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* VOL. 47.—No. 3. _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1945._PER COPY—15c
BIG BATTLE IS
SAID TO BE IN
• THE MAKING
PARIS, Jan. 5.—(AP)—Armor
ed and infantry forces of the
British Second Army were flung
into battle in the Ardennes sal
ient at its northwestern tip,
along with two and possibly
6 three American armies, in a
mounting battlefront, front line
dispatches reported today, indi
cating this move might result in
the most bloody sector on the
Western front.
The forces of General Mont
gomery were reported yesterday
as having gone into the offen.
t sive, attacking the Marche area,
where they were making advan
ces, front line dispatches said.
The dispatches also disclosed
that other British forces attack
ed south of Rochefort on the
western end of the Belgian
bulge.
The Germans, who also expect
* the forthcoming battle to be the
greatest of the war, said the U.
S. Ninth Army joined the British
and the U. S. First and Third
Armies in the assault.
The American field reports
said the U. S. Ninth and Elev
enth Armies have been fighting
in bulge engagements on the
southern side of the salient,
where they have flung back 17
German counterattacks, but the
^front remains substantially un
changed.
The allied attack on a 17-mile
front is making slow and steady
gains through snow, ice and fog.
Berlin reported that von Rund
stedt’s forces had broken through
the French Maginot Line at
Saareguemjines, on a 25-mile
front, and has cleared an area
between the Saar and Rhine riv
ers, of U. S. Seventh Army
troops.
RED FORCES
ADVANCE IN •
BUDAPEST
MOSCOW^ Jan. 5.—(AP)—
Russian forces are reported to
be grimly holding off German
armored attacks, supported by
hundreds of planes, in the Sov
iet-held corridor, 30 miles deep,
northwest of beleagured Buda
pest, according to con^muniques
from the front.
German panzer thrusts down
' the Danube, west of the great
Danube Bend, are entering the
third day of a daringly designed
strategic move, to liberate the
remnants of nine Nazi divisions,
trapped in Budapest, the com
muniques stated.
Inside Budapest, Russian
storm forces now occupy 1400
blocks, and have gained ground
since the initial attack eight days
ago, today’s communique said, j
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AUSTRIAN
BORDER IS
CROSSED
LONDON, Jan. 5.—(AP>—Yu
goslav partisan forces have
crossed the Austrian border,
menacing the German arc be
tween Klangenfurt and Graz,
Marshal Tito announced in a
broadcast of a communique
heard in London.
Marshal Tito also said the
partisans had cut the Maribor
Graz railway line “in many
places,” apparently in the areas
of Wildn, Leibnitz and Ehren
hausen.
CANADIANS
ADVANCE NEAR
SAN ALBERTO
ROME, Jan. 6.—(AP)—Can
adian troops are advancing
against strong enemy counterat
tacks along the road east of Al
phonsine, to within one-half
mile of San Alberto, eight miles
north of Ravenna in the Adria
i tic coastal sector of the Italian
front, it was reported today.
Allied headquarters said the
Germans threw in veteran
troops, brought up Tiger and
Panther tanks in a series of se
vere counter thrusts, all of which
were repulsed as the Canadians
drove forward.
ROOSEVELT
TO BROADCAST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt will take
the air tomorrow night to sum.
marize to the nation, the state of
the Union. His message will be
delivered to Congress earlier in
the day.
Advertise in The Nugget.
AIRWAYS
Wien Alaska Airlines
Pilot Bill Peterson flew to
Council, Haycock, White Moun-;
tain and Koyuk Wednesday with
Peter Lee for Council, Doug
Johnson and Lena Paneok for
White Mountain, Sam Soagoak
for Golovin, and David Otten
for Koyuk. Passengers from
Haycock to Nome were Wallace
Porter, Mrs. Wm. Porter, Lillian
and Victor Porter.
Mrs. John Fagerstrom and son
Frankie, were incoming passen
gers Thursday morning.
Peterson flew to Candle yes
terday afternoon with Herbert
Hadley, Billie Hadley and Tim
Richards.
Alaska Airlines
Wednesday, Captain MacKem
zie and Co-pilot Hola arrived
with Mr. and Mrs. McNee for the
U. S. Weather Bureau, and are
scheduled to leave Monday for
Anchorage.
