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LEADS IN
THIRD
BOND SALE
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Ip a message received by Gar
net Martin from the War Power
Finance Commission, the total
War Bond sales reported to Oc
tober 5th, amounted to $2,302,
531.00 for the whole of Alaska.
Included in the above total were
the amounts of $1,235,496.00 'of
aeries "E” bonds. The all-series
total for Anchorage .was $522,
306.50. Juneau is second with a ^
total of $417,342.50! Fairbanks
takes third place with the fol-1
lowing total: $402,726.25; Ketchi
kan, $292,757.25; Skagway, $142.
087.50; Seward, $133,6125.50; i
Petersburg, $74,488.75; Sitka,!
$50,007.50; Bodiak, $51,096.25; \
Cordova, $27,883.75; Wrangell, |
$25,038.50; Nome, $20,731.25; j
Haines, $9,537.50. The Ketchikan
report is incomplete as the sales J
from the outlying districts have
not yet been reported.
Alaska has done a good job.
Congratulations to the Anchor
age War Bond committee, and
may other war bond committees
elsewhere profit by your exam-!
pie. Keep up the good work.
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SUIT BROUGHT
BY THE 0PA j
The Office of Price Adminis
tration today announced the fil-1
ing of a treble damage action in
No. 4, Fairbanks. Alaska, against
the Lomen Commercial Com
pany. a corporation.
The complaint alleges that on
or about July 7, 1943. the defend
ant sold electrical and plumbing
supplies to Bechtel-Price-Calla
han, a construction firm, in the
amount of $30,751.86; that the
amount charged and received by
the defendant represented a price '
in excess of the ordinary retail
market price by at least five per
cent. The complaint further al
leges that at the time of the sale
Bechtel-Price-Callahan was en
gaged in performing a contract
for the United States Govern- j
ment and that by the provisions
of Maximum Price Regulation i
No. 194 any vendor making a sale
to such a concern is necessarily
required to sell at a wholesale
price. It is further alleged that
the amount of actual overcharge
on the transaction of $30,751.85
is at least the sum of $1,537.50.
A judgment in the amount of
$4,612.77, is asked against the de
fendant. This is an amount equal
to treble the alleged actual over
charge for the transaction.
“Whenever any person, firm or
corporation selling a commodity,
violates a regulation, order or
price schedule and the purchase
is made for use or consumption
in course of trade or business,
the right to bring a treble dam
age action belongs to the Admin
istration”, stated Lynn J. Gem
mill, Territorial Attorney for the
Office of Price Administration,
who signed and filed the com
plaint for the administrator. Mr.
Gemmill further explained that
in cases of overcharges on con
sumer purchases, that is, pur
chases other than in course of
trade or business, that this right
to treble damages belong to the
individual consumer.”
“Regulation applicable to Alas
ka have “been in effect sufficient
ly long to enable all persons and
corporations subject to them to
be fully acquainted with the
same. We are now operating un
der a policy of rigid enforcement
which will be applied whenever
and wherever the evidence >.Js
found,” explained the Territorial
attorney.
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CORRECTION
In Monday’s issue of The Nug
get in the Office of Price Ad
ministration’s report, the price
level on Armour’s Swift’s, Car
sten’s and Gibson’s lard read -6
lb. units $2.40, whereas it should
have read “8-lb Units, $2.40.”
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CARDINALS TIE SERIES
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FIFTH AMERICAN ARMY
FORCE CROSSING OF
VOLTURNO RIVER
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 6.—(AP)
}—The Allied Fifth American Army forced crossing of
; the Volturno river, the Germans first line of defense
i on the road to Rome, and captured several towns and
i villages among which are Aversa and Maddaloni, north
of Naples. One unit crossed the Volturno river, which
j runs about twenty miles above Naples at an unspecified
I point along the river, which flows across the coastal
i plain on the west side of Italy. This plain is expected1
| to be the scene of a delaying action by the Nazis. Re
j serves of Clark’s Fifth Army have been thrown into the 1
i battle because of stubborn German resistance. On the
| Adriatic side, Montgomery’s Eighth Army engaged the
Germans in heavy fighting along the Biferno river line
i near Termoli, as the enemy attempted a strong delaying
action which the Germans had thrown out by 60,000 to
75,000 men on the Italian battleline, coursing far ahead ■
of the land troops.
