A “G-EYE VIEW
OF NOME
By CPL. W. D. STARNES
Thanksgiving Day . . . that pe
rennial day in our lives has drift
ed once more into the back
ground. But the memory is as
vivid as the northern lights danc
ing gaily across the sky on a!
cold and crisp Arctic winter eve
ning. Even the most hardened
Mess Sergeant would be forced
to contract a touch of nostalgia
as the consuming of the feast
began. There wasn’t a single ta
ble to be found that lacked a sin
gle thing. And if you didn’t eat
“turkey and trimmin’s” until it
started forming a “lump” in the
throat, it was your own fault.
Then to top it off with, there
was pumpkin and mincemeat pie
. . . take your pick ... or both
if storage space was available.
It was a job well done by our
army chefs upon which they can
feel deservingly proud.
One of the outstanding ... or
I could even go better and say
“THE” outstanding ‘‘turkey
fest” was held for the men of
Major Ridgeway’s fine organiza
tion. It was a smash hit from the
very start and the guests are
still singing praises on the way
the officers and enlisted men
went into such infinite details in
order to make the occasion a suc
cess. The highlight and a moment
that Will be long remembered was
when the host called the gather
ing to “at ease” and issued the
command “Waiters — front and
center”. Then lo, and behold,
what steps out of hibernation but
the top ranking non-commission
ed men of the outfit dressed “a
la Waldorf" complete with towels
draped across the arm, ready and
willing to serve at the beckon of
a small finger or the resounding
‘‘growl” of a hungry private.
Among the upper grade mess at
tendants were First Sergeant
Paul G. “Pappy” Eckbert, Mas
ter Sgts. Frank Goodwin and
John Shelnutt Tech. Sergeants
Wm. Raines, Manuel Amaral,
and John Cellmer, Staff Ser
geants John Louthan, John A.
Devine, Joe Dalmolin, Paul W
Sanders Richard B. Shipp, Jo<hn
E. Hudson, and last but not least,
the man who really gave his “all”
for the occasion, Mess Sergeant
Achilles Gallipo. The boys have
a mighty fine “esprit’ de corps”
which is well worth investigat
ing.
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REPUBLICANS
IN VICTORY
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 1—
(AP) — Republicans expressed
elation over the 12.600 vote vic
tory of Chester O’Carrier Liech
fleld attorney, Scored yesterday
over -J. Dan Talbott, Bardstown
democrat, when he won the con
gressional seat ip the fourth dis
trict in Kentucky.;
The victory in a special elec
tion gave Kentucky its second
republican congressman. Repubh
lican John Marshall Robinson, of
Barbourville. Ky. has represent
ed the ninth district for years.
In Washington, Chairman
Spangler of the Republican Na
tional Committee, said:
‘‘It becomes increasingly evi
dent, that whatever the Presi
dent’s intentions respecting a
fourth term. Republicans will j
sweep the nation in ’44."
PRESIDENT VETOES
MEMORIAL BILL
, WASHINGTON, Dc. 1.—|AP)—
The President today vetoed a res
olution in Congress which would
designate December 7 to the
armed services Honor Day, and
explained that he considers the
commemoration of Pearl Harbor
Day in any way, “singularly jin
appropriate.”
The message to the senate said
further:
“It would be premature to es
tablish during the course of the
war, a day to commemorate
those serving in the military
forces.
THE NOME NUGGET
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Aussies
Pushing
North
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Dec. 1.—(AP)—Australiar. jungle
fighters pushing north from
Fincshhafen, captured Bonga, the
seaward anchor of the Japanese
principal supply lme or. the
northeastern New Guinea coast.
It’s fall without a struggle de
prived the enemy of another
hold.
On the Huon Peransula the
Aussies also took Gusika, while
other jungle fighters were mov
ing into Gonga.
Allied 'bombers were aiding
the ground forces by smashing
the airdrome at Cape Gloucester
to the eastward on the New Gui
nea coast pinmng the enemy air
force to the ground. 23 Mitchell
Marauder bombers, escorted by
Airacobra fighters, dropped 46
tons of explosives.
