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There has long been a feeling on our West Coast,
strengthenend by the recent statement of former Unit
ed Slates Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, that the Mid
western and Eastern states are not fully cognizant of
the dangers of Japanese invasion into American terri-1
tory close to home.
The former German Ambassador, who also served
as Ambassador to Tokyo in 1941. told a group of lunch
eon guests in New York that while Germany might be
expected to crack under the strain of war, the Japan-,
ese would battle on until they were completely crushed
He warned that Tokyo has definite ambitions on this
cornin' n.; that already it k; moving in our direction.
W ■' Coast residents, awake to the Japanese dan-J
ger i.mg be • re Pearl Harbor, now tire living in a corn
bat 70. many of them closer to the Aleutians than
the a"e to Ck veiand, Ohio.
Japan has built up her invasion plan over a long
period ;f war with China. She has perfected her abil
ity to 1 ,nd small fighting forces, to establish beach
bases, and to invade from there. She knows all the
intricacies if sea supply lanes—for she has been using
this method of supply for her armies for more than
10 years. Japan, in short, has all the physical and men
tal background necessary for an invasion of Alaska and
our own Northwest.
In the East we are inclined to wonder what will lie
between us and Germany :n case of a Russ:.-" collapse.
Many ab 'er.'p'^ feel that England would be vulner
able — and : rker Engand, they wonder, what would
come?
Or. the West Coast they arc asking the same ques
tion If Russia should collapse many an Army and Navy
men believes the last barrier to Japanese attacks ag
const Alaska and our West Coast would be down. Be
tween Jap. n and our mainland cities lies only our own
Alaska.—C:n innuti Enquirer.
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Ja|>;ui«*.*e Toucher Thun (Jrrnum-s
Joseph C Grew, former ambassador to Japan,
says that the Japanese are “far tougher than Germany”
and warns the people of the United States that nothing
will defeat Japan except “utter physical destruction or
utter exhaustion of their men and materials,”
Mr. Grew has lived in both countries. He was in
Germany for more than ten years prior to World War
No. 1. coming out of that country when the United
State- broke off diplomatic relations, on the eve of
actual warfare. He has lived in Japan ten years, hav
ing had an exceptional opportunity to “understand”
the Japanese.
“You who have never lived in Japan.” he says,
' can have no conception of the overweening confidence
of the .1 ipanase Army and Navy, their overweening
ambWon, and their determination to conquer and sub
jugate portions of the Occident just as they already
have temporarily possessed themselves of large sec
tions of the Orient.”
He warns that while the Japanese “may seem to
us fan tic:; and, at t.mes, barbarous.” they have been
extremely practical and level-headed” in building
their army and “forging a military nation which today
must be recognized as one of the most formidable in
the world.”
H' points out that the Japanese soldiers were
trained in China, where they had a proving ground for
their veterans, that gave their soldiers special train
ing where terrain and climatic conditions approximate
those in the region where they were t.o fight, that the
Malayan army trained in Hainan and Indo-China, the
Philippine forces in Formosa and that both units prac
ticed landing and operations during the late Summer
and Fall of 1941 along the South China coast.
Here is his considered judgement on the people
of the two enemy nations:
“I know the Germans well; truculent and bully
ing and domineering when on the crest of the wave,
demoralized in defeat. The Germans cracked in 1918.
I have steadfastly believed and I believe today that
when the tide of battle turns against them, as it as
suredly will turn, they will crack again.”
“1 know Japan. I know the Japanese intimately.
The Japanese will not crack, 'ihev will not crack mor
ally or psychologically or economically, even when
eventual defeat stares them in the face. They will pull
in their belts another notch, reduce their rations from
a bowl of rice to a half-bowl and fight to the bitter end.”
Dollars Sent Away lor Printing Never
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Ladd Field’s "Best Gild** Gets
Notice Of Movies, Press
“She’s a dream in a bathing suit.” That’s the way
Cpl. Halford T. Kirk of Ladd Field describes his beau
tiful 18-year-old wife, who has received widespread
publicity and has been interviewed by a movie talent
scout as the result of a contest conducted by “The Mid
night Sun.” A picture of Mrs. Kirk, a Flushing, O.,
girl who works at a defense plant in Canton, O., was
selected by Bob Hope, radio and screen comedL.n, as
winner of the Ladd Field “Best Girl” contest. Hope
judged the contest while on his tour. Mrs. Kirk’s pic
ture was published on the front page of The Midnight
Sun, together with pictures of Hope and his troupe of
entertainers.
Pictures, Stories Used
Shortly after copies of The Midnight Sun were re
ceived in the States, pictures and stories about Mrs.
Kirk started to appear in newspapers in many parts of
the country through distribution by a press association.
Cpl. Kiik received many newspaper clippings from
friends in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia. Among papers which carried photographs or
stories about the contest were the Cleveland (Ohio)
Plain Dealer, the Wheeling (W. V.) Intelligencer, The
Martin’s Ferry (O.) Times and the Canton (O.) Repos
itorv. Newspapers in New York City, Philadelphia, O..
Pittsburgh, Pa., Columbus, O., and Denora, Pa., also
published stories about the “Best Girl” contest.
Cpl. Kirk learned in a letter from his wife that she
had been interviewed by a talent scout for Paramount
Studios. He doesn’t know yet if there’s any chance of
a movie career for her and he’s not sure that he’d like
her to go to Hollywood.
