Armies
Capture
Heights
ALGIERS, Dec. 22.—(AP)—
American Fifth Army forces were
bolstered by heavy artillery and
mortar fire when they captured
several new' heights, and reached
the outskirts of San Vittore on
the road to Rome, while the
British Eighth Army battled the
Germans with tanks and infantry
in the streets of Ortona.
American and French troop
along the northern mountainou
sector of the Fifth Army fro’'1
reported the attacking of the
villages of Acquafondata. five
miles east of Filignano. and Car
dito, four miles north of Acqua
fondata after occupying the high
power Mt. Casole region, in
push w'estward on Cassino.
The announcement that V'
French forces under General Juin
W'ere participating in the Fifth
Army’s attack in this sector was
the first disclosure of the position
of the French troops on the
front. They have been struggling
the past few days for position in
a vital mountain pass, and were
reported to have taken the south
ern half in the assault on San
Vittore.
The Americans were methodi
cally wiping out numerous Ger
man pillboxes built around th
towm. using every house and
every possible natural obstacle to
slow the allied advance.
Airlines
Aid Army
In Aleutians
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—(.AP)
—The hitherto secret chapter on
the battle of the Aleutians dis
closed howr ten commercial , air
lines rushed troops and supplies
by planes to save Dutch Harbor.
- The story included an Office of
War Information report on the
activities of commercials.
Alaskan defenses were describ
*ed as rudimentary at the time
of the Japanese attack June 3.
1942. when five waves of planes
from carriers bombed and at
t tacked. The quick shipment of
reinforcements and supplies was
imperative. Then commercial air
lines responded.
“They transported special
troops and military equipment.
Airlines pilots delivered army
bombers with crew's and bombs.
Naval Air Transport service pi
lots flew to Alaskan Aleutian
bases in squadrons of three planes
each, using one pilot familiar w'ith
the territory, the other two fly
ing in formation. . , .
liven as the Japanese were at
* tacking Dutch Harbor airfields,
■* these planes were arriving at the
- airport with war mateials.
*< The OWI commented that the
^ Alaskan opeations re-main one of
the most difficult of the many
4 war activities of the airlines, for
. i
.. example the transportation of
gasoline trucks for the Alaskan
A highway, required cutting the
^ trucks in three parts and loading
<’. them in planes to be welded to-,
gether at the destination.
v BOMBERS AGAIN
f! ATTACK GERMANY
y LONDON. Dec. 22.—(AP)—
) American heavy bombers escort
ed by a fleet of fighters, attack
v ed targets somewhere in north
- west Germany.
The Eighth U. S. Air Force said
•the new attack by the American
heavies followed lighter blows by
RAF Mosquito bombers against
unspecified objectives in western
Germany last night, in the con
tinued round the clock assault
against Hitler’s fortress.
COMMITTEE OKAYS
SECRETARY’S RAISE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—(AP)
—The House Territories Commit
tee reported favorably on the Bill
H. R. 3362, increasing the salary
of the Secretary of Alaska from
$5,600.00 to $7,200.00 per year.
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{Nazis Claim
Fliers ‘Huns
Of the Air’
j LONDON. Die . 22.—<AP)—,
j Dark threats in reprisal against
| the allied war prisoners cam©
i flying out of German as Nazi
propagandists worked up indigna
tion against the Kharkov trials.
Goebbels called the British and
American aviator “Huns of tke
air".
DNB. the German news agency,
said in a broadcast statement
about the Soviet trials, the Nazi
military courts would soon “deal
with those British and American
prisoners who were guilty of
serious breach of international
law.”
Goebbels told Berlin police
and air raid proteciton officials
of further attacks they must ex
pect. but “one day our ever
growing antiaircraft defenses in
future retaliation will make an
American aviators “Huns of the
He made ugly hints of meas
ures to he taken against captured
airmen in close connection with
a German press campaign against
American fliers imprisoned after
the November 20 raid on Bre
men. who were accused of hav
ing “murder incorporated" writ
ten on their uniforms.
The Berlin dispatch to the
Swiss newspaper Neue Zuricher
Zeitung. claimed that the planes
Baltic Army Advances
Five Miles Unchecked
LONDON, Dec. 22.—(AP)—
[The Russian Baltic army surged
j forward unchecked for another
five miles and now stands only
15 miles from the Nazi fortress
[city of Vitebsk, Reuters reported
from Moscow today.
