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Defense Savings
Stamps Be Sold In
Retail Stores
WASHINGTON —Defense Sax
ings Stamps soon will be on sal<
in retail stores throughout th<
country.
Secretary Morgenthau annoum
ed the extension of Defense Sav
ings Stamps sales to retail out
lets everywhere after a meeting
at the Treasury Department, Aug
12, when executives of associa
tions representing more than £
million stores pledged immed
iate participation of their mem
mebrs in the Defense Savings
Program. Stamps will go on sale
very shortly in department stor
es, grocery, drug, variety, furni
ture, hardware and all other typ
es of retail outlets.
At the meeting the retailers er
dorsed full participation in "Re
tailers for Defense” week Sep
tember 15 to 20, when the stores
of every state will concentrate
their efforts to enlist customers
to buy Defense Savings Stamps
Before that time, most stores
from coast to coast are expected
to have Defense Stamps on sale.
The leaders of the retailers’
associations met with Secretary
Morgenthau and Treasury offic
ials to project the plan for init
iating the nationwide store effort.
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Senator From
N. Y. In Juneau
JUNEAU. Aug. 28 — Senator
James M. Mead, of New York,
roared into Gastineau Channel
yesterday about noon on a Navy
observation plane from Sitka for
i a brief conference with Federal
! officials here.
Senator Mead is one of a trio
of Senators a subcommittee of
the Senate Defense and Industry
Investigation Committee. Two of
them are visiting Alaska defense
bases on a brief, five-day flying
trip from Seattle.
The other member of the com
mittee is Senator Ralph O. Brew
ster of Maine, flying today to Ko
diak for an inspection of defense
; work there.
Out of a white-puffed blue sky
a Vought-Sikorsky observation
plane from the Naval Air Station
at Sitka landed with Hugh Ful
ton. chief counsel to the Special
Committee, dropping in to visit
Juneau for a few hours and join
Senator Mead who lunched with
Governor Gr.uening.
“The base ,at Sitka is in good
shape,” he said “and would make
a good showing in a fight right
today. Progress there is remark
able considering the time they
have been working.”
Yesterday, he said, he, Senat
I or Mead and Senator Brewster,
flew non-stop round trip to Ko
diak in a giant naval patrol
bomber, attempting to land at
the is.and base, but finding it im
possible because of weather. The
ship in which they flew, he aver
red, has a crew of seven men,
a tremendous cruising range and
is of the same type as the plane
which spotted the Bismark.
Today Senator Brewster and
Colonel Arthur Wilson General
Staff liason officer of the Army
to the Committee, flew to Kodiak
and will return in time to fly
| south with the original party in
tact. Mead and Fulton will re
turn to Sitka today and then fly
csouth on a navy bomber, plan
1 ining to join Committee Chair
j man Senator Harry S. Truman at
Spokane where he is conferring
! with Washington Senator Mon C.
Walligrein.
The committee will meet in
Salt Lake City for defense hear
ings Tuesday. While in Juneau,
Senator Mead lunched with Gov
I ernor Gruening and officers of
Amber on the vessel, and visit
! ed the town.
BASEBALL SCORES
National League—Brooklyn 4,
Philadelphia 1.
At Boston the Yankees clinch
j ed for at least a tie for the Am
erican League pennant, wring
ing out a two to one victory in
11 innings. In second place are
the Boston Red Sox.
Russians Destroy
Big Dneiper Dam
MOSCOW — The Russian fore
es have blown up the great
Dnieper River Dam, the indus
trial pride of the Soviet revolu
tion. This is an official announce
ment.
The official spokesman said:
“We blew up the dam so as not
to allow this first child of the
Soviet five-year plan to fall into
the hands of the Hitler bandits.”
The dam is located just south
of Dniepertopetrovsk, on the low
er part of the river, where the
German forces are now entrench
ed.
The great construction project
of the Soviet Union dam sup
plied hydroelectric power to a
large section of industrial Uk
raine.
The dam was completed in
1933, was 209 feet high and pro
vided energy for an area of
70,900 square miles. The dam
cost an estimated $11,000,000.
Thrt unique and humorous,
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have beer
brought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget offi
ce
I
Japanese Envoy
For U. S. Peace
.
—
WASHINGTON, Aug. — The
Japanese ambassador to the Unit
?d States. Admiral Nomura, de
clared that failure to heal the
breach between the United Stat
es .and Japan would be a tragedy
and the highest kind of folly.
Nomura paid a brief visit to
S'cretp-y of State Cordell Hull.
Said he:
"We spoke very frankly. We
spoke not as diplomats but as
human beings. Mr. Hull set forth
th'1 American position and I set
forth the Japanese position.”
