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VOL. 46.—No. 97. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1944._P;:.l COPY—15c.
ALLIES NOW IN PARIS
SECRETARY OF
STATE OPENS
1 POST-WAR MEET
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—(AP)
I —United States’ Secretary of
ay! State Cordell Hull, opened the
! ▼ history-making post-war security
^ talks today, with the declaration
that the organization for peace
must be backed by force, “avail
able promptly, in adequate meas
ure, with certatnty.”
His assertion strongly indicated
lhat the United States was enter
ing the four-power meetings with
plans for a strong commitment
to use its own forces to support
world security for generations to
come.
41 Sir Alexander Cadogan, British
representative, appealed to the
British, American, Soviet and
- Chinese governments to act speed
jr
f ily in erecting the world peace
f structure in order to get some of
: it working before the war ends.
He evidently referred to the
British proposal which so far has
produced little evidence to support
official quarters here that a min
imum of the Big Four nations
Should band themselves together
now into some sort of provisional
union until a permanent organi
zation can be formed.
“Events are moving so fast that
peeled,” said Cadogan. “It would
pfcevted,” said Cadogan. “It would
be folly to delay the construction
U of at least some of the framework
^ of future international coopera
i tion until the problems of peace
confront us all with their insist
ency.”
The delegates gathered at Dun
! fcarton Oaks, on the historic Wash
ington estate, where all the meet
ings are to be held.
Expressly speaking for the
President as well as himself, Hull
as the officials host, opened the
first session of the international
meeting to block out the security
| organization, since formal work
was started in the League of Na
tions 25 years ago.
iw Both Cadogan, the British rep
resentative, and Ambassador
Gromyko, the Soviet represents -
. tive, spoke in response to Hull’s
opening speech, following which
the leading American role was
turned over to E. R. Stettinius,
Jr., the under secretary of state.
* CASTEL LEAVES IN
gAs SCHOONER
Captain A. Casfiel left with his
l gas schooner on a charter trip to
Diomede Island, with supplies for
glhe stores and individuals who
will winter there. He also earned
passengers.
i
Paris Bomb Ruins
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FRANCE — The caption accompanying this picture, received by
radio from Switzerland, describes the above as a bombed Paris quar- j
ter, after one of the recent Allied raids of German installations and
war factories in Paris, _ ■
JAPANESE ARE
WITHDRAWING
FROM ISLAND
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Aug. 21.—tAP>—The heavily pun
ished Japanese air forces are
withdrawing from Halmahera t)o
bases to the westward beyond
reach of allied bombers.
General Douglas MacArthur re
ported in today’s communique.
“This will make the advance to
the westward possible, without
the costly frontal assaults’ to clear
the way.”
The official pronouncement add
ed that Halmahra is about 200
miles west of New Guinea and 3P0
miles south of the Philippines,
arid has been under constant at
tack by allied bombers in recent
weeks. . • , .
I
/The nearest Japanese . strong
holds west, of Halmahera art
the- Celebes and Borneo Islands,
both containing many airdromes
which as yet has not felt 'the
weight of allied bombs.
The battle for air supremacy in
the Molluccas Islands is rapidly
approaching a definite conclu
sion.
Under constant punishment, the
enemy is apparently withdrawing,
leaving many of the airbases npn
operative and others stripped • of
planes. This, together with ship
ping limitations, renders the sev
eral powerful garrisons in the
area strategically impotent for
anything but local action.
With negligible loss this inter
locking chain of positions from
New Guinea to the Philippines is
being gradually sterilized.
B-25’s SCORE
HITS ON FRENCH
BATTLESHIP
ROME, Aug. 21.—(AP)—Amer
ica B-25’s scored hits on the
French battleship Strassbourg in
Toulon harbor, in an effort to si
lence its guns, which the Germans
were firing on the advancing al
lied fortes. The vessel is partly
submerged, having been scuttled
by her crow in 1941.
The bombers also hit a cruiser
and a destroyer in the harbor.
The Seventh Army reached Sol
lies, a; port six miles northeast of
Brtgnoies and 20 miles northeast
of Toulon.
