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The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06
PUBLIC PROCLAMATION NO. 4
JUNE 90, 1942

TO: The People Within Alaska and the Public Gen orally:
 WHEREAS. by Public Proclamation No. 1, dated April ', 1922, this Head quarters, the entire Terri tory of Alaska was desig- mated and established a military area, and
 WHEREAS, it is neces- sary, in order to provide the greatest possible pro- tection against sabotage and against espionage with in this area, to establish certain regulations for the control of civilians who en ter or leave the Territory of Alaska by any means of transportation whatsoever, as set forth hereinafter.
 NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Simon B. Buckner, Jr., Ma jor General, Army of the United States, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the President of the United States and by the Secretary of War and my powers and prerogatives as Commanding General, AL aska Defense Command, do hereby declare the present situation requires as a mill tary necessity that, com mencing at twelve mid night, ANT, July 10, 1942, all civilians who en- ter or depart from the Territory of Alaska will be required to obtain and have in their possession a permit for the aforesaid entrance or departure is-
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06

TO- The People Within sued by competent mill Alaska and the Public Gen tary authority following
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06
Allied Bombers Success
 fully Fight off 12 Fighters

Allied Headquarters in Aus tralia, July (APl - Allied bomb CTS again bombed Lac in New Guinea yesterday and success fully fought off l2 Japanese fighl CT planes. MacArthur's headquat terS announced. Other Alliel units lightly attacked the Jap anese airdrome at Koepane Dutch Tlmor.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06
N O T I C E

All taxes real and personal due the City of Nome for year 1941 are due, and on July 18th, 1942, penalty and interest on those unpaid taxes will be calculated, and the delinquent tax roll be prepared, advertised, and the pro perty sold according to law.
 NOME COMMON COUNCIL
 By M. J. Walsh City Clerk
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06
Card of Appreciation

We wish to express our appre- citation for the many expressions of sympathy and floral offerings during the loss of our daughter and sister.
 Mrs. Bessie BOurdOp
 and family
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06
SERVICE LAUNDRY

Due to lack of supplies and equipment, we will be closed for a time. We hope to open soon. Baths will be run as usual with special rates for soldiers.
 John SOIon
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06

Il believe in the United States of America as government of the people. by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the goverened; a democracy in a Republic: a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States. a per feet Union. one and inseparable; established upon the principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
 "I therefore believe it is my duty to my Country to love if; to support it's Constitution: to obey it's laws; to respect its flag; and to defend it against all enemies"
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06

Headquarters Alaska Defense Command OFFICE OF THE COMMANDING GENERAL
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-06
The Americans Creed

by William Tyler Page
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03

and recover his health. He has
been under a terrific strain
1t was Ghormley who, as then
commander chief of the South
Pacific area, launched last Au-
gust 7, and subsequently directed
,he Marine attack on Guadalcanal
and other outposts in the Solomons'
The Navy announced last week
that he had been replaced by Vice
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., a
hard fighting Navy man who had
won ccmmendation early in the
war for task force raids he led
against japanese bases in the Mar
shall and Gilbert islands and
against Wake and Marcus islands.
Knox warned against undue OPP
timism over the situation in Quad
alcanal.
Il detect a disposition to grow
too optimistic about the Solomons
due to our signal success in the first
round he said.
There is no warrant for optim-
ism. 1t is still bitter, tough fight
We know they have a fleet of for
midable proportions left. We haven't
any doubt they will come back. 1t
is dangerous to assume they won't
come back. Any assumption that
this is all there will be of the OPP
Grafton is unWarranted.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
British Execute
Sailor for Selling
Data to Germans

