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VOL. 47.—No. 31. NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1944. PER COPY—13c
BOMBERS
SMASH NAZI
TARGETS
LONDON, Mar. 15.—(AP>—IT.
S. heavy bombers in “medium
sized forces”, smashed military
targets in central Germany, under
strong fighter escort as a strate
gic air force, headquarters said
The targets and other details
were undisclosed, but the German
radio said air fleets swept north
west Germany this morning,
touching off “major scale ai rbat
tles", centering over Hannover,
150 miles west of Berlin.
German radio transmitters went
off the air as the bombers ap
proached during the middle of
broadcasts boasting of the heavy
damage to London In the huge
raid of last night
Later, Berlin radio said that
German anti-aircraft defenses
were considerably hampered by
weather conditions”.
It was the eleventh operation
this month, by American bombers,
and the 13th in 17 days.
At the same time Marauder
medium bombers of the U. S.
Ninth Air Force, attacked larger
in northern France and Belgium
These daylight blows followed a
night raid by Mosquito bombers
over Dusseldorf, and were without
loss.
WORKERS
RECOVER
DEAD RUINS
LONDON, Mar, * 15.—(AP>—
Rescu eworkers toiled through
smoking ruins in the search for
dead and injured, as London dug
itself put) after the fierce pre-mid
night fire raid, rivaled in inten
sity pnly by the big German at
tacks of 1941.
Thousands of incendiaries and
high explosive bombs were show
ered over the city in a short but
concentrated attack which touched
off fires in many sections, and
which did extensive damage to
the capital's best-known business
and residential districts.
Bombs were also dropped at
scattered points in East Anglia,
and south and southeast England,
causing both casualties and dam
age in several places.
The total raiding force was es
timated at between 150 to 200
planes, but how many of these
reached London was unannounc
ed. At least 13 of the raiders were
downed.
Nazipropagandists exploited the
raid to the fullest possible extent.
The Berlin radio told the public
the assault was carried out on
a grand scale, and asserted the
raiders unloaded a large number
J? new “super-heavy bombers”.
MOICEI
X meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Northwestern
Alaska Chamber of Commerce
will take place at the North
Pole Bakery Thursday, tomor
row noon. March 16th.
There will be election of of
fleers and other important busi
ness.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ SEASCAP E—With the Stars and c>ipes rippling in i breeze, a !\ S. aa«iJt
carrier of the Independence claw welcomes a (inuxdftin Hellcat, utane aboard.
ALLIES DOWN
SI JAPANESE
PLANES
ALLIED HEADQUARERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Mar. 15.—<AP>—Allied air forces
downed 31 enemy planes and des
troyed three ships in a convoy
; and a number of smaller craft
and barges, in widespread attacks
on Japanese targets from Hollan
dia. New Guinea, to Rabaul, in
the 48 hours ending Monday
night.
Speedy patrol boats brought the
plane total to 33, headquarters an
nounced.
Heavy attacks were made on
Wewak Sunday by the Fifth Air
Force, which delivered 210 tons
of bombs and downed 18 intercep
tors for a loss of only two raiding
planes.
Bombings were repeated Mon
day with eight more Jap planes
shot down, making a total of 65
downed in that area in three days’
campaign to wipe out Rabaul
with 120 additional tons of bombs.
The air interception was the
first in several days.
The marines near Talasea, New
Britain, were wiping out enemy
stragglers.
SINK THREE
NAZI VESSELS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, Mar. 15.—CAP)—Allied
bombers and fighters sunk three
German vessels yesterday, the
Germans claiming one wa ssunk in
violation of international law, it
being a 3,700-ton refrigerator
ship, the Kirissi, near the Spanish
coast, off the mouth of the Ebro
river.
Artillery duels were increasing
on all Italian fronts, also there
were a few patrol clashes.
NEW SET OF
QUINTS
BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 15.—
<AP>—Newspapers acclaimed the
pretty 42-year-old Italian wom
an, the mother of quintuplets
born eight months ago, has been
kept secret, because it was re
membered “how the crowd mob
bed the Dionne home in Canada."
The mother is the wife of Franco
Diligenti, a moderately wealthy
rancher. The couple have three
other children.
The society editor of the Eng
lish language, “Buenos Aires
Herald, broke the story after he
had visited the mother and saw
the quints, all in robust health.
Other reporters, rushing to the
home, were kept out by the fatfnyr j
who promised photos later, and j
who on displaying a picture of
the three girls and two boys,
shouted:
“Look, gentlemen, a full house!"
SELECT SLATE
OF SEVEN
MANCHESTER, New Hamp
shire, Mar. 15.—(AP)—Voters of
the nation to select the national
convention delegates, chose the
Republican slate, indicating a four
to three leaning to Willkie, while
the unopposed democratic slate
pledged a fourth term for Roose
velt, according to incomplete re
turns with about 70 percent tabu
lated, in what is considered as a
conveniton strength between Will
kie and Governor Dewey.
The voters yesterday in the
primaries, apparently elected a
seven-man slate of delegats-at
large, four of whom announced
they favored Willkie.
