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The Siege of Asia
The magnitude of this war has been indicated in the
titles given to its encounters: The Battle of France,
the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic. An
even vaster concept is beginning to take shape: The
Siege of Asia. If Asia holds out the United Nations can
v.n a clear-cut and conclusive victory. If Asia falls,
tiie United Nations will not lose the war in the sense
that they will surrender to the Axis Powers: when
peace is worse than any form of war. as a Hitler peace
v,' uld be. there will be no surrender But if Asia falls
i the Axis w r will simply become chronic, the chief
o.\ upatior. f mankind for horrible, endless years.
In the war of 1914-13 the Central Powers fought
inside a circle. They still do so, though they have
pushed back the circumfrence. In this war there is
a huger circle, inside of which are the great land
masses of Russia. China and India, containing more
than a billion human beings. Rommel in Egypt, the
whole Nazi Army on the Russian front, the Japanese
in the Aleutian Islands and all the way down the coast
and through the islands to New Guinea, are battering
a: this enormous fortification. The rest of the war, no
matter how widespread, is an attempt to lift the siege.
The armies of the British Commonwealth and of the
United States may be thought of as relieving forces.
When and if the Russians and the Chinese are strong
enough to make permanent reoecupations of lost terri
tory these advances will be sorties in force.
To describe the war in this fashion is not to belittle
the importance and strength of the Western democ
racies. It is. rather, to recognize that there are no iso
lated campaigns in this total conflict. What happens
n Egypt concerns China. An American naval victory
in the Pacific will help Russia. The sacrifices made by
fighters from Hunan Province and the Volga Valley
have lessened the price that men from the valleys of
t-e Dee. the Platte and the Murray will have to pay.
The United Nations each came into this struggle for
rational reasons, but the essentials for world-wide
strategy have made their battles and their cause one
international battle and one indivisible cause. It is
useless to debate whether Japan or Germany is our
worst enemy. There is but one enemy.
If these conclusions stand, as we think they must,
there can be no question of merely "doing something”
for China or Russia. The United States is no Santa
Claus and need not become one. Neither can it play
the role of a shrewd trader. With all our weatlth and
power we shall never be able to give either China or
Russia as much as they have given us. Our generous
emotions may be involved by the spectacle of their
unparalleled heroism. They should be. But what we
do to a d them is just as much to our interest, just as
intensely practical, as furnishing food, weapons and
ammunition for our own troops.
Our first task is to see that the beleaguered city of
Asia, with ts billions of inhabitants does not fall. Our
second task is to raise the siege, and in this task,
tanks, planes and guns sent inside the friendly lines
play a part equally with the hoped-for second front.
—New York Times.
Vir Power and Sea Power
The country is fortunate that at this critical time
the active heads of the air arms of both our Army and
( ir Navy should be officers of the widest experience,
e i.ch of whom has had the benefit of the whole gaxnut
of practical flying training. Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Ar
nold. commanding the Arm v Air Forces, is a fiying
general who has learned the problems of bombard
ment. pursuit and attack by direct contact through
more than two decades of the development of military
aviation, since he himself learned from the Wright
brothers how to fly. Indeed, he was one of the first
Army officers to pilot an airplane. Rear Admiral John
11 Towers, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the
Navy, has been trained in a like school. He was one
oi the first naval officers instructed by Glenn Curtiss.
It was he who commanded the first Atlantic air cross-!
ing of the NC-4 planes, which had been laid down in
HHb as a possible answer to the development of the
German submarine menace. After the war Admiral
Towers still further extended his practical experience]
as commander of an aircraft carrier.
With the striking analogy in e reer between Gen
fetal Arnold and Admiral Towers, however, the par
aded as to the air arm between the two services un
fortunately ceases. In Washington, where all matters
involving high policy and strategy must be decided,
there are many experienced officers of the Army Air
Force whose general rank permits them to set in the
cf * War Department and represent' mili- i
W y ■ o.o . the other hand, in the Navy Depart-]
bating Of
Meat Due
f o High Pay
Packer Declares That In
creased Wages Permit
More Food Purchases
CHICAGO — Meat Packer
Dodge of Eastwood. Ill . blamed
*he present artificial meat short
age, on record-packing consump
tion by civilians rather than or
diversion of our supplies to out
Allies.
Eastwood is president of Ar
m< ur and Company. He told the
national association of meat deal
ers at a Chicago convention that
c.vilians were eating more meat
'because of higher wages, univer
sal employment and increased na
t:< nal income. Said Eastwood:
' Records show a phenominal
• ease in civilian consumption
‘ meat. Before price ceilings,
law of supply and demand
v uld have brought higher pric
i - and in turn a dropping de
mand, Now all we can do is our
best to keep up with the de
mand.”