LONDON, Nov. 3.-tU.P)-Dun-
can Alexander Scott-Ford, 81, a
British sailor, was executed at
wandsworth prison today because he
sold information concerning the
British merchane marine to the
Germans.
He was the third British subject
to BE- hanged for treason during the
war. Four Germans, two Dutch
men, a Swiss and a Belgian also
have been executed.
Scott-Fcrd was convicted of trea-
son October 16 before Justice Nor
man Birkett and a jury sitting in
Camera. He did not appeal his
death sentence.
"The case illustrated the tech
nique of enemy agents at Lisbon
and other neutral ports for collect
ing information from British and
allied seamen,' an official an
norncement said.
Scott Ford served on a merchant
vessel making regular trips to LIS
bon. An enemy agent approached
him there and he agreed to supply
secret information.
He received 1900 eScudos, or
about $3.50 for information on the
movements of allied conveys from
Portugal to Britain. The informa-
ton imperiled the safety OF MS
own ship.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03

New Jap l. osses Barred

WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.-tU.P0
Latest information brought TO
washington personally by Vice-Ad-
miral Robert l.. Ghormley indicated
that the japanese lost three cruis-
ers and five destroyers in the en-
gagement between the japanese
and American fleets on the night of
october 11-12 near Savo island in
the Solcmons, Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox disclosed at his press
conference today
Knox cited this report as an eX-
ample of the extreme conservatism
employed in compiling Navy De-
partment communiqueS. In the
communique issued october 13. de-
scribing this action it was claimed
that the us. naval forces sank
one heavy cruiser, four deStroyers,
and an enemy transport, and sub
seouently damaged two more cruis-
ers of the retreating japanese fleet.
The surface action near Savo
island lasted for about 80 minutes
at about midnight and was fought
with guns and torpedoes. The enc
nv was forced to abandon land
ing attempt.
TO REST
Knox, in replying to a question
abous Ghormley's future assign
ment. said:
Il told him to take a good rest
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
WLLLKIE DID A JOB
(William Allen White)

Wendell Willkie, on his mercurial jour
ney through the War-Zones half way
around this earth, did good turn for
his country and the cause OF human free
dom. He has started agitation among the
United Nations for a second front.
Obviously, Germany has given up Stall
ingrad for the moment and is turning to
the Near East, where Hitler's success
would be much more dangerous to the
Allies than success in Russia. There will
be another front all right but the ques-
ton is whether the second front will be
where Hitler wants it or where we can
fight it. And Hitler won't want it where
we can fight it. But we must locate that
second front or Hitler will.
The political phases of every war are
quite as important as the military phases.
This war has gone on long enough as
q defensive movement on the part of the
Allies Abraham Lincoln was unable to
get a general who would attack the con-
federacy for three years. He was about
where the Allies are today. Military sci
ence justified inactiOn. Then along came
Grant.
What Wendell Willkie has done is to
put the people of the free nations in a
mood to find a Grant, someone who will
attack Attack is called the second front.
The war was liable to sour, to become
static and to bog down so that in the end,
when Hitler shall ask for peace, he will
get a compromise.
What Wendell Willkie has done is to
stir up the people of the democracies,
the common people of the earth to the
danger that faces them. It was a great
service. 1t took great man to do what
Willkia has done.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
Rome Claims 90
British Tanks Out

ROME, Nov. 3.-Gtalian broad
cast recorded by UP. in New York.
More than 90 tanks of huge"
British force have been destroyed
on the North Africa front where
Axis troops have stopped an allied
thrust, an Italian communique said
today.
1t said Axis losses also were :Zm-
portant."
THE battle on the Egyptian front
flared up yesterday with even
greater violence" the communiqEe
said. Renewed pressure developed
by huge enemy armored forces has
been valiantly stopped by the tlxis
troops which, with great courage,
counter attacked repeatedly.
"The enemy suffered very great
losses, especially in armored ma
chimes, mere than 90 of which have
been destroyed.
"Our losses also are important,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
A SENSIBLE VIEW
OF GAS RATiONIkG
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The American Automobile Association
finds that opposition to gasoline ration
ing in the Central and Western parts of
the country is not to rationing in itself,
but to possible adoption of cut-and-dried
rules which would create severe handi-
caps and impair the war effort. 1t points
cut that distances are longer in those sec
tiOns than in the East, that mass trans
pOrtatiOn facilities are poorer, that motor
vehicles are of greater necessity in the
regional economy.
The AAA therefore urges the authorit-
les to give due consideration to sectional
differences and to individual needs in
alloting motor fuel to drivers.
Rubber Administrator Jeffers has
made it plain that his objective is to
keep America on wheels so far as is
humanity possible rather than to issue
arbitrary orders for curtailed driving
Commonsense fleXibility in gasoline ra-
tioning is sure to serve the country better
in this emergency than bureaucratic rig
iditV
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
ENGAGE IN THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES


