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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 141. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1942 per C°P>'
Autumn Slows Stalingrad Battle
Propose New Super Board Control War Production
Alaska Legislature Re-organization
Bill To Become Effective In 1944
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (/P) — Delegate Dimond
announced that Senate and House conferees on the
Alaskan legislative organization bill had agreed to:
make it effective prior to the 1944 election. The House j
bill was amended by the Senate to make it effective
at once but it was feared it would interefere with the |
Territory’s 1942 election.
The measure provides for the reorganization of the
Territorial legislature with 1G senators, equally divid‘
ed among the four judicial districts, and 24 represent-i
atives to be elected on a basis of population.
Dimond also announced that the House Territories |
Committee reported favorably on the bill for the re-i
organization of the Alaskan Game Laws to permi mem
bers of the armed forces to secure hunting and fishing
licenses on the same basis as other residents after liv
ing in the Territory for a year.
He said the committee also approved two other bills
to convey to Cordova, the land formerly owned by the
Copper River Railroad, and auhorizing retroactive pay
from September first, 1941, to December first, 194R
for employees of the Alaska Railroad.
Alaska Can Keep
• Peare in Pacific
DALLAS. Texas, Oct. 19— Al- !
askan could be utilized after the i
war to maintain peace in the Pa- !
ciflc. Sir Hubert Wilkins, Arctic
and Antarctic explorer, said at a
dinner given in his honor in:
Dallas.
He declared that Alaska has
more arable land than Sweden
and Finland together and that
Alaska’1* rich volcanic soil is eas
ily cultivated. He asserted it
could produce as much food as i
Japan needs.
“Ft is against all contempor- j
ary principles,” Wilkins declar
ed, “to furnish Japan with any
thing it needs, but in the long
run, after this war, that will be
better than having the Japanese
continue fighting for it.
"If Alaska were developed and ,
should open trade wih Japan to j
furnish the Nipponese their
needs in food, timber and pos-1
siby oil, there would be no rea
son for that country to fight
again for these tilings.”
Sir Hubert said that Alaska
could be the point for the as
sembly of air forces if it be
comes necessary for the Allied
Nations to police the world, since
planes can now fly without stop
ping from Alaska to any capital
in the northern hemisphere.
$500,000 More
For Palmer
Richardson
I
_
WASHINGTON, Oct. —The;
Senate Appropriaions Committee j
recommended $500,000 to com-!
plete construction of the Palmer- j
Richardson Highway in Alaska !
and also recommended that the
total cost of improvements to tihe
road be set at $2,300,000 instead
of $1,800,000.
The committee said that the
145 miles of road to connect
Palmer with the Richardson
Highway, according to engin
eers’ reports, necessitates a larg
er sum than was originally ap
propriated because of greater
cciss of labor, transportation and
other items.
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamp;:
Nation’s Huge
Tire Sale
Is Now On
—
WASHINGTON, Oct. — The
largest tire sale in the nation’s
hisory is under way with only
one buyer—Uncle Sam.
The sellers are motorists every
where who have more than five
tires.
The government has called for
every “excess” tire in an effort
to keep Amer ca rolling.
Uncle Sam is ready to spend
$150,000,000.
The Defense Supplies Corpora
tion has designated 160 warehous
es throughout the country as de
livery points.
All prospective sellers have to
do the Office of Price Adminis
tration said, is to ask the nearest
railroad office or express agency
to send a truck to pick up the
tires.
The owner will receive a check
or war stamps, totalling $1.50 to j
$11.25 depending on the size and
condition of the tire.
Donald Nelson, head of the
War Production Board, and
William Jeffers, national rubber
administrator, declared that the
tire program would add greatly 1
to needed rubber requirements
of the army.
Mr. Jeffers declared that the
synthetic rubber factory recently
opened in Connecticut has al
ready gone into production.
Senator is Father
Of Daughter
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — A
six and one-half pound daughter
was born to the wife of United
States Senator Robert R. Rey
nolds of North Carolina, chair- J
man of the Senate Military Af
fairs Committee.
