Must File
Reports On
Holdings
Citizens of Nome, Alaska who
own any property in foreign
coutries were notified by Post
master S. David Mazen today
that they must file reports of
their foreign holdings with the
Treasury Department before De
cember 1st. The notice was
given by means of a poster plac
ed on display in the post offices.
Postmaster S. David Mazen
points out that it is necessary
for the government to have as
complete information as possi
ble on the American stake
abroad to assist the military
authorities and the civilian gov
ernments on the fighting fronts
and to bring about sound solu
tions of the post-war problems.
Report forms, known as TFR
500, may be obtained through
commercial banks, or from the
nearest Federal Reserve Bank,
the postmaster states. Penalties
are provided for those who wil
fully fail to file reports.
COMMITTEES
ARE NAMED
At the second meeting of the
1 9 4 3 Community Christmas
Committee, which was convened
by Chairman Frank A. Smola,
at the U. S. Court House, the
minutes of the previous meeting
were read by Secretary A. Polet.
Next, the following committees
for 1943 wrere established:
Executive Committee: Frank
A. Smola, A. Polet, O. S. Weaver,
Miss Martha Jenner, Luther
Dunbar, C. F. Yenney, Frank
Bingham, Jack Dowd, Alvin Po
let.
Finance Committee: O. S.
Weaver, Joe Wallace, Fred Robn.
Stocking Committee: Miss
Martha Jenner, Mrs. A. Rydeen,
Mrs. Peter Sather, Eric Hay,
(Continued on Page Three)
LIBERATORS
BOMB TAROA
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.—Army
Liberators bombed Taroa air
drome in the Marshal] Islands
and shot down seven Japanese
fighter planes and damaged at
least four others without loss to
themselves, the navy disclosed.
The bombers fought off 3r
Zeros, Admiral Chester W. Nim
itz, the Pacific commander an
nounced.
The announcement also said
a navy Liberator attacked by six
Zeros on a scouting' mission,
downed one and probably two,
and damaging two more...
Further success against the
Japanese air force was reported
from two destroyers in the Gil
bert Island area, when they re
pelled an attack by enemy tor
pedo planes and destroyed three.
AIRWAYS
Pan American Airways
Yesterday, Captain John Olson
arrived from Fairbanks with
Harvey K. Carlisle, field exam
iner for the General Land Office.
He also carried mail.
Captain Olson returned to Fair
banks with Mr. and Mrs. Richard
O. Lee from Solomon and James
Hulbert, sample foreman for the
U. S. Bureau of Mines. Also mail.
Alaska Airlines
December 2 two planes were in
from Kotzebue with freight. One
a round-trip to Kotzebue.
December 3, plane on mail run
to Teller, Wales and Shishmaref.
, Plane trip to the mail run to
Deering, Candle and Kotzebue.
Passengers were Altin Ouluatu
for Deering; Mildred Washington
for Candle, and Mr. Milton for
Kotzebue.
RETURNS TO NOME
Deputy Marshal Mrs. Cyrus
Calkins returned last evening
with two insane prisoners, Mrs.
Betty George, and Louis Paukan,
from Marshall. The two prisoners
will wait in the federal jail her#,
pending transportation to the
Outside.
THE NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLr. 46.—No. 102. NOME. ALASKA. DECEMBER 3, 1943 ; PER COPY—I5c
5-Day
Meeting
Is Held
CAIRO, Dec. 2 (AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill, and Generalissimo
Chiang Kai Shek, have held an
historical five-day conference,
: have bound their nations in
agreement to beat Japan into un
; conditional surrender, and to
strip her of all her. iniperia.’vstic
gains of the century.
The three leaders have left 5 r
unannounced destinations.
In Washington it is assumed
that an even more important
meeting, particularly on the Eu
ropean phases of the war, would
be held with Stalin.
Reuter’s dispatches front Lis
. bon, Portugal, said the three had
left for Teheran, the capital of
i Iran, there to meet Stalin in the
biggest United Nations confer
ence of the war.
Berlin .broadcast® said this con
1 ference was already undeT way.
In an extraordinary atmos
, phere of secrecy and precaution,
the three leaders of the United
; States, Britain, and China met
i from November 22nd through
November 26th, surrounded by
i the highest military, supply and
; political advisers, and departed
at least three days before the
news was given to the public.