To Whom IL May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that fifteen
days after the above date, the un-.
dersigned proposes to sell alcohollc
beverages at these premises, descrlp-
cd as follows
452 Broadway
Ell Centre, California.
Pursuant to such intention, the
undersigned. is applying to the State
Board of Equalization for issuance
of an alcoholic beverage license 'or
licenses) 20. these premises as fol-
lows
ON-SALE BEER
Anyone desiring to protest the is
suance of such license ts) may Tile
a verified protest with the State
Board of Equalization at Sacra-
mento, California, stating grounds
for denial as provided by law
RANCHO ALVAREZ and
JUAN VILLAGRASIA RAMA.
mo. 00) 'N3'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
Bio Tank Battle
Raging in Egypt

other grounded Axis planes were
damaged.
DESTROYERS HIT
Raiding Crete, the main source
of Rommel'S air reinforcements,
Allied bombers scored direct hits
on two enemy deStroyerS.
Two operations were reported at
the supply port of Tobruk. The
first was described only as "a sue
cessful raid" In the second. the
communique said, Allied bombers
attacked an escorted Axis convoy
northwest of Tobruk, setting fire
to a medium sized merchant ship
and scored a possible hit on a small
Ter vessel.
Air attacks against Malta con-
tinued to fall off. Only one plane
was shot down there yesterday, and
the communique made no mention
of any sustained Axis raid.
The communique said increasing
numbers of prisoners were being
taken in the ground fighting. 1t
was estimated that we'll over 5000
Axis soldiers had been taken pris-
oner since the offensive began.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
SHORTAGES REPORTED

But all over this broad land there
are daily reports of local shortages
OF coffee. tea, and numerous items
of canned goods. Scares develop
boarding starts, shortages are ac-
centuated and confusion mounts. 1t
is to eliminate this confusion that
the need for a national food ad-
ministrator is being talked of more.
The flat statements OF several
months ago that there would be
no shortages of food are now pc
ing seriously questioned.
The United States can grow
enough food to keep going, and
food industry leaders are loud in
their praises of the way the De-
partment of Agriculture under
Secretary Claude r. Wickard has
moved rapidly and effectively to
increase all food production goals.
Where the shortages come IN are
not from lack of planting, breeding,
harvest or slaughter OF hero ana
crop. The causes are completely IN
direct.
Primarily, the food professors lace
the same shortages that face all
industry-a lack of manpower to
gather and ship and clean and
pack and can and dry and freeze
the foods you eat. Unless this man
mower problem can be licked next
year. people might go hungry.
Secondarily, there will be a short
age of food conveniences. There
won't be the abundance of foods
in the particular containers you
NAV have been used to-
There will be no shortage OF
beans, for instance. You VIII be
able to buy dried beans by the
peck or bushel. But there won
be as many tin cans of baked beans,
not because of the shortage OF
beans. but because of the tin cans.
AS a substitute, there are offered
frozen baked beans or baked beans
in glass jars. But there won't be
as many glass jars.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