Mrs. Reynolds is the daughter
of Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean,
the Washington social leader and
former newspaper publisher.
The baby was born at the Mc
Lean home.
Senator Reynolds, is 58 years
old. He and his wife, his fifth, j
were married las October.
Proof of Labor Blanks can nov j
be had at the Nome Nugget-ofllci ,
Britain Sinks
Or Damages 530
Axis Submarines
London, Oct. 20 (/P) —
Britain’s actual “record of
attacks which resulted in
the sinking or damaging of
over 530 Axis subs,” since
the war began, First Lord
of the Admiralty Alexan-j
der asserted. He said the
total included some attacks
by U. S. forces but didn’t
include those by either the
Russians or France before
June, 1940. He said the
war against the U-boats is
still “our greatest prob
lem."
Emissary Of
•»
President Was
In Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 12 — Wen
dell L. Willkie and his party ar
rived here at 5 o’clock Sundav
afternoon by plane from China
via Siberia.
Willkie said all members of his
pary and crew are in the best of!
health and said the flight from
China on this route was superb.
The big four-motored bomber
came out of the sky and made ■
a perfect landing afer an unher-1
aided flight to this big base.
Willkie, personal representa
tive of President Roosevelt to I
various nations to tell them of;
the “all-out” aid policy of the.
United States, has been on var
ious war fronts. He has been in
Egypt, Iran, Moscow and Chung
king.
On the flight tg China his
plane was once endangered b>
Japanese war planes, but no
harm resulted. In Chungking,
during an inspection, he had
just arrived at one locality fol
lowing the bombing of the area
by the Japanese.
When in Chungking, Willkie
came out for a second front at
once.
LEAVES FAIRBANKS FOR
WHITEHORSE ON LAST LEG
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 13 — Wen
dell Willkie and his party flew
from Fairbanks late yesterday j
forenoon for the States via
Whitehorse.
Sunday evening Willkie met a
few friends in Fairbanks, asked
about mining and agriculture in
that section but made no state- j
ment for publication about his |
trip, the war or policies.
Talks In Edmonton
Willkie intimated in Edmon
ton that he might say something j
about “the flippant statements I
made by certain public officials” |
concerning his second front utter ,
ances in Moscow, afer his arriv- j
al in the United States.
Said Willkie: “I collected
much material and reached cer- j
tain conclusions about our war
effort and about other countries j
and our relations with them.
“I have already reported some
of my conclusions to the Ameri.
can people and some to the Presi j
dent. I will be in the United j
States shortly and shall report
to my fellow citizens further and
in full, and to the President if
he wishes, on such subjects he
desires to discuss with me.”
No Enemy\
0
Offensive Aetion
In Solomons
Washington, Oct. 20 (/I1)
— The Navy announced
that American air forces
renewed bombing raids on
enemy troops and installa
tions at Guadalcanal in the
Solomons and at Kiska. It
was added that no report
has been received of any
offensive action by enemy
troops against the Ameri
can positions at Guadal
canal since the Japs made i
heir October 15th landing.1
Enemy warships and aux-1
diaries in large numbers;
are still reported in the;
Soomcn’s area, but there
have been no further re
ports of enemy landings at
Guadalcanal.
The Navy said, in the
Aleutians, Army Liberator
bombers dropped 12 tons
of bombs on enemy instal
lations and beached ships
in the harbor at Kiska on
October 18th. Fires were
reported in the camp area.
T V
Hess >eems
Likely To j
J
Face Judge
MOSCOW. Oct. — The Russian
Government, contributing to
Josef Stalin’s views on punish
ment of Axis war leaders, pro
posed a special tribunal to under
take at once to punish “any one
of the leaders of Fascist Ger
many, who in the course of war
have fallen into the hands of
the States fighting against Hitler
ite Germany."
While Rudolf Hess was not
mentined specifically in this pas
sage of the Russian announce
ment, >he seemed to be the most
important if not the only captive
Axis-adherent calling into the
category of prisoners against
whom immediate action is
sought.
Hess landed in England in the i
spring of 1941, having made a
mysterious plane flight from Ger
many, and was taken prisoner
on May 10, 1941.
