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« STEETS SCENE
OF BATTLE BY
U. S. INFANTRY
LONDON, Oct. 31.—(AP)—The
American infantry fought from
the streets in the northwestern
factory district of the bombed and
burning Aachen, It was reported
♦ today.
The Germans rolled up a heavy
force of armored units in an ef
fort to relieve the city, which
was Charlemagnes capital.
The appearance of fresh Ger
man armored divisions, which
were shifted from the Arnhem
sector in Holland, stirred the ex
pectation that there will be a ma
jor tank battle soon at Aachen.
The town is dissolving under
the weight of U. S. bombs and
shells, but there is no sign of a
break as 1500 to 2000 Nazis S. S.
troops fought in the rubble and
sewers in the northeast part of
the city.
Hidden by smoke, the Germans
mounted a heavy counter-attack
in the Bardenburg area and the
fighting also was Intensified at
Wurslen Haaren, where the allied
spearheads are crowding the twin
escape hatch toward Cologne.
One AP corespondent at
^ Whitehead reported surprisingly
little resistance in the outskirts
of Aachen.
The allies have improved their
positions in Holland, although
signs appeared that Marshal von
Runstedt is preparing a stiff de
fense in southwestern Holland.
WAR PLANES
RENEW ATTACK
ON FORMOSA
• _
UNDATED — American war
planes renewed the attack on
Formosa today, it has been re
ported.
A Jap Imperial communique
reported this in a broadcast
which was intercepted by the
Federal Communications Commis
sion.
# The broadcast said that enemy
planes which made a thousand
plane raid, struck again on Fri
day morning, Japanese time, and
was still fighting up until noon.
FUNERAL IS
POSTPONED
The funeral of Mrs. Dolores
Frost, which was scheduled for
* 2:00 p. m. today, has been post
poned until 2:00 p. m., Monday
because the mother of the de
ceased has not yet arrived in
♦ Nome.
SUPPLIES FOR SOUTHERN F R A N C E—Standin* off the shore of southern France,
Coast Guard-manned Invasion transports onload reinforcements for the new drive. >
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FURNACES MUST
BE CHECKED BY
LANDLORDS
—
The approach of the cold wea
ther season prompts the Alaska
Rent Director, Earl P. McCarron,
to remind landlords that now is
the time to have furnaces exam
ined and repaired. Delays invar
iably result if an “emergency” is
allowed to arise that could be
avoided by pre-season checkup
and reconditioning.
During the recent summer
months numerous complaints re
ferring to defective heating
plants and lack of hot water were
received in OPA field offices, j
Because of the seasonal angle and
other more urgent issues to be
handled these complaints have
not been investigated very wide
ly.
However, the rent regulation in
Alaska, as in the States, provides
that landlords shall maintain as
a minimum the same type, quality
and quantity of essential ser
vices as were given on the date
rents were frozen, March 1, 1942.
“Failure to keep that essential
equipment in repair can also re
sult in a rent director’s order de
creasing the rent,” stated Mr.
McCarron.
U. S. ARMY SAID
LIBERATORS OF
ITALIANS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt is saying
that the American army entered
Italy, not as conquerors, but as
liberators, it has been reported.
He promised the Italians that
they would be free to work out
their own destiny under a gov
ernment of their own choosing.
When the allies defeat Germany
the United Nations are determin
ed to take every possible meas
ure to aid the Italian people di
rectly and give them an oppor
tunity to help themselves.
The President stated these
things last night in a radio ad
dress from the White House, di
rected to a meeting of the Amer
ican Labor Council of New York,
in acceptance of the council’s four
freedoms’ award.
REBECAH LODGE
MET WEDNESDAY
Tre Midnight Sun Rebecah
Lodge met at the Masonic Temple
last Wednesday evening for their
regular meeting. Initiation de
grees were conferred on Mrs.
Pete Reader, after which the
committee in charge, Mrs. Rob
erts, Noble Grand, and Mrs. A.
Polet, served refreshments.
ROOSEVELT TO
START ON TOUR
OF SPEAKING
ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 13.—(AP)
—Urgent supporters of President
Roosevelt keep punching at
Gov. Thomas Dewey, who has pre
pared a new invasion of the West
which may lay down the heaviest
barrage attack on the Roosevelt
administration, it was reported
today.
President Roosevelt is back at
his desk in the executive man
sion after viewing the annual
Columbus Day parade in New
York, where he accepted for the
University of Michigan, a bust of
himself.
With his wife, the President
registered to vote.
The chief executive is due to
leave Sunday on a major cam
paign address in St. Louis on
Monday evening. He heard the
head of his college alumni assert
last night that only by keeping
punching could he win the Presi
dency. J. K. Gould stated that
that kind of action wins.
QUIT ATHENS
LONDON, Oct. 13.—(AP)—A
Cairo dispatch said that the Ger
mans have quit Athens and de
clared it an open city.
CARRIER-BASED
PLANES STRIKE
PHILLIPINES
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAR
BOR. Oct. 13.—(AP)—A large
force of carrier-based planes
struck at Luzon, the main island
of the Philippines on Tuesday
afternoon, blasting the Terddaseh
military installations, It has been
reported.
Admiral Nimitz announced two
other attacks at Marcus and Ryu
kyus on Sunday and Monday, re
spectively, indicating a wide
j spread of American warships in
the Pacific.
No details of the damage caus
ed on Luzon were given.
The communique said that the
| planes struck from a task force
of the Pacific Fleet, and is the
fifth such carrier strikeon Luzon
and the Manila area.
Without identifying harbors,
where Admiral Mitcher’s carrier
planes discovered Jap shipping.
Admiral Nimitz reported that
three score ships had been sunk
along with two large cargo ships,
two medium cargo ships and 12
small cargo ships damaged.
Two large cargo ships, seven
medium cargo ships and 10 small
cargo srips were destroyed.
One hundred and twenty-four
Jap planes have been shot out of
the air and 97 finished off on
the ground at Formosa, it was
reported. This is one of the lar
gest islands in the Pacific, being
249 miles long, north and south,
and about 93 miles wide.
The strong defense would in
dicate that it is the base for
thousands of planes.
The few American aircraft
downed is tre strongest possible
evidence that the enemy sent up
! comparatively few more intercep
tors than Mitcher’s pilots des
troyed.
NUNS BOUND
FOR KODIAK
SEATTLE, Oct. 13.—<AP)—Ob
viously excited in their great
adventure, five grey nuns from
Philadelphia, landed in Seattle
Thursday, enroute to Kodiak,
where they will assume the man
agement of the Griffin Memorial
Hospital.
Father Edgar Gallant, director
of the Pious X Mission in Skag
way, came here to accompany
the sisters north.
They will travel by boat to
Juneau and then fly to Kodiak.