Thursday Pilot Weaver flew
the mail run to Teller, Wales
and Shishmaref, and will return
tomorrow.
Pan American Airwars
Wednesday a plane arrived
with mail and passengers Mrs.
Joseph Kehoe, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Love, and Kenneth Alex
ander, traffic manager for PAA.
Outgoing passengers were Ernest
Kohnert, Morton Hendrickson,
Banks Crooks, George Bayer and
Bob Omauk with a prisoner.
REDS MASS
AT VISTULA
LONDON, Jan. 5—(AP)—Ber
lin radio today reported the Red
Army is again massing troops in j
the Vistula river bridgehead
area, 120 miles south of Warsaw,
and scouting parties are probing
the Nazi lines along the Polish
front.
BURMA PORT
IS TAKEN
KANDY, Ceylon, Jan. 5.—(AP)
—The city of Akyad, the third
largest port of Burma, which for
the past two years has been used
as an important Japanese supply
base, has fallen to British and
Indian seaborne troops, Allied
headquarters said.
The communique announced
the attackers swarmed ashore on
Akyad Island, on which the city
of Akyad is situated, early yes
terday morning, without encoun
tering any opposition.
THIRD FLEET
HITS FORMOSA
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 5.—
(AP)—The crushing might of
the U. S. Third Fleet may have
fallen for the third straight day
on Formosa and the Ryukuys
Islands, as the ominous radio
blackout by the fleet suggests
the possibility of the combined
greatest striking power ever
massed at sea, it has been indi
cated by Admiral Nimitz.
Tokyo radio reported that 500
Hellcats, Helldivers and Aven
gers hit Formosa and Okinawa
for nearly seven hours on the
first day, and 400 returned on
the next day for another seven
hours.
SERVICES
ARE HELD
WEOKOLUK SERVICES
Funeral services for George
Weokoluk, 44, who died last
Monday, were held from the
Methodist Church at 2:00 p. m.
this afUemoon. Revertend Cape
ner presided in the absence of
Miss Constance Erickson, church
pastor.
JAPANESE
SHIPPING HIT
BY BOMBERS
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP
PINES, Jan. 5.—(AP)—Vital Jap
anese shipping in the Luzon
area, the main Philippine island,
took a body blow from Ameri
can bomtbers and attack planes,
in the first three days of 1945,
General MacArthur disclosed to
day.
A headquarters communique
announced the sinking or damag
ing of 35 ships in Subic Bay and
Lingayen Gulf on the second and
third, while MacArthur reported
25 ships sunk or damaged on
the first, in the same general
area.
In the latest raids an enemy
transport of 9,000 to 12,000 tons
was sunk.
A headquarters spokesman
said 15 transports and freight
ers alone, total aggregate of 57,
000 tons, were definitely sunk,
and 10 other ships badly dam
aged. A seaplane carrier was also
1 sunk or damaged in the San Fer
nando area, on the fringe of Lin
; gayen Gulf.
T The Japanese struck back
with with five air raids on the
night of January 2nd, at the
American airfield and shipping
installations on Mindono Island
inflicting damage. The commun
ique did not report in detail.
Yank ack.ack accounted for
three enemy planes.
The communique continued.
‘‘Reduction of Japan’s air cen
ter at Clark Field, 75 miles north
of Manila, is being continued
by Yank bombers.”
Twenty enemy fighters weie
destroyed on the ground.
BOND SALES
OVER THE TOP
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—(AP)
—The total bond sales in the rec
I
| ord-smashing Sixth War Loan
j drive, was announced today as
$21,621,000,000. This is $1,000,
1000,000 above the previous all
time world financing record es
tablished in the Fifth War Loan
... 50 per cent over the quota.
The “E” bond series was also
oversubscribed.
ATG EVENTS
All persons having equip
ment belonging to the Alaska
Territorial Guard, Nome Unit,
and are no longer active, are
warned under penalty, to re
turn all government property
to the ATG armory, from 7:00
p. m. to 8:30 p. m. on Tues
January 9 th, and Tuesday,
I January 16th.