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By Preston Grover
WASHINGTON — To under
stand the recurring shakeups in
the Japanese government, keep
these factors in mind:
At the beginning of the “in
cident in China, Japanese leaders
confidently predicted the show
would be over in six months. In
stead it is running past the mid
die of the third year.
In those three years every Jap
anese has had to work harder,
and now all are getting less for
their work than when this con
quest of great Chinese resources
started.
A half million Japanese have
been killed or wounded. A mil
lion more are in the field. In a
constant stream they move from
their homes; often nothing comes
back but ashes of the dead.
Domestic discontent with the
situation has caused cabinet af
ter cabinet to fall. Yet each new
cabinet finds exactly the same
old problems that caused the fall
of the last. They must raise more
and more money to conduct a
war in China. And the war looks
less and less like victory.
The Army Rules
Nobody in Japan or America is
fooled when the Japanese Army
leadersip claims it is not the mo
tive power behind the govern
ment. Nevertheless, army author
ities go through the motion of
keeping the army from assuming
active leadership of the cabinet.
General Nobuyuki Abe, retiring
premier, was not on the army ac
tive list. And in his place was
appointed Admiral Yonai of the
navy.
Washington observers found
that was significant because the
army must operate through a
navy premier, and the navy in
Japan traditionally has pursued
a broader policy than the army.
And how may the cabinet
shake-up affect U. S.-Japanese re
lations? ;
It is remotely possible the gov
ernment shakeup, coming as it
does on the heels of several re
cent similar shakeups, may be
the turning point toward a shift
lit the Japanese objective -in
China. Despite Japanese protests
1 to the contrary, it is taken as a
substantial fact that the Japan
1 ese aim in China is the displace
ment of foreign interests.
Another prospect is that the
Japanese will employ different
methods in China, even if their
: objective is not changed. The
domestic discontent in Japan, to
gether with such pressure as the
United States may apply during
I its negotiations for a new treaty
1 to replace the one we are end
ing, could easily awaken Japan
to the need of a change of meth
ods.
Some "Methods"
The objectional “methods," as
! outlined by American observers,
include:
First: Army authorities in
China act as if Japan were al
ready sovereign there, even
though they claim they have no
plans for a permanent conquest.
Second: Japan has substituted
a flat currency of her own in
China advantageous to herself
but potentially harmful to for
eign traders, who can never be
certain from one day to the next
that it will be worth anything.
Third: Exchange is manipulat
ed to the advantage of the Jap
anese.
Fourth: Japanese trade monop
dies, or virtual monopolies, are
fostered as "military necessities."
Fifth: Civilians are abused by
army authorities.
Sixth: Americans deny there
is any “military necessity" for!
the noisome barricades such as
are enforced in such points as
Tientsin. Their purpose, as view
ed here, is simply to humiliate
foreigners in line with the ul
timate purpose of ridding China
of them.
“SKY PILOT" IS
REALLY A SKY PILOT
Paul Benjamin Franklin Carl
son is a "sky pilot" in more ways
than one.
The 35-year-old ordained min
ister of the Evangelical Mission
Covenant Church of America, In
corporated, flew to his home at
Candle, recently with his brand
new private pilot’s license in his
pocket.
Only “Flying Parson"
In a land where dentists fly
their own p'anes to the doorsteps
of anxious patients and lawyers
hop like swallows from court
house to courthouse, the Rev.
Paul Carlson is at present the on
ly sky pilot with his own "wings"
A native of Duluth, Minnesota,
Missionary Carlson is a product
of the public schools of Palo, Min
nesota, Minnehaha Academy of
Minneapolis, and three pears of
seminary study at North Park
College, Chicago. He was ordain
ed in June of 1937,
His earliest aeronautical train
ing was taken at Lake Street Air
port. Elmhurst, 111., and complet
ed in Fairbanks under instruct
ors Bill Lavery and Richard C.
Ragle.
Aerial Visitations
The missionary whose wife
awaited him in Candle, flies a
three-place Fairchild 24 which
was shipped to Name and flown
to Fau^oanks with Carlson as
passenger by Pilot Maurice King.
A little more than a month later
he returned to Candle himself at
the controls.
The plane is owned by the Ev
angelical Mission Covenant
Church of America, and will be
used by Carlson in his visits to
outposts of the denomination in
Alaska.
He was granted his pilot’s li
cense by Civil Aeronautics Auth
| ority Inspector Charles R. Bur
nett upon successful completion
of the prescribed flight examina
1 tion,
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DOZENBERG SENTENCED
TO JAIL FOR ONE YEAR
NEW YORK—Nicholas Dozen
berg, one-time Soviet army in
telligence agent, was sentenced ■
to a year and a day in the fed-1
eral prison on his guilty plea
some weeks ago on an indictment
charging him with the use of two
passports obtained by fraudulent
statements.
Federal Judge Mandelbaum re
jected the recommendation of
United States Attorney Cahill
that he be sentenetd to two and
or.e-half years after Dozenberg
personally mane a plea for an
opportunity to "take my place in
American society as a loyal and
patriotic American citizen.”
He cooperated with the govern
ment as a key witness against
Earl Browder.
Qll ESTI 0 N tr ANSWER MAN—While personal In
come questions threaten the serenity of Uncle Sam’s 1940 census,
scheduled to start in April, consider Alaska census-takers who
rnust us* dog sleds, snow shoes and airplanes to hunt down the
farthest rabin and igloo. Here’s Enumerator Wm. F. Arend count
ing noses in Alaska, where the government allows six months
because of difficulties of the task.
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REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION
OF THE
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska
Located at Nome, Alaska. Territory of Alaska, at the close of
business on the 30th day of March, 1940.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts . . $ 287,631.79
Loans on real estate . . 110,429.02
Overdrafts ... 435.02
United States bonds owned ... 185.555.32
Other bonds and warrants owned .. 220,383.88
Banking house, furniture and fixtures. 35,937.68
Other real estate owned ... 2,365.50
Checks on other banks and other cash items
Exchanges for clearing house .
Cash on hand and due from banks . 309,336.66
Other resources, judgements, claims, etc..
Expenses in excess of earnings .
Gold Bullion . 1,259.25
Fuel Oil ...;. 225.99
TOTAL.. $1,153,560.1!
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in ..... $100,000.00
Surplus fund ............ 25,000.00
Undivided profits less expenses paid . 99,619.32
Dividends declared but unpaid ............
Due to other- banks—deposits ....
Due to other banks—overdrafts ._......
Individual and savings deposits . 495.869.41
Demand and time certificates of deposit . 433,071.38
Cashier’s and certified checks .. ...
Notes and bills rediscounted ....-..
Bills payable (including certificates of deposit) for .
money borrowed .....
TOTAL.. $1,153,560.11
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )
Territory of Alaska, : ss:
Second Division. )
I, H. G. GABRIELSON, cashier of the above named bank, do
solemnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the beat
of my knowledge and belief..
H. G. GABRIELSON, Cashier
( NOTORIAL SEAL ) ( CORRECT ATTEST )
Subscribed and sworn to before me this IRA D. ORTON
2nd day of April, 1940. G. R. JACKSON
Directors
JEANNE C. MOZEE
Notary Public in and for the Territory of
Alaska. My commission expires Sept. 24, 1943.
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