A federal agriculture official
warned to expect less meat on
American tables in the near fu
ture with the possibility of one
meatless day each week.
The warnng came from Admin
Lstrator Roy Hendrickson of the
Agricultural Marketing Admin
istration lh a speech before the
International Stewards and Cafe
Workers in Chicago. Hendrick
son said that Army and Navy
and Lend-Lease requirements
a uld leave the American public
short of three million pounds of
meat annually. Said the federal
aid:
'It might be logical, pending
rationing, to have at least one
meatless day weekly through vol
unatary participation of the pub
lie.”
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside,’ using Sour
loug* S+Plmnery. Theyil get a
big kick out of it
ment. except for Admiral King,
whose wide experience includes
a tour of duty as Chief of the
Bureau of Aeronautics, the only
air officer whose rank is higher
than the equivalent rank of ma
jorgeneral in the Army is Vice
Admiral Home, Assstant Chief
of Nava! Operations. The rank of
the Ch t ! f the Bureau of Aero
nautic- is comparable to that of
major general. A recent plan to
raise Rear Admiral Towers to
Vice Admiral has not been put
in operation. In contra,t to lieut
enant generals and major gener- ;
als of the- Army Air Forces in
charge f military aviation in the ;
Canal Zone, India. Europe and
Hawaii, and scores of other air
officers of general rank in the
field, there are, in spite of the
elevation of air officers to head
task forces, only about a dozen
rear admirals in the various
theatres of operation who have
had air experience. There is also
Vice Admiral Halsey, who holds
that rank by virtue of his job
as commander of the Navy air
forces in the Pacific.
A broad program of organiza
tional change and promotion in
the Navy impends. Surely the
huge and growing importance
of air power at sea, as well as
on land, would justify far greater
emphasis on assignment and ele
vation in rank of trained air of
ficers in the naval arm, not only
abroad but especially in Wash
ington.
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Dear Fellow Patriot:
I lake this opportunity to greet you and to
quote the following thought from Voltaire: “I
wholly disapprove of what you say but will de
fend to the death your right to say it.”
So today I say Buy War Bonds and Stamps
and help protect your right to say it and the
privilege to select your own leaders of your
own Government. I thank you. Sincerely,
Henry (r. Miller
Republican Candidate for Territorial Representative
W ith the People — By the People — For' the People
General Election : : : : : Sept. 8, 1942.
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SAX FRANCISCO — The 27
story Empire Hotel, situated at
tht edge of San Francisco’s Civ c
, Center, has been purchased by
tht United States Treasury De
partment for $1,860,000 and will
, be turned into a government j
j office building immediately, a j
treasury official announced here. !
The hotel, owned by the Wil
: liam Taylor Corporation, was |
built 12 years ago at a cost of
$2,500,000.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
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No. 666
- In the Probate Court In and
For tht Cape Nome Prec.nct.
Second Division: Territory of
Alaska.
In the Matter of the Estate of
VITALINE LAURIN. D« ceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that
by an order of the Probate Court
.n and for the Cape Nome Pre
cinct. Alaska, the undersigned
iias been appointed Administrat
or of the estate of Vitaline
Laurin, deceased. A'l persons
having clams against saH estate
shall present them w th proper
vouchers attached within s x
months from the date of this
notice to the undersigned admin- !
srator personally or through his
attorney, L< roy M. Sullivan of
Nome. Alaska.
Dated at Nome, Alaska. Aug.
21, 1942.
EMILE LAURIN.
Administrator
Publish August 21, 28. Sept. 4,1
11. 1942.
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GENERAL ELECTION SEPT. S. 1942.
The people of Alaska have a Legislature. It
meets for fit) days every 2 years. It decides how
much shall he spent for our roads. It is respon
sible for our Public Schools. It provides for the
care of our needy children and our needy elder
ly men and women.
Because of the War the Territory and its
citizens must make many adjustments. It is more
important now than in times of Peace that we
choose carefully the men to be our members in
the Legislature. The limited powers we have in
our Government must be watched and preserved.
The next Legislature must have men in it
that will know what our part of Alaska needs;
men that will protect the rights of Alaskans. The
Republican candidates are those kind of men.
You will vote wisely on September S. at the
General Election by voting for—
SENATOR
Stuart L. Stangroom
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REPRESENTATIVES
Henry G. Miller
Kenneth I). Rude
\\ alter Taylor
C. Dial lev Warner
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