BOMBERS ARE
CREDITED
FOR ACTIVITY
LONDON, Mar. 12.—(AP)—Al
lied bombers, which have been
flown from Britain, are credited
by an RAF spokesman, as laying!
waste to more than 450 square!
miles of the Rhur industrial dis- j
j trict of Germany^ are now attack.
I ing Stettin in support of the Rus-^
sian Army.
The German radio said, “A
^200-mile long train of bombers
flew 600 miles across northern
Germany, also bombing the Bal
tic U-boat base at Swinemuende,
35 miles northwest of Stettin, and
only 20 miles aread of the Rus
sian Army.”
The Russians were last report
ed attacking a suburb of Stettin,
across the Oder river from that
important port.
The German alarm system in
dicated other widespread attacks
as the allied aerial offensive car
ried into the 26th day
Sirens were sounding in every
section of the northern Reich,
from Holland to Stettin* and from
Vienna to Munich in the southern
Reich, as bombers trundered in
from Italy bases.
Rome dispatches said Brenner
Pass and its rail line is closed to
traffic.
Front line dispatches disclose
that the once great armament cen
ter of Essen lies only 15 miles
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ahead of the Allied Armies mass
ing along the Rhine.
Communiques described the
dead city after yesterday’s satur
ation raid, in which more than
1000 RAF heavy bombers dumped
some 5000 tons of explosives ac
curately, covering their targets in
dayligrt.
More than 4,000 allied war
planes blasted Germany through
out the day, in more than a dozen
places.
DAUGHTER OF
WILLOYAS, DIES
AFTER ILLNESS
Lenore Willoya^ daughter of,
Emma Willoya, died at her home!
Friday evening, after a lingering
illness of almost a year.
Until the time of her illness,
She was a very active worker in
the young peoples’ group of the
Lavinia Wallace Mission and was
well-liked by everyone.
Besides her mother, Lenore
leaves her step-father, Mike Will
oya, two brothers^ one sister and
four half-brothers’.
Funeral services will be held
from the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission on Friday afternoon at
two o’clock.
The mechanism of Big Ben,
giant London clock, includes a
13Vfe-foot pendulum, numerals
two feet high, minute hands 14
feet long and hour hands nine
feet long.
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old Julia Ann McCaskill aits on
a gate to hold “Dusky" as she
waits to ride in her first horse
show, the mid-season event at
Pinehurst, N. C.
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
WEATHER FORCAST
Compiled by the U. S. Weather
Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Forecast for Nome: Clear and;
continued cold today and Tues
day. Highest today, -12; lowest,
tonight, -25.
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Nome Data:
Period ending 8:30 a. m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours, 0.
Total precipitation this month
.94.
Temperatures: High, -8; low
-28.
Temperatures one year ago to_
day: Highest, -2; lowest, -11.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest, -31 in
1929; highest, 35 in 1935.
Sunrise: 7:33 a. m. Sunset, 6:53
p. m.
Data for other stations:
As of 8:30 a. m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Barrow -17 Clear
Point Hope -14 £idy.
Kotzebue ^ .25 clear
Waies -23 Clear
Gambell -17 Clear
Nome -24 Clear
Golovin -31 Clear
Moses Point -36 Clear
i Unalakleet -21 Clear
Bethel -16 Clear
McGrath -38 Clear
Galena _27 Snow
Fairbanks - 5 Snow
Wiseman -12 Cldy
Ft. Yukon - 7 Cldy
Summit -10 Cldy
Anchorage 0 Snow
Seward 0 Snow
Cordova 27 Snow
Juneau 32 Cldy
Whitehorse 23 Clear
Prince George 31 Clear
j Ketchikan 37 Rain
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