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WARNINGS ON THE HORIZON
Persistent reports -that Japan is making heavy
troop movements into Manchukuo, on the Siberian bor
der and her military leaders stil strong resent Am
erican supply ships going into Vladivostok, indicates
anything but a definite decision on the part of Japan
to make immediate settlement with the Allied powers
or abandon relations with the Axis nations.
The surging tide of conflict on the Russo-German
front secs the outcome of the titanic struggle very
much in doubt. Japan awaits the outcome. If Germany
triumphs in Russia, it is not beyond the range of pos
sibility America may yet be called up to face a hostile
force at the back door of Alaska.
The two Russian planes, now on their way back
to Moscow from the United States, have demonstrated
how easily army aircraft could cross Siberia to Alaska.
The significance and a timely warning is summarized
bv the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in these thoughtful
lines:
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“If two planes carrying 47 men can make the 6,000
mile flight from Moscow and drop unexpectedly out of
n clear sky onto the roadstead at Nome, 20 flying boats
carrying 470 men—or, for that matter, 200 planes bear
ing 4,700—can make the same secret flight.
“And if the Russians can do it, there is no earthly
reason, if Moscow should fail, why Hitler’s luftwaffe—
or the plane of his Japanese partner—could not. un
detected, make a similar flight in great force across the
Arctic wastes and attack, even capture, an Alaskan
base.
“Then, indeed, would war be at our door and the
threat or aerial attack on this and other Northwest
cities become real and not fancied.
“Giant long-range flying boats—happily those of a
iriendly power—reached an outpost of our defense sys
tem. They were within flying distance, if you please, of
Seattle.
“Thus is answered the scoffing of those who have
blandly asserted that an aerial venture against the Pac
ific Coast is not feasible.
— . -me neeu xor strong — even
stronger—defense in Alaska and the Pacific.
“There must be no lag in this work. There is no
EVERY CITIZEN MUST DECIDE
Under the system of government that now obtains
in the United States the chief executive of this republic
will conitinue to bo Franklin D. Roosevelt for about
three vears and a half.
Under the constitution of the nation, the President
is charged with the conduct of foreign affairs. Our
foreign poliev has likewise been approved by the Con
gress of the United States.
The fact that some dissentient citizens are atteihpt
to sabotage the morale of the nation, with captious
fault-finding and the indiscriminate peddling of all
kinds of rumors, does not change the attitude of loyal
Americans.
When the nation faces an emergency, as this coun
try faces one today, the people who believe in the
American system of government will support their
duly elected o cials. They have no other choice, ex
cept to support the enemies of the United States, either
by word of mouth or by action.
Hitler is sure that the people in this country will
not be sensible enough to get together behind their
government. He counts upon division to permit him to
“take America” without fighting. Some Americans
seem inclined to make the ‘'inside job” easier for the
Nazis.
Huge British
Warship Seen
By Postmaster
More than 100- men aboard the
huge British battleship Warspite,
©w being repaired at the 13th
Naval District Navy Yard at
Bremerton, Wash., were killed
when the vessel was struck by
■an aerial bomb during the Bat
tle of Crete, Albert Wile, Juneau
postmaster who visited the navy
yard recently, was informed.
Wile returned to Juneau after
Undergoing medical treatment in
Seattl.e. While convalescing, he
visited the navy yard, saw the
British dreadnaught and talked
with men familiar with the ship's
part in the battle.
The Warspite, one of the larg
est ships in the English fleet, was
struck by a 1,000 bomb, which
plunged through three forward
decks and exploded in the inter
ior, killing sailors and marines
who were below decks. Other
damage to the vessel disabled
its steering apparatus and the
Germans first claimed the War
spite had been sunk, then later
boasted that it had been so bad
ly damaged*that it would never
see action again.
