THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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United States
Could Not Cross
Pacific & Fight
OUR NAVY WOULDN’T HAVE
A CHANCE WITH JAPAN,
^ SAY EXPERTS.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, —Ask
a competent navy officer if the
United States navy theoretically
could go over to the Orient and
lick the Japanese navy and he
will tell you:
“No.”
That is an interesting sidelight
on what the government’s practi
cal minds are thinking about
when they talk of moral ‘suasion”
in preference to sanctions and the
like.
The nut of the business is that
if the navy ever should go 8,000
miles across the Pacific to fight a
war, it would have to outnumber;
the enemy two to one. And by
terms of the old, now repudiated
naval limitations treaty, the Unit
ed States agreed not to build a
navy twice as strong as Japan’s.
That was intended to make the
Japanese feel safer.
Thus the ratio was 5-5-d, or hve
units of naval power for Great
Britain, five for the United States
and three for Japan. Neither the
British nor the United States navy
under that arrangement had en
ough fighting power to upset Ja
pan in its own waters. That was
the security Japan sought.
* * *
The Present Lineup
Actually the relationship of.
these three powers is not vastly
different now, even though the
treaty has been repudiated by
Japan and maintained only in a
very hazy form by the United
States and Great Britain. But
the British building program will
make it very different—when and
if completed—and the two fancy
dress battleships ordered by the
United States at $60,000,000 each
probably will give the United
States a greater theoretical edge
over Japan than it had before: al
though Japan is building also.
Here, is how they stack up now,
as computed by the navy depart
ment:
Battleships .15 ... 15 9
Aircraft carriers 3. 6 4
Cruisers .26 —53.94
Destroyers 183 174.94
Submarines .... 78-51.53
In addition, the United States is
building two new battleships, 3
aircraft carriers. 11 cruisers, 61
destroyers and 18 submarines.
Great Britain is building two
battleships, three aircraft carr
iers. 16 cruisers, 34 destroyers,
and 14 submarines.
Japan is building two aircraft
carriers, four cruisers, 18 destroy
ers and seven submarines.
British and United States sub
mar.nes and destroyers are most
ly old; Japan's are mostly new.,
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All the battleships are old in
* years but repeatedly modernized.
* • •
Far, Far Away
The nearest naval base to Japan
I in which United States ships
could be reconditioned and re
paired during a war is Pearl Har
Ibor, Hawaii, some 5,000 miles
from Tokyo. The Philippine in
dependence act gave the United
States the right to establish a
naval station there, but nothing
has ever been done about t.
The cost of a naval invasion of
the Orient would be totaled in
box-car numbers.
Weather today
(U S. Weather Bureau)
High pressure over northern
Canada extending south into the
States is causing cold and fair
weather to continue over this
vast area. Another high over the
Bering Sea has caused fair and
colder weather to obtain over
northwestern Alaska with the
highest Nome temperature yester
day 36 and the lowest last night
21. Low pressure of great inten
sity centered in the Pacific ocean I
extending to the mainland and
the entire length of the Pacific
coast from San Francisco to the;
Aleutian Islands is causing over
cast weather over the Pacific and
rain along the northwest States.
Another low pressure area north
of Barrow in the Arctic ocean
will probably cause cloudiness
with some light snow over scatter
ed portions of Alaska.
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DEATH OF ONTARIO GIRL
SAULT ST. MARIE, Ontario,
(/P)—Vernon Spencer, 40 of Wix
on, Michigan was held here as a
material witness in the dea*h of
Miss H.len Grier, 20. a pretty
Canadian stenographer.
The pajama-clad body of the
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hunting lodge near hear. There
was a bullet wound in the head
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found near the body, authorities
said the wound was not self-in
flicted.
Spencer admitted he and the,
girl was found in a cottage in.
a hunting lodge near here. There!
was a bullet wound in her head
and although a hunting rifle was
found near the body, authorities
said the wound was not self-in
flicted.
Spencer admitted he and the
girl occupied the cabin on a hunt:
ing trip.
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