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Show rant r J'- Evacuation Troops Held Doubtful L" entrance CORREGIDOR ISLAND TO BAY Ruthless j Mandalay Corregidor Fortress I j for Victor. DEFENSfl U. S. BONDS STAMPS LOGAN, UTAH, Number Si. Volume 33. re-w- Herald Journal Buy Bombings Described defenders of Bataan could lie gotten by Imat to Corregidor. The Japs were overrunning the M'iiinsula too rapidly to jiermit that. Kisistance virtually hits ended on Butaan. The ipiestion now is how long can Corregidor and the hay torts hold out? The nation, through President Roosevelt and l.en. Douglasi M.icArthur, has when Ameriian striking fare's in the pledged that the Philippines will tie southwest Pacific an ready. which lies two miles out from I tat a. tit in M. Wainwright today carried on the fight for Miuui Bay. Lieut. Gen. Jonathan mericaii punches troin fontrol of the Inly. He had left Bataan to direct (he last was little hope in official circles that the broken the citadel of Corregidor. Tliere FROM CORREGIDOR FORTRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 19 Grain Range (Of all foreign cities, the name of none is better known to Americans than Mandalay, thanks to the poem of Rudyard Kipling which was made Into a song by Oley Speaks and rendered dramatically by untold thousands of baritones in every city and village down through the years. (Last Friday night, a fleet of Japanese bombers subjected this fabled Burmese city to one of the most ruthless bombings of the war. Not until today has any correspondent managed to get the full story out, due to Todisrupted communications. day United Press staff corres- Price Five Cents. 4 2. Ernest G. Earl Is Selected President of Logan Rotarians In Annual Voting Service Club Merchant Ships and Cruisers Sunk By Japs April 9 (U.R'The radio said tonight it u announced officially at Xnr Delhi that Japanese naval tad air forces had sunk sever-thi; , Bay juwebaui .hips. LONDON. L of of Bengal. Between lot) and 500 survivors the merchant ships already been have ports the landed at radio said. Indian April 9 il- R- An y communique revealed that the heavy raisers Coinwall and Dorsetshire ad been sunk by Japanese air-- I lanes operating in the Bay of Bengal and which, in their latest Tricomalee itUck, bombed the aval base on the Ceylon coast LONDON. to-a- oday. I'ate of India that the prelude It was believed here isses may be merely the (Continued on Page 2) . Indian Agreement With Allies Seen NEW DELHI, India. April 9 influential Indian nationsaid tonight that announcement within is expected days of an agreement with teat Bnt India a im, giving 'ationnlint and engovernment ding her 4 JO, 000, 000 people ', ln lu WHr against the axis. Solution of the deadlock Britain's offer of post-wonunion status appeared near, f means of a compromise where-'- y the Indian people will have outrol of nil cabinet portfolios icluding defense in the new An al leader act-e5- y 0,1 ar ovemnient. C. Rajagopnlachari, premier of Madras and .!??. l'resident.of the dominant ,'e government Hndia of (nationalist) "Wicted congress. the announcement of dement witlnn two days, shous after details are ironed out. J'ls Bajagopalachari who Iran ited the congress' "last hope iroPnsal on which the basic jotted ' agreement Was Sir Stafford Cripps, cabinet envoy, and con--- s negotidlors. lsh Entertainment gavore awaits the navy and service men of this locality when the USO Service club holds its gala opening Saturday, Apnll 11, at 3 p. m., according to Jack Braunagel. chairman of the local USO Citizens committee. The club, previously termed the "V" club, is located at 14 West Center, immedialy west of the First Security Bank building. It is to be operated by the combinid sponsorship of the national USO and the local citizens committee. For the opening, a program will be presented under direction of O. VV. Edwards and will feature variety entertainment. A public ad-to dress system is to be installed broadcast the program to those outside the building, Mr. Brauna-ge- l reported. Conee und doughnuts will be served to the service men. City officials and members of the citizens' committee will be special guests at the opening entertainment along with the service men. of Through the cooperation townspeople, the club room has been completely furnished with a g table, card tables, writing desks, books, telephones, chairs, and even a piano It is to be used exclusivity by the navy or army men. The club is to be open each Satand urday from 2.3) to 11.30 p. m. 9.30 each Sunday from 11 a m. to p m with an attendant present at all times to take telephone calls and assist the men in any other voway. The male attendants are lunteers, and there are needed a lew more men who are willing to devote a few hours of their time as attendants, Mr. Braunagel stated. ping-pon- Thursday's meeting was under the direction of Asa Bullen as master of ceremonies, who repreService sented the Community