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Show 1 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Portrait of a Hero: the unsolved One of - mysteries of history Is how Custer hurdled the military promotion system and overnight rose from, a mere lieutenant to a general . . . All anyone knows is that he returned to headquarters one day after being out on a mission, and chums greeted him as General' ... Custer thought they were kidding, because he always boasted that hed be general before the war was over, and he was all set to start punching. One of his friends grabbed by the arm and took him to his tent where he a him an envelope found containing his commission addressed to "Brigadier ' General George Armstrong Custer . . . Custer, who was only 23 years old, turned pale' and passed out cold. Buy Defense . Bonds Custer is the man who turned the tide of the Civil war by saving the , army from defeat at GettysAt. the time of the Battle of Gettysburg he . was about 15 miles away. His brigade had been ordered' (along with the rest of the Union burg.- wait at Big Roundtop, where Jeb Stuart and his Confederates were expected to attack . . Stuart fooled the Yankees by attacking from the opposite direction . . . guncavalry) to Hearing' Stuarts instead Custer disobeyed the orders he had received, beaded straight toward the sound of the guns and, fire, stopped the charging four times, in their Confederate forces tracks . . . But for Custers trigger dead thinking, have been the Union armies would routed at Gettysburg . . . that the man The bitter irony is who was defeated (because of Custers coup) was Fitzhugh Lee, the divisional commander of the Confederate attack. Lee was the instructor who had saved Custer from being expelled from West Point by reducing his demerits. Buy Defense Bonds-O- ne of the , greatest military wizards of all time, Custer was almost for havexpelled from West stuany the of worst record ing cadet who dent there Any gets 100 demerits (over a period of six months) is automatically tossed out of the military academy. DurWest Point ing hks first half year Custer piled up 129 demerits. (He was saved by a sympathetic instructor who reduced them) . . . In his studies he was at the bottom of his class, and probably the only reason the Civil he was graduated was war started and the Union army needed officers. ... Point at that By Edward C.' Wayne sole serious HAWAII: A Report From Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, just back from a g fly-.in- attempt against ckout Indo-Chin- na . .. . Grim reality of war has come to many U. S. coastal cities. Here in this startling picture big ramparts of sand bags are being hastily constructed in front of one of the telephone companys buildings in San Francisco. air While 99 per cent of the raids reported on American continental cities had been rumors or tests, home defense was bustling ahead. Blackouts were being practiced busily from one coast to the other, and the rules during air raids were d in Ameribeing read and can homes, while men, women and children repeated to themselves the magic words keep 'calm, stay at anil all the rest home, lie down of the litany. From it all was coming a stronger realization that home defense was needed chiefly to bind the morale of the nation, and as an acsafeguard against tivities, of which there was more than a little. re-rea- ever-prese- nt fifth-colu- activin The ties in the United States were not, sabotage-fifth-colum- of course, a fraction of what they were in Manila nor in Hawaii, but they were serious and the wide- spread calling out of the home guards had a much more important effect than did the same move in the last war when territorial United States was safer from attack. First evidences of the dangers of Pacific shipping were the mandatory halting of rubber tire sales pending a permanent rationing plan, and the freezing of all stocks of sugar. From these the nation learned it was at war and the man in the street began slowly to get the idea that it was not play. CHINESE: Fight Jap Rear . ' though the troops necessarily were of the guerrilla type, there were reports that the Chinese were making a serious and important attack on the Japanese rear in the Canton neighborhood, a most welcome diversion as the British sought to hang onto Hongkong. Hongkong was reported completely surrounded by Japanese troops, and the British did admit that their troops had been withdrawn from Kowloon, its stronghold on the mainland, about 20 miles north of Hongkong itself. The British, however, had said it was part of their plan to abandon Kowloon and to concentrate on a defense of hilly Hongkong itself. The Chinese attack, they said, tended to divert the Japanese from attempting to attack Hongkong from the Kowloon side. Messages of cheer following the triple war declarations went back and forth from time to time between the British and American commandk at Chungers and Chiang BRITISH: jt.t i- - ie to The letter died that battle was scalped except engagement. dog-hous- e, Presidents office. Jss until of as little ground as possible line battle something like a plain could be developed. had been Day after day the report contmues the situation in Malaya tn Finally the British stated that the invaders to they were holding the battle was a standstill, and that being "confined to the northern jungles. BRIEFS: Heroes of Hawaii Farms in Sweden of the 430,000 farms in Sweden cover less than five acres. One-four- th DEPARTMEN HOTELS When in RENO. NEVADA atop at th HOTEL GOLDEN Renos largest and most popular hotel. OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEW AND USED desks and chairs, files, typewriters, adding inchs, saes. bk cases, 8. L. DESK EX.. 35 W. Broadway. Salt Laks PERSONALS HEMORRHOIDS, (piles), hernia, rupture treated without knife. OSTEOPATHIC, SURGICAL AND NONSURGICAL CLINIC 511 Templeton Bldg. Salt Lake City BEAUTY SCHOOL SCHOOL OF BEAUTY CULTURE Largest in the West. 18 years sue. cessful operation. Modern, thorough, pracEnroll anytime. 