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Evening star., 1943-05-31

his uniform: his sword dangled from
his belt to the floor.
1T was at the colonel's sugges-
ton" Matsui continued, that I
asked you to meet me here. The
colonel says he believes that YOU
appreciate Japan's national prob
lens and are personally friendly
to the japanese people, He says
that during your trips to the front
with the japanese Army, on which
he served as your escort. he has
grown to like you-personally even
though your newspaper stories have
been highly critical of Japan's con-
duct in China"
Matsui's English was perfect, for
he was native of Southern Cali
fornla. In other ways, too, he was
not an ordinary japanese sergeant.
His family was one of the most
prominent in Japan; one uncle was
a general: another uncle an i'm
portant official of the foreign office.
Evening star., 1943-05-31

! You have been quoted as saying you
hope to get home and back before
the shooting started"
That's right" I said. Its been
five years six months and Is days
since left San Francisco I've been
two years in Hawaii and the rest of
the time in China and Japan. I
want to get home just long enough
to visit my family, and maybe see
football or baseball game again
Then I'll be glad to come back to
the Orient for the duration"
The colonel takes the liberty of
reminding YOU" Matsui continued,
that there have been no regular
trans-Paci1c ship schedules from
Shanghai for some months. He
wishes to point out that except for
two Dutch vessels and one French
no departures are scheduled from
Shanghai. There is possibility that
Evening star., 1943-05-31

terms are impossible. And then we
will go to war;"
Matsui had said as much as he
could, I asked him, And what
about yourself?"
He took a sip Of tea. sucking 1t
in noisily in japanese fashion. I'm
here for the duration, or until get
killed. AS youngster I thought of
myself as an American. I was born
there and went to college there. I
failed to find a place in my native
country compatible with my educa-
ton and background. People would
not accept me as an American, be-
cause I look Japanese I went back
to Japan and they put me in uni
form Here 1 am"
I shook hands with him. Good
by, Jimmy. I won't see you until
after the war, unless we happen to
come face to face in a trench. But
Evening star., 1943-05-31

won't forget what you have told
me. And thank the colonel for me-"
I walked out into the sparkling
afternoon sunshine and crisp fall air
of Shanghai. The date was No.
vember IA, 1941.
My ricksha boy started weaving
through the traffic, lodging speed
ing Japanese Army trucks, a camou-
f1aged light tank, sWarms of rick
shas and slow-moving coolies tug
ging heavily loaded carts by long
ropes. japanese soldiers. sailors
and marines crowded the sidewalks,
jostling Japanese girls in bright
colored kimonos. This part of
Shanghai was part of Japan's New
Order now.
I directed the ricksha puller
Garden Bridge. Chop-chop" l
intended to act quickly on the ad-
vice that Matsui had given me. What
he had said merely re-emphasized
my own conviction that war had to
come. For months, in stories and
letters, I had been writing that it
was inevitable.
Several other Japanese officers and
civilians had given me friendly
warnings that I would be wise to
leave Shanghai as soon as possible
but none had been as specific as
Matsui.
The Japanese made it perfectly
clear that unless the United States
surrendered completely and discon-
tlnued its moral aid to Generals
simo Chang Kai-Shek-aid backed
by few planes and other war ma
terlals being sent into Free China
there could be no settlement of
japanese American difficulties. They
said Japan had no intention of get
ting out of Manchukuo, China, Indo-
China, and Hainan Island and 60
ing back to Japan itself Those were
the American terms, and they were
not much less stringent than the
terms that would be imposed on a
defeated Japan
X X X
The japanese were playing for
much bigger stakes than the areas
they had already conquered. To go
on playing power politics, they had
to gain free access to certain raw
materials they had been purchasing
from the United States and from
European colonies in the western
Pacific. They needed oil, aluminium
iron, nickel, tin, tungsten, chrome
manganese, and rubber. All these,
except iron, were ready to hand in
Malaga, the Netherlands East In
dies. and the Philippines. The iron
Evening star., 1943-05-31
By Clark Lee.
CHAPTER I

SA1f11 l..
Sergt. Hajime Matsui of the i'm
perial Japanese army leaned closer
to me across the table and said in a
low voice, Il have a message for you
from the colonel"
He glanced cautiously around the
windoWless, smoke-flled room. In
the booth next to us two husky Jap
anese privates in weather-beaten
khaki were flirting loudly with a
moon-faced girl recently imported
from Nagasaki to help entertain the
Emperor's soldiers in China.
On the other side a japanese cap
tain was sprawled face up across a
table. snoring noisily. Beer had
spilled down the unbuttoned coat of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
BY UNITED PRESS

