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Germans
t Say Bomb
Successful
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan: 17.
—<AP>—Swedish newspapers re
ported the Germans may put a
new “liquid air" bomb, which has
been tested on the eastern front,
preliminary to using it against
Great Britain.
and is receiving widespread pub
quite different from other models,
and is receiving diespread public
licity, and is about ready for the
warfront.
Swedish newsmen said neutral
military experts received informa
tion that the bomb was propelled
to fantastic heights by rocket
power, then glides to the target,
spreading destruction over a ra
dius more than 400 yards, or an
area covering more than 50 aver
age city blocks.
The bomb can travel 70 miles,
when released from a transport
plane over three miles up, the
newspapers said.
Neutral military experts said,
that although others were skepti
cal, the rocket rises to an altitude
of 30 to 37 miles before starting
to glide.
BERGDOLL TO
BE RELEASED
„ WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—(AP)
—Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 50,
the nation’s number one draft
dodger of the First World War,
hcion of a wealthy Philadelphia
family, is to be released from the
army disciplinary barracks at
.Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a
War Department spokesman an
nounced.
Bergdoll escaped after being
> sentenced during World War I.,
and made his way to Germany,
where he married and returned
to this country in 1939, where he
surrendered to military authori
ties.
His wife and six children re
side near Philadelphia.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
HELD FOR BILLIKIN
KOMONASEAK
4 Memorial Services were held for
Billikin Komonaseak, who pased
away Dec. 9, 1943.
The services were held in the
Lovinia Wallace Young, Mission,
Sunday, afternoon January 9th.
Many friends gathered to pay
their last respects. The Mission
choir sang several hymns of com
fort, “Blest be the tie that binds”,
and “In the sweet bye and bye”
^ were sang in the native language.
Mr and Mrs Philip Asaruk and
Willie Austin also sang special
songs. Comforting scripture mes
sages were given.,
Billikin Komonaseak was born
in Wales, Alaska, married Ada
Akavok in 1904, came to Nome
in 1920, where he has lived and be
come well-known for his excep
tionally fine ivory-carving.
He leaves to mourn his death,
his widow, and six children; Mrs.
Hazel Niupok, Luther Sokeuna,
Mrs. Fred Larson, Silas and Sarah
Harry, who is in the Army. All
Komonaseak, all of Nome, and
y were home for the burial service.
FRISCH TELLS
OF TRIP TO
TERRITORY
NEW YORK, Jan. 17 — (APV
Frankie Frisch, manager of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, is back in
town with glowing reports of the
six-week tour of Alaska and the
Aleutians, where Dixie Walker of
Brooklyn, Hank Borowy of the
i Yankees and Danny Litwhiler and
Stan Musel of the Cardinals
joined him in a series of walkie
talkie fanning bees, for the ser
vicemen, under the auspices of the
USO.
i ‘ Moving pictures of the World
Series went over big. Musel had
explained a hundred times how
St. Louis happened to lose to the
Yankees. It was a great experi
ence, we had a fine time, and I
think the boys did too," said
Frisch.
EARTHQUAKE
HITS ANDES
I: .- '
BUENOS AIRES, Jan, 17.—(AP)
—Survivors of the disastrous
earthquake which wiped out the
Andes city of'San'Juan over the
week-end, said the trembtor
struck one mighty blow, “cutting
the city at its roots, as if by a
scythe.’’
The city of 30,000 population
was plunged into darkness.
I Officials said 500 bodies were
, recovered, but the dead might
mount to 1,600.
)
1 Tris was the country’s worsl
earthquake in 83 years.
I -
SOVIETS PUSH
Inear Latvia
LONDON, Jan. 17.-—<AP>—A
powerful Soviet offensive is
sweeping toward the Latvian bor
der, hurling the Germans back
along a nine-mile front.
Farther south, in old Poland,
the Red Army spearheads were
driving nearer the important
junction at Rovno, asserting the
drive north of Nevel had swept
up 40 localities and cut the im
portant railway below Lake Il
men.
Moscow announced General
Vatutin’s First Ukrainian Army
had killed 100,000 Germans and
captured 7,000 in the three-week
massive offensive which carried
them nearly 60 miles inside Po
land.
PEACE OFFICIALS
SAID TO HAVE MET
MOSCOW, Jan. 17.—(AP)—
Pravda published a Cairo report
under the heading, “Rumors
From Cairo”, an accusation that
Great Britain was sounding out
Germany for a separate peace.