One of the four national com
mitteemen, Robert Burroughs,
said in a statement:
“Willki scored a notable vic
tory.”
DEFERMENTS
OF YOUTHS
ARE ENDED
WASHINGTON. Mar. 15.—<AP)
—The Selective Service today pro
hibited occupational draft defer
ments of men aged ta to 25 in
clusiv. excep twhen engaged in
occupations specifically excepted
from policy, by the Director of
Selective Service.
Th order extends to toe age of
25 years the previous provision
effective in the younger group.
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C R A C I E—Grade Fields, fa
vorite comedienne of the British
Tommies, fives out with her
Lancashire accent and expres
sive features at the Waldorf*
^ ^ Astoriain New York.
Bill Compromise of
Differences Between
House And Senate
WASHINGTON, Mar. 15.—(AP)—-Congress
completed action on the stormy servicemen’s vote
issue, when the House voted 273 to 111.
The adopted bill compromised the differences
between the House and the Senate.
The bill was then relayed to the President,
who has not said whether ol* not he would sign the
legislation, which placed emphasis on state controls
over balloting by the armed forces in the general
election.
AIR POWER
DEVASTATES
CASSINO
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
i NAPLES, Mar. 15—<AP)—Allied
air power devastated Cassino in
history’s greatest concenrtaCed
bombing attack.
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Allied ground for™*» immed
iately charged in a drive on the
rubble fortress which had been a
town.
More than 1400 tons of lx ’
were hurled in a target area of
iess than a square mile, by every
type of allied plane in an armada
of 3000 planes.
The first reconnaisance photos
showed Cassino positively leveled.
The goal of destruction, Cassino,
where the Germans have been
nolding up the Fifth Army ad
vance since early January.
British and American artillery
smashed out) into a heavy barrage
after the morning-long bombing
of Cassino was stopped.
Lt Gen. Eaker ordered every
plane in his Mediterranean com
mand uato the gigantic airforce
blow.
Allied ground forces had with
drawn liom the city during the
night to give the bombers a free
hand.
rvt Ariaio the allied beachhead
troops w.ped out German pocket
resistance and improved their
positions south of Carroceto, 21
nines beiuw Rome, where the
Germans i.ist m onth launched
some of tne fiercest attacks1
against tne amed lines.'
Headquarters announced that ;
the Bnusn troops made an at- !
tacK, anu in latest reports were !
still mopping up enemy areas.
'1 he oiie.imve role comes as a j
ray of sunshine replaced the bad
weather, bus the ground is still
soggy from the heavy rains
DEVIN IS
RE-ELECTED
1
SEATTLE, Mar. 15 —Mayor De
^in, 45, an attorney, was re-elct
id mayor for the second term in
yesterday’s non-partisan qaunici
apl election, defeating James
Scavatto, 57,672 to 40,736.
Scavotto announced he was
backing Dave Beck, powerful
teamster union leader.
Mrs. F. F. Powell, John Carroll
and Alfred Rochester wer eelect
L'd to the city council
Tell them you saw it in The
Nugget.
LIQUIDATE
TRAPPED
DIVISIONS
MOSCOW, Mar. 15 —(APV
Red Army troops were liquidating
several trapped Nazi divisions
in the southern Nkrame, Ruasians
said, in a smash along the Black
Sea roast, and closed the harfcftr
of Nikolaev, leaving Odessa. *fe<j
only large port in southern Rus
sia, available to the Germans
-Ger
s.ouo captured alread.
iet communique said
break- through the tra*
Malinovsky’s Third^ ...
army, about 43 miles northeast of
Nikolaev in the Bereznegovati and
Snigerevka area, the columns driv
ing in from the north and south,
forged a steel ring around the
Nazis
Other Red Army troops pushed
118 miles beyond captured Kherson
[and cut the German lines of es
j cape through Nikolaev harbor into
the Black Sea, captured Shirokaya
Balka, 28 miles southeast of Nik
olaev, and 10 miles from the
mouth of the Bug river
Soviet guns now control the
exit from Nikolaev from every di
rection
VOLCANO IN
ERUPTION
KODIAK, Alaska, Mar 15.—
<AP>—The eruption of MO. Vania
minot'f, terrific rumbling, and
fires lighted the surrounding
countryside, it was reported by
the arrival of a boat from remote
Chignik, a fishing village about
12 miles from the volcano, and
about 175 miles from Kodiak.
The eruption is the first since
1939, and continued for the third
day to spout fire and ashes.
EASTMAN
DEAD AT 61
WASHINGTON. Mar 15 —CAP)
—Joseph Eastman, 61, director of
Defense Transportation and a
member of the Interstate Com
merce Commission for 25 years,
died here in the Emergency hos
pital, after a month’s illness.
Temporarily, his deputy, Brig.
Gen. Charles Young will be in
charge of running the nation’s
wartime transportation system.
Eastman was appointed to the
ICC at the age of 36, during
Woodrow Wilson’s admin istrnti/w»