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RUSSIA AND CHINA STILL
BEAR BRUNT OF THE WAR
British and \nieriean Strategy Calls
For Aid to Them at All Costs
LONDON — Two great tasks
confront the United States and
B'itain this Summer while they ;
gather strength for final knock
out blows against the Axis in
Europe and Asia. These are to
keep Russia and China in the
war bv whatever methods are
necessary.
It is to these two countries that
the United Nations must look to
bear the brunt of the fighting
and contain the main bodies of
the Axis armies until Britain and
the United States can regain full
mastery of the Atlantic and the
Pacific. To this country and the
.United States the problem of
keeping open the supply lanes to
their allies in Europe and Asia is
no less vital than it is to the
Axis to cut them.
Japan has succeeded rather ef
fectively already in cutting off
China from her friends, but for
tunately many of the supplies
that the Chinese need most can
be flown in. Thus is not so with
Russia. Nearly everything she
needs to carry on her struggle
against the Nazis, bent on a
knockout blow in the east this
Summer, must be sent by sea
through the eternal daylight of
Arctic waters to Archangel and
Murmansk. This entails frightful
risks and heavy costs. Every
< nvoy that sails from British or
United States ports for Russia
must run a gantlet of German
submarines, surface raiders and
long-range bombers based on
N< rway’s northern tip.
Constant Dangers
At this time of year drift ice
fi rn the Arctic forces convoys
and at least part of their escort
ing vessels to swing southward
close to the Norwegian coast,
where th< y are almost certain
to be detected by reconnaissance
pl "e the enemy. The merci
ful hours of darkness are few
After a fi w brief weeks condi
tion’ will improve and convoys
w I tie able to sail farther north.
B .t the-n. as the heuirs of dark
he.ss lengthen, cold will set in,
and by the' end of October, ice
will choke the White Se-a and the
port of Archangel.
This will restrict convoys to
the us« of Murmansk, connected
with the interior of Russia by
l ie of common 'cation dange r
ously rie;-.r the' enemy. But with
Vladivostok screened by Japan
and all hut Caspian Sea ports,
with they limited facilities,
blocked by the Axis, the Arctic
route s the only impeirtant gate
w > for supplies to the Soviet.
As Field Marshal Erwin Rum
me I pauses, awaiting reinforce
ments for a drive against Alex
andria. the delta of the Nile and
Sue/. Fie ld Marshal Fedor von
Bock, forces are pounding the
Russian armies on a terrific scale
along the Don. Beith drives are
Port ol tie- gigantic Nazi push
toward the oil e>f the Middle East
at»! the Caucasus, which must be
ke pt from Hitler’s control at all
costs. To halt Marshal von Bock
Russia must have tanks, guns,
plane's and perhaps, later, food,
oil of which must be funneled in
through tiio.u northern ports.
Mininmum Needs
The R t-,-ians have informed
Preside a Roosevelt and Prime
M n -tfi Church 11 of their mini
mum t i e' to keep going, and
the United States and Britain
have: acce pted obligations to sup
ply them. At first both this coun
try arid the United States found
it easier to promise than to de
liver, although the British came
much c 1 r -r to living up to their
commit'’■ n’, than the United
States. R cuntiy, however, Unit
- I
eci States deliveries have been
catching up although for security
reasons no exact or even approxi
mate figures can be given.
Volume of Supplies
All that can be said is that a
tremendous volume of supplies
is being sent to Russia. How
much of them are lost at sea and
the cost in precious merchant ton
nage can only be guessed, be
cause of British secrecy regard
ing losses.
But British s> crecy about loss
es at sea is as nothing compared
with the mystery about every
thing that is going on in Russia.
It is doubtful if any one in a
military or political position of
authority knows much more than
a careful newspaper reader about
Russia’s reserve strength. Hopes
for the future are based largely
upon past performance. It was
hoped Jhat after the signing of
the Anglo-Ru'sian treaty the So
viet would be more communica
tive with its Allies, but this hope
has' not materialized.
