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Show THE mTIJ ETTN. niNGHAM. UTAH Defenders of Malaya Harass Japs Malay soldiers attached to the British Imperial forces have set up a trench mortar unit in a tapioca plantation in Malaya. These soldiers are experts In fighting through the tropical growths of their native land and have seen some tough fighting around Penang and Singapore against the Jap invaders. . To Help Smash Foe I .si. .., ':, "' ' I , 1 Here Is visual evidence of another definite step towards a two-ocea- n navy, as the U.S.S. Columbia, 10,000 ton cruiser, slides down the ways and Into the water. The ship was launched, at the New York ship-building company yards at Camden, N. J. U f .j.ns:; l Portrait of a Hero: One of the unsolved mysteries of history is how Custer hurdled the military promotion system and over-night rose from a mere lieutenant to a general ... All anyone knows Is that he returned to headquarters one day after being out on a mis-sion, and chums greeted him as "General" . . . Custer thought they were kidding, because he always boauted that he'd be a general be-fo-the war was over, and he was all set to start punching. One of his friends grabbed him by the arm and took him to his tent where he found an envelope containing his commission addressed to "Briga-dier General George Armstrong Custer" . . . Custer, who was only 23 years old, turned pale and passed out cold. Buy Defense Bonds Custer Is the man who turned the tide of the Civil war by saving the Union army from defeat at Gettys-burg. At the time of the Battle of Gettysburg he was about 15 miles away. His brigade had been or-dered (along with the rest of the cavalry) to wait at Big Roundtop, where Jeb Stuart and his Confe-derates were expected to attack . . . Stuart fooled the Yankees by at-tacking from the opposite direction instead . . . Hearing Stuart's gun-fire, Custer disobeyed the orders he had received, headed straight to-ward the sound of the guns and, charging four times, stopped the Confederate forces dead In their tracks . . . But for Custer's trigger thinking, the Union armies would have been routed at Gettysburg . . . The bitter irony is that the man who was defeated (because of Cu-ster's coup) was Fitzhugh Lee, the divisional commander of the Con-federate attack. Lee was the In-structor who had saved Custer from being expelled from West Point by reducing his demerits. Buy Defense Bonds-O-ne of the greatest military wiz-ards of all time, Custer was almost expelled from West Point "for hav-ing the worst record" of any stu-dent there . . . Any cadet who gets 100 demerits (over a period of six months) is automatically tossed out of the military academy. Dur-ing his first half year at West Point Custer piled up 129 demerits. (He was saved by a sympathetic instruc-tor who reduced them) ... In his studies he was at the bottom of his class, and probably the only reason he was graduated was that the Civil war started and the Union army needed officers. Buy Defense Bonds Custer always believed in fighting an enemy when he saw one, with-out stopping to consider the cost ... When he was a kid, he once attended a dance and noticed one of his enemies poking fun at him outside by making faces and ges-tures through the window . . . Cus-ter rushed up to the window and pushed his fist right through the pane into the guy's snoot. Buy Defense Bonds Custer was a showman who knew bow to do things in a manner that hit people between the eyes. At the end of the Civil war, the army pa-raded In review before the Presi-dent and other dignitaries In front of the White House . . . Just as he approached the reviewing stand, his horse reared and started to run away . . With a flourish, Custer mastered it and onlookers cheered S wildly as Custer galloped back into bis place in line and passed the re-viewing stand a second time . . . He insisted it was an accident, but rivals argued that his horse never acted up befere or after that parade. Buy Defense Bonds It took a month to make Custer's last stand for the film, "They Died With Their Boots On" . . . Histori-ans believe the actual battle couldn't have lasted more than from half to three-quarte- of an hour, Custer's men were so hopelessly outnum-bere- d . . . Although Sitting Bull is usually credited with having been in charge of the massacre, actually he was as far away from the battle as his horse could get him. As soon as he heard of Custer's defeat, Sit-ting Bull returned, claiming that he had been in the hills using his power with the Indian gods to bring about victory . . . The Indians didn't know until after the battle that it was Custer they had been fighting. Buy Defense Bonds In the picture this repartee gets a howl . . . The commandant at West Point summons Custer and (threatening to expel him for hav-ing a fist fight with a fellow cadet) a.s.ks. him if he has anything to say "I didn't know," says Custer, "that you