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Wartime
Advertising
British government depart
ments have spent for newspaper
and poster advertising a total of
2,568,800 pounds since the start
of the war in September, 1939,
says the World’s Press News of
London for June 19, The informa
tion came in response to a re
quest by Lady Astor in Parlia
ment for full data on the govern
ment's publicity and public rela
tions activities. The largest de
partmental expenditures were
for the National Savings cam
paign the Food campaign, and a
series by the Ministry of Informa
tion, the total of these three hav
ing been more than 1,600.000
pounds.
The Parliamentary answers
gave no information as to the ef
fectiveness of the advertising,
but the success of the British
war finance and food-rationing
efforts to date should indicate
that the advertising did the job
expected of it.
The use of advertising by the
British has been continuous since
the war's beginning. It has not
been a subsidy to newpapers la
boring under unimaginable di
fficulties. It has been advertis
ing directed to purposes as spec
ific as any peace-time sales ef
fort, and the total amount spent
in nearly two years represents
about onesixth of the total daily
cost of the war to the British
people.
Advertising proved in the last
war it can be among the most
formidable weapons of any na
tion, especially any democratic
nation.—Editor and Publisher.
FLORIDA SENATOR SAYS
ARMY SERVICE MAY BE
FOR TEN YEARS
WASHINGTON. Aug. — Sen
ator Claude Pepper, Democrat of
Florida, in an address in the Sen
ate urged an unlimited exten
sion of all Army terms and warn
ed against giving citizens soldiers
false hopes of an early return
home. Said Pepper:
“There is this to be said about
these boys: They will be in the
Army at least five years, and
maybe 10. and maybe a genera
tion. The man lies, consciously or
unconsciously, to the youth of
America who would give them
♦lope that the struggle is not
growing worse with the passing
of each sad hour.”
The Florida senator said Hit
ler was reaching with greedy
tentacles to the east and west
and may soon have the contin
ent of North America encircled.
Pepper asked the Senate to
quit "dilly dallying and quibbl
ing” about six, 12 or 18 months’
extension of Army terms. He
spoke as a divided Administra
tion leadership considered behind
ttie scenes a proposal for the ex
tension of Army terms for a
maximum of 12 months.
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Current Comments
From Washington
Probably the Washington mon
ument, rising 555 feet above the
level of the Potomac plain,
would be quite as impressive if
its aluminum cap piece were re
placed by one of copper. It
might even get along with no cap
at all. Yet the suggestion that
the metal be put to war uses,
points to a state of mind that
can be designated as “slopping
over.” During the American Rev
olution, a leaden statue of King
Geergo was melted down and
cast into bullets. The country is
far from being reduced to such
an extremity in 1941. Sound
judgement calls for every sane
effort to put Hitler where he be
longs; but it summons the citi
zen to refrain from any act tend
ing to make it appear that the
Nazi sowing of the seeds of fear
is bringing forth the desired har
vest on this side of the Atlantic.
During the first World War,
there was a slogan or rallying
cry which ran: “America Must
Become Ship Minded.” The word
to get vessels afloat, and to do so
quick'y, has gone forth again.
With about half of the year 1941
off the calendar, the United Stat
es has almost 900 merchant craft
under contract, or in process of
building.
It should not be supposed that
there is room for spick and span
onljn In a Maine harbor, there
lay for many years, a fleet of
Jarge schooner supposedly of so
little value that one of them was
knocked down by the auctioneer
for $225, and another for $870.
In the quiet of a recent Sunday
afternoon, a tug took them in
tow and. pulled them away to be
reconditioned as barges. Before
this war business is over, per
haps a man, a building, a ship
or a tool will have to reach the
full three score and ten before
being placed definitely on the re
tired list.
Among those , who cautiously
cast an eye in the direction of
inflation, there is a group which
believes that the land can get
along with a smaller silver dol
lar. It is said that a rose under
any other “name would be as
sweet. Perhaps, by a converse
line of reasoning, a “cartwheel”
the size of a quarter would re
main a cartwheel still.
Mordecai Ezekial, economic ad
viser to the Secretary of Agri
culture: “Business men just can’t
look ahead.”
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside,’ using Sour
dough Stationery. They’ll get a
big kick out of it.
DEFENSE /\ T T t rw
BOND
Q. In what denominations are Defense Savings
Stamps available?
A. Ten cents, 25 cents, 50 cents. $1, and $5. An
album is given free with first stamp purchase to
mount stamps of 25 cents up.
Q. In what denominations are Defense Savings
Bonds available?
