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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-09-27
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Jungle Is Creeping Back
On Historic War Sites

Guadalcanal, Hollandia, Man
US, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Two
Jima, Okinawa-all were but
spots on a map of the Pacific Ia
large-scale chart at that until
American soldiers, sailors and
marines battled and bled there
on their long march to victory
In World War II.
By dint of sheer manpower, many
of them became bases hacked out
of the wilderness of the jungle.
Now, only a year after the war
clouds have cleared, many of them
are creeping back to their jungle
vastness.
Guadalcanal, site of Americas
first major land stand against the
Jap invaders, has slipped back into
obscurity. British civil officials once
more rule the Solomon Island bas-
ton and far-famed Henderson Field
Is quiet except for an occasional
plane.
Airfield Disappears.
The remorseless jungle is recon-
quering the big airfeld hacked out
by the Americans at Buna, New
Guinea.
Few signs of conflict remain
on battle SCARED Kwajalein.
Developed as a major base in
closing days Of the war, it also
served as an advance base for
the atomic-bomb tests.
At Tarawa, one of the costliest
battlefields of the Pacific, a small
navy garrison maintains the air
base, but it may be decommissioned
soon.
The name, Leyte, where Gen.
Douglas Macarthur kept his pledge
to return to the Philippines, is kept
alive by the navy, which maintains
a major base there. The bay teens
with activity, an airfield, air depot,
hospital, radio station and naval re-
pair yards being located there.
Manila Is Shambles.
Manila, most dramatic battle
ground of the war, still is in shabby
ruins. Army trucks and jeeps wind
through the streets, past heaps of
rubble cleared from the thorough
fares and gaunt frames of once
beautiful buildings. Tourists gaze
in awe at the maze of rubble in the
Walled City; historic battlesite.
Waves lap the wrecked and
rusting landing craft which lit
ter the shoreline at Two Jima,
a volcanic stepping stone in the
march to Tokyo. The American
flag still flutters from Mount
Surabachi, for a small garri-
son maintains a relatively un-
important air base on Two.
In less than two years, Guam has
become the most powerful navy
base in the distant Pacific. Of all
the Mid-Pacific bases, it alone
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Romantic Pacific Isles Prove
Lure to Many Ex-Servicemen
10000 Macy Men
Take Discharges
At Island Bases

Long heralded in song and film
as the land of beauty and ro-
nance, glamour and adventure,
the myriad islands of the Pacific
left a lasting imprint on thou
sands of American servicemen
whose war duties gave them
their first glimpse of the palm
fringed and coral-studded atolls.
The romantic lure of these Pacific
isles already has drawn nearly TO-
900 discharged American navy
men, who have decided not to 60
home after the wars end.
The navy department reports that
9,372 navy men who were sta
toned on Pacific islands during the
war have received special authority
to be demobilized at their stations
instead of returning to the United
States for discharge.
All were required to have jobs or
some other source of income before
this permission was granted. Most
of the voluntary ex-patriates have
obtained civil service employment
in the military government, the
navy announces. Others have jobs
in private enterprises, mainly in Ha-
waii and the Philippines.
Some sailors have "gone ma
tive" marrying native girls
and deciding to make their per-
manent homes on one of the is
lands.
A few were reported interested in
starting commercial enterprises
which import consumer durable
goods from the United States. Pri-
vate business has been impeded,
however, because of the relative
scarcity of radios, automobiles, re-
frigerators and other durable goods.
Look for Retreat.
Occasionally the navy department
mer sailor or marine, discouraged
by peacetime conditions at home,
asking if there is little island in
the Pacific he can buy inexpensive
ly for a retreat ito get away from
it ALL"
AS during the war, Americans find
a warm reception on most of the
islands of the Pacific Almost with
out exception the natives regarded
the United States as their defender
and liberator. and now they wait
hopefully for the return of the
men they saw during the war
The Americans brought a taste OF
modernity and of big enterprise to
the peoples of the island groups.
The natives saw a picture of the
United States as a place of vast
wealth and immense physical re-
sources. The huge quantities OF
materials which moved through
these places made an indelible i'm
preston on the people.
Revelation of United States stand.
ards of comfort, of transportation, OF
eating and of public health has CIV
en- the natives an incentive to move
forward. Americans were friendly,
and generally there was immediate
! response to this offer of friendship.
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tiqh School Graduates Flock to Army

