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MONDAY, JUNF \2, 1944
FIFTH WAR LOAN DRIVE
A safer investment has never been
known.
There are various classes and series
of bonds. Series E, are best for sav
ings. for gifts, for educational funds for
the children, or for a self retirement
plan.
For a deferred income, Series E,
and F, Savings Bonds, for tax purposes
on income may be either deferred or ac
crued.
The dates for the Fifth War Loan
have been announced as June 12th to
July 8th, and today being the first day
of the drive, it seems a good time to be
gin making it another successful event.
We must use our hindsight and
forethought to keep up or even exceed
the record we have thus far established.
The national quota is 16 billion dol
lars, or 2 billion more than the 4th Loan
and our Alaska quota is somewhat lar
ger than previously, leaving Nome to
raise a total of $55,000.
Alaska has always exceeded its quo
ta. and we can be reasonably assured
that its total will again top the goal.
As citizens of Alaska and the Unit
ed States, we must realize that the gov
ernment must have the money now so
it is up to each and every one of us to
sieze the opportunity to invest all we
can, and to realize interest on our invest
ment, rather than be forced to give more
through taxes which will not bring in
dividual returns.
Buy more War Bonds and keep them
to maturity, you will benefit, Uncle Sam
will benefit, and everybody will be glad
they helped win the war.
“D” DAY-ONE DAY LATE!
The weather disappointed the plan
ners of “D” day, and forced the post
ponement of the invasion for 24 hours
for the scheduled landings on the coast
of France by the Americans and their
allies.
On June 6th, in 1917, just 27 years
prior to the date set for the American
landings on French soil, the first Amer
icans landed in France for World War I.
It was not mere coincidence which
led to the choosing of this date, but the
choice was left in the hands of General
“Ike” Eisenhower, and was probably
for a combination of reasons.
The Allies were ready, for one. It
was as good a date as any within the
i time set by the high command.
On June 6th, just six days ago, the
Allies landed on the French coast, and
today they are making methodical,
steady advances across the Cherbourg
Peninsula, in Normandy, in northern
France.
SAYS GERMANY WILL CRACK
Dr. Eduard Benes, President of
Czechoslovakia, predicts in London that
it is “not at all unlikely that Germany
will collapse within three months after
a successful Allied invasion of “Western
Europe.”
The Czech leader does not believe that
the Germans will permit fighting on
their own soil and bases his prediction
upon the theory that when Anglo'Amer
ican forces reach the Western German
frontier and Russian forces reach the
Eastern German frontier. “Germany
will crack wide open and refuse to fight.”
Dr. Benes says that reports reaching
, him from the Continent showed disin
tegration within Germany and asserts
! that “between fifteen and thirty Ger
man civilians are executed inside Ger
i many every day for expressing defeatist
! views and making anti-Hitler remarks.!’
I He does not say that the Allied invasion
will be a promenade but professes con
i f’dence that it will prove disastrous to
:the Germans.—Fairbanks News-Miner).
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MAN IS INTERESTING
Man is ever the most interesting ob
! iect to man, and perhaps, should be the
enly one that interests. Whatever else
surrounds us is but element in which we
, live, or the instrument which we em
inloy. The more we devote ourselves to
! such things the more we attend to them
~nd feel concern in them, the weaker
• ’ll our sense of our own dignity be
cme, the weaker our feelings for so
.—(Goethe).
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A Proclamation!
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FLAG DAY, 1944
WHEREAS, the President of
the United States has by virtue
Of proclamation established June
14th as Flag Day in the following
terms:
“For many years June 14 has
been set aside as Flag Day, ob
served throughout the Nation afe
a day of earnest rededication to
those high principles of human
ity and civilization which con
stitute the foundations of the
Republic.
“It is not necessary to recite
that the s’ars and stripes of our
flag symbolize the patriotic and
loyal unity of one hundred and
thirty-five million people in a
Widely diversified land. Nor is it
necessary to dwell on the strug
gles through which we have
marched, under that flag, to our
present great part in the world’s
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IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome. Alaska
Seattle Office:
1912-13 Smith Tower
Telephone Elliot 8200
O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
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COMPANY
Phone Black 156
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JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
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affairs. What we are, and what
we do, speak of these things far
more eloquently than any words.
“Ours is a flag of battles. On
the ships of our Navy, in the van
guard of our soldiers and ma
rines, it is carrying liberation
and succor into stricken lands. It
is carrying our message of prom
ise and freedom into all corners
of the world.
“Ours is also a flag of peace.
Under its protection, men have
found refuge from oppression.
Under its promise, men have
found release from hatreds and
prejudice, from exploitation and
prosecution. It is the flag under
which men and women of varied
heritage, creed, and race may
work and live or, if need be,
fight and die together as only
free men and women can.
“Let us men display our flag
proudly, knowing that it symbol
izes the strong and constructive
ideals—the democratic ideals—
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which we oppose to the evil of
our enemies. Let us display our
flag, and the flags of all the
United Nations which fight be
side us, to symbolize our joint
brotherhood, our joint dedication,
under God, to the cause of unity
and the freedom of men.
‘‘NOW, THEREFORE, - I,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT,
President of the United States of
America, do hereby ask that on
Flag Day, June 14, 1944, the peo
ple of our Nation honor especial
ly the members of the armed
forces—men and women equally
—whose unfaltering devotion to
our national ideals has given the
Nation’s flag a new and hopeful
meaning for those struggling
against oppression in lands still
held by our enemies.
“I direct the officials of the
Federal Government and I re
quest' the officials of the State
and local governments to have
our colors displayed on all pub
lic buildings on Flag Day, and I
urge the people of the Unifed
States on that day to fly the
American flag from their homes,
and to arrange, where feasible,
for joint displays of the emblems
of the freedom-loving United
Nations without whose staunch
collaboration we could not have
hoped for victory.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ERNEST
GRUENING, Governor of Alaska, |
call the attention of the people
of Alaska to this proclamation of
our President and suggest that
you display not only the flag of
the United States and the flags
of the United Nations, but also
the Alaska flag. I urge all news
papers to give publicity to this
proclamation, and all radio sta
tions to broadcast it so that it
may come to the attention of all
Alaskans.
ERNEST GRUENING,
Governor of Alaska.
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