CURBSTONING
ALONG MAIN
STREET
BY JAY RAYMOND
Ye Scribe was highly interested
in the reception given the efforts
of those connected with the Alas
ka Territorial Guard, Saturday
evening, when between 250 and
350 persons enjoyed the strains of
a five-piece military ensemble,
on the floor of the high school
gymnasium.
Intermission time found the A.
T. G. members in full array, when
they presented the well-known
‘‘Salute to Colors", which was
properly escorted by an armed
group of 35 members of the or
ganization.
A surprise movement on the
part of the “powers that be" j
within the unit, found Sergeant '
Bell elevated to the rank of first
liutenant: Lieut. Vance R. Potts,
given the rank of captain, and
Captain Lester Bronson put) in
command of the unit as major.
The commissions were awarded
by Major M. R. Marston, who was
assisted in the ceremony by Chap
lain Anabel, recently given the
post as lieutenant in charge of
spiritual service.
A pleasing atmosphere, during
the intermission, by Major Mar
ston, who has been assigned, on
detached service from the United
States army, specifically to further
the cause of the Alaska Territorial
Guard.
In words of commendation, Ma- !
jor Marston challenged the newly !
elevated officers that “the war is
not won—far from it.”
Stating further, the speaker said: |
“It is going to get tough and j
hard. Reverses and heavy losses 1
in men and material before vic
tory comes. The roar to the south
is not the 'cracking of ice.’ It is
the bombing of Paramishura by
American fliers.
Listen to the roar to the west
ward. It is not the thunder.
It is. the rear of Russian can
non holding the enemy off while
We got ready.
“I charge you,” Major Marston
again challenged the aewly-elevat
ed officers, “that the officers of
the Alaska Territorial Guard of
Nome should prepare for whatever
may come.
“Keep your powder dry and
your gun close by!”
Speaking of the Native Alaska
Territorial Guard companies, Ye
Scribe noted the high degree of in
terest in which the Major spoke
the following words:
“If invasion by Japan or any
other aggressor nation ever combs
to the mainland of Alaska, the in
vaders will find themselves face
to face with one of the most wily
breeds of fighting men known to
the North American continent? un
der proper leaders. For the Amer
ican Eskimo—populating the
western shores of Alaska all the
way from Bristol Bay below the
Bering Sea to Point Barrow in
the Arctic Ocean—is ready, will
ing and most thoroughly able to
defend the wild and uninviting
regions which are his habitat.
This statement is made absolutely
without fear of contradiction after
an exhaustive survey of these
areas made in connection with
the establishment of units of the
Alaska Territorial Guard.
“To say that the Eskimo has
been misunderstood by the white
man does not fairly state the case.
Rather, it would appear, the white
man has not taken too much
trouble to try to understand the
f workings of the Eskimo mind.
When, therefore, it is ascertained
that these dusky-skinned citizens
are as full of solid Americanism
and loyalty to the cause for which
we now are are fighting as is the
white man, it becomes, in some
quarters, a matter for amazement
and, almost, disbelief. Not so,
however, to an observer who has
lived with them, planned with
them and listened to their ex
pressions of gratitude and loyalty
to the nation which has sheltered
them since 1867.
The Eskimos are honest, honor
able people, fully as capable, and
K more so, of defending the areas in
which they live than any soldiers
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SOLDiE IS TO
MAKE HOMES
IN TERRITORY
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—(AP)
—Major Joseph M. Applegate of
Los Angeles, California, senior
chaplain of the Alaska Depart
ment, reported that many soldiers
who were sent to the territory say
they expect to return and make
their home in Alaska, tb live after
the war.
Applegate said, "The Army
Alaska contingent has carried out
a threefold assignment: That of de
fending the Territory from inva
sion, building campsites and the
construction of airfields.
He added in a report to the War
Department for his 19 months in
Alaska: "The men also learned
to like the country and its peo
ple."
In conclusion, he said
“Entertainment is largeily im
provised, particularly in isolated
posts which are manned by a
handful of soldiers. Fishing and
hunting provides both sport and
in addition, food for the table.”