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These are all Japanese citizens, and do not include 50,000 second generation Japanese born in the United States. The Dies report shows that 200 key Japanese have been decorated by the emperor during the past two years and that many Japanese are in close with the homeland throu r h the Central Japanese associate which has been directed by cons lates in California. Dies agents have collected phot graphs of various Japanese tru gardens operated alongside oil tan and strategic railroads. Also th report 5,000 Japanese residing terminal islands in Los Angeles ha bor, where are located strategic tanks, Reeves field and a shipbuil ing company. Oil storage tan blown up in the harbors would t danger all ot the Los Angeles are most revealing documer The seized by Dies agents are ma; showing all the U. S. strategic poin and fortifications, and a naval ma ual showing the size of all Ame: can naval vessels. 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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 a newsman calls out, Louder, 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 tha ... wi ........ PLAN: Of Japanese him KUTA, Salt Lake at 570 KC . Kai-she- Help for Russia from Cana This photo shows a long line of nadian-bui- lt infantry tanks loai three-quarteAs the war with Japan progressed, aboard fiat cars leaving Monti and as Germany and Italy walked on the first lap of the long Jour into the picture unbidden, Americans to the Russian fronts for use agai to get a slightly clearer the Nazis. These are ta began actually in charge of the massacre, of vision just what the campaign of having a top speed of 20 miles battle he was as far away from the and what it was as his horse could get him. As soon Nipponto aimed at before the Unit- hour. accomplish likely Sithe as heard of Custers defeat, n was becoming a r ed States got its war machine movting Bull returned, claiming that The were bl Nazis, they in said, gear. high he bad been in the hills using his ing soon became evident that the ing up tanks in the path of the It power with the Indian gods to bring raid on Hawaii had prob- vancing Russians, and were al disastrous Indians about victory . . . far beyond Japans doning hundreds of vehicles I succeeded ably didnt know until after the battle wildest but that it had been guns. hopes, been had that it was Custer they War cannot be fought at 17de-gree- s simply a nuisance raid in the first fighting. faintbelow zero, Hitler had told with made not any and place, Buy Defense Bonds the islands. his people in announcing that' "no of occupying est hope gets la the picture this repartee The - attacks on Guam, Midway, further effort at advance would be a howl . . . The commandant at on the other made in Russia during the winter. West Point" summons Custer and Wake islands were, Yes it can, efforts to take those shouted the Rusapparent hand, havfor (threatening to expel were made with sians, as, dressed, in their warm and outposts, Pacific ing a fist fight with a fellow cadet) forces that the Japanese deemed clothing and with the enthusiasm asks him if he has anything to say given them by one success after ansufficient to do the job. Custer, I didnt, know, saysfrom the other Philippines, effort against they continued to move the The the that you could get fired the as Germans back. evidently was , n just however, " army for fighting. The Reds figures were so large Buy Defense Bonds as to be almost unbelievable. They Caster was nuts about onions and DUTCH: claimed 75,000 Germans killed in were apate them as though they of Moscow. front Bit ples. Th last gift he received from Do Their Their total claim for German The Dutch are hard to beat his wife before he died was a sack The Dutch losses during the entire campaign of onions . . . Whenever he was thats an old saying. wounded, pristheir bit, though their was 6,000,000 dead, ait up were doing away from his wife, oners. until all hours of the night writing native land was occupied by the not imThough the Russians did long letters to her. During one expe- Nazis, in the war in the Far East mediately declare war on Japan, 80 pages as well as in the Mediterranean. dition, he wrote her a new emissary to WashingLittle t In the sinking of an entire Italian Litvinoff, . . . Custer When long called Japan the common ton, Big Horn, the Indians who killed flotilla by night by an inferior force another of the gang of enemy, was credit much showed of British ships, him paid him a tribute and indicated that Axis criminals, Dutch destroythe respect even his enemies had given the 1,800-to- n be would glad to do anyRussia for him. Every man killed in that er Isaac Sweers for its part in the thing to help. Custer. rs Monday through Friday king. Morale Knox. Main army losses consisted of planes caught on the ground. Hangars were also damaged. Enemy losses were declared to be three submarines and 41 aircraft Farm & Home Hour 10 30 each morning, territory in any volume, and to this task the Japanese apparently had dedicated about 200 . odd planes, which probably meant at least two inspection trip