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VOL. XLVII. No. 41. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, .1945. PER. COPY — 15^
Navy Draft Call j
IS REDUCED
WASHINGTON, April 4,-^P)—
^ The Navy cut its May draft call in
half and may enen ask for fewer
men in June. This will reduce
the overall Selective Service calls
about 12 per cent or more from
the current rate of 132,000 men a
month.
Cutting the Navy’s requirements
^ in half puts it’s May call roughly
at 2,000.
Two reasons given, one that
17-yf-olds were enlisting at a high
er rate than expected, and that the
peak strength is being maintained
through fewer casualties than cal
culated. By July 1st. the Navy
will have 3,600,000 men.
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NAZIS TRAPPED
IN HOLAND
PARIS, April 4, —4/P)—British
^ troops reached the Ems river, 48
miles from the North Sea in a
drive to trap some 90,000 Germans
In Holland.
Ninth Army tanks pulled up to
the Wesel river, the next to the
last important stream, on the high
* road to Berlin.
The Third Army fought down
the last 58 miles toward Czecho
slovakia, and for the citl of Gotha,
140 miles southwest of Berlin.
Berlin radio said Patton’s troops
had reached Arnstadt, 70 miles
from Leipzig, and 110 miles from
the Czech city of Pilsen, where the i
great Skoda Munitions works is lo
* cated, Hitler’s last major arsenal.
Arnstadt is 13 miles southeast
of Gotha.
General Simpson’s Fifth Armor
ed Division reached the Weser riv
* er at Bad Oeynhausen, 183 miles
from Berlin, 57 miles south of Bre
men. A Battalion af Engineers i
rode along to bridge the river, and
enroute captured the towns of Sal
zuflen, Dienhide, Hollinde.
The Canadians are driving tow
ard the Zuider Zee less than 20
miles from General Henry Crerar’s
vanguards at Luxembourg. The
radio asserted that German div
isions are being shifted from the
Russian to the disintegrating West
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NO OPPOSITION
ON OKINAWA
By Morrie Landsberg
GUAM, April 4, —</P)—Marines
and infantrymen are still finding
negligible opposition and drove a
wedge across another section ol
Okinawa island yesterday to take
firm control of that strategic lit
tle island.
“The 4-day-old battle is pro
gressing much faster than our
wildest dreams,” said Major Gen,
Archibald Arnold, as his veteran
7th Army division was mentioned
in communiques today for the Is1
time.
The southern flank of the U. S
lines is only 6 miles from the
town of Naha, the principal citj
in the Ryukyus, with a population
of 66,000, while nearby is one
of the best airdromes in the en
tire chain.
In the north the Marines are
crossing difficult terrain and
havebeen slowed by hills and dus
ty roads.
Naval guns and carrier planes
gave close support to the ground
troops.
" KAY BEATS THE BAND"
The Nome High School is giving
a three act comedy Thursday al
8:00 P.M. Admission 75 cents
The cast includes ;Carol Mclain,
Dick Mickelson, Paul McCarthy,
Walter McCarthy, Bejmedetfle
Amorak, Eillen Waldheim and
Percy Blatchford.
ern Front.
The Ninth Army reporter an en
counter with the Elite Viking Pan
zer division which arrived without
tank support.
The French First Army entered
Karlshure, the capital of Baden, an
important industrial center.
The Ninth Army’s Second Arm
ored Division fought past tightly
hemmed Bielefeld, into Detmold
47 miles southwest of Hanover.
The Seventh Army battled to
the heart of the Bavarian city
Wuelzbach and closed to within
34 miles of Nuernberg.
On the front behind the Main
river German resistance is harden
ing.
YANK 41st. Nears
I Borneo Oil Fields
By Fred Hamsen
MANILA, April 4,—iff)—Veter
ans of the 41st Division invaded
Tawitawi, on the south end of
the Sulu Archipelago, with a
dash within 30 miles of the rich
fields of Borneo.
Superforts Hit
3 Targets in Japan
By Elmont Waite
G7UAM, April 4, —(JP)—300 more
I
Superforts roared through thick
clouds over Japan's home island
of Honshu in low level, three
way demolition raid. ....It was the
first time that three separate tar
gets were lashed at the same
time on large scale.They hit
Shizuoka, Tachikawa and ..Koi
zumi, and because of bad wetther
the bombing was done almost en
tirely by instrument.The ob
jectives were obscured by heavy
clouds, and the exact targets were
not soecified.
