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Show -- Page Two on Thursday of Each Week Distribution for Friday Fhope 23 First West Street at Tremonton. Utah, Entered at the Post Office at Tremonton. Utah, as Second Class Matter October 15, 1925 A. ST. RYTTING, Editor-Publish- SUBSCRIPTION KATES (In Advance) SOLDIER RATES - Thursday, 3 Builds Up Strength For Knockout in Pacific U. S. Okinawa Landing Like Putting Foot in Enemy's Kitchen Door er ONE YEAR - $2.50 -- Ernie Pyle in the Pacific: BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER PuWished Tremonton, Utah BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, $1.75 By Ernie Pyle KLW00D Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Hunsak cr were in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Her mother has been quite ill but was somewhat improved. James Ransom of Franklin, Idaho, was eucst of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jensen for two days last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mortensen of Salt Lake were visiting his mo ther, Mrs. Mary Mortensen and other relatives here i hursday. Mrs. Rue Sanders of Salt Lake City visited her father, H. P. Ras mussen Thursday. She also attend ed the funeral of Ira Anderson held Thursday. Leonard Bishon and Patriarch Joseph Kirkham represented the stake presidency at our ward con fcrence Sunday evening. They al so attended the visiting teachers meeting. Mrs. Eva B. Hansen represented the Stake Relief Society board. Our ward Relief Society was rer organized with Mrs. Ruth Norma Mrs. as president, Erickson, and Mrs. Mabel Romer as counselors. The retiring officers were Mrs. Dagmar Andersen, president, Mrs. Clide Heslop and Norma Ericksen as counselors. All other officers were retained in the same positions. Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Hansen and daughter Lois returned Friday from Alhambra, California, where they have spent the winter. They went there because of illness and found much happiness and many friends, but are glad to be home again. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hansen have moved to their own home in Tremonton. They have spent the winter in his father's home- here. Hun-sake- - BOTHWELL fT ZGOXTfG & .5Vfi. AHEAD -- rAn-rf n PresidentWanting Senreg. College .Maitsai Gratitude The average American's most vivid impression of the Orient was acquired in less than an hour and came to him free with a bowl of chicken chow-meiThis is no discredit to He can't the average American. help it if Asia is mysterious. It Is only an accident that we know a great deal more about Europe. Our ancestors came from that way, so we heard about it. It is high time now, however, for every soul in the United States, who loves his happy home and peaceful surroundings, to learn more of the alcharacter of our straw-colore- d lies beyond the Pacific. We owe our national safety to them. If it were not for their n. !ve integrity we bewould be held in a tween Germany and Japan at this hour, if we were yet able to fight at all. We Admire Britain Americans are a tender-hearte- d , We sympathize with other folk. peoples and half-wa- y try to understand them, but we don't usually admire them very much. We felt sor- ry for the Poles when the Nazi took them in 18 days. Our hearts went out to the Norwegians because they didn't last three weeks. We wept with our British relatives over Dunkirk, but we did more. We adnut-crack- mired the British. Late in 1937 the city of Nanking, China, fell to the Japanese. Far away over the sea strategists thought that was about the end. If China had folded up the next day few people would have blamed her. We Americans would have turned the spigot in our sympathy tank again and drawn out a generous sprinkling of tears for dear old China, and then tried to forget it. But forgetting It would have been, T impossible. Must Admire China If China had fallen in 1937, four years before the Pearl Harbor raid, any child can guess why we Americans would still be remembering it But China did not fall. It would not be amiss for devout people to give thanks at the table three times a day that China did not fall. If China had fallen Japan could have knifed Russia on the unguarded side, right through Manchuria; surely would have done so. Back in those early months of the present war when the Germans were all but knocking at the doors of Moscow, our big old globe, as now arranged, was coming unglued. If Japan could have drawn close enough to attack Russia from behind, the Germans would have marched into Moscow. Then, with no Russia to annoy him, Hitler would have parched London to a cin- Mrs. Reed Anderson, Mrs. Reid Harris and Mrs. Lewis Christenscn were in Brigham on business Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Summers and daughters Barbara and La Jean attended a memorial service for Mrs. Summer's cousin, Roy Hardy last week. Pvt. Dee Firth called his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Firth from Camp Roberts, California, Sunday evening. Miss Eloise Anderson and a girl friend Leala Wright spent the I week end witn Jbloises parents. Leola is from Elko, Nevada. Mr. and Mrs. Eli C. Anderson, Miss Eloise Anderson and Miss Leola Wright were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Verl Anderson of Fielding. Miss Betty Summers was in Salt Lake Thursday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Firth, Dean Firth, Claire Firth and Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Firth were in Brig-haon Sunday to attend a funeral. Bob Ellis and son Darwin have been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Stark. