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Poland Is
Still Fighting
(The New York Times)
The German people might find
food for thought in the report of
the first real airplane battle be
tween Polish and German fliers
— that is, if the German people
ere permitted to know what hap
pened in that sharp encounter
over France in the dawn of a
Friday morning. Three squad
rons of Polish airplanes forming
the left wing of a fighter guard
of British bombers attacked a
larger force of enemy patrol
planes. The score at the end of
13 minutes of battle was 13 Mes
serschmitts downed to three Pol
ish planes lost.
Of all the- nations brutally and
undeservedly attacked by Hit
ler’s Germany, Poland has suffer
ed most. Her airdromes were
blasted out of existence before
their fliers could assemble for de
fense. Undefended cities, fugi
tives streaming along the dusty
roads, peasants in the fields and
villages were raked with bombs
and machine-gun bullets, while
the half-mobilized Polish Army
fought a losing battle against the
panzer divisions. Some of the
Polish fliers escaped to England.
There they trained more fugitiv
es, & now they are a formidable
force. Every man in it has a per
sonal score to even with Nazism.
They are evenning that score.
Current Comments
From Washington
The Eight Points fixed at the
Roosevelt-Churchill parley con
tinue to produce both praise and
adverse criticism, many of the
arguments on each side being of
small calibre variety. Perhaps
the medal for exploring the lim
its of nonsense should be pin
ned on a speaker at an opposi
tion rally in New York City.
“If you really want to knock
the props out from under Hitler
and Stalin, the best way to do it
is to put on a living example
here to show that Hitler’s chal
lenge of either dictatorship or
starvation for the people is a
lie; let us take off our coats and
work, and show that men can
be free and still have economic
security.”
Although it is absolutely true
that the time has not arrived
when a choice must be made be
tween dictatorship & starvation
and equally certain that men can
be free and still enjoy economic
security, the suggestion that Hit
ler can be moved by the power
Cf a good example, would fur
bish an effective end-man’s gag
for an old-time minstrel show,
if it had not been made in per
fect sincerity. The same line of
thought would justify kindness
to animals when one is corner
ed by a boa constrictor.
A recent press conference at
the White House was less spec
tacular than the meeting at sea,
but during the course of the chat
with newspaper men, the Presi
dent spoke words which attract
ed almost as much attention as
the Eight Points. Paraphrasing
bis quotation from Lincoln, Mr.
Roosevelt declared that the peo
ple have got the idea into their
heads that we are going to get
out of this fix somehow by strat
egy, adding that the war is to
be carried on by hard tough fight
ing, which will hurt somebody.
In dealing editorially with the
situation created by the Eight
Points, the Lincoln quotation,
and the later message to Con
gress, the New York Times uses
the caption ‘The President's
Warning.” The Washington Post
sets forth its views below the col
umn headmg “No Compromise.”
More extended comment seems
unnecessary.
Cartoons and jokes dealing
with the peeling of potatoes by
the ordinary foot soldier are as
popular as lampoons about the
Prince of Wales’ lack of skill as
a horseback rider used to be: and
the infantryman has come to
look down upon himself, to the
detriment of army morale, so the
papers allege. The airplane pilot
and his mechanic are popular
heroes, and get plenty of digni
fied advertising on poster and on
screen. Maybe it is time for the
doughboy to have a good word.
When the tanks plowed across
France, the drivers and gunners
had an important but distinctly
showy task. The job was finished
so quickly that it seemed as
though war had entered the Ma
chinery Age and was distined to
stay there. Events may prove
that what happened on the plains
of France was merely an exped
ient of the time and place.
Relatively speaking. the
“place” weis small, and capable
of being cleared by mowing ma
chine methods. It will be difficult
for even efficient Germany to
hide the eight million square
miles of Russia under tanks and
heavy cannon, or to overshadow
that area by the wings of planes.
The losses are being measured
in millions of men slain. In Rus
sia, at least, the infantryman is
more than a scullion. To his hon
or, but at his dreadful cost, he
is likely to be found quite as
necessary elsewhere, before the
war is over.
With money going out by the
billion, and in view of the pro
bability that taxes will soar like
the eagle, a tendency to grumble
has a degree of justification. Yet
the magnitude of the outlay in
fostering the arts of peace should
not be forgotten. Such things as
relief, social security and road
building make a strong popular
appeal. The work done by the fed
eral organization as a collector of
useful information sometimes is
forgotten.
Uncle Sam is the largest book
publisher in the country, and
what comes from his presses is
furnished at cost, or gratis. An
intelligent inquiry addressed to
the Department of Agriculture,
for example, will receive a help
ful reply over a range of sub
jects including getting rid of
bed bugs and what stain is best
to use in preparing a piece of
apple for examination under the
microscope. When in a quandry,
ask the “government.”
