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VOL. 47.—No. lg. NOME, ALASKA, FEBRUARY 14, 1944 PER COPY—15c
Rabaul Is
Raided For
12th Time
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Feb. 14.—*AP>—The smoking,
bomb-packed, Rabaul, Japan’s
deadly dented shield, against the
allied drives'Toykoward, is hot for
the twelfth time in 14 days, with
the stepped-up aerial offensive
with hundreds of tons of bombs
dropped on three airdromes.
Our bombers also hit a 3,000
ton cargo vessel at Wewak during
thorough, bombing and strafing,
and struck also at Kendari in the
Dutch Celebes, Dili in Portugese
Timor, and Buka Passage, between
Buka Island and the northern tip
of Bougainville Island.
0 Great stores of equipment were
left by the retreating Japanese
in the Borgen Bay area and were
captured by the advancing Ma
rines.
The bombing of Rabaul follow
ing the 174-ton pasting the day
before, was carried out by Solo
mons’ airforce bombers of all
types.
Six barges were sunk, three and
possibly six, enemy planes were
downed, with others damaged.
* PLEDGES AID
FROM CHINA
CHUNGKING, Feb. 14.—(AP>—
Aggressive China-based land and
air offensives to support American
thrusts across the Pacific to land
ground and air forces on the Chin
ese mainland was pledged by Lt.
Gen.-Joseph Stillwell, commander
of United States forces in India,
China and Burma.
General Stillwell’s statement
took note of the recent declara
^ tion of Admiral Chester W. Nim
i|z, commander of the Pacific
fleet of the U. S. Navy, t,hat the
navy intends to drive and break
the Japanese blockade, and - to
land American forces on the main
land of China.
SON OF HARRY
HOPKINS DEAD
KWAJALEIN ATOLL, MAR
* SHALL ISLANDS, Feb. 14.—(AP)
—Stephen Hopkins, 18-year-old
son of the presidential aide, Harry
L. Hopkins, was killed in the
first night of fighting on Namur
Islet, when he ran into crossfire
between United States Marines
and Japanese snipers.
He was a light-machine gun
ner, and had been with the ca
rines for seven conths.
* INVASION
SAID THREAT
LONDON, Feb. 14.—(AP)—The
allied cross-the-channel threat was
blamed to German propagandists
as the factor for the Nazi reverses
on the Russian front.
“The latest events on the east
ern front, are only understood as
the inevitable consequence of Ger
many’s determination to keep a
free hand for any eventuality to
the Afrekf,” the Berlin broadcast
^ said.
M I R ROR FOR ALASKAN CLOUD S—Alongside an Aleutian headland, site of a V. i,
o 3 base, the still waters of an Inlet mirror the patterns of woolly clouds against the shy.
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ARCTIC CLUB
ilAS PARTY
Friday evening the Arctic Club
had a fine party for its members
at the Lounge at the Nevada. Over
70 persons were present to par
take of the marvelous display of
food prepared by the committee.
The food was served in real
smorgasbord style, With each and
everyone there returning to the
serving table for more, of which
there was plenty tor all.
The music was furnished by one
of the post orchestras, and they
were certainly tops in the manu
facture of melodic beats through
out the evening, to the satisfaction
of the jitterbugs.
The emsee of the evening was
Loren Leach, who pulled off
some quite clever stunts, with t;§
audience participating in * the
events. Much fun was had by’ all.
[ The party was acclaimed the
finest ever given tor and by the
club.
Many thanks to the comrt ^ee
who made it a success.
DIES OF HE ART
AILMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—(AP)
Representative Leonard Schultze
59, a veteran of World War I.,
and Polish born, and amember of
congress from Illinois, was found
dead in his Washington apartment
late last night. Death was at
tributed to natural causes.