Mothers of the us. Army fliers
listed as probably prisoners of the
Japanese after the raid on Tokyo
prayed for their sons lives Thurs
day but expressed great pride in
their achievement.
At Madras, Ore, Mrs. Hulda An
drus refused to believe that her
son, Corp. Jacob Deshazer might
be dead. She said her last word
from the flier last summer had told
her: Don't worry, mother. I'm in
no danger The message, she said,
was forwarded from Japan by the
International Red Cross.
TAKES PRIDE
Despite her anxiety. Mrs. AndruS
took pride in her sons courage in
volunteering for the raid.
HE could never do anything to
make him look like a sissy" she
added
At Earth, Texas, Mrs. Lena Hite,
mother of Lieut.. Robert l.. Hite,
also was sure her son was alive.
She based her belief on a report re-
ceived from the War Department
last October that an American ra-
dio operator had heard her son
speaking on short-wave broad
cast from Japan. Her son had
said he was well and could receive
letters, she said.
PRAYS FOR LIFE
At Washington, DC. Mrs. Jessie
Farrow, a secretary at the Board of
Economic Warfare, prayed that her
son might still be alive, but at the
same time she expressed fear that
what the Japs are dealing out to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22

of war, especially filters and para
chutists would be executed if cap
tured in Japan proper regardless
of the consequences or provisions
of international law. It was an OBJ
yious effort to terrorize enemy fiji
ers.
Although the executions shock
most Americans, it hardly is sur
prising to correspondent like me
who travelled with the japanese
army in China prior to 1910 and
personally saw the Japanese be-
head dozens of estimated tens of
thousands of Chinese prisoners eX-
ecuted. Neither did it surprise Amer
leans who we're in Japan after
Pearl Harbor for many Americans
were tortured to death, others tor
tued into insanity, subjected to such
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
q5 Planes Downed
By Forts in Raid

WASHINGTON, April % CUP)-
u S. Flying Fortresses and LIBERIA
tors destroyed or seriously damaged
ut least half of the Focke-W Wulf air.
craft factory in their raid on Bre-
men April II and shot out of ac-
ton 95 of $50 German fighters sent
against them, Undersecretary of
War Robert p. Patterson said to-
day.
American bomber losses, however,
were higher than the average" Is
of the big four -engined craft hav-
ing been destroyed, Patterson said.
Increased fighter opposition to
daylight raids over Germany, he
added, indicate that the attacks
have been successful in drawing
German military planes from the
Russian and Tunisian fronts.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
BY UNITED PRESS

Air combat in the Pacific dwin-
died to small thrr5ts Thursday as a
member of the Allied high COM
mand predicted new and heavy
losses for the Japanese this sum-
mer.
In scattered forayS Wednesday
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bomb
ers destroyed two enemy planes and
bombed or shot up enemy-held viii
lagos and airdromes north of Aus
tralia while for the second night
single Japanese plane ranged
over Morobe, on the North New
Guinea coast, without doing any
damage,
OUTCLASS ENEMY
Lieut.. Gen Millard T. Harmon,
commander of Army forces in the
South Pacific, said American pi-
lots far outclass their enemies and
forecast losses for the japanese on
land and sea and in the air during
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
US. Pilots Said
Superior toJdps

the summer.
Japanese radio broadcasts limited
that executions of captured fliers
similar to those revealed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt yesterday, might
follow new raids on the japanese
mainland.
Allied filters on various fronts
kept banging at japanese targets.
A Washington dispatch said 260
tons of bombs had been dropped on
small area of the Japanese base
on Kiska. in the Aleutians, the first
10 days of April.
A Chinese communique reported
the collapse Of a japanese drive
east of Canton with 300 casualties
inflicted on the enemy by Chinese
counter attacks and the repulse of
a local offensive south of Canton.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
US. Casualties in
Africa Said Heavy

