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VOL. 44. No. 40. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942. Per cw ^
Allies Suffer Reverses In Burma
Commission Fixes 6 P’cent Profit Alaska Shipping
Maritime Order Fixes Profits At
6 Percent on Shipping to Alaska
WASHINGTON, April 1, (AP) — The Maritime
Commission order fixing profits at 6 percent, applies
to Alaskan shipping generally but the surcharge re
duction applies to southeastern Alaska only. The
Commission found that “the existing 45 percent sur
charge has been shown unreasonable on rates for Al
aska ports other than southeastern. We further find
the surcharges unreasonable to the extent when they
exceed 20 percent on rates to southeastern Alaska
ports.”
Governor Greuning said, “I am very much gratified
at the modification. Those who want Alaska for their
home have won an important victory.”
The Commission said the record discloses a gen
eral Alaskan dissatisfaction with joint rates by the
Alaska Steamship Co. and the Alaska Railroad, and
said, despite the Commission’s previously expressed
opposition to joint rates, action was deferred at the
request of the inter-relation department.
Defenders Mopping Up
Jap Units Cut Off In
Attack On Bataan
' Washington, April 3 (AP)
The War Dept, announced
that savage Japanese at
tacks penetrated the Ba
taan Peninsula defense
line but equally savage
counterattacks closed the
gap and isolated several
Jap units which Gen. Wain
wright’s troops are now
mopping up.
Bill Would Permit Pay
ment Expenses Employes
Outside Continental U. S.
Washington, April 3 (AP)
— Delegate Dimond intro
duced a bill to authorize
the head of any govern
^ ment agency to pay the ac
tual transportation and sub
EXPLOSIVES ACT
REQUIRING LICENSES
EFFECTIVE APRIL I
The following telegram
was received from B. D.
Stewart, Regional Officer,
from Juneau:
“Act requiring license
for sale, purchase, and use
of explosives in Alaska was
‘effective midnight, April
first, and vendors, pur
chasers and each foreman,
individually must appear
immediately in person be
fore the nearest U. S. Com
missioner and secure a li
cense to avoid possible pen
aty for non-compliance.
sistence expenses of em
ployees to and from their
homes while assigned to
service beyond continental
United States.
RAF Get In Good
Licks On Auto
Plant Near Paris
London, April 3 (AP) —
The RAF bombed an auto
motive plan near Paris for
the second successive night
while grounds crews on
the southeastern coast and
Wales struggled against a
terrific German attack. An
informed British source
said the RAF “got in some
good licks” raiding France.
The German attack on
the coast was the worse
which some of the resi
dents experienced there,
not excepting the mass
raids of 1940. There were
a number of dead, some
buried in the wreckage of
| their homes.
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Soviets ork On
Rubber Problem
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'Moscow, March 31—Scien
tific quarters reported that
the problem of extracting
I rubber from a wild rubber
bearing plant had been
| solved in a Soviet labora
tory. The experiments took
. place at the town of Tash
kent, in the Soviet Asiatic
republic of Uzbeck.
The Uzbeck scientific in
stitute already had begun
manufacturing rubber ar
ticles from this material.
The announcement said
that industrial treatment
of the raw material was be
ginning this year.
INDIA ISLANDS ATTACKED BY JAPANESE
Japanese blow to the west since the war began. The move indicated an attempt to
ward cutting China-aid sea lanes into Calcutta (3) now that the Jap advance in
the Rangoon area (2) has blocked use of the Burma road.
New Reverses
Mark British
Defense in Burma
UNDATED, April 3 (AP)
Grave new reverses mark
ed the Allied defense of
Burma as British headquar
ters acknowledged that the
Japanese cracked the right
wing anchor at Promo, key
to Burma’s vital oil fields;
but news from the Philip
pines is more heartening.
On Bataan, Gen. Wain
wright’s fighters* are offic
ially reported mopping up
pocketed Japanese units
which yesterday b urst
through the main line, in
two heavy assaults.
With the Japanese inva
sion threatening next door
Burma, leaders of India’s
millions still wrangelled
bitterly over the British
proposal to grant India self
rule after the war, in re
turn for fighting support.
Chiang Kai-Shek, advo
cate of war collaboration
between China’s four hun
dred million and India’s
399 million, is said to have
intervened in the negotia
tions, urging China to ac
cept the British proposals.
