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VOL. 46.—No. 74. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 26. 1944. PER COPY—15c.
American Troops
* Seize Italian Port
Of Piombino
ROME, Jun« 28.—(AP)—
American troop* of th* Fifth
Army *ie*od th# Italian pert of
Piombino. opposite the Mn»d of
Elba, withput opposition yos
torday, thoroby gaining a vglk*
vabty advanced supply baso.
Fifit Army forces continued
to pash on up the Italian coast,
while both the American and
French troops converged on the
inland town of Siena, Allied
headquarters said today.
Pressing after the enemy which
was compelled to evacuate Piom
bino to avoid encirclement, Amer
ican infantry and tanks stabbed
wi'hin five miles of Suvereto and
to within 36 miles of the import
ant port of Leghorn..
Further inland, the Germans
rolled back from the approaches
of Siena from three directions.
One Fif'h Army force cracked
through the villages of Tornilla
and Scalvala, and threatened the
town of Monticiano, five miles
farther north, and less than 15
miles southeast of Siena
At the same time, other French
, troop* approaching- -from the
southwest, took the town of Cu*
igilona Dorcia, and the village of
Rocca Dorcia, 25 miles from Si
ena.
Between these points and the
Tyrrhenian coast, the reinforced
enemy, employing . considerable
tanks, were defeated: in. a mid
numbers of . big Mark VI. Tiger
night battle in the Massa Mari
tima area, and the enemy delay
ing position in that sector was
completely wiped out.
Severe Fighting
In Progress At
Outkirts of City
CHUNGKING, China. June 26.
—(AP>—Sveere fighting is now
going on in the northeas'ern out
skirts of Hengyang. where the
Japanese are threatneing seizure
of the Hankow-Cantort Railway,
and is their most serious attack
in China since 1938.
The fighting continued through-!
out yesterday without change
in positions, the Chinese com
mand said.
Yushien, 40 miles northeast of
Hangyang, and Tengshan, 25
miles to the northeast, fell to the
Jap east wing columns. However,
the column on the west wing,
advancing on Siangsiang, 60 miles
north of Hengyang, was driven
back, the communique said.
The Japanese drive down the
Canton-Hankow railway, threat
ened to cut China in two, so that
allies pains to use China bases
would be upset.
AUTO USE STAMPS
NOW AVAILABLE
Postmaster S. David Mazen to
r day announced the rceeipt of the
1944-45 series of Auto Use stamps
which are required for all cars
and trucks.
All car and truck owners must
see that their equipment has the
proper stamp pasted on the wind
shield in the manner recommend
ed by the Internal. Revenue de
partment. ♦, ‘ • <
All gas aqd oil stations are re* i
quired to refuse the sale of gaso
line and oil to cars and trucks
not showing stamps. ,
HIGH-FLYING 8L I M F S—High above a huge ilghtef-than-air hangar at the V. S. naval
air station at Moffett Reid, Calif., these L’ type blimps go through maneuvers.
Dewey Likely Choice Of
Republican Delegates
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Convention Open?
In Chicago For
Nominee Selection
' CHICAGO, I1L-. June 28.—(AP)
I—Governor Dewey took an ap
j parently insurmountable lead in
I the Republican presidential nom
ination today as the party’s con
vention opened its main business
conclave, and thus all but settled
the nomination in advance. *
Chairman Spangler rapped the
convention to order at 11:02 a. m.,
47 minutes late, and recessed at
12:20 p. m. until 8:15 p. m., when
Governor Warren of California,
will deliver the keynote adderss.
The hour of convening arrived
wi’h hundreds of delegates still
absent, and the platform itself
was unfilled.
Rapid-fire action followed with
the states individually raising the
New Yorker’s total of pledged
and claimed votes to 681, with
only 529 needed to nominate.- .
So far, Governor Bricker drop
ped his pre-convention determina- (
tion to talk about vice-presiden
tlal prospects.
Headed , by Whrren of Califor
nia, and Griswold of Nebraska,
a (notion to place Dewey’s ‘name
up for nomination was made for
Wednesday evening.