Six Liberator bombers attack
ed Manokwar: on the northern
coast of Dutch New Guinea, do
ing damage to shipping and har
bor installations. ••
r
'Half a dozen Mitchells bombed
the Japanese forward positions
in the Empress of Augusta Bay
area on Bougainville, in the North
Solomons.
A loaded Japanese barge was
sunk off the southern tip of Bou
gainville by our P.-T. boats.
Noteworthy absence in com-,
muniques of Japanese air inter
ception of Allied bombing for
ays, allied airmen ventured the |
opinion that the apparent timid
ity in the skies was due to hav
ing learned the lesson the hard
way in meeting the terrific fire
power of the heavy bombers’ for
mations which has accounted for
520 enemy planes destroyed dur
ing November.
FORCES MAKE
NEW LANDING
LONDON, Dec. 1.—(AP)— j
Tokyo radio announced that
American forces had made a new
landing at Cape Torokina, on the
west coast of Bougainville island,
to the north of the present beach
head.
The broadcast said, the
troops came ashore in six large
landing barges, under a barrage
laid down by cruisers and des
troyers.
The landing was carried out
near the mouth of the Laruma
river.
The Japanese said their de
fenses had wiped out two com
panies of the landing forces.
No immediate confirmation was
reported from allied sources.
LT. FRODENBERG
KILLED IN CRASH
SEATTLE, Dec. 1.—(API
Commissioned less than two
months ago in Chandler, Arizona,
Lieutenant Norman Frodenberg,
son of Arthur Frodenberg of Se
attle, was killed yesteday in a
plane crash near Rosamond Lake
Lancaster. California.
Lt. Frodenberg formerly lived
in Palmer, Alaska..
RECOVERY U NIT—Designed to salvage tanks damaged in battle, this 80-ton tank recovery
unit carries a 30-ton tank near the Renton, Wash., plant where it was made.
Interior Dept.
Turns ‘Thumbs
Down’ on Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—(AP)—Anthony J Di
taoiftd, Alaska Delegate to Congress, today disclos
ed the opposition of the Department of Interior, to
the bill, H R. 2462, introduced by Mr. Dimond, to
provide for the election of the Governor of Alaska.
The Interior Department has made it impossible
for the House Territories committee, to which the
bill was referred, to hold hearings on the measure.
The'department had not submitted a report on
the bill, although requested to do so by the commit
tee, but did reply thatlits enactment would require
changes in the Organic Act of Alaska.
Mr. Dimond said, however, the bill for the elec
tion of a governor of Puerto Rico was approved by
the Department of the Interior.
BOMBERS m
DAYLIGHT RAID
. LONDON. Dec. 1.—(AP).—
American heavy bombers attack
ed western Germany again while
Marauder and medium bombers
made operations an American
double-header by battering air
fields in northern France in day
light attacks and for the fourth
day of round the clock bombing
of Germany itself.
Monday it was Bremen, yester- |
day, Solingen in the Ruhr. These !
raids came in conjunction with
raids by RAF Mosquite bombers
on rail lines and trasportationn in
general. The heavy bombers were
escorted by U. S. spd R. A. F.
fighters, and the medium bond
ers by Dominion and Allied
fighters.
Specific targets were not an
nounced inwediately, but Air
Minister Sinclair told the Com
mons that since the beginning of
the year, that the U. S. air force
had lost 829 bombers over Eu
rope, as compared to the RAF’s
loss of 2.083 by night raids and
106 by day.
SCORE SUCCESS
IN UKRAINE
MOSCOW, Dec. l.—'AP)—Ger
man forces were frantically
struggling to restore their shat
tered Dnieper river lines, with
intensified counterattacks, and
scored their second major suc
cess in the Ukraine, since the be
ginning of their heavy counter
attacks in early November.
Despite German reoccupation
of the rail junctions of Zhitomir
and Korosten, the Russians still
hold Ovnuch and Yelsk on the
important lateral rail lipe con
necting Leningrad and Odessa.
The Germans fought back
fiercely, south of Zhlobin. but
except for the loss of Korosten,
the Red Army continued its
gradual progress on all active
sectors along a 600-mile front.
FRESH TROUT
FOR NOME
Polet’s Store received a large
shipment of fresh trout via Munz
Airways. The trqut was caught
on Monday and brought to Nome
yesterday.