Encirclement thus became
hourly more imminent, that the
companion thrust toward the im
portant. rail junction' of Polotsk,
BO miles to the west. The stab
ility of the entire German line
defending the Baltic states was
seriously threatened.
The communiques earlier re
ported the forces of General Bag
amian within 20 miles of Vitebsk
from the north, through captured
Gribali, and less than 25 miles
away to the east. His troops were
storming down from Nevel yes
terday, blasting their way through
a 50-mile gap deep into the Ger
man defenses, capturing over 100
villages and leaving 1,600 Ger
mans dead in their wake.
At the extreme southern end
of the 800-mile long battlefront
meanwhile Russian armies w’ere
liquidating Nazi bridgeheads on
the south bank of the Dnieper
river opposite Kherson, near the
river mouth. Dispatches said a
full scale attack against the city
itself was expected momentarily.
RECEIVED HIGH
HONOR IN MASONS
Word has been received that
Norvin W. Lewis, deputy clerk of
the U. S. District Court at Nome,
has been designated Knight Com
! mander of the Court of Honor bj
the Supreme Coun.cil of 33rd De
gree A. & A., Scottish Rite Ma
sonry, of the southern jurisdic
tion of the United States at their
biennial session held October 18,
19 and 20, 1943, at Washington,
D. C.
20 PLANES ARE
| DESTROYED
I -
| ALU ED HEADQUARTERS IN
NEW GUINEA, Dec. 22.—AP>—
Air actions which cost the Jap
anese 20 planes destroyed, and
six badly damaged, against the
loss of six allied planes, was re
I ported in Wednesday’s fighting.
Most aerial activity was in ac
tions against shipping..
The total of seven Japanese
merchantmen were hit and at
least one sunk
The enemy lost 14 planes in the
attacks with six more as pro
bables, in an attack of an allied
convoy off the Huon Peninsula,
New Guinea.
The sinking of a 200-ton ves
sel and four more Jap ships set
afire was reported.
The only patrol action was re
ported in the Arawe, New Brit
ain, area, where the Americans
advanced six miles, occupying the
airstrip.
AIRWAYS
Alaska Airlines
Pilot Don Emmons made a
round trip yesterday to White
Mountain returning . with Mrs.
Krabbler.
Pan Ameican Airways
Captain I. E. Herman came in
with a full load of mail. He ex
pects to leave in the morning.
Another plane is expected to ar
rive in the morning.
TAROA IS
RAIDED
PEARL RARBOR. Dec. 22.—
(AP)—The rising fury of the air
war in the mid-Pacific Marshall
Islands was plainly indicated in
the report that Monday the 7th
Army Liberator bomber force
raided the enemy's new Taroa
airbase, and tangled with 30 Jap
anese Zeros, downing four and
perhaps five others, with the loss
of three Liberator bombers.
Taroa is in Malcelap Atoll
which the Army bombers pounc
ed on the previous day. downing
seven of the interceptors and
damaged five others without loss
to themselves.
of the entire squadron were so
named.
MARSHALL SEES
Mat ARTHUR
UNDATED —(AP)— General
George Marshall, army chief of
staff has completed a series of
visits to the Pacific battlelines,
in conferences with the leaders of
anti-Japanese offensives.
The announcement after his
return to the mainland stirred
speculation as to new momentous
blows.
Reports came from Gen. Mac
Arthur and Admiral Halsey
army headquarters at Honolulu,
that upon returning from the
Cairo and Teheran conferences
via tansport plane, this was the
first meeting of General Marshall
and General MacArthur since the
outbreak of the war.
The geneals met in the advanc
ed outpost headquarters island,
north of New Guinea. December
15th, the day the Americana
! landed on New Britain.
Aboard a combat plane they
l flew to the forward base where
MacArthur and his aides were di
; recting the New Britain offen
I sive. This meeting was interpret -
led in Washington as meaning that
j General Marshall was carrying
1 details of high strategy, as he
j would unlikely have undertaken
the hazardous trip across the Pa-»
i cific for merely inspection.
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NOTICE!
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tickets for the High School
Drama Club play “Alias Santa
Claus,’’ can be assured that the
tickets will be honored when the
play is produced at a later date.
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ITALIAN WOMEN HELP YANKS DO LAUNDRY
Somewhere in Italy—Italian women give our boys in Italy a hand with their laundry as they help out
on the washing machines in the U. S. hospitals. Notice the washing machines are powered by a mobile
power unit that saves much back-breaking work.
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