TANK UNIT SALUTES GENERALS BODY
With an escorting tank unit at salute, a caisson bearing the body of Major General Adna-R. Chaffee
rolled to Arlington National cemetery, where the organizer and commander of the U. S. Army’s first
armored force was buried with full pnilitary honors
Vladivostok: Rus
sia’s ‘Open Door’
(By Associated Press)
Just a tough word to pro
nounce to most Americans, Vlad
ivostok has suddenly grown to
world importance as the Far East
ern gate through which lend
lease materials from this coun
try will move into Russia.
The first crisis growing out of
the use of this gateway evident
ly passed without further ado
last week when the first Ameri
can tanker passed through Japan
ese waters enraute to Vladivos
tok despite Tokyo warnings that
war supplies to Russia would be
blown up.
Vladivostok is ice-free except
for a short period in winter and
ice breakers then permit contin
uous open passage. It is about as
far north as Boston.
A Natural Fortress
High surrounding hills and a
winding channel entrance from
the sea of Japan adapt the city
readily to fortification. Back of
the city a ring of fortresses stud
the ridges and in 1939 a Soviet
“Maginot Line” of concrete pill
boxes four-deep was reported
complete. Vladivostok is also a
naval and air base.
Founded only 80 years ago,
Vladivostok is situated at the end
of a narrow hook of land that
bends south from the main body
of Siberia. To the west is Man
chukuo and to the east the sea.
San Francisco is 5,270 miles aw
ay by the most direct shipping
lane. Moscow and Leningrad are
5,000 miles to the west.
Trans-Siberian Terminal
Now a city of more than 200,
000 persons, Vladivostok first
boomed with completion of the
famous Trans-Siberian railway
in the early 1900’s.
Air service links Vladivostok
with northern Soviet centers. An
automobile highway paralleling
the railroad line .into the west is
a third route over which war
i supplies may move.
Shipping bound for Vladivos-'
tok for the most part must move
in from the Pacific to the Sea
of Japan through Japanese terri
torial waters. The shortest route
is between the southern portion
of Sakhalin Island and the nor
thernmost point of Japan’s sec
ond largest island, Hokkaido.
Seven hundred miles south by
air line is Tokyo.
SHOCK TROOPS BEING
KILLED; FEW ARE LEFT
LONDON — The heavy loss of
man power in the Russian cam
paign is being felt by the Ger
mans. They have called for re
cruits between the ages of 17
and 45 for Hitler’s shock troops
and although their assertion is
that they want to give those of
an adventurous nature an oppor
tunity to see exciting service,
neutral experts declare that the
wastage in shock troops of Hit
ler's blitz offensive has been so
great that he has no reserves left
| in this do-or-die type of soldier.
Demand For
Income Tax
Bonds Increases
Bankers report an increasing
demand from taxpayers for the
new U.S. Tax Savings Plan notes
as the month drew to a close. In
ternal Revenue Collector Clark
Squire announced.
The move in Congress to low
er personal income tax exemp
tions to $1,500 for married coup
les and to $750 for single persons
has resulted in more inquiries
for application forms at local
banks, he said.
The plan was designed to aid
taxpayers in laying aside money
this year for payment of income
taxes next year or in 1943. This
is the last week during which
these interest-bearing notes in
varying denominations mgy be
purchased at face value, Squire
pointed out. Beginning Septem
ber 1, the Series A $25 note will
cost $25.04. Likewise, the Series
A$50 and $100 notes will cost
proportionately more.
The Series >B notes, for use by
heavier taxpayers, will also cost
more in September —four cents
additional per $100. These notes,
which bear less interest than the
Series A notes, are in denomina
tion of $100, $500, $1,000, $10,000
$100,000, $500,000 and $l,000,00o.
Some very large corporations
have invested millions in these
notes.
Notes of either series may be
used in payment of income tax
es after three months from the
month of purchase. Those intend
ed for payments in January
must be purchased not later than
October.
Six Girls Are
“Imported”
To Ladd Field
Administrative offices at Ladd
Field are brighter these days.
Six new feminine employees im
ported from governmental offices
in Washington, D. C., are report
ing for work daily.
They are Ester Carlson of Sedro
Woolley, Washington, from the
Securities and Exchange Com
mission, assigned to Ladd Field
headquarters; Marion Fricke of
Lincoln, Nebraska, from the La
bor Department to Ladd Field
headquarters; Jane Rundstrom,
of Lincoln, Nebraska, from the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
to Ladd Field personnel office;
Virginia Clarke of Chilhowie,
Virginia, from the War Depart
ment general staff to Ladd Field
personnel; Phyliss Phillips of
Dallas, Texas, from office of the
Chief of Air Corps, to Ladd
Field air corps supply; and Em
ily Lang of Camden, South Caro
lina, from office of Chief of Air
Corps to Ladd Field engineers’
office.
FToof of Labor Blanks can nov
be had at the Nome Nugget office
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