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YANKS STAGE
. STRONG DRIVE
NEAR BOLOGNA
ROME. Feb. 7.—(AP)—The
strongest American attack in
Italy since October was driven
600 yards into the German lines
in southeast Bologna, and gained
* its iniital objective despite stiff
enemy resistance, it was reveal
ed today.
Headquarters said the U. S.
Fifth Army troops, which
launched the attack on Monday,
broke the long winter stalemate
and pushed toward the German
stronghold in the mountainous
* Gothic Line, which is guarding
the Fo Valley road hub in front
of Bologna.
Strong opposition was encoun
tered, which indicates there has
been no weakening of the Ger
man defenses, despite the re
> ports that Naais are shifting some
of their troops from Italy to
guard against the Russian men
ace on the home front.
Front line dispatches said the
attack didn’t constitute a large
scale offensive and is described
as limited objectives.
LEGISLATORS
ADVOCATE
STATEHOOD
JUNEAU, Feb. 7.—(AP)—By
unanimous vote, the House of
Representatives passed a mem
orial to Congress to admit Alas
ka as the 49th state, with the
amendment it have complete
control over all resources, it has
been reported
The House also passed a bill
changing the date of the general
election from September tothe
• second Tuesday in October.
H. H. McCutcheon of Anchor
age, and Warren Taylor of Ko
diak, co-authors of the Memor
ial, asked Congress to grant
Alaskans the right to eleat its
own governor pending statehood
• Harry Badger of Fairbanks,
Warren Huntley and C. Pollard
of Anchorage, introduced a bill
setting up a director for the de
partment of agriculture, at a sal
ary of $4,800 a year, with appro
priations of $37,500 for mainte
nance during the biennium for
the purpose of regulating pro
duces, sales, imports, and exper
k intents in all branches of agri
culture.
SABOTAGE IS
KEYNOTE OF
UPSET JAPS
By C. YATES McDANIEL
Gen MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS ON THE PHILIP
PINES. Feb. 7.—(A)—The liber
ated business districts of Manila
was ablaze Monday from Japan
ese torches. Gen. MacArthur an
nounced today, but three Amer
ican columns are still liquidating
a desperate enemy in tightening
a three-way trap.
CBS radio correspondent Wil
liam Bunn reported that fires
have been burning for 36 hours
and Arthur Feldman, of the Blue
Network, said that earth-shaking
explosions were followed by
sheets of flame.
Monday, at sundown, the busi
ness area was a raging inferno.
Disappointed doughboys are
quoted as saying, ‘‘Well, there
goes our good time in Manila.”
House-to-house fighting is in
progress in some sectors, as the
Yanks of the First Cavalry and
the 37th Infantry, as well as tho
11th Air Force, closed in for the
final mop-up.
The trapped and frustrated
Japanese garrison, which wan
tonly set afire to the downtown
business district along the Ese
olta, is practicing sabotage and
destruction, which has no rela
tion to military operations.
General MacArthur announced
the flames soared from building
to building and spread toward
the ancient Billbid Prison, from
which 800 prisoners of war and
500 civilian internees were freed
by American troops on Sunday.
The water mains are empty
and the Manila fire department
is helpless as the enemy blew
up the pumping stations several
days ago#
MacArthur told his men in a
general order today: "You have
inflicted the greatest military
defeat in its history. You have
redeemed your country’s pledge
to re-capture its lost land. You
are restoring to the east its des
tiny. You have fulfilled a sacred
mission for our hallowed dead.
For this we thank God.”
PIONEER MEN MEET
All members are requested
to attend the regular meeting
of the Pioneers of Alaska*
Wednesday at 8:00 p. m.* at the
Whaley House.
ROBERT F. BALDWIN*
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POLAND'S SECOND CITY —This peace-time view of Lodz, second largest city of Poland;
shows the city’s great industrial section. Lodz is southwest of Warsaw.
THIRD ARMY
HITS NAZIS ON
22-MILE FRONT
PARIS, Feb. 7.—(AP)—Four
divisions of the American Third
Army, invaded Germany in a
new 22-mile front, and stormed
across the Oer and Shure rivers,
between the ancient city of Ech
terbach and a point in the north
them part of Luxembourg, it
was reported today.
Five miles northeast of Cler
vaux Patton’s shock troops
crossed the rivers by boat and
bridge on seven points, to attack
the Siegfried Line with intense
small arms fire.
Fortifications were encounter
ed but early reaction was light
and the invasion gave Gen. Ei
senhower’s armies virtually a
continuous 120-mile front in
western Germany, between
Holland’s industrial city of Saar
lautern, in the north, to Echter
nach.
The initial gains put Gen. Pat
ton’s men half a mile inside Ger
many, among the pillboxes of the
Siegfried Line
The new Third Army invasion
started in the cold and darkness
before dawn and foot troops ad
vanced a mile and a quarter to
within three miles of Prum,
which is the major enemy sup
ply transit base.
The Americans and French
swiftly beat down the Germans
holding south of Strassbourg,
and captured numerous Alsatian
towns, running the prisoner to
tal since January 20th to more
than 10,000.
The once imposing Colmar poc
ket is split in two, leaving the
western segment In Vosges less
than 50 square mile.
RELIGIOUS
UNITS PLAN
ON UNITING
MOSCOW, Feb. 7.—(AP>—
Metropolitan Benjamin, of the
North American and Aleutian
area today said that final steps
have been made to close the co
operation between the American
Orthodox Russian churches, with
the mother Russian Church
This week, the two American
delegates of all the Russian Or
thodox Congress, Bishop Alexy
Pontelaief and Father Joseph
Dzvonchik, are expected to ar
rive in Moscow.
Metropolitan Benjamin said,
‘‘There are 10 bishops, with 300
American parishes, being recon
ciled to the Mother church, and
it is“ a great religious moment.”
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LIBERATORS
HAHAJIMA
AND IWO JIMA
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, FORWARD AREA,
Feb. 7.—(Ap)—Hitting the air
ways stations of Hahajima and
Iwo Jima from ithe Marianas, on
the road to Tokyo, Army Liber
ators bombed the storage bar
racks both Sunday and Monday,
it has been reported.
Admiral Nimiitz stated they
are continuing in their wide
spread strikes in the Pacific.
Marine aircraft bombed bar
ges and buildings in the Palau
Islands and destroyed the pier
and builings of Yap in the west
ern Carolines, while flying
through intense anti-aircraft
fire.
Another group of marine
planes hit Ponape.
One Mitchell medium bomber
was lost.
SECOND NOTICE!
The annual meeting of the
Arctic Club will be held in the
Home Economics room of the
High School at 8:00 p. m., Feb.
13. 1945. following a pot-luck
dinner at 6:30 p. m. All mem
bers are urged to attend.
W. H. CAMERON.
President.