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VOL. 44. No. 37. NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MAR. 27. 1942. Per Copy \u
RAF Hits Krupp Munition Works
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M’Arthur Promises “We Shall Win or We Shall Die”
Big Four-Motored British Bombers
Smash At Krupp Works At Esser
UNDATED, March 27 (AP) — Giant four-engined
British bombers, perhaps 250 strong, carrying two
tons of explosives, smashed Germany’s great Krupp
munitions works and other Nazi war founderies in the
Ruhr, last night, pressing the spring aerial offensive,
in one of the heaviest assaults of the war.
» By daylight, RAF fighter planes beat off a retalia
tory German thrust turning the raiders back after a
brief fight high over the English southeast coast.
The Air Ministry said a huge bomber force concen
trated on Essen, home of the Krupp works, striking
in squadron after squadron. They also pounded enemy
airdromes in German-occupied Holland, an oil refin
ery near Ghent, and the docks of LeHavre. The Air
Ministry acknowledged the loss of 13 bombers. The
German command said Nazi anti-aircraft gunners arid
night fighters shot down 16 raiders over western Ger
many. It was the second successive night of heavy
RAF assaults on the Ruhr industrial valley.
British quarters pointed out that the RAF’s at
tempts to flatten the Krupp works came just when
production of tanks and munitions are vitally needed
for Hitler’s spring offensive, and as Europe stirred
uneasily in anticipation of Hitler’s next move.
A London Daily Mail dispatch, quoting reports from
Berlin, said King Boris of Bulgaria agreed o break off
f relations with Russia, under German pressure, and to
supply Hitler with 200,000 troops. ‘'Bulgarian divi
sions are moving toward the southern frontier, par
ticularly in the lower Maritze Valley,” the dispatch
said, indicating a threat to British-allied, but still neu
tral Turkey.
Aerial Blows Range From Arctic
Port Murmansk To Ruhr and Dover
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UNDATED, March 26 (AP) — Tempestuous aerial
blows ranging from Murmansk in the Arctic to Ger
many’s industrial Ruhr and the white cliffs of Dover,
were reported.
On the Russian front, Soviet dispatches told the
story of mounting German slaughter along the vast
battle line, while a bulletin from Hitler’s headquarters
acknowledged a fresh wave of Red Army assaults.
During the night RAF warplanes “very heavily
bombed-’ German war foundries in the Ruhr. The Lon
don air ministry said they pounded the German U-boat
base at St. Nazaire on the Nazi-occupied French coast.
The magnitude of the offensive was indicated by the
air ministry’s report that 11 bombers were lost.
Vichy reported that RAF planes also stormed Paris
in a 90-minute pamphlet raid warning that they were
returning to bomb French factories working for Hit
* ler’s military machine.
The Nazis said German night raiders attacked Do
ver, on the southeast English coast, inflicting “great
-damage” on military installations.
Soviet dispatches reported that 66 German planes
raided the Arctic Circle port of Murmansk, the key
Soviet base for arrival of U. S. war supplies. More
than a hundred planes, raiders and defenders, fought
over the city at one time. Eleven German planes were
reported downed.
* NEW DEMAND
IS SEEN FOR
SOCIAL WORKERS
New Orleans, March — A
great increase in the de
mand for social workers as
a result of the war is seen
by Dr. Elizabeth Wisner,
dean of the Tulane univer
sity school of social work.
“Already numerous so
g eial workers from Tulane
university have gone into
* defense or wartime jobs,”
she said. “It was during
the last war that social
work received its impetus
as a profession, and the
problem created by this
war probably will cause a
great upswing again.”
Dr. Wisner, a former
medical research worker
with the American Red
Cross, said morale prob
lems among men in the
army, which were among
the greatest social workers
had to deal with before the
war, should virtually dis
appear now.
Units Of lap
Fleet Reported
In Indian Ocean
New Delhi, Mar. 27 (AP)
— The nremnce of surface
units of the Jap fleet in the
Indian Ocean was disclos
ed in a British commun
inue from Burma whwre
J’P troops are said contin
uing heavy pressure a"
a'nst Chm^se forces cut off
but stdi h, ddin To’ *' oo
on 1!; H n m-M' n ’ala •
road. Tim report said a Jan
anese cru'cer and several
des‘r vers were sighted on
era ting in waters around
the Jaoane:-e-se'7 11 Anda
man islands, within strik
ing distance of the scalane^
to Calcutta.
With the T'-rawadv front
still relatively ouiet, the
Chinese at Toung o are ap
parently bearing the brunt
of the land assault.
Japan Prepares
To Be Bombed
San Francisco, March 2d
— Reports from the Tokyo
radio indicates that Japan
has begun to prepare for
the bombing of her own
cities. The Japanese rad'
declared that all new budo
ings will be bomb-proof
and that present structures
will be fire-proofed.