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Ellis and S 2c Ralph Ellis were visitors of Mr, and Mrs, Clifford Stark the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fosley gave a supper Sunday evc"i in honor of S 2c Ralph who will leave Tuesday for San Diego. Miss Klea Fay Garfield was the Sunday guest of Maralyn Stark. Corp. and Mrs. Dan Halliday and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Newman were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Anderson. S 2c and Mrs. Ralph Ellis were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alvm Evans. fl!:' !" der. Thanks to China China stayed in and fought, so London remains. China stood the gaff, so we still have San Francisco. China could take privation and punishment; her share and ours too. As a consequence no bomb has struck an American city. Moreover, China's young men have made their as any fight as nearly bare-flste- d army taking part in this war on either side, large or small. In recent weeks there have been frequent criticisms of China; of Chinese fortitude, of China's disunity, of Chiang generalship. Let me close with this admonition: Criticism of China in America today, true or false, has one purpose and one only. It is to break up unity among our allies. Our enemies can hope to survive by no other means. Don't listen to it. Kai-Shek- 's S. NORMAN LEE ABSTRACTOR Established 40 Years BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH NOW AVAILABLE AT EWER'S OIL BURNING WATER HEATERS e OKINAWA. Our war with Japan has gone well in the last few weeks. We are firmly on Okinawa, which is like having your foot in the kitchen door. uur wonaenui earner puois nave whittled down the Jap air force daily. Our anti- from vewMv ships and from aircraft shore batteries has plugged Jap fliers for the high- est ratio I've ever known Our from ack-ac- k. task forces have absolutely & it butchered the onErnie Pyle ly Jap task force to put to sea in are hitting Jamany months. pan with fighter escort from Iwo Jima. Airfields are springing up on Okinawa. We all say we sure are glad we are not in the Japs' shoes. One main question asked over here now is. "How long will the Japs hold out?" There are all kinds of opinions, but actually nobody knows. We don't know, because no one in his right mind can pretend to understand the Oriental manner of thinking. They are unpredictable. As one ofThey are inconsistent. ficer said, "They are uncannily smart one day, and dumb as hell the next." Their values are so different from ours. The news broadcasts from Tokyo and Shanghai are an example. These broadcasts are utterly ridiculous. During our first week on Okinawa they constantly told of savage counterattacks when there weren't any. They told of driving a large part of our landing forces back to the boats and far out to sea, when actually they fired only a few shots onto the beaches. On plus four, they broadcast that despite their counterattacks we finally succeeded in landing 6,000 troops. The truth is that by sunset of the first evening we had an incredible number of scores of thousands of Americans on Okinawa! The crippled Jap air force cannot do us anything but spasmodic harm And their navy from now on. needn't ever be considered. If you could see the colossal naval power we have here you could hardly believe your eyes. It's one of the most impressive things I've seen in this war. We have plenty of troops in reserve, and new convoys of supplies have already begun to arrive just as we finished unloading the original massive supply fleet. B-2- , - rnoc w , - in eUfPpn v. v anf, n f nn wind the thing up in a hurry. VUi Protect vital gears novE tnOUSallUS The bulk of the battle of Okinawa is being fought by the army my This old friends, the doughfoots. time the marines had it easy, and by the turn of circumstance the army is the one that has the job to do. on the But my Okinawa blitz was to write about the marines and that's what I continue to do. I landed with the marines, crossed the island with them, and have been living with them amidst fleas, mosquitoes, goats and a few Japs, hiding under bushes. So naturally I want to tell you about them. Marine corps blitzes out here have all been so bitter and the marines have performed so magnificently that I had conjured up a mental picture of a marine that bore a close resemblance to a man from Mars. I was almost afraid of them myself. Finds Marines Human, After All I did find the marines confident, but neither cocky nor I found they have fears, and qualms, and hatred for war the same as anybody else. They want to go home just as badly as any soldiers I've ever met. I found them good, human Americans. They are proud to be marines. They wouldn't be in any other branch of the service. Yet they are not arrogant about it. And I found they have a healthy respect for tlje infantry. One day we were sitting on a hillside talking about the infantry. One marine spoke of a certain army divisiona division they had fought beside and was singing its praises. "It's as good as any marine division," he said. "What was that you said?" a listener cut in. The marine repeated it and emphasized it a little. Another marine stood up and called out, loudly: "Did you hear what he said? This guy says there's an army division as good