About all that is known de-1
finitely here is that Russia, de
spite tremendous losses in man
power, t< rritory and material,
still is able to deliver counter 1
blows against the most powerful
military machine any would-be
world conqueror has ever as
sembled.
Skepticism Overcome
There used to be more than a
little skepticism regarding Rus
s '- v ii to fight. That has been
overcoat'•. partly bv propaganda
from Moscow but mostly by the
behavior of the Russian people,
who have blown up the Dneiper
Dam. scorched their good earth
and devoted their whole national
energy to smashing the invader
v. o has despoiled their land.
Then is no longer any serious
doubt about Premier Stalin’s
good faith in the m nrls of the
"f eplf or the Government of
Britain. All that remains is an
honest question a.s to how far
they c; n go toward making u.p
fh< loss.-.' Russia has sustained
and whether the best that can
he done will be enough.
Besides this question every
thing else fades. Foreign Com
mi. -hi VvacheslafT M. MolotofT.
during his visits to Washington
and London, reached an agree
ment with President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill on
the ‘ urgency” of establishing a
Second front in 1942. That is al
ine t like saying that Britain and
the United State? are agreed up
on the evils of the Nazi system
or that almost every one is op
po. ' d to a man-eating shark. Mr.
Molotoff, during his visit here,
received ample opportunity to
see things through British lead
ers' eyes. He was impressed. One
of the things that impressed him
most with the day-by-day ac
count of an Anglo-American con
i voy’s passage through dangerous
waters with war supplies for
Russia.
Convinced by Losses
It was no easy passage. The
fact that the British, an Lsland
I national with their vital mer
chant tonnage dwindling and
their naval strength strained to
the breaking point, were send
ing their seamen and their ships
to ill-, i • certain destruction so
’hat ■ ■ supplies should get
tliroiH'. hi ipcd more than all
protestations of friendship to per
suade him that Britain was a
true ally.
Shortage of shipping, limita
tion an production in this or
any other country and the nec
essity for training armies to use
the tools of war are all consider a
Lindbergh
Does Not
Aid Pel lev
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. — Wil
liam Dudley Pelley gained lit
tle. if any, support from Charles
A. Linbergh in the former Silver
Shirt leaders effort to prove that
he is not guilty of criminal se
dition. Lindbergh testified as a
witness for Pelley. The famous
flier was on the stand for about
10 minutes.
Lindbergh’s Chief Statement
Lindbergh’s chief statement
was that a majority of Ameri
cans were against the United
States entering the war before
P' arl Harbor.
Lindbergh said that he had
made no effort to learn the pub
lic's attitude toward the war
since the United States entered
the conflict.
"I have devoted my time and
energy in doing what I can to
help the war effort,” he replied
when Floyd Christian, defense
attorney, asked what he observed
a.s to any change in public opin
on about the nation’s participa
tion in the war.
Willing To Play Any Part
Lindbergh said he was ready
to play any part assigned him
in the war program.
The pre-Pearl Harbor non-in
terventionist now is a technical
adviser at the Ford Willow Run
bomber factory.
tions that must be taken into ac
count in any realistic discussion
of the possibility of a new front
in Western Europe. and the
Russians have a reputation for
being realists. Supplies that the
l!nited Nations can send to Rus
sia while fighting an offensive
war in the air, a defensive war at
sea and a static war on land
may prove the margin that will
enable the Russians to turn the
Nazi tide this Summer.
25 Nazi Divisions
There would be nothing to
spare eithu in war material or
ships to carry food to Russia,
which will be just as hungry as
Germany this Winter, if not
more so, if a Continental expedi
tion had to be maintained. Since
there are some twenty-five divi
sions of Nazi troops in Western
Europe now — a number that
: could be doubled in ten days or
a fortnight—it is a question whe
ther any offensive that the Unit
ed Nations could mount would
divert materially Nazi pressure
upon Russia.
