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JAPS FILTER
THROUGH INDIA
JUNGLE AREA
NEW DELHI, India, Apr. 3.—
<AP>—-Japanese patrols were fil
tering through the jungles in east
ern India onto the plains of Mani
pur, and have cut the roads
around Imphal, the Manipur cap
ital.
The offensive is obviously aim
ed at Dimapur on the Assam
Burma railway, which is the life
line of General Stillwell’s forces.
The question asked is whether
airborne supplies might be drop
ped to the Imphal garrison and
was answered here by the gen
eral’s statement that “It will not
be necessary, as the crisis will be
overcome before such action is
needed.”
f Dimapur is 44 miles across the
hills of the Naza headhunters,
from Khima, 60 miles north of
Imphal.
Fierce fighting is going on in
the wild hill country east of Khi
ma, and allied troops repulsed the
determined Japanese drive to
reach the Tiddim road below Im
phal to the south, it was announc
ed by allied headquarters.
Another Japanese column,
thrusting toward Imphal from
the Chidwin river area was stop
I ped by allied forces as it attempt
ed to reach the Imphal plains
from the rolling country of the
Chin hills, the communique said.
Enemy artillery continued to
shell the Tamu-Palel road south
west of Imphal.
Glider-borne allied commandos
cut all north and south commun- I
ication arteries to Myitkyina, the
Japanese base in northern Bur- j
ma and smashed enemy efforts
to crash an air strip far behind
the Japanese lines, front line dis
patches reported.
The commandos are now hold
ing a considerable portion of the
* railroad from Myi+kyina to Ka
tha, which is more than 100 miles
to the south.
AUTHORITIES
ENFORCE
EVACUATION
ULAN BATOR, Capital of Mon
golian Peoples’ Republic, Apr. 3.
• —(UP)—A dispatch from here
said: “Quoting well-inf crmed
sources”, saying that Sinkiang au
thorities began a forced evacua
tion of a great number of Ka
zakhs from Altai Mountain dis
trict to southern districts in Sin
kiang, toward the end of last
year. Many families did not wish
to move and fled to the Mongolian
Peoples’ Repubilc to hide.
The dispatch said in addition,
# Chinese troops then began chas
ing them " id Chinese planes vio
lated the border, bombing towns
and villages, but the dispatch
gave no explanation why Sinkiang
authorities were seeking forcibly
te evacuate Kazahs from Sin
kiang.
Sinkiang is China’s north west
ern province which parallels the
Soviet Union border from the
high Pamir’s in India, on the
south, to the Altai Mountains and
the Mongolian border on the
t north.
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RESUME SERVICE
ON NIGHT LETTERS
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Lt. Stanley R. Morgan, officer
in charge of the local ACS sta
tion, reports that night letter ser
vice, which had been suspended
because of the increased use of
the Alaska Communication Ser
vice by the War Department has
been resumed, since March 20th,
and that since April 1st the tax
on messages has increased to 25
percent. *
The night letter rate for 50 words
will be the same as that for the
10-word fast day message, and is
of such a nature that it cannot
be delivered un‘;l the following
calendar day regardless of the
time of day the message is filed.
Another feature of the nighl
letter is that the message may be
placed in the mails by the receiv
ing office in instances where the
addressee lives outside of the town
wherein the receiving office is
located.
NAVAL PLANES
SCORE HITS
ON GERMANY
LONDON, Apr. 3.—<AP>—Brit
ish naval planes scored several
bomb hits on German’s most pow
erful battleship, the 35,000-ton
Tirpitz.
The Admiralty said the Tirpitz
had been skulking in Norway’s
Alten Fjord, the same spot where
it was torpedoed by royal navy
midget submarines last Septem
ber.
The Tirpitz is the last and big
gest surviving unit of Hitler’s
vanquished fleet.
The attack was presumably car
ried out by carrier-based planes
of the fleet air arm, according to
the Admiralty’s announcement of
the multiple h ts which indicated
a heavy attack.
According to latest reports the
Tirpitz had been able only to make
temporary repairs from the dam
age inflicted by the midget sub
marines in their torpedo attack
last September when they stole
into the hideaway of the German
“battlewagon” and let her have it.
The communique gave no fur
ther details of the plane attack,
DECLARE
BORDER IS
VIOLATED
MOSCOW, Apr. 3 —tAP>—The
official Soviet news agency Tass
declared yesterday that Chinese
troops from Sinkiang violated the
border of Mongolian peoples’ re
public.
Chinese planes bombed towns
and villages and strafed Kazakhs,
fleeing from Simmian.
The dispatch said that govern
ment leaders of the Mongolian
peoples republic were convinced
that if other violations occurred
ttie Soviet government would be
asked to render all the aid needed
te correct the situation.
MAUWDY THURSDAY
Service at Masonic Temple.
Thursday, Apr! 6. 1944, 7:00 .
p. m. sharp.
All members requested to be
present. VisflRs wetcome.
THOMAS MORCOM. Pres.
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Nugget.
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port Command, starts out by o <;sled to find a “lost" liter in a practice test.
SMASH ATTACK
OF GERMAN
INFANTRY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, Apr. 3—<AP>—Allied
troops smashed an attack of Ger
man flame-throwers on the It**
flank of the beachhead below
Rome. The flame-throwers spear
headed an attack of about 150
German infantry against the
beachhead which began an hour
before dusk Friday, after a heavy
mortar barrage was launched in
the same vicinity
Yesterday the Germans were
forced to a slight withdrawal
against allied positions, about a
half-mile southwest of Carroceto,
21 miles below Rome.
