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VOL. 44. No. 42. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, April 8, 1942. Per Copy 154
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Bataan Forces Make Withdrawal
Alaska S. S. Co. Reduces Surcharge to 25 Percent
Alaska S. S. Co. Reduces Surcharge
To 23 Percent For S.W. Alaska Ports
SEATTLE, April 6 (AP) — The Alaska Steamship
Company reduced its surcharge, effective today, from
45 to 25 percent for southwestern Alaska ports. Man
ager Leslie Baker said the War Shipping Administra
tion ordered the reduction & it is separate from the re
cent Maritime Commission order for a reduction to
20 percent for Southeastern Alaska only.
Will Not Approve Surcharges of More Than 25 Percent
WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP) — The War Shipping
Administration said it. will not approve freight sur
charges of more than 25 percent on shipping from Al
aska ports. In the event that shippers are unable to op
erate with surcharge of 25 percent or less, the Admin
istration said the government will take over the vessels.
The March 31 ruling cutting shipping surcharges to
20 percent for southeastern ports only, will still be en
forced along with the 25 percent limit to other Alaska
points.
Adm. Wilcox Is
Lost Overboard
Washington, April 6 (AP)
—Rear Admiral J. W. Wil
cox, Jr., of Atlanta, Geor
gia, was lost overboard at
sea in heavy weather dur
ing normal cruising, the
Navy announced. No addi
tional details were given.
Admiral Fiske, Retired,
Aged 87, Passes Away
New York, April 6 (AP)
— Rear Admiral Bradley
Allen Fiske, aged 87, U. S.
N., retired, former com
mander of the first, third
and fifth divisions of the
Atlantic fleet, and famed as
a naval inventor, died here
tonight.
HIGHWAY BUILDER
Army engineers announc
ed that a Missouri engin
eer, Col. William M. Hoge
(above) had arrived in
British Columbia to begin
building the long projected
Alaska highway.
Heavy Casualties
To Both Sides
On Bat aan Front
Washington, April 7 (AP)
The War Dept, reported
that heavy casualties on
both sides marked furious
fighting along the Bataan
Peninsula front in the Phil
ippines, the enemy continu
ing to score “some success”
with repeated heavy at
tacks against the center of
the line. The communique
said aerial bombing of rear
areas on the south coast of
Bataan was particularly se
vere yesterday.
Anti - aircraft batteries
destroyed a Japanese am
phibian plane in the waters
of Manila Bay with hori
zontal fire.
A two-hour enemy artil
lery barrage from the Ca
vite shore of the Bay ag
ainst Corregidor and Fort
Hughes resulted in no dam
age and no casualties. The
guns of the forts laid down
a counter battery fire.
JapvS Lose
Planes Attacking
Melbourne, April 6 AP)
— Several Japanese bomb
ers were damaged Monday
attacking Port Moresby,
New Guinea. Two defend
ing Australian fighter plan
es were lost. A commun
ique said one of the Allied
pilots was saved. The raid
was declared a failure.
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To Prospect
For Strategic
Alaska Metals
Tucson, April 7 (AP) —
Four engineers from the of
I fice of the United States
Bure u of Mines will leave
soon for Alaska to continue
explorations for strategic
minerals, with R. S. San
. ford in charge. All work
: was suspended d ing the
winter months. J. W. Cole
I is to be stationed at Kenai
land Staurt Bjorklund and
Wm. Traver at Yakobi.
Germans Make
[iriass Attacks
Oa Is. Malta
i Valletta, Malta, April 7
j (AP) — Great concussions
i shook this fortress city to
1 night as mass attacks by
1 German bombers increas
ed in fury and set residents
hurrying into rock cavern
shelters. Cries could be
heard from the darkness of
the city. Incomplete re
ports said 2 bombers and
2 fighter planes were shot
down.
Reds Get 415
Nazi Planes
Lose Only 84
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Kuibyshev, April 6 (AP)
— Russian airmen and
ground batteries, scoring
one of the biggest bags of
the war, destroyed 415 Ger
man planes in a blazing
aerial war, during the per
iod up to and including
Sunday. The Russians re-j
ported the loss of only 84
of their own planes.
Lindbergh To
Start Work
Detroit — Personnel Man
ager Harry Bennett of the
Ford Motor company said
that Charles A. Lindbergh
would report for work with
the firm on Friday.