There are some military observ
ers who argue that the defeat of
the British Eighth Army in Lib-,
va by Marshal Rommel has re
moved the hope of a new West
ern Front this Summer. Others
hold that that same di feat makes
the opening of a now front im
perative. It is more likely that
it will have no effr-ct at all, for
new-front plans are believed
, never to have passed the if-and
1 when stage.
Any military operation has to
be decided on the basis of risks
against gains. The maintaining of
the supply route to Russia thru
northern waters has entailed
great risks. These were accept
ed because it was felt that the
gains outweighed the dangers.
Possibilities in Norway
One way to minimize the perils
would be to hurl an expedition
against Northern Norway and
seize the bases from which the
Nazis are raiding the convoys.
There would be a great risk, and
it could be undertaken only if it
became apparent that the peril
in not undertaking it was great
er than taking an obvious step to
secure a vital line of communi
cation to the fighting fronts in
Russia.
The Russians are using the
same method of helping the Brit
ish get help to them as the Brit
ish and United States Air Forces
have adopted in hindering the
Germans in the West. They have
turned to their air arm. Russian
planes have been bombing Nazi
air bases in Northern Norway in
an effort to put them out of com
mission, just as the Royal Air
Force, with the aid of the United
States Air Force, is preparing
now to weaken the Nazi offens
ive in the East by smashing in
du.try and disrupting German
communications behind the lines.
In the United States Land Office
For the Nome Land District,
Nome. Alaska
Notice of Application for Patent
Mineral Survey No. 1896
Mineral Entry No. 0957
N dice is hereby given that the
UNITED STATES SMELTING
REFINING AND MINING COM
PANY, a Maine Corporation, by
and through its attorney-in-fact.
A. M. Hartford, whose post office
address is Nome, Alaska, has made
application for a United States
Patent for the Rosa Fraction,
S' >rmy Fraction and Gold Av
enue Claim, placer mining claims
situated on the Right Limit of
Dry Creek a tributary of Snake
River, about three miles north
of the town of Nome in the
Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing District and Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska, and designated
as United States Mineral Survey
No 1896 and particularly describ
ed in the official plat and field
notes of said claim now on file
in the said Land Office, with !
mean magnetic variations of 19
deg. 30 min. E., as follows:
Rosa Fraction
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with Cor. No. 5, Survey No.
1207. Fannie Tract Placer, from
whence U.S.L.M. No. ] 1 bears N.
5 deg. 29 min. W„ 3835.9 ft.:
thence S. 59 deg. 58 min. E.,
196.25 ft. to Cor. No. 2. identical
with Cor. No. 1, Survey No. 457,
No. 8 Below Discovery Placer;
thence S. 2 deg. 53 min. E
1116 75 ft. to Cor. No. 3. identical
with Cor. No. 5. Survey No. 457,
No. 8 Below Discovery Placer;
th< nee N. 45 deg. 48 min. W.
1086 76 ft to Cor. No. 4. identi
cal with Cor No. 1. Survey No.
1207. Oracle Claim Placer: thence
S. 62 deg. 02 min. E., 554.4 ft.
to Cor No. 5, identical with Cor
No 6. Survey No. 1207. Fannie
Tract Placer, thence N. 5 deg.
06 min. E., 719.00 ft. to Cor. No.
1 and place of beginning, con
taining an area of 6.788 Acres.
Stormy Fraction
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with Cor. No. 4. Survey No.
1207, Fannie Tract Placer, from
whence U.S.L.M. No. 11 bears N.
15 deg. 20 min. W.. 3274.05 ft.;
thence S. 86 deg. 06 min. E.,
690.80 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence
S 13 deg. 58 min. W„ 153.05 ft.
to Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor.
No 2. Survey No. 1124, No. 1
Laura Gulch Placer; thence S.
60 d<-g. 06 min. W„ 1130.90 ft.
to Cor. No. 4; thence N. 59 deg.
58min. W.. 196.25 ft. to Cor. No.
5: thence N. 37 deg. 00 min. E.,
827.35 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place
t>f beginning, containing an area
of 9 462 acres.
Gold Avenue Claim
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with Cor. No. 2. Survey No.