as any marine division. He must be crazy. Haw, haw, haw!" And yet other boys chimed in, arguing very soberly, and sided with the one who had praised the army smart-aleck- y. division. Before I came into the field, several marine officers asked me to try to sense just what the marine Converting Island spirit is, just what causes it, and Into Big Base it alive. keeps On Okinawa the majority of the In peacetime when the marine Japs are on the southern tip, and was a small outfit, with its corps in considerable strength. The northern area is being combed and a few campaigns highlighted, and everybody was a volunteer, you could unscattered ones mopped np. derstand why marines felt so suThere is tough fighting in the perior. south and it will remain tough to But since the war the marine the end. I've heard some officers has grown into hundreds of corps of south Okinawa the end say may of men. It has been dithousands turn into another Iwo Jima. That will mean heavy casualties on our luted, so to speak. Today it is an outfit of ordinary people some big, side, but the end of Okinawa is insome little, some even draftees. It evitable. has changed, in fact, until marines And while the army's 24th corps look exactly like a company of solof infantry is doing that job, the diers in Europe. rest of the island apparently is wide Yet that marine corps spirit still open for us to develop and we are remains. I never did find out what doing it with our usual speed. perpetuates it. They're not necesThis island has everything we sarily better trained. They're no could want in such an island. There better equipped and often not as is plenty of room for more airfields, well supplied as other troops. But room for roads and vast supply a marine still considers himself a dumps and anchorages for ships. better soldier than anybody else, And the civilians from whom we had even though s of them expected trouble are docile and don't want to be soldiers at all. harmless. Of course, The marines are very cognizant Japan's vast land armies are still almost intact But of the terrible casualties they've if it does come to the great mass taken in this Pacific war. They're land warfare of continental Europe, even proud of that too, in a way. we now are able to build up strength Any argument among marine units for that warfare right on the scene. is settled by which has had the There is a fighting spirit among greatest casualties. us. People are conjecturing about Many of them even envisioned the the possibility of the Pacific war end of the marine corps at Okinawa. ending sooner than we had ever al- If the marine divisions had been lowed ourselves to think. beaten up here as they were on Iwo For years it looked endless, but Jima, the boys felt it would have now you hear people talk about be- been difficult to find enough men of ing home by Christmas. Some real- marine corps caliber to reconstitute ly believe they will. Others have all the divisions. their fingers crossed, but they are They even had a sadly sardonic more hopeful than ever before. song about their approach to OkiInstead of a war weariness, there nawa, the theme of which was, seems to be a new eagerness among "Good-by- , Marines!" and differential gears must stand up to - -. unaiu viangciuus puuiiua made handle such pressure to lubricant a unless wear Gear RPM Lubricant (Comsafeguards your gears. transmissions and differentials all ideal for is pounded) resists sludging, except hypoids. It minimizes gear wear, this Get corrosion. protection today! foaming, Transmission and OI -- DAVE STANDER DISTRIBUTOR Tremonton Phone 121 Garage Car Automobile owners are advised to garage their cars at night to preserve the finish. This prevents dew from forming on the body, and dew seems to be an important factor in causing the failure of finish. for FURNACES O New Stokers Double Sinks Pumps o Tremonton I've mentioned before about our fear of snakes before we got here. All the booklets and literature give us ahead of time about Okinawa dwelt at length on snakes. They told us there were three kinds of poisonous adders. Well, I've kept a close watch and made a lot of inquiries. And the result is that in the central part of Okinawa where we've been there Ends iron flatirons make substantial book ends. The wrought- one-piec- e uu" "uiuer mai protected grand. ma's ironing board from scorch be. comes a wall hanging Chinese art Mm& ..''.W MsmMMMX It-- . -' '- an that vies gjE with I TV 401 FOR THESt Turn Grain into Eggs Grain mainly makes yolks Chowder is balanced for whites. Mix 'em together for lots of low-coeggs. 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Stimulates w ,M. milk flow give rj P,o pigs eauy sow's milk. OIL BURNERS Phone 126 (EDITOR'S KOTE: Ernie Pyie's columns mil continue to appear in this newspaper for a few weeks. Disputches for these releases hate been cleared by the censors and some may be en route from le island where the famous war correspondent met his death.) Try Purma SOW & PIG CHOW PAINT UDDERS with PIGEMIA are Just practically no snakes at all. Our troops have walked, poked, sprawled and slept on nearly every square yard of the ground. And in my regiment, for one, they have seen only two snakes. One was found dead. The other was killed by a battalion surgeon, coiled into a gallon glass Jar and sent to the regimental command post as souvenir. PL 'gtilNrunMiL m m movvcrt FARM ATJT Phone 3 2 nrinomWttfl D U u u w SUPPLY MirilAPTIS irunMf. M(rr M i |