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. Red Army
Establishes
New Front
MOSCOW, Jan. 19.—Red Army
0 forces on the Leningrad-Volkhov
- fronts in northern Russia, spran
forward on a new offensive which
is calculated to end the German
threat to Leningrad.
Two neighboring army groups
launched simultaneous assaults
several days ago, developin,
drives on a large scale.
Previous German broadcasts in
dicated that attacks began Friday,
but no specific objectives were as
yet announced, as captured. The
fact that the launching of the
drive was announced, was suffi
* cient reason to take it for granted
that the drive was proceeding
satisfactorily.
The Leningrad blockade was
broken a year ago by a terrific
thrust through the fortress town
of Schlesselburg, opening the cor
ridor to the east, but the Germans
had dug themselves in, close to
the western and southern sides of
the city.
FAIRBANKS
OVER THE TOP
On the opening of the Fourth
Loan Drive in Fairbanks yester
day morning, that city exceeded
its Series “E” quota of $165,000
by a margin of $5,000, Leslie Ner
land, in charge of the drive, an
. nounced today.
Fairbanks is believed to be the
first community under the Amer
ican flag to have exceeded its
quota so soon.
Information this morning indi
cated that the people of Fair
ly banks, after exceeding their ori
ginal quota by $5,000 yesterday,
stretched their drive and bought
over $50,000 additional in bonds
during the rest of the day.
According to Nerland, director
for Fairbanks drive, “For all class
es of the Fourth Loan Drive bonds,
the total quota was $400,000. Only
Series “E” bonds will be sold in
order to make up the difference
between those already sold and
the total quota for the commu
ity.
‘ STRIKE IS
SETTLED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—(AP)
—The railroad strike was settled
with raises ordered all around on
the government-seized lines, and
the railroads were ordered re
turned to their owners by Sec
♦ retary of War Stimson, after he
had been informed by President
Roosevelt that settlement had been
made with the non-operating un
ions of wage ingreases of nine to
f'kxven cents an hour.
PAA PLANE
ARRIVfcd
A PAA plane arrived late last
evening with Mr. and Mrs. M. J.
Walsh and grandson, and a load
of mail.
New Rocket Plane
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Texas Columnist Writes
In Laudation of Dimond
By FRANK PUTNAM
(Houston Press: January 4, 1943)
1 have never got closer to Alas
ka than Seattle, but it looks like
I might get up there after our
largest territory becomes our lar
gest state, any time in the next
two or three years. You may re
call that on December 22, I wrote
about the virtual certainty that
Alaska will soon be admitted to
the Union as our 49th state, as
result of the huge development
our government is making there,
due to the war. I sent a copy of
that piece to Anthony J. Dimond,
Alaska’s delegate in Congress. I
told him that when Alaska is ad
mitted to statehood and he be
comes the state’s first elective gov
ernor, he’d owe the Old Timer a
trip to and through his state—for
helping to persuade Japan, back
in 1914, to take Manchuria in
stead of trying to take Alaska as
an outlet for Japan’s over-crowd
ed seventy millions in her small
rocky island home.
Mr.-Dimond writes:
“Washington, D. C.; Dec. 26.—
Dear Mr. Putnam: Thank you
much for the clipping of your col
umn, appearing in The Houston
Press of December 22, about Alas
ka', and more especially for the
accompanying note.
“If and when the conjunction
of constellations suggested in your
letter occurs, namely, the creation
of Alaska as a state and the elec
tion and inauguration of myself a
the first governor, it would be a
pleasure indeed to have you visit
the governor in the capitol of the
state and you may be assured tha*
the governor will do his best to
see that you are provided with
every resource that hospitality
can devise.
“After reading your column, I
am sure that at 75 you are no
more than half way through, and
so I earnestly wish you a succes
sion of happy New Years. Sincere
ly yours, ANTHONY J. DIMOND.
Delegate.”
