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VOL. 44. No. 52. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY. MAY 1, 1942. Per Copy 134
Japs Menace Entire Burma Front
Ice Went Out At Nenana 1:28 p. m., April 30th
Brig. Gen. George, U. S. A., and
M. Jacoby. Reporter, Die In ( rash
Allied Headquarters in Australia, April 30. 8:59 a.m.
—4 p.m. (AP> — The death, in an airplane crash, of
Brig. General Harold H. George, U. S. Army Air
Force, was announced. Melville Jacoby, Time and Life
magazine correspondent was also killed in the crash.
Jacoby came to Australia last month from Bataan
with his wife, after living with the beleaguered U. S.
and Filipino force defending the Peninsula against the
Jap invaders.
One of the brilliant stag officers who served with
Gen. MacArthur in the Philippines, Gen. George, aged
49v, acompanied MaArthur to Australia in the epic jour
ney last month. .
The accident occurred late Monday but details were
withheld for the time being. The War Department at
Washington announced the posthumous award of the
Distinguished Service Medal to Gen. George.
RAF Assault Europe Continues
Report Nazi Peace Is Offered
UNDATED, April 30, 8:59 a.m. — 4 p.m. (AP) —
Britain’s thundering aerial offensive struck the Ger
many war foundries of Paris before dawn., while Lon
don heard unconfirmed reports that Germany has offer
ed “a Nazi peace” to England three times since mid
March.
Simultaneously a Tokyo broadcast quoted well in
formed circles in Berlin as saying that Hitler and Mus
solini will meet in a few days. A news agency affiliated
vith De Gaulle’s Free French government said the
German peace offers were based on a nine-page mem
orandum by Goering, which would give the Reich un
disputed mastery over continental Europe.
A Vichy broadcast said 52 persons were killed and
a hundred injured in one section, by the RAF’s heavy
assault on Paris, the fifth in less than two months. A
large number of houses were reported destroyed.
FIRE DOES DAMAGE
AT ANCHORAGE
Anchorage — A fire of un
determined origin which
broke out here recently isj
reported to have done $50.
000 damage and burned
several frame buildings to
the ground, including the
Frisco Cafe and the Sour
dough Bar.
The Fire Department,
with the aid of volunteers,
succeeded in getting the
blaze under control before
too much damage was done
!
Factory In
j
Belgium Is
Blown Up
London, May 1 (AP) —'
The chemical factory at
Tessenderloo, in the new,
industrial district in north
ern Belgium* is gone due
to the activity of the “anti
German “white brigade,”
in conquered Belgium, de
stroyed by an explosion, acj
cording to the German ra
dio and 250 were killed and
about 1,000 wounded.
Berlin belatedly relay
ed the announcement by!
the Nazi-dominated Bel
gian government that not
only the plant bu the tech
nical school and a number
of nearby houses were de-;
stroyed or severely damag
ed by the blast two days;
ago.
No cause was given. The:
announcement emphasized
that the factory produced!
“artificial fertilizers of var
ious kinds and washing pre
parations for the Belgian
market only.
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FLYING HERO
O HARA MAY
BE PROMOTED
Washington — President
Roosevelt asked the Sen
ate to approve the advance
ment of Lieut.-Command
er Edward O Hara, flying
hero of the Pacific. 30 num
bers in the Navy promo
tion list.
O’Hara downed five Jap
anese planes and damaged
a sixth in engagements ov
er the Pacific recently.
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“A” indicates the Salamau-Lae area on the east coast of New Guinea where, the
Navy announced, 23 Jap ships, including 12 warships, had been sunk or damaged
by American and Australian air forces. ’
Flyers Make
Daring Raids
Jap Fields
Allied Headquarters in
Australia, May 1 (AP) —
Thirty Jap warplanes lin
ed up on an airdrome at
Lae, on the northeast coast
of New Guinea, were plas
tered with bombs and ma
chine gun fire yesterday by
daring Allied air raiders.
Three other Jap planes,
all fighters, attempted to
intercept a simultaneous as
sault on Salamaua, 20 mil
es to the south, and were
shot out of the air by Al
lied bombers, which went
on to unload their explosiv
cs on ground installations,
a communique said. “Our
losses were slight,” declar
ed a bulletin.
British Make
Withdrawal
At Irrawaddy
New Delhi, May 1 (AP) —
British troops fighting a de
laying action against Jap
attacks towards Mandalay
reported they have aban
doned their positions on
the Irrawaddy river bend,
west of that city and are
withdrawing “successful
ly” to the north bank. The
wearied forces thus appar
ently left Japan the area
around Mvingyan where
he Irrawaddy makes a big
bend to the west where ear
lier attempts to guard the
Allied right flank failed.
