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* ELKS CLUB IS
DESTROYED
IN FAIRBANKS
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FAIRBANKS, Sept. 22.—<AP> j
—An early morning fire com
pletely destroyed the Elks Club
and lodge hall today, leaving only
the blackened walls of the build
g ing standing.
The loss was estimated at $20,
000, which was half covered by
insurance.
The building had been closed
two hours before the fire was
discovered by a passing taxi driv- j
er, who roused the firemen in
the city hall two doors away in
the same block.
The floor had already caved in
and the interior became amass of
flames when the door was open,
but the two story buildings, in-!
ches away on either side of the
one-story lodge, were saved from
damage even o the windows.
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Fire Chief Sam Huxley was
overcome by smoke in the two
hour battle, and had to be hos
pitalized.
REDS WITHIN
40 MILES OF |
K CAPITAL CITY
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MOSCOW, Sept. 22.—(AP)—
Russian armies have swept) to
within 40 miles of Tallinn, the
Estonian capital, and less than i
!5 miles from the Hungarian j
frontier, on opposite ends of the j
eastern front, dispatches said to-'
day.
At Warsaw, General Bor an
0 nounced that his Soviet troops
had crossed the Vistula river and
made contact with his partisan
* forces, in the city.
Red Army forces are also six |
miles from the seaport of Riga, j
in Latvia.
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ATTACKS^ CITED
BY JAPANESE
UNDATED — Domei and the
* Japanese controlled Manila ra
dio said that attacks by carrier
planes on Manila were continuing
and new strikes were being con- '
centrated on harbor facilities and
air fields, it has been reported.
STOP IN NOME ON
WAY TO RE-OPEN SCHOOL
* Mr. and Mrs. Ira Downes ar
rived in Nome this week enroute
to Elephant Point, where they
will re-establish the school which
has been closed for several years. *
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MAGNUSON
PROPHECIES
ON HIGHWAY
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WENATCHEE, Wash. Sept. 22. j
—<AP)—Representative Warren 1
G. Magnuson. chairman of the
International Highway Commis- .
sion, in an address here, predict
ed “Within our lifetime and per
haps within 10 years arter the i
war,” the American family will j
be able to get a car and drive
to Shanghai, China, by way of
Price George, Whitehorse, Fair
banks and Nome, then through ;
a 26 -mile tunnel across the Ber
ing Straits.
He expressed a conviction that
the Prince George-Whitehorse
connection will be built imme
diately after the war.
“But,” he said, “there is little
hope that the present Alcan high
wav will be maintained.”
British Columbia has already
allotted $6,000,000 for the connec
tion.
Magnusson said he believed the
United States and Canada would
provide like appropriations, and
it is wholly possible that the
road would be built before the
war was over, if materials and
manpower become available.
It is up to Canada to give the
go-ahead signal, and when they
do, I can promise reasonable co
operation of our congress.”
COURT OKAYS
DECISION
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept.
22.—(AP>—The Circuit Court of
Appeals affirmed the Alaska Dis
trict Court’s ruling, declaring void
a contract sale of the “Step Hop”
ranch near Anchorage in June of
1941.
Information before the court
d sclosed that A. T. Martin sold
the ranch and dairy herds to
John H. Seeley. It was later dis
covered that some of the herd
was infected with “Bang’s dis
ease.”
The Alaska court voided the
contract and ordered Martin to
return the $11,619.00 to Sheeley,
as this was the amount paid on
the purchase price of $28,000.
MA FERGUSON
DEAD AT 73
AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 22.—
(AP)—-The Texas former gover
nor, Ma Ferguson, 73, died here
today, following a stroke which
she suffered eight months ago.
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ST Y L I S T—Marian Sweet, 17
fc< above). of Glendale, Calif., was
winner of a nationwide contest
for 'teen age girls to design and
name original dresses they would
like to wear.
DEWEY POUNDS
AWAY ON NEED
OF REGULATION
ENROUTE TO LOS ANGELES,
Sept. 22.—<AP>—Gov. Thomas E.
E. Dewey is poundtng away on
the theme that the nation needs
regulation without regimentation.
Dewey rephrases his speech on
social security problems as he
travels south in his campaign.
1 Tonight he is scheduled to meet
with aircraft and motion picture
leaders.