Wants Her Waiting
“I’ll probably be up here a long time yet and I don’t
want to take any chances on losing a good wife,” he
said. “I hope she’ll be there in Ohio waiting for me
when I get home.” Mrs. Kirk has her heart set on being
a model, according to her husband. “She wrote to me
that she was going to New York to attend the Mayfair
School of modeling, he explained. “She’s wanted to be a
model ever since she was a little girl. She has a per
fect figure.”
Cpl. Kirk said his wife was quite excited by her vic
tory in the “Best Girl” contest and was more determin
ed than ever to become a model, unless Hollywood
beckons, of course.
Studies Dancing
“Dee is a wonderful dancer,” Cpl. Kirk commented.
He calls her Dee, short for Delorme. “She studied both
tap and ballroom dancing for years.” Cpl. Kirk has
undergone a lot of good-natured joking since his wife
was named “Best Girl” of Ladd Field. “Her maiden
name was Delorme Joy and the fellws have nick-named
me ‘Corporal Joy’,” he said.
The picture and story in the Martin’s Ferry Times
carried the headline: “East Ohio Beauty Photo Bright
ens Alaskan Winter. Flushing Girl Wins Army ‘E’
Rating.” The article, in part, follows:
Picture Inspires
“No more do the soldiers stationed at Ladd Field,
Alaska, have to depend on the midnight sun alone to
brighten up those long, dark winters.
“The photograph of a blonde Eastern Ohio girl now
serves as added inspiration.
“Outdazzling beauties from California to Illinois,
Mrs. Halford T. Kirk, of Flushing, pretty 18-year-old
wife of Corporal Kirk, has won the title of Ladd Field’s
‘Best Girl.’ . —
China Foreign Minister T. V. Soong
Flies In Stratoliner Over Protests
WASHINGTON—U. S. Army officers were “burned
up” when China’s Foreign Minister T. V. Soong man
aged to obtain through the Whitchouse a stratoliner in
which to fly from Washington back to China.
In the stratoliner be took ten friends, thereby using
up extremely valuable cargo space. The Army did its
best to block use of the stratoliner. It knew tons of
equipment allocated to China, were piled up, waiting
for means of transportation. It also knew that T. V.
Soong, long had battled to get more weapons for China.
So the Army oppose use of the stratoliner. However,
when T. V. Soong insisted, the matter was referred to
the Whitehousc—which sided with the Chinese For
eign Minister and ruled that he should have the big <
passenger plane.
Only other high ranking member of the diplomatic
circle to angle for a stratoliner was Madame Martins,
Conga-dancing wife of the Brazilian Ambassador. Ma
dame Martins was going back to Brazil, wanted to fly
in a stratliner instead of in an ordinary passenger
plane. The Army opposed, argued that stratoliners
were needed to fly men to Africa, India, Australia.
However, vivacious Madame Martins spoke to high
placed friends in the Stale Department and they gave
her the stratoliner—until younger State Department
officials sided with the Army so vigorously that the
order was overruled. In the end. Madame Martins flew
in an ordinary passenger plane.
NOTE:-Foreign Minister Soong, long a resident of
Washington, now will remain permanently in China,
where he constantly gets in the hair of his brother-in
law, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
Synthetic Christmas
This December 25—one year after Pearl Harbor —
will bo a wooden Christmas with a synthetic Santa
Claus. The spirit will be the same, but the form will be
different. Skates, scooters, sleds, electric trains, rubber
balls—these will be scarce everywhere if not absent
entirely. Only the stores which placed their orders
early last January will have the usual toys, and these
probably will be sold out by Thanksgiving.
Experts of the Commerce Department have made a
survey of the toy situation. They find that three types
will be especially short—rubber toys, wheel toys, and
metal goods.
A WPS order stopped production of children’s bi
cycles last April. Velocipedes, scooters, baby carriages,
“flexies”—all will be short. Clearly it will not be a
rolling Christmas. Makers of electric trains are 90 per
cent converted to making materials of war. There may
be 50 percent of the normal train supply this year, but
they are disappearing fast. Ice skates and roller skates
are almost unobtainable, and lead soldiers are practic
ally extinct.
Meanwhile, warlike toys are appearing everywhere
toy bombsights, tanks, bombing planes, and even bomb
banks for the dimes and nickels instead of the old
piggy bank. Ina 11 this there is one consolation—for
the girls. The war has not disturbed the production of
dolls, except those made of rubber.
FOR SALE FOR SALE
Ladies bicycle, balloon tires. ‘‘Leaf Glassware” 1!} each —
front wheel brake, spring side water tumblers, wine, cocktail
stand. Late model. Practically and sherbet glasses. Reasonable,
new. Inquire at Nome Nugget. Inquire Nome Nugget.
If army men could give
an ‘E’ to their best girls,
she would have that, too.”
The Midnight Sun some
time ago sent to Mrs. Kirk
an ivory bracelet in recog
nition of her triumph in
the photo contest.
“Dee writes that she re
ceived the bracelet and
thinks it’s swell and she
asked me to convey her
thanks,” Cpl. Kirk said.
War Work Helped
By General Motors
DETROIT, Nov. — President
Alfred Sloan told General Mo
tors stockholders that the war
production effort was reaping
the harvest of the corporation's
long experience.
Sloan commented that the re
sults of the industrial mass pro
duction study of the motor re
search industry had been a boon
to high powered war work. He
added that at the critical mo
ment production went all out fin
ally because a mental blueprint
of the needs of war work had
already been prepared by the
General Motors research stall.
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