WASHINGTON, April %. CUPD
-Roane Waring, national COM
mander Of the American Legion,
who has Just returned from the
TuniSian battle front, said today
that our forces have suffered ter
rifle casualties" in the North Afri-
can campaign.
I'VE lost , lot of materiel," he
said I'VE have taken a lot of hard
blows But that was to be expect
ed"
He said that the casualties an
nounCed by Gen. Dwight Essen
hover, the North African COM
mander, we're onlv those for the
Tunisian campaign and do not in
clude those for other North Atri-
can operations.
"There will be many more casual
ties before the North African cam
paign is over he said. Rommel is
dug i'll and there's going to be
some hard fighting to get him out "
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22

Now we've heard everything For
n scene in new Leon Schlcsingcr
cartoon, Wise Quackin' Duck, ="
Daffy Duck does strip tease
getting down to his down" when
someone tries to roast him in an
oven. But when the Hays office
censors looked at the picture, they
not only modified the strip tease,
but ordered the studio to put pants
on Daffy Duck. Daffy duck? &.
A few weeks ago Veronica Lake lost
hel peek-a-boo bangs as patriotic
gesture dmitators were tangling
their hair in war machinery and
now she's losing her hairdresser to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22

Much damage was done to Japa-
nese installations" the navy's war
bulletin reported.
ZEROS DOWNED
Five and possibly seven defend
ing Zero fighters were shot down
during the attack, the second on
that base in nearly a month. All
our planes returned
Meanwhile, American fliers in
the Aleutians tinued their
smashing offensive against Kiska,
hitting the enemy base 10 times on
Tuesday TO raise the April raid
score to 1l3.
Nauru, formerly under British
mandate, is in the site of some of
the worlds biggest phosphate de-
posits. 1t is CTS miles northeast of
Guadalcanal and 1.020 miles south
east of Truk. 1t was assumed that
the attacking planes operated from
Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22

cuelties as water cure, rubber hose
beatings and thousand stabs.' The
state department has documentary
evidence on scores of these cases.
SLAUGHTER 100000
In the past six years the Japa-
nese have slaughtered over TO-
100000 human beings, made home
less 10O,000,0O0 and enslaved 500,-
100000
Mass incendiary demolition bonn
raids on Japan now may halt this
barbarism. The Japanese respect
only one thing, namely, superior
force The Americans were execut-
ed and tortured because we failed
to convince the Japs We were a su-
perior force. We can be certain no
amount of sermonizing will make
the japanese feel guilty.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
by ROBERT T. BELLAIRE

EY ROBERT i. BEILAihE
The Japanese execution of Amer
ican fliers was cold blooded mur-
der, but it didn't surprise those of
Us who know the japanese and
their barbarism.
Between the bars of TOKYO pris-
en- camp cell [ saw the Doolittle
raid a year ago and can say all
Japanese civilians outside vital mil
itary industrial areas we're victims
of their own pursuit pilots.
I saw the raiders hit Tokyo dur
ing air raid maneuvers. The Ameri-
can Eonbers swept over the city
at q maximum of 60 feet off the
ground. japanese pursuit planes
attempting to dive upon the we'll
CamoaflaSed b bC IN berS naturally
missed with NEST ot their machine
gun fire which hit the streets.
SAW BOMBS HIT
From the hilltop prison I saw
all American bombs hit military or
factory districts.
japanese with whom | was al
lowed to speak later admitted their
own planes, diving on the low fly
ing American bombers were re-
sponsible for the civilian deaths.
Execution of the American air
men was consistent with the Japa-
nese announcement the first week
of the war, warning all prisoners
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
Mothers Of Tokyo
Raiders Are Proud

those left may be worse than
death"
Mrs. Farrow, obviously distraught,
said she last heard from her son
last August when Maj. Gen. James
H. Doolittle forwarded 2 message
from the Red Cross. 1t said her
son was being held at the best
camp The Japs have" OH the Asiatic
mainland
She urged that vengeance for the
cruel executions be taken on the
japanese WarlordS rather than
through an "eye for an eye" re-
prisal against Jap prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
ICE BREAKS EARLY
ON VOLGA RIVER

KUIBYSHEV. April 22-tUP)-I
Soviet river boats carrying equip
ment for repairing the docks at
Stalingrad we're moving down the
Volga today, opening the navigation
season two weeks earlier than last
year. The breakup of the ice on
the 'holga also opened up another
traffic artery for the Shipment of
oil northWard from the Caucasus
fields.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
lnterned Allies
Put in CAMPS

