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VOL. 47.—No. 21. NOME, ALASKA, FEBRUARY 21, 1944. PER COPY—15$
Germans Stopped
In Efforts to Wipe
Out Bridgehead
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, Feb. 21.—(AP>—Amer
ican and British forces halted a
supreme effort of densely packed
German troops to %vipe out the
Anzio bridgehead, and hare
thrown the enemy back two miles
toward Carroceto.
Allied headquarters said the
Nazi s^eamrolled advance was
aimed down the Anziate highway
toward the Anzio core of the al
lied beachhead, and was stopped
only after all elements of allied
power were called into .play.
During the 48 hours of the most
irtf mse period of fighting, our
efforts were very greatly aided
by the magnfcent support of al
lied naval and air units, and both
British and American artillery.
The communique said the Ger
man offensive reached its peak
before dawn Saturday, when
American tanks and infantry, un
der cover of the heavy artillery
barrage, began smashing forward
at 8:30 a. m. and were still roll
ing ahead last night. The inten
sity of the enemy efforts was
demonstrated by the appearance
of the elements of five regiment/
within one 1.000-yard area. Six
enemy divisions threw their en
tire strength in the assault witl.
three others beld iri reserve.
An allied spokesman announced
that the Germans were steadily
swelling their armies in Italy, and
now have 18 divisions involved
io Italian actions, nine of which
are facing the beachhead and are
grouped under the 14th German
army commander, General Eber
hard von Mackenson, who was
last reported on the Russian front.
He is the son ®f a World War
I. general.
WAR BOND
TOTALS GIVEN
JUNEAU, Feb. 21.—Incomplete
Series “E” sales through February
15th, totalled $1 430.374.50
Following are iV totals by
cities and villages:
Fairbanks, $479 846.25.
Anchorage, $202,806.25.
Juneau, $196,201.00.
Ketchikan, $180,168.25.
Seward, $79,537.50.
Sitka, $38,305.75.
Kodiak, $38,006.25.
♦ Nome, $36,356.25.
Petersburg, $35,662.50.'
Skagway, $15,600.00.
Wrangell, $13,337.00.
Yakutat, $11,625.00.
Haines, $9,281.25.
1 Valdez, $7,556.75.
MOOSE TO HOLD
SPOKANE MEET
SEATTLE, Feb. 21.—(AP>—
^ Alaska delegates are expected to
attend the annual convention of
the northwest Loyal Order of
Moose, to be held in Spokane
♦ June 21st to 24th.
Ketchikan delegates attended
the midwinter sessions in Seattle.
PRODUCTION
PLANTS ARE
DEMOLISHED
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LONDON. Feb. 21.—<AP>
One-l'ourth of the German fighter
planes production was knoqked
out in Sunday’s 2.000-plane at
tack by the American air forces,
General Arnold declared. The
count showed 126 enemy planes
downed in the greatest daylight
operation in history.
FJAF night bombers followed up
with another crippling blow on in
dustrial installations at Stuttgart
in southwest Germany.
Last night's operations indicate
that Allied armadas are again
hitting Europe in greater and
greater strength.
Today, tremendous American
, fleets of planes including over a
! thousand Fortresses and Libera
tors, plus tremendous fighter sup
port, hit seven German aircraft
: center cities, and struck also mili
tary installations at Rostock on
Germany’s Baltic coast, in a deep
westward plunge. 65 Nazi fight
ers were downed by the gunners
aboard the bombers and 61 were
felled by the escorting fighters.
The U. S. communique said the
American losses were 21 bombers
and three fighters.
Hilversum radio in Holland went
off the air, indicating the day
light renewal of air offensives by
American bombers which axe re
ported to have hit Posen in Po
land.
The Folkewulf 90 part splant
was ruined in the Sunday offen
sive, but the U. S. headquarters
refused to comment on the Posen
operation, which represents a
1,500-mile round trip.
The Air Ministry communique
! said of the attack on Stuttgart:
‘‘The great fires in the burning
factories of the city made a clear
target for thousands of tons of
explosives.”
CAPT. WHITLAM
jDIES IN SEATTLE
Captain Frank L Whitlam
died in Seattle February 6th, after
a long illness, according to word
received here by Mrs. George
Waldheim.
