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Our war in the Pacific is only two months old, but
it has already added many tales of American brhvery,
heroism, resourcefulness and courage to the military
annals of the nation.
Recently, President Roosevelt made the welcome dis
closure to our allies in the Far East that the “Yanks
are coming.” Already, the Japanese invaders have
had a sample of what the handful of “Yanks’ already
on hand in the Orient can accomplish.
Outstanding, of course, is the record of some 6,000
American and 32,000 Filipino soldiers under Gen.
Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines, not only hold
ing their own but actually driving back some 100,000
Japanese in some sectors of the islands.
But tales of individual heroism are no less striking
Out of the first burst of uarfare—the surprise invasion
of Pearl Harbor on December 7—came the account of
Lieut. George R. Bickell, whose plane was shot down
by the Japanese attackers. Lieut. Bickell swam safely
ashore, climbed into another plane and renewed his
counter-attack against the invaders. Mrs. Margaret
Bickell, his wife, one of the first evacuees from Hawaii
to reach the United States was an eye witness to the
incident. When we record deeds of daring, we must not
overlook the valiant crews of U. S, submarines, who
have piloted their submarine craft into the very teeth
of the enemy to sink five ships in Tokyo Bay. Look at
your map and note that both Tokyo and Yokohama, the
two most powerful Nippon strongholds are located on
this piece of water and you will more fully appreciate
the feat.
Just recently, the Navy Department wrote a new
name on its rolls of war heroes and added one more
ship to the Japanese losses in the Philippines. The
name was that of Lieut. John Bulkeley, 30 of Long Is
.and. New York, who rocketed his swift motored tor-1
pedo boat into the enemy-held Bay of Binang and tor
pedoed 'a<5,OQO-ton Jap vessel, despite a storm of vio
lent fire. Thus Bulkeley and his crew of eight sea
men introduced the Navy’s new PT boat into the
Pacific war in a spectacular fashion.
And so it goes. These are but a few outstanding and
scattered incidents — bits of heroism from our view
point and violent headaches for the Japanese.
With our A.E.F. either landed in the Far East battle
zone now or on their way there, the slant-eyed invad
ers have many more headaches in store for'them. We
predict the war lords will soon add general rations of
asperin to the quotas of whiskey already being issued
to Japanese siege troops.
Science Oilers Weapon Against Spies
Washington, D. C. — It would be inconceivable in this
war for the United States not to have sabotage and es
pionage, for those are twin activities considered vital
to the effective operation of any war effort.
But the spy and saboteur are going to be up against
something now with which they never had to cope in
World War I—the most complete scientific crime lab
oratory in the world. At the federal bureau of investi
gation, a group of 65 scientists, every one of them
specialists in some particular field, will be working
day and night if necessary to make life hard for the
saboteurs and spies. J. Edgar Hoover, director, start
ed the FBI crime detection laboratory in 1932, not
without a little derisive sniffing from some govern
ment officials, lawmakers, and particularly the police
of the land. In nine years the sniffers have quit it and
the police of the land now send about 2000 specimens
a month to the laboratory for analysis and report.
Spectography, petrography, serology and such may
just send the reader to the dictionary, but it already
has ben proed that they can send the saboteur to the
pen. Petrography, for example, is the business of an
alyzing and classifying soils, minerals, dirt and debris.
Into this classification too falls the microscopic study
of oils and greases to determine if any foreign sub
stance has been introduced to damage the machinery
it is supposed to lubricate.
Iron Filings Traced
One case where petrography played its part recent
ly was the identification of iron filings in a bi{g tractor
that was shipped o Australia, After that, locating the
source of the filings was up to other FBI investagators,
but knowing what it was narowed the search.
Not long ago, a navy experimental plane was discov
ered to have certain aluminum alloy fittings which had
been partially sawed through. Into the laboratory came
the fittings and 176 hacksaw blades and the scientists
went to work. In a few days, they came up with the j
report that only 17 of the hacksaws could possibly have
been used on the job. That didn’t solve the case, but1
Ether Time Riddle Answered
Axis Radios Run By Allies’ Time; Copy Techniques
What time is it? That’s the question that bothers
many a radio dialer, cutting in on short wave bands
on the sizzling news that tells the story of World War II
It’s easy as pie to figure it out .... even without a
pencil: Time on the short waves is announced on
Greenwich meridian. That goes around the world.
Japan may have gone off the pound sterling and
the dollar, but she still adheres to British time. The
Nazis and Fascists may have leveled their guns on
Old England, but they run their barrages of propag
anda on England’s clock-in fact, allied time still
rules the world,
Cut Off Ten Hours
For dialers in the Anchorage-Fairbanks time zone,
then, here is the formula: Radio time on all your
short wave b’casts runs on a 24-hour clock, beginning
at midnight at Greenwich meridian. There are 360
degrees in the earth’s circumference. There are 24
hours in a day. Divide 360 by 24 and you get fifteen—
the number of degrees per hour. Divide 15 into 150,
Anchorage’s approximate west longitude, and you get
ten. So we’re just ten hours removed from Green
wich time.
But which way? Let’s see. Old Sol rises in the east.
Or the earth turns from west to east. And the sun rises
first, then, in England, rising here (latitude for lati
tude) just ten hours later. So when it’s midnight here
it will be 10 a.m. in London.
