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VOL. 47 —No. 44 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 21. H)44 PER COPY—15c
MILLIONS IN
CHINA FACE
FAMINE
CHUNGKING, CtyAa, April 21 i
(AP)—A new threat inChina of
the possibility of a man made fam
ine, affecting twenty million civ
ilians and hundreds of thousands
of soldiers developed as strong1
Japanese forces drove across the
Peiping-Hankow railroad m Hu
nan province, a Chine.se spokes
man said today.
The Japenese offensive embrac
ing between between 50,u00 and
60,000 troops, spearheaded by con
tingents from Manchuria, where
until now, Japan has kept the
flower ot ner army, even tnrouga
seven years oi Vvar wun unina.
Tne spokesman said tliai tne
Japanese are iiiarc.ng a OiC to
smasn tue tnineae srip on ioo
miles oi the raxiroau so tney can
link tneir norm ana central mixes
and ouiam tne ricn wneat crop
now ripening in me Hunan Pu
vince. 1ms crop is tne nope ot
millions of Chinese who in llf't.J
suffered the ravages ot one of
the worst famine^ in. tue long
famine history oi Crnna.
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TREMENDOUS j
ATTACK
ON COLOGNE
LONDON, April 21. 1AP>—The
RAF threw the crushing weight
of 1100 plants against Cologne in
an attack to cripple the hub of
German anti-invasion forces.
Three other rail targets in
France were attacked last night
when a massive bomb load of
4480 tons was cut loose
Only 16 of our bombers failed
to return
The night operations also in
cluded a mosquito raid on Berlin
following yesterday's dusk attack
on Hitler’s ‘‘Wall Street” by a
fleet of nearly 1000 planes.
FUNERAL OF COUNCIL
OLDTIMER HELD TODAY
Tfuneral of Eugene DeCary, who
died in the Maynard Columbus
hospital last week, was held today
from the Federated Church
Mr. DeCary was one of the few
remaining oldtimers in the Council
district.
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BADOCLIO !
ANNOUNCES
NEW CABINET^
NAPLES, April 21, fAP>—Mar
shal Badoglio today anounced the
formation of a new Italian war
cabinet, with himself as Premier
and foreign minister. The men
who now hold the war, navy and
air ministry will remain at their
posts, but other offices will be
divided between Italy’s six pol
itical parties of liberation.
Four outstanding figures who
were made ministers without
portfolio were, Sforza, one-time
foreign minister, who led an*i
fascism abroad, Benedetto Croce,
philosopher, Guilio Rodino, Christ
ian democrat leader, and Palmiro
Togliatti, comunist leader.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Ii the hospital this week are a
few of the old timers, all of whom
are getting along nicely.
Bill Guissler Bill Sheehan, Bob
Ledgerwood, Billy Anderson and
John Friedland.
From Unalakleet are Isabelle
Towaruk, Thora Kafchatag; and
from Golovin Mrs May Ivanoff,
and from White Mt. Isabelle Wal
ker. and Grace Alexine.
INVASION BLUEPRINT
WHEN American invading forces storm the
beach of Hitler's Europe, it will be the Army's en
gineers who lead the way.
TTT^m—
The area is first photographed and invasion blue
prints made in detail showing on large scale all
barriers to be removed.
Their job is to wipe out enemy barriers and clear
;he way for the men and supplies that follow. These
sketches show they probably will do it.
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Before invasion, the beach is shelled to daze the
enemy. As the shelling nears its end, the first wave
of engineers goes ashore.
NO BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION
FOR HITLER
LONDON. April 21, <AP)—Hitler
observed his 55th birthday in si
lence. The German nation avoid
ed even a pretense of a celebra
tion.
From German radios however
came numerous reflections on the
hour of'the big invasion, and the
unending attacks on Berlin.
Dispatches from Sweden and
Switzerland imported that Field
Marshal Von Rundstadt was mas
sing troops along the vaulted
Atlantic wall, for an invasion test.
Numerous German gueasas are
that the assault will come in May.
Paul Goebbels in a newspaper
article told the German people,
“We have burned our bridges,
and there is no going back.
PIONEERS END CARD
PARTY SERIES
Last Wednesday the Pioneers
o fAlaska held the last of their
series of card parties, bringing
to a close a group of social en
tertainments which were well a
ttended and throughout which
there was keen competition for
the trophies which were awarded
td the winners of the series.
