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VOL. 47.—No. 16.NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1945,PER COPY—15c
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PARIS, Feb. 5.—(AP)—Thje
American First Army fought 13
miles deeper into Germany to
within a mile of the Siegfried
4 Line towns of Gemund and Se
sclieden, • reported battle dis
patches today.
The dispatches add the Yanks
have broken clear through to the
last double row of fortifications
between the fortresses.
The German radio said tha t
General Hodges had entered
0 Scheiden with his infantry, but
were repulsed, and that also the
Americans had reached to with
in 28 miles of Bonn, with a clean
break in the Siegfried Line.
The infantry advanced to Urft
Lake within sight of the first
Roer river dams conrolling the
* flood levels.
The French and American
troops are driving into a Rhine
pocket south of Strasbourg and
have moved to within eight
miles of he juncture, to split and
dissolve he German front, which
is fighting a mile from Neufris
, ach.
The U. S. First Corps shelled
repeatedly the steel ond concrete
rail bridge across the Rhine and
more than a dozen Alsatian
towns have been taken.
The U. S. Third Army is fight
ing six miles inside Germany,
* just south of Gen. Hodges’ com
mond and have advanced to
within a mile of the strongly for
tified town of Prum, which is
one of the stoutest Siegfried Line
defense points.
The U. S. Ninth Army is wih
in 20 miles of Cologne and whol
ly inside Germany.
Gen. Hodges' divisions are
• within 16 miles of the major
traffic center of Euskirchen, the
capture of which would embar
ass the German communications
between the north and south
ends, and the whole western
front.
ON BUSINESS TRIP
TO THE STATES
Grant Jackson, president of the
Miners & Merchants Bank, left
by P. A. A. for the States on a
business and vacation trip. He
expects to be gone several weeks
and hopes to return On one of
die planes which are now in op
* eration by the P. A. A., which
m brings passengers to Nome from
Seattle in one day.
YANKS ENTER
CITY AND RAISE
OLD GLORY
By YATES McDANIEL
GEN. Mac ARTHUR’S HKAD
RUARTERS ON LUZON IS
LAND. Feb. 5.—(AP)—American
troops reached the heart of Man -
ila yesterday and raised the Stars •
and Stripes over the great Manl- |
la capital for the first time la [
three years, it has neen rej>ort- f
ed.
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The Yank.ee boys of the hard- »
hitting First Cavalry Division, in J
a wide encircling move during £
the dark of night, entered the ►
city against harassing enemy E
sniper fire and quickly captured C
the Molacanan palace and the P
large Santa Tomas concentration ^
camp where thousands of Amer- ^
ican and British, civilians may be >
interned. P
The northern hulf of Manila |
is in American hands as ele- X
m<-nts of the First Cavalry and T
or the 37th Infantry Division en- j
tered from the north and presa- •<
ed for a knockout of the Japan- ,
cs»<> in the northern part of the 2
city. They made no major stand J
but explosions were heard and „
fires were seen in the south ^
across toe wide and deep Pasig 1
river, which is the water barrier J
which splits the city in two. g
The Japanese may put up a *
bitter, bloody fight for that hla- ''
torical and commercial center of
Manila, but for those who sur
vive there will be no ?Bcape.
While the 37th Division cau
tiously pushed through to the
Grace airdroce from the north,
the First Cavalry spearheads
circled Into the city from the east
and then reached the Santa To
mas University grounds, and
threw a protective c don around
its concentration ca >.
It has been Just >ree years '
and six weeks ago at the last ►
units of General IacArthur*a *
tired and outnumbered Filipinos J
and American forces left the [
capital. i
With the 37th Division already !
in Manila, a new paratroop in- [
vaslon In the Baoangas Province '
was spearheaded by the Eleventh *
Airborne Division. The drive Is !
along a straight downhill road, 18 |
miles from the southern fringes '
of the city. i
The radio In Tokyo strangely [
reported the American forces J
have been cut off In the Clark »
Field area, 40 miles north of !