A communique issued at the
close of the meeting said they
agreed upon a plan of military
operations against Japan, which
would .: -^bring •unrelenting
i sure against their brutal enemies
jby sea, land and air”, and drive
i Japan back into her home island.
S ULTIMATUM
IS ISSUED
i • r
LONDON. Dec. 3—(APi—The
London Star said today that the
Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill con
ference in the Middle East, had
drawn up a “final, give in or die"
ultimatum to Germany.
“Italian is at war parley meet
ing with Churchill and Roosevelt
in the ‘give in or die’ ultimatum
to Germany,’’ is the way the aft
ernoon paper headlined the story.
Last night Chairman Tom Con
nally, of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee, declared in
Fort Worth, Texas, “another great
conference is taking place in the
Middle East, among three United
ations’ leaders,” and described it
as “of paramount importance.
Official Washington and Lon
don maintained discreet silence
as continental radios told the
world of the meeting under way
in Iran.
LEAVE FOR
CANADA
Mr. and Mrs. Richard O. Lee,
of Solomon, left Nome today via
the Fan American Airways, for
Edmonton, Alberta, via Fair
banks. The Lees will stop in
Fairbanks a few days with their
son, Allen Lee and family, for
merly of Nome, and then will go
on to Edmonton to spend Xrfias
with their daughter Margaret,
who is now Mrs. Charles Bud
ford West and resides in Edmon
ton, Alberta,
I
FISH FOR WARTIME O 1 ETS - Spurred by government efforts to put more fish onto
Am^r>an tables to replace rationed meat, sea food shipments from both seacoasts and the Gulf of
Mexico are booming In this picture, made at New York's famous ^"Iton fish market, workmen are
•e-iolnir fish far ratluav owirfu vltinment alter u. iodine: boats.
WHOLE BERLIN
AREA IS
ATTACKED
LONDON, Dec. 3- —(AP —Ger
man. reports said the terricic at
tack blanketed the whole of the
greater Berlin area.
Returning fliers said. “Very
large fires were started, and,
smoke was rising to great
heights.” * •
The raid probably brought the
total bomb load dumped on the
German capital, to well over 15.
000 long tons, more than 1,000
tons were dropped last night on
; the city, which is still in a state
of disruption from previous
! blows.
Latest reports from Sweden
[said that fires were still burning
! and .that transportation was prac
tically at a standstill. Debris
filled the streets. The people were
getting supplies from improvised
store? in cellars, automobiles arA
street tables.
TILE ROOF
COLLAPSES
U. S.-CHINESE BASE IN
EASTERN INDIA, Dec. 3.—(AP)
—'Delayed seven hours after Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai Shek and
his wife lunched with Admiral
Lord Mountbatten, and a score of
high ranking military men at the
Officers’ Club, the heavy tile roof
of the dining room collapsed
burying the table at which they
sat under a mass of debris.
Brig. Gen. Frederick McCabe,
of Portland, Oregon, in charge of
the base, ordered immediate in
vestigation. There was no evi
dence of sabotage.
The party paused here enroute
from New Delhi, India, to Chung
king.
LT. HIGGINS VISITS
NORTHWEST ALASKA BASE
Lt. Kenneth R. Higgins, based
at Anchorage, attached to the
Army Airways Communication of
Alaska, visited in Nome this
week. Lt. Higgins is originally
from Fall River. Mass., and
Richmond, Va., where his wife
resides.
•
TRANSPORT
AND TANKER
ARE SUNK
ALLIED HEADJUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
Dee. 3.—-AP)—A loaded 10,000
ton Japanese transport, a large
tanker was sent to the bottom,
and two destroyers damaged by
alert Allied reconnaisance planes
which spotted the sudden increase
in shipping activity off the port
of Kavieng, New' Ireland, head
quarters reported today.
The Fifth Airforce opened as
sault on the convoy consisting of
two destroyers, a transport, a
large whaling ship, and two un
identified vessels moving north
west of Kaviengward.
After two hits were scored on
the transport, heavy explosions
occurred, and its human cargo
abandoned ship before it sank
several hours later.
Two United States Navy Cata
linas on separate patrols scored
bombing successes almost at the
same moment. One spotted two
destroyers and hit each with 500
pound bombs. The bomber crew
was unable to observe if either
of the destroyers sank. The other
bomber located between 10 and
12 good-sized ships southwest of
Kavieng, selected a large tanker
as a target, and made direct hits
which set the tanker aflame. Tire
flames were seen for 50 miles.
