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If Japan
Aids Germany
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If Japan decides to break her
non-aggression pact with Russia
and plunges in to aid Germany,
she will have plenty to do to
avert a possible disastrous en
circlement.
Already war-weary and well
worn down fighting China for
four years, she still would have
that most populous of all nations
hanging on her main Asiatic
Hank. On the north would be the
Russian fleet and forces, out of
Vladivostoek. To the south the
British fleet basing at Singapore.
If Japan defy the Netherlands
Indies and they come in. they
will bring another fleet not to
be sneezed at. If America becom
es involved, another —and most
powerful of all forces in the
Pacific—will have to be reckoned
with.
Thus looms the possibility of
Japan finding her self in the cen
ter of a circle bound by five re
sourceful and powerful nations.
If she keep out of the noose she
may make herself a lasting fact
or for peace in the Pacific and
assure her status as an enduring
empire of the Orient.
The militarists of Japan may
insist on putting in with Ger
many with hopes of vast spoils or
to save face, but they h3ve the
chance and a good deal more to
save if they will realize the peril
of their position and refuse to be
the goat for sake of far-off Europ
eon conspirators who have no
thing to offer in return and who
know no need but their own in
satiable ambitions.
— Fairbanks News-Miner
1,395 Planes In
Five Months
Many Americans have been
wondering how many airplanes
have been sent to the British by
the United States.
We have no available informa
tion upon the total number of
planes that have been produced
in this country for British use
but the Office of Production Man
■agement reorts that the produc
tion of aircraft for the first five
months of 1941 was as follows:
1,036. 972. 1.216, 1.389 and 1,334.
This adds up to 5,947 airplanes
made in this country in the pres
ent year.
Figures published in the U. S.
News show that during these five
months the British received 1.392
airplanes from the United States.
This leaves available for our use
for for shipment ' elsewhere,
4,555 planes. Obviously, the Brit
ish are not receiving all of the
planes that are produced in the
United States.
\Sar Heads
Toward Siberia
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Daily war bulletins bristle
with contradictory reports from
the Russo-German front. Both1
sides claim victories and tremen-l
dous slaughter and destruction of
enemy forces. But, the fact re-1
mains the Russians are fighting
on the defensive and Germany
has sliced off strips of Russian
territory here and there as much!
as 150 miles deep.
Stalin desperately calls for the:
Russian people to devastate the,
country behind them, leaving a'
burned and parched path in their,
wake. If Russia pursues these tac1
tics long she will be able to with
draw to the Urals and still have
all Siberia behind her. But can
she do this and stiil retain an ef
fective major fighting machine, j
And can Germany penetrate all
European Russia, maintaining
connections, providing supplies,
bringing up sufficient tanks, plan
es and man power, to retain her
prestige.
If she can perform this mod
ern miracle, will Siberia, with its
vast stretch become the ultimate
theater of conflict. If so the con
quering horde will be right at
the front door of Alaska—step
ping stone into the heart of the
American continent.
The Russians are said to have
been moving vital munitions in
dustries back from their western
front, making the Urals their in-]
dustrial center.
Oil fields of the Volga area and
grain of the Ukraine and other
vast areas are dec'ared the main
immediate German objectives.
If the Russians continue to fall
back, they doubtless will make
an inferno of these supply sourc
es.
If forced back to the Urals.
Russia has 5,00) miles across Si
beria stiil back of her—spanned
by the trans-Siberian railway.
Observers have said that who-;
ever controls the railroad con
trols Siberia.
Two thirds of the might and
the industries of Russia are said
to lie in old Russia, west of the
Urals. If the Russians abandon
that, will they be able to retain
an effective resistance.
Germany, with highly trained
military leaders appreciating the
advantages of aggressive war
fare, keeping the war and devas
tation away from their own coun
try, are not hesitating to follow
up their gains, far as they may
be from their original base. But
remembr the fate that such a
policy visited on Napoleon when
he was balked at Moscow to re
treat in one of the most disaster
ous reverses of history.
—Fairbanks News-Miner
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Gasoline-Less Sundays Are
Possible In The East, It Is
However, lip To Motorist
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON. Ju'y — Try
ing to put you finger on exactly
what is going to happen to you
and me as result of priorities, na
tional defense shortages and
even temporary bottlenecks is
like trying to pick feathers from
• he wing of a busy humming
bird.
