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LONDON. March. 22. (AP>—Tojo
today told tha Japanese Diat that
Japan's military position in tha
past law months has bacons* ex
oeodingly pm and that tha Em
' piro was now Jaoinp bajfloa which
• would decide their Into.
....The Berlin radto^aaid in a broad
east which was recorded by. the
AP. that Tejo appear ad balers the
Diet to report the war situation
o»
when the Diet reconvened for- a
4*1 pljWMT to»U5n.
altar a lengthy roegedt He told
the Diet "Through beroUgi. tha
Japaneea soldiers have boon able
to ward off the lint onslaughts
of the Americans, but new attacks
must be expected. This stubborn,
tough enemy has bases, planes, and
9 material superiority. Those new
attacks are likely to be launched
with greater weight than anything
experienced thus far in the war.
The situation is truly gravs."
JAP FORCES
CROSSING
INTO INDIA
NEW DELHI, India, March 22,1
j <AP)—The Japaneaa troops who*
launched a major offensive in nor-1
them Burma, several days ago, I
crossed the border into India and
penetrated the State of Manipur
in one or two places.
An allied communique said.
The enemy forces consisted
merely of small raiding parties.
Montbatten’s headquarter* dev
dared that allied troftjp* rap^MI
comparatively heavy Jap attatte
in Maungdaw, and in the Buthe
daung area in the southern end
of the Burmese front, where th£
British indian forces are moving
slowly down the coast toward the
a enemy held Akyab
RITA TAVIS
RETURNS
Rita Tavis, office mai^ager of
>the Alaska Airlines, returned to
Nome yesterday, after a short va
cation in the States.
Mrs. Tavis visited her brother
Charles O’Leary, who is stationed
v at Camp Rimini, Montana, with
the armed forces, and is one of
the chief dog trainers
AMAZON BORN
SOUTH
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RALEIGH, N.C. March 22,—(AP)
A 25 pound baby girl was bom
0 to Mr. and Mrs. Amos Harris, a
Negro couple.
* The parents have eleven other
(children.
Or. Thomas Cathcart. .phy
sician said the baby was 32 inches
lot,», and had a hill set of teeth.
mother and baby are getting
along in excellent condition.
ARCTIC CLUB MEMBERS!
A club dianer-danee for
1 members will be given at the
Nevada Lounge Thursday.
..March 23rd. Time 7:00 PM.
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MONTBATTEN
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Mr T. B. Wilson, formerly man
agerof the Alaska- Steams nr CO.;
ir Bme-a Brigadier General. in
SfiarBErofhtl transportation on the
Burma, India, China front, and is
directly under Lord Mountbatten.
It will be remembered that t
General Wilson, white President
of the Alaska S’eamshio Co.,
visited Nome
FRENCH"SHIPS
SINK SIX NAZI
VESSELS “
PHILADELPHIA. PA. Mar. 22,
(AP>—French warships which we
rebuilt and refitted in Philadel
phia, sank six German ships in
a convoy in the Adriatic Sea re
cently
Vice Admiral Raymond A. Fen
ard. head of the French naval
missions in the United States re
ported that the sixth was sunk
in the last few days.
I S WARSHIPS
POUND JAPS IN
BISMAR SEA
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Sw.
Pacific. March 22. (AP)—U.S. Mar
ines from the Solomons siesed Em
irau Island Monday, Overcoming
light Japanese resistance, Mac
Arthur announced, in a comunique
U.S. battleships were in their
first action in the Bismark Sea
and pounded the Jap naval base
at Kavieng, New Ireland with 1000
tons of steel in a three aatd one
half hour bombardment.
Additional barriers were piit
across the enemy communication
lines in both the north and south
which added to the bottling up
of both the Bismark and the Sol
omons bases.
VESUVIUS GIVES
A HOT SHOW
LONDON, March 22, <AP>—On
the slopes of Mount Vesuvius
great new eruptions were seething
in the area Around Pompeii a
two inch layer of lava and ashes
covered everything. Chunks of
glowing coals flew through the air
onto roofs, and tell over crops,:
burning considerable areas. Sol
diers wore 3teel helmets,, against j
the shower, and the natives placed
iron pots on their heads.- In the
early morning a molten river rol
led down the mountain and swept
away houses at Cercofa, which
w4s two miles from the peak fe
gion. • . r ' j{
Special guards watched the am-’
unition dumps.
CONGRESS
TO AMEND
HATCH ACT
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22. (API—
The federal employees of the
Territory of Alaska are now for
bidden by the Hatch Act to par
ticipate in municipal elections.
However, there is a bill pending
in the House of Representatives
to try and amend the law so as
to permit some government em
ployees to file for municipal of
fices. The Justice Department
said that the Hatch Act applys to
federal employees in Alaska as
it does to those elsewhere in the
United States.
Delegate Dimond in presenting
the amendment to the law, said
that a large number of towns
along the Alaska Railroad are com
prised largely of government em
ployees, and his bill would permit
these towns along the railroad to
take part and to seek office in
town elections,
He further stated that the meas
ure was approved by the Justice
Department and Civil Service
Commission, and was now before
the House Judiciary Committee.