WAR PLANES
CONTINUE ON
ISLAND RAIDS
* •
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAR
BOR, Aug. 21.—(AP)—War planes
of the U. S. Central Pacific Com
mand continued their neu'ralizing
raids on the scattered Japanese
island bases, Admiral Chester
W. PTimttz. reported today.
In the raids Thursday and Fri
day, American flyers hit two of
the ' Marianas Islands, Pagan,
i north of conquered Saipan, and
Rota, bettweeh Tinian and Guam
! south Marshalls, was blasted
! Aura, a phosphate island in the
south Marshalls was blasted twice,
and Mili and Wotje in the eastern
Marshalls were also attacked.
Anti-aircraft fire at the various
bases was meager to moderate.
All American planes returned
safely.
FORRESTAL TO
TAKE OVER j
MACHINE SHOPS
WASHONGTON, D. C., Aug j
21.—<AP)—The President Satur- ,
day, ordered James Forrestal, sec
retary of the navy, to take over
and to operate 99 machine shops ,
whose companies are producing j
war materials around San Fran
cisco.
The shops are to be taken over
because of refusal of the union to
lift the overtime ban on the work
ers.
ROOSEVELT TO
SEND ENVOYS
TO KAI-SHEK
•
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—<AP)
—President Roosevelt today an
nounced plans for Donald Nelson,
head of the War Production
Board, along with Maj. Gen. Pat
rick Hurley, to leave immediate
ly as emissaries to China to dis
cuss military and economic prob- j
lems with Chiang Kai-Shek.
Jus* when Nelson appeared to
have won the fight to get limit
ed civilian production resumed,
the move stirred surprised con
jecture from congressmen and
others. "It looks like a kick in the
teeth," said one associate WPB
chairman.
Speculation stemmed chiefly on
the assumption that the Presi
dent’s specification would take
Nelson and Hurley "several
months" to finish the assignment.
The associate called the next
few months ‘‘cri*ical", in the re
conversion program, and said
they were positive that until the
White House announcement came.
Nelson believed the entire mis
sion, including travel time, could
be completed m about three
weeks.
Charles E. Wilson, vice chair
; man of the WPB, will take charge
in Nelson’s absence.
JIMMY HEWITT
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Jimmy Hewitt was taken to the
hospital for medical attention last
Friday and is now much better
and will be about again soon.
ARRIVES IN NOME
TO JOIN HUSBAND
Mrs. Halliday has arrived .in
Nome from Kodiak to join her
husband, who is stationed here
with the ACS. They will make
their home in the newly finished
house just west of the Rowe
Apartments on Front Street.
ARMORED |
COLUMNS ON
CITY'S EDGES
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN FRANCE. Aug
21.—(AP)—U. S. armored columns
appeared on both sides of Paris
today, and it has been reported
that Allied flags are already fly
ing in many parts of the capital,
as the underground army started
a fierce revolt, anticipa’ing early
liberation.
American tanks have establish
ed a firm bridgehead across the
Seine at Mantes, 25 miles north
west of Paris, opening a path to
the “flying bomb” coast, 90 miles
farther north.
Probing thrusts to the Se ne in
the vicinity of Corbeil. Melun and
Fontainbleau, points 15. 25 and
35 miles southeast of Paris are
putting the allies in position to
sweep completely around the city
to the battlegrounds of World War
I., Rheims, Soissons. the Marne,
and Chateau Thierry on the
Marne, 55 miles to the northeast.
General Patton's Third Army
vanguard was fighting in the vi
cinity of Versailles, 10 miles t'rom
the heart of Paris, where peace
was signed in the Hall of Mirrors
in 1919.
The German news agency DNB,
said that American reconnaisance
forces were in Paris itself.
The invasion territory north of
the Seine at Mantes, threatened
to compress further the 75x50
mile area below the river where
elements of 18 Nazi divisions are
fighting desperately to escape the
succession of pockets in the hope
of executing a German Dunquer
que, across the almost bridgeless
Seine.
Madly charging into the allied
bands of steel, the Germans made
two attempts yesterday and last
night, to break out of these traps.
Field dispaches reported that
the Germans were using about 70
tanks scraped up from the ele
ments of five divisions.
The Germans attacked from the
westernmost pocket all night,
below Falaise. without appreciable
results.
METEORITE ON
DISPLAY
A piece of meteorite from a
large piece which fell at Annette
Creek, near Council, is on dis
play in the Window of the Alas
ka Airlines. The whole metorite
weighs about 100 lbs. and is com
posed of iron ore and nickel. The
sample displayed is on its way to
the University of Alaska for the
museum there.