NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. 46. No. 127._NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8~1944 ~ PER COPY—15c.
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. HEALTH DEPT
HEAD REPORTS
ON DIPHTHERIA
According to recent re
ports on the diphtreria ep
idemic there seems to be
considerable responsibil
ity resting with the public.
* An army doctor went to
SMshmaref and another to
White Mountain to check
on the extent of he epidem
ic in those and neighbor
ing villages.
At Shishmaref has def
initely reported a few cases
m- of diphtheria, but also that
80 persons have been im
uu nized.
. c iorts from Kotzebue
st: e hat all travel into the
vi has been curailed
as reventative measure,
to . p the epidemic from
* th v llage.
}' -Lher reports will be
£o oming from all the
* sir.... tillages in Northwest
ern Alaska.
The local report is as fol
lows;
Children under 15,
must have two negative
throat cultures before leav
ing Nome.
The time required for
this is four to five days.
It is requested that the
airplane companies do not
bring any children to Nome
unless absolutely necess
ary.
Upon arrival parents
i should register children
with the Office of Indian
Affairs clinic. Arrange
ments must be made to iso
late them for the period of
time they are in Nome.
Adults leaving Nome
must have one negative
I throat culture.
Airplane companies have
been requested to follow
these instructions.
The epidemic here is
gradually being brought
under control. To date
22 cases have definitely
been diagnosed in addition
to 25 questionable and
(Continued on page four)
CARRIER PLANES
DOWN 44 JAPS
SINK 2 WARSHIPS
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET SEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor,Nov. 8,
—(AP)—Headquarters today re
ported that carrier based fighter
bombes destroyed 44 Japanese
planes and sank 2 more warships
and probably a third in the two
day raid on Manila.
The navy disclosed heavy des
truction spread along airfields,
oil stores, and military installa
tions.
NOME QUOTAS
IN WAR LOAN
Word has been received here
by Garnet Martin, chairman of
the Nome War Bond Sales, from
the Alaska chairman Katherine
Nordale, that the sixth War Loan
is now started, and that Nome’s
quota is $20,000 of Series “E”,
and $5,000 to individuals other
than “E”, also $15,000 to corpor
ations.
The Alaska total is $2,500,000.
| of all series
FOREIGN PRESS
HAILS ELECTION
HUGE SUCCESS
LONDON, Nov. 8, — (AP)—Lon
; don newspapers bannered the re
i suits of the election in editorials
i and hailed it a huge success.
Berlin radio commented that the
Dewey vote indicated that Roos
evelt’s foreign policy was worry
ing a wide circle of Americans.
JAP FORCES
REINFORCED
ON LEYTE
_
GENERAL MACARTHUR’S HQ.
IN THE PHILIPPINES, Nov.8,
—(AP)—The U. S. 24th division
is locked in a crucial fight in the
Ormoc valley on Leyte island with
elemen stof four Jap divisions
Headquarters announced.
The reports included a state
ment that the Japanese had made
landings at Ormoc while American
forces were capturing Pinamopo
an.
"Around the World News In
Pictures" appears regularly in
j The Nugget.
A. P. RETURNS
SHOW TOTALS
POPULAR VOTE
ASSOCIATED PRESS RETURNS
from 100,414 of the 130,810 voting
units showed that the popular
went as follows;
Roosevelt 20,434,190
Dewey 17,993,641
Dewey took an aggregate 140
electoral vote in Colorado, Indi
ana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mich
igan, Nebraska, New Jersey,
| North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon,
South Dakota, Vermont, Wiscon
sin, and Wyoming, with Roosevelt
netting 391 electoral votes in the
other 33 states.
j Albany, N. Y. Nov. 8,—CAP)
i Republican representative, Ham
! ilton Fish conceeded last night,
that Augustus W. Bennett had
won his seat in the 29th Con
gressional district.
Fish was seeking re-election for
the 13th time
AMERICA GIVES
ROOSEVELT
FOURTH TERM
UNDATED, —<AP>—The Ameri
can neonle gave President Roos
evelt his fourth term in hte White
House by a smaller margin than
they voted him in the third.
A late switchover in New Jer
sey sen this electoral figure to
407. Governor Dewev carried
10 states with 82 electoral votes.
Under the battle crv of “It’s
time for a change”, went Dewey’s
thanks to the voters and his ex
pression of confidenc e that all
will join in the bone that *Vov
idenc ewill guide Roosevelt and
th enation to peace.
With the presidential v'stnrT
the democrats made inroads ?n ‘he
republican House members’-in,
and clinched a majority in the
Senate.
I Never before in historv have
foreig nnations displayed so much
interes tni an American elects-*,
and indications are thM another
Roosevelt, Churchill. St Min meet
ing will soon take place.
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