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VOL. 44. No. 39. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, April 1, 1942. Per Copy iu
Jap Menace To Burma Sharpens
Japs Bomb Plainly Marked Base Hospital In Bataan
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British Acknowledge Jap Drive
Menace Burma Gateway To India
UNDATED, March 31 (AP) — Japan’s drive on the
oil fields in northwest Burma, the gateway to India,
took a menacing turn as British headquarters acknow
ledged that Japanese troops, supported by traitorious
Burmese natives, advanced to within ten miles of
Prome, British-held anchor for the right wing of the
r Allied defense line. The central Burma city is strat
egically important as a barrier to the rich Yenanyoung
oil fields, and also guards the Irrawaddy River route
to Mandalay.
The British communique said the Japanese penetrat
ed to Shwedaung, ten miles below Prome. In heavy
fighting Imperial Indian trops inflicted 300 casualties
and captured 70 prisoners. The communique said the
- British forces launched a counter attack to clear the
enemy from blocking the road to Shwedaung. There
was no information available as to the outcome.
Equally dark was the news which came from the
Chinese-held left flank on the Toungoo front. A com
munique said that Chinese troops joined other forces
north and east of Toungoo and readjusted positions in
that area. This indicated the Chinese forces under the
command of Lieut. Gen. Stilwell, U. S. A., apparently
have withdrawn from Toungoo. Later Chinese dis
patches, however, said Chinese reinforcements are
► moving south to the aid of Stilwell’s hard pressed
forces and occupied a railroad station ten miles north
of Toungoo and made contact with the Chinese troops
still holding out in the eastern part of Toungoo.
Simultaneously, Axis reports said the Japanese car
ried out heavy aerial raids on Mandalay and attacked
other key points on the Toungoo-Mandalay road, evi
dently seeking to block the sending of reinforcements.
Charges Are "Without Shadow of
Foundation” Says Standard Oil Presi.
WASHINGTON, March 31 (AP) — W. S. Farish,
president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
described as without “a shadow of foundation,” the
testimony that his company prevented or delayed the
development of synthetic rubber in the United States.
He told the Senate defense investigation committee
f that “the facts and record are exactly contrary.”
Farish appeared before the commitee to reply to
the testimony of Assistant Attorney General Arnold,
that the company frustrated the development of syn
thetic rubber in the United States as a result of cartel
agreements made with the I. G. Farben industries of
Germany, before the United States entered the war.
Farish further asserted “And charges that the Stand
ard Oil or any of its officers are in the slightest respect
k disloyal to the United States, are unwarranted and un
irue. I repel all such insinuations with all the vigor at
my command.”
He added that the contracts made with Farben “did
insure greatly the advance of American industry, and
more than any other one thing, made possible out
present war activities in aviation gasoline, toluol ex
plosives and synthetic rubber itself.”
At Least 18
► Jap Planes Wreck
ed bv Allied Raid
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Melbourne, Mar. 31 (AP)
—At least 18 Japanese air
craft were destroyed or
damaged by United Na
tions aerial attacks on Jap
anese bases on Timor and
New Guinea and success
ful defense against counter
raids on Australian bases,
during the last two days,
were officially announced.
“We’re Sent To
Kill Japanese’"
Say Chinese
Chungking, Mar. 31 (AP)
General Taianlan, whose
Chinese troops killed more
than 5,000 Japanese in
bloody fighting around
Toungoo, reported to Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai
Shek: We were sent here
to kill and that’s what we
are doing.
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
Order S. S. Co.s
Lower Rates
To Alaska
Washington, Mar. 31 (AP)
The Maritime Commission
announced an order for the
Alaska Steamship Com
pany and the Northland
Transportation Co. to re
duce their basic rates by
May first to a fair rate not
exceeding six percent and
substituted a 20 percent
surcharge for southeastern
Alaska effective April 6th,
to replace the 45 percent
surcharge now existing.
New Commandant
9th Corps Area
San Franc sco, March 31
(AP) — Major General
Kenyon A. Joyce was nam
ed commanding general of
the vital Ninth Corps area,
the Army announced to
night, relinquishing h i s
command at Fort Lewis.