to Hawaii came aircraft carriers. The chief Japanese objective una report the nation had anxiously was Malaya and Burquestionably done extent of damage awaited the with Singapore as a necessary by the Japanese in their first blast ma, at Pearl Harbor and Honolulu. battle before the Japs could conArmy and navy casualties were set sider any permanent success had at 2,897 dead, 879 wounded and 26 been theirs. of The road missing. Six warships, including was cutting but the Burma another, this, it could be one battleship, the Arizona, went realized, would only relieve the presdown. sure from the Chinese army, and his in Knox was blunt establishing First he said that Japan would enable the Japanese to repoints. move forces from China only after failed in what it set out to the United States in the a long period. The vital need of Japan was oil, Pacific before the war actually got oil and more oil, without which it stathis report under way. Second, ed The United States services were would be impossible for her to keep not on the alert against the sur- her fleet moving, her planes in the or to prosecute any sort of war prise air attack on Hawaii. This air, at all. And this oil was in the Dutch East Indies. Against successful occupaistion of any of these lands two great obstacles stand. The Philippines stand astride the China sea at a point where it is only about 500 miles wide, and the huge Singapore base closes the neck of hoped-fo- r Japanese operations at the east Hence the most serious invasion effort was made by the Japs via a and Thailand, with the landings at Malaya an effort to make the British tenure of the long neck ending in Singapore untenable. The secondary attack was on the Philippines, chiefly to obtain naval and air bases far enough outside the circle of the island defenses to permit a serious, effort at capture. Army watchers saw little chance that the Japs would spread themselves out thin enough to attempt Here is one of the wars first hea strong attack on Hawaii or on the roes Capt. Colin P. Kelly, who was West coast. atkilled while making a daring air tack on the Japanese battleship Ha-ru- RUSSIANS: in a battle off the Philippines. He was credited with scoring three Refuse Peace An effort by the Nazis to make direct bomb hits on the vessel, leaving it in flames and later it sank. peace with Russia in order that Kelly was an army flier and former their armies might hibernate in their present positions and reWest Pointer. new the war in the spring was infact calls for a formal investigation dignantly turned aside by the Soviet, which will be initiated immediately which had .the victory taste in its by the President Further action is, mouth and was not to be denied. of course, dependent on the facts Daily dispatches from Red army and recommendations made by this continued to develop enheadquarters all are We board. Investigating on the southern titled to know if (a) there was any the victory not only all started, but in where it front, contributed error of judgment which the to the surprise, and (b) if there front of Moscow as well, where retreat German the said Russians to of dereliction was any duty prior Natl The U. S. the a second time . . was an accident, but rivals argued that his horse .never acted up before or after that parade. Bay Defense Bonds It took a month to make Custers last stand for the film, They Died . . . Histori With Their Boots On ans believe the actual battle couldnt have lasted more than from half to of an hour, Custers men were so hopelessly outnumbered '. . . Although Sitting Bull is usually credited with having been BAUKHAGE (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they Are those ot the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Custer always believed in fighting an enemy when he. saw one, without stopping, to consider the cost . . . When he was a kid, he once attended a dance and noticed one the attack. The secretary of the navy went on of his enemies poking fun at him to point out that after the battle beoutside by making faces and gestures through the window . . . Cu- gan the defense by both army and ster rushed up to the window and navy was conducted skillfully and He pointed out many inpushed his fist right through the bravely. individual heroism, of cidents pane into the guys snoot. did not mention the report though . Buy Defense Bonds name. heroes the by Custer was a showman who knew Equally blunt was his statement how to do things in a manner that material and personnel losses. of At the hit people between the eyes. The navy lost the battleship Ariarmy paend of the Civil war, layraded in review before the Presi- zona, three destroyers, a mine Utah. In old and the target er ship of front in dent and other dignitaries to the White House . . . Just as he addition damage was inflictedsome said Knox and vessels other his stand, approached the reviewing othhorse reared and started to run of these would take weeks and ers months to repair. . . With a flourish, Custer away He said that the entire rest of mastered it and onlookers cheered fleet was now out on the Pacific the into back wildly as Custer galloped seeking action with' the enemy. his place in line and 'passed the reon the islands was high, said viewing stand He insisted it LISTEN TO 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 . Buy Defense Bonds DEFENSE: At Home . ' by Another Japanese map seized exDies agents is revealing in the treme. It shows the layout of the American fleet in a typical battle formation near Hawaii. U. 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