Chiang is said to have sent
a special messenger to con
vey his views to Pandit
Nehru, powerful former
president of the All India
Congress party.
Deny Landings At Akyab
In Burma, the situation
is critical at both ends of
the British - Chinese de
fense line, guarding the
Burmese oil fields, major
source of China’s gasoline
and oil supplies, and the
road to Mandalay. The
British acknowledged that
they were forced to retire
north of Promo, less than a
hundred miles south of the
Yenang Yaung oil fields,
tailing back after night
long lighting in the jungles
south of the Irrawaddy Ri
ver town. However, Brit
ish headquarters denied re
ports of a landing by Jap
anese sea-borne troops at
the west Burma port of
Akyab only 100 miles from
the Indian frontier, which
would have been an even
greater setback.
NO INCOME TAX .
Butte, Mont., Mar. — A
miner sought the help of a
deputy in the internal rev
enue bureau with his in*
; come tax.
“You don’t owe any tax”
the deputy replied after a
little figuring.
“Well, that’s too bad,” re
plied the miner. “This is a
pretty good country. So
here’s 20 bucks, a present
for Uncle Sam.”
Chinese Report Japanese Troops
Land West Burma Port Akyab,
Only 330 Miles From Calcutta
CHUNGKING, April 2 (AP) — A Chinese spokes
man said that Japanese troops, covered by a force of
cruisers and destroyers, landed at the chief west
Burma port of Akyab, only 350 miles across the Bay
of Bengali from Ca-lucutta. Akyab is only 100 miles
southeast of the India-Burma boundary. The landing
there represents a direct threat to the rear of the
British imperial lines guarding the central Burma oil
fields. These lines are based on the Irrawaddy River,
The town of Prome is 100 miles southeast of Akyab.
Japs Attack Bataan. Corregidor
With Dive Bombers, Artillery
JAPANESE BOMBING INEFFECTIVE
WASHINGTON, April 2 (AP) — The War Depart
ment reported sharp skirmishes on Bataan Peninsula
in the wake of large scale Japanese attacks on the
American and Filipino defenders there. Enemy ar
tillery and dive bombers shelled and bombed the de
fenders positions but no general action followed yes
terday’s battle. ,
\ Meanwhile intermittent air attacks continued around
t the clock on the Manila Bay harbor defenses, but the
War Department said the Japanese bombers were
forced to fly at such altitude that the bombing was
ineffective.
At the same time, the big guns of Fort Mills and
; Corregidor Island, engaged in a duel with Japanese
batteries on the south shore of the bay. A commun
| ique said neither the bombing or shelling inflicted
damage to the forts.
A Japanese broadcast from Tokyo quoted the Im
J perial headquarters as claiming that anti-aircraft bat
teries, the airfield, barracks and other military estab
lishments on Corregidor were damaged beyond repair
by repeated Japanese naval, and air attacks between
March 24 and 31.
PROCLAMATION
Headquarters Alaska Defense Command
. Fort Richardson, April 2
By authority of the Executive Order 9066 of the
President of the United States dated February 20th,
1942 and as an army commander designated there
under bv the Secretary of War, I, Simon B. Buckner
commanding general of the Alaska Defense Command
do hereby declare the Territory of Alaska to be a
military area which requires every possible protection
against espionage and against sabotage to national de
fense material, national defense premises, and national
defense utilities as defined in section 4, Act of April
20th, 1918, 40 stat. 533, as amended by the Act of
November 30th, 1940, 54 stat. 1220, and the Act of
August 21st, 1941, 55 stat. 655 (U. S, C., title 50, sec.
104), from which all persons being of the Japanese
1 race of greater degree than half blood and all males
i of the Japanese race over 16 years of age of half blood
| shall be excluded.
Now, therefore, it is ordered and directed that all
persons of Japanese blood as aforesaid whether Am
erican citizens or otherwise do, on April 20th, 1942,
report to the commanding officer of the Army post
most convenient to them, in order that they may be
transported to the continental limits of the United
States.
In accordance with the above Executive Order of
the President of the United States, it is requested that
all executive departments, independent establish
i ments and other federal agencies and other civil au
thorities give aid and assistance to said persons and
the military authorities designated to the end that
this order may be carried out effectively and with a
minimum of hardship to persons effected hereby.