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Show Q . The Salt Lake Tribane, Monday, April 6, 1964 i i American Hero: His Battles and Life of Highlights ;li s t - a ,. MacArthur, 84, Dies After Heroic Fight Continued From Page 1 To Begin jCapt Arthur MacArthur and his soldiers never die fade away." . Final Honors Virginia-bor- n wife, the for- they Just mer Mary Pinkney Hardy. During the Civil War, MacHE ENTERED the Army Hos- Arthurs father served with the 24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infanpital here at Walter Reed Medi"obtry. 2 for cal Center March servation of abdominal comAfter the war be fought plaints, subsequently diagnosed against the Indians in the West as obstructive jaundice. and against revolutionaries in On March 6, Army surgeons the Philippines. operaperformed a three-hou- r The elder MacArthur rose to tion to remove his gall bladder. major general commanding the An official diagnosis said "longArmy of the Philippines, and obstrucIntermittent standing retired as a lieutenant general. tion caused by gallstones had During these years Douglas caused an inflammation of the MacArthur and his mother made liver. their home in Milwaukee. The inflammation had given HE ENTERED West Point In rise to Jaundice, symptom of June, 1899. In the four underliver ailment. graduate years he attained a MacArthur recovered from the scholastic record not equaled in Initial surgery, but on March 27 the previous 25 years. He graduated first In his class It was discovered that had developed in with many honors In 1903. He thethe esophagus. Bleeding there chose the corps of engineers, he chances of is sometimes associated with an recalled,-becau- se promotion were good. enlargement of the spleen. In the years before World Surgeons removed the spleen War I, MacArthur saw service in a operation. in the Philippines and Mexico. The hospital then reported the onset of a lung inflammation, The ascendance of his military star began with the outbreak of but the general was given antiWorld War I. He helped organbiotics and gained markedly. ize the 42d Washington Post Co. The WASHINGTON, April 5 U.S. Army Sunday announced plans for final honors for General of the Army Douglas Mac- - Arthur. SOLEMN proceedings will last through Saturday, when the old soldier will be put to rest in the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Va. There, full military honors will be rendered at the interment ceremony. salutes Until the burial, will sound at noon each day at Army posts across the United States, and the United States at all f flag will fly at Army installations until final retreat and taps. n half-staf- It is anticipated that President Johnson will participate when Gen. MacArthurs body is placed in state at the Capitol rotunda here Wednesday. Gen. MacArthurs body was taken from Walter Reed Hospital a little after 5 p.m. Sunday, and a small motorcade, composed of those closest to the general, made its way to the Washington-Baltimor- e Parkway and on to a New York funeral home. six-ho- ; (Rainbow Division) warriors struggle and went to France as commandcaused a stir in Washington, er of one of Its brigades. THE OLD President Johnson received regular bulletins of his progress. On March 29, the surgeons decided on another operation the third in 24 days to remove a section of the small intestine blocked because of hernia. Fresh complications followed. the Army general, announced that a partial kidney failure concern grave prompted about the generals condition. But the following day his condition was said to be modestly GEN. HEATON, surgeon EXHIBITING DARING and dash frequently to the annoyance of his superiors he savored the excitement of war and the dangers of combat In 1919, MacArthur returned to the United States and was appointed superintendent of the United States Military Academy. -- , . V'-- The body will be taken Tuesday to the 7th Regiment Armory and will lie in repose from 10 a.m. until Wednesday morning. 4fk I u Early Wednesday the body, escorted by West Point cadets, generals, bands, veterans groups and the New York police, will be taken to Pennsylvania Sta- if tion. achieved the rank of general in 1930, when he was named Army chief of staff by President Herbert Hoover. He flag-drape- d In the summer of 1932, several thousand unemployed men, Improved. many of them veterans of World The general received more War I, gathered in Washington to than 21 pints of blood following demand immediate payment of the three major operations. war bonuses. JSV, 4 r v 4 - W. JZ Associated Press Wlrepboto He Said- -I The blood was provided through regular channels from volunteers. Shall Return He Did ON JULY 29, Hoover ordered nd MacArthur to destroy a camp the men had set up. The task Philippine people were never permitted to forget general and Lt. N. Richard Sutherland defy hazards I Leyte beach in October, 1944. Gen. MacArthur was was accomplished without bloodMacArthur promise that I shall return. Here the of nearby enemy gunfire to fulfill pledge at a A special technique, Identified among first on Leyte to direct islands victory. shed. as peritoneal dialysis, was em- When President Franklin D. ployed to wash out poisonous Roosevelt succeeded Hoover, body waste which could not be MacArthur was reappointed chief 9 filtered by MacArthurs