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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Portrait of a Hero: One of the unsolved mjsteries of history is how Custer hurdled the military promotion system and over- By DEFENSE: At Home Edward C. Wayne Knox Makes Blunt Report on Hawaii: Army and Navy Losses Set at 2,897 In Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor; Battleship Arizona Among Craft Sunk LISTEN TO BAUKHAGE The Natl FarmCr Home Hour 10 30 each morning, through Friday Monday KUTA, Salt Lake 1 1 I I V at 570 KC CHANGED CITY overWashington has changed boom night Washington was a was a town one week; next week it is partly a war town. The change matter of visible things, partly things that are felt without being soldiers, with seen . . . Khaki-cla- d and tin hats bayonets, patroling two abreast between the White House and the state department . , . Darkness over the Capitol dome, where searchlights are blacked out, for the . . A jam of volunteers duration for Civilian Defense . . . New flags delivered at Civilian Defense headquarters, two for LaGuardia's car, two for Mrs. Roosevelts 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 commerce deals with such innocuous subjects as census figures, its great steel doors are locked, and guards demand credentials at the main entrance . . . Women fliers of America call a hurried meeting to speed An extra up plans for training detail of police strolls on the south grounds of the White House, last trampled by egg - rolling Easter crowds. In his press conference, the Presidents voice is so grave and low that Louder, a newsman calls out, 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 Presidents Scottie, feels the change, for the White House guards have less time to play with him, and he curls up disconsolate in his green just back of th and other NBC Blue Network Stations In these columns, they (EDITOR'S NOTE- - When opinions are ore those of the news analyst and not expressed necessarily of this newspaper.) Western night rose from a mere lieutenant by (Released Newspaper Union.) to a general All anyone knows Farms in Sweden foie serious attempt against U. S. is that he returned to headquarters HAWAII: of the 430,000 farms in one day after being out on a misterritory in any volume, and to this less than five acres. cover Sweden A Report task the Japanese apparently had sion, and chums greeted him as General . . . Custer thopght they From Secretary of the Navy dedicated about 200 - odd planes, were kidding, because he always Frank Knox, just back from a fly- which probably meant at least two boasted that hed be a general be- ing inspection trip to Hawaii came aircraft carriers. The chief Japanese objective unfore the war was over, and he was a report the nation had anxiously all set to start punching. One of awaited the extent of damage done questionably was Malaya and Burhis friends grabbed him by the arm by the Japanese in their first blast ma, with Singapore as a necessary and took him to his tent where he at Pearl Harbor and Honolulu. battle before the Japs could conGrim reality of war has come to found an envelope containing his Army and navy casualties were set sider any permanent success had HOTELS U. S. coastal cities. Here in been theirs. many 26 at 2,897 dead, 879 wounded and commission addressed to Brigathis The cutting of the Burma road startling picture big ramparts Six warships, including dier General George Armstrong missing. When in RENO. NEVADA atop at the HOTEL GOLDEN Reno largest and Custer . . . Custer, who was only one battleship, the Arizona, went was another, but this, it could be of sand bags are being hastily conmost popular hotel. realized, would only relieve the pres- structed in front of one of the tele23 years old, turned pale and passed down. out cold. Knox was blunt in establishing his sure from the Chinese army, and phone companys buildings in San OFFICE EQUIPMENT First he said that Japan would enable the Japanese to re- Francisco. points. Buy Defense Bonds move forces from China only after NEW AND USED desks and chairs, files, Custer is the man who turned the failed in what it set out to do While 99 per cent of the air typewriters, adding mchs, safes, tide of the Civil war by saving the knockout the United States in the a long period. on American contiS. L. DESK EX.. 35 W. Broadway. Salt Lakn raids reported The vital need of Japan was oil, Pacific before the war actually got Union army from defeat at Gettysor cities been nental rumors had oil and more oil, without which it burg. At the time