could get fired from the army for fighting." Buy Defense Bonds Custer was nuts about onions and ate them as though thsy were ap-ples. The last gift he received from . his wife before he died was a sack of onions . . . Whenever he was away from his wife, he'd sit up until all hours of the night writing long letters to her. During one expe-dition, he wrote her a letter 80 pages long . . . When Custer died ft Little Big Horn, the Indians who killed him paid hiaa a tribute that showed the respect even his enemies bad v for him. Every man killed in thai battle was calped--xce- pt Custer CHANGED CITY Washington has changed over-night Washington was a boom town one week; next week It was a war town. The change is partly a matter of 'visible things, partly things that are felt without being seen . . . Khaki-cla- d soldiers, with tin hats and bayonets, patroling two abreast between the White House and the state department . . . Dark-ness over the Capitol dome, where searchlights are blacked out, for the duration . . A Jam of volunteers for Civilian Defense . . . New flags delivered at Civilian Defense head-quarters, two for LaGuardia's car, two for Mrs. Roosevelt's car, six for the motorcycles . . . The residence of German correspondent Kurt Sell is raided at night and Sell is taken into custody by FBI. Though the department of com-merce deals with such innocuous subjects as census figures, its great steel doors arc locked, and guards demand credentials at the main en-trance . . . Women fliers of Ameri-ca call a hurried meeting to speeV up plans for training ... An extra detail of police strolls on the south grounds oi the White House, last trampled by egg rolling Easter crowds. In his press conference, the Presi-dent's voice is so grave and low that a newsman calls out, "Louder, please" . . . Four plainclothesmen, in two cars, sit parked all day on Waterside drive, where the bank rises sharply on the back garden of the Japanese embassy . . . Even Falla, the President's Scottie, feels the change, for the White Housa guards have less time to play with him, and he curls up disconsolate in his green dog-hous- Just back of the President's office. JAPANESE SPIES I Last summer Congressman Martin Dies had investigators make a thor-ough survey of Japanese activities along the West coast. The results eventually were suppressed by the state department and the President himself, but a brief summary of them indicates that some parts of the United States face a dangerous problem when it comes to fifth col-umn activity. Hitler had many agents planted through Norway, France and the Low Countries when he attacked, but the Japanese, according to the Dies report, start out with 150,000 of their countrymen in the United States. These are all Japanese citi-zens, and do not include 50,000 sec- - onui genera. iu'uu iTiajjanca.ct Kusuiotnu .I.n. United States. The Dies report shows that 200 key Japanese have been decorated by the emperor dur-ing the past two years and that many Japanese are In close with the homeland through the Central Japanese association which has been directed by consu-lates In California. Dies agents have collected photo-graphs of various Japanese truck gardens operated alongside oil tanks and strategic railroads. Also they report 5,000 Japanese residing on terminal Islands In Los Angeles har-bor, where are located strategic oii tanks, Reeves field and a shipbuild-ing company. Oil storage tanks blown up in the harbors would en-danger all of the Los Angeles area. The most revealing documents seized by Dies' agents are maps, showing all the U. S. strategic points and fortifications, and a naval man-ual showing the size of all Ameri-can naval vessels. The naval manual, published in 1941, is so up to date that it even shows latest models of U. S. mos-quito boats together with the Presi-dential yacht Potomac and the plan of U. S. airplane carriers. The lo-cation of guns, engine room, etc., is indicated alongside the photo-graph of each vessel. It must have taken Japanese agents months or years to collect this data. KNEW FORMATIONS Another Japanese map seized by Dies' agents is revealing in the ex-treme. It shows the layout of the American fleet in a typical battle formation near Hawaii. U. S. naval officers confirm the fact that the map correctly shows past naval ma-neuvers. The documents show the details of Pearl Harbor, the Panama canal, San Francisco, Manila, Guam and Vladivostok. They also give the nor-mal crusing radius of the U. S. fleet out of Honolulu, together with the normal location of airplane carriers, cruising battleships, scouts and aux-iliary transports. Maps also show the whereabouts of submarine ca-bles, mines, channels, wireless sta-tions, Japanese consulates and air bases all along the West coast WAR CHAFF Clt was significant thai Japanese struck first not at the Philippines, which is armed to the teeth with heavy bombers, but at Hawaii. Ha-waii had sent