Not long ago at a press confer
ence Interior Secretary and oil
czar Harold L. Iekes was asked
if he be'ieved we would really
have gasoline-less Sundays. His
■ answer was that in the East we
might have to forego pleasure
driving altogether.
A few days later. Russell E.
Singer, general manager of the
American Automobile Associa
tion, said the American Petrol
1 cum Institute estimated that be
; cause of transportation problems
, peculiar to the eastern seaboard,
we would have to get along on
j about 15 percent less gasoline
' this year: BUT. said Mr. Singer,
if eastern motorists would just
cut down their driving speed,
quit making "jackrabbit get
aways” in city traffic, have their
ears adjusted for maximum con
i sumption and use a few other
; simple rules of conservation,
1 they could cut gasoline consump
tion 20 percent and forget all
about gasoline-less Sundays, post
poned vacation, and all other
kind of restrictions.
; These two views on a situa
tion are. so far as the individual
; is concerned, at variance with
each other, yet either of them
could come true.
Campaign May Save It
I talked with experts in the
Office of Production Manage
ment, the Commerce, Interior
and Agriculture departments,
and the sum of it seems to be
1 that somewhere between these
; lies what’s around the corner for
you and Neighbor Doakes and
me.
The gasoline situation is local
! iz.ed to one section of the coun
; try, but it illustrates the point
; well. If enough people wage a
' conservation campaign by doing
I the things Mr. Singer suggests
and perhaps walking a couple of
blocks to the corner drugstore
! and back instead of hopping in
I the old buggy, there may be few
or no restrictions whatever.
Eve n now, in Washington, a cam
P'ign i3 being readied to bring
this about. If the campaign is a
fizz e. then the restrictions will
have to be made by law or ex
ecutive order.
One great shortage that is al
ready with us is in aluminum.
There is NO aluminum available
fer articles for civilian consump
tion, we are to d. But does that
mean there will be no refrigera
tors, pots and pans, vacuum bot
tles. milk pails, marimbas, and a
thousand and one other alum
inum things? No. it means simply
that all these things will be made
of something else — plastics,
glass, enamel-ware, porcelain —
but mostly plastics.
Gano Dunn, OPM, expert, has
estimated the 1941 steel short
age at 1.400.000 tons and a deficit
of 6.400.00 tons is forecast for
next year. But 75 percent of the
nation's steel consumption now
is civilian consumption. That
means that national defense will
have to dip into that 75 percent
to make up the shortage. We'll
have to drive the old car a few
months longer and again take
ether metals and plastics instead
of steel.
Substitutes, Not “Ersatz"
The Research Institute of Am
erica recently made a survey of
substitution possibilities in all
materials where shortages might
develop. Rep. Homer D. Angell
of Oregon filed this report with
the House. It included everything
from fiber for leather in foot
ball helmets, and white metal for
nicket in clarinets, to glass and
plastic for brass doorknobs.
The report also included a sur
vey of what Nazi Germany has
done along this line (this does
not include “ersatz” or simulated
materials — merely substitutes).
A few of them are interesting:
glass wool for asbestos; glass and
porcelain for copper in beer
brewing equipment; pressed
glass for washboards and fish net
weights; poplar wood for bottle
ccrks; and whale whiskers and
hair for pig bristles.
The way experts sum it up,
shortages in this country will
mean substitution and conserva
tion, with good chances that in
conveniences resulting from the
latter will not be more than tern
porary, if the consuming public
cooperates.
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Wyoming Democrat, honorary doctor of laws degree.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Steady light rain will continue tonight and early Saturday morn
ing, followed by partly cloudy skies with occassionl light show
ers. Wind will remain southerly with slowly decreasing velocity.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 50 Lowest temp — 46 Precipitation — .25
Total precip this month — 1.16 Total since Jan. 1, 1941 — 3.35
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight_____ 47 92 SW 22 Raining
Bam__- 49 94 S 26 Raining
12:30 p m___- 49 93 • S 16 Raining
Tomorrow: Sunrise 2:38 a. m. Sunset 9:35 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 50 Lowest t emp — 46 Precipitation — T