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Show 1 PXGE' SIX College Students Urged to Finish Their Education nrsi unsuamcs Froni Hawaii Gome to. SCO . The federal ..government still urges young, people .to continue their education "unless and until they are . called for, according; to a message .which President Franklin Frank-lin S. Harris of Brigham Young university received today from Guy E. ; Snavely, executive director of the Association of American Colleges. Col-leges. --; v wired President Roosevelt for a statement issued at that time fol-college fol-college students. .Acting for the president, Secretary Stephen Early Ear-ly replied that the policy expressed from the White House on August 14,- 1940, still held good. The statement issued at-that time follows: fol-lows: - - "We must have well-educated and intelligent citizens who have sound judgment in dealing with the difficult problems of today. We must also have scientists, engineers, en-gineers, - economists, and other people with specialized knowledge, to plan and to build for national defense as well as for social and economic progress. Young people should be advised that it is their patriotic , duty, to continue the normal nor-mal course of their education, unless un-less and until they are called, so that they will be well prepared for greatest usefulness to their country. They will be promptly notified if they are needed for othet patriotic services." Dr. Remsen Bird, president of Occidental college, Los Angeles, is president of the Association of American colleges. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 (HE) The first casualties In America's new war" were back home, in the continental United States today, cheerful despite their wounds and anxious for another crack at ' the Japanese. . , , - v-. : - They landed on Christmas day from ships of a convoy which brought- them' through submarine infested waters . from ' . Hawaii where they were struck down , by bombs and machine gun bullets in the first vicious Japanese attack. Some may win their wish ' to return re-turn for revenge against the enemy; others will be incapable of fighting again. . The ships which returned them also brought a large number of civilian evacuees, including women wo-men who had been widowed and children who had - been orphaned by the' Japanese, bombs. Some of them were wounded. Details of the protection the ships had en route were not revealed re-vealed by military authorities but as they steamed through the Golden Gate a fleet of planes patrolled overhead. The ships were painted a dull gray in war-time camouflage. Crowds which rushed to the wharves were kept three blocks away by police as ambulances shuttled from the docks to hospitals hos-pitals with the wounded. Service men were taken to military mili-tary hospitals; the civilians.- to city hospitals. BRITISH MOURN HONG KONG LOSS BY H. L. PERCY LONDON, Dec. 26 OP) Britons mourned the loss of Hong Kong today but took pride In its gallant defense by British, Canadian and Indian troops, and promised that it would be restored to British sovereignty. Military authorities here knew nothing of the fate of the men who were now prisoners of the Japanese, and had only Japanese reports of the surrender on Christmas Christ-mas day after a stand against odds which, it was known from the first, were hopeless. "We have notmng to aau. w me Hong Kong governments message," mes-sage," a commentator said. "Nothing "Noth-ing is known of the final stages of the fighting" and it is questionable question-able what we will ever get on it. I do know that one of the great difficulties at the end was water supplies." . Sir Mark Young, governor, had advised the colonial office that military and naval commanders had told him that no further effective ef-fective defense could be made. 'It was emphasized aiso ui a- though the Japanese were attacking at-tacking in Malaya and Borneo, I Hong Kong, aside from the Channel, Chan-nel, islands off the. English coast which the Germans seized elarly in the war, was the only part of purely British ' territory under enemy control. Military experts said, that the loss of Hong Kong meant that after 10O years, during which Hong Kong had been a key point in the empire life line, Britain had now been deprived of an important im-portant advanced striking base for the day when the allied general gen-eral offensive starts. Otherwise, they said, the loss was insignificant, because Japanese Japa-nese encroachment in China had long ago destroyed its value as a naval base and a port. . It was admitted that the British Brit-ish must rewin Hong Kong to make a really effective attack on Japan when the day comes, but first control of the surrounding area must be seized. Former Student In Libya Warfare That a former Brigham Young university student has probably been taking part in the successful success-ful operations of British forces against the Axis in Libya, is shown by a Christmas card received re-ceived this week by Dr. Franklin' S. Harris, president of the institution. institu-tion. The card, sent by Tony Shalfoon of Opotiki, North Island, New Zealand, is post marked, "with the Near East Forces," and was mailed from somewhere in Egypt. Neither the date nor the exact place of mailing is given. This is the first communication President Harris has had from Mr. Shalfoon since April, when he received a letter sent from New Zealand, March 3. At that time, the former New Zealand student, stu-dent, who attended the "Y" from 1931-'S4, wrote that he was in the machine gun division of the army and was preparing for embarkation embarka-tion to an unknown port. Elks Pledge Aid In War Effort ' A pledge of an all-out effort to aid the united States in defeating the Axis by the national order of Elks was wired to President Roosevelt Roose-velt recently by Judge John S. McClelland of Atlanta, Georgia, Grand Exalted Ruler, according to Seth Billings of Provo, Exalted Ruler of Lodge 849 here. Citing the work that has already al-ready been done by . the Elks national defense commission. Judge McClelland declared "we are cooperating in every way possible pos-sible with our government's civilian civil-ian defense program.'' ' Elks' lodges have been, thrown open to service men, and refresher refresh-er study courses have been given to .prepare men to enter the air corps, he said. Metal Prices Mining Promoter Dies in Salt Lake SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 26 OLE) One of the west's best known mining men, O. F. Riser, 59, founder and president of the National Na-tional Equipment company, of Salt Lake City, died here last night after a long illness. Riser had been associated with the old Mercur gold development, the Utah Copper company and the International Smelting and Refining company in Utah, and Nevada Consolidated Copper company com-pany in New Mexico, before founding his own equipment firm. He - was born in Salt Lake City in . 1882, and attended the University Uni-versity of Utah where he was an outstanding athlete. JAPANESE INFANTRY UNITS WIPED OUT NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (U.P The British radio broadcast news dis patches from Singapore today as serting' that "wave after wave of Japanese infantry has been wiped out in fierce fighting around Uala Kangsar near Ipoh" in Malaya The broadcast was heard by the Columbia Broadcasting system. NEW YORK, Dec 26 (HE) Today To-day custom smelters . prices for delivered. metals (cents per lb.): : Conner t Electrolytic 12: ex port f.aj. N. Y, 11.25; casting f.o.b. refinery, 12; lake, delivered, ' 11.25. 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