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VOL. 44. No. 51. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Apr. 29, 1942 Per ^ 154
OP A Fixes Maximum Price Levels
President Discusses Effect of War On Americans
OPA Fixes War-Time Maximum
Prices For Virtually Everythin
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Freezes Prices on Everything We Eat, Wear and l e
At Levels Prevalent During Month of March
WASHINGTON, April 28, 9:50 p.m.—9:28 a.m. (AH)
— With one broad inclusive order, the Offbe of Price
Administration tonight fixed war-time maximum pric
es for “virtually everything that Americans eat, wear
and use” at levels prevalent during the month of
March. After May 18, under tire general maximum
price regulation, no retailer may charge more for an
article than the highest price at which he sold it in
March. The same restrictions will apply after May 11
to manufacturers’ and wholesalers’ prices, and after
July 11, to a long list of service establishments sivh
laundries, tailors, auto repair shops, radio repair
men, etc.
Simultaneously, the price agency froze rents at 202
centers of war effort or war product/on. Mostly they
vvere fixed at rents paid on March first of this year.
The actions, taken together, represented an essential
segment of the President’s overall plan for stabilizing
the cost of living, and preventing an inflationary price
rise.
Along with these orders go proposed heavy taxation
on profits and stabilization of most wages at their
present levels. This taxation will hold individual in
comes to a maximum of $25,000. rationing, encourage
ment of war bond buying, debt payment and savings,
and discouragement of credit or installment plan buy
ng. and expenditures for non-essentials. Exempted
from the ruling is a long list of food items represent-1
ng from 25 to 40 percent of the food usually purchased.
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WPB Orders
25% Cut In
Use of Coffee
Wp/1’V"' n ,\pr 28 (AP)
—• r”' o War Production
Board f •-.Icrcd a 25 percent
cut :n We consumption of
•’offee 1 'cause of the un
certrrn i s about future
sunplk s.
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Three Jap
Combers, Four
Ffch'ers Downed
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AlTcd Headciu rters in
\ustr li .. April 28 (AP)—
Three Jana nose bombers
and four fighters were de
streved out of a force of 17
bom1 crs and 9 fighters i
which raided Darwin Mon
day.
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Assessment Work
Bill Passed Bv
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Roth Houses
Washington, Apr. 28 (AP)
— The House completed
legislative action on the
measure to suspend, from
June 30, 1941, until July 1,
1943, the annual $100 as
sessment work on small un
patented mining claims, |
and sent the hi!! to the
White!”,ouse. The House ac
cepted the Senate amend
ment removing the restric
tint, on the number of
such claims which can be
held by one person.
10,000 Families !
In Rostock
.
Are Homeless
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President Roosevelt Discusses
The War And Its Impact
On Even American Citizen
Summarizes Seven-Point Program for Combating
Upward Spiral of Living Costs
WASHINGTON, April 28, 8:53 p.m.—1:24 a.m. (A.P)
— President Roosevelt, revealing officially for the first
time that “several hundred thousand” American fight
ing men have already been sent to battle the Axis in
distant lands, also expressed the view that the Jap
anese southward drive has been checked, and declared
that Australia, New Zealand and adjacent islands have
now become bases for offensive action. Roosevelt also
warned the Vichy government that the United Nations
will take any action necessary to prevent the use of
French territory by Axis forces. He guaranteed the
continuation of delivery of arms to China regardless
of Japanese successes in Burma.
The latter portion of his speech was devoted to prais
ing the fight which Americans have given the enemy
around the world and he singled out men and a ship
for special citation and told their thrilling stories of
gallantry.
Roosevelt discussed the war and its economic im
pact on every American citizen tonight and declared
the price for the preserving of civilization must be
paid in “hard work and sorrow and blood.” The price
is not too high, he told the radio audience, and if they
doubted it, ask the regions who live under tjv ‘yranny
of Hitlersism.
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Stockholm, April 28 (AP)
— Ten thousand families
are homeless in Rostock as
a result of the four raids
by the British RAF, the
Berlin correspondent of
Dagens Nyheter reported.
He said the damage to Ros
tock was worse than to Lu
beck, previously raided by
the British.
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Canada Votes
Send Soldiers
Over-Seas
Ottawa, April 28 (AP) —
The Canadian government
given a free hand by
'ho plebiscite today to send
onscripted soldiers out
s’cl e the Dominion into bat
i,f> anywhere in the world,
with only a predominantly
Tench-Canadian Quebec
province dessenting.