Relations between Washington
and Tokyo have become increas
ingly tense lately.
After the conference with Hull
Nomura was asked whether the
gap between the United States
and Japan could be bridged. Re
plied Nomura:
“It must be bridged. It would
be folly of the worst kind and
tragic. I have a very strong con
viction that the gap will be bridg
ed, though I do not know just
how.”
Asserts Japan
Is Weakened
By 4-Year War
CHICAGO, Aug. — The new
Chinese ambassador to Vichy,
Wei Tao-Ming said that four
years of war had weakened the
Japanese economically, morally
and from a military angle.
The diplomat pointed out that
Chinese army strength, mean
time, had been much improved.
Wei stopped in Chicago enroute
from Chungking to New York
and Washington. He said his gov
ernment awaited the opportune
moment to launch a front-wide
offensive. Wei added that British
and United States vigilance in
the Pacific, due to Japan’s so
ca.led New Order, had improved
China’s chances in the conflict.
Japan May
Stake Life On
Tank Issue
TOKYO, Aug — The possibil
ity that Japan will stake her
whole Far Eastern prestige on
the issue of tankers carrying
gasoline and oil to Russia is re
flected in the important news
paper Nichi Nichi.
The newspaper asserted that
“it is not a mere problem of oil
shipments but it is a tremendous
problem and means success or
failure of our own international
policy.”
The Nichi Nichi asserted that
Japan has made representations
on the shipments to both Russia
and the United States, contend-!
ing that these shipments are di
rected against Japan and caus
ing disquiet and anxiety to Jap
an.
The Tokyo Times - Advertiser,
controlled by the Foreign Office,
declared that the United States
military mission being sent to
China constitutes a virtual Am
erican participation in the war
against Japan.
21 American
Republics In
Action Now
WASHINGTON — Twenty one
American Republic have agreed
ito place in operation all foreign
vessels driven into western hem
isphere ports on account of the
European War.
The action is announced this
afternoon by the Inter-Amerioan
Financial and Economic Advis
ory Committee working on the
problem for the past seven
months in an effort to alleviate
the shipping shortage resulting
in American waters because of
diversion of vessels to take sup
plies to Great Britain and the
Near East.
Price Ceiling
c
Talk Increases
Salmon Ind. Hit
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 — Talk
of Federal price ceilings r n seme
food tuffs. particular'y canned
goods, occupied the wholesale
food markets today as unconfirm
ed reports of a price order writ
ten to put a ceiling of S2.50 per
case on cohoe salmon touched off
the discussion.
The trade also heard what it
though might be a sample of the
■wry the Government planned to
fi ! its nerds of canned goods.
The Alaska Salmon Packers were
toid, according to dealers, that
the Gopernment will require a
rr llion cases of specified sizes of
cans, and the packers were warn
ed. the report said, not to evade
the order partially by packing an
■abnormal number of cans of oth
er sizes and then claiming they
are unable to furnish the re
quired amount.
Some canners expressed the op
inion that this is the set pattern
of similar moves to acquire can
ned fruits and vegetables and
meats, and those who fail to re
spond or quote prices that the
Government considers too high
might be required to furnish
their proportionate share at
prices the Government sets.
This will inciude, if necessary,
the recall of shipments to com
mercial customers, the trade
said.
‘SOURDOUGH"
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
NEWEST LANDING BOAT_New trick up navy’s
sleeve is liiis type landing boat, built by Higgins Industries in New
Orleans. Note how men arc below deck, protected from machine
gun fire. Each boat is self-powered, carries 20 to 30 men and is
designed to operate in a smoke screen behind the torpedo boat
fleet. They’re built to run aground to land troops dry-footed.
THEY MAKE UP RUSSIA’S BIG FIVE’
Here are members of the "Big Five” committee set up by Soviet Russia to protect her war effort.
Snto the hands of these men went “the whole power of the Stales." Lest to right: I-Yrygn Com
missar V. M. Molotov; Premier Joseph Stalin, head of the new committee; Klemeuti Vc.cshilov,
former defense commissar; G. M. Malenkov, sccre ary of the Central,Committee or the Communist
party; fr.nd L. P. Beria, commissar for internal af its. piclu.ecl in Moscow.
LAND OWNERS DE Y ROAD WORKERS
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Mrs. Lena Bender, 67, (right) carrying an old plat in one hand and a shotgun in the other, is
shown pointing down to her (property line as highway widening crew clears away \jlirt in front of
her home near St. Louis. Claiming the crew had already cut off some of her yard, she threatened
to “do something desperate” if they came any closer. „ ,