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VOL. 46—No. 137. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1944. PER COPY lr,c_
5,030 NIPPONESE
* KILLED ON
LEYTE ISLAND
By JIM HUTCHINSON
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP.
PINES, Dec. 1.—(API—Today
5,000 more Japanese soldiers
were either killed or drowned—
* that makes 26,000 who tried and
never got to Leyte—as American
planes for the second straight
day accounted for an Ormoc
bound convoy, although it was
cautiously scattered over a wide
area.
Yank fighters tracked them all
down, sinking a 9,000-ton trans
port three smaller fregihters, en
gulfing a 5,000-ton transport and
a destroyer escort in flames, in
contrast to Wednesday’s erasure
I of a 13-ship convoy, in which
two of the ships reached shore
with the reinforcements for Or
moc. This convoy didn’t even get
close to the port.
One freight was bagged as far
west as Mindoro by a night fight
er plane. Others, including the
heavily loaded transport, were
blasted off Kasbate and also off
Cebu.
The Yanks went in at masthead
y heighth as they raised the en
emy’s reinforcement losses in at
tacks on seven convoys to 29
transports, aggregating 103,750
tons, and 18 escorting warships,
sunk.
ALBERT B FALL
DIES IN EL
PASO HOSPITAL
EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 1.—(AP)
^ —Albert B. Fall, 83, secretary of
the interior during the Harding
administration, and one of the
central figures in the ‘‘Teapot
Dome” scandal, died in a hos
pital here last night.
Mr. Fall died in his sleep,” one
physician said.
Dr. John Morrison was the only
person present at the bedside
when death came.
^ It will be remembered that
Fall made several public state
ments following his release, from
prison after being convicted for
accepting a bribe.
ODDFELLOWS TO MEET
The Odd Fellows will hold
a meeting at the home of Bro
* ther Robert Ledgerwood Friday
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MORISONS GO
TO THEIR OLD
HOME IN TENN.
Judge and Mrs. J. H. S. Mori
son, who have resided here for
10 years were outgoing passen
gers to the States on Thursday.
Judge Morison, who came here
10 years ago when appointed as
district judge of the Second Di
vision, has retired and is return
ing to his home at Cumberland
Gap, Tenn.
Mrs. Morison came here just
after the fire in 1934 and has
been active in civic and church
activities.
The couple planned to see as
much of Alaska as they could
on their way out, as they have
learned to like it here.
After a visit with their daugh
ter, Mrs. H. Powell, in Seattle,
they will continue on to their
home in Tennessee.
Judge Morison’s successor, Jos
eph Kehoe of Seward, who was
recently appointed, has not yet
.arrived, but is expected soon.
The first permament French
settlement in the New World was
founded by Samuel Chamnlain in
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DRAFTEE CRISIS
IN CANADA
SAID QUELLED
Ottawa, Can., Dec. 1.—(AP)—
The conscription crisis here has
cooled off, it was reported today,
as discipline is declared to be
restored among the rebellious
draftee troops on the west coast.
An appeal to be calm went out
to the people In Quebec from one
of their foremost anti-conscrip
tion leaders.
It was announced, however,
last night that tin provincial gov
ernment in Quebec adopted an or
der in the council asking for fed
eral government respect to fulfill
its solomn engagements and sac
red pledges against conscription
for overseas service.
The anti-conscriptionist view of
the French speaking minority of
Canada was laid before the par
liament last night by P. J. A.
Cardin, former works transport
minister who resigned in 1942
because of the conscription issue
in the face of sporadic disorders
in Quebec. He appealed to his
people to avoid damaging prop
erty and endangering lives.
Pi'ad' n i;i i'iie Nugget.
MORE TOWNS
TAKEN BY REDS
IN OFFENSIVE
MOSCOW, Dec. 1.—(AP>—En
veloping 50 or more communities
in their new drive to the west
Danube in southwestern Hun
gary, the Russian troops moved
north today within 78 miles of
the outflanked city of Budapest.
They are less than 100 miles
from the Austrian border.
Moscow announced a nine-mile
advance to the north along the
west bank of the Danube yester
day.
Northwest of Budapest other
Red army troops seized the Axis
strongholds of Eger and Szikszo
which guard the invasion routes
into central Slovakia.
OLD TIMER TO
SEATTLE ON VACATION
A. A. Chagnon who has pros
pected and mined in the vicinity
of Nome and has also been care
taker of the high school building
for a number of years has left for
the States where he will spend
the winter. Mr. Chagnon says he
wlil be in Seattle most of the time
pnd will reside at 2219 15th Ave
rjue. South...
PASSENGER
PLANE WRECKS
[N HEAVY FOG
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 1.
—Seven persons were kill
ed and 16 injured when a Trans
continental Western Airlines pas
senger plane enroute to San
Francisco, crashed in a heavy fog
as it was nearing its destination.
The Burbank plane carried 20
passengers and three crew mem
bers.
City Manager Walter Cooper of
San Diego was listed among the
dead and Mayor Harley Knox of
the same city was sveerely in
jured. The pilot and co-pilot
were killed.
Some of the injured passengers
told reporters that the plane lost
altitude and began to jerk. The
crash followed after scraping the
treetops.
The plane hostess, Donna Marr,
was taken to the hospital because
of leg fracture and other injur
ies.
Lee Flannigan, acting TWA op
erations manager at Burbank,
said it would be impossible to
immediately say what caused the
accident.
GEN. SMITH NEW
COMMANDER
OF PACIFIC
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1.
—fAP>—The appointment of Ma
jor General Julian Smith as com
manding general of the depart
ment of Pacific Marine Corps
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with headquarters at San Fran
cisco, was announced today.
The statement said that Gen
eral Smith wuold assume com
mand about December 5th, re
lieving Major General J. C. Fa
gan, who is now in the Mare Is
land hospital.
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