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VOL. 46.—No. 131._NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1944._PER COPY—15c.
* ARMIES MAKE
GAINS ON 400
MILE FRONT
LONDON, Nov. 17.—(AP)—Six
allied armies battered out gains
along a 400-mile, muddy front to
day in a massive test of the Ger
# mans' staying power, it has been
reported.
Perhaps two million men are
engaged on both sides in what
may be the last great battle of
the war in western Europe.
Prime Minister Churchill an
nounced that between two and
three million of the allied troops
were in Europe. Two months ago
the Germans believed half a mil
lion men were in the battle line.
The U. S. First and Ninth arm
ies are fighting shoulder to
* shoulder in sectors from 31 to 28
miles from Cologne. On the Rhine
they have deepened the wedge
in the Siegfried Line by one to
two miles and have advanced to
withing seven miles of Julich, a
communications center for Col
ogne.
The First and the Ninth armies
are in their jump-off attack and
yesterday they were supported by
the greatest air fleet ever to go
A in a single action as a direct aid
to ground forces.
Nearly 6,000 bombers and
fighters blasted the gateway to
the Rhine with 13,000 tons of ex
plosives for five hours. Infantry
men captured hundreds of Ger
man soldiers stunned from the on
slaught.
On the Americans’ left flank
the British Second Army in Hol
land capped a 12-mile advance of
three days by capturing Wessen
on the Maas river below Roer- J
A mund, Holland.
The British reached Maas vir
tually on a seven-mile front. This
sector is facing the German bor
der from three to seven miles
wide. ?
INFANTRYMEN
TIGHTEN GRIP
-ON SALIENT
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP
PINES, Nov. 17.—(AP)—Infan -
trymen of the 24th Division and
dismounted cavalry of the First
Division are tightening their
^ grip on he Japanese salient at
Limon, which is four miles south i
of Carigara Bay on Leyte head- j
ANCIENT CAPIT A L—This picture of Krakow, carnal of t’uiantl in ancient times, shows
city hail in foreground. In southwestern Poland, city is held by Germany.
RUSSIANS
PIERCE NAZI
DEFENSES
LONDON, Nov. 17.—(AP)—Rus
sian troops pierced the main Ger
man defense line, 10 miles east
of Budapest at the rail station
of Gymro today, and formed a
pivot northeast of the besieged
capital.
The Red troops also threatened
the key railway junctions of Go
dollo and Katvan* to the north
east of the other units.
General Malinovsky, of the
Second Ukraine Army, struck to
within five miles of Miskolc, in
Hungary. This fifth city of Hun
gary is now exposed to Red army
artillery fire.
VERNA MICKELSON
RETURNS HOME
Verna Mickelson, owner and
operator of the Service Cleaners
on B Street, returned to Nome
yesterday. She was called to the
states suddenly, due to the illness
of her mother who is now some
what improved. During her ab
sence Mr. Mickelson has been op
erating the cleaning establish
ment.
Eveyone reads The Nugget.
RULES SET
BY MEDICS ON
QUARANTINE
Everyone is anxious for the
| town quarantine to be lifted and
| all efforts are being made to do
so. With full cooperation from
the people of Nome the quaran
tine time can be greatly shorten
ed. Parents must keep children
home and away from other chil
dren. The local Board of Health
requests your cooperations in
carrying out the following public
health program:
1. All food handlers, merchants,
clerks, pilots and public employes
report to the Indian Service clin
ic for a Schick test.
2. All new food handlers must
have a Schick test and negative
throat culture before going to
work.
3. Airways are requested to nei
ther bring into Nome or to trans
port from Nome any children 15
years of age or under.
4. All people wishing to travel
must report to the Indian Service
for throat culture three days be
fore travel date. Cultures will be
taken from 9:00 to 10:00 a. m.
daily except Sunday.
5. Toxoid injections will be
g'ven from 1:00 to 2:30 p. m. daily
except Sunday.
6. Schick tests will be made
from 2:30 to 4:00 p. m. daily ex
cept Sunday.
7. Sunday no toxoid, Schicks or
cultures will be given. Personnel
will care for the actually ill only.
Phone Main 90 for information
regarding travel. Office will be
open from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.
daily except Sunday.
The Board of Health requests
the public to take notice speci
fically of the following:
“All people quarantined must
wash all clothes with Chlorox.
Disinfect garbage cans with Ly
sol or Creasol. Scrub floors, wood
work and wooden furniture with
srin and water, air bedding and
fur clothing.”
JAPS SAID TO
BE PLANNING
AIR ASSAULT
UNDATED—Japan is preparing
large scale enemy air assault it
was disclosed by the Tokyo ra
dio today, in order to cope with
their recent air raid disasters.
The announcement said that it
is planned to solidify the defense
structure within the homeland in
view of the inevitably large scale
enemy air assaults.
SOURDOUGHS
TESTIFY IN
NEGATIVE
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SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—(API
Three sourdoughs, with combined
experience of more than 150 years
in Alaska, denied that the Indians
who are claiming aboriginal rights
to a huge section of southeastern
Alaska ever were paid for that
fishing and hunting area, it has
I been reported.
i The Indians, in the hearings at
Kake, Hydaburg and Klawock,
testified in support of their
claims to fishing rights for all
public lands bounded by approx
imately 2,000 miles of the Alas
kan shoreline, that in the early
days they received fees from the
white men for the taking of fish
and game from the Territory.
James Taylor, who went to
Alaska in 1899 and fished in these
waters which are involved;
Charles Goldberg, now a Juneau
merchant, who migrated north in
1885; and A. Shields, 65, presi
dent of the Pacific American
Canneries Inc., who went to
Alaska in 1897, all testified that
they had never paid or heard of
j anyone paying Indians for fishing
' or hunting rights.
Mr. Shields testified that his
company never paid a cent to the
Indians nor had they ever been
asked to do so. He said: “I have
never heard an Indian claim
property rights in southeastern
i Alaska tidelands until 1942 when
j the so-called question of aborigi
! nal rights was first agitated.”
Shields added that the com
pany would be forced to close the
cannery at Petersburg should the
claims be upheld.
I. A. Sandvigen, business agent
j for the International Machinists’
Association, testified that approx
imately 600 members of his un
| ion would lose their livelihood in
the canneries if the claims were
upheld.
It was also testified that the
physical value for insurance pur
poses in the canneries claimed in
the area alone amounts to $4,
, 277,500 dollars.
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j VISIT NOME
ON BUSINESS
I Richard Lee, Sr., and Richard
j Lee, Jr., arrived in Nome on a
i business trip from Solomon yes
terday. Both said the road was
| in good condition all the way.
I Lee. Sr., will winter in Solomon
”-;*h Mr';. T,eo p^H the?** dau«h
W. Marguerite West arH child.
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