1207 Fannie Tract Placer, from
whence U.S.L.M. No. 11 boars N.
7 deg. 17 mm. W„ 2014.8 ft.;
thence S. 59 deg. 08 min. E.,
1323.80 ft. to Cor. No. 2. identi
cal with Cor. No. 10, Survey No.
746. Gertrude Placer; thence N.
30 deg. 33 min. E., 834.35 ft. to
Cor. No. 3: thence S. 7 deg. 35
min. W., 28.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4.
identical with Cor No. 6. Survey
No. 446 No 2 Laura Gulch Placer;
thence S. 31 deg. 34 min. E..
43.30 ft. to Cor. No. 5. identical
with Cor. No. 1, Survey No. 1124,
No. 1 Laura Gulch Placer; thence
S 13 deg. 58 min. W.. 1247 25
ft. to Cor. No. 6: thence N. 86
deg. 08 min. W.. 690.80 ft. to Cor.
No 7: thence N. 33 deg. 51 min. E..
617.5 ft. to Cor. 8, identical with
Cor. No. 3. Survey No. 1207,
Fannie Tract Placer; thence N.
55 deg. 47 min. W„ 1205.85 ft.
to Cor. No. 1 and place of be
ginning. containing an area of
10.468 Acres.
Sad placer mining claims be
ing contiguous and forming one
consolidated survey, containing
a total of 26. 718 acres.
The adjoining claims are:
On the North. Survey No. 446,
No. 2 Laura Gulch Placer
On the E. Survey No. 1124. No.
1 Laura Gulch Placer, Survey
No. 1812, No. 7 Below on Dry
Creek Placer and Survey No. 457,
No. 8 Below Discovery Placer,
On the S. Survey No. 1207,
Oracle Placer,
On the W. Survey No. 1207.
Addie M. Devereaux Bench and
Fannie Tract Placer and Survey
No. 746, Gertrude Placer.
The location certificate for said
i placer mining claims are re
corded in the office of the Re
corder of said Cape Nome Min
ing District and Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska, as follows:
Rosa Fraction, Vol. 208, Page
316 and amended location Vol.
220, Page 369;
Stormy Fraction Placer, Vol.
220, Page 69,
Gold Avenue Placer, Vol. 190,
page 222, amended locations Vol.
194, page 64 and Vol. 220, page
370.
U.S.L.M. No. 11 to which these
claims are tied, is a fir post 5
ft. above ground in stone mound
chiseled U.S.L.M. No. 11, situat
ed on the divide between Holy
oke and Bourbon Creeks about
70 feet East of the Government
road in said mining district and
Precinct and is in Lat. 64 deg. 32
min, 00 sec. N, Long. 165 deg.
21 min. 54 sec. W.
Dated the 6th day of August,
1942.
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In the United States Land Office
For the Nome Land District
Nome, Alaska
Notice of Application For Patent
Mineral Survey No. 2122
Mineral Entry No. 0954
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
That United States Smelting Re
fining and Mining Company, a
Maine Corporation, by and,
through its attorney-in-fact, A ;
M. Hartford, whose post office ad
dress is Nome, Alaska, has made j
application for a United Slates
Patent for the UNITED BENCH 1
and No. 3 BENCH THIRD TIER
Placer Mining Claims, situated
on the Right Limit of Center
Creek, about V* mile above the
mouth of said Creek and about
J2 mile northwest of the shores :
of Bering Sea and the town of
Nome, in the Cape Nome Min
ing District and Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska, and designated as
United States Mineral Survey
No. 2122 and particularly describ
ed in the official plat and field
notes now on file in the said j
Land Office, with magnetic varia
tion at each corner of the sur- ;
vey of mean value of 17 deg. 20
min. E., as follows:
The United Bench Claim
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a fir
post scribed 1-2122-U, from j
whence U.S.L.M. No. 1C hears S.
18 deg. 18 min. E., 4996,63 ft.;
thence N. 60 deg. 26 min. W.,
796 60 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
scribed 2-2122-U; thence N. 20
deg. 42 min. E.. 623.80 ft. to Cor.
