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Crisis Looms |
In Germany, |
Is Belief
LONDON, July 24 —(AP)—The |
ftrst official word of the crisis |
In Grarmany, came from England's:
Prime Minister, Winston S.
Churchill, during a visit to Nor- j
tnandy
‘‘There are grave signs of weak
ness of the Reich," he said, “and ;
the war might come to an end
. ° i
earlier than we have a right to
aay.M
Speaking before 500 men, after
landing at the RAF flying field,
the prime minister summed up |
Germany’s internal crisis in these
words:
“Opposite you is the enemy,
with its central power crumbling.”
While in Normandy, Churchill
inspected Cherbourg and looked
over one of the German flying
bomb installations captured by the
Americans.
Speaking of the recent attempt
on Hitler's life, Churchill said
with an acid grin “They missed
the old bounder" 'approximately,
his words) “but there’s time yet.”
He concluded:
“There’s a great disturbance in
the German machine. Just think
haw you would feel if there-were
3 revolution in England, and they
started shooting cabinet minis
ters."
Tire Tubes Still
Under Ration
Tubes are still rationed in the
Territory regardless of reports to
the contrary, it was announced
today by Mrs. Helene G. Johnson,
rationing executive of the Alaska
Office of Price Administration.
Announcements concerning the
release of tubes in the States
where gasoline rationing controls
driving has Led -toj confusion in the
minds of persons who need tubes,
and letters... and advertisements
from suppliers who forget that
Alaska operates under different
tire regulations have even con
fused dealers, it was explained.
The general public is therefore
warned that in Alaska tubes are
still rationed and can be sold only
on certificates issued by the War
Price and Rationing Board in the
community in which the vehicle
on which they are to be used is
w located.
I
P ^ R T — Jane Wyman, film
, atar. adds her bit to the seaside
; . ecepe la some thins neat for,
L W* warm wealber wear,
ITALIANS HELP YANK S—Using mule pack trains. Italian solTHers in Italy bring forward
supplies and equipment for fighters of the U. S. Fifth Army.
Bomber Crew
To Be Awarded
*
High Honors
By NORMAN BELL
11TH AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS AT AN ALEUTIAN
ISLAND BASE. July 24.—<AP>—
Four members of a medium bomb
er crew which sank two enemy
patrol vessels off Paramushiro,
within six days, may be awarded
air medals by Major General Dav
enport Johnson, it has been re
ported.
They are First Lieutenant Wal
lace Wixham, co-pilot, of Lagu
na Beach, Calif., and First Lieu
tenant William Middletown, of
Corunna, Mich., First Lieutenant
Elmer Scalet, navigator-bombard
ier, of Hartford, Ark., and Second
Lieutenant William Webb, bom
bardier, of Kirkland, Texas.
First Lieutenant Claude Wil
son, pilot, was previously award
ed the air medal for sinking two
of several ships, during the six
day assault on the Kuriles.
American Forces
Make Guam Gains
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR,
July 24.—)AP)—American amphi
bious forces, after making beach
head landings, made substantial
gains on Guam, with only 1,958
casualties for the first three days
of land fighting, it was announc
ed.
Admiral Nimitz, in his July
summary of activities, said:
“Through July 22nd, there were
listed, 348 Americans killed, 1,500
wounded, and 110 missing.
FOOD SALE SAID
HUGE SUCCESS
The Midnight Sun Rebekah
Lodge reports that they are well
satisfied with the receipts of the
food sale held last Friday. They
are very anxious to raise enough
money to replace regalia and other
equipment lost in the Odd Fel
low building fire, so that they
may continue to carry on their
work in the community, stated
the Noble Grand, Mrs. Fred Rob
erts. Mrs. Herb Jenks was chair
man of the bake sale committee.
Plane Crash In
Air Results In
Officers’ Deaths
SPOKANE, Wash., July 24.—
<AP>—A crowd of 100,000 per
sons, too stunned to make an out
cry, yesterday watched two at
tack bombers, collide and fall in
flames, killing four persons, dur
ing a “war show” here.
The ships were part of the pa
rade of various types flown in the
Air Service Command’s “Stay on
the Job” war show, and fell 2,000
feet from the crowd.
The victims were Capt. Ford
Sayre, Hanover, New Hampshire:
Second Lieutenant George Chrep,
Hibbing, Minn.: and Second Lieu
tenant William Scott, Winnetka,
111.
BESS CROSS AND
DAUGHTER ARRIVE IN NOME
Mrs. Bess Cross and daughter,
Patsy, arrived yesterday from
Fairbanks by plane enroute to
their home in Deering. Mrs. Cross
is a democratic candidate for the
House from the Second Division.
Fifth Army Now
Holds Southern
Part Of Pisa
ROME, July 24.—<AP>—Amer
icans of the Fifth Army today
held the southern halt of histor
ic Pisa, while other forces wiped
out virtually all enemy positions
along the southern banks of the
Arno river from the sea to a point
near Enpoli.
Additional columns pushed
north of Poggigonsi to within 12
miles of Florence.
Week-end operations establish
ed the Fifth Army firmly alonj;
the Nazi Gothic Line, water bar
rier, to a point less than 20 air
line miles from Florence.
Advance elements crossed the
Arno canal and occupied Caseina.
10 miles east of Pisa.
On the upper Arno the Eighth
Army made new gains north of
the river.