SHIPS TO BE
NAMED FOR
ALASKA CITIES
POORTLAND, Mar. 13—The
cities of 17 states and Alaska will
have Portland-built Victory ships
named after them, Henry J. Kai
ser’s Oregon shipbuilding corpor
ation announced.
The Alaskan city will be Skag
way.
FRED CHURCH
DIES IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Mar 13.—(AP)—
Fred Church, 46, a powerhouse
engineer at Kodiak, Alaska, vis
iting in Seattle, on leave, commit
teed suicide by shooting himself
through the* heart with a .22 rifle,
Deputy Sheriff Wendell Morris
said today.
BOB BARTLETT
VISITS IN NOME
Candidate for Delegate to
Congress, E L. (Bob' Bartlett has
been in Nome for the past few
days, renewing acquaintances
and otherwise advocating his can
didacy for delegate. I
In an interview, Mr. Bartlett
said “he waa unalterably opposed
to consolidation of the Second
and Fourth Judicial Divisions.”
From an economic standpoint,
Mr. Barlett considers the consoli
idation without saving and on in
quiry further states the economic
angla is of no value.
In the gist of an interview Mr.
Barlett defines the cost of trans
portation of officials between Fair
banks and Nomq and suggests the
cost would be roughly equivalent
to the cost of maintaining a judi
cial establishment.
The candidate for delegate sug
gests the residents of this Divi
sion would be suffering substan
tial, denial of their rights, through
such removal of Court.
Mr. Bartlett, more or less views
the situation with alarm and de
clares further: “It is especially
idle to discuss such consolidation
now, in view of the ever increas
ing importance of this section of
Alaska. After the war there not
only will be revival of goldmin
ing but aviation in both the local
and international aspects is bound
to play an instrumental part in
the crossing of Seward Peninsula.
You people can confidently look
forward to a bright future.
“In addition," Mr. Bartlett adds,
the following which is so ap
parent in connection with the talk
about consolidating the two judi
cial Divisions, the Department of
Justice ought immediately to
change the present policy so that
the U. S. Attorney for this Divi
sion would be stationed here con
stantly.
So long as court headquarters
are here—which I hope and be
lieve will be for a long time—the
presence of a U. S. Attorney is
essential.
“I have worked in the past for a
reversal of the present policy and
I shall continue to do so in the
future,” Mr, Bartlett adds.
PROGESS IR
BEING MADE
BY AMERICANS
NEW DELHI, Mar. 13.— <AP»—
Dispatches released here said
steady progress is being made by
the American and Chinese forces
in northern Burma.
A series of allied successes in
the Arakp sector of Burma, in
cluding the occupation of Butheh- I
daung, 55 miles north of the Bay
of Bengal, port of Akyab, was an
nounced by Lord Mountbatton’s'
southeast Asia command, and to
thee west betkeen Buthedaung1
and Maungdaw, the British also
forced the Japs from positions on
Htingaw Hill theatre, and frojm ;
positions in the azabil area to the
north in North Burma.
Meanwhile the Chinese and
American forces were advancing |
along the Hukawang val.ey to j
within seven miles south of Wal
abum where Merrill’s American
Maurauders recently established
a road-block and are preparing to
drive on Mogadung and toward j
Kamaing, 40 miles to the south.
DOOLITTLE
ELEVATED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—<AP> j
—Presidetn Roosevelt nominated |
Maj. Gen. Jame Doolittle, com
manding the Eighth Air Force in !
England, to be a lieutenant gen- j
eral. As an officer, he held the j
temporary rank of lieutenant col
onel when he led the raid on
Tokyo on April 18, 1942.
After this attack he was pro
moted to brigadier general and
awarded the Congressional medal
of honor.
NEARING
KHERSON
LONDON, Mar. 13.—CAP)—Rus-;
sian armies are nearing Kherson
after killing 60,000 Germans in
eight days of southern offensive.