FIRST WACS
SENT PACIFIC
ACTIVE DUTY
HEADQUARTERS PACIFIC AIR
TRANSPORT COMMAND. March
22, (AP>—The first group of WACS
assigned for active duty in the
central Pacific area, arrived
announced Brig. General William
Ord Ryan, commanding General
for that detachment, and their ar
rival caused 3 furor at Headquar
ters where most ot the officers
and enlisted men had never seen
WACS before, except in pictures
, These women will take over
duties of enlisted men at Hawaiian
ATC stations. r. « '
GEN PATTON
TO COMMAND
ANOTHER ARMY
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NAP- ]
LES, March 22, (API—Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton Jr., known to
his troops as “Old Blood and Guts” j
has been replaced as commander
of the Seventh Army by Major!
General Alexander Patch, a Pac- j
area veteran.
The War Department announced
in Washington, that Patton had
been given command of another
“army” but declined to identify
what unit or its whereabouts.
It is assumed that the new as
signment is in connection with
the expected western front in
vasion.
Patton handled the final mop
ping up of Guadalcanal and led
the Seventh Army to Sicilian Vic
tory and got oj £\tbljcity' for
slapping a soldier w^tWW-be
apologized.
JAY SMITH ILL
WITH PLEUHESY
Jay Smith, printer for the Nome
Nugget, is quite ill at home, but
hopes to be out again soon and
back on the job.
sponsible for any incident he hint
ed, he should bring the case into
the open. This charge has been
tossed at us at least five or six
times during these hearings, and
neither Admiral Hoopers secret
testimony, nor that of any other
official, sets forth facts to sub
charge.”
"Miller knows," He continued
“that we had thirteen months of
this sort of abuse from certain
representatives, yet Miller contin
ues to gTab the headlines by plant
ing a daily booby trap.”
In conclusion he said, “All we
ask is something slightly resem
bling fairness in the judicial at
titude.”
FBI ARRESTS
WELDERS FOR
WORK FRAUD
BAITIMORE, Md. March 22,
<AP>—The FBI arrested 34 ship
yard workers who are charged
with defauding the Bethlehem
Steel Company ove a period of 5
years, of more than a million dol
lars through falsification of work
records.
FBI agent John Vincent, said,
“They are all in the welding de
partment where checkers for the
FBI certified that individuals
turned in for more work than was
actually done.
LONDON GETS
HEAVY BOMBING
LONDON, March 22, (APV—About
100 German war planes subjected
London tp a sharp attack last
night causing casualties and dam
age in a number of sections. It
w{*> the heaviest assault to the
city since the fire raid on March
17th. .
Bombs were also dropped on
several points in southeast Eng
land by the raiders.
NINE raiders were downed
RED ARMY
ENROUTE TO
BALKANS
LONDON, March 22, <AP)—Thg
Russian armies are smashing a{*
ong through Bessarabia, in a big
surge toward the Balkans, having
knifed through to within 30 miigg
of the Prut river on the border
Roumania. )
Moscow said that other foregg
are reported within 48 miles of
major escape road where thoif*
sands of Germans are fleeing fronji
'Odessa. The bottleneck was re*
Unforced by masses of tanks an^
artillery which were pouring
^steadily across the Dniester Rivej*j
The Bed Army slashed Cernau*
j ti-Raltsky trunk railway, in an ad*
| vance toward Prut.
A Soviet communique declareg
that the. Russiap units were sweep*
I ing southward toward the vital
Odessa-Tarnapol-Iasi Railway ang
al3o struck within 20 miles of an*
other escape line for the Germang
in the south.
The hammer and sickle wag
raised above 300 more liberate^
j towns and vilages yesterday ag
the Russians continued to potxng
-the Nazis back along a SOOmilg
the Kaelc
Sec
The Soviets said their foreeg
| were striking Lwow, which is one)
of the most important Nazi com*
munications hubs in Old Poland,
and are within a few miles of
jLwow itself.
FCC CHARGED
INEFFICIENCY s.
WASHINGTON, Mar 22. fAPW
Representative Miller of Missouri,
a republican, said that he would
produce two sartors to subetan
[ tiate a story that the United- .
States task force was trapped by
the Japanese near the Aleutians
in Alaskan waters, "because qf
bungling” by the Federal Com
munications Commission Miller
made the assertion at theresi^m^.
tion of the hearings by a special ;
House committee investigating the
FCC.
Denny, chief counsel of the agency
Representative Miller asserted
that Admiral Hooper, former
Pearl Harbor fomer communica
tions officer “was silenced by ex
ecutive order” or he could back
us in the veracity of the report
Miller further declared that am
afeurs in the FCC had “given the
naval task force the wrong infor
mation about the disposition of
the Japanese force off Alaska in
the Aleutians.
The U.S. task force, he stated,
went in the direction presumed
safe, and was attacked
Charles Denny stated, “This ifl
a terrible charge, and we know
nothing about it. If we knew
when or where or how this sup
posed affair happened we might
run it down. I can prove af
firmatively that it isn't so." He
concluded.
Chairman Fly of the FCC. de
scribed the “Irresponsible" charff)
of Rep. Miller against the FCC.
“amateurs”, assigned to radio mon
itoring work, caused the U.S. nav*
task force to be trapped by Jap
warships in Alaskan wafers.
Fly said, “If Mr. Miller has any
evidence that FCC men were re