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Show CLASSIFIED Roman lie Pacific Isles Prove Lure lo Many Ex-Servicem- 10,000 iXary Men Take Discharges Jungle Is Creeping Back On Historic War Sites At Island liases Guadalcanal, Hollandia,? chart at e , and Vad Home Trailers cury Halit Mud-- la to I huuae I root 714 South Main Phone 47701 Sell Lake City. Utah h, -a j- atolls. march to victory in World War II. The romantic lure of these Pacific 0 Isles already has drawn nearly American navy discharged men, who have decided not to go home after the wars end. The nsvy department reports that 0.373 navy men who were stationed on Pacific Island during the wsr have received special authority to be demobilized at their stations Instead of returning to the United States for discharge. All were required to have jobs or some other source of Income before tills permission wss granted. Most the voluntary ex patriates have obtained civil service employment In the military government, the navy announces. Other have Jobs in private enterprises, mainly in Hawaii and the Philippines. Some sailors have gone native" marrjlng native girls . and deciding to make their permanent homes on one of the islands. A few were reported interested in enterprises starting commercial which Import consumer durable goods from the United States. Private business has been impeded, however, because of the relative scarcity of radios, automobiles, refrigerators and other durable goods. Look for Retreat. Occasionally the navy department receives a wistful letter from a former sailor or marine, discouraged by peacetime conditions at home, asking if there is a little island in the Pacific he can buy inexpensively for a retreat "to get away from it all" k during the war, Americans find a warm reception on most of the islands of the Pacific. Almost without exception the natives regarded the United States as their defender and liberator, and now they wait hopefully for the return of the men they saw during the war. The Americans brought a taste of modernity and of big enterprise to the peoples of the island groups. The natives saw a picture of the United States as a place of vast wealth and immense physical resources. The huge quantities of materials which moved through these places made an Indelible im pression on the people. Revelation of United States standards of comfort, of transportation, of eating and of public health has giV' en the natives an incentive to move forward. Americans were friendly, and generally there was immediate response to this offer of friendship. Id-00- By dint of sheer manjMiuer, many of them became baae hacked out of the wilderness of the jungle Now, only a year after Uie war i POPULAR PASTIME . . . Most popular diversion for aailors In the Parlfic was the hula show. d has taken on an air of permanency. Okinawa, at Japans southern threshold, stiU lives in much of the misery that war left Army air forces and navy bases are maintained on the island Naha, capital city, is a wilderness of destrucUon, and sunken ships stud Buckner bay. Kahoolawe Ranks Mosf Bombarded Island In Pacific Ask any veteran of the Pacific warfare which bastion was the most shot at Island" during World War II and hell probably answer Saipan, Iwo Jims, Okinawa, Tarawa or one of the other Japanese strongholds. But that dubious distinction beManila Is Shambles. longs to the small, desolate. InsigManila, most dramatic battle- nificant, waterless, uninhabited isground of the war, still is in shabby land of Kahoolawe in the Hawaiian ruins. Army trucks and jeeps wind chain. Former smugglers haven, through the streets, past heaps of the island, only eight miles by five rubble cleared from the thoroughand of rugged terrain, has been refares and gaunt frames of duced to a mass of rubble by buildings. Tourists gaze countless shells and bombs. In awe at the maze of rubble In the The explanation is that naval and Walled City, historic battlesite. marine forces used Kahoolawe, unWavea lap the wrecked and inhabited and commercially worthrusting landing craft which litless, as a testing ground for theories ter the shoreline at Iwo Jima, of naval gunfire support of landing a volcanio stepping stone In the forces. march to Tokyo. The American More than 800 ships, ranging from flag sUU flutters from Mount s, small amphibious craft to Surabachl, for a small garripoured thousands upon son maintains a relatively unthousands of rounds into Kahoo-lawe- 's important air base on Iwo. barren sides. The tiny island In less than two years, Guam has took a greater shelling than either become the most powerful navy Iwo Jima or Okinawa, where naval base