Eisenhower Requests
Action As Menace To
Military Security
____ — (♦'
TO OCCUPY
ISLANDS IN
ONE MORE STEP
(By REMBERT JAMES
PA1FIC HEADQUARTERS IN
PEARL HARBOR. Mar. 13.—'AP'
—One more step in the full oc
cupation of the Marshall Islands
was disclosed by Admiral Chester
W. Nimitz, who said the United
States marines had taken posses
sion of Wotho Atoll.
*
Wotho. whose 11 islets include
one which is large enough for a
lighter-plane base, is on the west
ern edge of the Marshalls.
American planes were report
ed at the same time to have pound
ed four unidentified enemy bases
in the eastern Marshalls, dropping
heavy bomb loads on the outflank
ed. stranded Japanese garrison.
. i
No Jap planes were seen in
the air. All our planes returned j
safely.
Of the 32 atolls in the Mar-!
shalls, the Japanese are still in
possessions of at least four lm
portant and strongly fortified a- j
tolls, including Jaluit, MaleolapC
Wutje and Mili.
I
26 JAPANESE
PLANES ARE
SHOT DOWN
—
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN i
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, j
Mar. 13.—<AP)—General MacAr
thur reported 26 Japanese planes ;
shot down in an air attack on
Wewak in the heightening of ef
forts to turn the Bismark Sea into
an Allied Lake.
It is a punishing blow to Ja
pan's already benumbed and
withered airarm.
Our ground forces continued
without opposition to consolidate
and extend their positions around
the Talasea airdrome, on the
northern end of New Britain, and
on Los Negros in the Admiralty
group.
SHAW DEFENDS
IRISH PEOPLE
G. Bernard Shaw, Irish himself,
defends the Irish for refusing to
“abandon neutrality,” by cracking
down on the Axis diplomats to
Eire.
“Of course they are justified,”
said the veteran playwright in an
interview with J. C. Toohil of the
Daily Sketch.
When asked if the Irish had ”a
real grievance against the Brit
ish”, he replied:
“We have centuries of griev
ances against them.”
LONDON, Mar. 13.—(API—
Wiih the outright closing of
northern Ireland's borders. Eiv*
gives full suspension in effeet
of travel between the islands of
Britain and Ireland. The n«U
prospect according to all reports
emanating from Belfast, north
ern Ireland, said fheir step.
which the British government
could order, was inevitable.
As the allies moved with hard
realism to end the use of neutral
Eire as an Axis spy base, certain
other steps of this nature which
are not now disclosed will also b$
taken regarding all travel except
in cases of greatest urgency wiU
be suspended between Britain and
Ireland by the British home of
fice order last night. Two day*
after DeValera announced his re
fusal to accede to United States
request that German and Japanese
diplomatic offices in the country
were closed.
The order resulted from an ur
gent request by General Eisen
hower, who said- he had informa
tion that Axis representatives in
Eire constituted a serious men
ace to military security
The Irish mail train for Holy
head, where it connects with the
boat for Kingstown, near Dublin,
left London this morning two
thirds empty. Irishmen on She
train were mainly laborers* and
strongly against DeValera.
“What does he want to keep
Germans in Dublin for Germany
never gave anything to Ireland,
and never will,” Asked Michael
Leneham.
There is nothing to indicate that
the allied moves are likely to gfe
as far as the application of eco
nomic sanctions against Eire.
The British are going slowly,
leaving the initiative largely to
the United States because of their
ancient feud With the Irish. Also
these and other practical consider
ations, that southern Irish volun
teers make up a large part of the
British Army, and nearly a quar
ter of a million southern Irish
men work in British war plants.
Ending all trade with Eire would
in some respects operate to a dis
advantage to the British as well
as the Irish.
RED ARMY
PUSHES DOWN
INGULS RIVER
MOSOW, Mar.| 13.—(AP>—The
Red Army pusred down both
sides o£ the Inguls river to with
in 30 miles of the Black seaport
of Nikolaev, one of the major
objectives in southern Russia.
Pravda reported the troops of
General Malinovcsky’s third Uk
rainian front had reached the In
guls river after a swdft thrust
southwest of NovyBug, crossing
to the western bank of the stream
and captured settlements includ
ing the town of Privolnoye.