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V-J Day Found Foe’» Proud
Army Alm o«t W iped Out
By MacArthur’ » Men.
Tel. 2482
TOKYO. — Only three first-class
Shows every Night 7 to 11:30
Japanese divisions were available in
REGULAR p r i c e s
Children 18c
Adult« 48«
the late hours of the war to defend
Special Saturday Matinee 1:30
the homeland from invasion, U. S.
Show changes Sunday 1:36, 4, 6:30,
army records disclose.
The divisions that led the trium­
phant -Japanese march throughout
Asia were chewed up or by-passed,
Saturday — BARGAIN M ATINEB
and at the end even the great
March 2
Kwangtung army of Manchuria was
ALW AYS IN MY H E AR T
stripped for Japan’s own defense
Kay FYancea
against invasion.
Serial, “ Monster and the Ape’’
The decline and fall of the army
were charted by a card catalog kept j
Sun., Mon., Tues., March 3 to 5
by Lt. Col. George Magruder while j
the war was on and confirmed by in­
YOU CAME ALONG
vestigations after occupation.
Robert Cummings, Lizbeth Scott
ShorU—“Alibi Baby.
Best Units Sent Home.
Cartoon and News
“ In Manchuria when the Russians
hit,” said the colonel, who is one of
General MacArthur's intelligence of-
WVd.,-Saturday, March 6 to 9
jfl fleers, “ the last of the Kwantung
3 army’s best outfits—the 25th and 1st
BLUEGItASS AND HORSES
SONG OF OLD W YOM ING
= armored divisions—had been sent to
in cinecolor
Bluegrass, specially nourishing
E. Dean and S. Padden
¡Tl¡ the homeland against the expected for live stock and horses, has an
Hotel Berlin
assault.”
important bearing on the prosperity
Fay Emerson, Helmut Dantine
The home army of 2,500,000 men of Kentucky. More than $30 mil­
News
also had the veteran 57th division, lion is invested in horse farms and
SAT. March 9— Bargain Matinee
but “ the remainder of the home millions more in the blooded ani­
C A N T ESCAPE FOREVER
ni. divisions were just thrown to­ mals. Bluegrass contributes to im­
George Brent
proved
breeds
of
cattle.
Farms
here
s í gether," Magruder said,
Serial— Monster an dthe Ape
jfij “ The Japanese re-enforced the supply riches to add to the Nation’s
resources behind Savings Bonds.
HI ( edges of the empire first with troops
U. S. Treasury Department
from the south, then from central
s j China,” Magruder said. “ Finally
they were taking units from the bot-
H| ’ tom of their barrel of trained men.”
jjj Months before the surrender,
5 1 Americans studying the card history
SH | were able to foretell the growing
l]j ; shortage of man power heralding
jjjj the end of the war.
Chinese G u e r r illa s A s s i s t
Mustangs Once Gave Color
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The notorious 16th division of
U. S. Force in Picking
Bataan death march infamy was
T o Romantic L ife on the
smashed on Leyte in the American
Up Information.
W estern Ranges.
comeback offensive in the Philip­
pines. The tide of war swept past
WASHINGTON.—A daring United
three other divisions that were in on
SALT LAKE CITY. — Wild horses
States
navy force, guarded by
the final assault of Bataan and Cor­
—the colorful, freedom loving mus­
Chinese
guerrillas,
operated
behind
regidor and they were rounded up
tangs of the wide open spaces—are
after the surrender—the 4th in Japanese lines in China during the disappearing from most of the west­
war,
regularly
supplying
weather
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Siam, the 21st in Indio-China and the
and other intelligence to the fleet ern range lands.
48th on Timor.
and
army, says the Associated j Like the buffalo and elk at the
Crushed by British.
turn of the century, they are be­
The “ emperor’s own troops,” the Press.