Captain Whitlam sailed Alaskan
waters for nearly 40 years, and
in that time commanded the
Dukesbury, the USS Boxer, and
the USS North Star, under the
Department of Interior, for the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
He is survived by his wife, liv
|ing in Seattle.
MARRIED IN NOME
FEBRUARY 5TH
E. L. Johnston and Miss Ellen
Poste were married February 5th
by Rev. Booker. The secret leaked
out today.
PHANTOM
NAVY BUILT
BY JAPS
According to the Japanese re
ports today the United States
navy almost whole and entire, re
turned from Davy Jones’ locker
to deal a dastardly and crushing
blow to an impregnable Pacific
island bastion.
To date the Japanese have sunk
more American ships than evdr
left the way> of U. S. shipyards, j
They have downed so many
-planes that we have to build quite
a number to even get out of the
hole, etc., and on down the line.
Our ‘‘phantom navy”, the ves
sels and men which the Japs claim
are on the bottom, are doing quite
a gooa job of showing the “Sons
of Heaven” a "hell of a good time”.
According to reports Goebbels
■brought to Germany in 1942, the
world’s champion title 6f “world’s
greatest liar” was conferred on
him, but in 1943 the title: has
swung around the world to an
even great liar, “Tojo".
BLUE FOXES
TO BE BLUER
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—(AP)
—The government’s private stock
of blue foxes will be bluer and
foxier after the war, according to
plans now underway, the Fish and
Wildlife Service announced.
Much improvement is expected
in the breed of the expensive ani
mals on the Pribiloff Islands, in
the Bering Sea. off the coast of
Alaska.
After the war the government
plans to leave a certain number
| of large, handsome males each
season for breeding purposes, and
to bring other strains from the
Aleutians, and from Greenland, in
order to make the fur softer.
DOOLITTLE
TELLS OF
NEW ASSAULTS
LONDON, Feb. 21—(API
Major General James Doolittle,
who led the American raid on
Tokyo in 1942, predicted greater
assaults on the enemy capital in
“the shortest possible time,” but
agreed with the allied high com
mand, that “Hitler must be fin
j ished first.”
He said, “We are going back
to Tokyo and shall go in full ar
ray of mighty allies.”
These statements were made by
the man who led the formation of
Mitchell bombers from the carrier
Hornet, in the historic flight to
bomb Tokyo and other Japanese
cities.
i
Light Comedy
BUSTER KEATON, former <
deadpan film comic, made this
three-foot tall cigarette lighter
from a toy construction set.
It works, too! Press the button
and crane (1) swings bucket (2)
ever to receive cigarette from
case (3). Whereupon elevator
(4) rises, releasing metal ball
down chute, striking cannon (5)
which lights cigarette as U. S.
flag springs up oc top. Director
Harry Beaumont usee it for Red
Skelton in "Mr. Co-ed."
TAKE MOST OF
ENIWETOK
PEARL HARBOR, Fab. 21 —
(AP>—The army and marine as
sault troops under cover of bat
tleship gunfire and supported by
low-flying carrier-baaed planes
are now in possession of a large
part of the Eniwetok atoll in the
Marshalls.
Eniwetok is the westernmost
point in the Marshall’s group of
islands, 380 miles northwest of
Kwajalein, and 750 miles northeast
of Truk
The mere fact that this attack
was carried out with large num
bers of troops, ships, and planes,
simultaneous with the assault on
Truk, indicates the immensity of
the force Admiral Nimitz has now
assembled in the Pacific.
AIRWAYS
Wien Alaska Airlines
Frank Whaley flew to Wales
this morning with John Broadwell,
CAA divisional supervisor, and
also freight and mail. Frank ex
pects to return via Kotzebue.
Alaska Airlines
Don Emmons left for Candle,
Deering and Kotzebue with the
following passengers: Miss Jim
Robbins, for Candle; Douglas
Johnson, Deering; Tom Berry
man, Jr., for Kotzebue and Dick..
Collard for Kotzebue.
Pan American Airways
Captain Ley left this morning
with a load of mail and one pas- |
senger, Sergeant Paul Kulawzik.