See How Simple
So, if KGEI says (as it will every day) that the pro
gram “United America Fights” may be heard at 1500
G. M. T., that means that it will be heard here at 15
o’clock minus ten hours, or at 5 o’clock in the morn
ing. Obviously the count won’t go past 2345 o’clock
which is 11:45 p.m. in London. That would be 13:45
o’clock here, or 1:45 p. m. And the familiar news broad!
cast in English that comes from KGEI at 2 o’clock p.m.,
Anchorage time, on 15,330 megacycles, is at exactly
zero o’clock London time. . . . it’s midnight.
In the Nome time zone there’s, 3 hours difference
from San Francisco time, and 11 hours from London.
In the Sitka zone there’s only one hour difference from
San Francisco and only nine hours from London. But
the computation’s the same. And you can figure the
time anywhere in the world if you'll just look at the
map, divide the longitude by 5 and add, or subtract
the resulting number of hours to or from London time,
according to whether you’re east or west of London,
respectively.
Who’s Japan’s Sousa?
Who is the “march king” of Japan? Who is the Nip
ponese imitation of John Philip Sousa?
That question interested music fans today, as Jap
anese radio continued to grind out its phonograph re
cords of Nipponese marches at the beginninbe and end
of scores of programs daily on many a kilocycle band.
Copying both instrumentation and music writing, the
versatile imitators of Nippon paid high tribute to Sou
sa’s successful marches by their parallel writing.
Most popular of all the marches, apparently, is the
“Eagles,” the Japanese air corps march.
Like Italy and Russia, Japan frequently uses a fem
i inine newscaster, imitating this technique. Like Ger
many’s Lord Haw-Haw, its masculine commentators
seek to break into ironic criticism of the United States
while the propagandists show that Radio Tokyo has
faithfully copied every device of Nazi radiomen in
their effort to woo the interest of neutrals and to split
apart the allies and to spread unfounded fears abroad.
To psychologists, perhaps the most amusing propag
anda device, used by the Japanese is one that reveals
l a sensitive point in the national character. That point
is their hatred of being called imitators and adapters,
I and their disgust of being regarded as people of low
creative ability. So their paid whipper-uppers, who
j seek via radio to rouse Japan’s own people and the
rest of the world, charged this: That the United States
has copied one of Britain’s battle techniques in the
Philippine fighting.—Alaska Service Record.
here again it narrowed the search tosuch extent that
the agents in the field could work swiftly on what other
wise would have been a painfully slow investigation.
In the case of a train wreck, a rail had been twist
ed out of place and painted black so that it would not
reflect the engine headlight and reveal it was out of
place. It was the FBI crime laboratory that analyzed
the paint on the rail and found it to be identical with
two jackets found hidden in a water hole nearly a
quarter of a mile from the wreck. If and when the
owners of those jackets are apprehended, a powerful
bit of testimony will be thrown into the case by the
FBI scientist who made that analysis.
Acids Studied
In the labortaory, too, chemists study acids that are
thrown on metals and materials to damage them. ,
The document section devotes its time to documents,
checks, codes and cyphers. The search for fluerescent
invisible writing, using ultraviolet light and the use of
infra-red photography for the restoration of secret and
obliterated writing are just phases of this section’s ex
tensive work but it is one that makes the task of sab
otage and spying far more difficult than it was.
Life wont be as easy for inside workers as it was
20-odd years ago.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 652
In the Probate Court in and
for the Cape Nome Precinct,
Second Division: Territory of
Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of
JERRY SULLIVAN, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that by
order of the Probate Court in
and for the Cape Nome Precinct,
Alaska, the undersigned has been
appointed Executor of the estate
of Jerry Sullivan, deceased. All
persons having ’claims against
said estate shall present them,
with proper vouchers attached
within six months from the date
of this notice to the undersigned
at Nome, Alaska.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, Jan
uary 16th, 1942.
Mike Walsh, Executor
Publish Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. fi
NOTICE
Pursuant to an order of Court
entered on this 5th day of Jan •
uary, A. D. 1942, notice is here
by given that a general term of
the District Court Second Div
ision, Territory of Alaska, wil
be held in the Court House at
Nome, in said Division and Terri
tory, commencing at the hour of
ten fifteen o’clock (10:15) a.m. on
Mot day, February 9th, 1942, and
to continue thereafter according
to further orders of the Court
Civen under my hand ana
with the Court’s Seal affixed this
5th day of January, A. D. 1942
Aimer Rydeen,
Clerk of the District Court
for the Territory of Alaska
(SEAL) Second Division.
Publish Jan. 16, 23. 30, Feb. 6.
Defense Bonds and Stamps
As the submarine chaser PC485 slipped into the Har
lem River at New York, the keel for another, the PC563
was lowered into place at the Consolidated Shipbuild
ing Corporation yards. The Navy is building the sub
chasers at a cost of about $1,000,000 each to entensifv
its drive against enemy submarines,
Federated Church
Wilbur P. Wood, Pastor
11 a. m. — Church School
7:45 p m. — Worship service.
Sermon topic: “Just Common
place.’’ The pastor will make a
brief report of his trip to White
Mountain.
Lavinia Wallace Young Mission
Miss Constance Erickson,
Superintendent
11:00 a.m. — Church School.
5:00 p.m. — Worship Service.
Sermon topic: “Why Have 1
Churches?” W. P. Wood will
preach. ■*
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