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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 - 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 | 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. 5 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 = with Gen. Tai Li as director and tions into the bad lands bordering ui 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. = 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. 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