Largest single group, about 65 per
cent, represent men already in the
army who signed up for extended
service.
Many responding to the sur
vey reported that they consid-
cred the army a "better deap'
than q civilians job, especially
since the pay has been in
creased materially.
Others expressed a desire to join
the army because it provides a
"chance to learn" In addition to
army training, soldiers joining the
regular army at this time are eligi-
BILE to secure a college education
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cigaret Smokers
Putting to Record

Observation-Disclosures are
smoking themselves right into new
record.
Cigarette production during the
first six months Of the year totaled
IT. billion, the agriculture depart
ment reports. ''If this rate contin-
ues for the rest Of the year." It
said, "the annual total will exceed
any on record" Previous record
was set In 1915.
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There will be more cranberries for
your Thanksgiving turkey this year,
department of agriculture says.
Now all we need is the turkey.
The army and the navy at last
have gotten together on the question
Of how long is a mile. The nauti-
cal mile was 800 feet longer than the
infantry mile. But the sailors didn't
care. They didn't have to walk it.
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"Joy-buzzers" which give you a
shock handshake, the American Ma
chinist says, produced a profit Of
SAC, 900 in one year. Better than
clammy paw.
A new non-fogging glass for auto
windshields has been invented, &C.
cording to Business Week. Now II
we can assure q non-fogging brain
for the driver wen be okay.
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a few blocks on slow-moving
train. Missing his jump for a freight
car ladder, he fell under the
wheels, and his foot was crushed.
A white-faced Randy struggled
home, carrying his injured play
mate. Physicians, who saved all
except q few Of the boys toes, cred
tied Randy's prompt action with
preventing more severe shock and
loss Of blood.
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KANSAS CITY, MO.-Six-year-old
Randy Tays, who acted like man
in an emergency, is happy to learn
that doctors have saved the left foot
Of q fve-year-old playmate after
Randy carried him in his arms for
4 quarter Of q mile when freight
train crushed the lads foot.
Hunting pigeons with slingshots
did not prove adventuresome enough
for Randy's playmate, John Joseph
Filsineer j.. 20 be decided to ride
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White Mans Prestige
Slipped to Lou

AS read this fascinating story,
told in simple, boarding-school Eng
lish, those awful days when the for
eign colony in Picking lived in the
daily horror of massacre during
the Boxer rebellion, became very
real.
Today the fires of civil war are
spreading in China. Voices are be.
ing raised, demanding that our ma
rines be withdrawn. American pres
tige has fallen almost as low as it
was when Mary Hooker in her diary
told the dramatic story of the Boxer
Rebellion-that moment in China's
history when Americans, along with
all foreigners reached their nadir.
History repeats.
The Empress Tzuhsi, a reaction
airy, encouraged the activities of the
Boxers and other groups whose
chief purpose was to cleanse China
of the foreign devils" It is only
fair to say that China had passed
through a period during which the
occidental powers had exploited i1er
to the hilt.
Attacks on foreigners, especially
missionaries, began in 1899, but as
Mary Hooker records, ''the diplo-
mats and people in general put
these things down to the usual
spring riots which yearly seized
Peking."
By June and July of 1900, however,
the foreigners found themselves be-
sieged in Picking. AS late as June
Mary's diary reports:
''Mr. Pethick forty years
a resident of China and an in
innate friend of half the polit-
ical leaders, knowing their
weaknesses by heart, urges the
minister to state to Washington
the situation as it is, but all to no
avail"
Three days later, as I mentioned,
the foreign colony "had no commu-
nication with the outside world"
The next days entry states:
''Such intense excitement!
This afternoon the Japanese
Chancellor of the Legation went
down to the railway station in
the official legation car to see il
there was any sign of troops. Re-
turning by the principal gate, he
was seized by the Imperial (Chi-
nese) troops, disemboweled and
cut to rieceS."
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girl, visiting dip
lonatic friends in
China, and a lev
en-year-old boy in
a little town on
the Erie Canal
both were keep
ing diaries at the
turn of the GEN.
fury.
Mary, alone in
her room in the
American lega-
ton in Picking on
June IL, 1900,
slipped on her
pink silk dressing
gown, sat down
and wrote.
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Washington l1{:2:{5y
Diary Of 40 Years Ago
Points Way for Present
By BAUKHAGE
Netcs analyst and Commentator.

