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He Knows the Japs
The recent speech of Joseph C. Grew, who has just
returned to the United States after ably serving for
many years as ambassador to Japan, was the kind that
ought to do more to jolt Americans out of their com
placency than the talks that have been delivered by
other members of the Administration whose know
ledge of the countries now our enemies was acquired
during brisk 10-day tours of elegant hotel lobbies, bars
and golf courses.
Grew probably knows the Japanese as well as any
white man can expect to understand the treacherous
rascals. Unlike the many ambassadors and ministers
who are given diplomatic posts as rewards for contrib
uting to political slush funds. Grew worked at his job,
studying and trying to solve problems, endeavoring to
learrt something of the ways of the people to whom he
had been sent.
In his speech Grew described the Japs as swashbuck
lers, and he issued a solemn warning that they will
“fight with all the force and power at their command
until they are utterly crushed.” He further warned
that all Americans must make every sacrifice asked of
them if a stalemate is to be prevented in this war, and
he confirmed the stories of unspeakable atrocities com
mitted by the Japs as told by other Americans who
have returned from Tokyo.
Said Grew of the Japs: “They have put great store
in what they consider to be the white man’s flabbiness.
They look upon us Americans as constitutional weak
lings, demanding our daily comforts and unwilling to
make the sacrifices demanded for victory in a war
against a military machine which has prepared and
tramed itself in Spartan simplicity and the hardness
and toughness demanded by war.
They attach great importance to the former disunity
in the United States over the war issue, and they still
count on an apprecaible interval before an aroused na
tion can §nd itself and develop a fighting spirit of its
own. By that time, they feel, Japan will be in complete
control of all East Asia.”
Grew also warned that if Americans think “we can
continue to lead our normal lives, leaving the spirit of
self-sacrifice to our soldiers and sailors, letting the in
tensification of our production program take care of it
self, we shall unquestionably risk the danger of a stale
mate in this war of ours with Japan.”
Coming from a recognized authority, Grew’s analys
is of conditions in Japan, his appraisal of Japan as a
military power and his predictions should be welcom
ed by everyone who wants to face the war realistically.
His talk was the kind that inspires an impatient citizen
to give a hot-foot to every one of his countrymen who
isn t yet awake to the perils which surround this na
tion and to pin back the ears of all big-league racket
eers who are capitalizing on this war and tweak the
noses of all the arrogant little dave becks who are to
be found in nearly every settlement in the land and
who are responsible for thousands of war work stop
pages which, although each may not amount to much,
do. when added together, seriously retard the war ef
fort and jeopardize the lives of our soldiers, sailors
and marines.—The Daily Olympian.
\\ liv Advniise?
In a recent speech, A. C. Foreman, of the Wartime
Prices and Trade Board of Canada, told businessmen
that if they expect to make a comeback after the war
they must keep advertising.
It is a tatal mistake, he said, “to shut down on
your advertising.”
Foreman stressed the importance of keeping a firm’s
name or a product’s name before the public. He men
tioned five large firms with big names that passed into j
receivership as the result of neglected advertising dur
ing the last war, and pointed out that if a business j
firm can’t think of anything else to advertise, it should ,
advertise for the war effort and good will.”
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U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE
In the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Second Div
ision, in the case Ned Sheflett,
Earl Curtis and Hamilton Tyler,
Plaintiffs, vs H. L. Stull, and
Ancient Channel Gold Mines, a
corporation. Defendants: Notice
of United States Marshal's Sale
on Execution: Whereas a Writ
of Execution issued in the above
entitled action has been deliver
ed to me where I am requir
de to sell that certain placer
mining claim and the dwelling
house situated thereon, herein
after described, to satisfy the
judgement of foreclosure of the
Miners liens of plaintiffs in
said action amounting to $737.03
with interest at 6G per annum
from October 30t.h, 1941 and
accruing costs: Notice is hereby
g.ven that as required by said
Writ of Execution I will on
the 22nd day of October, 1942,
at twelve o’clock noon of said
day at the front door of
the United States Court House
in Nome. Alaska offer for sale
and sell at public vendue to
the highest bidder for cash
that certain placer mining claim
and the dwelling house situated
thereon ■ described as follows:
"The Camp placer mining claim
on the left limit of the
Inmachuk River, copy of the
location notice therof being re
corded in Vol. 68. page 144.
in the office of the Recorder
for the Fairhaven Precinct, Sec
ond Division, Territory of Al
aska, and the dwelling house
on said claim.”
Dated Nome, Alaska September
22, 1942.
B. B. Mozee, United States
Marshal for the Territory of
Alaska, Second Division.
Publish Sept. 23,30. Oct. 7,14, 1942
Personal Popularity of Mohandas
Gandhi In Washington Is Low
WASHINGTON, Sept. — Mohandas Gandhi’s per
i sonal popularity in this capital is so low he’d have to
chin himself to touch bottom, but his influence has
: brought out one of the most interesting personalities
I to hit town in a dog’s age.
Sirdar J. Singh is an Indian textile importer, who
has lived 17 years in New York. He’s president of the
India League of America and an ex-member of Gand
hi’s movement.
Dramatically handsome and built like a varsty tackle
he’s visibly affected when he talks of his homeland.
