CHILDREN TO START FRIDAY
EXAMINATION OF SCHOOL
—
The Territorial Department of
Health provides physical exam
inations for all school children
before the beginning of the school
term. Examinations will be held
at the Territorial School on the
following dates:
Boys 6 to 12 years, Friday,
Aug. 29, 9 a.m.
Boys 12 years and over, Tues
day, Sept. 2nd, 9 a.m.
Girls 6 to 12 years, Wednes
day, Sept. 3rd, 9 a. m.
Girls 12 year and over, Fri
day, Sept. 5, 9 a.m.
Annette V. Kitzmiller
Public Health Nurse
The Territorial Department of;
Health have had Dr. Noble Dick,
Opthalmologist of Fairbanks in
attendance for the vision clinic
which has been held in Nome|
August 12 to 25, for the Territor-'
ial Aided White Children and the J
Native Children, under the care
of the U. S. I. O. About one hun- ;
dred children were seen by Dr.
Dick and are receiving care un-|
der the Territorial Department
of Health.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY .
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside,’ using Sour
dough Stationery. They’ll get a
big kick out of it.
Early End War
Is Not Expected
LONDON. Aug. — British War
Secretary Margesson told the
British people last night that
they could not expect an early
end of the war despite German
reverses in Russia. In a speech at
New Castle-on-Tyne, calling for
an additional 100.000 women war
workers. Margesson said that
Nazi set-backs in Russia were
causing dissatisfaction both at
the front and at home, but he
added:
“There is no chance of a
speedy and good end of the war,
and not for a long time will
there by a return to the old
peaceful life. The German arm
ies are tough material. In the
World War their losses were
heavy but they managed to re
cover.”
The war secretary said Britain
must meet Germany’s greater re
sources in man power vy using
more women in war work. He
said that women war workers
must not feel that they are not
wasting their time because they
employed in humb’e jobs. Said
Captain Margesson:
“Some one must peel the pota
toes, wash the dishes and oil the
ship of state. The big jobs can
not be done unless som eone does
the little ones.”
Gold Braid Now
Produced In U.S.
SEATTLE. Aug.—Perhaps you
hadn’t noticed it, but the U. S.
Navy’s expa" sion program,
which is normally though of in
terms of planes and battleships
and submarines, also extends to
the highly important commod
ity of gold-lace. a
Highly important? Yes, be
cause about 20,000 yards of it, or
ten sea miles, are used yearly for
stripes and insignia on the naval
officers’ uniforms.
Most of it, particularly the
best grades, was made in France
before and during the war.
When Herr Hitler's armies
moved into France, they effect
ually strangled the major sup
ply of gold stripes and insignia
for American navy officers’ blue
and white uniforms.
That was why the Navy De
partment, on its own hook, un
dertook to encourage production
of gold lace by American manu
facturers.
And so successful was the ‘ex
pansion’ program in the gold
lace industry, that now the De
partment announces the export,
for the first time in history, of
American gold lace to the Neth
erlands East Indies, to Canada,
and to South America.
The Japs have a devil of a
time understanding western man
ners. It never occurred to them
as being anything but smart to
bite the hand that has been feed
ing them.
INSIDE STUFF—Intently a workman files the end of
12H-inch pipe, before welding, on the $8,000,000 Portland, Me., to
Montreal oil pipe line being built. Overland pipe route will save
tankers’ 12 days’ passage in the St. Lawrence.
What It Means
If Japan Gets
Into New War
Bv MORGAN M. BEATTY
AP Feature Service Writer
WASHINGTON Aug. — Japan
ha? about a year of high speed
military and naval warfare un
der her belt, desoite her costly
ex cur: in into China.
That’s the consensus of the mil
itary economists.
Ard they ngure Japan’s first
move, if she’s wise, will NOT be
into the Dutch East Indies, nor
ye: again into Siberia (provided
the Russian army is not destroy
sd in the Wert). They assume
Jspan wou’d strike for Burma
ar.d the upper part of the Malay
Peninsula.