In San Francisco last night he
gave the definite impression that
he had already gone farther to
ward accepting more of the New
Deal innovations in the govem
I mont. than any other GOP presi
dential candidate in recent years.
| Dewey previously endorsed the
I National Labor Relations Act,
| Unemployment Insurance, Old
Age Pensions and Price Control
in wartime.
He told an audience of 15,000
that the days of dog-eat-dog na
tional economy are never coming
back again, but that the New
Deal can see only two possibili
ties for America, ever-increasing
regimentation as one phase, and
the alternative reaction as the
other.
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Please call The Nuggel office
if you fail io rceeive your pa
per regularly. This is the only
way we can find out when you
have been overlooked by the
delivery boy. The number is
Main 125.
PARATROOPERS
AND TOMMIES
SHELL ARNHEM|
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LONDON. Sept. 22.—(API—
British Tommies and American
paratroopers are shelling the city ;
of Arnhem, and are closing in on |
the area where airborne forces |
are holding a bridge across the :
last branch of the Rhine river, j
for an allied end-run around the
S egfried line into the Rhur val
ley war works and industrial
area.
Aii reconnaissance reports
Arnhem aflame, and the Germans
are pulling back to the eastward.
At the southern end of the
front, the Germans have lost at
least 105 tanks around Nancy,
while approximately half of,
General Patton’s troops are with-'
in six miles of Metz.
KEHOE NAMED
U. S.. JUDGE OF
THIS DISTRICT
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept.
22.—CAP—The President today
nominated Joseph W. Kehoe to
be United States District Judge
for the Second Division, to suc
ceed Judge J, H. S. Morison,
whose term has expired.
Mr. Kehoe is a graduate of the
University of Oregon and a for-1
mer member of the Alaska legis
lature.
j He has been special assistant
to the U. S. attorney general since
1943.
MUST RE-PLAY
PROTEST GAME
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22.—
(AP)—Pacific Coast League Pres
ident, Clarence Rowland, order
ed a re-play of the governor’s
cup series game between San
i Francisco and Oakland, and
: which was won by Oakland, bv
1 a score of 6 to 5 in 13 innings,
i President Rowland upheld the
San Francisco protest against a
decision made by Umpire Powell, i
in the second inning.
The disputed play was made
when the Seals’ pitcher, Boy
Joyce, dribbled a grounder down
the first base line, and the ball
struck a player’s glove lying on |
the sidelines and was deflected
into fair territory before reach-j
ing first base.
Powell called Joyce out.
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205 PLANES, 11
WARSHIPS ARE
DESTROYED
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS IN PEARL HAR
BOR, Sept. 22. —fAP)— Carrier
planes of the U. S. Third Fleet,
raided me Manila Bay area Wed
nesday, destroying 205 Japanese
planes, sank 11 warships and
probably 26 others, and also a
floating dry-dock and two bar
ges, Admiral Nimitz reported to
day.
In addition to this heavy dam
age inflicted on Japanese ships
and planes, much damage was
done to military objectives and
adjacent aii*fields.
Our losses in this superlatively
successful attack, which appar
ently caught the enemy com
pletely by surprise, was 15 air
craft, of which several of the
personnel were recovered. There
was no damage to surface ships.
The powerful strike was ta
ken as an indication that Admiral
Halsey, who is also charged with
the protection of the amphibious
forces engaged in capturing
southern Palau, that the opera
tions were going so well that it
was safe to leave the large forces
here, lightly protected from sea
and air attack, to renew his bold
thrust againct the southern Phil
ippines.
The destruction which has been
wrought against Japanese air
craft and shipping since the Hal
sey-Mitscher team went hunting
the Japanese in earnest, in wide
ly spaced raids, give these totals
for the period of three weeks
prior to September 20th.
Japanese losses in ships sunk
were 90, probably sunk 44, dam
aged 47, total 181.
Small craft sunk 30, probably
sunk 4, damaged 43, total 77.
The number of aircraft des
troyed 869, with probables 29, and
damaged 10, totalling 908.
American losses in planes des
troyed 20, flight personnel 15,
with a yet unknown number of
missing.
The Manila strike was almost
unbelievable in Halsey-Mitscher
perfect record of not a single ship
lost or even damaged, despite the
fact that many are within binoc
ular view of the southern Phil
ippines.
In all of the five destructive
raids, the Japanese gave no in
dication that they have a naval
force in the area, and presumably
are licking wounds inflicted in
the Philippines’ sea battle of
June 19th and 20th