they trying to prepare US for a Rus
sian coup d'etat?
Each day the arrival of foreign
troops was awaited. On June II the
entry reads:
"Just one week ago today we
got the telegram that the COM
bined forces Of England, the
United States, France, Japan,
etc. had left to 60 to the
relief Of the legations in Picking
=. when the time comes that
the American and Russian lega-
tions can no longer hold out, the
British legation will be the stage
for the terrible last act"
The Roman Catholic church was
only one of many burned, and the
converts and their families in the
vicinity slaughtered.
''In some cases." says the di-
airy, "the Christians thought it
better to be roasted in their
houses than try to escape" (She
herself had decided that she
might as well be massacred in
her pink silk dressing gown with
pink bow at her neck as in her
golf clothes.)
On the 10Th of June, the Chinese
government offered to give legation
members their passports and escort
them and their families to the port.
There was division of opinion as
to whether to trust the Chinese. In
the evening the German minister
started to confer a second time on
the question when he was murdered
in the streets.
The situation grows worse.
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Eagerly Awaited
Arrival of Troops

From then on the entries become
even more exciting g. twenty of
our marines have been sent by an
officer to guard the big Methodist
Mission the Russian secretary
has figures at the ends of his
fingers about the number of troops
Russia can land in Tien-Tsin .. are
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Dead Piled
Around Rompdrts

A bullet knocks off the headpiece
of a baby's crib.
All the women are sewing sand
bags.
The Dutch and Austrian Legations
burn.
On July 1: "There are so
many dead dogs, horses and
Chinese lying in heaps all
around the defended lines, but
too far for us to bury or burn
them"
They used the dead horses closer
by, however: 1.-THE . mess has an
invariable menu. At breakfast, rice,
tea and jam; at tiffin, rice and
horse; at dinner, rice, horse and
JAM"
With the privations and fear of
the Boxers grew the suspicion and
distrust of the members of the for
eign missions of each other. Rus
SLAMS and English hated each other;
Americans were the buffers. Racial
ructions have no date lines. Mary
Hooker notes:
1.-The dislike of the Russians
for the British is so cordial that
is is only equaled by the feeling
the British entertain toward
them. Our compound joins the
Russians, and they love us and
we love them in as strong a
fashion as they hate their Eng
lish neighbors on their other
side."
And so pretty Mary Hooker wrote
history.
But it was more than history. 1t
was drama. It was tragedy. Just
look over her shoulder once again:
"July 9 day before yes
terday, the Austrian Charge
d'Affaires was shot at the
French legation. At first we
kept record of the dead or
badly wounded but now
they come in SO often we cease
to note the exact number. ..
"July 16 I was en- route
: to the hospital carrying a pot
of coffee to the doctors and
nurses when some soldiers
passed me, carrying a rough lit
ter, bearing Captain Strouts
(the British commanding Off
cer) MORALLY wounded"
Then July l6:
'EIt is discussed quietly by
men that they will certainly kill
their wives when that time
comes Ito make a final stand).
God grant it never may! Apro-
pos Of this, have in my p0ck-
ct small pistol loaded with
several cartridges, to use il the
worst happens. A Belgian Sec
rotary stole it from the armoury
for me-'in case you need it,
madem0iselle.'
Then finally this note on August
IS, when the Chinese were closing
in on the improvised fortifca-
tons manned by lord and f1unky,
soldier and civilian making their
last stand "a veritable ring of
flame on all sides of the defenses."
And then! - Through that
racket that was around us all
night, we could family hear the
unmistakable sound Of the for
eign guns Of our troops"
That page Of history, let US hope,
will not be repeated.
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1.-The telegraph was broken last
night. We have no more communi-
cation with the outside world; our
world is this dangerous Peking."
That same day, though it was
really the day before, according to
the strange tricks Old Sol plays
as he pushes the clock around while
he marches westward and paradox
ically reaches the Far East-that
same day, Monday, June IL, boy in
the fifth grade of the High street
school painfully inscribed this entry
in his book:
1T rained this A. M. Two more
weeks and We'll be free from this
School of Misery" (The next day
it is of record that he broke the
crank of his "wheer'-bicycle to
you.)
The boys name appears at the
head of this column and what he
wrote isn't important, but just As
years later he was to read Marys
diary. She had gone to her reward
long since but not until her diary
became book and she had become
Mrs. Hooker, colonel's lady.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-09-13

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and the right deand that the South Is determined
side expressed desire TO lay proposal before
him and before the next session OF the southern
Conference.
Press protest Is the most powerful weapon
the Negro opinion
EDUCATION
be the instrument Of lasting but
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fER ABBE WAIIAcE gERNcE

