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‘f VOL. XLVII. No. 40. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1945. PER^COPY^J^
IKE T ells Nazis
To “SURRENDER”
LONDON, April 2, —</P)—Gener
al Eisenhower issued a message to
the German army tonight, calling
for surrender.
The broadcast message was ad
dressed to individual soldiers and
said, “the German government
and high command was losing
effective control, and gave de
tailed instructions how the Ger
man soldiers could proceed to
surrender."
Russians All Out
FO RSTETTIN
MOSCOW, April 2, —(^—Rus
sian forces battled for Neudrofl,
3 miles east of the Messerschmidt
assembly center Wiener-Neustadt
In Austria Russian columns
have smashed their way to with
in 20 miles of Vienna, and drove
hard against the Germans at Brat
islava Gap.
London dispatches said Brat
islava radio went off the air, and
unconfirmed reports said the Rus
sians made a 13 mile dash to the
outskirts of that capital of the
puppet state of Slovakia, less
| than 30 miles east of Vienna.
The Berlin radio said that the
Russians had opened an all out
offensive on the Baltic port of
Stettin.
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[ GEN. BUCKNER
| LANDS OKINAWA j
GUAM, April 2, —</P)—100,000 |
U. S. troops, forming the new
Tenth U. S. Army, under Lt. Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.the for
mer commanding officer of the
Alaska Defense Command, landed i
on Okinawa island, Easter Sun
day morning, securing 8 miles of
beachhead to a depth of 3 miles
before night.
The beachheads were secured
so quickly that hte landing of
supplies began almost immediate
ly.
Admiral Nimitz said that the
quick success of the invasion was
indicative of thorough neutraliz-1
ation of the airfields on Honshu,
throughout the Ryukyus and For
mosa. 1400 ships were used in the
landing operation
THIRD ARMY
Beyond Fulda
f* PARIS, April 2, —(/?)—The Brit
ish 2nd Army’s drive to the north
east threatened totrap virtually all
German groups in Holland, and
reduce the Wehrmacht’s fighting
force on the Western front by
two-thirds. Already the German
irmy trapped in the Ruhr num
uers more than 100,000.
The Third Army fought into
Kassel and Fulda and sent spear
heads probing within 150 miles
of Berlin.
One column reached within 3
miles northeast of Eisenbach at the
northwest edge of the famed Thur
ingian forest, where Gen. Patton’s
troops are close to cutting off the
North Bavarian Alps, where Hitler
may be preparing a last stand.
I lisenhower’s communique re
vea.ed the course of the develop
ing campaign and declared that
the cleanup of the Ruhr trap would
not preclude the advance of Allied
columns farther into Germany.
Gen. Patch’s 7th Army tanks
are within 45 miles of the Nazi
ELEPHANT DOES WORK OF 12 —An elephant loads a gasoline drum aboard a C-46
v Curtiss Commando at an ATC base in India where one elephant does work of 12 coolies.
FRED VINSON
Gets New Job
WASHINGTON, April 2, —iJP)—
President Roosevelt today accept
ed the resignation of Director
Byrnes, of War Mobilization in
the reconversion period, and pick
edFred Vinson to succeed him.
The president asked Byrnes to
stay on the job and break Vinson
in on his new duties.
This is the second change of
job for Vinson in less than a
month.
Byrnes said he had no plans
except to take a well-earned rest
at his Spartenburg, South Carolina
home.
Congress city of Nuerenberg,
where he will cut one of the two
main trunklines from Berlin thru
Munich.
The security blackout still veil
ed the surging advances of the
British 2nd Army toward the
North German ports, but Berlin
said the Tommies passed the
Westphalian capital of Muenster
to a point south of Bielefel, 200
miles from Berlin.
JAPS VIEW
GRAVE POSITION
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, —</P)
—The Tokyo radio took a grave
view of the invasion of Okinawa
island in a broadcast intenden for
home consumption, and predicted
that “It will be a matter of a
short time before the rise or fall
of our nation will be decided.”
The broadcast was recorded by
the FCC.
The report continued, “Steady
progress of the American forces
since the seizure of Guadalcanal”
declaring these priliminary moves
always had landings on the Jap
mainland as a final objective.
BASEBALL
Saturday Scores -
Seattle 10, SanDiego 2.
Portland 5, Oakland 2.
Sacremento 4, Hollywood 1.
San Francisco 6, Los Angeles 5.
Sunday Games
Seattle 4-0, San Diego 5-0.
Portland 10-11, Oakland 14-8.
Hollywood 10-4, Sacramento 8-2.
San Francisco 1-4, Los Angeles
2-1.
WILL POLAND
BE AT CONFAB
WASHINGTON, April 2, -{IP)—
U. S. diplomats are working at
top speed to avoid a showdown
t • •
with Russia over Polish partici
pation in the San Francisco Un
ited Nations Conference. High
officials ihere hope tjie Polish
National Unity government, a
greed upon at Yalta, still may
be set up in time to resolve the
controversy, should it appear in
the next few days. This hope
might be transformed into a pro
bability, with the additional time
of the opening date, the confer
ence may be delayed two or three
weeks beyond April 25th.
Lt. SAVIKKO
Missing in Action
WASHINGTON, April 2, —{IP)—
The Navy casualty list today in
cluded as dead, Hermann Savikko
Lieutenant JG. USNR. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hermann
Savikko, of Douglas, Alaska.
Advertise in The Nugget
CIO s LEWIS
MOVE DEADLINE
WASHINGTON, April 2,
John L. Lewis, CIO’s head man,
today dispelled a nation-wide
coal strike by a zero-our exten
sion of the expired bituminous
contract through April. His ac
tion came after the War Labor
Board ordered an indefinite con
tinuance of the agreement, with
any wage adjustments retroact
ive from date April 1st.
Conferences were resumed to
day.