Show 20 B Sunday Morning- - JZhc t and Truk Once In a while noma mail destroyers manage to get a few supplies to these starving: men The price the Japs are paying in vessels will soon make it far from worthwhile to attempt to supply thorn According to best available information Tokyo may just as well write off the force that was sent to Guadalcanal two months ago to capture or kill the marines under Major General Alexander Vandegrift It is possible that another attempt to dislodge us from our present stronghold will be made by the Japanese high command which does not want to announce outright defeat to the people at home whom they have been feeding victories at the rate of about one a month since December 7 1941 It can be said however that our position in the southwest Pacific is so strong now that Admiral William F Halsey Jr is hoping the Japs return in force soon The high command now feels easy about the lines of communication between the United States and Australia which are incomparably safer than those across the Atlantic It is of course impossible to say what plans have been made for the future They naturally are a military secret But there Is a feeling among many Washington observers that something is being prepared which will not Pacific War Tide Swings Sharply in U S Favor Weakened Jap Position Makes Situation Ripe for Major Offensive by American Forces By Constantin© Brown WASHINGTON D C— Twelve months ago we entered the deadliest war this country has ever had to fight with the cards stacked against us— or so it appeared to all of us who were hearing about defeat after defeat In all theaters of operations The allies were on the defensive except in Russia where the soviet forces had undertaken a token offensive which served more as a morale booster than s an attempt to reap any definite strategic advantage Today although we have not yet reached our full war potential the situation has changed beyond the dreams of the most inveterate optimists and the allies are on the offensive on the three major fronts The war against the axis in — - Europe a long-draw- Africa is only a jump-ing-oplace— will certainly be affair The Italff n ians are exhausted it's true but the Germans still have plenty of fight Moreover they are ruthlessly exploiting all the subjected or allied countries to provide the necessary supplies for their armed forces Deep Cleavage In Reich Unquestionably there is a deep cleavage in the reich between the old Junkers who are thinking in terms of the reich alone and the fanatical nazis who are thinking of their own hides and of spreading their ideologies throughout the world Hitler who for a long time has been the puppet of the military has He has bechanged his tune come more irascible and has adopted the policy of the mailed fist with the Junker field mar-ahaand generals It must be remembered that while a large proportion of the senior officers in the wehrmacht come from the aristocracy the bulk of the junior officers to the rank of captain are indoctrinated nazi youths willing to follow the fuehrer to whatever liot spot he may lead them But despite these frictions between the upper command of the German forces and the nazi of which Hitler is the party head the fighting spirit of the German army still is first class and the reported disagreements will not impair the wehrmacht until it receives such terrific military blows as to force the discord to break into an open Then there will be quarrel purges and wholesale killings of leaders Until then however the road ahead will be a hard one and we will have to do our best to overcome an enemy which is versatile at using all Ls the latest war paraphernalia Feeling of Satisfaction Moet American military experts believe the battle against the nazis will continue with extreme bitterness until such time-a- s the enemy realizes definitely that the game is up Then we may expect a sudden break with the nazi ideologists attempting to turn toward Russia and the Germans of the old school making a vigorous attempt to save whatever might be saved by turning toward the United States and Britain g None of the mili- tary men in this country is willing to forecast when such a of the American forces that after 12 months of war and in spite of tremendous handicaps and disadvantages we are now on the offensive although the road ahead is still winding — and very rocky The uncompromising attitude of our military men who despite great pressure refused to attack the nazis frontally in Europe has placed us on the right path to eventual victory and has saved hundreds of thousands of lives The situation in the Pacific is much more dramatic In less than five months we turned what appeared to shape up as a slow defensive war into a real victory against an enemy who will be more difficult to subdue because literally he has to be killed before he is defeated but whose defeat probably will come quicker than the defeat of the axis in Europe The turning point of the war in the Pacific was in the Solomons where a miracle was performed by a handful of American marines and a comparatively small naval force So far