2 Japs Bomb
Port Moresby
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0 nborra. March 27 (AP)
- Two Jap bombers gave
’bit Moresby its 20th raid
1 !-t one was downed in
H mes by allied fighter
planes, and the other was
(riven off before c-using
w damage. The attack on
■' s i' c• • allied outpost on
i' e south coast of New
nca was annoim-ad in a
mmunh us which disclos
It’.. U. S : n ’ Vrstral
:wn b nibors struck anew
Jap - seized
1 e an Dutch Timor. The
mnr.”iV'ue said the at
ta "1' with driven home de
ep be bad weather.
Raiders Attack
torrcgidor
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The V/ar Dept, reported
that 54 heavy Japanese
bombers participated in a
s'x-hour attack on 'he is
land fnrts at the entrance
to M nila Bay. eoncentrat
ing on C rregidor. Defend
in" an'-aircraft batteries
downed four ph nes.
Defending 'c or ps suffer
' 1 a few casualties but the
! in ’gp ' ' -ue fortifications
was slight Skirmishes
were ’’eoorted all along the
entire Bataan front.
DEPUTY COMMANDER GREETS MacARTHUR
W' . - •> .-A-TA-v-y. :• iM •irraiiminiinii__
General Douglas MacArthur (center), arriving in Mel
bourne from Adelaide left the railroad station with his
deputy supreme commander Lieut. Gen. George H.
Grett (right). This picture was radioed from Mel
bourne to London and from London to New York.
MacArthur Pledges !o Australians:
“We Shall Win or We Shall Die"
CANBERRA, March 26 (AP) — Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur pledged tonight that “There can be no com
promise—We shall win or we shall die. To this end
I pledge you the full resources, all the mighty power
of my country, and all the blood of my countrymen.”
At the height of a historic dinner with the House of
Parliament, the first American commander ever to
lead the united forces of the United States and Aus
tralian troops, declared his confidence in the “unbreak
able faith of a free man." In victory, he declared,
“There’s a link which binds our countries together. I
come as a soldier on a great crusade for personal lib
erty as opposed to perpetual slavery. My faith in ouf
ultimate victory is invincible.”
Churchill Asserts Allies Cannot Lose
War Except Thru Their Own Fault
LONDON, March 26 (AP)—Prime Minister Church
ill declared the Allies “cannot lose this war except
through our own fault or our own failure to use
our combined overwhelming strength, or to use out
multiplying opportunities as they present themselves
to us.” Addressing the annual meeting of the central
council of the National Union of Conservative Union
ist Associations, his political party, he said “I cannot
offer any guarantee that we are at the end of our mis
fortunes. It would be foolish for us not to be prepared
for further heavy blows. But, just as last year I warn
ed you we couldn’t have successes uncheckered by re
verses, so now in 1942 we need not expect to have
reverses unrelieved by successes.”
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Manila Bay Fortifications Under
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Almost Continuous Jap Attacks
WASHINGTON, March 27 (AP) — The War De
partment reported that the Japanese are increasing
intensely their aerial bombardment of the Manila Bay
harbor defenses and made seven successive atacks on
Corregidor in the past 24 hours. The island was under
bombardment almost continuously from early morning
until midnight Thursday. The aerial attacks were re
sumed early today, the Department said, but most of
the bombs fell into the bay and those which struck
the island caused little damage. Anti-aircraft fire is be
lieved to have hit several planes.
In Bataan, there were a number of sharp clashes be
tween patrol troops. Truck movements behind the Jap
anese lines indicated increased activity is expected. A
patrol of American and Philippine troops made a suc
cessful raid on strong enemy positions.
The arrival of President Quezon and members of
the Philippine war cabinet in Australia was also re
ported in the communique which said since the war
started, Quezon has occupied joint headquarters with
MacArthur, cooperating closely with him. This ar
rangement is being continued with the approval of
the American and Australian governments.
Testifies Standard Oil Co. Turns Over
Nazis New Synthetic Rubber Formula
WASHINGTON, March 26 (AP) — Thurman Ar
nold, Assistant Attorney General, testified that the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey had developed
a synthetic rubber, cheaper, better and more plenti
ful than any the Nazi had but turned it over to Gen
man interests before the United States entered the war.
He told the Senate Defense Investigating Commit
tee that, until a consent decree was entered yesterday,
Standard “held back, even in this rubber shortage,"
in making patents on this synthetic product, available
to American rubber companies. He also testified that
charter arrangements between Standard and the I.
G. Farben industries of Germany “was the principal
cause of our present shortage of synthetic rubber."