Four waves of fortresses raided Bologna and rained
hundreds of tons of bombs on that rail center and on I
the Brenner pass line about 180 miles below the Ger
man border. The communique stated “this was one of
; the most accurate and successful attacks,” ever made
j by the Northwest Africa air force. Other Allied planes
; hammered the Nazi communication-over a wide area.
JAPANESE REPORTED MOVING
FOUR DIVISIONS INTO CHINA |
PROPER FROM MANCHURIA
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.CHUNGKING, Oct. 6.—(AP)—Chinese officials re
ported that the Japanese were moving four divisions
into China proper from Manchuria and interpreted
the present Jap offensive in Hangkow and Nanking area
as principally an effort to save the Nipponese main
land from China-based air attacks. One official stated
that the Japs were trying to extend their occupation
to the vital eastern area of China, which is within 150 j
miles of Shanghai by “grabbing some of those points
to prevent their own territory from being bombed.”
NOTE GROWING ACTIVITY OF
RUSSIAN MOBILE UNITS AT
BOTH ENDS OF EASTERN FRONT,
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LONDON, Oct. 6.—(AP)—London reports of grow-!
, ing activity along the Russian mobile columns at both
ends of a long, rain-soaked Eastern front, suggesting
the possibility of a new Russian drive in force to turn
the German flank in one or both of these widely sep
, arated sectors. The central front on which the rival
armies stand on either side of the Dnieper river line j
from Kiev to Dniepropetrovsk, remained quiet.
BRITISH DEFENDERS OF COO
ISLAND CONTINUE TO BATTLE
AGAINST STRONG ENEMY FORCES
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CAIRO, Oct. 6.—(AP)—From Cairo comes the re
port that that the British defenders of Coo Island in
the Dodecanese, continued to battle against strong
German forces, which landed there Sunday, a Middle
East communique said. No change in the general sit
uation on the island, said the bulletin. It gave no de
tails concerning progress of fighting. Berlin radio
reports declared yesterday that the Germans had
broken the backbone of British resistance on the island
and were in possession of all important military in
stallations. _ _ „ , -
NAVY HEADS
MEET FOR
POWWOW
HONOLULU, Qet 5— (AP)—
At a meeting here of the three
top-ranking Navy coropnan^ers in
the Pacific central and soqth
areas, Admiral Chester W. Niny
itz, Admiral Ernest J. King,
fleet commander, and Admiral
William F Halsey, commander of
the South Pacific fore®, Admiral
Nimitz announced that war plans
have been drafted to increase The
tempo of offensive blows in all
sectors of the southwest and
central Pacific against the Jap
anese forces and that the com
manders have now returned to
their posts to carry out the strat
egy increasing the weight and
tempo of offensive
From Allied headquarters in
the South Paciic, General Doug
las MacArthur announqed that
the Australian forces have reach
ed the headwaters of the Ramu
Valley on the way to Medang,
about 160 miles northwest of Lae
on New Guinea. In the com
munique. MacArthur announced
the Japanese sent fifty planes
against American held Vella La
vella in the Solomon theater, but
no damage was reported Our in
terceptors shot down six of the
i raiders. The others turned away
I and flew off to the north. In the
central Solomons, American
planes sunk six more barges
loaded with Japanese soldiers and
equipment, boosting the total to
150 sunk since September 1st.
1st.
TOYKO DENIES
RUMORS OF
BEHEADING
NEW YORK, Oct. 0—(AP)—
Today Toyiho radio beamed a
propaganda broadcast' at Latin
America, denying emphatically
that Japanese soldiers beheaded
captured Allied airmen, but the
U. S. government monitoring sta
tion said the transmitters were
not heard making reference to
the case in broadcasts to the Jap- 1
anese home audiences. The broad
cast in English attributed the
story of the beheading of the
American flyer to the American 1
news agency and called it “fab
rication revealing, utter ignor- j
ance of the Japanese character,
and the desperate position of
America’s leaders who are fran- I
tically trying to boost public
morale.”
