FORMOSA GUARDS CHINA COAST
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(First of a series on possible Pacific invasion spots)
By THOMAS A. BOYNTON. AP Newsfealures Writer
Two hundred fifty miles north of Luzon and 650 miles southwest of
Kyushu, southernmost of Nippon’s home islands. Formosa guards the
inner approaches to the East China Sea. Westward 100 miles is Amoy,
China, a port seized by the Japanese to counter possible Allied landings.
The Japanese call Formosa “Tai
wan,” or terraced bay. Nature has
endowed it with a backbone of
tree-clad mountains which, in the
west, lead down to a carpet of fer
tile plains. From the soil come
tea, rice and a wide variety of ag
ricultural products. Minerals in
clude coal, sulphur, copper, gold
and silver. Formosan industry has
Polar Liquor
Store
Formerly Cavey’s
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Largest Selection of
fine whiskies and liquors
On the Seward Peninsula
WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS
G MADSEN K. HEDKEEN
Gold Mining May
Be Resumed
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WASHINGTON, June 18—f/P)—
WPB has announced that the re
sumption of gold mining will be
permitted July 1. The action to
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permit the reopening of gold op
erations, shut down since October
8, 1942, when WPB issued the or
der in order to conserve machin
ery supplies and more urgently
needed war metals.
WPB said the action does not
provide the gold mines with any
priority to obtain either man
power or new equipment.
Schedule Of Aircraft
For Which Bids
Are Invited
Subject to the conditions stated
in the “Invitation for Bids,” Form
SWPD-DP 1317, bids on the sur
plus aircraft listed below, includ
ing ceiling price bids, may be sub
mitted between June 16, 1945, and
12 o’clock noon July 7, 1945. Air
craft will be available for inspec
tion on and after June 16, 1945, at
Elmendorf Field, Ft. Richardson,
Anchorage, Alaska. Bids will be
opened at noon, July 7, 1945, at
the office of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, Fairbanks,
Alaska.
Identification number 43-670,
Piper, L-4B, 65 h.p.
No. 43-1222, Piper, L-4B, 65 h.p.
No. 42-38350, Grumman, OA-14
200 h.p.
Further information on these
airplanes is available at the office
of the Nome Nugget Nome, Alaska.
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been an important source of war
materials for Japan.
Of the 6,300,000 people on For
mosa, more than half live by
farming. However, Taikhoku, the
capital, Keelung, the principal
port, Tainan, Kagi, Takow, Taichu
and Sinchiku on the west coast,
and Giran and Kaigan, on the east
are modem population centers.
Since the attack on Luzon in
December, 1941, said to have been
launched from a Formosan stag,
ing area, the island has been a
military storehouse. It is equipped
with modem communications,
netted with 2,399 miles of rail
roads, and boasts a large number
of skilled workmen. Still haras
sing the Japanese, however, are
aborigines whose tribal code calls
for headhunting as a proof of
manhood. These savages have
been pushed deep into the moun
tains.
As fertility was nature's gift to
Formosa, earthquakes, violent and
fairly frequent typhoons, floods
and malaria have been nature's
curse.
The island is bisected by the
Tropic of Cancer, and the climate
is generally hot and rainy.
Nome Enjoys Late
Spring Weather
Without Dust
Nome is enjoying the late
spring weather with double plea
sure as the City Council made ar
rangements to have the streets
oiled.
With the absence of flying dust
property owners have been en
couraged to clean up their build
ings. Gus Steinwandel is adding
a sunporch to the front of his
home, Herman Hoop is residing
and painting his home, the Nome
Drug store has a new coat of
paint, the Nevada has a new fire
proof front and a paint job by
Howard Green, Polet’s Store has
been completely redecorated in
side and painted outside by Wells ^
and Reeves, the Northern Cem
Hospital Notes
New patients at the hospital
■his week are Hattie Kaguak from
Shismaref and Mercy Jones from
Deering. Helen Sheldon and Joe
Baldridge are patients from
Nome.
Patients discharged this week
are Annie Mazona. Virginia Noy
ukpuk and Russell Hingoluok.
RITA TAVIS VACATIONING
IN FAIRBANKS
Rita Tavis, office manager for
the P. A. A. is enjoying a short
vacation in Fairbanks this week
and will he back in time for the
arrival of the first boat.
mercial Co. Caterpillar Depart
ment has added a fence enclosing
their property.
Alaska has a coastline of 26,000
miles.
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