Bennett said the famous
flier had telephoned Ford
officials from Washington
that he would be unable to
start yesterday—the orig
inal date on which he was
scheduled to begin his new
job as technical research
man on the Ford bomber
i plant staff.
| Lindbergh told Bennett
he needed more time to
clear up his personal af
fairs.
BOOM ?_Sir Stafford Cripps
(above), former British ambas
sador to Moscow, is. mentioned
as a possible successor to Wins
ton Churchill—if and when the
latter loses premiership.
India May
Compromise
With Cripps
New Delhi, April — Both
Sir Stafford Crirps and the
A'l-India Congress Party
of Mohandas Gandhi and
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
have indicated their will
ingness to negotiate a com
promise solution on the In
tion independence problem
it was indicated today
The Executive commit
tee of the party, India’s
most powerful political or
ganization, is expected to
deliver tonight a detailed
rejection of the British of
fer of post-war dominion
status in return for full
war participation now un
der British guidance.
It is understood, how
ever, that the committee is
also drafting counter pro
posals to be submitted to
Cripps if the British war
cabinet member so desires.
Issued Call for Condition
Of National Banks
Washington, April 7 (AP)
—The Comptroller of cur
rency issued a call for a
statement on the condition
of all national banks at the
close of business on April 4
Bataan Forces Withdraw to New
Positions Because of Jap Penetration
WASHINGTON, April 8 (AP) — A general with
drawal of American and Filipino forces in Bataan to
new defensive positions, because of Japanese penetra
tion of their line, was announced by the War Depart
ment. The troops withdrew to “previously prepared
defensive positions” in order to rectify the penertated
lint4. An official said there was no immediate indica
tion as to the extent of the withdrawal but it was ap
parently accomplished in an orderly fashion.
The Japanese, in greatly superior force, numerical
ly, have been hammering constantly at the line since
Saturday, supported by tanks, heavy artillery fire,
aerial bombardment and strafing of defending troops
The break through has been expected by offic here
since the major assault started five days ago.
Apparently Gen. Wainwright prepared a new line
before the concentrated assaults of the enetm could
convert the break into a disasterous rout,
Gen. Marshall and Harry Hopkins in
Fn<*land for Falks British Leaders
LONDON, April 8 (AP) — The U. S. Army’s Chief
of Staff, Gen. George A. Marshall and Harry Hopkins,
phairman of the British-American Munitions Assign
ments Board, arrived in London for talks with Brit
ain’s leaders, presumably on the grand strategy of the
United Nations in the 1942 campaigns. Marshall’s ar
rival is reminiscent of that when General Pershing
reached London on June 8, 1917. two months after the
United States entered the first World War
It is understood that the party came by bomber. The
arrival of Marshal comes on the heels of reports cir
culated in London, that the bulk of the Amrican army
is training for a mass invasion of the continent..
Soviets Capture Important Place On
Kharkov Front, Routing Defenders
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MOSCOW, April 7 (AP) — Wednesday, Soviet
troops, overcoming a fierce German counter attack,
captured an important place on the southwestern Khar
kov front, the Moscow radio announced The announcer
said the Germans made every effort to hold the place,
even encirclement, but the Soviets wrested the initia
tive with a Red tank attack. The Germans retreated
in disorder.
Soviet ground and airmen destroyed 79 German
planes Tuesday, to boost the 9-day total to 494, against
10,‘f Russian losses.
British I orces
in Burma Are
Forced Fall Back
New Delhi, April 7 (AP)
—British forces defending
the rich oil fields of west-!
ern Burma have fallen
back to new positions with
in about 65 miles of the
mail oil area of Minbu af
ter successfully demolish
ing oil and cement installa- j
tions at Thayetmyo Allan
myo, the British announc-i
ed.
Thayetmyo is about 40
miles north of Prome, on
■ the Irrawaddy River, up
which the Japanese are
pressing 225 miles toward
the nearest point of the In
dian frontier, on the coast
of the Bay of Bengal.
Jap Convoy
Sighted Off Of
Amoy, S. China
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Chungking, April 7 (AP)
— Thirteen Japanese trans
ports and 6 warships were
sighted off Amoy on the
south coast of China.
A military spokesman de
dared that three Japanese
divisions were concentrat
ed on Formosa island, but
their destination was not
ascertained.
The spokesman said
Chinese forces in Burma
engaged a Japanese strik
ing force south of Kyibuan
gan in the Toungoo region.
He added that the Japs are
said to be constructing de
fenses and are not advanc
ing.