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Hikers Stranded j
On Way North
Six Americans, including two
infants and two women, who at
tempted to hike from the United
Slates through the glacier torn
wilderness of British Calumbia
end Alaska to Skagway were
stranded at Telegraph Creek, B.
C., Department of Welfare offic
ials at Juneau were informed.
A message from Sergt. O. L.
Tall of the British Columbia Po
lice to Russell G. Maynard, Terri
torial Welfare Director, said an
other member of the party, Miss
ir.da Harris of Arizona, had been
left behind at the Beirnes Ranch
at Hazleton, B. C.
Unable to go on further, be
cause “they are destitute and im
properly equipped for walking at
this time of the year,” according
to Sergeant Hall’s te egram, are:
Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Pencovic
and two infant children, Salt
Lake City, Utah.
Ruth Ellis, also of Salt Lake
City, and
Ernest Griffith, Phoenix, Ariz.
Sergeant Hall's message re
quested information as to pos
sible relief measures from Alas
kan funds but Maynard replied
that inasmuch as the hikers are
not within the Territory, their
cases should be referred to the
welfare departments of Utah and
Arizona.
Sergeant Hall did not say why
the party had attempted the al
most impossible trip or what the
point of origin was.
RUSH AID TO
RUSSIA IS DEMAND
LONDON, Sept. 18 — Author
itative sources declared that
“Great Britain and the United
States must quickly pour a Ni
agara of war supplies into Russia
•to make up for Soviet losses and
prevent a turn against the na
tion’s allies in the greatest bat
tle in history.”
The present conflct between
Russia and Germany is now sway
ing first one way and then an
other, this source said, and Hit
ylcr may possibly launch a new
offensive and if Russia does not
get equipment and weapons,
might be forced to lay down
arms.
This authority said first that
the “whole history of the world
turns on the outcome of the pre
sent battle,” saying that avail
able data showed at the end of
August 2,000,000 German and
Russian casualties had been re
ported.
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England Can’t
Win War Alone
NEW YORK (Special Radio)—:
England, despite morale thatj
passes all comprehension, cannot ’
win its war against Gremany
alone and the greater Reich is in
no danger of collapse, except on
the field of battle and that cannot
occur without all-out American
participation. John T. Whitcomb,
correspcndmt who correctly pre
dieted both Italy’s invasion of
Greece and Germany's turnabout
against Russia, declared in a spec
ial interview today.
“No war was ever won on the
defensive,” said Whitaker. “Eng
land’s greaest strength is 59 di
j visions against 280 for Germany.
' Divisions win wars. Hitler can
! not be licked except militarily. It
is obvious that, granted a nazi tri
umph in eastern Europe, Gcr
' many's armed power will be able
j to overwhelm that of the British.
1A military alliance with the Unit
l ed States is Britain’s only hope.”
i Whitaker, recenty back from a
month’s tour of British airdromes
1 defense plants, and devastated
■ areas in England, where he talk
ed with everybody of importance
' in governmental life, said that
unless the United Stales entered
the war soon, there was the pros
pect of conflict for 10 or 15 years
j with fhe direst consequences for
j the entire world,
j He said already the force of
(events presaged encirclement of
[both England the the United Stat
jes. It was foregone, he said, that
j Japan would soon announce its
I full military adhesion to the axis
|
| and that Spain and Portugal,
(with many nations of Latin Amer
| ican in tow, would be vortexed
into the nazi camp simultaneousy
■ or shortly thereafter.
| Hitler, Whitaker warned, con
i’temp ates a harder fight against
jthe United States than his gigan
| tic military machine has ever
I waged or expects to wage against
! England and its empire. He will
! exploit to the full all economic
and industrial resources of nazi
conquered and nazi-controlled
countries, hundreds of thousands
of whose factory workers have
been transferred to Germany for
war production.
ISOLATIONISTS
....Whitaker charged that Wheel
er, Lindbergh and Co. have done
more to force nations of the
world into Hitler’s arms than
could possibe be accomplished by
nazi intimidation and cajolery.
He said he could not understand
why those two isolationists did
not don the German uniform.
By their non-interventionist
agitation, these men, he said,
have encouraged disbelief every
where in American unity. Poli
ticians are able to urge their peo
pie to choose the victorious side,
that is, Germany, on the ground
that America is confused and un
ready.
