600 JAPS DIE IN JUNGLE
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VOL. 47.—No. 3. NOME, ALASKA, JANUARY 7, 1944 PER COPY—UkT*
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FAR-FLUNG THEATRE OF WA R-From the Pyrenees to the Crimea, the area north of the Mediterranean plays an im
portant role in World War 1L as the Allies press the attack iioua Hill or’g “Fortress Europe."
Halsey Lauds
American Troops
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7.—(AP)
—When American troops get
where Tokyo now stands there be
“Little celebration where Tokyo
was", saya Admiral Halsey, com
mander of the allied forces in the
South Pacific.
The comment prefaced Hal
sey’s appearance at an army and
navy war conference which be
gins today with discussions by
General Arnold and other mili
tary officials.
Holding h.is first press confer
ence since his secret return to
the mainland New Year’s Eve,
Halsey refused to predict when
the Tokyo celebration would take
place, declaring he had done so
once on New Year’s Day of 1943,
when he said the “Japs would be
defeated in 1943".
But speaking of his operational
areas he added. ‘‘We have the
finest rperesentatives of Ameri
can manhood ever assembled and
they are fighting as one team”.
Halsey told reporters he wish
ed he was an orator so he could
do justice to the marines and
Seabees.
NBC announced that Halsey
would speak over its network at
6:00 p. m. Pacific war time, from
Hollywood. That is 3:00 p. m.
Nome war time
ROOSEVELT
CONFINED
TO QUARTERS
> WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt, though
still confined to his quarters after
an attack of the grippe worked
on his budget message for the
fiscal year beginning July 1st.
He also worked on his annual
message to congress.
Secretary Early said the mes
sage wouldn’t go to congress un
til Monday, the day it recon
venes.
MAJOR IS
REPORTED
MISSING
OKANOGAN, Wash, Jan 7—
(AP)—The mother of Major
Gregory Boyington, United
States marine officer, whose
downing of the 36th Jap plane
in the southwest Pacific was
just announced, received a tele
gram from the Navy department
that he is missing in action.
The dispatch from Guadalcanal
told how the former Flying Ti
ger made his 26th kill on the raid
on Ralbaul three days ago, to tie
the current war record of Major
Joe Foss.
The first World War mark was
made by Capt. Eddie Ricken
backer.
Boyingtor.’s mother. Mrs. E. J.
Hallenlbeck, reported the grim
news with the assertion ‘‘He is
all right and will show up some
how, somewhere."
SAY TROOPS
LANDED IN
YUGOSLAVIA
LONDON, Jan. 7.—(AP)—
Round about reports reached
Stockholm to the effect that al
lied specialist troops landed at j
several strategic points on hte!
coast of Yugoslavia.
Meanwhile, dispatches from al
lied headquarters in Algiers call
ed the report as “completely er
roneous”.
This account, carried by Reu
ters, quoting the Stockholm news
paper Tidningen, which in turn
said it credited its information
on reports from Zagreb capital
pupet government of Croatia.
Unofficial sources in London
said the report was “probably
planted by Germans as a feeler”
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GRENADES
AND SMALL -
ARMS USED
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Jan. 7.—(AP)—With
hand grendaes and machine guns
and small arms, American
troops fought over drenched
stones near San Vittore and as
sailed three bitterly contested
strong points and fortified vil
lages.
As the Fifth army pressed an ,
offensive along a 10-mile front,
straddling the road from Casilina
to Rome, forging ahead short dis
tances through the snow-covered
mountains.
The Americans stormed the
strong defenses built by the Ger
mans to cover the key town of >
Cassino, six miles ahead of San
Vittore.
The Yanks captured the 3500
foot peak of Mont Maio, about a ,
mile southwest of of Vitticuso.
The Americans who entered
San Vittore from the northeast
and southwest have taken more
than half the town and are now
driving on three clusters of grey,
tumbledown stone buildings,
where Germans barricaded it.
There is no quarter but to fight,
as the Germans refused to give
themselves up.
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ANNOUNCES NEW
MAIL RUN
Alaska Airlines announces a
new mail run to be made to Lit
tle Diomede Island once a month.
This contract will be performed
at the same time mail is carried i
to Teller, Wales and Shishmaref.
IN TOWN FROM
DEERING
A. V. Cordovda, mine operator,
from Deering, is in town on busi- |
ness.
RETURNS TO
WHITE MOUNTAIN
Mrs. Amy Krahbler, who has
been visiting with her daughter,
Mrs. Glen Smith, has returned to
White Mountain, where she is
ployed by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
Morale of
Germans
Said Low
STOCKHOLM. Jan. 7.—Signs
of lagging morale in Germany
brought waves of death sentences
today, making it impossible for
any group to organize a revolu
tion.