No. 3, a fir post scribed 3-2122-U;
thence N. 20 deg. 35 min. E.,
279.70 ft. to Cor. No. 4, a fir post
scribed 4-2122-U; thence S. 44
deg. 02 min. E., 895.40 ft. to Cor.
No. 5. a fir post scribed 5-2122-U;
thence S. 47 deg. 28 min. E.,
208.50 ft. to Cor. No. 6. a fir post
scribed 6-2122-U; thence S. 41
deg. 27 min. W„ 186.05 ft. to Cor.
No. 7, a fir post scribed 7-2122-U;
thence S. 41 deg. 39 min. W.,
419.40 ft to Cor. No. 1 and place
i of beginning, containing an area
of 15.687 Acres.
No. 3 Bench Third Tier C laim
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a fir
post scribed l-2122-3Bh., from
whence U.S.L.M. No. 1C bears S.
33 deg. 09 min. E.. 4482.3 ft.;
thence N. 56 deg. 25 min. W.,
321.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
scribed 2-2122-3Bh.; thence N. 20
deg. 42 min. E., 1290.30 ft. to Cor,
No. 3, a fir post scribed 3-2122
3Bh; thence S. 60 deg. 26 min. E.,
796.60 ft. to Cor. No. 4, a fir post
scribed 4-2122-3Bh., thence S. 41
deg. 39 min. W„ 1326.50 ft. to
Cor. No. 1 and place of begin
ning, containing an area of 16.496
Acres.
There are no conflicting claims.
The adjoining claims are:
On the NE., Survey No. 1863,
Grace Association placer, and
claims unknown and unsurveyed.
On the SE., Survey No. 1139,
j No. 2 Bench Second Tier and
| claims unknown and unsurveyed.
On the SW., Survey No. 1139
1 No. 1 Bench Second Tier,
i On the NW., Survey No. 338,
Aspen Placer claim, and claims
unknown and unsurveyed.
The location certificates for ■
! said placer mining claims are I
1 recorded in the office of the Re- \
' corder of the Cape Nome Mining I
j District, Territory of Alaska, in ,
Vol. 220, Page 162 of the record
of locations of said District.
The mineral monument to
which these claims are tied is de
scribed as follows:
U.S.L.M. No. 1C to which these
claims are tied is an iron pipe
4^4 in. in diameter, 30 ins. above
the ground, a brass cap on top
stamped U.S.L.M. No. 1-C, and is
in Lat. 64 deg. 30 min. 30 sec.
N„ Long. 165 deg. 25 min. 18 sec.
W.
Dated the 13th day of July,
1942.
Aimer Rydeen, Register
First publication July 13, 1942,
and ending September 11, 1942.
Notice of Rendering Final Ac
count and Report of Administra
tion and Petition for Settlement
and Final Order By Distribution
No. 614
In the Probate Court In and For
the Cape Nome Precinct. Second
Division: Territory of Alaska
In the Matter of the Estate of
HECTOR LAURIN, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that
Emile Laurin, Administrator of
the estate of Hector Laurin. De
ceased, has rendered for final
settlement, and filed in the abovi
Court his final account and re
port and petition for final ordti
of distribution, and that Werl
nesday, the 30th day of Septem
her, 1942, at 10 o'clock A. M., at
the office and court room of the
Court in Nome, Alaska, has been
set as the time and place for
the-settlement of the account and
report and for hearing objections
thereto, if any there be, and for
a hearing on the petition, and all
persons interested in the estate
are hereby notified then and
there to appear and show cause,
if any they have, why the ac
count and report should not be
settled and allowed and why dis
tribution of the estate should not
thereupon be immediately made
to the persons entitled thereto
without further notice or proceed
ings. At the hearing the Court
will adjudicate and decree who
are the heirs and distributees of
the deceased and estate. Refer
ence is hereby made to the ac
count, report and petition for fur
ther particulars.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
31st day of July, 1942,
EMILE LAURIN,
Administrator.
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