On the Fifth Army front in cen
tral Italy, near Cassino, th^ allies
have occupied another peak in
the center of the line.
TWO ST, LAWRENCE MEN
AWAIT TRANSPORTATION
Louis Imminjan and Clarence
Irrigo plan to leave for the island
with the first available transpor
tation They have been in Nome
for several days purchasing sup
plies. They report that the wea
ther has been too stormy this
winter and there has been very
few seal and walrus, although fox
have been fairly plentiful.
AMERICANS
EXPAND THEIR
BEACHHEAD
ALLIED HEADQUARERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC.
Apr 3.—American forces expand- 1
ed their beachhead perimeter at,
Empress of Augusta Bay on Bou
gainville Island in the Solomons,
General MacArthur announced
On New Guinea, the main Amer
ican forces were moving on Mo
dang, the key Japanese base, and
are within 13 miles of Zogad.jim,
20 miles south of Medang.
American bombers were still
seeking ^o pulverize H^baul. New
Britain, in a new attack, dropping
200 tons of bombs on the air
dromes and shipping, damaging
two small merchantmen. Also
two were sunk.
Woleai Island in the Carolines
was also bombed.
The enlargement of the Bou
gainville perimeter followed many
Japanese attempts to break the
American lines, with an estimated
5000 of the Nipponese soldiers
dead.
Details of the Truk raid last
Wednesday disclosed that 20
American airmen were killed and
10 wounded.
Thirty-one enemy planes were
destroyed.
INJUNCTION
EORIDDING'
PAY GRANTED
SEATTLE, Apr. 3 —fAF*'—An
injunction prohibiting the Arctic
Circle Exploration Co., Inc., from
paying certain wages to workers
at its placer mine near Candle,
about 150 miles northeast of
Nome, and which the United
States Department of Labor con
tended were in violaion of fair la
bor standards, has been granted
by United States District Judge
Lloyd Black.
Judge Black at the same time
turned down the Department of
Labor’s petition for a similar in
junction against the Alaska Pa
cific Consolidated Mining Com
pany, which operates a gold mine
about 75 miles from Anchorage.
Black stated: “That while the
Arctic Circle company was paying
good \sages, the manner in which
they were paid violated the law,
since it had established both base
and overtime rates on its books,
it paid its emplioyeesi a bonus
which brought the pay up to over
time, because employees received
the same wages whether or not
they worked overtime.
The so-called overtime rate was
actually regular rate, the court’
ruled.
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LANDING OPERATION—Paratroop Field Surgeon. Capt. Carl A. Bra J, Seattle. Wash.,
takes off his oarachute after a practice lump at Fort William Henry HA. < Mont, )
OTHER FORCES
CROSS PRUT
RFVER TODAY
LONDON. Apr. 3—<AP>—Red
army troops, after having slashed
across the Prut river :n the first
invasion of Axis soil, are reported
to be driving across eastern Ro
mania toward the Danube river
delta and the Carpathian moun
tains.
Moscow announced that other
Russian torces struck within 15
miles of the Black Sea port of
Odessa, the last Nazi-held port in
the Ukraine.
Foreign Commisar Molotov, in
announcing the invasion of Ro
mania, said it was dictated by
military necessity and did not aim
at siezing “any part of Roman
ian territory."
The statement was warmly wel
comed in British circles.
The Russian communique fail
ed to dentifv the exact location
oi the several announced cross
ings of the Prut river, but Ber
lin said the main Soviet drive in
Romania was in the Iasi sector,
less ’han 20ft miles northeast of
Bucharest and the Ploesti oil
fields.
The communique further stated,
“All Romanian armies have join
ed the battle against the Russians,
and martial law has been pro
claimed in Bucharest.”
Moscow dispatches said that
Iasi was the apparent immediate
objective of Konev’s Second Uk
rainian army, and is 10 miles west
of the Prut river.
Iasi is an important key Roman
ian railway center, where lines
branch southwestward to Buch
arest, and northwestward to cap
tured Czernowitz, 115 miles away,
and Gertsa, 20 miles to the south
east.
Czernowitz is on the north Ro
manian border and was taken by
troops of Zhukov’s First Ukrain
ian Army yesterday
Moscow said it is believed like
ly that the Soviet spearheads have
crossed into Romania at this point
KING FUNERAL
TO BE HELD
IN SEATTLE
Word has been received from
M. J. Walsh, in Seattle, regard
ing arrangements of the funeral
and burial of his daughter, Mary
King, who died a few days ago
while enroute to Alaska to be
with her family and friends. The
funeral will be held from the Se
attle cathedral, Wednesday, and
the burial will take place in the
Calvary cemetery.
All of the Walsh family will be
present for the funeral, nearly all
of them arriving in Seattle yes
terday.
Pierce is expected to arrive to
day, and James is onroute from
Florida.
PROMPTED TO RANK OF
TECHNICAL FIVE
Pfc. John Jack has been pro
moted to the rank of T-5 in the
Infantry in Alaska. T-5 Jack is
the husband of Mrs, Eva Jacx of
Golovin, Alaska and has been on
d«iy in Atasxa SllliAZ *■ tl At y
Jack attended Indian Affairs
scl o! in Nc ^ - ‘ ere he will be
remembered as participating in.
boxing events.
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