Christer Jaederlund, Berlin
correspondent for Tidningen said
in a dispatch. “The collapse of j
the home front could be precipi
tated by doubt as to when to
go on fighting, but doubters are
punished by death”.
He wrote of numerous execu
tions in recent months.
Jegerlund said “frightened
Germans quieted defeatist talk
and made the people suspicious
of one another.
To overthrow the Nazis a “Real
revolution must be organized, but
the German people are stripped
of all possibilities of organizing j
a revolution. One of the leading
Nazis close to Hitler told me that
only the Hitler regime had the
possibility of organizing a revo
lution.”
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BOMBERS
RAID IN
FRANCE
LONDON. Jan. 7.—(AP)—
American Marauder bombers
smashed military objectives in
northern France, keeping the
round the clock offensive rolling
after RAF Mosquitoes raided
western Germany last night for
the sixth night in succession.
The Marauders returned from
across the channel in sweeps
early this afternoon without a
single loss.
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FIGHTING FARMER AT 77
BELLE PLAINE, Kans. (AP)—
7ohn J. Zimmerman planted 500
acres of wheat this fall because
he wants to aid in the U. S. food
program. He’s 77 years old and
lid all the work himself.
Fierce Fighting
Taking Place At
Cape Gloucester
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Red Army
15 Miles
In Poland
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MOSCOW, Jan. 7.—Vatutin’s
forces were gaining new moment- ^
um today, after smashing 15 ,
miles into pre-war Poland, and j
sped forward in a great fan- I
shaped offensive toward lifelines j
of the vital enemy operations in j
the Ukraine and Dneiper Bend. j
The Nazis appeared unable to i
halt the Russian machine over!
the front of 175 miles from lower
Pripet marshes near Rakitno, 10 ,
miles inside the old Polish bor- j
der. to the flat steppe near Zlias- '
kov, 40 miles south of Belaya ;
Tserkov.
To the north in the Novel of
fensive, and swept deep into
cores of resistance where the
German spectre of encirclement
is the same as in the Ukraine. ,
BORDERS SAID
KILLED WHILE
IN ACTION
SEATTLE. Jan. 7.—AP)—
Capt. Ed Borders, who made a
three months’, 1600-mile hike
from Fairbanks to Hazelton, B.
C„ over the Alaska highway
route in 1941, was killed in ac
tion in North Africa, according
to word received here.
Then only 18 years old, the;
University of Alaska junior
started from Fairbanks on skiis
with his husky dog "Butch” in
April and arrived in Hazelton to
be the first man over the then
proposed route in winter.
Capt. Borders was the son of
Frank Borders of Hot Springs,
Montana, and is survived by his
wife and baby in Spokane, Wash.
NAZIS BEING
FORCED TO
WITHDRAW
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7—(AP)
—Berlin dispatches to the news
paper Morgknbladet quoted a
German military spokesman as
saying the possibility of the
German army being forced to
withdraw entirely from Russia in
the face of what he declared ap
peared to be a giant Soviet of
fensive along the whole front
leading from Leningrad to the
Black Sea.
FATHER O’CONNOR
V ISITOR IN CITY
Father O’Connor is visiting in
Mome this week. Father O’Connor
s the pastor in the Kotzebue
Sound district.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,
Jan. 7.—(AP)—600 Japs hve been
.slain in heavy fight in the dense
jungles of invaded Cape Glou
cester, New Britain, as both sides
brought up artillery, it has been
reported.
Strafing American planes sup
ported attacking marines, bring
ing the total of enemy losses to
more than 2000 since marine#
landed on the island December
26 last.
The latest casualties were in
flicted during slow, arduous push
ing against fi ree resistance in
the direction of Borgen Bay.
Gen. MacArthur’s spokesman
said the bitterest kind of fight
ing is going on since the marir^Sf
swung into the offensive in that
area.
Previously marines in Borgen
Bay and the non the defensive,
making sharp counter-attack#
while landing forces overran
Cape Gloucester and the two air
fields.
Reports told of a 243-ton bom
bardment invasion which menac
ed Madang, New Guinea, and the
damaging of two Japanese cruis
ers during a third carrier plane
strike on Kavieng, New Ireland,
and the downing of between 1ft
and 15 enemy planes in the la
test American fighter sweep OH
Rabaul.
At Saidnr, where the United
States Sixth Army element*
landed January 2, contact has
been made with the enemy at
Cape Regis, 10 miles northwest
ward of that point.
Today’s Kavieng raid in the
Solomons, found our fighters
swinging on Rabaul and fighting
30 Japanese planes. They downed
10 and one of ours was reported
to be lost.
new dank.The
liable “First National"
sheer cotton mesh now, as
Trevor demonstrates In her
tome as the “woman of
town" in her new hiss.