its best war planes on to the Philippines ... If the navy had read the newspapers it might have been better prepared. H Consvantine Brown, foreign affairs expert of the Washington Star, pre-dicted war with Japan 10 daya in advance and named Sunday, De-cember 7, as the starting date. Pearl Harbor Probe Board - if Wss N.V.i' $t I miiiumim iii mim MUM iiflrttiiMM t i ill ,. , v.,,,.. - hhAmi .in MmfMtmmmummm This soundphoto shows the special board of Inquiry named by Presi-dent Roosevelt to investigate the surprise attack on Hawaii by the Japs on December 7. They are, from left to right. Brig. Gen. Joseph P. McNarncy, Adm. William H. Standley, Justice Owen J. Roberts, Adm. Joseph M. Reeves, MaJ. Gen. Frank R. McCoy. Fingerprinted Laura Ingalls, noted woman flier, Is shown being fingerprinted at Washington police headquarters, after having been charged with be-ing an unregistered Nazi agent. 8153 WW WHU MTVM THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY Dear Ma Well I have done a lot of kidding and squawkvig in my letters but I gess that is all over now. After what them double crossing Japs did there is no longer no funny side to this training and all I want to do is get a crack at them. All the boys feel the same way. Up to the time they heard about them Japs stab-bing Uncle Sam in the back under a flag of truce I gess they all felt the same as me that the war was too far away to bother much and that this army training was a pain in the neck. But it woke us all up like no bugle ever did. I kind of felt that nobody wood ever tackle this country on account of we got two big oceans to depend on and all that and I gess I never sweated in a manoover without say-ing to myself this is the bunk as Hitler wood be crazy to get more trouble on his hands. I never thought that Japan would be even crazier. I hated the hikes, I hated the drills and inspeckshuns and 1 could not bathe a new crop of corns without burning up inside. But all of a sud-den I feel different. Even my bun-ions seem patriotic now. It's the same way all through my outfit. Jeeps who have been squawk-ing eight hours a day look like they become fighting men over night. They know it is not all a lot of fool-ishness no more and any boy in camp will attack a tank single hand-ed now if you just tell him there is a Japanese doll inside. As for me personally ma I got a clear picture of what the country is up against for the first time and I wonder now that I did not get the right slant long before this. I gess it was just because I got snatched so sudden from all the comforts of civilun life that I didn't see straight. I was soar over giving up a box 6pring mattress, a personal alarm clock and the right to do what I pleased. But Emperor Hotsy-Tog- o or whatever you call him woke me up like nobody's business. I am so soar now that I am sorry I ever applauded Japanese tightrope walkers. This war has all of a sudden be-come a great exciting show, ma. It don't seem Just like a optical al-lusion no more. All the tanks don't seem like they was just a few things being demonstrated by a auto sales-man. My rifle witch has just seemed something I wood like to have car-ried for me by a caddy has all of a sudden become my BUDDY! It's real and human. And my uniform even when it is wet and wrinkled now looks like the grandest uniform anybody could ever climb into. What has come over me I don't know for sure but I credit the Mikadoo with an assist. I gess you will have to forget about me being home for Christmas. But I know what kind of a mother you are and I gess you feel just like I do about what has happened. I have done a lot of wise cracking about being leased or lent but I don't care where they use me now. so long as it is where I can take a sock at the world's worst enemies Df today, the double-tal- k nations witch jab a knife in your kidney while asking what you want for Christmas. Well, I must close now. Do not worry. Everything will come out all right with the old Stars and Stripes on top. Your loving son, Oscar. P. S. I serpose pop is trying to get into the army again now. Tell him to forget it and stay home and look out for you as I will do enough Bghting for all three of us. THOUGHT ON FOOD It is the sad, unlucky fate Of some to have a diet; Each time they hear a friend's lost weight They ask him how, and try it. And yet, however fond and fair Their hopes at the beginning. They almost always find that they're More thinned against than thin-ning. Richard Armour. "Remember back before social security when people thought the way to be sure of a good living in their old age was to raise a lot of grateful sons and daughters?" asks Merrill Chilcote. DESERT SONG In Cunningham, Said Nazis, running, There's less of ham. And more of cunning. Richard Armour. The time to anticipate a war these days is when the peace conversations reach a height. . "Up to Pearl Harbor," said Elmer rwitchell today, "I never thought