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Mr. Dimond has been Alaska’s
delegate in Congress close to 11
years, elected and re-elected five
times by Alaska’s voters. I have
followed his work, in the Con
gressional Record, with increasing
admiration for his Industry and
efficiency in serving his constitu
-f—I---2., „i__
ency. When Alaska becomes a
state, its people will owe their
great advance more to Mr. Dimond
than to any other man. I take
for granted Alaskans will v/ish to
honor him for this service, and
will wish to retain him in their
service as their governor. As a
delegate in Congress, he has no
vote, but few members have more
friends or more influence.
The first elective governor of
Alaska, my prospective host, say
around 1945 or 1946, was born in
New York state In 1881. He has
lived in Alaska more than 30
years, married there, has a son
and two daughters bom there. He
has served Alaskans as U. S. com
missioner, as sjtecial assistant U.
S. attorney, as mayor of Valdez,
as territorial senator,, and since
1933 as delegate in Congress. His
home is at Valdez. He is a Demo
crat-one of the few Democratic
candidates for governor that I’ll
be pulling for the year he runs
for that office.
Clippings of this piece will be
sent to all of Alaska’s daily pa
pers. Hundreds of young Texans
are up there now, in the armed
services; thousands more will go
there to take up the last free
homesteads available in this
country, or to engage in business
of one kind or another, after the
war. Seems like a good idea to
get word to them that some of us
folks back home are trying to help
shape a future for them in that
far country.
ADJUDGED
INSANE
Allen R. Rosenthall, a raejio op
erator in the communications di
vision of the CAA at Nome, was
adjudged insane yesterday and
will be committed to the Morn
ingside Sanitarium, in Washing
ton. He will be held in the fed
eral jail pending departure for the
states.
HEALTH MOVIES
TO BE SHOWN
Tomorrow night at 7:30 p. m.,
at the Nome High School, health
movies will be shown. ““Sand In
the Gears” and “Kill That Germ’ll
are the titles. The health coun
cil recommends your attendance
LOCAL MEN
ON ICE FLOES
PAST 18 HOURS
Morris Thompson and Johnnie
Beltz, both of Nome, have been
out in th£ ice floes southwest of
here, for the past 48 hours.
They were attempting to dis
mantle instruments from the Fer
guson Airways plane, which
cracked up on the ice earlier this
winter, and was carried out by
northerly winds, which broke the
ice from the inshore side of the
wrecked plane.
Yesterday afternoon Pilot
Frank Whaley, with Coast
Guardsman Ray Miller and Bert
Beltz, brother of one of the men.
flew over the scene and discover
ed them in the small boat, mak
ing little headway breaking new
ice, in an attempt to regain
shore.
The searching party dropped
food and dry clothing and sleep
ing bags at the nearest point of
contact, which they are expected '
to make some time this afternoon
Both of the men were wet to
the waist and with the strong wind
blowing a blizzard, it is expected
uiey will suffer considerably from
the exposure.
They are expected to arrive in
town late this afternoon or eve
ning, by dogteam, which is wait
ing for them.
SON REPORTED
AS MISSING
Hilkey Robinson received word
from the War Department that
his son, Marvin “Bud” Robinson,
a lieutenant m the Air Corps, was
missing in action somewhere in
the south Pacific.
Robinson states that Marvin,
wrote several times that he was
the first pilot of the bomber crew ,
and that he had made many
bombing mission over enemy ter
ritory
Mr. Robinson says he will leave
for the Outside as soon as wea
ther permits to be with his wife,
and he feels that Marvin will turn
up safe, just as many other pilots i
have after many days reported
missing
FIGHTING IN
ARAWA JUNGLES
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NEW GUINEA, Jan. 19,—Today,
United States troops, driving into
the jungle above the neck of the
Arawa Peninsula on New Britain,
made substantial gains and killed
many Japanese
The high command announced
the drive was headed by concen
trated aerial blasting, followed by
tanks in a regiment known as the
“Bushmasters”, former Arizona -
New Mexico National Guardsmen,
which were the first troops train
ed especially for jungle fighting.