The Allied defense con
tinued on the southern
front near Kyaukse, less
than 30 miles from Man
dalay, where a commun
ique described a brilliant
and successful fight with
tanks by a Ghurka brigade
which inflicted 500 casual
ties on the Japs at a cost
of only ten of their own.
NAB WOMAN GERMAN
SPY IN MEXICO
Mexico City — The news
paper Novedades reports
that an attractive woman
spy, arrested by Gen. Bap
tiste Merida, gave a clue to
a cache of aviation gasoline
for submarine fuel on the
island of Mujeres off the
tip of the Yucatan Penin
sula.
The woman was identi
fied as a member of the
German - American Bund
in the United States. It is
said that she was arrested
on a tip from United Stat
es officials and has been
returned to the States for
further questioning.
Mexican tankers were
summoned and the cache
of gasoline has been pump
ed dry.
$80,000 \enana Ice Pool Won Bv 5
¥
Individuals and 5 'Companies’
FAIRBANKS, April 30, 5:50 p.m.—8:30 a.m. 1st, —
Muddy ice inched dowstream on the Tanana River at
Nenana at 1:28 p.m., Fairbanks time, pulling th string
and tripping the elaborate timing device, bringing
young fortunes to numerous players in the Alaska
Annual Guessing game. The total value of winnings
was estimated at $80,000.
The winners included live individuals and five tick
ets held by combination. The individuals are: J. W.
Murch, Adolph Ochauer, R. D. Olander, Olso Eikland,
and one other whoe name was not shown in the official
ice pool book.
The group tickets were signed by A. S lei singer,
Leslie J. Kelm and company, Tom Winn and company,
Mrs. M. Lofness and company and ohanna V. Zanlen
and company. Company indicates not a corporation but
merely a pool group. No addresses are available until
the winners identify themselves.
The list of guessers included in the huge green book,
now a necesasry articles in most Alaska offices, listing
thousands of names whose idead when the ice would
move, varied from March 3rd to July 4th. The July
4th guess was hazarded by one Gandolpho Q. McDuff,
but was further unidentified. Joe Carroll, also unidenti
fied. headed the early guessers with the March 3rd sug
gestion.
Japanese At Lashio Menace
Entire Burma War Front
CHUNGKING, April 30, 8:59 a.m.—4 p.m. (AP>—
With the Jap invader standing at Lashio, head of the
Burma Road’s most important back door to China, the
whole Burma defense was menaced by enemy envel
opment and another major reverse to the United Na
tions. The threat to bomb-ruined and now out-flanked
Mandalay was never graver.
Fierce fires are reported raging in Lashio, indicat
ing either that Burmese fifth column incendarists have
risen there, that the Japanese have actually penetrat
ed the town’s outlying positions, or that the allies, them
selves, giving Lashio up as lost, are putting the torch
to the place. At least some of the lease-lend supplies
on the Burma Road’s over burdened truck transports,
which failed to move on to China, are known to have
been destroyed.
Four Men killed, 3 Injured In
Crash Patrol Plane Enroute Alaska
SEATTLE, April 30, LOG p.m.—1:10 p.m. (AP) —
Three officers and an enlisted man were killed and 3
enlisted men were injured in the crash of a Navy
patrol plane in the take-off for Alaska from the air sta
tion here, the Thirteenth Naval District announced.
The dead are: Ensign Frederick Andrew Smith, pi
lot and commanding officer; Ensign Glenn R. Van
Bramer, navigator; Ensign John B. Carroll, co-pdlot;
and Harold D Cunningham, 2nd class aviation ma
chinist’s mate.
The injured are. Alvin S. Zettel, radioman 3rd class;
Clifford A. King, seaman 2nd class; and Ralph Mitchell,
radioman 3rd class. The Navy didn’t give the date nor
the location of the crash,, but said none of the injured
men were in a serious condition. Their home addresses
were not immediately available.
ANNOUNCE ALASKA’S
OPA MAN
Washington — The Office
of Price Administration
announced the appoint
ment of Rupert Emerson as
Regional Director of the
new Region No. 9, which in
! eludes Alaska.
| Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
Marie Dionne Examined
For Ailment
TORONTO — Little Marie Di
onne, smallest of the famous
quintuplets, has a definite wast
ing of Hi right thigh and calf,
but there is conclusive evidence
of no organic nervous lesion,
three physicians reported.
When Marie was nine weeks
old, a tumor was removed by
radium treatment from her right
leg. The quints will be eight
years old on May 28.