Miners Patriotic and Anxious To
Work io Make Nation Strong
From Mining Record
Denver, Colo.
President Roosevelt t >ld his
radio listeners recently that the
United States has a serious siiort
age of metals. The large mining
companies have kept pace with
the added needs of the defense
program, but serious handicaps
to development of prospect prop
erties has not brought new pro
ducing mines into production as
was the case before federal laws
stopped their financing. Greater
cooperation between the govern
ment and the metal mining in
dustry is needed.
More favorable taxes should be
granted in the emergency, a 7
day working week should be em
ployed, prospectors should be er.
cuuraged. and new development
financing allow. 1, so that every
one will be able to get bade
into the industry and speed up
metal output.
IIow Wars Are Fought
Wars are fought with metals
and won with gold. The metal
mining industry of the West and
the nation is keyed up to a high
rate of production and now that
we are at war w th the tricky
Japs these mines will push out
put to the maximum.
The preparedness program
that has been under way in the
mining districts of the United
States and Alaska is probably
the greatest in world history.
The U. S. Bureau of Mines and
the U. S. Geological Survey have
done good work in recent months
assisting in the nation’s strategic
metals program.
Metal Mining Operations
The shock .that the United S!at
es received has started more ag
gressive metal mining operations
in our western states so that the
supply of metals will be suffic
lent for our expanded armament
program.
Patriotism has never before
* :! 'b i the high p tch that was
n 'd :n the mini g districts of
the West tills week. The Mining
H ’"ord has been informed bv
many corre-p indents in our west
em metal mining regons that
never has there been such anger
displayed as was noted over the
dastardly attack of the Japs on
our possessions in the Pacific.
Miners Want to Join l’p
Thousands of miners want to
join up and get a crack at the
A iiatic tricksters but they realize
that meta's are needed to bring
victory to the United States in
the battles ahead. Everyone
wants to do his part; the part
being played by metal miners
and oil field workers is vital to
the equipment of the army and
navy and supplying our forces
I with power and munitions. The
j miners will do their bit under
! ground, blasting out ore tonnage
so that steel plants and muni
tions works will have sufficient
| strategic metals.
The min ng industry of the
United States is better equipped
| than is that of any other mining
| region of the world. Miners are
! better adapted to their work in
j our western districts and are sup
(pied with most modern equip
ment.
Have Efficient Equpiment
Mills and smelters have effic
! lent equipment with methods
! and machinery developed in the
United States. Miners are patriot
ic and will when nieeded use ev
ery day of the week and every
available hour to get out the
, met a s to win the wars that have
been thrust upon our nation. As
I a matter of fact many miners
( prefer to work seven days a
! week.
BRITISH SUBMARINE ACES
Back from duty in the Arctic, Commander G. IVI. Sladen (left)
of the British submarine Trident and Commander II. F. Bone of
the Submarine Tigris, exchange handshakes in London in thif
cablephoto. Their craft were credited with sinking of at least 8
Axis supply ships in Arctic waters on the route to Russia’s Mur
^ nuin.sk front.
DEFENSE /if f 7
BOND V '' * ^
Q. How does the Government feel about people
who redeem their Defense Savings Bonds?
A. If the circumstances made it necessary for peo
ple to draw on the savings represented by the
♦ money they have loaned to the Government
for National Defense, that is their privilege in
the purely voluntary Defense Savings effort,
but of course you can’t spend your Bond and
have it too.
Q. May the owner of a Defense Savings Bond sell
it or give it away?
A. No. Defense Savings Bonds are not transfer
able. Owners are permitted to redeem them
prior to maturity in case they -want or need
to do so.
^ Note.—-To buy Defense Bonds and Stamps, go to
the nearest post office, bank, or savings and loan
* • association; or write to the Treasurer of the
United States, Washington, D. C.,
Ketchikan Japan
ese Pledge Loyalty
To United States
"This is our country. We wan*
to help."
In t - tse eight words. J. K. Tat
*u'!a, pioneer Japanese resident
of Ketchikan, oxpre-sed what he
firmly believes to bo the concen
sus of this city's Japanese colony.
Pointing out that long-time
Japanese residents here have
. "gradual'y learned to love this
country as our >wn," he said the
a 11 eg ance of the local Japanese
colony 'is to the United States
and to no other country.”
M Tat«uda acted as spokes
man for the Japanese in Ketchi
kan in issuing a statement on
the r attitude toward the United
States Japanese war, and his re
marks were supported by other
fecal Japanese.
One of them, B W. Ohasi, who
has been in Ketchikan for 31
years, .-aid, "It is very unfortun
ate it happened, but we can’t do
anything about it. However, we
want to help the United States as
much as possible."
Another G. Suzuki, in Ketchi
kan for 27 years, said that as
soon as it was possible for him
to do so, he presented hmself be
fore Commander F. A. Zeusler at
Coast guard heaquarters and of
fered his cooperation in way for
defense of the Uniled States. He
believes that other Japanese here
feel the same as he does, and he,
like the others, hopes that the
rest of the people of Ketchikan
understand his position.
Mr. Tat sad a. who has been in
Ketchikan for 36 years and has
operated, a grocery store for the
past quarter-century, said that
there are 42 Japanese in the Jap
anese colony here, nine of them
business men, either other ad
ults and 25 children.
He and Mrs. Tatsuda have two
sons in the army, both at Chil
koot Barracks. They are Charles
and Jimmy, both of whom are
graduates of Ketchikan high
school. Another local Japanese
boy in the army is Patrick Hagi
wara, also a Kayhi graduate.
In the years past, he said, the
Japanese here had what was
known as the Japanese associa
tion, but that was primarily to
teach the Japanese language and
customs to the Japanese children
so they would not completely
lose ties with the homeland of
their parents. The Japanese asso
ciation was disbanded several
. years ago, he said.
Mr. Tatusda's statment to the
press on the positon of the local
Japanese, also signed by Mr.
Ohashi and approved by the oth
• or Japanese business men, is as1
' follows:
^ "The Japanese people of Ket
chikan are deeply concerned
about the grave situation which
has arisen between this country
and Japan. Many of us have
lived here for 20-30 years and
have gradually learned to love
this country as our own. We h ive
raised our children to become
good American citizens; we have
given our sons to the army of
this country. Our allegi mce is to
the United States and to no oth
er country.
"We are very grateful for all
! the opportunities that this coun
! try has given us. We sincerely
wish to cooperate with all the
loyal citizens of the United Slat
es in doing our utmost to pre
serve this country and the ideate
for which it stands."
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SANDBAG TELEPHONE BUIL )ING IN SAN FRANCISCO
Workmen were busy in Sail Francisco raising a b .Tirade ol 3,000 'andhags around the long di»
lance building of the Telephone company as a p ateetiwi against possible bomb damage.
SOLDIERS GUARD SHIPYARDS IN STRIKE
Soldiers with fixed bayonets took up guard duty at eight San Francisco bay area shipyards as in -
dependent weldors put out picket lines in an inter union dispute. There solders and pickets were
at the Western Pipe and Steel Company’s plant.
BREN GIN CARRIER SPEEDS INTO LIBYA
A British Bren gun carrier (top) is guided through a barbed wire fence into Libya and (bottom)
sprieds along a highway in Libya, according to British sources, as the British made prel.i
maneuvers for their campaign.