Singh came here to plead for American aid in set
tlement of the Indian crisis. He’s admittedly scared
stiff of consequences if Japan succeeds in grabbing
India. Incidentally, he’s the first to champion Jawah
; arlal Nehru and Gandhi here, and he does make some
telling points in asking for understanding.
Japan, Singh reports, has made great headway in
India with propaganda deriding Churchill-Roosevelt
“four freedoms.” Japan has cleverly harped on the
theme that the four freedoms are only for white men
in Anglo-British minds, and that India will never be
freed by Britain.
Failure of Sir Stafford Cripps’ mission appeared to
j give point to the Jap claims, and a wave of “So what?”
defeatism swept India after Cripps returned home.
“The cobbler, the peasant, the little shopkeeper —
they do not see how fatal a Jap victory would be,”
Singh says passionately. "They only see that another
I hope of independence is smashed. So they say ‘Why
fight for freedom we haven’t got?’ ”
Jailing of Gandhi and Nehru plays into the Jap’s
hands, Singh contends, and they ,are the only Indian
leaders who could counteract the Jap propaganda but
they can’t do it from jail. Singh explained that Gandhi
Nehru demands on Britain not as blackmail but as
more forced by the Indian masses. Jap agents would
have claimed they were “selling out” to the British had
they not demanded immediate action.
Singh bitterly assails any suggestion that Gandhi
and Nehru are pro-Axis. They are inviolably demo
cratic, he says, and points to Nehru’s record as the
first world leader to denounce Jap aggression in China,
the Italian move in Abyssinia and the fascist attack on
Spain in support of his claims.. In contrast, he points
out that L. S. Amery, British Secretary in India, de
fended the Jap invasion of Manchuria in the House of
Commons in 1931.
! Singh brought with him a plan for the U. S. State
Department which he says Gandhi would accept. It’s
; simple. First, a gentleman’s agreement that the veto
power of the Indian viceroy will not be used during
the war. Second, a guarantee of Indian freedom after
, the war. Third, replacement of the present govern
ment council by an interim government of 15 members,
five to be Indian Moslems, five to be Indian National
ists and five to be named by the viceroy.
“America should insist on a settlement of the In
dian crisis," Singh says. “Amer
ica has a big stake in it. If In
dia is allowed to gy by default
because her people have nothing
to fight for, American boys now
playing in the streets will grow
up to find the country still fight
ing Japan.”
By John Grover for Jack Stin
| net on vacation.
DON'T BUY ;
OIL WITH A
HOLE IN IT! I
Scientists recently heated
different brands of motor
oil on a hot plate, to ex
tremely high temperatures
Result? Thermo-Charged E
i,'RPM”stayed on the hottest
hot spot-in the center of its
dish. All other oils broke
in the middle, looked like a
"doughnut”-leaving the
center of the dish dry, even
ran uphill to escape the
heat! Switch to "RPM” to
day. Today more than ever
your motor needs its un
equalled protection.
WHAT'LL YOU DO
IF YOUR "CAT" HAS
KITTENS?
Now you must protect your tractor from un
necessary overhauls. Men and materials are
needed to win this war—and your equipment
is vital to the nation’s war effort. This is no
time for your "cat” to have kittens!
The life of your fuel pump and injector mecha- 11
nism depends on the cleanliness of your Diesel
fuel. Standard Diesel Fuel is 100% distilled... B
made clean, delivered clean. It is never handled
in pipe lines or containers used for heavier fuel
oils. Standard Diesel Fuel will help cut your
power costs as it is doing for thousands of §H
other Alaskans-and give you more trouble-free m
operation . . . when every extra hour counts. p
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Army, Navy
Spring One
On Nippons
Seattle, Sept. — Routine
habits of the crews of a
couple of Japanese 4-motor
ed bombers led them to de
struction in a carefully pre
pared trap set by United
States Army and Navy
fliers.
This is the story told by
a group of Naval officers
here on leave from the
Aleutian battlefront.
The study of the enemy
fliers’ habits convinced the
leaders of the American j
group that the big Jap
planes would be at a cer- j
tain place at a certain time.!
Lieut. W. N. Thies, 25, of
Washington, D C., pilot of
a Navy Catalina flying boat
related that Army and
Navy flyers got together
and two Army fighters, es
corted by a flying fortress
hid in the region were the
Jap bombers were expect
ed.
A tender was sent ahead
to act as a target.
When the Japs caught
sight of the tender they
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“came in for the kill,”
Lieut. Thies said.
“Before the Jap bombers
knew what happened, a
l P-38 Army plane blew the
! first enemy flier out of the
air.
The second Jap plane hit
| for the clouds with the Boe
ing fighter after him. The
Boeing went under the
clouds and flushed the Jap
out. Above, a P-38 was
I waiting for him, and finish
ed him off like nothing.”
No Japs have been seen
in that area since then,
Lieut. Thies stated.
ARMY ENDS CREDIT
TO SOLDIERS — BUT
ALASKA EXEMPTED
Washington, Sept. — The
War Department, which
has just finished a trial
period in which Post Ex
changes sold to soldiers on
a “strictly cash” basis, an
nounced that the policy
will now be a permanent
one at all army posts in
the continental United
States.
The new order, announc
ed by Secretary of War
Henry Stimson, abolishes
credit privileges for person
al purchases bv soldiers, ef
fective November 1. All
army posts in the United
States are affected, but in
Alaska the matter will be
left up to the discretion
and wishes of local com
manders.
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