A meeting of officials is said
to have taken place either in
Spain or Portugal.
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ROBERT F. BALDWIN. II..
COMES TO NOME
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Bald
win are the proud parents of an
8-lb., 14-oz. boy, born on January
12, 1944. Mother and baby are
doing nicely. The father, one of
Nome’s councilmen, is passing the
cigars for his new tax-emption.
| JUNGLE FIGHTING IN BURMA
| NEW DELHI. India. Jart 17.—(AP)—Jungle forces occupied
two more millaoes in western Burma, in the slow advance through
the jungles, it was announced tcday by Admiral Lord Mounlbat
fen's headquarters.
FLAPDOODLE’
SAYS CAPTAIN
LOS ANGELES, Calif. Jan. 14,
fAP)—Captain Walter Brunnich,
62, a merchant seaman, says “This
potshooting of Liberty ships by
self-appointed critics, just because
a ship cr two breaks in two, flap
doodle ” Brunmck is home after
taking a Liberty ship 20,000 miles,
which included experience off
Madagascar “the stormiest weather
| in my 45 years at sea”, but left the
j vessel’s hull undamaged. Refer
! nng to the Truman Committee
hearing, at Seattle on the cracking
reported on 14 Liberty ships of
he said, “I heard the same harping
about the 8.800 tenners built dur
ing the last war, yet many of these
same ships are still steaming along
with the convoys today delivering
munitions all over the world. Im
proper distribution of cargo, and
many other things can break up
a ship”.
TAKES FIRST TRIP
OUTSIDE IN 46 YEARS
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 17 —
(AP)—Mrs. Margaret Young of
Fairbanks, a sourdough for 46
years, is enjoying her first trip
outside, but, not enough to cancel
reservations on the first boat back
north.
Her granddaughter, Margaret
Hempel, who has spent all of her
18 years in Alaska, feels the same
way.
“Yes, we like Seattle, and San
Francisco, all right, but I’m home
sick and want to go home,” said
Miss Hempel.
Mrs. Young is 73, and came out
by plane, but won’t return that
way.
ARRIVES FROM
SALMON LAKE
Andrew Peterson was in town
from his home at Salmon Lake
and reports there are many wolves
in that locality. He states that the
wolverine are particularly vicious
when trapped and will practical
ly chew themselves to pieces to
get* out of the trap. He was dis
playing a beautiful gray wolf
pelt.
PIONEER CARD PARTY
Pioneer Igloo No. 1 will give
its first card party Wednesday.
January 19. 1944 at 9 o'clock
p. m. at the Odd Fellows' Hall.
Admission, 50c. Season ticket,
$2.50.
WORKERS VOTE
TO STRIKE
SEATTLE Wash., Jan . 17.—
<AP)—Oregon and Washington
foundry workers voted yesterday
to strike at 8:00 a. m Tuesday,
trreatening closure of 79 plants
engaged in vital war work
About 6,000 men are involved
n the action taken at special
meetings here, at Portland, Ta
coma and Everett, to discuss Re
gional War Labor Board Direc
tive of Saturday, which granted
wage increases to the lower wage
groups, but denied the demands of
journeymen molders a scale in
crease of eight cents an hour to
$1.23
OCCUPY TWO
WORE VILLAGES
i
I
NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 17.—
*
MAP)—Jungle forces occupied two
I more villages in western Burma
today, tn the slow advance through
the jungles, it was announced by
| Admiral ' Lord Mountbatten's
headquarters.
12 KILLED IN
TRAIN WRECK
NOVICE, Texas Jan. 14. <AP>—
Twelve persons were reported kill
ed and 75 injured in a collision of
two Santa Fe passenger trains dur
ing traffic in snarling snowstorm
i yesterday. Only three of the
dead have been positively
identified. The 4-car extra crash
ed into the rear of the California
bound 12-car train, which had
stopped at the station to discharge
passengers.
PIONEER CARD
PARTIES TO START
The first Pioneer card party of
the season will be given next
i
Wednesday evening at 9 o'clock
in the Odd Fellows Hall. This will
be a preliminary game of the ser
ies and it will not be counted in
I the series totals. This will give
| everyone an opportunity to begin
| in the series. There will be six
| awards to the winners at each
] game and four grand prizes at the
I conclusion of the series. Refresh
ments and a door prize will be
given each evening. Six games
will constitute the series. An ad
mission charge of 50c is set for
each meeting, with series tickets
selling for $2.50.