TAKES FIRST
SOLO FLIGHT
From now on things are going
to be different with the local den
tist. Persons wishing to make ap
pointments for dental treatment
will have to sprout wings in order
to catch up with the "Doc”. Yes
terday afternoon, Dr. Maxwell
Kennedy took his first solo flight,
and today his teacher, Frank
Whaley, is as proud as though he
were a new “daddy.” We don't
know how this will affect the
tooth business, but anyway, con
gratulations, Doc.
PSKOV FEELS
PRESSURE
AT mOtTES
MOSCOW, Feb. 14 —The city of
Pskov, the gateway to Latvia and
Lithuania, felt the pressure of
two Russian armies, one driving
southward from the lower end
of Lake Peipus, toward Pskov
, Lake, and the other southwest
ward down the Leningrad high
[way and railway, the portion
which is in the Soviet hands south
ofcaptured Luga.
| Pskov is an important railway
and highway junction where the
Czar Nicholas dedicated the rail
i way station in 1917. Six trunk
railways and four main highways
run in and out of Pskov.
The Russians are now within-40
miles at the nearest point and
should they be able to reach the
i city, great numbers of Germans
will be cut off from retreat, in
the Lake Ilmen, Staraya-Russia
sector.
The possession of Pskov wilt
give the Russians an extremely
1 advantageous position from which
to launch operations to clear the
1 Germans from the Baltic repub
lics.
Estonia can be virtually cut off
I from Germany by a drive west
j ward from Pskov, 85 miles to Valk
Junction, which controls every
highway and railway into Estonia,
from there it is only 90 more
miles to Riga, Latvia, and such
an advance would entirely isolate
Estonia, and the Nazis army.
It is expected that there will be
an all-out battle for Pskov, and
that it will prove one of the war’s
most important battles.
A dispatch from Pravda, said
the Germans were mining the rail
ways and blowing up bridges.
MARGARET
WILSON DEAD
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14.—
(AP)—Margaret Woodrow Wilson,
57, the eldest of the late Presi
dent Wilson’s three daughters,
died in India Saturday, where she
went to seek refuge from a troub
led world.
DEATH CIRCLE
TIGHTENING
MOSCOW, Feb. 14 —The Red
Army's seven spearheads thrust
ing against the steadily diminish
ing circle of death around the
j Nazis in the Dnieper bena hacking
at German salients, and relent
lessly cutting down all who re
fused to surrender.
Red Star said the Germans were
being slaughtered like sheep on
the open steppes. The entire gar
jrisons of the villages of Yakhnov,
and My led were exterminated.
To the south another body of
Germans are threatened by encir
| clement, in the Krivol Rog area,
j with Red Army thrusts from three
sides.
OLD-TIMER
DIES AT 76
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I KINGS BURG, Calif., Feb. 14.—
| (AP)—Criss W Tremper, 76, a
| sourdough of Alaska Goldrush
days, and in iater years one of the
leading vineyardists in the cooper
ative winery operators of Fresno
county, California, died Saturday
night after a three-weeks’ illness.
Tremper was a man of gigantic
frame and strength, and was one
of the men who helped retrieve
the bodies of 70 odd victims, of
the Chiikoot Pass snowslide in the
spring of 98
He discovered gold on Glacier
Hill, near Nome, and was a mem
ber of the band of prospectors
whose battle against claim jump
ers furnished Re^ Beach with the
materia! for his novel, “The Spoil
ers .
OVERTURES
PEACE
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 14.—It is
momentarily expected that Fin
land will make their way out of
the war by seeking terms with
Russia Government officials are
in secret conference
Nugget Classified Ads pay big
dividends.
New York City
Hard Hit With
Mercury Falling
SEESAW BATTLE
BEING STAGED
IN ITALY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS% Feb IV—Fighting a
seesaw battle of lessening inten
sity. marked the allied perimeter
of the Anzio beachhead during
the past 24 hours, allied headquar
ters announced, after weathering
the week-end crisis and regaining
the initiative after the blanketing
;of allied air support by bad wea
! ther. which had given the Ger
man armored units the edge.
