ELACKSMITH — Members of the Marine Corps Womens’
Reserve learn many trades to replace men for active service—
and not all of them involve glamorous duties and trim uniform*
* This Marine wears work rio'hes for her blacksmith job.
FIFTH ARMY
MOVES AHEAD
IIS ITALY AREA
ROME, Dec. 1 .—(AP—Troops
of the Fifth Army Indian Divi
sion moved forward along the
Florence Faena road today
against only light resistance, it
has been reported.
Reconnaisance reports indicated
the enemy is withdrawing from
the mountains of that area to the
Po Valley.
The German move is apparent
ly to straighten out the bulge in j
their line between Bologna and'
Faenaz. j
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On the Eighth Army front
their is no change in positions of
all allied rtoops who are still en
gaged in heavy fighting around
Alberto in northwest Faenza.
MRS. CONRAD YENNEY
APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
Mayor Edward Anderson has
appointed Mrs. Conrad Yenney
to act as chairman for the Presi
dent’s Birthday Ball to be held
on January 30th. ..Mrs. Yenney
will appoint any additional help
she will need to make this af
fair another successful praty for
the aid of infantile paralysis.
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DIMOND BILL
TO AID VETS
IN ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Leg
islation designed to help veterans
settle in Alaska after the war
has been introduced by Delegate
Dimond under a bill for smaller
war plants cornorations, it was
revealed today.
The corporations will be au- j
thorized to spend up to $100,000
to investigate the possibility of j
helping veterans establish inde
pendent businesses there.
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ASSAULT LINE
FORMED IN
RHINE AREA
PARIS, Dec. l.-(AP)—Three
American armies beat out hard
won gains across the churned bat-!
tlefields today and drew up in a
solid assault line along both the
Roer and the Saar, the two most j
important barriers on the Rhine.
General Simpson’s Ninth Army
captured Welz, one mile south of
Linnich, and drew a close arc
around that town on the road to
the Rhineland city of Munchen
Gladback, as virtually the entire
army closed up the Roer and its
tributary the Inde.
General Patton’s Third Army
pressed against the west bank of
the Saar-Seigfried Line, almost
solidly along the front of 12 to
15 miles. Their tanks plunged
forward half a mile and reached,
Saar Ben, opposite Merzig, after
clearing Hilbringen Batterm.
AIR PROPOSALS
NOW UNDER
CONSIDERATION
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—(AP)—Brit
ish opposition to the American
plan of freedom of world air
left the U. S. with its proposal in
a bundle, it was reported today.
This, was quite separate froth
the other achievements of the in
ternational civil avaiation con
ference. ) i
The result represented some
thing of victory for the United
Kingdom which would have pre
ferred the freedoms not to be pre
sented in any form and to some
degree a setback to the United
States which had hoped to give
ideals and prestige of the attach
ment in the forthcoming conven
tion.
AIRWAYS
Wien Alaska Airlines
Wednesday the Boeing trans
port arrived with a capacity load
of express . and returned to Fair
banks with Mrs. Howard Hayes
and two children, and Donald
Lord for Fairbanks, and Miss
Christine Sorrel, Bureau of In
dian Affairs nurse, for Unala
kleet.
Alaska Airlines
Captain MacKenzie and Co
Pilot Hola left for Anchorage
with Roy Baier A. A. Chagnon,
, Judge and Mrs.’j. H. S. Morison,
and Herman Fant.
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RAF BOMBERS
MAKE NIGHT
RAIDS ON NAZIS
LONDON, Dec. L—(AP)—
Greatwaves of RAF bombers raid
ed Germany during the night,
sustaining a new record-breaking
allied November a:r offensive, it
was reported today.
Yesterday’s cost to the U. S.
Ai'- Forces was its worst.
Heavy bombers since April
totalled 56 four-engined craft
were downed by ack ack fire and
30 U. S. fighters failed to return
to their British bases after an
all day pulverizing attack of 3,000
planes over the synthetic oil
plants in the Leipzig area and the
railyards in the Baarbascken sec
tor.
CHARTER PLANES~
FOR EMPLOYEES
Sommers Construction Co.
have chartered three planes to
transport their outgoing employ
ees to the States. The Boeing, of
Wien Airlines, and the Alaska j
Airlines Lodestar will take pas-1
sengers to Juneau. Munz’s tri
motor plane will transport pas
sengers to Fairbanks.
TO MAKE THEIR HOME
IN ANCHORAGE
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burkher
of the Bureau of India:: Affairs,
who for several years t aght
school in Pt. Barrow a**u
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passed through Juneau enroute
to Anchorage where Mr. Burk
her will take over his new posi
tion as superintendent of com
munications. For the past two
years Mr. Burkher has been prin
cipal of the government school
at Ketchikan.
Approximately 2,200 people in
the United States died from acci
dental gas poisoning in 1943.
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