BRITISH SLASH
FORWARD PAST
SANGRO RIDGE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Dec. 1.—The British
army slashed forward beyond the
Sangro Ridge with the heaviesf
air support of the Italian cam
paign, and marked up advances
all along the line from one to
three miles, in fierce hand to
hand fighting.
They captured Lanciano. six
miles north of the Sangro, also
Caster. Frentano and Casoli, the
latter at the southwestern end of
the Sangro Ridge.
In the central part of the line
the Fifth American Army dashed
forward three miles to the west
of Montaquila. through dense
minefields and twisted masses of j
barbed wire. It is the first time
in the Mediterranean warfare the
wire has been used. It was used i
extensivly by the Germans in this
.manner in the first World War.
Liberator bombers of the 15th
airforce swung into action in a
raid to the northern itp of the '
Adriatic to hit Flume, it’s first
aerial blow of the war.
The strategic port was dap
tured by the Germans from Yugo
slav Partisans in a violent battle
soon after the Italian armistice, i
and was transformed by Rommel
into one of his most important
bases for Balkan operations.
A German spokesman quoted
the DNB broadcast, saying, “The
British Eighth Army doing battle
in the Sangro area, in very great
forces, is numerically far super
ior to German forces. The enemy
air force is hammering the Ger
man artillery positions on the
north slopes of the Sangro val
ley.”
NOME COUPLE
HAVE DAUGHTER
Mrs. Pete Sather received a
telegram fr jm her son, Andrew
Sather, in Boston, Mass, noting
the arrival of a daughter. “Our
daughter, Mary Ellen, arrived on
Sunday. Ellen doing fine."
‘‘Andy” is an accountant in the
Boston- office of the U. S. Smelt
ing Retfining & Mining Com
pany. The many friends of Andy
and Ellen will; be more than
•y . •*
pleased to hear the good news.
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Confab
To Be
At Iran
UNDATED — Speculations
that mighty new thrusts against
the Axis are in the making, are
being stirred by unofficial re
ports that Roosevelt and Church
ill are speeding to a conference
with Stalin in Iran,' after meet
ing Chiang Kai Shek in Cairo
Reports emanating from Lisbon
and quickly given wide circula
tion, climaxed the week of guess
ing by the German propaganda
agencies, which have been hint
ing of the possibility of an immi
nent meeting of the Allied lead
ers in Cairo or elsewhere in the
M'ddle East.
The report circulated by Reu
ters said: •
“It is known definitely in Lis
bon that the meeting has already
taken place betwefen Roosevelt.
Churchill and Chiang Kai Shk in
Cairo, and that the President and
Prime Minister Churchill are
now speeding toward Iran for a
meeting with Stalin.”
In a broadcast to European
countries in several languages
last night by the Office of War
Information, which said it acted
by authority of the Office of Cen
sorship, Elmer Davis, the OtfJ
chief, said OWI broadcast the
dispatch because "It was already
all over Europe.”
He sharply criticized Reuters,
the British news agency, for put
ting out the story, declaring, 'If
there were a conference, we could
assume by past experince, there
would be some arrangements for
simultaneous release in all cap
itals involved. If that were the
case Reuter’s brake a release
date. If there were no conference
then the story is an invention or
fabrication. Either way it is re
prehensible.”
CONFERENCE
SAID TO BE HELD
ANKARA, Turkey Dec. 1.—
(AP)—The newspaper Aksam
said that Roosevelt had conferred
in Cairo with Laurence Stein
hardt, U. S ambassador to Tur
key.
The U. S. ambassador to Tur
key and the U. S. embassy de
clined to comment but Stein
hardt returned to Ankara, Tur
key. last night after an absence
of about a week.
All Turkish papers carried
stories to the effect of a moment
ous conference being held by the
United Nations leaders.
MIKE LAYDEN
FOUND DEAD
Yesterday the report came to
the commissioner that Mike Lay
den had not been seen for sev
eral days, so the marshal’s office
was asked to look into the case.
After entering the premises the
marshal found the body of Mike
Layden, who had been dead for
possibly a week. Dr. 'Ihomao
Morcom was called and upon ex
amination, declared that death
was from natural causes Ar
rangements will be made fitter
for the funeral. The body now.
lies in the funeral parlor