committee. President Sanders had charge of the meeting. The program' was presented by a group of soldiers from the Fort center under Douglas reception the tieetion of Col. Earl H. V. Kay- Nayser praised the men who armed forces from this section declaring that the men fiorn the intermountain area have had the highest intelligence rating in the nation. An hilarious skit, "Soldiers Three" was presented, and several songs were sung by eight enlisted men, Fred Taylor, Max D. Mendenhall. Woodrow Bartlett, Mack Cunningham, Stanton Benson, G. William Richards, Jerry Siskind, and Earl Kirkendall. Two humorous readings were also given by Fred Col entfr th SURPRISE AWAITS GUESTS Club 4-- H BY DARRELL To guard against local epidemics of typhoid fever and smallpox, a vast immunization campaign to include tile entire county will be launched April 16, it was announced today by the public health nursing division. Cooperating in the drive to immunize some '20,000 people men, women and children against the dread disease are the Cache Medical Societv. the local defense council, the Cache County Health council and all doctonrxrf the area..-,"- ' The possibility of epidemics is greater during wartimes," a spokesman of the nursing division said today. "Dangers from sabotage and shifting population make it necessary to safeguard healtfl with greater effort and additional measures. "Immunization must begin now not after an epidemic is started. 0 We hope to innoculate some people if we can secure the cooperation of the public. All persons over one year of age should be innoculated. Typhoid mnoculation is accomplished in three shots, and is effective for three years. A fee of 25 cents per individual will be charged for the three doses of typhoid immunization and one small pox vaccination. Immunization for both diseases can be given at the same time. The smallpox shot is good for five .years. A schedule of innoculation. by towns and dates, will be published at a later date. Picture of Situation ruins. The prosperous commercial disWASHINGTON. April 9 Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- trict is a shambles with hundreds son suid today that a force of of dead and wounded. At this only 36.800 Americans and Filipinos moment, a large moon is rising went down fighting before over- over the last capital of Burma's whelmingly superior Japanese fore-4- on kings, casting a dull reflection Bataan. . (Continued Qn Page Twoj , .. To Press On . will He promised that the fight not be ended until the invaders FIRST AID eventually are driven out. Stimson told a press conference COURSES PLANNED that the defenders of Bataan were rn. LOCAL worn down, outnumbered, weakened by short rations and disease, and that they evidently had been overA first aid class for all interestwhelmed. ed in qualifying as a Red Cross will continue Friday But Corregidor. he added, is still first-aidfighting on, along with the other evening at 7:30 o'clock in Logan Manila Bay forts. Junior high school. Stimson also disclosed for the The course began Wednesday evening, and will hold forth each Wednesday and Friday night for the next few weeks. All who comGENERAL MacARTHUR'S plete the work and pass the test will be issued Standard First Aid Australia, HEADQARTERS, cards by the American Red Cross. April 9 f Pi Gen. Douglas Those who have completed the MacAthur was described tostandard course and are interested night as determined to in the advanced work are invited to avenge the fall of Bataan and make good his promise to rejoin tho advanced clnss that is fire take the Philippines. beginning at the Logan-Cach- e hall Monday, April 13, at 7:30 p. The commander of the litm. tle American-Filipin- o army of Bataan, shifted to Australia 23 days ago to become united nations generalissimo in the southwest Pacific, was said to be "deeply grieved 20,-00- er r; Promotion In Army Washington, to the effect that Rex Gooch, former Utah State Agricultural college student, has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in the 14th Coast Artillery. Lieut. Gooch, a native of Marysville, Idaho, graduated from Utah State last sp.mg, and received his second lieutenants com mission with the ROTC. He went into active service at Fort Worden, was transfer sod to San Diego, and then back to the Washington post. His is the first promotion in the northwest among 1941 graduates of the college and is considered recognition for the excellent woik he is doing with the army. At present, he is with headquarters battery, second battalion of the Utah May ' i S; Parachute Factory .A ' J,lrinn, "nT lL m f roun111 arra In fPW .chBn boy's works or- - favt ' ' -- R ' .s SC s '.vJ c I4 4 I v'iA V .V I I' M " z nn1- - IliOI Secure USSOIi IXETOIKIl battle-scarre- d Resistance Ended Resistance virtually was ended on Bataan, it was be lieved certain from the tenor of the communique and informed quarters held little hope that the broken defenders could be gotten by boat to