The Russian proposal startled
London and a British Foreign
Office commentator said, “Hess, I
of course, is regarded as one of
the Nazi leaders who might be
effected by the British Govern
ment’s own earlier declaration
proposal of a tribunal to indict
war criminals."
He emphasized however, “Hess
became our prisoner on May 10.
1941. Of course while there are'
plenty of crimes” and charges j
agains the Nazi leaders prior to j
that date, and atrocities against
Russian people, the majority of
those against other European
peoples occurred later.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
That unique and humorous,
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse” Letter
heads and Envelopes, have been
brought strictly up to date, and
are now available at the Nugget
office.
Autmun Storms Force Bi<* Stalingrad
Battle Back to World War Tactics
MOSCOW, Oct. 20 (/P) — Autumnal storms howl
ed down the bare steppes between the Don and the
Volga and forced the great battle of Stalngrad back to
World War tactics of artillery barrage and infantry
assault and temporarily, with the cold wind, the rain
died down. The Russians are still holding firm along
their battered lines.
Battlefront dispatches said the air war by dive
bombers and swarms of fighters was resumed on a full
scale after a short foretaste of winter forced the planes
of both sides out of the air and gave the defenders a
respite.
In at least one phase of the Nazi onslaught, the Ger
mans turned to ground war tactics of a generation ago
pouring down a three-hour artillery barrage and fol
lowing it up with slashing infantry attacks in an effort
to keep the offensive polling. The defenders met them
with point blank gunfire and held firm their positions
which the Nazis failed to dent since Sunday night.
Knox Believes Japs Have Not Used
Maximum Force In Solomon Battle
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (/P) — Secretary Knox
said he believed the Japs have “By no means as yet”
used their maximum force in the Battle of the Solo
mons. He told a press conference “It still is a good
stiff fight.” He said he had no information to add to
the most recent Navy communique which told of Am
erncan warships suddenly reappearing in the Solo
mons. Knox said communiques are being issued as
rapidly as information is received by the Navy De
partment.
Indication was given that land based airplanes may
begin to play a much greater part in naval activity.
Knox, asked if he could comment on the number of
such planes, said the information couldn’t be disclos
ed, but the “number of land based planes in the Navy
is steadily increasing.”
Officials in Charge War Production
Haven't Grasped Meaning Modern War
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (/P) — The complete re
shuffling of top war agencies under a new super con
trol board was recommended by a congressional re
port which said “Those officials who have charge of the
war production program, including the mobilization
of manpower, have not yet grasped the meaning of
modern war.” The report, bristling with criticism of
the present set-up, was issued by a special House com
mittee on national defense migration.
The committee, headed by Rep. Toler, urged the
subordination of the War Production Board, the Sel
ective Service Administration, the War Manpower
Commission, and the OPA, to a new super agency
known as the Office of War Mobilization. Asserting
that “Our materials and distribution system is break
ing down and that hoarding of raw materials is becom
ing a nation-wide phenomenon,” the committee declar
ed “This war can be lost in Washington. Despite num
erous realignments in the ten months after Pearl Har
bor, business as usual considerations still permeate
Washington agencies.” The proposed new agency is
to be primarily a policy determining group.
Rayon Be Used
WASHINGTON, Oct. — Rub
ber Administrator William Jeni
fers told Farm State Senators, ■
“We have gambled too damn
long’’ already on the rubber sit
uation, in defending the WPB
order to substitute rayon for cot
ton in heavy tire manufacture.
Despite a bombardment of
questions by members of the Ag
ricultural Committee, most of
| whom are critical of tlhe change,
Jefferts declared that if “the ra
; yon did a better job” than cotton
! “then I’m for rayon. So far as
; I'm concerned. I’m not influenc
j ed anybody or anyone."
Senator McKellar contended
^that seven of the nine members
of the WPB advisory board
which recommended substiutions
j were tire manufacturers and ofch
I ers interested in rayon.
Jeffers said he did not know
whether or not that was correct,
but “I'm assuming in War you
I can trust Americans.”