—
The reasons why the experts
figure Japan has her eyes now
on the British Empire’s Burma
and Malaya are four-fold:
a
1.—The Japanese Army and
navy could operate jointly, the
army moving through Thailand
, and the navy along the China
‘ coast and forced, merely to hold
off, not attack, the fleets of the
enemy.
I 2.—Great ritain would be hard
put to muster as much military
force as the focal points of Bur
i ma and Malaya, as could Japan.
3. —.Politically the argument of
the United States that any fur
ther move by Japan wou’d men
ace the raw materials we need
in the Dutch East Indies, would
be partly answered if Japan
avoided a direct thrust at our
security. For British possessions
would be menaced instead.
4. —‘Most important, Japan
would find in iBurma and upper
Malaya much of the oil, tin and
I rubber she needs to prolong her
| war staying power to two years,
1 perhaps indefinitely.
_
1 The military economists limit
Japan’s staying power against a
| major world pomer to one year
because the island empire still
ranks last among the big-five
j world powers in the 10 basic es
sential resources.
The United States is first, be
| cause we have 75 percent of the
„ I
pas.c necessities of wet right in
our own front yard. Great Brit
ain is second, because of her dom
inions and co onics boost her es
sentials to 70 percent. Germany
now ranks third with 60. because
;hc’s got France and most of the
,est of Europe to draw from, and
R'-t-sia is fourth, with a 50 per,
oeniocore. She has the resources
—more than anybody else—but;
she lacks the industrial capacity:
':o coiver; and feed them to her:
military forces at high speeds, i
Japan is last, with 35. because]
he is almost who! y deficient in]
cour major essentials of war —!
oil tin, rubber and aluminum. I
Three of these she could got ini
big quantities from Burma and
Malaya.
Surprisingly, Japan is well sup
plied with many of the 10 basic
necessities. In food, she’s 100 per
cent: electric and machine pow-J
er, 100 percent; iron and steel,
05 (counting her conquest of
Manchuria and part of China);
machinery, 75; war chemicals,
90; coal, 100; oil, 15 (large y syn
| theiic, some shale, and wells on
I Sakhalin and Taiwan); alum
inum, 2 (most y stock piles);
rubber, 1.2 (mostly synthetic).
Reliable authorities here sus
pect the oil production of Brit
ain's Burma probably exceeds
5 0 0,033 tons annually, rather
! than 2,000.000, the figure current
in the oil trade.
The military economists as
|sume Japan needs 10,030,000 tons
of oil a year in a major war. Last;
year she imported more than1
5.030.000 tons from the United
States and the Dutch East Indies.
She produced herself probably
1.500.000 tons.
Thus Burma could supply about
half of Japan’s requirements for,
war. Furthermore, the Japanese]
in 1938 mapped out a stepped-up
schedule of synthetic oil produc
tion from coal, with the help of
German technicians. They intend
to produce about 3,000,000 tons
by 1943, but they are believed to
be far short of their goal.
Although Japan lost heavily of
both men and materials in her i
Chinese war, the experts assume
her manpower is ample for fur
ther bathe. Nearly a half million
Japanese youths reach military
;ge annually.
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ROCKY ROAD —Solid granite had to give way at Gilead,
Me., for this pipe li.ie ditch, part of a 236-mile, $8,000,000, pipe line
being built to carry crude oil from Portland, Me., to Montreal,
Canada. Oil flow starts about Dec. 1.
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RUSS SAYS FINNISH DRIVES FIZZLE
rue Russians, in a war communique, laiiea 10 men lion a previous
ly reported Finnish dri|ve in (he Karelian Isthmus (1), indicated
the thrust had fizzled. But fierce fighting was reported continuing
on the Estonian front around Lake Peipus, and in the Smolqsk
(2) and Bel Tserkov (3) sectors.
NAZIS CLAIM UKRAINE GAINS
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Germans reported destroying a Russian force near liman in a thrust
into the Ukraine. Principal sectors and drives: (1) wtin pushes at
Leningrad; (2) the Smolensk sector; (3) the Kiev area; (4) the ,
new lower Ukraine area, where the German high command re
ports indicated a drive to the south, but where Dnepropetrovsk
was another posible objective.