The Berat, Albania, oil refinery
was left in flames yesterday, and
military objectives in Bucharest
were bombed last night
Ail Eight Star Picture
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FRANCE—During their tour of the Normandy beachhead, Gen
eral George C. Marshall, U. S. Chief of StaT, (bending in foreground)
and General H. H. Arnold, Commanding General U. S. Army Air
Force* (whose stars way be soen in lackgiound) enjoy a quick GI
wash. Other high rankers, including Admiral Ernest J. King are out
of camera range in background. __
Invasion of
Guam Goes
Smoothly
—
PEARL HARBOR, July 24 —
<AP)—The invasion of Tinian Is
land is moving smoothly from the
firm beachheads, and has rushed j
the American conquest of the stra
tegic Marianas Islands.
Other Yank forces isolated the
key objective of Guam, 130 miles
to the southward.
A communique from Admiral
Nimitz last night said, “Landings
were begun at dawn Sunday by
assault units of the Second and
Fourth U. S. marines, and contin
ued against light opposition."
Tinian is three miles south of
conquered Saipan.
Under the protection of carrier
and land-based planes and war
ships, guns and land-based artil
lery from Saipan, the majority of
the defense installations on the
beachhead were neutralized and
the airfield de-commissioned.
Marine landings were made on
Guam, on its west central coast,
both north and south of the port
of Apra, the best anchorage in
the Marianas. In advancing, thej^
have isolated the haroor and air-'
field on the Orote Peninsula, the
best on the island. %
The marine division quickly;
took five miles of the co&Stiine
north of the harbor and occupied
Cabras island and the sand spit,!
the harbor’s northern arm,
Third Division units took the
razed villages of Piti and Asan.!
and pushed to within two miles1
of Againa, the shell-leveled, peace- [
time capital of Guam
Interior Dept.
; Employees Given
Merit Awards
WASHINGTON, July 24.—(AP)j
—Awards to 23 Interior Depart
ment employees, suggesting an
improvement on the “home front
service", was announced by Sec-,
retary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes. i
Among the 23 employees in the
awards, four were from Alaska:
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F Jones,,
who served as radio station op
erator and teacher, respectively, j
on Attu, until the Japanese at-i
tack, and have not been heard
from since.
They were awarded the depart
ment’s Award of Excellence for |
“Heroic service beyond the call!
of duty."
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Magie
held a similar post on Atka Is
land and they were given the de
partment's award for "outstand
ing achievement" and a $60.00
annual salary increase.
The same increase awaits Mr.
and Mrs Jones
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BOB BARTLETT
VISITS IN NOME
E. L. (Bob) Bartlett arrived in
Nome yesterday via the Pan
Pan American Airways, from
Fairbanks, on his campaign tour
through the Territory. Bob is the
Democratic candidate for Delegate
to Congress, to succeed Anthony
J. Dimond, who is to be district
judge of the Third Division. Mr.
Bartlett expects to spend a few
days in Nome.
Honduras's greatest potential
wealth lies in its rich mineral de
posits.
Bombers
Sink Vessel
Near Islands
By MURLIN SPENCER
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS ON NE WGUINEA,
July 24.—<AP)—Terms of the
Allied communiques on the Paci
fic war swung back to the Phil
ippines today for the first time in
two years, when General MacAr
*hur announced, “Our air patrols
sank a coastal vessel, 70 miles off
the coast of Mindanao.”
This was the first mention of
the Philippines in a MacArthur
communique, since the fall of
Corregidor May 6, 1942.
The official silence screening all
activities around the Philippines
has thus been lifted, and it can
now be disclosed that American
planes have been patroling closely
the Japanese operations in the
islands.
MacArthur’s planes are now pa
trolling at least “00 miles to the
northwest of the most advanced
bases on Biak, Owi and Noemfoor
Islands off the coast of New Gui->
nea.
The communique also disclosed
that the Japanese trapped in the
Wewak area, on British New Gui
nea, seemed to be concentrating
their forces for heavy attacks
against the American lines, along
the Driniumor river.
New Guinea-based Liberators
again gave support to the Guam
landings by bombing Yap, Palau,
and Woleai in the by-passed Car
olines.
Germans Admit
Russians Within
50 Miles of W arsaw
LONDON, July 24 — fAP>—Ger
man radio stations today acknow
ledged that the Russian armies
had pushed to within 50 miles of
Warsaw, with the Nazi troops
abandoning Siedlce, an important
rail town on one of the main rail
lines into Warsaw, "
The German communique re
ported fighting inside the great
Polish rail centers of Lwow, Lub
lin.
Siedlice is 50 miles due east of
Warsaw, the Polish capital, and
365 miles from Berlin, and is by
far the closest approach to the
capital of Nazidom.
The advance to Siedlce marked
i 20-mile movement since mid
light.
The city is about midway be
tween Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk
The German reference to the
Russian advance on the line from
Siedlce to Jaraslaw, pointed to a
jeneral retreat along a 150-mile
i-ont, across the center of Poland,
he enemy apparently being swept
dong with no signs of let-up.
r -
Garnet Martin
Nome, Alaska.
Wish to extend De
partment’s sincere ap
preciation for splendid
issue of Nugget on July
3rd, showing Nome’s
100 per cent coopera
tion in backing the at
ttick i
(Signed) NORDALE.