of the Battle of under way. Second, his report statPERSONALS home defense was bustling be impossible for her to keep tests, would were ed 15 The United States services be was miles about Gettysburg ahead. (piles), hernia, rupture HEMORRHOIDS, away. His brigade had been or not on the alert against the sur- her fleet moving, her planes in the Blackouts were being practiced OSTEOPATHIC, treated without knife. dered (along with the rest of the prise air attack on Hawaii. This air, or to prosecute any sort of war NONSURGICAL CLINIC AND SURGICAL busily from one coast to the other, at all. Salt Lake City Sll Bldg. Templeton to wait at Big Roundtop, cavalry) and the rules during air raids were And this oil was in the Dutch East where Jeb Stuart and his Confedd in Ameri being read and BEAUTY SCHOOL Indies. Against successful occupaerates were expected to attack can homes, while men, women and isof tion Stuart fooled the Yankees by at any of these children repeated to themselves the OP BEAUTY CULTURE ft.UlbllL SCHOOL lands two great obstacles stand. tacking from the opposite direction Largest in the West. 18 years sucwords keep calm, stay at magic cessful Modern, thorough, pracoperation. The instead . . . Hearing Stuarts gun Philippines stand astride the lie down and all the rest Enrol anytime. Write for catalogue. tical China sea at a point where it is home, 338 fire, Custer disobeyed the orders he Main South Salt Lake City, Utah of the litany. 500 about tomiles the and had received, headed straight only wide, From it all was coming a strongward the sound of the guns and, huge Singapore base closes the neck er realization that home defense was Bendix and Hotpoint Washers of hoped-fo- r Japanese operations needed chiefly to bind the morale of charging four times, stopped the We have largest selection of used washers. at the east. Confederate forces dead in their the nation, and as an Slashed prices $12.60 up. 1 yr. guar. Terms, Hence the most serious invasion tracks . . . But for Custers trigger n acINTERMOUNTAIN UTILITIES safeguard against effort was made by the Japs via 151 South State St. thinking, the Union armies would Salt Lake City, Utah more was of which there tivities, a have been routed at Gettysburg . and Thailand, with the than a little. The bitter irony is that the man landings at Malaya an effort to MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS n activiThe who was defeated (because of Cus make the British tenure of the long ties in the United States were not, Reconditioned Band Instruments at bargain neck ending in Singapore untenable. of ters coup) was Fitzhugh Lee, the course, a fraction of what they prices. Liberal trades. BEESLEY MUSIC The secondary attack was on the were ih Manila nor in divisional commander of the ConCO.. 70 So. Main, Salt Lake City, Utah, but Hawaii, federate attack. Lee was the in Philippines, chiefly to obtain naval they were serious and the wide- Presidents office. structor who had saved Custer from BUSINESS COLLEGE TRAINING and air bases far enough outside the calling out of the home circle of the island defenses to per- spread had being expelled from West Point by SPIES JAPANESE a more much Work available for students to earn boaid guards important mit a serious effort at capture. reducing his demerits. Last summer Congressman Martin and room while attending College. Writ effect than did the same move in HENAGER BUSINESS COLLEGE Buy Defense Bonds-O- ne Army watchers saw little chance the last war when territorial United Dies had investigators make a thor46 East Broadway Salt Lake City of the greatest military wizthat the Japs would spread them- States was safer from attack. ough survey of Japanese activities out to ards of all time, Custer was almost thin selves results coast. The West the enough attempt along of evidences First of the dangers Here Is one of the wars first heUSED EQUIPMENT a strong attack on Hawaii or on the Pacific expelled from West Point "for hav- roes eventually were suppressed by the shipping were the mandaColin P. Kelly, who was Capt. the worst of record West coast ing any stu INTERMOUNTAIN MERCHANTS SUPPLY attory halting of rubber tire sales pend- state department and the President dent there . . . Any cadet who killed while making a daring air Ha-rubut a brief summary of (Dealers in Bankrupt Stocks) himeelf, a and ing on the permanent tack plan, rationing Japanese battleship We and Bell all kinds of business fixtures RUSSIANS: gets 100 demerits (over a period of the freezing of all stocks of sugar. them indicates that some parts of and buy in a battle off the Philippines. equipment. Cash registers, meat scales, six months) is automatically tossed a face States United the dangerous office equip. 