The navy drew back the curtains j coming fewer and fewer. The cause
imperial guards division, were bad­
ly mauled in the drive on Singapore of secrecy on the combined Chinese- , is not men’s inhumanity and lack of
and were sent to Sumatra, where American group, known officially as ! foresight; depletion of the mustang
they saw no more action. The 18th SACO — Sino-American co-operative herds is proceeding according to
division which was responsible for organization. Its code name was \ plan.
Wild horses merely are stage seta
the rape of Nanking went from the “ friendship.”
The story of SACO began a few on the western scene. They perform
successes at Singapore and led in
the capture of Burma, only to be weeks after the Japanese attack on j no useful function. Instead, they eat
crushed in the British counter-offen- Pearl Harbor. The fleet had to have fodder that can be put to better pur­
information on weather from Japa- | pose in feeding shorthorn steers
jjj sive.
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Hong Kong fell to the 51st and nese held Asia and western Pacific and sheep.
areas.
2 38th divisions. The 51st was de-
Meat is more important in war
■J! j stroyed in New Guinea and the 38th
Generalissimo Chiaag Kai - shek | time* than stage settings. Besides,
~ on Guadalcanal and Bougainville threw the resources of his bureau few tourists ever glimpsed the swift
after it had helped conquer Java. of investigation and statistics into mustangs. They roamed the wildest,
The 2nd division from Java’s battle­ the project. Fleet Admiral King and j most inaccessible areas. So in
fields also was destroyed at Guadal­ General Marshall, army chief of March, 1943, an order closing all
canal.
staff, supplied a naval group under j federal grazing districts in the 10
This accounts for 14 divisions, or Rear Adm. M. E. Miles of Kenwood, ! western states to wild horses was
most of Japan’s original conquering Md.
signed.
units, but many another top division
Start by End of 1942.
Clearing the range of wild horses
was wrecked. For example, the 1st
By the end of 1942, Sino-American was more difficult than signing a
= vvas smashed on Leyte, the 8th and teams were operating behind Japar paper. At first, huge roundups were
10th south and east of Manila, the nese lines. It soon became apparent organized. Chap-clad waddies, an­
I1 2nd armored on northern Luzon and that this work could be expanded other fast disappearing specie of the
the 6th on Bougainville.
and SACO emerged early in 1943 Old West, rode on week-long expedi­
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with Gen. Tai Li as director and tions into the bad lands bordering
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Admiral Miles as deputy director.
the ranges. For it was there the
D yed-in-Dog Neighbor
It spread from the border of mustangs fled when pursued, says
Feud Is Halted by Judge Indo-China to the northern reaches the Chicago Tribune.
LOS ANGELES.—Superior Judge of the Gobi desert. Most of the
Many Got Away.
Joseph Vickers ruled it illegal for work, however, was concentrated
Riding
fast horses and changing
the Martins to dye the Murbachs’ along the China coast, where Japa­
dog and cat red—or any other color. nese sea operations were kept under them frequently, cowboys herded
the mustangs into dead end draws.
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Restraining orders against Otto constant surveillance.
But the skittish creatures too often
= and Elizabeth Martin and Frank
The American force at its peak overcame their fear of man when
SJ! and Eva Murbach climaxed their numbered 3,000, but not a single one
ffi I neighborhood feud. The Martins was killed. One, a coast watcher, | cornered and bolted through the
jjj may not trespass on the Murbach was captured and 10 were wounded. lines of waddies to freedom.
So this strategy gave way to a
S property, sprinkle chemicals on it The Chinese in the project at one
or on the Murbachs’ pets.
time totaled 100,000 of whom ap­ plan of rounding up 10 or 15 at a
The Murbachs are ordered to proximately 10,000 w’ere killed and time. W’inged corrals were built,
sturdy and camouflaged, with the
cease moving earth off a bank be­ an equal number wounded.
entrance funnels pointing outward
tween the adjoining lots, running
Deeds are Made Public.
to wide mouths. Small planes and
water under the Martin home, and
defacing the Martin hedge and
Here are some of the accomplish­ "ground forces” worked together.