On the ground front American
troops infiltrated behind the
enemy lines near the beachhead
at Empress of Augusta Bay, on
Bougainville Island, in the north
ern Solomons, and killed 200 Jap
anese, in a night attack. Enemy
arms and ammunition and sup
plies were destroyed in this raid.
On Huon Peninsula Australian
troops attacked the Japanese in
land positions in the jungles near
Warco, northwest of Finschhafen,
from three sides, after seizing the
Song river bridge.
DIPLOMATIC CORPS MOVES
STOCKHOLM Dec. 1—(AP)
—The German foreign ministry
and diplomatic corps have moved
from Berlin to Breslau, about 190
miles to the southeast, because of
heavy RAF raids on the Nazi
capital, the newspaper Svenska
Daglbladet said
INDUSTRY .
HEADS HOLD
MEETING
j
, SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—(AP)—65
representatives of the fishing in
dustry of the Puget Sound, Brit- '
ish Columbia and Alaska areas,
conferred with Charles W. Triggs, ‘
j head of the fish section, prict .
division pf the OPA.
The main discussion was re
ported as centering on whether
halibut differentials should be I
! established between Prince Ru- i
pert. B. C., and Seattle.
The committee of vessel own
ers, dealers, and packers, repre
sentatives of the OPA, and Wild
, life Service, and the unions -
! volved, named for further con
sideration differentials and other
problems of the Halibut indus
try.
PARALYSIS
AT PALMER
JUNEAL, Dec. 3.—(AP)—Three
cases of infantile paralysis led
to the quarantine of the Mata-,
i nuska town of Palmer.
The Territorial Health Depart- ,
ment informed all traffic into and j
out of the community to be halt
| ed pending a check of the possi
| bility of other cases developing.
' The department warned health
authorities and physicians
throughout Alaska, to be on Ihe
alert.
[ARRESTED
IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Dec .3.—(AP) —
| Doris Bell Graham, .56, was ar
I rested here as she stepped from
an Alaska ^oat, posted a $7,500
bond for release, on a charge that
she had violated the white slave
act. She was ordered to appear
in court Monday for plea arraign
i ment.
Mrs. Graham was accused of
transporting girls to Kodiak for
immoral purposes, and had prev
iously posted property bond of
$7,500 in Alaska,
Proposes
Alaska
Be State
Washington—Alaska Delegate
Anthony J. Dimond, proposed
that. Alaska be granted State
hood. and all privileges enjoyed
by other States of the Union,
and introduced a bill for admis
sion of the Territory as a state,
and transfer to the state, all pub
lic property, vacant and unap
propriated lands.
The Bill requires, that after
its enactment, the Governor of
the Territory will call a consti
tutional convention, consisting
of eight delegates to be elected
from the First Judicial District,
four from the Second, eight from
the Third, and five from the
Fourth, with one delegate at
large. All are to be elected as
members of the legislature.
The convention will draw up
the constitution and the neces
sary routine, to enable the terri
tory to become a state.
The constitution will have to
be ratified by the people of the
territory, at the same time in the
electorate, cast ballots on the
adoption of the constitution,
when they vote for one represen
tative and two senators, a gov
ernor. and a full complement of
state officials.
After the elections, the gover
nor will be required to certify
the results to the President of
the United States, who then will
be required to issue a proclama
tion that the state of Alaska ia
admitted to the Union.
Dimond said he believed the
change from territorial status to
statehood would increase the
cost of government by only two
million dollars making a total
of four million, this he said was
the main objection to giving Al
aska Statehood, but that the in
crease would come from invest
ed interests.
NO SHORTCUT
TO VICTORY
CANBERRA, Australia, Dec 3.
—(AP)—Final victory in the Pa
cific must wait for events in Eu
rope. There is no shortcut to vie •
tory, Prime Minister John Curtin
said, as he had just completed
an important conference with
General MacArthur.
In a press statement he said
they had discussed the tripartite
declaration in Cain? to defeat
Japan.
“My discussions with MacAr
thur had in particular referred to
the prolonged operations and
were conditional by the jofJr
realization that final victory in
the Pacific must largely wait on
events in Europe.”
—:- I
INDOOR BALL
GAME TONIGHT
The local Alaska Territorial
Guardsmen will put up their pro -
verbial shirts again tonight in tha
second pre-series indoor • ball
game of the season, playing
against another army team. The
game will start at 8:00 p. m. in
the high school gym and the pub
lic is cordially invited to attend.