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VOL. 46. No. 133. _NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1944. PERCOPY—15c.
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Japs hold
TOWN OF LIMON
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By C. Yates McDaniel
GEN. MACARTHUR'S H6AD
QUARTERS. Philippines, Nor.22,
—(AP)—American troops painful
ly and slowly loosened the Jap
anese hold on the northern ap
proaches to the Ormoc valley, de
spite the miserable weather.
It seems apparent that the Jap
anese have decided to sacrifice
the entire division if necessary,
to hold their present positions
near Limon village.
Weary units of the 24th div
ision, which has borne the brunt
of the entire Leyte campaign, yes
terday repulsed bloodily the third
determined enemy attack on the
™>ad block which the Americans
-Irold across the Ormoc highway
south of Limon.
Meanwhile the Japanese clung
stubbornly to their elaborate
trench system and heavy fortifi
cations.
The daily communique asserted
that General Yamashita has ap
parently decided to commit the
famous Japanese first division to
hold the townwhile fresh 32nd
^ division troops are maintaining
a steady frontal pressure.
The 96th division doughboys
crushed the Japanese strongpoint
west of, Dagame, on another front
in the Ormoc sector.
RESCUE PARTY
MAKES READY
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, Nov. 22
—(AP)—One of the most danger
ous expeditions in the records of
Alaska, will be made by 44 men
in a search crew, which is attem
pting to roach the' wreckage of
the U. S. Army transport plane
which crashed on the side' of Mt.
Brooks on September 18th.
The Alaskan Department of the
army announced that 19 persons
are presumed dead in the crash
t the plane enroute from Fort!
Richardson to Ladd Field, Fair
banks.
The ascent will start from Mc
Conagall Pass and climbers will
have radio communication.
Main camp will be set up on
Wonder lake, while forward
camps will be at Pass and Cache
^3reek.
As far as is known, no one has
ever climbed the uncharted Mt.!
Brooks.
A
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
In conformity with the proclamation of the
President of the United States of America, and
the Governor of the Territory of Alaska, I,
Edward Anderson, Mayor of the City of Nome
herewith, declare Thursday, November 23rd.,
a legal holiday, when we shall! lay aside our
every day duties, and direct our minds and
thoughts in thanks to Almighty God, for the
great blessing He has bestowed upon us, as a na
tion during the year.
And also pray for His Divine Power to
guide us in our just aim to defend our freedom,
and that soon victory may be obtained.
ROOSEVELT
MAKES PLANS
FOR ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, —(AP)
—PresidentRoosevelt asserted in
conference today, that many and
sundry thing are planned for Al
aska in looking to it’s future de
velopment.
He said that a lot of study has
been given the matter but that
he ddi1 not know whether a com
mission would be set up to go
into the matter formally.
The statements were made in
answer to questions about the
Bremerton speech in which the
President stated an Alaskan Com
mission would be «et up.
uscgHman
SAVES CHILD
IN ICY WATERS
Yesterday afternoon, Marie
Cashel, seven year old daughter
of Aarnout Castel of Nome, slip
ped off the Snake river revet
ment near Lomen Commercial
Company warehouse, into the
freezing water.
She had been fishing from the
revetment. Other persons who
were also fishing, threw a small
line to her but she was too numb
from the icy water to hold the
line.
Coast Guardsman M.M.lc. Ken
neth Coulson heard the commo
tion and rushed to the scene with
another line. Seeing the peril
ous condition of the child, and
heedles sof his own danger, he
plunged into the ice crusted water
catching hold of the girl just as
the line slipped from her numbed
and freezing fingers.
Another Coast Guardsman, BM.
lc. Clifford Vincent, threw the
second line which Coulson fast
ened around the child and she
was pulled to safety. Coulson
also regained the top of the re
vetment none too soon as hands
and legs were beginning to feel
numb.
Mo.M.lc. Kenneth Coulson
recently received a citation for
aiding in control of the fire which
destroyed the Odd Fellow Hall
and endangered that section of
Nome. Coulson kept the pump
at the fire station going.