However, by limpi.ng from j
navy base to navy base half way :
around the world, the vessel fin-j
ally hoe into Puget Sound about
a month ago. Thousands of resi
dents of the area, who saw the
wounded monarch of the seas
steaming slowly up-sound to the
Bremerton Navy Yard, and since
have talked with crew members
from the vessel, are familiatr
with her story.
Postponement j
Of Induction Of
College Students
Procedure for postponement of
induction of college students in
to the armed forces so that they
finish partially-completed sem
esters and quarter terms without
undue hardship before starting
military training was announced
today by Territorial Headquar
ters. Selective Service Svstum.
Emphasizing the difference be
tween a postponement of induc
tion and an actual deferment of
i a student. Territorial Headquar
ters in its memorandum to local
boards reiterated the necessity of
deferring individual students in
preparation for occupations es
sential to the national defense,
and public welfare.
Pointing out that from time to
time it had advised local boards
that there were shortages, or
prospective shortages, in certain
essential occupations and that
students who were preparing for
these occupations could be defer
red, Territorial Director John L.
McCormick said:
"If a local board determines,
that particular student regis-j
i trant is in training and prepara
tion to perform a function which
the national interest requires
should he performed, and that at
the time such student will begin'
to perform that function theTe j
| will be a shortage of persons I
qualified to perform such func-^
tion, it should defer such stu-1
dent. It should be clearly under-1
stood that it is the shortage with
in that occupation which forms
' the basis of the deferment and
not the fact that the registrant
I is a student.”
Such deferments are granted
j because they are in the national
' interest whereas an induction is
postponed solely to prevent un
j due hardship to the individual.
Territorial Headquarters point
j ed out.
Short postponements may be
granted to a farmer to harvest
a crop, to a lawyer tq try a pend
I ing case, to an architect to com-■
I Plete a set of plans, and in addi- j
tion, Territorial Headquarters
said, “a student might be granted
i such an extension in order to pre
pare for and take an examination
or to complete a college term |
which he started in good faith j
after ascertaining that his indue- j
tion would not normally occur j
unitil a reasonable portion of1
such term had expired.”
To enter college in ‘good faith” j
a registrant must obtain word
from, his local board that he is
not scheduled for induction in
, the near future, it was pointed
out by Territorial Headquarters,
which said' that local boards
would assist as much as possible
by telling them approximately
how soon they may be called for
military training.
Postponement o f induction
should not be granted to permit
a student to begin a new term
if his induction would normally
take place prior thereto, accord
ing to Territorial Headquarters,
which stated:
"If a particular student regis
trant is ordered to report for in
duction after the expiration of
one college term and before the
4tort of another college* term,
there appears to be no question
but that the student should be
inducted as ordered. Likewise, it
appears that if a particular stu
dent registrants induction is to
occur shortly after the start of
a college term, his induction
shouldn’t be postponed, and,
therefore, such students should
not enroll for such college term
or should advance his time of in
duction by volunteering.”
If it appears, however, that a
student registrant will not be or
dered to report for induction
until well into the college term it
is apparent that his induction
might reasonably be postponed
until the end of such term, Head
quarters added, saying:
“If a student registrant’s local
board determines that he would
probably not be ordered to re
port for induction until after
the middle of the next quarter
(if his college is using a quarter
system), or until after the mid
dle of the next semester (if his
college is using a semester sy- j
stem), such local board may give I
assurance to such student that if;
he is ordered to report for indue- j
tion during such quarter or sem j
ester, his induction will be post |
poned until the end of sudh
quarter or semester
“This procedure will prevent
unusual hardship and will per
mit both students and colleges to
make their plans in advance on a
definite basis, while not interfer
ing unduly with the smooth, effic
ient and impartial operation of
the Selective Service System.”
Local boards must, as one of
the conditions precedent to grant
ing postponement of induction to
a student registrant, definitely as
certain that the particular stu
dent is in good standing in his
college or university and is en
rolled therein in god faith, Terri
torial Headquarters emphasized.
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