own of staff of the Army. He held the post until 1935, longer than weakening kidney system. DOCTORS reported that the any predecessor. The Fifth Air Force Initial- executed a daring and massive favor of pursuing the enemy his permanent old son, Arthur, and a Chinese Sept 2, 1945, when Japanese Upon general managed to communi- rank of resuming MacArthur was batMacArboarded ly the assigned to protect the strike from the sea on the northward without delay. representatives nursemaid, major general, cate with those at his bedside thur was sent to the Philippines taken off Corregidor by a PT tleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo evacuation, began to support North Korean rear and flank despite a tube inserted in as However, orders were held in military adviser to the Com- boat in a dramatic dash under Bay to sign the unconditional the retreating South Korean with an amphibious landing at his esophagus. Occasionally he as word came that abeyance forces. monwealth. the western port of Inchon. surrender documents under his Japanese shore guns. there was grave consternation lapsed into sleep, but not into unconsiousness. For two yean he worked at President Truman decided to ON OCT. SO, 1914, two and a gaze. North Korean defense broke at U.N. headquarters as to of Asia was shat- act on MacArthurs recommenThe A reporter asked doctors to building a military force in half serenity after MacArthur and the remnants of its army whether the intent of the comhad years the Philippines. in to U.S. send dation on tered at bined effort had been to repel dawn the troops the morning vowed to return to the Philipexplain fled in disorder. extremely unusual of June 25, 1950, when Russian Japan and Okinawa into the the invaders or rid the entire stamina displayed by this On Aug. 6, 1937, he was noti- pines, he waded ashore at Leyte trained and equipped North struggle to stem the ComMacArthur announced that for peninsula of Communist miliman. fied that he would be returned and announced: all practical purposes the war tary forces. I have returned. By the Korean troops swept southward munist tide. BRIG. GEN. Henry S. Mur-phe- shortly for duty in the United 38th across the in a 1 had parallel of ended, except for the need i h a m g t y God, our the hospital commander, States. Stating that his task in grace effort to overwhelm the THEN THE C.S. success- to pursue the enemy to the ON OCT. 10, President Trulightning stand on forces again Philippine the Philippines was not comreplied: inadequate South Korean forces, fully appealed to the United Yalu River, the border between man flew to Wake Island for a soil. pleted, he abruptly applied for who were being trained under His heart, his constitution, Communist China and North meeting with MacArthur. Macretirement from the Army. IN A CAREER studded with the direction of a U.S. military Nations to Join the struggle and his will to live. Korea. Arthur was understood to have armed aggression. MANUEL QUEZON, the Phil- military triumphs, the greatest advisory team of fewer than against great optimism about expressed General of the Army Dougof these for MacArthur came on 1,000 men and officers. in were commanders Unit On Sept. 12, 1950, MacArthur Presiippines Commonwealth Korean situation. the las MacArthur served his dent, then appointed him field He told the President there country as a soldier for more marshal of the Philippines. It was very little chance that than GO years. was during this period that Macthe Chinese Communists or the He achieved the highest ac- Arthur designed the gold Soviet Union would react to a claim for his exploits as a grand garrison cap that, venture into North Korea. strategist in two wars and held along with sunglasses and a corncob was to become his pipe, the center stage in one of the MacArthur returned to Vi bitterest civil versus military trade-marTokyo and began to close controversies in the history of Spare and just short of 6 feet out the Korean War. v&f-- I iL tall, Gen. MacArthur maintained the nation. 5 Near the end of October, a deceptively jaunty air that the 1 VIRTUALLY every military unsuspecting U.N. invited , troops slashed across the thought honor was bestowed upon him, 38th Parallel in a dash to the t. familiarity, which was swiftly yet his active career ended In and cooly spumed. Yalu. bitterness and recrimination As the possibility of war ELEMENTS IDENTIFIED as when he was relieved of his f- -r Chinese Communist troops had command in the midst of the grew, the Philippine army was i i . . s merged with the U.S. Army Korean War. been found south of the 38th under the of command Mao Parallel in the east coast sector His life was marked by no Arthur. at least two weeks earlier. struggle against poverty or lack MacArthurs intelligence ofof privilege. His rise to promiHe was restored to duty with nence was unmarred by tem- the American forces on however, apparently ficers, July 27, failed to attach any significance porary setbacks or misfortune. 