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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH America Girds for Still Greater Effort As Pearl Harbor Anniversary Nears WHOS Gems of Thought NEWS ET us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand T -- This Week A Review of Outstanding Engagements of Our Countrys First Year at War. 07 Lemuel F. Parton Feature.' WNU Release. Just after he won NEW YORK. chamworld Consolidated By CHARLES A. SINGLER Released by Western Newspaper Union. heavyweight pionship, Jack Sharkey was dining at Taits restaurant in San Fran- With the approach of Docember 7 the date of infamy Americans everywhere will reaffirm their determination to work, fight and sacrifice to win the war, and spend a little time in retrospect. No attempt will be made here to given an overall picture of what has happened during this fateful year, but rather a review of some tof the great battles in which American soldiers, sailors, marines and fliers have been engaged. Without difficulty we recall that1 fateful Sunday afternoon when, over a radio suddenly, gone wild, the shocking and bewildering reports came in. Pearl Harbor had been attacked I People could hardly be lieve it. But It was true. The next day the United States declared war on Japan, and on December 16 war was declared on Japans partners in crime, Germany and Italy. Since then many thousands of brave American boys have been wrapped in the flag they loved,, or have found a last resting place be neath the oceans swell. These men have illuminated the pages of American history with deeds as bright as the orange flash of a cruisers guns. Fall of Wake Island. All will remember with reverence the epic of Wake island, when a handful of U. S. marines, marooned on a tiny atoll in the Southwest Pacific, made history in Courage. On this occasion a heroic garrison of less than 400 marines defended Wake Island against a powerful Japanese attacking force, from De cember 2 to 22, until they were overwhelmed by sheer numbers. With a few planes and a gun or two our' boys sank seven Jap warships, one cruiser, four de stroyers, one submarine and one gunboat. Fall of Bataan. The next staggering shock of the war was the fall of Manila and the U. S. naval base of Cavite, in the America took heart, Philippines. though, when it learned of the mag Allies lost all five cruisers which participated in the action. These losses were hard to take, but America began to smile again in fact it howled with delight when the big news broke that Brig. Gen. James (Jimmy) Doolittle, famous speed flier and World War I ace, had dropped plenty of eggs over Tokyo with a squadron of North mission That American was fulfilled on April 18, and it went over big, both here in America and in Tokyo. First Real Victory of War. d In the battle of that ocean known as the Coral sea, which is near the Solomon islands and about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia, Americas first real .victory, of the war with Japan was scored. The action occurred on May 4 and called forth deeds of valor as thrilling as any in all American history. The Coral Sea battle was the first great naval defeat ever dealt the imperial Japanese fleets. And yet this great battle was fought entirely in the air, by the planes of opposing aircraft carriers. The ships engaged in this battle never got sight of each other. They slugged it out without firing a single gun at another ship the first engagement of its kind in history. In this first great victory for the U. S, in this global war the Japs lost more than 15 ships sunk and at least The 20 others severely damaged. action perhaps saved Australia from nificent defense which was put up invasion. However, America paid a price by U. S. and Filipino troops in the rugged terrain of Bataan peninsula, for her victory in the sultry Coral under the leadership of Gen. Doug, sea. In this engagement the las MacArthur. As it was impossi- aircraft carrier Lexington, famed ble to get reinforcements through ship that laid the foundation for our the Japanese naval blockade of modem navys aircraft carrier opthe Philippines, Bataan appeared erations, went to the bottom. This doomed. We recall that in Bataans happened on May 7. The destruction of a Japanese ardarkest hour MacArthur was spirited out of the islands in a remarka- mada some hundreds of miles off dash to Australia Midway island, on June 4 and 5, was ble under-cove- r ,by the mosquito boat hero of another action of the same kind. In Subic Bay, Lieut. John D. Bulkeley. this engagement U. S. army bombLieut. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright ers roared off from their bases on took over on Bataan Wainwright, Midway island just another dot on d the general whom the the Pacific to meet the most foras MacArthur. midable array of warships that imloved as much boys Lacking food, heavy guns, planes perial Japan ever sent steaming and tanks, and facing an over- against a foe. The armada was put whelming superiority in enemy to complete rout. The carrier Yorktown was lost in forces, Wainwrights men were finally overwhelmed by Jap forces esti- the Battle of Midway. It went to the bottom on June 7 in the final mated at 200,000 on April 9. battle. Long after the guns on Bataan phases of the great sea-a- ir ceased firing, the guns of Corregi-do- r But before the grand old Y went (Wainwrights Rock) kept fir- - down' she catapulted from her flight s. island-studde- out-dat- ed 880-fo- ot ston-face- - cisco. The Paychological By Products of North brought a lobAfrica Mount Daily him ster with waiter When Major General Wainwright, hero of Corregidor, saw that defeat was inevitable he said, Ill stay with my men. And he did. Gen- eral Wainwright (shown above) is now a prisoner of the Japs. the very guns of the invaders and hurled 400 tons of TNT and steel into Jap shipping and shore installations in Kiska harbor. In the battle of Kiska only one observation plane was lost. Not as much as a machine gun bullet hit the fleet Since that time the Japs have pulled out of the Aleutians, with the exception of Kiska, their main stronghold, and the ' United States has strengthened its position against them by occupation of the Andreanof group of the Aleutians d Kiska. much closer to , Jap-hel- Old Glory Hoisted In Solomons. On the very day when the Japs in Kiska took such a pounding from U. S. forces exactly eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor Old Glory was hoisted by U. S. marines over the first territory taken back from the Japs. This glorious event took place on the mountainous island of Guadalcanal, key to the Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. This long island lies athwart the strategic route to Aus100-mi- le tralia. The Japs had labored long in hacking an airfield out of the tropical wilderness of Guadalcanal. The marines took it away from them, and there has been a continuing day and night battle for possession of the airfield ever since. In their efforts to recover this vital airfield (Henderson Field) and the key island, the Japs have risked placing the main force of their navy within range of MacArthurs deadly Flying Fortresses and the Forts that roar up off of Henderson Field. We have lost some fine ships in the region of Guadalcanal, but losses on the island have been light compared to what the Japs have lost acfiprding to navy reports their losses run four or five times as heavy as ours. However, there has been a running battle for continued possession of the island on the part of the U. S., and for on part of the Japs. Day and night the pounding goes on, from sea and sky, but the marines, backed by the army and navy, have hung on and have made some gains. n A real between U. S, and Jap forces in the Solomons came when the about in greatest naval battle since Jutland in 1916 was fought Supported by MacArthurs big bombers the navy, in a three-da- y running battle, smashed a tremendous enemy armada, lifting the immediate threat to U. S. positions on Guadalcanal As we pause to remember Pearl Harbor, we must, to get the overall picture, have in mind the heroic work of U. S. air pilots over China, and U. S. air pilots with the Royal Air Force in almost daily or nightly operations over Hitlers Reich, and over what was known as Occupied France. We must remember the fine work done by American troops in with Australians, who have pushed back the Japs in New Guinea, turning the tide of battle in the Owen Stanley mountains, saving Port Moresby, and helping to remove the threat from Australia. Day by day through all the months this has been going on brave men dying while we take time out to read about it. Opening of the Second Front. Things came to a head in the African desert early in November. Thousands of American boys, tank men and aviators participated in the great push of the British Eighth army against Gen. Erwin Rommels Afrika Korps, which at one time was dangerously close to the Suez one of Britains darkest canal hours. Swiftly on the heels of this battle, which became a rout as British forces broke through the El line, America got the worldshaking news of the opening of the long expected Second Front at an unexpected spot in North Africa, on Saturday, November 7. -- mid-Novem- K' w,v r A , XS JAv 's N NV vS ' V s' 3$? . .? .4, ''V' A . s y V. T , s ,v ? .s ' vsV-.