The planes "spooked' ” the mus­
lawn.
ments of SACO:
The Murbach dog and cat are still,
Weather observers and other tangs, keeping them moving toward
according to the Murbachs, a "per­ agents equipped with radio supplied the trap. Waddies drove occasional
manent, humiliating red.”
information promptly to SACO head­ strays into the herd.
quarters where it was analyzed, con­
When a score or so of mustangs
densed and relayed to Pacific fleet were bagged, trucks carried them
Shackles A fter W edding
headquarters, to air, surface, and to shipping points for transportation
B ell»; Prison Cell Yawn» submarine units at sea, to the Chi­ to disposal plants. They yielded
AKRON, OHIO.—With the words, nese and to army forces in China.
tankage for hogs, food for fox
j "Marriage is a partnership and you
These reports, the navy said, farms, chickens, pets and such by­
must both do your part to make it helped in planning “ hazardous products as fats, hides, glue.
, a success" still ringing in their ears, carrier strikes" despite treacherous
The more likely looking cayuses
1 newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. George weather in the area of Formosa and were cut out for saddle ponies or
Goring turned from the “ altar” and the Japanese homeland.
for light farm work in the midwest.
went their separate ways.
There were few of the magnificent
Major
General
Chennault’s
14th
Only a few minutes before the cere­
air force was given data on ship­ stallions famed in western stories.
mony Goring had been sentenced to
ping,
troop movements, supply Wild horses look gaunt beside well
prison for 1 to 15 years for burglary.
dumps, bridges and other strategic fed farm stock. Their existence,
targets. Liberator bombers, using though free from man’s dominance,
this intelligence, sowed mines in is governed by harder laws of na­
enemy controlled waters and har­ ture. And nature has no work in­
Uranium Hot Springs
centive such as man for preserv­
bors as early as October, 1943.
Left by Atom Bomb
Thousands of tons of shipping went ing horses.
TOKYO. — " U r a n i u m
hot
down as a result of mines, par­
Fixtures of the Range.
springs” are being formed far
alyzing supply routes and forcing
But the mustangs are a hardy
from the center of atom-bombed
the closing of ports. When Japanese breed. The wild horses of the range
Nagasaki. They are radioactive
ships tried to avoid the mines by
descendents of horses strayed,
to such an extent that the urani­
swinging out to sea, United States abandoned, or stolen by Indians
um concentration is 10 to 20
submarines promptly sent them to from the Spanish conquerors of the
times that remaining in the target
the bottom.
southwest in their 16th century gold
area. Dr. Ryokichi Sagane, pro­
In October, 1944, during General hunting expeditions — have been
fessor in Tokyo Imperial univer­
MacArthur's invasion of Leyte, roaming the western plains for cen­
sity, told Domei.
SACO supplied the first word that turies.
a Japanese carrier task force was
Their numbers increased rapidly
approaching for the crucial battle of and, domesticated by the Indians
Heavy T ax Boosts
Leyte gulf.___
and later by the cowboy, the tough,
wiry animals played a large part in
A dopted in Japan
Russ Flier D r ips 42.0C 0
the history of the west.
TOKYO —Sharp tax Increases
Feet to Chute Record
U. L. Forsling, grazing service
have been adopted by Japan's
director, with headquarters in Salt
LONDON. ENGLAND. - The Mos
government for the coming fiscal
cow radio reported Maj. Vassiii Ro- Lake City, estimates there were
year to offset great slumps in
manysk, Russian airman, had set about 100,000 wild horses on federal
revenues owing to termination of
“ a new world record for a delayed range in the fall of 1942. The serv-
the war, Domei said. Prices of
reported 25.273 wild horses were
parachute jump." leaping from
government monopoly products
12.900 meters <42.000 feet), with the removed in 1943. Br June 30 1944
slso will be raised ss s revenue
parachute opening only when he was the hag had reached 77,163
800 maters (2,623 feet) from the
measure. Domei reported.
There was room on the range for
ground.
mora cattle and sheep.
Navy Gets Data
Wild Horgeg Are
Behind Jap Lines
Leaving Plains
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