CHUNGKING, April 22.-UP)-
Reports from Shanghai said today
that 5000 Americans, British and
Dutch interned there since the Jap
anese occupation had been remov-
ed to five concentration camps in
the suburban area.
Other reports from Peiping said
II American professors of the Cath
olic University had been interned.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
Tokyo Civilian S Killed by
Own Pilots, NeWsmon Says

Editors note:-E0bcrt T. Bel
laire, United Press Tokyo bureau
manager who went through six
months of terror and starvation
in Japan's worst concentration
camp, reveals in the following
Gis pateh that the japanese civil
ians outside vital military and
industrial zones killed in the
American raid on Tokyo were vic
Tins Of their own pursuit pilots.)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
COMNlANDOS RAID

STOCKHOLM, April 22-CUP)-
British Commands raided the Lo-
foten islands off Northern Norway
a week ago and captured several
German officers, including gen.
eral who was on an inspection tour.
adyices reaching Stockholm said
today
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
American Army Bombers in
Reid on Vital Jap Island

WASHINGTON, April 30. CUP)-,
The navy announced toIay that
large force of u. S. Army bombcrs
have delivered another devastating
attack on Nauru island, a Japanese
base in the Gilbert group guarding
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22

rne cf the approaches to the enc
9y's naval stronghold at Truk.
The attack was carried out in the
Z ace of intense antiaircraft fire and
tighter plane interception.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-22
HOLLYWOOD
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON

the WhACG. The hairdresser, La
Vaughn Speer. was accepted for
service after undergoing, at her
own expense, six operations to re-
move a nasal obstruction
The sudden turn to pictures with
Russian backgrounds has many OF
Hollywood'S stock beauties scream
ine murder. Instead of Sinking
gowns. they're wearing drab Rus
sian peasant costumes and no
makeup. Former New York models
Joan Thorsen, Kay Williams and
Hazel Brooks, working in Metros
Russia" are even eating lunch off
the lot. They're afraid to face the
stares in the studio cafe.
POPULAR PLAY
Three studios are bidding for
Michael Hogans new screen play,
"On the Line" It's the story of a
titled English society girl who be-
comes a riveter in British war
plant and learns the meaning of
democracy. Joan Davis has
written a new song, My Love Is a
Military Secret" Swell title.
More celluloid impersonations !:
Kay Kyser will do take-off on
Tarzan and also be made up to
look like an 35-year- -old lady in
Right About Face" e. Mica Doret
is up for the lead in two more
PRO films as a result of her work
with Bob Livingstone in THE Lone
Rider" John Sutton is legally
dropping his real name = Eugene
Osmond Stephen Congden. .
Lloyd Nolan is due for a Clark
Gable buildup at M-G-M since
scoring in "Bataan Patrol"
Lynn Bari will not turn redhead for
her next film. Studio executives
niyed the idea. Looks like
Hollywood is still ribbing Don
Ameche over that Alexander Gra-
ham Bell role. Ernst Lubitsch S
idea of hell for a scene Ameche
plays in Heaven Can Wait" is an
ultra modern office with hundreds
of gadgets and 85 telephones!
Hollywood Meeting: Cornell Wilde
reported to the set for the first
time the other day to play Sonia
Henie's boy friends in winter
Time They rehearsed the scene
four times and four times Cornel
ardently embraced and kissso
Sonia. Then Cornell turned help
lesSly to the crew. will someone
please introduce me to the lady?'
he asked plaintivcly. You know
I've never met her before
Nancy Kelly will shed her slinky
vampish personality for the frs
time to play a hard-boiled babe ir
Sol LeSser's 'Tarzan and the Sheik.
I'm Irish" says Nancy, land not
for nothing Jane Wyatt ask
nd Guy Kibbee to try a cheremoya
Mexican fruit from one Of the
trees in her yard, Its delicious,
she coaxed. mo, thanks" said
Guy. Il have so many tastes now
that are in for rationing, I don't
| 10
The Nome nugget., 1943-10-18
LETTER RECEIVED FROM OLDTIMER