Some time about mid-December
there will be another of these gov
ernment called conferences in
Washington, having to do with how
much you eat and what and when,
in the coming year. The confer
ence will be a meeting of the big,
medium and little shot food pro-
cesSors. Not the farmers. but the
packers, the Gamers, the bottlerS,
the dryers. the dehydrators and the
manufacturers of prepared foods.
There may or there may not be
n presidentially appointed food
administrator present. Represent
atives of the food professors hope
there will be some one man i'll
charge of all food distribution by
that time. to do the job that Her
bert Hoover did in the last war.
But whether there is centralized
control bv them, food industry
men hope that through the exist
ing Food Requirements Commit
tee i'm the War Production Board
setup, the government will have
dlI IlS u'te Wv
so that the industry will know
how much of every food item will
be needed by Army, Navy, lend
lease and the u. 5. civilian popu-
lation.
Not only that, but also what kind
of a container will be available
TO pack it in? With all these pro-
grams lined up like ducks in row
by mid-December, the food distrib-
utors figure they'll be able to plan
on keeping the nation supplied
throughout 1943.
A further advantage of having
all this in order for the coming year
is that with or without a food ad-
ministrator, it will stop lot of dis
ouieting rumors and false reports
now floating around on what foods
are going to be rationed. and how.
Sugar is the only commodity under
full rationing now
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1912

in various parts of the Pacific. us.
losses have been extremely light
he said.
Il am proud of every part of
the Navy" he said, but I am par
ticularly proud of the submarines.
which are doing an amazing and
outstanding job.
This is primarily a war of at
triton in the Pacific No arm is
serving a more important part in
this war of attrition than the sub
marines"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
MACHINERY LACKING

There is no shortage OF glass, but
there is a shortage of the special
type of closing machines necessary
to handle glass jars automatically,
and there is further shortage OF
rubber rings and closures for seal
ing the glass jars and protecting
their content.
Here are where your food
shortages will come in l943-nOt
in the foods themselves but IN
their containers and the methods
of getting them to you.
Faced by this situation, the pa
triotic thing for the good house
wife to do is to buy no more can
ned goods than her family can
use and TO buy only as her family
needs.
Rationing of canned and other
processed foods is perhaps lneVl-
table for 1914, maybe sooner, TO IN
sure a fair distribution. Buying
ahead won't help, for as in the case
with sugar. everyone will nave u
declare existing stocks on the
pantry shelf in order to get ratloi
allowances.
WASHINGTON GOLF
Cost of new housing for half
million war workers has been ap'
proximately $4,000 unit Three
fourths of this housing has beer
built by private industry a 81
nm. nti-aircraft gun uses a tor
of copper every 20 minutes it is il
operation -. House trailcrs mal
now be produced only on order o
National Housing Agency e. Army
and Navy will get 10 million pounds
Of frozen vegetables next year
Manufacture Of telephone sets ha'
been limited.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03

The people Of the United States salute
the people Of Greece in the conviction
that Greek freedom and institutions will
be resurrected and restored. = Senator
Tom Connally, chairman Foreign Rela-
tions Committee
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO ASSESSMENT
(TAX) PAYERS.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT ASSESSMENT FOR
mao NOM nVrE


Office of Assessor and Collector Of
Imperial Irrigation District,
November l, 1912.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
have received the Assessment
books for the year 1912 and that
the assessment for that year is now
due and payable. The Directors OF
the Imperial Irrigation District have
determined by resolution that the
said assessment shall be payable
in two installments.
Pursuant to law and the said
resolution the said assessment levied
within the said District is due and
payable on the first day of Novem-
ber, 1912 The first installment
thereof (one-half of said assess
menD will become delinquent at six
5000 o'clock pm, on the last Mon
day in December, 1912 and unless
paid prior to that time, ten Q0%
per cent will be added thereto. The
second installment of said assess
ment (the remaining one-half of
the entire assessment will become
delinquent at six (6:00) O'Clock pm,
on the last Monday in June, 1943
and unless paid prior to that time.
five $50 per cent will be added
thereto.
Said assessment will be received
at the office of the Assessor and
Collector of the said Imperial Irriga-
tion District located at 143 South
Sixth Street Masonic Temple Build
ing) in the City of Ell Centre. Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
every day from the date of this
notice Cholidays excepted) during
legal business hours.
w. A. McFADDEN.
Assessor Collector
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-CU.Po
American forces, after standing up
to the hardest blows the Japanese
could offer on land, sea and air,
were believed today to be stepping
up their offensive in the Solomon
islands.
Latest reports revealed Japanese
troops retreating slowly from their
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
,PAROLEE JAILED
FOR WEARING UNIFORM

