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V~Q~L. XL VII. No. 58. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1945 PER. COPY — lit
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Largest Loan Yet
Wants 7 Billion
From Individuals
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WASHINGTON, May 14—<i«P)—
America began the task of bor
rowing seven billion from its in
dividual citizens, six hundred
forty-nine millions more than they
loaned in any bond drive to date.
The seventh war loan drive will
Jast from now through June thir
tieth will be the longest of all the
drives, and will be the largest
bond selling operation in history.
In terms of public participation
“individuals” include business
partnerships, that is unincorpo
rated business corporations, and
a like amount from other sources,
* making a total goal of fourteen
billion.
Message from The Treasury
This year there are to be only
two War Loans. But in these two
loans we must lend Uncle Sam
just as much money as we did
^last year in three loans. That
won’t be easy.
But it’ll be a lot easier if you’ll
do the same thing that 27 million
Americans in the Payroll Savings
Plan are doing.
Right now they’re stepping up
Iheir allotments — saving extra
money so that they can spread
their War Bond buying over more
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pay checks.
- : .If you re wise—and anxious to
help your country finish this
thing right—you’ll start saving
I now for the first of 1945’s two big
War Loans.
It means sacrifice.
But it also means you’re sup
porting to the best of your ability
the men who are sacrificing things
like arms and legs and lives.
Icrmuvi from Fairbanks
Isadore Charms ris, who has
been working for the Waechter
Bros., in Fairbanks, as a butcher,
was a returning passenger to
None via P.A.A., Friday night.
r ATTENTION ARCTIC
CLUB MEMBERS
The postponed FUNNY-PAPER
R PARTY will be held
ay. May It, at 7:30 pan.,
is Nome Builders Warehouse.
It's a Fact!
Churchill Pledges
British Aid
Against Japan
LONDON, May 14— (/P) —The
efforts of the British Empire is
pledged by Churchill to the twin
tasks of perfecting the peace or
ganization of the United Nations,
and the joining with United States
in inflicting total defeat.
Wartime leaders in a worldwide
broadcast last night made it plain
that with those tasks ahead he
doesn’t intend to relinquish vol
untarily the reins of government
to DeValera for remaining neutral
while Britain was under attack by
Germany.
Asserting “if it has not been
'for the loyalty and friendship of
Northern Ireland we should have
been forced to come to close quar
ters with DeValera or perish for
ever from the earth.” Churchill
disclosed the Nazis had been
planning to use multiple long
range artillery against London in
addition to rockets and flying
bombs. He said “only just in time
did the Allied armies blast the
viper from his nest, otherwise by
the autumn of 1944, to say noth
ing of 1945 might well have seen
London as shattered as Berlin.”
There had been predictions that
Churchill might mention elections
and Britain’s wartime coalition
government, but he only did by
indirect command. In that connec
tion he said “I wish I could tell
you tonight that all our toils and
troubles were over, then indeed I
could end my five years of service
happily if you thought you had
had enough of me, I ought to be
put out to grass. I assure you I
-would take it with the best of
grace, but on the contrary I must
warn you there still is a lot to do.
“You must be prepared for fur
ther efforts of mind and body,
further sacrifices to great causes.”
Churchill, while reserving bit
ter words for DeValera, praised
“thousands of Southern Irishmen,
who hastened to the battlefront to
prove their ancient valor,” be
cause of their acts “bitterness by
Britain for the Irish races’ dies in
my heart.
TEMPORARY OPA
REPRESENTATIVE ARRIVES
Mrs. Mildred Kaser of Anchor
age arrived with the Alaska Air
lines from Anchorage to take
charge of the local office of the
OPA temporarily until a perman
ent representative is available.
Buy War Bonds—7th War Loan!
RECEIVES TREATMENT
IN ANCHORAGE
Jim Christianson, popular baker
for the North Pole Bakery has
been sent to Anchorage to receive
special treatment for an unusual
malady. He has been found to.be
a diphtheria carrier. It is hoped
that he may soon be completely
cured and returned to his work
and family.
Rain 3,500 Tons
On Nagoya
GUAM, May 14— (/P) —Indus
trial Nagoya, Japan’s third largest
city was plastered by thirty-five
hundred tons of fire bombs in a
record flight of five hundred Su
perfortresses today. Returning
crewmen reported “sweeping
devastation” to the metropolis.
While no immediate report of
American plane losses, command
ers agree, must have been very
light. Opposition was surprisingly
small and antiaircraft fire was
described as weak and inaccurate.
While many Jap fighter pilots
took to the air, few showed any
disposition to fight the most con
centrated incendiary raid of the
Pacific war.
The giant air fleet was winging
its way on the 3,300 mile round
trip struck while radio Tokyo was
reporting the continuance of a
two-day offensive by nine hun
dred carrier-based planes in its
home islands.
Unconfirmed enemy reports of
the Superfortress air parade was
more than eighteen hundred miles
long; the first Superfort flown
over the Honshu island ciyt drop
ped fire bombs for ninety minutes
and was on its way home while
the last plane was taking off from
its Marianas base.
Russia And United States Both
Maneuver For Postwar Leadership
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 —
<JP)—American officials are seek
ing at least three main objectives
in her foreign policy: One, An ar
rangement for her own security,
first by lining her strategy with
governments which Moscow con
siders friendly and by laying
down protective treaties as with
France and Britain; second by
helping to develop and support
the world security organization
being planned in San Francisco.
Two: by Wilding up a case to en
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'able Moscow to bid for what it
might call “moral leadership” of
the world. This follows the line
showing Russia the champion of
democratic rights and freedoms of
the western powers and the de
fender’s conservatism in keeping
with it.
Molotov’s fight against admit
ting Argentina to the conference
and the efforts to have the world
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trade union congress represented
in his proposal for the dependent
peoples under trusteeship to be
promised eventual freedom. That
the Big Three prepare a firm
basis on Russia’s maximum influ
ence and power policies in die
future.
Russia’s proposal for but five to
sit in as permanent members on
the trusteeship council was seen
as a move in this direction. Also
the Soviet recommendation for a
proposed world security council
under Big Five the control and
final word of setting up military
bases in international territories.