The votes from 28,000
out of 31.000 polls were
2,590,000 yes and 1,474.000
no.
■ D frai-i P» nc!s and Stamp?
He summarized the seven-point program for com
batting the upward spiral of living costs outlined in
his message to Congress Monday. He declared each
part of it is essential to the success of the whole and
again warned the American people they must abandon
luxuries and “creature comforts.” Apparently cogni
zant of critics who arose in numerous quarters against
portions of his anti-inflation plan, he declared firmly
that he would use all the executive power at his com
mand to carry out the policy laid down. "I know the
American farmer, the American workman, and the
American businessman and I know they will gladly
embrace this economy or sacrifice, satisfied it is nec
essary for the most compelling motive in all their
lives—winning through to victory,” the President said.
Japanese Pay Heavily For Every Advance
As for the conduct of the war. he declared that for
every advance the Japanese have made since they be
gan their “frenzied career of conquest.' they have had
to pay “a very heavy toll in warships, transports',
planes and men." The Japanese are feeling the effects
of those losses. At the same time, without offering
confirmation, he spoke whimsicalK of the bombing of
Tokyo and three other Japanese cities. It is reported
from Japan that somebody dropped bc>mb> on Tokyo
and the principal centers of the Japanese war indus
tries. If this is true, he asserted, it is th ■ first time in
history that Japan has suffered such in ii nity, from
a war which has become what Hitler on. nally pro
claimed it to be—total war.
President Requests 283 Million for
Civilian Aviation Improvement
WASHINGTON, April 28. 8:41 a. m.—8:22 a. m
(AP) — The Senate received the President’s request
that $283,000,000 be appropriated for a huge civ 1'ar
iviation improvement program including construction
and repairs to hundreds of public airports over the
country. Expenditure contemplated include: Radio
sonde weather observation stations, extension and im
provement of intermediate landing fields in Alaska
$2,875,000; and expansion of weather bureau activities
n Alaska $2,875,000; and expansion of weather bureau
facilities in Alaska for rendering meteorological in
formation to Army and Navy forces, $317,000.
Nazi Commander
In Finland
Is Dismissed
London, April 28 (AP) —
Tuesday, Lieutenant Gen
eral Engel brechtv com
mander of the German div
isions fighting in Finland,
was dismissed by Hitler
and a reshuffle of the en
tire Nazi command in Fin
land is imminent. Stock
holm dispatches said Hit
ler is said to be angry bc
ause of Red Army success
es on the Finnish front.
Election Return
Of Primary
\t Cordova
CORDOVA, April 29 (Cordova
Times) — Cordova precinct: Di
mond 44; Olson 42; Haas 16,'
Sharpe 25.
Brownell 23, Drager 1, Mc
Cutcheon 17, J. B. Diamond 9,
Egan 43, Haton 8, Huntley 12,
Kehoe 30, Stanley MeCut-cheon '
21, Smith 17, Andreson 29, Peter
son 28.
Eyak predinct: Dimond 26;;
Olson 24; Haas 6, Sharpe 19.
Broiwnell 17, Drager 4, Me-:
Cutcheon 3, J. B. Diamond 8,
Egan 23, Haton 3, Huntley 8,
Kehoe 18, Stanley McCutcheon
17, Smith 11, Spears 3, Andreson
3 and Peterson 2.
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RAF Raids Norwegian Pori of
Trondheim In 5th Day 01 Attack
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LONDON, April 28, 8:41 am.—8:22 am (AP) —
Squadrons of heavy British bombers, maintaining
their destructive attacks on German targets for the
fifth day running, last night raided the Norwegian
port of Trondheim, where the Germans are building
an Atlantic battle fleet base. The air ministry said
other squadrons simultaneously attacked Rhineland
objectives ,including Cologne; bombed docks at Dun
kerque, laid mines in water off France and Belgium;
and machine-gunned German airdromes. Eighteen
British planes were lost.
A new bomber-fighter attacking forces, covering a
square mile of sky, described “as the largest single
unit to ever attack occupied France,” swept out to
ward Calais today. Smaller flights had already return
ed from earlier raids which began at dawn.
AT END OF HIS ROPE ?—A certain A. Hitler is at tlie end of rope the cow boy holds. In this
wood carving that has place of honor on the desk of Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones. |