The trophy winners were:
Albin Poison, with high score for
the men, 59!); Charles D. Jones
with a score of 584 was second;
and Dudley Warner 581 points
was third. For the ladies: 1st
Mrs Emory Mahan was the lucky
winner with 607 points; Mrs Pete
Sather with 593 was second; and
Mi’s A Polet third with 593, losing
the cut to Mrs Pete Sather.
The winners for the evening
games were Miss Frances Wald
heim, Mrs Pete Sather, and Mrs
Charles Pennycook, and the lucky
men were, Charles Pennycook,
Andy Nerland. and Pete Sather.
The committee of Pioneer wo
men assisting the Pioneers on the
last party of the season was com
posed of; Mrs Ben Mozee, Mrs.
Robert Baldwin and Mrs A. Ry
deen.
NOTICE
Starting tomorrow, April 22,
allstray dogs found on the Post,
anywhere on Nome Garrison, will
be shot
Persons having pets running
loose are causing a landing has
ard at the airports which cannot
be tolerated.
SW E ETH E A R T_Donm
Dae, vocalist with Fred Waring,
lias been chosen sweetheart .if
the regiment of midshipmen at
the l n i t e d States N' a v a I
Academy at Annapolis, Mil, c i
DUTCH FLYERS
DROP BOMBS
ON TIMOR
ALLIED HQ. Sw. Pac. April 21,
tAP—American Liberators and
heavy bombers in the southwest
Pacific area are paying daily vis
itsto the .Tap airfields in the west
ern and central Carolines and to
day destroyed 6 enemy planes
and possibly 3 more
General MacArthur announced
three were destroyed in raids
on Woleai Island in the western
Carolines.
Other heavy bomber attack
were made on Satawan Island
and Nomoi Island only 150 miles
from the big Jap base at Truk.
These raids were co-ordineted
with other attacks on central Pac
ific bases at Truk and Ponape.
Fires were visible for 50 miles
after the Dutch manned bombers
attacked enemy installations at
Soe in Dutch Timor.
ODD-FELLOWS ATTENTION
The I. O. O. F. will hold their
regular meeting Friday evening
at 8.00 o'clock, at the Masonic
emple.
W^^lngpror^ engined* use mine detectors and bayonets to local*
and remove mines, then mark the sal* path with whit* tap*. Next
they blast wire with torpedoes—sheet metal strips around explosive.
Engineer in foreground blasts tank block. Others
blind the enemy in pill box with flame thrower.
Paratroops landed in rear work toward beads.
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Mat roads are laid for tanks and supply vehicles.
Engineers lay burlap fizet; then steel matting. The
beach is now clear, for full force of invaders.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, MA
PLES, April 21, (AP)—Allied war
| planes were diverted temporarily
from assaults on the Balkan rail
targets to smash German comm
unications in Italy yesterday.
U S. heavy bombers blasted the
harbor at Venice, and also hit
o*her targets from Ancona to
Trieste, and a number of enemy
! planes were destroyed on the
ground.
The Germans have been react
I ing sharply to every allied move
i showing that they were apparently
apprehensive of attacks
JAPANESE BID
Eighty Percent
Fish Catch
MOSCOW, April 21, AP —Fish
ng allotments w’-:: were includ
ed in the Soviet - Japanese pact
on March 30th auctioned at
Vladivostok yesterday
Ten percent cf the allotments
going to Russian firms and the
balance to the Japanese
AXIS TROOPS
DROWN IN
BLACK SEA
»'i ‘i
MOSCOW, April 2i. i API—A
powerful German tank and infant
ry attack was beaten back by the
Red Army near the Estonian bor
der near the town of Narva, the
Soviet communique sair
German blows in the Baltic
area have been unusually light.
West of Narva grim battles are
reported to be continuing in full
swing.
In the Crimean sector on the
front, bloody battles are being
fought in the outskirts o£ Sev
astopol. Front line dispatches
said that thousands of Germans
and Rumanians were drowned in
the Black Sea as Soviet bombers
and torpedo planes kept up con
tinuous attacks against convoys
trying to reaqh the Rumanian
coast ports.
LONDON, April 21, (AD— Berlin
Radio said that the Americans and
British were massing their navies
in the “greatest concentration of
power since Dunkerque in Brit
ish home waters for an invasion
of th econtinent.
Troops are leaving London, to
go to channel ports, leaving it
practically deserted,”
Vichy radio declared, “The in
vasion blow will be timed with
new allied assaults in Italy and
the Balkans.
nEVENTS
v,v: j
Friday night Non-commissioaod
officers will meet at the Hi-school
Gym..
Saturday nite a dance at the
Native school for members aa<t
prospective members. ..