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CAPE NOME PRECINCT RETUNS
SHOW RODEN LEADING DEMOS
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
WITH GRIGSBY HEADING REPUBS
In the primary election yesterday the democrats polled
a vote of nearly two to one, with 172 for the democrats
and 93 for the republicans.
For Delegate to Congress took the Democratic ticket,
while George B. Grigsby carried the same office on the
Republican ticket.
The only other Republican office contested, being
that of Territorial Representative in which there was
one loser, Bert Bell.
The balance of the Demo
cratic ticket, for Attorney
General, Ralph J. Rivers of
Fairbanks, polled a total of
4 to 1, over Karl Drager.
Leonard Smith for the
office o Highway Engineer,
tallied nearly 10 to 1 over
Frank A. Metcalf of Sitka,
with the highest single total
for any candidate on the tic
ket, 147, sharing that honor
with M. J. Walsh, Repre
sentative.
The contested offices for
Representative were undis
putably going to M. J.
Walsh, W. E. McDonald,
George Madsen, and Wal
lace Porter.
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HOUSE BILL
BUDGETS FOR
ALASKA
WASHINGON, April 26, fAP>—
The Department of the Interior
appropriations bill which was in
troduced in the House carried a
$2,563,000 for operating expenses
in Alaska for the Fiscal year start
ing July 1st.
This amount is due chiefly to
the half million dollar improve
ment of the Richardson Highway
which project is allotted one mil
lion.
Other ittems are $38,600 for sal
aries and expenses of the Governor
and the Secretary of the territory;1
<£49,000 for legislative expenses;
$50,000 for public schools; $283,000
for care of the insane,$152,000 con
struction and repairs of trails
roads and bridges, $180,000 for
maintainance of same, $53,000 for
educating the native $1,400,000 for
medical relief,; $691,700 for the
Reindeer Service; $75,000 for the
investigation of mineral resources;
$177,000 for Alaska fisheries; and
<£536,000 for enforcement of
Alaska Game Laws; $160,000 for
the Alaska Railroad.
CURTIN DOWN
‘TO LUNCH WITH
PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, April 26, (API—
’ The White House anounced that
the ' president entertained the
Prime Minister, John Curtin of
Australia and Teodor'o Picado, of
Costa Rica at a luncheon while at
his vacation residence in the south
WOLVES BAGGED
BY HUNTERS
FROM AIR
Frank Whaley, democratic can
didate for the Senate, flying his
plane near his mine at Rainbow,
about 100 miles north of Nome,
sighted wolves and bears.
With him were Grant Jackson,
president of the M & Mbank, and
Sid Rood of the Reindeer Service.
By skillful maneuvering of his
plane, and the marksmanship of
his passengers, they were each
able to boast a wolf apiece.
After the plane landed two. Al
aska grizzly bears were shot by
the two hunters.
Word has been received from
Sig Wien that he sighted ten
wolves while flying about 30 miles
south of Deering. Out of the 10
‘he native who was with him, a
L. Reich from Kotzebue, was able
to get six.
On display in front of Munz of
fice this morning were seven of
the animals which were shot from
the Munz plane by Dr. Maxwell
Kennedy. The plane was piloted
by Bill Munz.
TAONGI HIT
FOR THIRD
TIME TODAY
PEARL HARBOR, April 26, (AP>—
American airmen for the third
time in the war have bombed Ta
aogi, an atoll at the northern rim
of the Marshall group, which was
probably a springboard in the at
tacks on Wake after Pearl Har
bor, Admiral Nimitz announced
The attack occurred Sunday
while other blows were struck in
the central Marshalls, and Pon-i
ape 400 miles west of Truk, where
gun positions, airstrips and fuel
supply depots were the targets i
US BRITISH
GET CHUMMY
LONDON, April 26 (AP>—Lt.Gen.
Patton told his American and Brit
ish audience at an opening of a
United Kingdom Service club to
welcome the U. S. soldiers, as it
is undoubtedly the destiny of these
twopeoples to rule the world, and
the more we see each other, the
better.
The sooner our soldiers write
home and say (how, lovely the
English ladies are, the sooner the
American dames will get jealous
and force the war to a successful1
conclusion, and I shall have a
chance to and kill the Japanese.
GUADALCANAL SILHOUETTE—T\mi natives, holding their spears, stand silhouetted
against sky and sea alongside a beached e <>n * ■- ’i'eaivd Island.
IRAQ PARATROOPE R— Under British instructors, Iraq
tribesmen are being taught all phases of commando lighting, in
addition to paratroop tactics. Here is a typical paratroop tribes
man* dressed for a practice jump*
U S BOMBERS
SMASH AT
BRUNSWICK
LONDON, April 26, (AP>—Amer
ican heavy bombers smashed at
targets in the area of Brunswick
a German plane production cen
ter in the preinvasion aerial of
fensive which is the heaviest the
world has ever seen, is in its twel
vth day
A bomber fleet thundered over
Germany escorted by 750 fighter
planes indicating a total of more
than a 1000 planes in the raid.
British planes hit three Nazi air
fields in Prance and industrial
centers in Germany.