194L to the reports of their presence. EVEN THE FINAL, discordON DEC. 7 the Japanese atant note of his career his re- tacked Pearl Harbor and miliU.N. units reached the moval from command left him tary installations in the PhilipCl '2 V river, but within hours the .V-Chinese Communist army serenely confident In his Judg- pines, where MacArthurs forces ment, outwardly unmoved by were caught completely by surstruck across the border. the events that swirled about prise. The second phase of the him. The highly trained Japanese Korean struggle was under way. MacArthurs evaluation of his forces soon tightened the noose role in history was probably around Bataan, forcing the deBY TIIE SECOND week in most succinctly and character- fenders into the fortifications at warfare November istically voiced by him in 1950. the tip of the peninsula, setting t ,w forces and U.N. had the begun Asked if be could explain the stage for the final battle for were giving ground at a speed his success, he puffed slowly Corregidor. v v t , i that, in many instances, at his corncob pipe. IAS MACARTHUR directed the amounted to a rout 1 believe It was destiny. defense from the labyrinthine, What MacArthur had called a. r2.' new war went on through a fortifications of DOUGLAS MacArthur was underground - ian. T A 7 iwinanfci J came to orders him the winter and into the spring. Corregidor, bom Jan. 26, 1880, at Fort on Feb. 22 to leave his command Posing for Ms 1902 photograph with the West Point football d uniform. Seated at front, right, is He became restive and wanted in right, Little Dodge, Rock, Ark. He was in the hands of Lieut. Gen. Jonateam is the squad's cadet manager, Douglas MacArthur, rear, Henry Tomey, uncle of Salt Laker who now possesses picture. to strike at Chinese depots and the third of three sons bom to than (Skinny) Wainwright and supply lines within Chinese terproceed to Australia to take comritory. E. Germaolomment mand of thenewly created HE LET IT be known that he Southwest Pacific Area. BERLIN, April 5 (UPI)-T- he was displeased with high deBidding farewell to his men, East German news service ADN MacArthur uttered a An aging photograph promembers and a personal cisions to refrain from attackcrew pf West Point footballers, The picture came to its presphrase that Sunday night said Gen. Douglas was to' be added to his trade- vides one Salt Lake family a 1902. ing outside Korea lest the war With is them a ent possessor, F. J. Tomey friend of Gen. MacArthur. vintage MacArthur was commander of marks. to HENRY Tomeys brother, spread. tie the MacArthur personal determined-lookin- g cah the aggressive troops in Korea young East, after the Maj. F. J. Tomey (U.S. Army Jr., In April, 1951, he was relieved memory. "I shall return, he said. t and a rabid advocate of predet manager death of his unde, Henry W. Ret) now lives at 264 N. of his commands in the Far Douglas Macventive war. IN THE PHOTO is a With his wife and their Arthur. brawny East by President Truman. Tomey one of the 1902 team Main, BountifuL . ..Key Return-a- IBelieve It Was Destiny to Success y, 15 -- -- - Vi'PV t. srw rn v' C & J?v. c. o. j r-- yrs C "'"V full-sca- if ! rjl M -- i r g- -- ii A light-colore- Old Photo Links S.L. Family, Gen. MacArthur ' 224-12t- ... V 'V-- - casTHERE THE ket will be placed aboard a private railroad car attached to the regularly scheduled Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, scheduled to depart for Washington at 9:15 a.m. En route, the train will stop at Trenton, N.J., on a regular stop, and then slow as it passes Aberdeen, and Odenton, Md., sites of Army installations. Military bands and soldiers from those posts will line the tracks as the train moves slowly by. The train Is expected at Union Station here at 1:50 p.m. After a brief ceremony, the body will be taken up Massachusetts Ave. N.W. to New York Ave., pass in front of the White House, and then proceed south on 17th SL to 16th SL and Constitution Ave. AT THAT Intersection the cash ket will be removed from a hearse and placed on a horse-draw- n caisson. The caisson will move down Constitution Ave. to the east plaza of the Capitol, where a ceremony will be held. Attendants will bear the casket into the rotunda, where a ceremony will be held at 3:30 p.m. The body will lie in state in the rotunda the rest of Wednesday for the public to pay its respects, and remain on view until 10:30 a.m. Thursday. At 1 p.m. Thursday, the caisson will move the casket to 14th St. and Constitution, and the body will then be placed in a motorcade. The motorcade will cross into Virginia to Washington National Airport by way of 14th Street. At the airport, the hearse will go to the MATS terminal. Another ceremony will be held, and the body will be moved up a ramp of a C130 military transport. The C130 will take the body to Norfolk Naval Air Station. From a point in Norfolk to which a hearse will take the body, a caisson will be used to Gen. MacArthurs transport body to the MacArthur Memorial There he will be placed in repose. Vow to Return: It Was 6Shair By Associated Press When Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur made his public vow to go back to the Philippines as he evacuated the islands early in World War II he was reported to have said it this way: I will return. Associated Press dispatches of the period report the 's "I will version of statement. But later versions of the incident including those in standard reference books quote MacArthur as saying I shall return." SUNDAY, THE Pentagon made It official. Army sources said a check of historical records had established that bt said I shall return. Mao-Arthur- |