66 E. 4th So Salt Lake City He was credited with scoring three Refuse Peace From these the nation learned it out of the military academy. Durproblem when it comes to fifth colon the vessel, leavdirect bomb hits was in at man war and the street the An to the Nazis make effort by ing his first half year at West Point umn activity. SCHOOLS TRAINING Custer piled up 129 demerits. (He ing it in flames and later it sank. peace with Russia in order that began slowly to get the idea that it Hitler had many agents planted was flier an and not was former their armies might hibernate in army play. was saved by a sympathetic instrue Kelly Serve Your Country Now! through Norway, France and the their present positions and retor who reduced them) . . . ,In his West Pointer. Low Countries when he attacked, Frye' training qualifies you for a job new the war in the spring was instudies he was at the bottom of his fact calls for a formal Investigation but the Japanese, according to the with unlimited future and excellent pay. N tests nor previous mechanical experience redignantly turned aside by the Soviet, I Right Jap Rear class, and probably the only reason which will be initiated immediately Dies report, start out with 150,000 DAY and NIGHT CLASSES. quired. If he was graduated was that the Civil by the President. Further action is, which had the victory taste in its the troops necessarily of their countrymen in the United between 18 and 45, see or write today. DurThough not to was mouth and be denied. war started and the Union army of course, dependent on the facts office ing present emergency 9 till open were of the guerrilla type, there were States. These are all Japanese citip, m. Sunday, 1 till 5 p. m. needed officers. and recommendations made by this Daily dispatches from Red army reports that the Chinese were mak- zens, and do not include 50,000 secFrye Aircraft Co. of Utah investigating board. We are all en- headquarters continued to develop ing a serious and important attack ond generation Japanese born in the Buy Defense Bonds 158 Motor Avenue on not the the southern titled to Salt Lake City know if (a) there was any Custer always believed in fighting only victory on the Japanese rear in the Canton United States. The Dies report an enemy When he saw one, with error of judgment which contributed front, where it all started, but in neighborhood, a most welcome di- shows that 200 key Japanese have Aircraft Factories, Calif., out stopping to consider the cost to the surprise, and (b) if there front of Moscow as well, where the version as the British sought to been decorated by the emperor durNEED was any dereliction of duty prior to Russians said the German retreat hang onto Hongkong. . . . When he was a kid, he once MORE MEN and WOMEN. Train and two ing the past years and that learn by actual experience. Onr short course attended a dance and noticed one the attack." close in are was many Japanese Hongkong reported completequalifies you. Minimum entrance fee, balance The secretary of the navy went on of his enemies poking fun at him with the homeland through after employment. Free placement. Call, write ly surrounded by Japanese troops, to point out that after the battle beor wire for free qualification test outside by. making faces and gesand the British did admit that their the Central Japanese association tures through the window . . . Cus- gan the defense by both army and consuwhich been directed G. H. GATES has by troops had been withdrawn from ter rushed up to the window and navy was conducted skillfully and in lates California. on New mainthe Grand its Hotel Kowloon, stronghold Salt Lake City He pointed out many inpushed his fist right through the bravely. Dies agents have collected photoland, about 20 miles north of Hongcidents of individual heroism, pane into the guys snoot, First Pole Sitter kong itself. graphs of various Japanese truck though the report did not mention i Buy Defense Bonds St. Simon Stylites sat on top of a The British, however, had said it gardens operated alongside oil tanks Custer was a showman who knew the heroes by name. was part of their plan to abandon and strategic railroads. Also they pillar for 30 years. how to do things in a manner that Equally blunt was his statement Kowloon and to concentrate on a report 5,000 Japanese residing on hit people between the eyes. At the of material and personnel losses. defense of hilly