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VOL. 47.—No. 19. NOME, ALASKA, FEBRUARY 16, 1944. PER COPY—15c
¥ Chamber of
Commerce
In Meeting
The annual meeting of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce was held in the Nome
Grill Tuesday poon. The meeting'
was called to order by the presi-'1
ident of the organization, Frank
Whaley.
Following the reading of the
minutes of the November 30th
meeting, President Whaley call on
W, Boucher for a report on the
tuberculosis hospital. He reported
the committee had investigated the
project from all sources and it was
found that the committee is unan
imous in recommending that
Nome should be selected as one
of the points in which a tubercu
losis hospital is most necessary
and advantageously situated. Ac
cording to the speaker, it was his
opinion the chamber should go
into an active campaign to ob
tain this much-needed institution
The president also called on the
statehood committee which t0s
been studying the subject for the
last month. Secretary Polet re
ported for Judge Cochrane, the
chairman of the committee, who
| unfortunately could rot get back
as he had intended; from Kotze
bue, where he went on business.
The secretary stated that the
committee will have a report
ready for the next meeting of the
chamber.
The subject of annual election
came up for consideration and
after discussion it was decided
that a nominating committee was
to be appointend and to report at
an evening meeting which was se
lected for Thursday, February
24th, at 8:00 o’clock p. m.t in the
federal building. The nominating
committee appointed were T.
► Scott, W. Boucher and Dudley
Warner.
Secretary Polet presented a
voluminous amount of correspon
dence which required the atten
tion of the Chamber. Being of
such importance and such a short
time to be had at a luncheon
meeting, the evening meeting will
be able to consider much more
than a mid-day luncheon where
everyone is anxious to finish in
one hour.
Mr. Gatz, the U. S. collector of
q internal revenue, spoke a few
words and said that he was ready
to assist in the preparation of the
returns which at the present time,
everyone expects to have so much
difficulty in preparing. The chair
stated that his arrival spelled a
loud relief for the people of
Nome. 1 His office is in the jury
room of the U. S. courthouse.
The meeting then adjourned to
meet on the last Thursday in Feb
*■ ruary, the 24th, at 8:00 p. m.
FOURTH WAR
LOAN DRIVE
«HITS QUOTA
WASHINGTON, Feb 16 — «AP>
—The Fourth War Loan Tuesday
night passed the fourteen billion
dollar quota by $191,000,000, the
midnight deadline.
However, the Treasury announce
ed, that individual purchases were
still 30 percent below the five
and-a-half billion dollar quota.
Sales to the end of the month
will be counted on the drive.
ANCIENT AND MODERN PYRAMID S— Erypt’s pyramids are contrasted w ith the pyramidal tents of modern flrhtcrs
B8sr a-g «c=i Jjsas- j«s* outside of Cairo in this picture, taken during the Cairo conference and recently released.
Complete
Solomon
Campaign
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IX
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
FeD. 16.—<AP:—Yesterday the
American and New Zealand
troops occupied the Green Islands,
completing the campaign for the
Solomon Islands group.
*
General Mar Arthur announced
that the Jap f .rces, now estimat
ed at 22,000 men trapped and iso
lated in the Solomons, faced starv
ation and disease from l'a mili
tary blockade, which renders
their position hopeless.”
The communique said the troops
from Admiral Halsey’s force met
only machine gun fire when they
landed, with air and navy craft
protection or. the islands only 120
miles east of Rabaul, New Brit
ain, which at the same time was
bombed and heavily strafed to
prevent air assistance.
The occupation of the islands
blocks the Japanese from giving
assistance to forces cut off in the
Solomons. *
Airmen over Rabaul shot down
five and probably ten enemy
planes and smashed eight air
craft on the ground. They also
started heavy fires.
ASKS FOR A
DISMISSAL
OF SUIT
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 16.
—CAP)—Attorneys for Charles
Chaplin in the suit brought against
hir by Joan Berry, announced to
night that blood tests disclosed
that Chaplin could not be the fa
th -r of the girl’s 4-month-old
baby.
Che attorney said the blood
te ;s wero taken and the examina
ti s made by three physicians,
ar, added that Chaplin should
ir liately seek dismissal of the
su gainst him.
HOSPITAL NOTES
1 Trs. Irene Miller of Teller,
A1 .ska, is in the hospital for
m >cal attention.
tor Octuck is in th ehospital
tl i.eek for surgical treatment.
SLIPPER SHORTAC E—Toe shoes have been added to
(be list of rationed footwear, much to the chagrin of dancers
Nelie Fisher, Jane Deering and Eiissa Minet (left to right), who
appear on New York stages. What with matinees and all, ballet
dancers wreck a pair of shoes every week or so.
NAVAL AND AIR
AID NEEDED
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Feb. 16.—<AP>—General MacAr
thur said today that Japan can
not be defeated through blockade j
and bombing alone. “We must
defeat the Japanese army, and for
that purpose our strategy must de- j
vise ways and means to bring our J
ground forces in contact at his
decisive points,” he said.