Plans Are Set
For Invasion of
! Western Europe
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FORTRESSES
IN RAID ON
AUSTRIA SITES
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Jan. 17.—fAP<—Flying
Fortresses hit the Messersehmidt
factory at Klagenfurt, Austria, 75
miles northeast of Trieste.
Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker said the air
men shot their way through a
dozen rocket firing fighters to get
to their objective, and left factory,
sheds and railway sidings a bomb
scrambled mess.
IS enemy aircraft were destroy
ed and five allied planes were
lost in yesterday's operations.
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REACH BANK
OF RIVER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Jan. 17.—AP>—At
tacking along a 30-mile front
American and French Troops of
i Clark’s Army, reached the steep
banks of the Rapido river, which
runs through Cassino, and began
battering assaults all along the
Gustav line, the main barricade
between the Allies and Rome.
The high banks of the Rapido
i river have been converted into
1 the Gustav line, studded with
: guns, weapon pits, dugouts and
I traps.
NINE ARE DEAD.
30 INJURED IN WRECK
LONDON, Jan. 17.—<AP>—
Nine are dead and 30 injured, in
' eluding three American airmen
killed and nine other United
States soldiers injured in a crash
at a surbaban station here.
Both trains were crowded with
hundreds of troops on leave.
It is believed to be the worst
1 wreck in England during the past
two years. The train coaches were
of wood.
DIMOND NOT TO
RUN AGAIN.
WASHINGTON, Jan 17.—(API
—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di
mond announced today that he
did not intend to file as a candi
date for renomination in the elec
tion April 25th.
He said he believes he should
let the prospective candidates
know his intention, but declined
to say what his future plans
would be.
PIONEER WOMEN
HOLD MEETING
The Pioneer Women of Alaska,
Igloo No. 1, held their monthly
! meeting at the home of Mrs. V.
Seiffert, the new president, last
Friday afternoon After the meet
ing cards were enjoyed and a
lovely luncheon followed. Win
ners of the prizes were Mrs. Lor
etta Jones, Mrs A Rydeen and
Mrs. Ole Hay.
LONDON, Jan. 17.—General
! Dwight D. Eisenhower is here to
take over the command of the in
vasion of western Europe.
The general said the job is al
ready well advanced with the
• great work of the air and naval
| supply forces. He disclosed that
Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, who
served under him as commander
i of the 2nd Army Air Corps in
Tunisia, will become senior com
mander of the American ground
forces in the United Kingdom, a*
a possible counterpart to General
Montgomery, commander of the
; British ground forces at Algiers.
General Sir Henry Wilson fo
cused new attention to the inva
sion in his first public appearance
as commander of the Mediterran
; ean theatre, and said the object
| of the Italian campaign is to cap
j ture Rome, but that the entire
! front extends from the Balkans to
| the Pyrenees, and that the attack
j might be anywhere.
Eisenhower expressed great sat
j isfaction with the lieutenants as
1 signed him. and stressed that the
allied command of operations,
and national prestige must be
■subordinated to military efficien
.cy.
He said he was pleased to have
, had an opportunity to confer with
• both President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill while
! enroute.
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AUSSIES CAIN
SUCCES IN SIO
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
LEW GUINEA, Jan. 17.—<AP>—
Australian jungle fighters chalked
up another success on New Gui
nea by capturing Sio, the enemy
supply barge base on Huon Pen
insula. Sweeping three miles for
ward through jungles toward the
American invasion force at Sai
dor.
Heavy attacks on Japanese ship
ping and harbor facilities at Ra
baul, by allied bombers, crippled
a cruiser, a destroyer, seven car
go vessels.
General MacArthur reported
that 29 enemy planes were down*
ed and 16 probables, in the raid
on Rabaul.
MARINES TAKE
HILL ’66‘
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NEW GUINEA, Jan. 17— (AP)—
American Marines captured htU
“66", a strategic height in the Bor*
gen Bay area of the Cape Glou*
Gloucester beachhead.
A headquarters spokesman said
the Marines’ capture of the hill
was achieved against heavy op
position. The hill was covered
with machine gun nests.
The veteran leathernecks from
Guadacanal said the fighting was
the toughest they had ever exper
ienced.
The marines are now mopping
up the Borgen Bay area.