Drson Welles' famous broadcast would be topped in my lifetime." (Released by Western Newsp WHITE COLLAR WORK! IS 'THE FORGOTTEN M ON A BIG munitions pi; built with government n Wilmington, 111., carpen paid $25 a day; men wheelbarrows or working .or shovel are paid $16 and S In Chicago, 50 miles a clerical forces working ir fices of business anl ind being paid from $17 to $3:1 The carpenters and lat Wilmington may, and do, coveralls; they change s'h sibly once a week; th coarse, unshined shoes; tl the lower rentals of the t tricts. The clerical worker in if he is to hold his job, ni a clean shirt every day; wear a white collar; there a crease in his trousers; must be kept cleaned and he must pay the much hij: als of the city. His inti average about one-sixt- h t. the carpenter at Wilmingti To meet the ever-incr-mand of taxes and labor continue to operate, bush industry have been forced mize in every possible w white collar man has paid He Is the "forgotten man" WILL AID IN THE FIGHT DOOR COUNTY, Wiscor strip of land that separa Michigan from Green Baj which the town of Sturgeo the county seat, was sett! nally by Scandinavian, Bel Dutch farmers. The farms of today, made from from which their ancestor: heavy pine timber, are in t of the second and third gci of the original settlers. Thij ers, many of them with k;j the countries enslaved bj are enjoying the opporti building sub-chase- rs to desi man submarines. At the s in Sturgeon Bay, far remoi the scene of conflict, is be a fleet of the little boats destined to see service in tl tic, and the yards are ma Scandinavian, Belgian an farmers. TAKE TO THE HILLS' A FEW NIGHTS AGO I s audience, the men of which ed largely of big game hun diers of fortune, explore who had been to the utterm of the earth and whose li been filled with hair-raisin-ture. The speaker of the was a little, happy-face- d wc her subject was her mount; home in the Ozarks. She tall the charming characteristic Ozark hills people and their uneventful lives, of pet Ian puppy dogs, of quiet even! fore the fireplace in a loj of wild flowers and fruits, held that audience of "he" no lion hunter had ever he She demonstrated that it is pie pleasures that have r peal. The speaker was Mr: Lyon, author of "Take to thi HOME OF REAL CULTUH OUR GREAT CITIES monopoly on culture. It is nt uct of the night club, the lounge or the tl production. It is a produc schools, the churches, of living, home-lovin- g people, those found in the rural so; America. Culture does not breed Mussolinis or Stalins. It. love, not hate. Among a class you do not find a sul element seeking to destroy tablished philosophy of govn The Dies committee does enemies of our American government among our rur lation. It is in the small t on the farm where you fine of country, respect for its li its institutions. It is there the intelligence that is the tion of culture. The American rural comn the real home of American NATIONAL INCOME of co THE department tells us the national income amounted to $17,900,000,000 1940 it was $73.800.030.0f. multiplied the years we had al Wbfe more than four tii had n?le than four limes i to diviol in 1940 than in W was accomplished despite depressions. It was accoi under the American system competition. MORE THAN JAP CAN CT WITH HIS BIG TEETH, i brown man of the Pacific he has bitten off more war chew. When the end is the Japs will be back on lands. They will have los Manchukuo. their foothold and Indo-Chin- a. and the hun islands in small mandated cific. The war they so trea ly started will set them bae days of Perry. world po great nation, as a pa from the picture. London Town of Today K&!v fWi Vur liml A striking photograph of the city of London, looking toward St. Paul's cathedral, which was damaged by Nazi bombs earlier in the war. The city has not been bombed for many months, and much of the debris has been cleared away, but there is still "plenty of room for Im-provement." Navy Birds' Roost 011 3 li.,, pi M TSHli K ' jr . A1 i V'llMMii iiMiiiiiriiiiiihfciy'-'-"- - A striking view of the U.S.S. Ranger, aircraft carrier of our navy, with a part of her brood of planes clustered on her flight deck, ready for action. This photo ap-pears In the U. S. naval aviation issue of Flying and Popular Avia-tion magazine. Bomb-Barricad- e in San Francisco Mii- - VAX I . Following almost nightly air raid alarms and blackouts of San Fran-cisco since the start of the war, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com-pany has Installed a sandbag barricade across the front of their building. Workmen are shown bere erecting the wall of aaadbags, which will pro-tect vital telephone equipment from possible enemy bombs. Explains New Draft imi iii ,i.uawiswj wiwwmiiimujjimmi ' VA, V llf::ril1flHfnn..l. .A:.?,'.; Gen. Lewis B. Ilershey, selective service director, who Says the draft is to take only men 2125 now, and the 18 to 64 registration is for pre-paredness. |