in the distant Pacific. Of all gunfire reached its peak In the bases it alone the once-beautif- ul battle-wagon- Mid-Pacif- ; X ACCESS. Mew coral-studde- palm-fringe- & HOMES ON WHEELS Dy BAUKHAGE Condlt-Smit- that) until American soldiers, sailors and marines battled and bled there on their long clouds have cleared, many of them are creeping back to their jungle vastness. Guadalcanal, site of America first major land stand against the Jap invaders, has slipped back into obscurity. British civil officials once more rule the Solomon Island basHenderson Field tion and Is quiet except for sn occasional plane. Airfield Disappears. The remorseless jungle is reconquering the big airfield hacked out by the Americans at Buna, New Guinea. Few signs of confilel remain on battle scarred Kwajalein. Developed as major base in closing days of the war, it also served as an advance base for tests. the atomlo-bom- b At Tarawa, one of the cosUiest battlefields of the Pacific, a small navy garrison maintains the air base, but it may be decommissioned soon. The name, Leyte, where Gen. Douglas MacArthur kept his pledge to return to the Philippines, Is kept alive by the navy, which maintains a major base there. The bay teems with activity, an airfield, air depot, hospital, radio staUon and naval repair yards being located there. Al'TOS, TRITKS AWi Analrtl end Commentator. Long heralded m song and film as the land of beauty and WNC Service, 161 Eye Street. N.W., are they trying to prepare us for s Russian coup d'etatT . . . romance, glamour and advenWashington, D. C. Each day the arrival of foreign WASHINGTON. ture, the myriad Islands of the Mary was awaited. On June 17 th troops a young Washington society Pacific left a lasting Imprint reads: entry dipvisiting on thousands of American girl "Just one week ago today we lomatic friends in r servicemen whose war duties China, the telegram that the comgot and a 'lev- f bined forces of England, the In gave them their first glimpse boy United Slates, France, Japan, d d of the and little town on to the Manui, Tarawa, Kwajalcin. Iwo Jima, Okinawa all were but spots on a map of the Palarge-scal- Diary of 46 Years Ago Points Way for Present en NAMES REMEMBERED cific (a DEPARTMENT etc. . . . bad lert to go the Erie Canal relief of the legation In Peking were both keepwhen the time comet that ing diaries t the the American and Russian legaturn of the centions can no longer hold out, the tury. British legation will be the stage Mary, sicme In for the terrible last act." In the room her The Roman Catholic church wat lega- American only one of many burned, and the Lon in Peking on converts and their families In the j June 11, 1900, vicinity slaughtered. slipped on her "In some cases," says the dipink silk dressing "the Christian thought it ary, gown, sat down Baukhage better to be roasted In their and wrote: houses than try to escape." (She The telegraph was broken last herself had decided that she night. We have no more communi-o- f might as well bo massacred In cation with the outside world; our her pink silk dressing gown with is this dangerous Peking." a pink bow at her neck as in her That same day, though it was golf clothes.) the to day before, according really On the 19th of June, the Chinese the strange tricks Old Sol plays as he pushes the clock around while government offered to give legatior members their passports and escort he marches westward and paradoxically reaches the Far East- - that them and their families to the .port tame day, Monday, June 11, a boy in There was a division of opinion ai the fifth grade of the High street to whether to trust the Chinese. Ir school painfully Inscribed this entry the evening the German ministei started to confer a second time or in hit book: tha question when he was murdered A. rained M. this "It Two more in the streets. weeks and we'll be free from this The situation grows worse. School of Misery." (The next day It la of record that he broke the Dead Piled crank of his wheel" bicycle to Around Ramparts you.) A bullet knocks off the headpiece The boys name appears at the of a baby's crib. head of this column and what he All the women are sewing sandwrote isnt Important, but just 48 bags. The Dutch and Austrian legationi years later he was to read Mary's diary. She had gone to her reward burn. On July 1: There are eo long since but not until her diary became a book and she had become many dead dogs, horses and Mrs. Hooker, a colonel's lady. Chinese lying In heaps all around the defended lines, but White Mans Prestige too far for us to bury or burn them. Slipped to Low As I read this fascinating story, They used the