- i .v. x , w. ,? Official U. S. navy photo showing wreckage of the battleship Arizona after the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. ing. Wainwright and some of his deck the dive bombers, fighters and men had, fortunately enough, suc- torpedo planes that swung the tide ceeded in getting on the Rock be- of battle in favor of Old Glory. A fore Bataan fell. Completely cut off heavy toll of Jap ships was taken, from reinforcements, and heavily Japs Invade Aleutians. surrenin June, after bombing Corregidor outnumbered, Early dered to the Japs on May 6. Wain- Dutch Harbor in Alaska, Jap forces wright and his gallant band are now invaded several of the Aleutian ispresumed to be prisoners of the lands, in the North Pacific. They made their main stronghold Kiska, Japs. Battle of Java Sea. and evidently believed that the everThe battle of the Java sea began lasting fogs that shroud these islands e February 27, when the Allied fleet would be their protection. But soon Sam was up there, too, and attacked the superior Japanese fleet, off the Netherlands East Indies. In the fleets heavy guns, Catalina Flyand this engagement 13 United Nations ing Boats, (Flying warships totaling 47,708 tons were Fortresses and Liberators) began lost in a series of engagements last- bombing and blasting them out. On ing from February 27 to March 1. August 8, a U. S. navy task force, Included in the U. S. losses was consisting of a great concentration the 9, n cruiser Houston, and of cruisers and destroyers, glided the 1,193 ton destroyer Pope. The through the Aleutian fogs almost to Un-cd- B-1- 7s 050-to- B-2- 4s it. A. Lincoln. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. C. C. Colton. This man is fret of servile bands. Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands. And, having nothing, yet hath alL HENRY WQTTON. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. Old Testa- ment. A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine. Benjamin Franklin. flaws' TO REIIEVK MISERIES OF CilEST COLDS Latin-America- show-dow- s one claw missing. Jack wanted to know about that. The waiter explained that two lobsters had been brought together in a crate from Martinez; that they had a fight and this one lost its claw. Take this bum away and bring me the winner! bellowed Jack. The quite human desire to string with a winner is manin festing itself in countries, and perhaps elsewhere, since the U. S. A. cut loose and started swinging in North Africa. Dispatches from several countries tell of sentiment shifting to the Allies, and away from the Axis. More specifically, Argentinas disting guished legalist, Sr. Enrique Ruiz Guinazu, is for just caught off about the .first time in his long and amiably noncommittal career. As foreign minister of Argentina, he cables to the U. S. A. his felicitations and his expression of Argentinas behind our North solidarity African campaign. There is the n as rumble of the well as of guns throughout the world. conferDuring the ence at Rio de Janeiro last January, gleaners among the senors learned and bland evasions could not find so much as a straw in the wind. Seven months earlier, he had been elaborately feted at Washington, with state dinners and a big, jovial stag party by the President, and as time passed it appeared that we might not even get our bait back. Our later cultural phalanxes moving on Argentina, seemed equally ineffective. 'Argentina remained our hardest nut to crack. Perhaps General Eisenhower has cracked it Representing Argentina at the League of Nations for many years, Sr. Ruiz Guinazu was an eminent personage in the great academic tournaments which deplored but sidestepped the oncoming Axis juggernaut. He was president of the League of Nations council in 1935, and in that year voted with the opposition when it was proposed to throw a switch on Mussolini, en route to Ethiopia. He is a veteran of Argentinian statesmanship, profoundly learned in International law, and political theory, for several years ambassador to Switzerland. Cautious and cryptic, although always gracious and smiling, he is at last on record for the safeguarding and security of the Americas, as he cables Secretary Hull. ' Ala-mei- hair-splittin- dead-cent- Now get grand relief from colds this symptoms n actually Pan-Americ- an two years ago that Murphy, then counsellor for our embassy at Vichy, started on a little publicized tour of North Africa, in- WAS nearly ITRobert D. 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He is a lomat, whose genial and ready smile, as well as his name, suggests his Irish antecedents. He has been correct and dependable in diplomatic punctilio. Much of Mr. Murphys activity seems to have been adroitly He rallied Free political. French adherents everywhere and he made strategical use of American food and clothing supplies. The latter was, of eonrse, denonneed as appeasement of Viehy, with an insistence that the supplies would find their way into German hands. The Germans put ns right on that, if we were reading their Paris newspaper Anjourd 'Hni, of d February 19, 1941. They Mr. Murphy as a conspirator working with the DeGaalle forces trim-rigge- villi-fle- M relieve coughing spasms, ease muscular soreness or tightness, and Invite restful, comforting deep. Often by morning most of the misery is gone. Get relief from chest cold distress time-test- ed tonight with double-actio- n, Vicks VapoRub. 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