 that he retired cessor Maj Gen Jonathan from the army after making a a brilliant tacti- "name” for himself as officer of Wainwright cian for further defense at Bataan World War I and decorated for con'Mac’s the Man His 'decorations spicuous courage When a "roving reporter” for one art reportedly more numerous than of the outstanding Midwest newspa- any other officer in the service Back In 1903 he was graduated pers went out to interview pedestrians as to how they felt about the from military academy heading his new ahakeup in military control in class Ever since then he has been the Pacific region whereby General showing his fellow officers and hit MacArthur was given complete milmen under him that he is "one of itary control the consensus of opin- the men” who knows how to fighL ion was "Mac's the Man" Son of a Civil war hero Lieut On fellow said that It was tha Gen Arthur MacArthur Genera best news ba beard tinea tha U S Douglas went with his father as an entered the war A hoasewift said aide when he went to Tokyo on UN SOCIETY RELIEF S D We repair 'dtomaad rtoga manufacture jewelry stake cluh pine pey oo4 pricta sell jewelry (or diamond ftfta at leaaonaW price musical instruments in" ( I L n CO So MalnSalt Lako merchants surrLY intekmountain ' i Dealer la Bankrupt 8toek) a buy and aell alt klnda of bualntaa Bxturea aealea and aqulpment Cash ragtoteiu offled equip —Si X (tk 8o —Salt Lake CHy mt OFFICE EQUIPMENT KEW AND USED iaaka and akalra Ilea a Mfaa adding typewriter It W Braad way Salt Laka g L DESK ! 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