The area includes the eight
western states and Alaska.
Adm. Freeman
is Promoted
Bremerton, Mar. 31 (AP)
—Rear Admiral S. A. Taf
finder took over the com
mand of this Puget Sound
Navy Yard, relieving Rear
Admiral C. S. Freeman to
concentrate on larger du
ties as commandant of the
district, including Alaska.
Yougest of Fisher Body
Brothers Passes Away
Detroit, Mar. 31 (AP) —
Howard A. Fisher, aged 40,
youngest of the seven Fish
er brothers of automobile
body fame, died here today
Great Allied
.Convoy Reaehes
Port Murmansk
1 London, Mar. 31 (AP) —
! A great Allied convoy
reached Murmansk, after
beating off a powerful Ger
man naval assault in Arctic
waters, while enroute to
that Arctic port, Stock
holm dispatches said.
I IS 1 Arrests
Isolationists
Charged Sedition
Los Angeles. Mar. 31 (AP)
.— Robert Noble and Ellis;
, O. Jones, leaders of two iso
: lationist o r g a n i zations,
. were arrested bv agents of
the F.B.I. and booked on
i charges of sedition.
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Mrs. Mooney
Is Cut Off
In Will
SAN FRANCISCO, March 30—
Mrs. Rena Mooney, estranged
from Tom Mooney for 15 years,
was intentionaly omitted from
the labui leader's will.
Mooney, who left a negligible
cash estate, bequethed his per
sonal effects to his brother, John
B. Mooney, and his sister Anna
Mooney both of San Francisco,
and left his books, pictures and
voluminous records of his bitter
22-year fight for freedom, to the
University of California Library
at Berkeley.
Death took Mooney March 6,
after a number of operations.
He was released on a pardon in
1939 from San Quentin prison,
where he served 22 years on con
viction of killing ten persons in
the 1916 Preparedness Day pa
rade bombing here.
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Japanese Rom!) Clearly Marked
Rase Hospital On Rataan Pen.
WASHINGTON, March 31 (AP) — The War De
partment reported that the base hospital in Bataan
was bombed by the Japanese at noon yesterday caus
ing a number of casualties. The plainly marked hos
pital was avoided carefully by enemy bombers until
yesterday.
A heavy aerial bombardment of the Manila Bay har
bor defenses was accompanied by fire from enemy
shore batteries, and continued all day and night, but
little damage was inflicted. A battery firing from Fort
Hughes hit a destroyer and an enemy launch in Manila
Bay.
Dimond Asks Protection Alaskans
From Income Tax Penalties, 1942
In The Event Of Enemy Action
WASHINGTON, March 31 (AP)—Delegate Dimond
told the Ways and Means Committee that the territory
is a potential battlefield and urged it to write into the
1942 tax law, a clause to protect Alaskans from tax
penalties in the event of enemy action. He suggested
drafting a provision allowing the Treasury to defer
filing of income tax returns and to suspend the six per
cent interest and penalty charge in the event of hard
ships arising from invasion or aerial attack.
Nazis Sacrifice
45,000 Soldiers
At Sevastopol
Moscow, Mar. 31 (AP)—
The Germans sacrificed
45,000 men in repeated ef
forts to capture Sevastopol
in the Crimea. Now. the
Russians launched their
o w n counter offensive
there, Tass said. Sevasto
pol dispatches from the
agency said the Germans
“hurled into action, units
reserved for their much ad
vertised spring offensive
there and were also ground
into dust by the Red
Army.”
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British and
Russians Sink
Nazi Destroyer
LONDON, Mar. 31 (AP)
j —British and Russian nav
al forces sank a German de
strover and beat off attacks
by German surface craft
and U-boats Sunday, es
corting a convoy to Russia
The Admiralty announced
that three German subs
were severely damaged “if
not sunk” by British escort
ing vessels. The commun
ique said two British de
stroyers were damaged but
both returned safely to
port.
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CAMP'ON AUSTRALIA’S BURMA ROAD’ —Less known than the “lifeline" for Chinese supplies is Australia’s defense
highway linking Darwin la the north with Adelaide! Sydney and Melbourne in the south. Above is one of road’s maintenance camps.