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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. 46.—No. 140._NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1944._PER COPY—15c.
SUPERS AGAIN
ACTIVE ON
NIP ISLANDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8.
—<AP)— Today Superfortresses,
striking from Saipan bases, bomb
ed the Japanese installations on
Iwo Jima Island, in the Bonin
^ group, it has been reported.
Today’s attack was carried out
by B-29’s of Brig. Gen. H. S.
Hansell’s 21st Bomber Command,
General H. S. Arnold, army air
force commander, announced in
a communique.
He said the complete informa
tion on the attack would be giv- j
en when more information was
available.
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The big “bruisers” flew ap
proximately 750 miles north of
•£eir bases, to make their second
attack in as many days, on the is
land forts.
Asiatic-based Superfortress,
made sweeping attacks yesterday
against Japanase-dominated Man-'
churia, hitting at military and in- J
dustrial targets.
PILOT WEAVER
RETURNS FROM
r STEWART ISLE
j
Pilot Norman Weaver., of., the
Alaska Airlines, who was forced
down in the waters off Stewart
Island, two weeks ago, returned
to his base here with his repair
ed plane.
As the Alaska Airlines did not
have a plane small enough to
land at this place, Rev. Paul
Carlson went to his rescue tak
ing the company’s mechanic, Bert
"dBeltz, to aid in the repairs.
Two trips were made to the
scene of the accident with parts
and necessary equipment.
The fine spirit of cooperation
shown by Rev. Carlson and his
promptness in undertaking the
task, shows that the pioneer
spirit carries on in these modern
times.
Richard ludwig's
HAVE NEW DAUBHTER
Word was received of the birth
of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Ludwig at Salt Lake
City, on Nov. 24th. Mrs. Ludwig
was formerly Ruth Johansen, a
Nome girl, and Mr. Ludwig was1
employed here by the U. S.
Smelting & Refining Co., and
transferred to their office in
Salt Lake City.
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WORDS AND MUSI C-Russian-Amer;-?n Baritone Igor Gorin teaches the words and music
% of Dmitri Shostakovich's “United Nations on the March” to a group of New York children.
THIRD ARMY j
ENTERS FAMEDi
NAZI LINE
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PARIS, Dec. 8.—(AP)—Lt. Gen.
Patton hammered home the at
tack today, a mile and a half into
the Siegfried Line, and eight
miles deep into Germany’s Saar
Valley, while his Third Army
took long Toms and howitzers
and ripped to pieces its capital
at Saarbruchen.
The campaign, which is only a
month old today, and hag already
invalidated the rlcn coal region
which supplies the German Army
10 per cent of its iron and steel.
The infantry broadened its
foothold across the Saar and are
merging the three original cross
ings into two strong bridgeheads
at Saarlautem and Dillinger,
along the stretch where the
the whole east bank is involved.
This is built very solidly with
one little war industry steel
town after another.
The cavalry squadron extend
ed its lines inside Forbach, the
French rail town, which is three
and one-half miles southwest of
Saarbrucken.
ANDERSONS LEAVE FOR
THE STATES
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Anderson
and son, Ronald, left this morn
ing via Pan American Airways,
for their home in Kingston, Wash
ington, where they will spend a
few months. Mr. Anderson has
been operations superintendent
for Lomen Commercial Company
for several years, and will re
turn in the spring to get ready
for next year’s operations.
To the north the Germans again
cloaked their movements on the
east bank of the Roer river with
smoke screens as the U. S. Ninth
Army patrols pushed to the bank
of the flooded river Roer.
Beyond the Hurtgen forest and
the village of Bergstein, the al
lies jabbed down the Alsace
plain to within four miles of Col
mar, where front line dispatches
state that the Germans are fight
ing rear-guard action toward the j
Rhine rail bridge at Breesach.
Fourteen miles away vanguards
of the French First Army troops
are virtually clearing the long
Rhur river valley through Vosges
and have carried the fighting into
the streets of Bitshwiller.
The British and Canadian front
in Holland is quiet.
RUSSIANS NEAR
CAPITAL OF
HUNGARY
MOSCOW, Dec. 8.—(AP)—The
heavily armored right wing of
the Russian Third Ukraine Army
is reported today a little more
than 15 miles from Budapest, and
they have fiercely sustained a
drive to cut off the capital and
the Austrian communications.
Field dispatches said that the
forces of Marshal Tolbukhin are
pounding a big wedge in the ene
my’s flank west of the Danube.
Resistance by the Nazis was
reinforced by troops which were
rushed in from Vienna and were
increased as the battle surged to
ward Budapest.
On the northern end of the
eastern front the German ner
vousness increased over the win
ter developments in Poland and
East Russia, and they have in
creased their reconnaisance raids
against the Russian positions ob
viously fearing a Russian build
up for an offensive.
More than 1,000,000 people wokr
in the U. S. food plants.
YAMASHITA
LINE SEIZED
IN THRE MOVES
By C. YATES McDANIEL
UNDATED — The American
forces in three sensational moves
seized the center of the Japanese
Yamashita line on th ewest coast
of Leyte, it was reported today.
They wiped out 13 ships of the
Nipponese convoy and inflicted
heavy losses in ships and lives,
as well as stopping a spectacular
enemy paratroop threat.
Headquarters announced that
the amphibious force was com
posed of the Yankee 77th Infantry
Division, which was supported
by navy and marine elements.
They sailed around the south
end of Leyte and landed on De
cember 7 th, three miles south of
Ormoc, in the enemy’s rear.
The landing force just beat the
enemy convoy into Ormoc, the
principal Japanese Lyete port.
The American forces prompt
ly turned upon it and sank all
13 vessels, including four large
loaded transports.
During the activity they also
downed 62 enemy planes.
The Japanese, in a desperate
diversionary attempt, loosed 200
paratroopers in the area between
the two American airfields on
the eastern side of the island*
which was the scene of the origi
nal landings of the enemy sky
troops.
They accomplished some sabo
tage, Gen. Mac Arthur reported,
but most of them were killed.
Mac Arthur also said: *‘We
have seized the cfenter of the
Yamashita line from the rear
and have split the enemy’s forces
in two.”
He also stated that the Ormoc
landings caught the Japanese un
prepared and drove a wedge be
tween the forces from the north
and south of Ormoc.
The Chinese invented or dis
, covered silk, porcelain, tea, print
ing and gun powder.
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