Previously Griswold had been
mentioned for the vice-presidency
as a piece ol strategy from the
[ convention floor, and was discuss
i ed as shaping up like this: Gris
j wold, a. mid-westerner, nominat
; ing an easterner for president,
i and Warren, a far-wes'erner, as
! a noss> bie vice-presidential
choice. ^ 1 * ' ‘
Forces for Governor Bricker.
; continued the fight none the less,
and he is credited with 90 votes,
and . Stassen 36. Governor Greejl
of Illinois, had the job of official?
Jy welcoming the delegates to the
windy oily in a speech which ac
cused President Roosevelt’s act
ministration with political mid
dling in the armed forces running
of the war.
Green declared, “A Republican
president would give the fights
ing men a free hand,” and he de-^
nounced “the New Daelers” as
seeking to remain in power on a
“Win the War” slogan.
He asserted, “Winning the w<#r
is uppermost in everyone’s min<i,
and there is no priority on wift
the war parties in America.”
Governor Warren was elected
temporary chairman of the con
vention.
WIFE OF ALFRED
LOMEN, JR. ARRIVES , ~ ‘' j
Mary Lomen, wife of Lt. Aifretf
Lorpen, Jr., arrived” via Uj© Pan
American Airways Saturday aft
erribqn. Lt. Lomen is officer in
charge of harbor activities, both'
for the army and for Lomen Com
mercial Co.
THREE NATIONS DECORATE |
AMERICAN FLYER
LONDON — <AP>— S. Sgt. Syl
vester F. Dudek, 34, who sold ba-'
nanas in Philadelphia,. Pa., be-'
fore the war, has won decora- \
: tlons from three nations—one of i
the few, if not the only, Ameri
can enlistde man to gain this dis
tinction in this war.
| Dudek, whp.se parents were
jtborn.in Poland, came overseas in
j 1941 with the* Polish airforce
which he joined in Canada, >
Flying with the Poles he won
the Polish Vittuti Militapi (t*o-j
liaiv equivalent of the Congress-!
ional medal), the Polish Cross of
Valor with three bars, and the
British D. F. M. He transferred
to the American Air Force and
flying as a waist-gunner in a
Fortress already has earned the
air medal with three clusters.
STATE BOASTS
GIANT TREES
COLUMBIA, S. C —fAP)—
Three trees in South Carolina are;
the largest known of their spec
ies, reports Assistant State For- j
ester W. E. Cooper.
They are a water oak 18 feet,!
110 ineKfes in girth, in Allendale
county; a willow oak 21 feet, 10'
inches in circumference, ■ near
Pel$er,. and a sweet gum in the
Pee Dee Swamp near Florence
with a diameter of 21 feet, six I
inches. Measurements were made;
4V& feet above the ground.
Chinese Troops
Take Southern
Half of Mogaung
KANDY, Ceylon, June 26._
(AP)—Chinese troops have taken
the southern half of Mogaung,
one of the three most important
bases in northern Burma, former
ly- held by the Japs, it was re
ported today.
Bitter street fighting was tak
ing place, with the allies pressing
in from three sides.
Lord Mountbat'en's headquar
ters said that Major General Len
taignes’ British Chindits drove
another 400 yards into the town,
from the east, after capturing the
section of the railroad from the
station to the river.
The Chinese also are in the
north section of the town.
Chinese forces moved in closer
in an advance south of captured
Kaiming, another of the three Jap
bases.
American troops are advancing
from *he north down Redhapur
road on Myitkyina, the third
enemy north Burma base, and
have almost effected a junction
with the Chinese a*tacking the
city.
state,-M. .-oaetefn
India ,the British are pushing out
m all directions from Imphal and
I inflicting heavy casualties on the
enemy.
1 Twenty miles north of the
1own the British repulsed an at
tack against a position which the
British call their “sausage fea
ture.”
Red Army Troops
Fight Way Thru
Vitebsk Streets
MOSCOW, June 26—'AP'—
Red Army men are fighting their
way through the streets of Vite
bsk, where five Nazi divisions are
encircled, and' reportt he Ger
mans have retreat across the
western Dvina river, beyond the
i central part of the city. The Red
; flag is flying over that part of
the city on the east bank of the
river.