Hongkong itself. terminal islands in Los Angeles harend of the Civil war, the army pa- The navy lost the battleship AriThe Chinese attack, they said, bor, where are located strategic oil raded in review before the Presi- zona, three destroyers, a mine laytended to divert the Japanese from tanks, Reeves field and a shipbuilddent and other dignitaries in front of er and the old target ship Utah In attempting to attack Hongkong ing company. Oil storage tanks r What Comfort! the White House . . . Just as he addition damage was inflicted to blown up in the harbors would enfrom the Kowloon side. approached the reviewing stand, his other vessels and Knox said some of Los all the Angeles area. Messages of cheer following the danger What Convenience! horse reared and started to run of these would take weeks and othThe most revealing documents war declarations went back triple to . . With a flourish, Custer ers months away repair. seized Dies are What a Location! agents by maps, and forth from time to time between He said that the entire rest of mastered it and onlookers cheered showing all the U. S. strategic points and American the commandBritish out as on was the fleet now Pacific Custer galloped back into the wildly ers and Chiang Kai-she- k at Chung- and fortifications, and a naval manhis place in line and passed the R- seeking action with the enemy. ual showing the size of all Ameriking. Morale on the islands was high, said eviewing stand a second time . can naval vessels. He insisted it was an accident, but Knox. BRITISH: The naval manual, published in Main army losses consisted of rivals argued that his horse never 1941, is so up to date that it even In acted up before or after that parade. Malaya planes caught on the ground. Hanshows latest models of U. S. mosBuy Defense Bonds The frightful loss suffered by the gars were also damaged. next time you boats together with the Presiquito took a month to make Custers It British fleet in the first days of the dential Enemy losses were declared to be visit Salt Lake City! Potomac and the yacht plan last stand for the film, "They Died three submarines and 41 aircraft CmIr hopt, theatres. Mm ... 70 Malaya campaign, in which two of U. S. The lofor jet carriers. airplane With Their Boots On . . . Historii . . . telephones, ridin...C capital ships, the Prince of Wales cation of guns, engine room, etc., it ytit tar V ans believe the actual battle couldnt PLAN: Cellee the and . . Itw . Shep Wieter Rates. Repulse, totaling practical- is indicated Help for Russia from Canada. alongside the photohave lasted more than from half to This photo shows a long line of Can- ly 70,000 tons, had gone to the Of of each vessel. must It have Japanese graph of an hour, Custers adian-built infantry tanks loaded bottom either the victims of Jap taken Japanese agents months or As the war with Japan progressed, men were so hopelessly outnum flat cars aboard leaving Montreal submarines or planes or both, had bered . . . Although Sitting Bull is and as Germany and Italy walked on the first lap of the long journey been somewhat offset by the steady years to collect this data. usually credited with having been into the picture unbidden, Americans to the Russian fronts for use against resistance of the troops to Japanese KNEW FORMATIONS In charge of the massacre, actually began to get a slightly clearer the Nazis. These are n tanks advancing efforts. A complete adult set of teeth conAnother he was as far away from the battle vision of just what the campaign of having a top speed of 20 miles Japanese map seized by the war was in its By the time per sists of 32. Dies is exin the as his horse could get him. As soon Nippon aimed at and what it was hour. agents revealing second week the British were able treme. It shows the layout of the as he heard of Custers defeat. Sit- likely to accomplish before the Unitadto report that the Malayan n rout, vance of the Japanese was at a American fleet in a typical battle ting Bull returned, claiming that ed States got its war machine mov- was becoming a in formation near Hawaii. U. S. naval The Nazis, they said, were blowhigh gear. he had been in the hills using his ing standstill." MAY It soon became evident that the ing up tanks in the path of the adpower with the Indian gods to bring The British commanders seemed officers confirm the fact that the on disastrous Hawaii had shows raid about victory . . . The Indians probWITHERS past naval mavancing Russians, and were aban- to have been able to fathom the map correctly didnt know until after the battle ably succeeded