BOB BARTLETT
GOES TO |
WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, Wah. Nov. 22, —(AP)
—E. L. Bartlett, Alaska Delegate
Elect, today pledged himself, to
fight in Washington, to provide
a natural entry into the interior
of Alaska, from Seattle.
Mr. Bartlett said that one of
the most important things for him
to do, is the reopening of the U.
S. built highway, from Haines, in
Southeastern Alaska, to connect
with the inland Alaska highway.
Delegate’s Anthony J. Dirrmnd’s '
successor planned to leave for the
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Joe Kehoe is
2nd Div. Judge
WASHINGTON, D C. Nov. 22,—
(AP)—The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee approved the nomination
of Joseph W Kehoe, of Seward, j
Alaska, for District Judge for the
Second Division, to succeed Judge |
J.H .S. Morison, who is retiring. I
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THANKSGIVING
IN QUARANTINE
The quarantine will not be lift
ed for Thanksgiving, according to
Public Health Officer. Dr. Thom
as Morcom.
No new diphtheria cases have
been reported In Nome proper.
It is believed that the ban will
be lifted very soon.
Red Army Takes
Verpelet
LONDON, Nov. 22, —fAP>—The
Red Army drive to control the
northeastern part of Hungary’s
rail network, captured Verpelet
which is 8 miles southwest of
Eger and is edging closer to the
strategic rail junctions of Mis
kolc and Hatvan.
Moscow advices state that there
is still another threat to the Ger
mans in hat general sector, as the
Russians have uncorked another
fresh push on Czechoslovakia,
just southwest of Ungar, 75 miles
northeas tof Miskolc.
Other communiques from Mos
cow said that German forces are j
in apocket in southwest Latvia,
and have made as many as 40
vain attempts to counterattack in
asingle day.
There was no confirmation of
Berlin’s claims that the Russians
had begun another major offen
sive.
east in time to confer with Gov.
Ernest Gruening of Alaska, who
is now in Washington.
Bartlett warned that the in
flux of people to Alaska after the
war, will be so great that accom
odations will not be adequate.
While in Seattle, Bartlett at
tended meetings on the hearings
of the Indian fishing claims.
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LONDON, Nov. 22, —(AP>—1To
day French forces captured the
Maginot line fortress-city of Mul
house, and with it, part of the
staff of the imperiled German
19th army.
To the north American forces
punched their way within 23 mi.
of the stronghold of Strassbourg.
On the Rhine breakthrough, the
U. S. 7th army and the 1st French
army, definitely erased a German
front.
On the northern slopes of the
difficult Vosges mountains, en
5 crusted with snow, more than
1000 staff officers and men sur
rendered.
Mulhouse, normally humming
J as an industrial city of 96,000 in
i habitants, once a free city of Al
sace, leis 9 miles from the Ger
man frontier, on a tributary of
the Rhine.
The drive to Strassbourg car
ried through the German defenses
before the Saveme gap, but is a
slow and painful process.
On the Cologne front a mel
ancholy German broadcast said
that great tank battles are being
fonght all the way from AAchen
to the Swiss border., in violence
exceeding anything hitherto wit
nesed since the invasion of Eur
ope.
Violent street fighting contin
j ues in the southern part of Bel
ort. The fall of the city is im
; minent.
TACOMA TO BE
PLAGUE PORT
WASHINGTON, D C. Nov. 22,
—(AP)—The designation of Ta
coma as a plague port on the Pac
ific coast for the U. S. Public
Health Service, were instructions
from Secretary of the Navy For
restal to all warships having con
tact in foreign ports liable to in
fection.
All ships must undergo quar
antine examinations it was dis
closed last night. The order be
came effective on October 20th.
This action was due to the fact
that bubonic plague infected rats
were found on the city’s water
front where 14 rat trappers are
at work under Chief Quarantine
Officer Donahue, USPHS.
Donahue said, “The condition
is not one to be alarmed about.”
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