Captain Olsen arrived from
Fairbanks at noon with Capt Rob
ert C. Green,, Territorial Public \
Health Nursing Director Dorothy
Whitney, Burr Johnson and
Luella Grant. They left imme
diately, but had to return due to
weather
REDS ROLL
OVER FROZEN
GROUND
LONDON, Feb. 21.—<AP)—The
Russians continued today to roll
over the frozen ground toward the
Baltic gateway of Pskov, while
far to the south, according to a
Berlin broadcast, the Red Army
had thrown 100,000 more men into i
a powerful new push toward
Minsk, in White Russia, and also
an important rail city on the;
Moscow-Warsaw railway
A Soviet communique announc
ed over 100 additional villages in
the drive on Pskov yesterday; and
more than 2,200 German., kilted
in advances from two to 12 miles
in swirling snowstorms or. three
points within 30 miles of Dno,
3 rail junction 30 miles east of j
Pskov, which was taken, n the
advance.
The Red armies nearest Pskov
were last repotted 23 miles to i
the north, after battling down the
east shores of Lake Peipus to
Pskov, but Moscow has not report- j
ed their activities for several days.
Moscow also reported the Uk
rainian armies had broken
through into the outskirts of
KrLvoi-Rog.
RABAUL IS
AGAIN RAIDED
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb.
21.—<AP)—Three aerial punches
in quick succession Friday, left
Rabaul’s Vunakanau and Tobera
airdromes pockmarked and smok
ing by 123 tons of bombs, and re
sulted in downing 13 Japanese \
planes and destroying many others
on the ground,
Other flights ranged along the
New Guinea coast and out to the
Bismark Sea.
The Japanesd-heid Admiralty
Islands were hit by roving Libera
tors, reconnaissance planes, dive
bombers and Marine Corsairs
which flew from the Solomons,
also attacking Cape St. George on
the southern tip of New Ireland.
The New Guinea coastal attacks
resulted in the destruction of six |
barges and the blowing up of sup
ply dumDS in the Hanta
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Army-Navy
Heads Are
Relieved
NEW YORK. Feb 2.1.—‘A?) —
Tokyo radio acknowledged that
Japan had suffered heavy losaei
in the American attack on her
great naval base at Truk, and an
nounced simultaneously that both
chiefs of the Japanese army and
navy general staffs were relieved’
of their posts
Premier Tojo said in a broad
cast, that he would personally
take over the task and assume the
role of chief of the army general
staff, in a sweeping shakeup
which seemed to be a direct re-,
suit of the American assault
In comment. Admiral Nimitz
| said
“This is a partial settlement of
the sneak attack on Pearl Har
bor ”
j The Impend communique, ac
knowLedg tr•• attack on Truk,
in another broadcast, quoted the
'announcement by the Navy Min
istry, saying the fleet Admiral
Nagano, chief at the Japanese
Navy General Staff, was relieved
of his p-ost, and announced that
Hirohitc had named Admiral
Shimada to serve concurrently as
chief of naval general staff
! Toyko radio said the Jap was
1 ministry announced that Field
i Marshal Sugiyama was relieved of
>his post as chief of army general
| staff, and Tojo had taken over the
!job, announcing that the Japan
! ese naval losses at Truk were ae
; knowledges, and m addition some
damages were incurred among
land installations. :
Domei, the Jap news agency,
sa d. Hirohito personally installed
To;o in his new post. Tojo ha*
oeen serving as war minister, head
of munitions industries, minister
of commerce and industry, and
minister of education.
Dome; also announced that Gen
eral Ushiroku was appointed vice
chief of the army general staff,
concurrently assuming the post of
war counselor.
Lt. General Iida was named
commander-in-chief of the army
at central district headquarters,
but no mention was made of the
new assignments for Nagano, or
Sugiyama.
The imperial communique as
serted that the Japanese army
and navy forces at Truk had
sunk two American cruisers and
had damaged an aircraft carrier
and one unidentified warship, and
added that 54 American planes
were downed.
DIMOND SAYS
DRILLING IS
PROBABILITY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—(AP>
—Alaska Delegate to Congress An
thony J Dimond, said he was in
formed that government agencies
were preparing to drill Alaska oil
fields next summer to determine
the extent of the oil area, but
did not disclose which agencies
would do the work but said the
drilling was necessary and would
cost but a fraction of the 130 mil
lion dollars which the government
had spent on the Canol project.
Dimond mentioned the Katala,
Yakataga and the large naval oil
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