far beyond Japans doning hundreds of vehicles and general Jap plan of attack, and to neuvers. I Says; The documents show the details of that it was Custer they had been wildest hofces, but that it had been Suns. meet It step by step with the loss War cannot be fought at 17 de-- 1 of as little ground as possible until Pearl Harbor, the Panama canal, simply a "nuisance raid in the first fighting. I Sell place, and not made with any faint- grees below zero, Hitler had told something like a plain battle line San Francisco, Manila, Guam and Buy Defense Bonds the BEST Vladivostok. They also give the norIn the picture this repartee gets est hope of occupying the islands. his people in announcing that no could be developed. mal The attacks on Guam, Midway, further effort at advance would be of for U. a howl . . . The commandant at radius the S. fleet crusing Day after day the report had been West Point summons Custer and Wake islands were, on the other made in Russia during the winter. the situation in Malaya continues out of Honolulu, together with the LESS! normal location of airplane carriers, Yes it can, shouted the Rusto be confused. (threatening to expel him for hav- hand, apparent efforts to take those Genuine Acrylic Plate. $2295 ing a fist fight with a fellow cadet) Pacific outposts, and were made with sians, as, dressed, in their warm Finally the British stated that cruising battleships, scouts and aux-- 1 asks him if he has anything to say forces that the Japanese deemed clothing and with the enthusiasm they were "holding the invaders to iliary transports. Maps also show I didnt know," says Custer, sufficient to do the job. given them by one success after an- a standstill, and that the battle was the whereabouts of submarine caThe effort against the Philippines, that you could get fired from the other they continued to move the being "confined to the northern bles, mines, channels, wireless stations, Japanese consulates and air however, was just as evidently the Germans back. army for fighting. jungles. bases all along the West coast The Reds figures were so large Buy Defense Bonds Custer was nuts about onions and as to be almost unbelievable. They BRIEFS: ate them as though they were ap- DUTCH: claimed 75,000 Germans killed in WAR CHAFF Heroes of Haivaii front of Moscow. ples. The last gift he received from Do Their Bit C.It was significant that Japanese Genuine Vulcanite Plate Heroes of Hawaii: his wife before he died was a sack Their total claim for German struck first not at the Philippines, The Dutch are hard to beat $6.50 Second Lient. George S. Welch, which is armed to the teeth with of onions . . . Whenever he was that's an old saying. The Dutch losses during the entire campaign Si-r:-staX- a: away from his wife, hed sit up were doing their bit, though their was 6,000,000 dead, wounded, pris- Wilmington, Del., 23, downed four heavy bombers, but Bt Hawaii. until all hours of the night writing native land was occupied by the oners. had sent Its best war planes Jap planes in one combat. A Pur.sa:on to the Philippines long letters to her. During one expe- Nazis, in the war in the Far East Though the Russians did not im- due boy, he finished his flying trainIf the dition, he wrote her a letter 80 pages as well as in the Mediterranean. mediately declare war on Japan, ing 14 months ago at Kelly Field and navy had read the newspapers it to the sent was Far . later East. Custer to . When new . died ct Little In the an of Litvinoff, entire Italian long 'Washingemissary sinking might have been better prepared, Big Horn, the Indians who killed flotilla by night by an inferior force ton, called Japan "the common Second Lient. Kenneth M. Taylor, fi. Constantine Brown, foreign affairs him paid him a tribute that showed of British ships, much credit was enemy," another "of the gang of Hominy, Okla., 22; destroyed two expert of the Washington Star, prethe respect even his enemies had given the 1,800-to- n and indicated that Jap planes in his first fight A Axis criminals, Dutch destroy174 ,a 8o- dicted war with Japan 10 Mln for him. Every man killed in that er Isaac Sweers for its part in the Russia would be glad to "do any- versity of Oklahoma junior, Salt Lake City days in advance and to named was battle ated Brooks Field in April. help. thing scalped except Custer. engagement. Sunday, December 7, as the starting date. ... One-four- th ... re-rea- , ever-prese- fifth-colum- Indo-Chin- sabotage-fifth-colum- nt dog-hous- e, - ',U'b three-quarte- J7 rs 20-to- panic-stricke- ... Ha-wa- ii ... sxs - - wouiwIISS, |