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NENANA ICE IS
THICK, Reported
NENANA, Alaska, April 4, —A
report today was received from
the Ice Pool manager, Tom Jones
that the ice in the Tanana river
at Nenana is 41 inches thick, and
is the maximum thickness for the
season. Snow has settled slight
ly but is not thawing. The tem
perature was 3 below zero this
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morning.
The wire is streched from the
tri-pod on the ice to the tower
on shore, ready for the breakup.
The ice may stay for a long
time but, says Mr. Jones, “the sale
of Nenana Ice Pool tickets def
initely closes next Saturday at
midnight, April 7th.”
PAA OFFICIAL IN NOME
ON BUSINESS
Charles M. Huntley, Commun
ications Manager for the Alaska
Division of PAA, is. in..Nome on
an inspection trip.
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VIENNA UNDER
SOVIET GUNS
LONDON, April 4, —if?)—Soviet
tank and infantry forces are surg
ing through the administrative dis
thrit of greater Vienna, and shash
I ed to within 6 miles of the city pro
per.
Two massive Russian armies
have already deprived the defend
ers of Vienna of the great bastion
of Wiener Neustadt, 22 miles east
of the city.
Units of the Russian Second Ar
my on the Eastern Front took
Neundorf, 2 miles southeast of cap
tured Danzig, on the plains of the
Vistula delta, while other units
took Westerplatte, guarding Dan
zig harbor.
AIRWAYS
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
The Boeing made a trip to Gam
bell with two round trip pass
engers from Chicago, Mrs. B.
Hubbard and Mrs. E. Eure, also
Nolan Solik.
Pilot Whaley returned from
Point Hope and Kotzebue with
Harvey Starling, of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, E. Howarts for
jury duty, and Mary Wilson.
Pilot Whaley will leave today for
White Mountain and Koyuk with
Harvey Starling, Mrs. Charles
Wese will be a passenger to
Golovin.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
| The Lodestar arrived from Anch
orage with freight, and departed
with Miss H. Martin, Miss Con
stance Erickson and Mrs. Maggie
Kunz for Anchorage.Passen
gers for Unalakleet were H. Pum
pchuk, Lucy Koutoo.Deputy
Marshal Peter Balls, and Matron
Daisy Amouak.
Pilot Weaver left for Shishmaref
with U. S. Mail inspector Mr.
Peterson ..yesterday, ..and ..today
is scheduled for Shaktoolik with
Eric Teipan and Mary Mathews
for White Mountain.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
ThePAA plane arrived Monday
evening with M. B. Vincent, M. S.
Jorgenson, G. R. Jackson, Vin
cent Arino, and Charles M. Hunt
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SEIDENVERG IS
ELECTED MAYOR
The total number of votes cast
were 436. the highest vote in the
last 10 years in a City Election.
Edward M. Seidenverg, owner
of the Bon Marche department
store, was elected Mayor of Nome
by a vote of 291 to 139 over |
Edward Anderson, the outgoing. J
Mayor, who was 2nd. Div. Rep- •
resentative to the 17th Legislat- J
ure. J
The three Councilmen elected £
were Guy Mish, owner of the
Nome Hardware co., 323, Christ
ian A. Roust, Manager of Glenn
Carrington Co. Nome, with 317.
and Joseph Wallace, owner of
the Wallace Hotel, 275. The
other two names on the ballot ^
were Roy Snyder, a mechanic. t
with 194, and Albert Mode, a t
mine operator in the Oobornar ^
creek district, 85. jk
For other offices the present X
incumbents return without op- X
position. X
Carrie McLain, City Clerk; C. X
C. Tanner, City Attorney; H. G. X
Gabrielson, Treasurer; W. J. X
j Dowd, 3yr and A. C. Steinwan- >4
del 2yr terms School Board. fa
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BASEBALL GAMES
Monday Games
Coast League—
Los Angeles 16, San Francisco 3.
Portland 9, Oakland 2.
Seattle 12, San Diego 1.
Hollywood 1, Sacramento 9.
Tuesday games-:
Los Angeles 7, San Francisco 6.
Portland 8, Oakland 4.
Seattle 10, San Diego 3.
Hollywood 2, Sacramento 4.
BUILDING RESIDENCE %
ON FRONT STREET X
Mr. Duke Mitrovich is busy
building a residence on Front St. &
between the U. S. Mercantile Co.
and the Miners and Merchants
Bank. Mr. Mitrovich recently
purchased the lot from Charles A
Lewis, formerly of Nome.
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ley.
Outgoing passengers were Mar
tha Jenner, Mr. and Mrs. Ruben
Marr, Mrs. Tanya Fernander and
Joseph Walsh, /; . _