Sovie dispatches also said the
j Red flag is flying over one of the
| main buildings in the city.
Vitebsk is the first main ob
jective of the Soviet Army sum
mer offensive.
A German trans-ocean agency
broadcast said “The German
bridgehead in Vitebsk is cut off
from rear communications by an
attacking, shattering force on a
250-mile front, in one of history’s
greatest and offensives."
Tha broadcast went on to say
that “Four powerful Russian
armies drove westward through
the broken German “Fath&rand
Line” in White Russia, leaving be
hind an island of 45,000 trapped
German troops, which are being
cut to picees in the batttg torn
streets of encircled Vitebsk, the
report continued, “as Russia’s vi
tal role in the Allied Teheran
‘master plan’ to crush Germany
this year, is being unfolded front
by front.”
The broadcast noted with alarm
the striking of a fifth Red Army
at Ostrow, in the sector 165 miles!
northwest of Vitebsk, making a <
325-mile front of tremendous at- j
tacking forces In the east, exclu-!
sive of the two great Russian arr> i
ies now fighting in Finland, ai i!
at least four other Soviet armies i
equipped in part with American j
Fighting in Streets
Jf Cherbourg
Continues
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SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS OF THE EXPEDI
TIONARY FORCES IN ENG
1 LAND, Jun« 38.—(AP)—United
States troops have broken the
backbone of enemy resistance
j and opposition in Cherbourg.
and are cleaning out the knots
: of remaining forces in the cen
ter of the port city, front line
dispatches declared today. Brit
ish forces have smashed out in
a powerful drive on the oppos
1 ite end of the Normandy front,
| it was reported also.
The remains of the Nazi troops
are fleeing from Chrebourg to
the narrow Cap de La Hague, the
last jutting finger to the north
west of the prize port, the com
munique sated.
AP Correspondent Don White
head said in a dispatch from
Cherbourg, tha* in just 24 hours,
Americans took 3,340 • prisoners
and hundreds more are being
rounded up.
At least 20.000 Nazis have been
; cap'ured in the last 20 days of
inyasiefl fighting.
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“Patrols, pushing into the cen
tral part of the city, were met
with small arms fire and a few
snipers in small knots of resist
ance,” Whitehead reported.
The clean-up of Cherbourg
came as the British on the east
ern Normandy front smashed into
the Nazi defenses between Caen
j and Tilly Sur Seulles.
They seized Fontenay le Pres
nle, two miles east of Tilly Sur
Seulle, and threatened Tessel and
Bretteville 2’^ miles to the south
east.
Artillery, with one unit every
; eight yards, iis supporting this
j sweeping assault by Gen. Mont
gomery’s tank troops. *
Supreme headquarters in this
morning’s communique, said that
, fighting everywhere in the port
of Cherbourg is severe, but full
■ liberation cannot long be delay
, ed, as the ‘doughboys’ are rooting
out the suicide squads of Germans
,; as the end of the fierce five-day
bat’le was drawing to a close J’
The communique added: “Cher
bourg would soon be freed by tjiP
Americans.”
“The Americans have been
fighting in the smoking city since
yesterday afternoon when they
j entered it in a crushing three-way
assault, which spelled doom to
i the Nazi defenders," the commu
; nique went on to say.
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Vlrs. W. L. Lhamon
Visitor in Nome
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Mrs. W. L. Lhamon and daugh
; ter, Donna Lou, arrived in Nome
for a short visit with Mr. and
Mrs. V. G. “Binks” Seiffert, local
manager of the N C. Company.
I Mrs. Lhamon is the wife of
“Bill” Lhampn, manager of the
“Caterpillar" division of the
Northern Commercial Company.
Accompanying Mrs. Lhamon
and daughter were Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Shiveley, owners and
managers of the Rendezvous in
Fairbanks,-and who are guests at
the
weapons, poised on the Polish
Rumanian front, awaiting the
i signal for a concerted push to
j ward Berlin, in conjunction with
the allied armies in the west and
south