I DARE SAY —
It can be utilized!
By Florence Fisher Parry
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Jap Army in Philippines gets new commander
By the United Press
The Japanese radio said today that Lt. Gen. Shigenori Kuroda has taken command of Jap Army forces in the Philippines, succeeding Lt. Gen. Shizuickhi Tanaka, FCC monitors reported.
Tanaka was said to have been “transferred to a certain important position with the Imperial.” The broadcast said Kuroda arrived in Manila yesterday.
Moscow views Davies’ trip as full triumph
Visit touches off display of Soviet goodwill for America
By M. S. Handler, United Press staff writer
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Yanks crush hidden Japs in Massacre Bay landing
Americans wounded in first days of battle on Attu arrive at U.S. Northwest hospital
By Douglas Billmeyer, United Press staff writer
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Jap airdromes raided heavily
Grounded planes fired at Wewak, New Guinea
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Editorial: Memorial Day
Few of us need a reminder that thousands of American boys have already died for their country in this war, and that many more thousands will inevitably die before victory.
But this Memorial Day weekend ought to stop our busy lives long enough to give more than passing thought to the grim realities of war and the awful tragedies it imposes on so many loyal American families.
These families have committed no crime against society and earned no enmity from any segment of the world’s population, American or foreign. By the mere whim of chance, their sons, fathers, husbands and sweethearts are sacrificing their lives.
Memorial Day was originated in 1868 by John A. Logan, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, who proclaimed the 30th of May a day:
…for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion.
This is the 75th Memorial Day. It will be a day of honor the dead of Gettysburg and Bull Run, of Antietam and Vicksburg, the dead of San Juan Hill and Manila, the dead of Chateau Thierry and the Argonne, of Belleau Wood and St. Mihiel.
We cannot strew flowers on the graves of those who have died on Guadalcanal, or before Hill 609, or on Bataan or Attu, or over the ports of Italy or the industrial valleys of Germany, or on the high seas on in China.
To those families already suffering the sorrows of this grimmest and greatest of wars, no words will intone the solemnity of Memorial Day. But those who so far have been untouched by personal tragedy can at least honor this wear’s dead by performing extra work and making small sacrifices without complaint and with a will to do their part toward ending the war by the earliest possible date.
Bob Benchley bemoans his former sins
Actors he once panned now get back at him in Hollywood
By Ernest Foster
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