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 3.-CUPD-
George Edward Mills, 33, Ontario,
today was under a six months jail
sentence after pleading guilty in
federal court TO charges Of illegal
ly wearing an Army uniform. Mills,
a parolee from Folsom prison, said
he obtained the uniform when he
joined the State Guard. He admit
ted adding sergeant'S stripes and
coast apsillery insignia.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03

Il don't want to build up optim-
ism that will be punctured later by
the desperately hard fighting that
is ahead.
Us. LOSSES LIGHT
Both sides are taking advantage
cf the lull to strengthen their lines
for what will come.
Some of the headlines this
morning were more optimistic than
the situation justified"
Knox praised the American sub
marines for their destructive raids
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

If | were to tell you how few bombers
China has received from us you simply
would not believe me. If | were to tell
you how far Russia feels we are from full
filling our commitments, you would agree
with me that we have little reason to
boast Of our performance.-Wendell Will
kie.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The follolcln0 edit
Oriais are presented as interesting opin.
ions UOiced by editors elsei0here. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
WE GET A TASTE
OF DICTATORSHIP

Americans we in Imperial Valley
along with the rest-are under a dictator
ship today. We have accepted it willing
ly, because we want to win the war.
Every Imperial Valley citizen today
is having a little taste of what it would
be like to have a permanent dictatorship
operating in this country.
You've got to ask a government board
for permission to buy gasoline, sugar,
tires, steel, numberless other things.
You've got to ask the government to per-
nit your employer to raise your wages.
You've got to ask the government for per
mission to take a new job, if you are in
any one of hundred different occupa-
tions. You can't build house without
the governments permission.
Soon, now, you will not be able to tray
Ell without asking some government un-
derling whether he will approve your
plans, and before you can get his approx
al, you will have to reveal your most
secret and personal reasons. You won't
be able to visit your mother in Los An
geles, your brother in San Francisco,
your Aunt Minnie in the middle-West,
without first humbling yourself before
a federal agency for permission
And that's all right-now.
But it wouldn't have been all right
year ago, and it won't be all right two or
three years from now.
SO remember one thing. Paste it III
your hat. Repeat it to yourself when you
go to bed at night. Don't forget it for one
minute 1t is, in historic words:
Eternal vigilance is the price of liber-
ty."
Our rationing boards are giving us
taste of dictatorship today. We accept
their DEGREES, and abide their power, be-
cause this is war, and we've got to win
the war. But let us have one thing under
stood between our government and our
selves, and between our rationing boards
and ourselves.
We're still democratic people, and we
intend to remain So When this is over,
we want our rights back, and no argu-
ont
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-03
AND EVEN NOW We
WANT COURTESY

Even while this war Is gong on we
want no second grade GOebbels and third
rate Hitlers swapping our heads off from
high and mighty perch on some federal
board: be it rationing, draft, manpower or
whatnot. To you who serve on those
boards, we offer bit of good, sound
American advice:
Remember that the people you deal
with are not your interiors nor are they
there to be herded willy-nilly according
to personal whim or selfish caprice. They
are your employers-you' working IN
their service. Remember that word. Ser
vice And remember that in your hands is
a big job, to be done in big way. Your
appointment doesn't make you some God
head, with power supreme.
And to the people.
Don't think that this taste Of dictator
ship'you are having now is something that
will automatically fade away the day an
armistice is signed Don't get the idea
that you'll wake up some fine morning
and find yourself with all your old liber-
ties restored to you, without any effort
at all on your part.
Your representatives imposed these re-
strictions with your knowledge and con-
sent. There are some people who would
like to see them continued into the dis
tant future as part of what they like
to describe as a controlled economy.
Don't think these people aren't going to
try to use the war as a stepping stone
toward this controlled economy they
preach.
Keep your eyes open and your minds
alert. Serve warning that you're fighting
for freedom now, abroad, and you intend
to continue fighting for freedom, at home,
when the axis has been blown off the
face of the earth.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-30
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