Manila, and are on the verge of [
being isolated. j
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MEDAL FOR VALOR — A Victoria cross, British decoration roughly equivalent to the U. 8.
congressional medal of honor, lies in the hand of Alec Forbes, veteran moulder who has made all
V.CVs lor 40 years. The bronze ingot, poured of metal from guns captured at Sevastopol in tho
Crimean war, is sufficient for 50 of the famous decorations.
POLISH HEADS
TO TAKE STAND
ON GOVERNING
• WARSAW, Feb. 5,—(AP>—>
Boeslaw Bierut, president of the
Polish National Council, an
nounced in a press conference to
day that they plan to immedi
ately assume control of civil ad
ministration of German Silesia
in East Prussia.
A representative of the War
saw Provisional government has
already arrived at Oppeln, which
is the first large city on the Oder
river to be captured by the Red
Army in its drive through Siles
ia.
He disclosed that similar steps
[ to organize civil affairs will be
taken elsewhere in Silesia, in
cluding Breslau and East Prus
sia, as soon as military condi
tions permit.
Bierut said that there will be
Polish administration on what
we regard as Polish soil, regard
less of opinions expressed in in
ternational conferences. “We’ve
seen the attitude of the major
powers” he said, ‘‘and we don’t
think anyone will interfere with
us.’»
He added that as to the ques
oion of the Teschen area, a rich
coal mining district which was
annexed to Czechoslovakia in
1939, that friendly negotiations
will soon be taken up.
President Beirut made it plain
that his government would com
pleoe Poland’* expansion along
the Oder from its mouth to the
southern port of Brandenburg,1
(FIFTH ARMY
REGAINS CITY
OF CALLICIRO
ROME, Feb. 5.—(AP)—Fifth
Army troops re-occupied Calli
cano, in the Serchio Valley area
on the Italian west coast today,
against only a slight enemy op
position.
Allied headquarters said other
advances were made along the
Serchio river and that ground
wos regained w'hich the had
lost in December when the Nazis
launched a short-lived offensive
in the direction of Lucka, in the
cenrral front area.
South and southeast of Bolog
na, strong Fifth Army raiding
patrols ran inoo considerable
German resistance. Casualties
were suffered on both sides and
a number of Germans captured.
ICE CLASSIC ORDER
RECEIVED BY NUGGET
An order has just been receiv
ed by The Nome Nugget for tic
kets to be used for the big all
Alaskan annual event, which
takes place at Nenana. M. J.
Cooney, who is in charge of the
famous pool, says plans have
been completed for another
year’s speculation on the break
up of the river ice at Nenana.
Last year’s pool was over $100,
000 and indications are that it
may be bigger this year.
and along the Neisse, where it
falls into the Oder some 30 miles
south of Frankfurt, to the foot of
the Sudeten Mountains.
LIBERATORS
AGAIN RAID
IWO JIMA ISLE
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, FORWARD AREA,
Feb. 5.—fAP)—Army Liberators
bombed Iwo Jima volcano is
lands, concentroting on air in
stallations and storage bases, It
has been announced today.
Admiral Nimitz said the oft
bombed Iwo Jrnia Island, which
is 750 miles south of Tokyo, put
up an intense anti-aircraft fire.
One escorting Lightning fight
er was lost at Chichi jima in the
nearby Bonin Islands, which
were also bombed, it was report
ed.
STUFFED BEAR
GIVEN SHIP
PORTLAND, Ore. — The cap
tain of the soeamship Kodiak Vic
tory nas finally found a place
for the five-foot, stuffed and
mounted Kodiak bear given the
ship by the citizens of Kodiak,
Alaska.
The skipper, Robert W. Berg,
placed it over the companion
way between the officers’ and
crews’ decks, and as a precau
tionary measure, the bruin’s one
outtbrust paw has been fitted
wih a home-made glove.
The ship is under construction
at th<? Oregon Shipbuilding cor
poraton yard.
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