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FRIDAY, APRIL 28. 1944_
NAZI BOTTLENECKS
Four major bottlenecks are cramping
German war production this yeai, judg
ing by the best available data from the
land of the enemy.
The first, and worst, is a shortage of
coal production. The Germans use coal
in the production of gasoline, synthetic
rubber, chemicals, soaps, greases, and
in supplying the power for transporta
tion, electricity and steel mills. In all,
the essential war requirements total
. 450,000,000 tons annually. But, accord
• ing to information from German sour
ces, actual production is only 370,000.000
‘ tons.
One reason the German air force may
be disputing only the major Allied raids
is that the available fuel for the Luft
< waffe has been cut about 25 per cent
• The Nazi air force’s requirements of
gasoline for 1944 are estimated at 9,
• 000,000 tons, which would require 270,
MISSIONARIES
RESCUED FROM
HOLLANDIA
NEW GUINEA, Apr. 28.—'AP'
—One hundred foreign mission
aries, including 40 nuns, were
rescued in Hollandia, it was re
ported today.
Gen. MacArthur said: “It is
with peculiar pleasure that I re
port the rescue from the enemy
iu the Hollandia operations of
100 foreign missionaries, includ
ing 13 Americans, seven Dutch,
three Poles, one Australian, one
Ciecho-Slovakian and the re
mainder Germans originally sta
tioned at missions along the
north coast of New Guinea.”
Meager details failed to ex
plain why the Germans sought
refuge with the missionaries, in
stead of with their own Jap al
lies.
NOTICE1
A new shipment of Jersey
Print Dresses, in Spring styles,
has recently arrived at Polet’s
Store.
The planes approach each other
HEAD-ON AT SPEEDS OP HOO W.PH. AND
PASS.r.WITH THIS SALUTE,THE BATTLE
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000.000 tons of coal to produce. Nazi
Munitions Minister Albert Speer re
cently ordered the manufacture of arti
ficial gasoline cut down by 2,000.000
tons.
The German war machine is depend
ing more than ever upon female labor,
which is estimated to be only about 75
per cent as efficient as male. Before the
war women made up 8 per cent of the
German labor force. Now it is 30 per
cent. In terms of reduced manpower
efficiency, this amounts to a shortage of
2.000.000 men, or from 16 to 18 million
labor hours.
Both aviation and tank and armored
car production have been cut apprecia
bly in Germany because of a shortage of
steel. Allied airmen have knocked out
some of the Reich’s greatest steel mills.
Transportation facilities in Germany
are in bad shape, and there is an appar
ent shortage of machinery to carry on
war production. Both the German rail
roads and machine tools are beginning
to wear out, and the Nazis are not in
position to replace them. The use of
giant cargo planes to move freight in
Garmanv is Only one token of the grow
ing seriousness of the transportation
bottleneck. In planning for war, Hitler
planned to lean heavily upon a super
highway system, and the railroads are
somewhat neglected. He forgot that
highways were useless without trucks,
gasoline and rubber, none of which are
very plentiful in Germany today.
These factors are not due cause for
belief that the rest of the war will be
easy, or that Germany is about whipped.
But they do reveal some mortal weak
nesses in the Nazi war structure which
time and attack will exploit to the full
est.—‘Cincinnati Enquirer).
NOMEITES GET TOGETHER
IN ENGLISH CLUB
Lt. Fred Kubon, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Kubon, former own
ers of Kubon’s Drug Store, now
with the Sea-Bees in England, re
cently ran across Miss Louise
Harlan, former employee here at
NorQp for the U. S. Smelting, Re
fining & Mining Company, at the
American Red Cross Officers’
Club in Bournemouth.
The meeting was good for Red
Cross publicity. Young Kubon
it sta'ed, had courted Louise's
older sister in Fairbanks back in
,1930 when she was a “devilish,
bandy-legged, pig-tailed young
ster always turning up a{ the
wrong time."'
Kubon was a University of Al
aska student in 1930. He later
worked for Louise’s fa'her. He
worked on his own as a miner in
Baker, Oregon, built houses for
his brother in Ohio and was a
project engineer at Henry Kais- j
er's magnesium plant in Perma
nente, California, before enlist
ing with the Navy Sea-Bees in
December, 1942.
He has been in England since
December 1942, and has recon
structed whole villages putting
in elec'ricity and plumbing for
the first time in ancient houses
which navy personnel are now
using.
Louise Harland is serving as a
staff assistant in the officers'
club in a luxury-adorned former
ho*el, which was requisitioned by
PROPOSE INVESTIGATION
OF SEIZURE OF PLANT
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28.—<AP)
—A resolution proposing an in
vestigation of the government's
seizure of the Montgomery Ward
plant, was pushed through the
rules committee of the House and
sent to the floor for considera
tion.
LEAVE TODAY FOR
ANCHORAGE
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Smith are
leaving today for Anchorage,
where they will make their home,
and Mr. Smith will take up his
duties in the maintenance depart
ment of the CAA. The Smiths
have resided in Nome for several
years.
Subscribe to The Nugget.
WINEBRENNERS ADOPT
INFANT CHILD
Gretcjien B. Maloney, seven
months, was adopted by Mr. and
Mrs. William Winebranner of this
city. Mrs. Winebrenner has given
up her position at Polet’s Store
to give the child a home. Mr.
Winebranner is chief operator for
the CAA.
ATG EVENTS
Commissioned and non-com
missioned officers meeting to
night (Friday) at High School
Armory.
MAJOR BRONSON,
Commanding.
![ We have recently installed our power ice |
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11 quantities. •»
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Oh, Diana! A Lick In Time
_ _^ TH ONLY CLOTHES iVE BOUGHT IN
rTV^r.,' .TTTT'l 5 YEARS ARE THOSE SUNDAY PANTS
WONDER TH SAME - «K FROM TH' CHURCH
WHAT TH' DUDS THEY
MEN WILL BOUGHT
WEAR IN 1936
THIS WITH THESE
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WHADOYA MEAN BY
GETTING AN AUL-DAY
SUCKER AT 5 RM,?
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NOTICE!
A meeting of the Board of
Directors of fhe Chamber of
Commerce will be held at the
Federal Building at 8:00 p. to.
Monday, May 1st.
All board members are ur
gently requested to attend.
CHRIS ROUST. Pres
the Red Cross. Her sister is
now Mrs. Robert B. McCleay of
Sea tie—'Jessen’s Weekly).
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