British troops drove forward
ana recaptured the bottleneck
bridge over the railway west of
[Carroceto after a days fierce
[fighting, 10 miles to the north.
The Nazi', with' tank si V* f, is
[emphasizing the indeterminate na
ture of the battle however, the
Germans again occupied a factory
a half-mile east of Carroceto, bat
tering packing houses, and silo
! like structures of Mussolini’s ag
■ ricultural enterprise, which have
: changed hands four times in re
cent days’ fighting.
Allied air forces again struck
, the German ring around the
bridgehead and other objectives
with a fury in 809 sorties.
American troops paid dearly in
blood and sweat for every yard of
advance.
On the Cassino front bitter
! fighting is taking its toll on both
i sides, as allied troops batter down
| each house, a veritable Nazi
[ stronghold, from which they re
fuse to be ousted.
The Germans still hold the an
cient towers and buildings of the
Benedictine Monastery atop the
hill west of Uve city of Cassino.
LONDON SAID
TO HAVE FIRES
LONDON. Feb 14 — <AP>—Al
| though Berlin claimed that Lon
i don was sowed with large fires,
in another concentrated attack on
! the capital. London crowds mill
ing along the blackened streets as
usual after the theater, and watch
ed the aerial fireworks, which was
no greater in force than the at
tack last month when 80 bombers
flew over London
It is estimated that only 15
reached London and six of them
were downed.
NOTICE!
All members and all interest
ed in the development of
Northwestern Alaska are invited
to attend an annual meeting to
be held in the Nome Grill at
noon Tuesday, February 15th.
Election of officers. Phone your
reservations to A. Polet’s secre
tary, Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of- Comaherce,'
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—<AP>—The
most extensive snow of the win
' ter covered much of the nation.
An additional three or four in
ches was predicted for northern
Illinois, Indiana and lower Mich
igan within the next 12 hours. Re
ports varying from 15 inches in
Wyoming, to four inches in De*
Moines. Iowa. ,
The snow fall extended from
the Rockies to the New England
states and south as far as north
ern Kansas, Missouri and Ken
tucky, with no severe tempera
tures following the snow in Chi
cago.
Heavy wind-whipped snow
storms struck the northeastern
part of the country with tempera
tures far below zero.
In New York City, emergency
storm warnings were issued, with
the prediction of 10 to 12 inches
of snow.
Trains arrived at New' York uj»
jto four hours late,
i Airplane flights oui of L»
iGuardia Field were cancelled
while temperatures dipped to 43
below zero, and below zero at
many other points.
In some areas schools were
closed in Indiana on account of
many six-foot drifts.
AWARDS ARE
ANNOUNCED
HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — Award of the
Legion of Merit to Col. Donald
McK. Ashton, of Columbia, South
Carolina, by Lt. Gen. Simon B.
j Buckner, Jr., commanding general
of the Alaskan Department, was
announced recently.
Coi. Ashton, of the General
! Staff Corps, was cited for “ex
cpetionally meritorious conduct in
i performance of outstanding ser
vice as Quartermaster of the
Alaska Defense Command and
Alaskan Department from Sept.
18, 1942, to December 23, 1943 ”
The colonel’s plan for quarter
! master inventory controlled sup •
| ply, first put into effect in tha
j Alaskan Department, proved so
| successful it later was made ap •
plicable in all war theaters. The
plan, according Ao the citation,
“enabled the Alaska Defense
Command to balance stockages,
minimize excesses and accurately
anticipate requirements.”
ATG EVENTS
. "■ Ev.
Tonight, practice at Native
school gym.
Tuesday night February 18th,
regular meeting at the high
school gym. Training film, close
order drilL Recruiting of new
! members will be the order of
the day.
Friday night. Feb. 18. baseball
game with the ATC. Free ad
mission to public).
Saturday night Feb. 19th.
Dance at the Native School gym.
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