dead horses closet by, however: The . . . mess has as told in simple, boarding-schoo- l English, those awful day when the for- invariable menu. At breakfast, rice, eign colony in Peking lived in the tea and jam; at tiffin, rice and daily horror of massacre during horse; at dinner, rice, horse and the Boxer rebellion, became very Jam. With the privations and fear ol reaL the Boxers grew the suspicion and Today the fires of civil war are distrust of the members of the forbein Voices China. are spreading missions of each other. Ruseign ing raised, demanding that our masians and hated each other; English rines be withdrawn. American presAmericans were the buffers. Racial has fallen low as almost as It tige was when Mary Hooker In her diary ructions have no date lines. Mary told the dramatic story of the Boxer Hooker notes: The dislike of the Russians Rebellion that moment In Chinas for the British Is so cordial that history when Americans, along with It Is only equaled by the feeling all foreigners reached their nadir. the British entertain toward History repeats. them. Our compound joins the The Empress Tzuhsi, a reactionRussians, and they love us and ary, encouraged the activities of the we love them in as strong a Boxers and other groups whose fashion as they hate their Engchief purpose was to cleanse China lish neighbors on their other of the "foreign devils. It is only side." fair to say that China had passed And so pretty Mary Hooker wrote through a period during which the history. . . . occidental powers had exploited her But it was more than history. II to the hilt. was drama. It was tragedy. Jusl Attacks on foreigners, especially look over her shoulder once again: missionaries, began in 1899, but as July 9 . . . day before yesthe diploMary Hooker records, terday, the Austrian Charge mats and people in general put dAffalres was shot at the these things down to the usual French legation. At first we spring riots which yearly seized kept a record of the dead or Peking." badly wounded . . . but now By June and July of 1900, however, they come in so often we cease the foreigners found themselves beto note the exact number. , . . I was en route sieged in Peking. As late as June "July 16 7 Marys diary reports: to the hospital carrying a pot of coffee to the doctors and Mr. Pethick . . . forty years a resident of China and an innurses when some soldiers timate friend of half the politpassed me, carrying a rough litical leaders, ter, bearing Captain Strouts knowing their weaknesses by heart, urges the (the British commanding offiminister to state to Washington cer) mortally wounded." the situation as it is, bnt all to no Then July 16: avail. "It is discussed quietly by men that they will certainly kill Three days later, as I mentioned, the foreign colony had no commutheir wives when that time comes (to make a final stand). nication with the outside world. God grant it never may! AproThe next days entry states: "Such Intense excitement! pos of this, I have in my pocket a small pistol loaded with This afternoon the Japanese Chancellor of the Legation went several cartridges, to use if the worst happens. A Belgian secdown to the railway station in the official legation car to see if retary stole It from the armoury for me in case you need it, there was any sign of troops. mademoiselle. " Returning by the principal gate, he was seized by the Imperial Then finally this note on August 15, when the Chinese were closing (Chinese) troops, disemboweled and cut to pieces." in on the improvised fortifications manned by lord and flunky, Eagerly Awaited soldier and civilian making theii Arrival of Troops a veritable ring ol last stand From then on the entries become flame on all sides of the defenses. And then! even more exciting . . . twenty of Through that racket that was around us all our marines have been sent by an officer to guard the big Methodist night, we could faintly hear the unmistakable sound of the forMission . . . the Russian secretary . . . has figures at the ends of his eign guns of our troops." That page of history, let us hope, fingers about the number of troops . . . will not be repeated. Russia can land in Tien-Tsi- n BUSINESS INVEST. OPPOR. & StTI-LSTOKE. 8Fmnehla ana your future. now lor now Aosoclul villubia Jtoraa. Inveat'dui blur you Invoau Wrlloorwlr. SEN TON ALTO STOKES. PUlaa L Tag. T SOME AND ALTO -I evil MISCELLANEOUS WE BUT AND SELL Add-I-n Furniture. Filaa. Typewriter. KemsU-r- . Mjchlnea. S.vfra. Cuah SALT LAKE DSSK E XI MANGE Waal Broadway. Soil Lad Lily. Utah. Offlr SS ... ' Invest in Your Country-B- uy U. S. 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