In a special statement, the com- ■
mander made the comment, after '
recent successes in his sector, in
which blockade and bombardment
has played such a vital part.
* j
The general was asked whether
he thought Japan could be defeat- j
ed through blockade and bomb- j
ing alone, and answered with a
decisive “No”.
He added:
“Both of these are powerful
VETO CITY
MANAGER PLAN
—
For some time past the Fair
banks City Council has been toy
ing with the idea of a city man
ager for Fairbanks and has even
gone so far as to request appli
cations for the job, many of which
were received from all parts of
the States and Canada.
Yesterday, Tuesday, in a special
election the proposal was defeated
by 35 votes out of a total of 815
cast. The number of registered
voters in Fairbanks is 997.
weapons indeed, but decisive re
sults in modern warfare can only
be achieved through the combined
efforts of all three forces, ground,
naval and air, and no one or two
of them can attain complete vic
tory.
Seige Guns
Bomb F amed
Hill in Italy
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Feb. 16.—(AP)—Amer
ican siege guns opened concen
trated fire in bombardment of
Monastery hill.
“Breeches" were opened in that
main sector of the German line
overlooking Cassino, headquarters
said, but reported the loss of Car
roceto again on the invasion
beachhead, 10 miles west of An
zio.
Allied warships again battered
the Germans ringing the beach
head, while RAF Wellingtons flung
dowp block-busters.
In last night’s attack, U. S. ar
tillery opened up on Monastery
Hill, following aerial destruction
of historic Mt. Cassino Abbey,
which the Germans had converted
into a fortress.
Gorman infantry were presum
ably still in possession of the
key hill above the besieged Cassi
no, where violent battling swept
for the fifteenth cftky, with fight
ing increasing in intensity as
American soldiers, who hold over
one-third of the town, continue
with methodical destruction of
house after house, which the Nazis
have converted into miniature
fortresses.
The lull in ground fighting in
the beachhead area south of
Rome continued, with the com
muniques reporting only patrol
clashes in the Cisterna and Car
roceto areas. Fierce fighting had
swirled into the Carroceto can
ning factory sector, which has
changed hands four times.
Allied forces outflanked Campo
lene, four miles north of Carro
ceto, and 16 miles below Rome,
but German counterattacks forced
them to retire beyond Carroceto.
MOVE TO NEW
HOME IN LA JOLLA. CAL.
Mr. and Mrs. John Moore (for
merly Madeline Calkins Mirow)
have moved from their home in
La Jolla, Calif., to J^an Fraji
cisco, where Mr Moore has been
transferred
You can buy The Nugget from
the newsboy, the Drug Store or
A. Polet’s Dept. Store
Over 900
Bombers
In Attack
LONDON, Feb. 16.—(AP>—The
RAF smashed Berlin again last
night with the greatest load
bombs ever dropped on a single
target.
Nearly 3,000 tons of bombs cas
caded down in a smothering 20
minute attack by close to 900
heavy bombers.
45 aircraft are missing from all
the night’s operations, which in
cluded other forays.
The RAF waited two weeks to
deal the crushing blow against
the expiring capitol. Not since
January 30, when Berlin was hit
with a force of nearly 800 bomb
ers, have there been so many
j planes in the air.
I It is believed that last night’s
armada over Germany, comprised
the greatest number of planes
ever to fill the Reich’s skies in
one night.
It included 1,000 heavy bomb
ers, and more than 200 lighter
craft.
• Billows of flames swept through
; the city, and when the assault wu
I over, reconnoitering Mosquitoes
reported a very large field of fire
and smoke pluming four miles in
the air
Just before Berlin was hit, a
j smaller number of Lancaster
! bombers made a feint attack on
! Frankfort on the Oder river, about
! 50 miles east of Berlin.
Mosquitoes bombed targets in
western Germany and Holland,
and laid mines in enemy waters.
Swedish reports, quoting pri
vate advices reaching Stockholm,
| said high explosives and incen
diaries were showered down in all
parts of the city last night, dis
rupting all bus, tram, and under
ground traffic throughout Berlin.
Correspondents of Swedish
newspapers were almost complete
ly silenced, but German-controlled
Scandinavian telegraph bureau,
reported from Zurich that heavy
attacks started many fires and that
Berlin has now received nearly
28,000 tons of bombs in a series
of 15 attacks beginning with No
vember 18th ir. 1943.
During that same period* a total
of 467 heavy bombers were (os^
in these night raids
TREBLE
ACTION IS
SETTLED
A settlement of the pending
Treble Damage Actions filed by
the Office of Price Administration
last August against F. J. Fryer
and Robert M Allen, marine re
pair operators, has resulted in the
dismissal of those causes by the
administrator on February 5, 1944.
These suits were brought on ac
count of alleged overcharges to
customers of the two marine re
pair establishments contrary to
the General Maximum Price Reg
ulation and Maximum Price Reg
ulation No. 136 The former reg
ulation maintains prices for ser
vices in the absence of specific
regulation at the March, 1942,
level, and the latter is a specific
regulation covering machinery
services It was alleged that the
defendants had increased repair
rates without petitioning for an
adjustment.