This was the first smaller than
2000-plane armada since the gi
gantic offensive began.
Berlin radio declared that the
American forces must be invading
by air, according to the number
of planes in the air over the Reich
at enemy targets in ah arc of 750
miles ..Heavy bombers continued
to attack and knock out the ene
my’s air defenses in' an unprece
dented campaign Hundreds of
lighter planes continued to darken
the sky over the channel; in an
onslaught against targets in occu
pied territory. Similar attacks
I cost us three bombers yesterday.
Explosions of the assaults were
heard all the way across the chan
nel.
In eleven days of the mightiest
sky offensive, the Germans were
lambasted with over 50,000 tons
of explosives, thousands of incend
iaries.
The cost to the Allies is estim
ated at 2300 airmen and 389 planes.
Mos tof the men are believed safe
as prisoners
Tell them you saw it in The
Nugget.
RED ARMY
LIBERATES
MANY TOWNS
MOSCOW, Aprin 26, (AP>—'The
Russian radio declared that over
half a million Axis troops were
slain or captured and enormous
amounts of booty swept up in less
than two months on the lower
Russian front
Since last summer the Red army
has liberated more than 65,000
j populated localities and more than
; 310,000 square miles of territory.
CHINDITS HOLD
JAP ROAD
TO KOHIMA
KANDY, Ceylon, April 26 1AP1—
Japanese jungle troops desperately
attacked both the roc and rail
blocks which have been establish
ed in central Burma by the allied
"Chindits”. They came into the
attack like a boxer with his head
down, dying in droves, an allied
observer said.
British forces continued to
tighten their grip at Imphal and
Kohima which have been threat
ened by a Jap invasion designed
to cut off the Bengal - Assam rail
road which is the allied supply
line to China and north Burma.
j A communique from Lord Louis
Mountbatten said that British for
ces had captured Mapao hill north
of the Imphal plains, inflicting se
vere losses. The Japs know they
must dislodge the barr.ers the!
Chindits have placed on their com
munications 24 miles inside Bur
ma, especially because such aid
will give Stillwell's forces a chance
to drive down on them through
the Mogaung valley from the
north. At present the Chindits
are astride of more than 100 miles
of Japanese communications ser-!
ving the enemy in northern Burma.
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BALTIC SEA
TRAFFIC
PARALYZED
STOCKHOLM, April 26. (AP)— i
Allied aerial mines in the Baltic
Sea paralyzed traffic in southern
Sweden and Germany, is an opin
ion given in Swedish circles.
I The mines were of a new design
1 which made their removal more
difficult.
FORTRESS
COLLISION
KILLS TWELVE
YUMA-, Arisona, April 26 fAP)—
welve persons were killed when,
two B-24s collided headon in mid- j
air and crashed in flames twelve i
miles northease of Yuma. '
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NEW GUINEA. April 26. iAPI
Strong American forces opposed
only by negligible Jap strength
swung closer around Hollandia'3
i three airfields, while from another
already captured airstrip, Ameri
can planes dominated the New
Guinea skies, All types of bomb
ers and fighters are using the air
field at Tadji 150 miles southeast
of Hollandia. These planes arO
penetrating 500 miles farther int(j
Jap held territor yto hit Manok
| wari, where they sank two mer
j chant vessels,
NEW RUSSIAN
FRONT TO !
BLACK SEA
LONDON, April 26. i APi—The
Red Army launched an attack o:i
a broad front in Rumania from the
Carpathian Mountains to the
Black Sea. a German report said.
The communique also said that
the Nazis scored a decisive victory
after heavy battles when the Sov
iet forces attacked the lower
Dniester yesterday with strong
artillery and air strength. Thu
Nazis asserted they had sealed off
the Soviet breakthrus.
Since Saturday theRussian com
muniques have omitted the men
tion of any large scale land fight
ing.
The German radio said their
forces along the Rumanian front
had driven the Russian lines west
ward to Iasi yesterday and smash -
ed the enemy preparations for an
offensive They added that the
Hungarian forces had frustrated
the Soviet counter thrusts, and
were supported by tanks in the
area between the Carpathians and
the upper Dneister
An auhorative Soviet war re
view said that the Red Army in
tends to drive into Germany thru
a continuations of the 44 often
ives and finish off Hitler’s legions
and bring about the final capitu
lation of the Nazis.
PLANE TOO
EAST FOR
CAMERA
U S FIGHER BASE. England,
April 26 —(AP>—Aircraft recog
nition class was identifying dif
ferent types of planes from slides
to a screen.
A blank came up when the pro
jector failedto show the P-38s and
Lightnings.
A voice chimed out in the dark
‘D--n fast, aren’t tthey’’.
Nome Council
Met Monday
The Nome City Council held its
first regular meeting of the incom
board, monday evening, with the
chief topic being the question of
divorcing the Police and fire de
partments.
Some of the members felt that
he city could not afford the change
atford the change at present but
that it was necessary for the wel
fare of the community. The dis
cussion was lengthy but no defin
ite decision was made.
The present force and salaries
were renewed for one month
Several ordinances were brought
up and reference thereto is made
in other sections of this edition
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