Everything Wheeler and Lind
bergh say is played up by the
nazis in the German press and in
the newspapers of every country
within the Reich’s orbit. “Not a
peep of anything else,” said Whit
aker, “is allowed to reach those
publics. Nothing that is uttered
by Roosevelt or any other Ameri
can government official or pro
British politicians and citizen ev
er gets into print if it can pos
sble be helped.”
American debate on whether
to retain draftees more than a
year, Whitaker points out, fur
ther perplexes other nations
which looked for the United Stat
es for guidance.
Neither is America’s serious
ness of war effort conveyed to
Europeans who observe in Ameri
can magazines and newspapers
advertisements for luxury pro
ducts that deserve no priority in
wartime." Walk down the streets
of bombed towns,” he said, “and
try to conceive of appeasement
where rubble and death gapes
at you on every side.”
In his conversations with high
officials in every phase of British
life, Whitaker said he detected
not a glimmer of defeatism. This
resolution extended down the
ranks to the common people all
over the land. Those incredible
British don’t know when they
are beaten, he remarked to in
dicate their inflexible determina
tion.
Seal Pelts
Are Enroute
To St. Louis
Seal skins valued at apnroxi-'
mately $'1,600,000 w'll b ‘ brought
to Seattle from 'he Pribilnf Is
lands of B'ring Sea. according to
Kdward C. Johnston, superintend
ent of the Far Seal Division of
the United States Fish and Wild
ife Service, who returned from
the islands on^the motership Pen
gin.
A navy transport will bring
68.000 seal skins taken in the Pri
bilofs. The motorship Penguin
brought 27,000 skins. They will
be shipped to St. Louis, where
they will be sold at auction by
the Foukc Fur Company. At the
last sale in St. Louis, seal skins
brought $27.50 each.
Fine Weather in Islands
“We had fine weather, al
though it was very dry during
the season,” said Johnston. “The
■ take of 95,000 skins was 25,00
more than last year. We killed
only three-yearold males. There
wore more than 2.000,000 seals on
St. George and St. Paul Islands,
the Pribilofs, this year, in in
crease o fabout 7 per cent.”
Johnston said no difficulty was
encountered in hadling cargo as
a result of the favorable weather.
Lighters are used at St. Paul
Island and canvas boats at St.
George Island.
Natives Are Prosperous
Prosperous after a good seal
season, natives of the Pribilofs
are adopting American styles and
entertainment—from high-heeled
slippers to radio.
When the Penguin heads north
Seattle within a fortnight for the
last trip of the season, loaded to
the gunwales, a goodly portion <1f
the cargo' will be mail order
goods for the natives.
“They go strong for all the
feminine artic:es of apparel of
their white sisters down here,”
said Johnston. "They like the
highest heeled shoes and silk
stockings.
“Musical instruments and ra
dios also are in great demand,
i and no native house is complete
! without one to three radios and
| as many phonographs.”
Three Nations to Get Skins
Under international treaty, the
United States gets 70 percent of
the pelts, Japan 15 percent and
Canada 15 percent. The natives
kill seals under government su
pervision and get 60 to 75 cents,
for each.
Pribilof natives have modern
concerete houses, with electric
lights. They dress plainly ordin
ary, but the women revel in the
latest styles for parties and danc
es.
There are two main islands, St.
George and St. Paul, with at to-1
tal native population of about (
560.
ITALY DOWNHEARTED
Significant revelations were
made on' conditions in Italy
which Whitaker described as a
country “occupied by the nazis.” j
Whitaker recently was expelled
from Italy for writing dispatch
es that Mussolini didn’t like.
“Once Germany's fortunes
should fail,” he said, “It is a good
bet that the Italian people would
oust the fascists who now hold
only shadowy power.”
He said there exists the utter
est disillusionment in fascism it
self in Italy. “Two cabinet min
isters in a confidential conver
sation once told me they had
been thoroughly disappointed in
their political philosophy. ‘We
didn't know any better,” the com
plained.”
For the first time he revealed
what happened when Mussolini
announced to a Rome assemblage
Italys declaration of war. It is
nothing less than a bid for im
prisonment or death to leave a
crowd of listeners when Musso
lini speaks, but when he announc
ed Italy's entrance into the war
spectators began to filter away
and before he had finished fully
a thir<f of the crowd had aban
doned the scene.
Italians have no hope, win or
lose, he said.
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