Corregidor fortress, which lies off the southe i tip of Bataan. The Japanese were overrunning the peninsula too rapidly to permit that. The closing days of the battle of Bataan were complicated by the large number of noncombatants crowded behind the lines in the narrow confines of the peninsula, it was learned. Caring for and feeding these people was a drain on the fighting forces and may have hastened collapse of the defense. Outnumbered from the start, low on supplies, lacking air supixirt, and wearied beyond human endurance by days of fighting against fresh enemy troops the defenders fulfilled to the end their promise and their purpose. That was to make the Japanese pay and pay, in men, in equipment, and in time, for each inch of ground gained. In that they succeeded. The battle for the Bataan wide stretch of jungle and mountains, peninsula, a will be remembered always as a national epic of valor. i The nation through President Roosevelt and Gen. Douglas MacArthur have pledged that Bataan and all the rest when American striking of the Philippines will be forces in the southwest Pacific are ready. Corregidor Fights On The fateful message from Wainwright was announced by the war department shortly after 5 a. m. Wainwright j: was on Corregidor fortress, which lies two miles out from Bataan in Manila bay. There the battle for control of the bay will be carried on. But there was no indication whether Wainwright would be able to evacuate many of . his Bataan forces to the fortress. ' The war departments special communique said: A message from General' Wainwright at T6rf 'Mills' i just received at the war department states that the Japanese attack on Bataan jieninsula succeeded in enveloping the east flank of our lines, in the position held by the II corps. An attack by the I corps, ordered to relieve the situation, failed due to complete physical exhaustion of the troops. ' Full details are not available, but this situation indicates the probability that the defenses of Bataan have been overcome. Wainwrights men suffered heavy losses during days of fighting. They had no planes to cbmbat all kinds of enemy aircraft that bombed and strafied them front and rear. They had ' . reinforcements to meet the assault of fresh enemy troops. They had only CQurage and the hope i that reinforcements would be forthcoming. But Japanese domination of the entire surrounding waters prevented the dispatch of reinforcements. Only a few small lioats such as the torpedo boats which took MacArthur out of Corregidor could make the (Continued On Page 2) 4 , : -- . . step possible to get supplies to Bataan from the south-- I west Pacific. Costly Attempts Hurley was very successful in getting a number of shiploads of supplies Into the Philippines, but for every ship that arrived with its precious cargo, nearly two other ships were lost in the attempt, Stimson said. Stimson said that owing to these efforts, the defenders of Bataan were never short of ammunition (Continued on Page 6) ordinary Army Orders Closing j Reno Prostitution RENO, Nev., April 9 d'.Pi Reno, the "biggest little city in tho was told today to close world, down on commercialized prostiJohn L. Gen. tution. Lieut. Dewitt demanded the abatement after a conference with Nevada authorities. Mayor August Forhlich promised to take up the matter with the city council at the earliest opportunity. Reno's fabled "stor was closed some time ago at the army's order, but prostitutes moved to other sections of the city. Prostitution under police license is legal in Nevada, last outpost of the old west." e" SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 (IT) Municipal Judge Hugh Smith today asked army officers to inquire for means to place prostitutes in stockaded concentration or under some other camps restraint for the war's duration. handles who Smith, Judge womens court, termed prostitutes worse than fifth columnists.'' CT 7M burned wrote additional territory today. It was reported from TT TIT PTQTTMr' 4 VJT ijtVJix kJ L I I Li New Delhi, India, that a new proposal for Hettlement of the Indian problem has been made to provide Immediate establishment of an Indian national government controlling all problems of defense. Differences still were said to exist between the Indian congress and Sir Stafford C'rtpie, however. Meanwhile, a British admiralty communique revealed that two heavy cruisers, Cornwall and Dorsetshire, had been sunk by Jap airplanes 0(erating In the Bay of Bengal. It was believed that the losses may be merely the prelude to the greatest naval battle of the war a battle which might decide the fate of India, AC v j Ai Jli i re-w- on -- Of I 13-mi- le first time that successful efforts to were organized in get food and ammunition to the isolated defenders of Bataan. He said that Brig Gen. Iatrick J. Hurley, minister to New Zea- -, land and former secretary of war, had been directed to take exery w j received today from army offiicais at Fort Worden. 