there have been four major Japanese attempts to capture that strategic group of islands centered around the Guadalcanal area we have been holding since July All these attempts have been repulsed and the result has been that the Jap cruiser force has been so badly damaged that we can now prepare ourselves for offensive operations which next spring will lead to the main line of communications between territories and the Japanese mainland Jap-conquer- It ed not expressing is over-optimis- m when It is said in competent quarters here that whatever the Japs may want to do from now on their position In the Solomons is as precarious as was the position of our marines a year ago at Wake island There are some 20000 Jap troops on Guadalcanal completely cut off from their bases at Rabaul be particularly pleasant for the Japanese and that it may come long before the armies of Lieutenant General Dwight Eisenhower begin to elbow their way toward the northern shore of the Mediterranean Losses suffered by the Japs In engagements with the rejuvenated American naval and air forces since the battle of t Salt £akc the fact that we are engaged war on several seas we are able not only to send replacements but to send reinforcements as well to the Pacific forces under the supreme command of Admiral Cheater W Nimitz The time may not be far distant when American offensive in actions are started in areas which at present are controlled exclusively by the Japanese The promise made by General Douglas MacArthur to the Filipinos when he set foot on the Australian mainland that he was coming back may materialize earlier than General MacArthur anticipated The Pacific is a huge area which cannot be covered by the Japs with ease There are several vulnerable points in the enemy armor: New Britain island with its principal base at Rabaul the Truk base in the mandated islands and the entire area in the western Pacific from Arafura and Timor seas to the China sea Our forces are being strengthened to such a point a change from the present that offensive-defensiv- e operations to an actual offensive may be mat- December 20 19S2 STHbunc Birthday Party ooarti iesets zx)iie Hearing Octogenarian Honors S L Woman 80 Mrs Mary A Stone 80 years old Saturday was entertained at a birthday party given by her daughter Mrs G J Buehler of 353 Eleventh avenue Mrs Stone was born in Wales December 19 1862 the daughter of Mary Ann and John Jollow With her husband she came to Utah in her early twenties as an L D S church convert Since coming here she has been an active worker in the church and is now a member of the Twelfth-Thirteent- h The city commission will hoia a tof four-un- it t apartment n of Pn are bctwMn Ninth SouUi public heiiring Januaryin 14 on the south- and Twenty-firs- t South f:tei zoning changes east section of the city and Third East and 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I "" 1 etL$fr V ' n eve ' modern INCLUDED TAKE i freedom" even without Shell klu you — the mlatlu — IX you y "Merry ChrlntmM Darllnil" a 1 Capacity high-rankin- break-u- p will occur It all de- pends on the success of our operations in north Africa and how tactful we are in handling the many questions' which have arisen since our entrance into north Africa in November It also depends on what ares the Germans have strategic up their sleeves and how successful they will be in pulling them out at the right time But there is a feeling of deep satisfaction among the leaders MS0K Y UT£ 12 : BTU 37000 VLL-eEl£T- £r-SA-VEf f v "tray CORKER DRIV- - OUT s MmTtirl 3 1 - p "v J v 1 supremacy difficult to ascertain exactly how many enemy aircraft carriers previously were put out of commission or actually sunk but it is obvious that the Japs' carrier force was so depleted that they did not use it in the recent Solomons fighting The same can be said about Nippon's cruiser force which suffered extensive damage So did we suffer heavily for that matter But while our shipbuilding and repair facilities are enormous those of the Japs are A substantial number limited of our men o' war have recently replaced by new ships recently commissioned And repair work on damaged vessels is being done with unbelievable speed Despite 6— SAVE i u muni: rn i$ttitmnttfk A year ago about this time the west coast and Washington were nervous lest our very shores would be the object of a Japanese invasion party It can be said now that the thought was not mere pnantasy — such a thing could have happened But today none of the well informed observers would be surprised to hear that some time next spring or summer the most precious possessions of the Japs may be occupied by American forces have been such that boast no longer of air Midway they can or naval It is f u-i5r- rrrr EAST SUGAR HOUSE 50000 V:$2I44 H EAST SUGAR HOUSE en 244 Mrs Stone has three daughters Mrs Buehler and Mrs Arthur Van Ormand of Salt Lake City and Mrs H P Lloyd of Helper and eight sons H C Stone of Scho- field Ivor Stone and Lawrence Stone of Provo John O Stone Alfred Stone Glen Stone and Eu- - ed 1 6-8- 69 H - & 54VC to 6 p rfi 7 the magic $XOO 1 - t int A j 58 |