A. You can buy a Series E Bond for $18.75,
$37.50, $75, $375, or $750. The price of Series F
Bonds range from $74 to $7,400; Series G Bonds
, from $100 to $10,000. ^
Note.—To purchase Defense Bonds and Stamps,
go to the nearest post office or bank, or write
for information to the Treasurer of the United
j States, Washington, D. C.
Nazi Action
In Argentina
Meets Rebuff
BUENOS AIRES, Argentine —
Latin American action against
Nazi influence in the Western
Hemisphere increased today as
two German diplomats were
shown that their doorsteps point
home and a third is under fire
with a fourth note for hampering
anti-Axis cooperation with the
United States.
Although Mexico has rejected
the German request that she pro
test to President Roosevelt over
the blacklist of pro-Axis isms in
Latin America, diplomatic quar
ters in Buenos Aires said Argen
tina intended to withhold sup
port to the U. S. black-list.
Chile, which is housing ousted
German Minister to Bolivia, Er
nest Wendler, until a Japanese
ship arrives to take him away,
ordered the German Consul Gen
eral at Valparaiso out of the coun
try for the second time. Wend
ler is accused of complicity in
p’ans for a Bolivian putsch.
,Chile charged the Consul Gen
eral with falsifying passports to
help crewmen of the scuttled bat
tleship Admiral Graf Spee escape
internment in Argentina. He has
overstayed the time originally
alloted him to wind up his af
fairs.
In Argentina the Foreign Office
after answering repeated Ger
man protests of the seizure of a
portable radio transmitter car
ried in a plane from the German
Legation in Peru to the German
Embassy in Argentina as a “dip
lomatic outrage,” suddenly* de
manded the Germans either re
export the set or destroy it.
U. S. AID TO RUSSIA
IS U^DER WAY
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. —
The United States, it was learned
has unfrozen millions of dollars
worth of Soviet goods from this
country.
This presumable flow of Ameri
can supplies to Russian fighting
forces has already begun.
Amounts of the goods sent and
details of shipments were undis
closed on grounds that they are
.military secrets, but officials in
dicated they constituted an im
portant beginning to further ship
ments.
How materials are moving to
Russia was unrevealed, but it is
promised that “favorable consid
eration” will be given Russian re
quests for an extension of avail
able American shipping facilities,
presumably transports, across
the Pacific to Vladivostok. In
addition, Russia is said to have
eight or ten vessels normally op
era-ting between American ports
and Vladivostok.
—
Army Air Staff
Is Organized
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WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
Headquarters of the Army Air
Farces, including a separate Air
Staff organized on conventional
general staff lines, has been form
ed as a result of the recent re
organization of the Army Air'
Corps, the War Department an-|
nounced today.
The Headquarters of the Army
Air Forces consist of the follow
ing:
1. The Chief of the Army Air
Forces, Major General Henry H.
Arnold, who also is Deputy Chief
of Staff for Air.
2. The Chief of the Air Staff,
Erigadier General Cary Spaatz.
■*5. The Air Staff.
4 The Air Inspector, Brigadier
General Herbert A. Dargue.
5. The Air Adjutant General,
Lieutenant Colonel William W.
Dick.
As Chief of the Air Staff Gen
eral Spaatz will coordinate all
activities of the Headquarters,
Army Air Forces, and will act as
the executive, the assistant and
the advisor to the Chief of the
Army Air Forces.
Overall Plans
The principal function of the
Air Staff consists of preparing
the essential oyer-all plans for
the Army Air Forces. Its operat
ing function are confined primar
ily to preparing those policies,
directives and instructions essen
tion in directing and coordinat
ing the activities of the major
components of the Army Air
Forces Staff functions of an op
erative nature that require the
fulfillment of detailed Army Air
Forces plans, are performed un
der the direction of the Com
manding General, Air Force Com
bat Command, and the Chief of
the Air Corps, by their respec
tive staffs.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME. AND VICINITY
Generally fair tonight and Saturday with variable cloudiness be
coming overcast Saturday afternoon. Cooler Saturday afternoon
with wind becoming light to fresh southwesterly, followed by a
few sprinkles of rain Saturday night.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 56 Lowest temp — 45 Precipitation — 0
Total precip this month — .65 Total since Jan. 1, 1941 — 4.16
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight- 46 97 NE 2 Cloudy
Bam-. 50 95 W 5 Pt Cldy
12:30 p m--. 53 88 W 15 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 3:51 a. m. Sunset 8:lfl p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 59 Lowest temp — 52 Precipitation — .01