Heavy aerial attacks continued
in the New Guinea and New Brit
ain enemy positions
Three Crossings
Made on Lower
Garigliano River
BOB BARTLETT
RESIGNS AS
SECRETARY
Alaska for the past five years,
announced his intentions to re
sign from his office February
1st.
He also made it known that
he had filed as a candidate for
the position of Delegate to Con
gress from Alaska and will run
on the Democratic ticket in the
coming primaries.
His announcement followed
the publication of an Associat
ed Press dispatch from Wash
ington to the effect that Dele
gate Dimond would not seek the
renomination tor that office [
in the primaries in April.
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RABAUL AGAIN
ATTACKED
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Jan. 19.—
< AP>—"Rabaul and Kavieng are
next on our list of Japanese i
strongholds yet to be smashed,” j
Admiral Robert Carney, Admiral
Halsey’s chief of staff, asserted in
an interview, but added:
“It won’t be done in the usual
way. I just hope we will do it,
and it will be some way the enemy
least expects. It won't be in ac
cordance with the familiar pat
tern. Both bases have been daily |
targets of the south Pacific air
forces since airfields have been
available on Bougainville Island.” j
VANDERGRIFT i
TELLS OF JAPS
I
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.—<AP>
—Lt. Gen. Vandergrift, marine
commandant, who led the Guad
alcanal offensive, asserted “the j
Jap defenses have barely been
tapped. The cost of smashing them
will not always be light.”
The statement was made dur
ing a speech praising the Red
Cross in their work, and making
a plea for greater blood donations
for Red Cross field service.
REPUBLICANS
ADD TWO SEATS
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.—
(AP)—Republicans Captured two
congressional seats, in special elec
tions, one of which has been held
by the democrats since 1934.
The new congressmen are Wil
liam A. Barrett and Samuel K
McConnell.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Jan. 19.—< AP>—British
troops with Clark’s army, under
intense tire from mortar and ma
chine guns, crossed the lower
Garigliano river at three points,
converging on the Appian Way, 80
miles southeast of Rome.
The attack was made and the
three bridgeheads secured against
strong enemy resistance.
The first crossing was made
near Suoi village, about seven
miles inland from the coast where
heavy fighting is still going on.
The second crossing was made
along the Capua-Rome railroad,
about four miles from the coast.
The third at Argento, on the coast,
where the Germans countered
with heavy tank attacks in des
perate and futile efforts to drive
the British back across the river.
Naval action continued along
the Adriatic where destroyers
were shelling Rovigno, on the Is
trian Peninsula, Durazzo in Al
bania, and three points on the
Dalmatian coast.
Heavy bombers blasted key
communications targets in Tus
cany Province, including rail
yards of Pisa and Pistore.
BATTLES 30
PLANES ALONE
LONDON, Jan. 19.—(AP>—Ma
jor James Howard, 30, of St.
Louis, a former Flying Tiger, who
outfought 30 Nazi fighters, in a
flaming half-hour over Oscherle
ben Tuesday to protect a forma
tion of fortresses, was hailed by
his mates as “a one-man airforce".
But, he said, “I just seen my duty
and I done it.”
His mates insisted he shot down
six, although he was officially
credited with two destroyed, two
probables, and one damaged
Total damage remained uncer
tain this week as pilots were re
luctant to claim victories.
Major Howard is credited with
having shot down 13 enemy
planes, six of which were Japan
ese.
GEORGE GRIGSBY TO ENTER
RACE FOR DELEGATE
George B. Grigsby, Anchorage
attorney, announced last week in
Seattle that he will be a candidate
for delegate to Congress from Al
aska this year. Grigsby has ruh
for Congress three times previous
ly—in the campaigns of 1920 and
192? when he opposed Dan Su
therland and in 1930 when he ran
against James Wickersham. He
has practiced law in Nome, Ket
chikan. Juneau and Anchorage.
ATTENTION ODD FELLOWS
All members are requested to
attend meeting Friday. 8:00 p.
m. Special business and install
ation of officers. Refreshments.
D. D. G. M. W. BOUCHER.
; PRESIDENTS BIRTHDAY BALL--JAN. 29
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