BERT BECKSTED DIES
IN CALIFORNIA
Editor,
Nome Nugget:
Rceeived a letter from Mrs. J.
G. Becksted, of Carpenteria,
California, about the death of her
husband, Bert Becksted, Septem
ber 8, as the result of a heart at
tack. Mr. Becksted spent several
years in Nome, as many of his
friends will remember.
G. R. JACKSON.
NOTICE!
Doe to labor shortage and
circumstances beyond our con
trol, we are compelled to dis
continue all-night telephone
service between the boors of
12 P. M. and 8 A.M. We will
resume this service when help
is available.
ALASKA TELEPHONE &
TELEGRAPH CO.
AGED FATHER OF ;
COOPER BROTHERS ;
DIES SUDDENLY .J
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KANSAS CITY, Oct. 6—(AP)—Robert Coop- 1
aged fUty-eight, and father of Morton and Wal
ker Cooper* who are slated for the battery in to
day’s game, the second in the World Series with ;
the Yankees, died this morning at his home here.
Mr. Cooper was a rural mail carrier and an ar
dent baseball fan and had spent a restless eve
ning after the Cardinals had lost the first game
to the Yanks, Mrs. Cooper said. He also worried )
about today’s game which Morton was scheduled
to pitch with Walker again behind the plate. He
awakened at four o’clock and said he was going
to get up, Mrs. Cooper related. She went to the
living room a half hour later and found him op
the floor dead. Mr Cooper had suffered from a
heart ailment.
YANKEE STADIUM. N Y., October 6th—(AP)~
Burdened by the new of the sudden death, of bus father,
Mort Cooper pitched with his arm and his heart today,
in a great competition exhibition'to hurl
the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4 to 3 victory
over the New York Yankees to tie up the
1943 World Series at one game apiece,
before a crowd of 68,578 fans.
The second game of the series opened
before another tremendous throng, with
the ace righthander firebalier Morton
Cooper, on the mound. Cooper held tha
Mo't cooow Yanks to six hits and was backed up in
his pitching exhibition by the homerun slugging of
Marty Marion and Ray Sande, holding on gnmly4
through the tough spots. He gained revenge on the
two occasions in the 1942 series, when the Yankee
bombers drove him to the showers. Morton and his
catching (brother, Walker, decided to stay on and help
the Cards through the fall classic despite the death
their father ‘‘because that’s the way Dad would want
it.” Between the efforts of the two brothers, the Na*
tional League champs are on even terms with the
Yankees again. ^ --JI
The Cards put the game on ice early simply bceause
Ernie Bonham, righthander of the Yankees, served too
many boom-boom balls before settling down to busi
ness. Marion dropped a homer to the lower left field
stands on the first pitch of the third inning. Sanders
sent one to deep right field seats with one of his team*
mates on base, featuring a three-run spree in. the
fourth. Except for these lapses, Bonham, hurier for,
the Yanks, fanned nine Cards, whiffing the side in
the sixth. The only time the trick has been turned
since Carl Hubbell, in the series 10 years ago with
the Giants against Washington. With a 4 to 1 -ead
from the fourth, Cooper had several tight spots
through the fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth innings,
but each time pulled himself together and hurled his
way out of danger, strictly on his own. The Yanks
got the first run off him in the fourth inning, when
Frank Crossetti led off with a blooper and singled
to the right. He reached third on Bill Johnson’s iins
hit through center and trotted home on Keller’s fly.
The final score for today’s, game: ,
R H B
$t. Louis Cardinals_.-.4 7 2
Batteries: Morton and Walker Cooper.
R. H E
New York Yankees .- 3 6 Q
Bonham, Murphy and Dickey. i £ ''■
Losing pitcher: Bonham. _