14th C. A. Mrs. Gooch, who is with her husband in the northwest, is the former Connie Nelson, daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Lafayette Nelson of Coruine, and Cache valley in which he has not played a vital role. Aside from scout work, he has been associated with the National Art and Industrial Federation as vice president, president and twice board member of the Utah Art Institute, a member of the SALT LAKE CITY. April 9 (I'.D hobby Seventh ward bishopric, Gov. B. Maw today anleader in the Logan stake MIA, a nounced Herbert that establishment of a Sunday school teacher, and a parachute repair and maintenance choir leader for 34 years. plant at Manti was practically a The source of his greatest sat- certainty. The new plant will he isfaction was the fact that the operated by the Standard Paraconbeen had he leading troop chute company of San Diego, Cal. tinued active service with only Maw made the announcement the leadership of the senior patrol following conferences with repre21 leader (Morris Christensen) for sentatives of all communities in months while he was traveling in Sanpete county. All damaged Europe. These boys were prompt parachute equipin sending him reports of the ment throughout the west will be troop and were all present at the sent to the Ogden air depot at station to greet him when he got Hill Field, where it will be turned off the train, when he returned. over to the new plant for repairs. C. E. Fauntleroy, head of the In his present position he is for the organization parachute company, and Gus P. resnonsible the general P.ackman, Salt Lake Chamber of and extension and welfare of scouting in Logan Commerce secretary, also attended the conferences with Maw. district. ! Tho heroes of Bataan went down fighting today, killed, exhausted or overwhelmed but still unconquered. A last desperate charge across the green, hills of the Philippines failed not because of enemy guns but "due to complete physical exhaustion after days of epochal struggle against impossible odds. India Becomes Important War Theatre Receives ie BERRIGAN MANDALAY, April 4. (Delayed) (IT) The dawn came up like thunder today. Through the night a fleet of ranged the Japanese bombers skies unmolested, dropping their death loads. In Smoking Ruins Tonight, this city of pagodas and tradition lay in smoking Secy Stimson Gives Word of cf United Press Maff Correspondent Campaign Set Ex-Agg- Everyone attending the meeting the Logan Garden club tonight at 8 o'clock at the chamber of commerce will be given a suranbe to prise, officers of the club club The first girls nounced today. organized in Cache county during In addition to the program, is Mobilization Week April is to be given by Mrs. which led Lewiston of club the SSCR B. Morris, plants will be Rachel Lillian and Mildred Pitcher bv by the members and exchanged a chosen have The girls Rigby. will be furnished by Mrs. a song clothing project. Schiess and daughter. Officers of the club are Alta John state Mrs. Morris, leading Mae Olsen, president; Lorna is to Betty authority on landscaping, vice president, be the speaker and will give Jean Van Dyke, suggestions on home GenNicl Weaver, repoler; Carma valuable recreation leader;, and grounds landscape in an address Wheeler, for Renee Wheeler, pianist.' Other labeled "Home Landscaping members of the club are Flossie Morale. An invitation is toextended attend Glover, Cleoan Wheeler, and Sybil to the general public the meeting. Wheeler. Girls Immunization Taylor. Lewiston Organizes J hfl. idency. MEETING Didvm Fletcher of the 'Apartment and district ,llc Srnts of 08 f"r .Logan district, has ern active in Roy Scout work w. H holieves he is the i h' scoutmaster with an troop Under the sponsorship Su"dy School of the ,ut, hirst ward, his first troop n zed and he became outmaster in 13n lln'C haS beCn advancement 'mill"nS me,T,ber of the council n.A committee, executive member, and district chair- P1 b ,s hiked with boys up e to ,hc lak'' . Mt ta,nyon f Logan to the head Card canyon nnd back to 1,1 six days. He has walked l!b bovs sumnl'r downpour Dm the w amp in Logan '"von in , i10;' beach on Bear alte u " ot W,n'1 lhe ordinal htioners ift There will he plenty of oil to pour over troubled waters that may arise in the Logan Rotary club during the coming fiscal year. The membership of the club selected for its president and vice president Ernest G. Earl, Texaco distributor, and John H. Taylor Jr., Utah Oil distributor. Ernest R. Lee was secretary and Alfred H. Palmer treasurer Dr. J W. Hayward and John H. Moser were named directors. The new officers will be installed in a later meeting. Mr. Earl succeeds Carl W. Sanders to the pres- de- Mandalay.) Artist Is Prominent In Cache Scout Work Logan iAr! Plans Opening Other Officers Are Announced At Luncheon Darrell Bcrrigan the destruction pondent scribes Lieut. Gen. Wainwright Continues Fight From Official Position In i : .( if M h:. i ,i |