The following are a few ex- cerpts from letter received by OUT postmaster, s. David Mazen, from Fred Mebes, well-known miner of the Council district.
 MT. Mebes writes: 'SThere seems. to be no, way to come to Nome this summer. I would like to be up there and see all of my friends. Hope I can be there next year. My present address is 1886 nice here, the weather is excel nice here the weather is egcel- lent but too warm for me, but some are wearing overcoats. Some of the fair ones have even fur coats. I don't know how they can feel comfortable. Then some of them are the other way, they hardly have anything on.
 q have been to Seattle and saw some Nome people: the Snlli- vans, John Litchenberg, Dune Mclean and Harry Phillips. I saw some in Portland, San Fran cisco, Los Angeles and Long Beach. They are all fine and making good money. presume there is not much mining going on. Hoping the war will be over so I can go to Nome and Coun- cil again, I wish to congratulate you for your postmastership.
 Don't know of anything else to write. Please say hello to all my acquaintances and to the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and to your family.
 Yours very truly
 FRED MEBES."
The Nome nugget., 1943-10-18
UNDRA
Walking down Front Street thi.
By AUDREY HENDERSON


 the blue. Snow flakes kissed my cheeks and melted like winterS tears. What does snow mean to you? Webster's dictionary says that "snow is a crystalized vapor, particularly watery particles con- gealed into white crystals in the air and falling to the earth" But to We in Alaska, snow means the beginning of the 'freeze-up." It means the beginning of a snowy desert spreading over the vast tundra, where restless winds sweep with unframed force across the rising summits. Sometimes dropping but never growing still. To sharp spires of ice purely stained, where the aurora bor- calls, the midnight candles of the North. rain fire in sharp bril- iance. Illuminating the hills ! and hummocks of snow in grand eur. And fiery red moon shin ing down over the icy fields like nowhere else in the world. |
 Can't you hear the grinding and singing sled runners and the sharp barks of dogs. And the anxious cry of ''hike" by the driver as the dog team disap- pears yer a distant rise of hills.
 And when you look out over the Boring sea and see a blizzard approaching Nome with roaring sound like some wild monster screaming in pain and fury. And the snow is flung at your head hard as sand and fine as flour, skipping your face raw, clinging to your eyelids in thin crusts, and your cheeks feel like stiff frozen parchment. And your soul cries out in anguish like ban shee in the night. And suddenly the storm is gone and days upon days of red sunlight brings a rosy hue to the snow desert.' Mi-. rages dance before your eyes. and you think.
 And out of the silence deep
 and sweet
 Come memories of time gone
 by. :
 Images
 Like shadowy wraiths, wander as in dream
 For the winged would strew up
 memories s That wake and breathe-faint as
 whisper.
 Memories precious as the soul
 itself
 Sanctified in the twilight with
 its dreams"
 And then far out over Norton Sound you see in the distance, a leaden sky and the snow and ice reflect a glimmer in the gray. You will know that there is an open spot where the mighty ,ur- rents of the Boring sea push and grind and break an opening. And when you see that black pencil stripe on the horizon you will know the breath of eternal spring is here once again.
 I wonder if we will have a man winter or woman winter? To the man and woman on the -"Winter comes too soon to suit me-
 The North Pole Bakery is open With real home cook. ing Angelina Thatch down
 from KOtzebue combining
 fun with a little tooth pulling
 -. Have you noticed the ptar-
 migans on the mountain sides?
 .. Thousands upon thousands
 white as snow There's a
 new teacher in town, boys ..s Martha Jenner Did you
 know there were ladies in Nome who don't know we have
 a beauty parlOr I had a permanent here-Mahan's Beauty ParlOr =. Saturday
 night was certainly exciting
 A ship almost ashore The
 Martha Jorgenson wedding ... The associate editor with a shave and haircut and a dress
 suit adOrning his uhySi0ue
The Nome nugget., 1943-10-18

Tell them you saw it advertised in The Nugget.
The Nome nugget., 1943-10-18

ther little bean, I'm not quite sure-but I think some one is stringing us"
The Nome nugget., 1943-10-18

Said one little bean to an-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-07-01
Order Nisi-

Order Nisi-
Ellsworth C. Haskell ct ux, ct al,
VS..
Ida Haskell, individually and as
Administrative of the estate
of Ellsworth G. Haskell, ct al.
Estate of James H. Ellsworth.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, AS
A COURT OF EQUITY.
No. 1O,708 Equity.
ORDERED, this 10th day of
June, A. D. 1913, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County,
as a Court of Equity, that the
Auditors Report filed in the
above entitled cause, be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown on
or before the 10th day of July
next: Provided a copy of this
order be inserted in some news
paper published in said Mont
gomery County, once in each of
three successive weeks before the
said 10th day of July, 1913.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County.
True Copy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
1913 Clerk.