J, Minneapolis 10, MINI.
10 death about my boy friend. He
IL q veteran and have known him
for over three years. Just recently
we had q "split-up." He says ne
loves me but still continues 70 see
the "other girl" He says that the
reason that he started seeing the
other girl was that would not have
an affair with him often enough
Help me.
Ana: You've been Tilted, Sister
When q girl plays her trump eardA
IlFst, she generally loses. Next time
you play love for keeps, save your
nees until you get your man. For
get YOU ever met this fellow. Enter
college this fall Just a. you plan,
You will have no time TO brood
over this sx.IOVeT keeping up win
your studies.
81 WOpder"--I love my wife
Sometlmes more than ] should,
think. She tells me that she loves
me, but the way she does she
couldn't. She belongs TO, or she
tells me, about four social clubs
which keeps her out at least thres
nights a week, somewhat late
have asked 10 escort her TO and
from these social affairs, she told
mo yes, but sveTytime time comes
for me 20 20 with her she tells
me I need not 70, she's going with
another lady friend. Please answer
In your column what steps TO take 7
Ans: when husband and wife
start leading separate social lives
n invites misunderstanding and
oftsntImea ends In divorce. You are
being too meek with her. She must
be made 20 realize that what she n
doing IL extremely selfish and I'M
fair 70 you. Her EAddinE about 70
social Functions while you were IN
the army was understandable. But
now her IlFst duty In 10 you and q
WlTs'a place II In the home.
J.W-I received my letter q few
DAYS ago and ! want you to know
how much you helped me and my
family. The more deal with my
AdyiGor, the happier I feel. ] am
awful proud I found . true friend
In you. All my nsighborS think you
are wonderful too. You will hear
from me again, Thanks.
X. X-Ws need your help. My
brother married In al. They
separated once and went back 70.
Rsthsr. They have one child and
she had a child when they married
that she called his. He was called
In the service and whom he left
ahs started running around. drink
ing and letting the children 20 any
old way. Nov he II discharged
and has taken her back and In
alsts that the family accept her as
though nothing had happened.
should we accept her In the family
Ans; Your brother has already
made hIa decision In the matter.
For you and the family 20 take up
the Issue NJ this late date would
only upset your brother and pro-
mote further hard feelings. He has
seen az 20 forgive her do like
wise my friend. De gracious and
hind In future dealings with your
AlHtsT-ln-lAW.
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V.D-I am worried blue. have
q very dear Bon-in-laW when he II
at himself. Every three OF four
months he has some kind Of spells.
He kicks and RToans and won't tell
no one his trouble. II he mad or
Just can't help himself What can
We do for him1 After the spell Ii
over he gets up and leaves the
house.
Ana: The boy needs medical at
tsntiOn. Could be that he has Q
very modest disposition and these
spells embaFFARs him no end. In
q nice way, encourage him 10 visit
the local doctor there In your vii.
laKe. You might even talk the
boys condition over with the doc.
tor beforehand. II he needs the
attention Of . specialist, the doctor
N the man 10 recommend him.
J. Me- am going with q mar
RED man whose wife follows him
wherever he goes. am expecting
his baby. am not In love with
him. Lately, / haven't cared much
for anyone for long ut n time. ]
have planned 10 20 see q fortune
teller 10 find out II It's natural or
not. Do you think ] shouldf !
am really upset.
Ana: There IL nothing unnatural
about having q baby . that's
your trouble. You need 20 be
under . doctors care. not . for.
tune teller. Begin making plans
for the baby's arrival. You have
friends who will stand by you dur.
Ing your confinement. You must
profit BY this mistake and never
allow yourself 20 become attached
% q married man In the future.
It's the girl who always pays.
r. r. Al am terribly worried
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GOD OUR ONLY SOLUTION

To whom can we appeal except 70 God
Unity and peace comes II you read His
He said A. ! am the way the truth and the
I'll stand BY you. when you try To do right.
II
God our only solution. do you believe that
Are you willing 10 accept Il, a. . true fact
Has He not proven 10 you that His words
What does peace and unity mean 70 you !
III
Do you try 10 make peace In the community
where you live7
Haven't you . smile or . Kind word that
you can give
Peace and harmony Is something 70 spread
everywhere
To friends and foes and others In despair.
"
God our only solution. let us work To-
EetheF
For peace. and harmony and unity TO one
God win bless our efforts In trying to make
Let God be our Leader. so His love will
increase.
BY RbOda Frazier Renfroe. 1897 East
18th Street. Minneapolis 9. Minnesota.
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goers. The night
was bad AZ far
as weather was
concerned but as
for the people
there II could not
have been better.
The band was a
ditty from X. c..
City, and the.
notes that they.
laid on the cats
and skirts was
real mad. They
played 'um soft
and aloW and