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VOL. 47.—No. 44 NOME, ALASKA. APRIL 17, 1944 PER COPY—1.5c
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BELGRADE
VICTIM OF i
BOMBINGS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, Apr. 17.—<AP>—Allied
air power smashed yesterday at
the former Yugo-Slav capital of
Belgrade and the Rumanian rail
centers of Brasov, Turnu and Se
verin, and last night in Budapest,,
the Hungarian capital.
In the Balkan, bombardment
pattern it is plainly seen that the
design is to block the supplies to I
the German armies, retreating!
from the Russian advance.
Brasov, also known as Kron
stadt, is 50 miles north of the Ru
manian oil center of Ploesti, and
only 100 miles from the Red Army j
front in Rumania.
The communique said; “Photo-1
graphs taken during and after!
the attack clearly showed sidings |
in the rail yards, and lines to the
west cut in several places, am!
the rail station, warehouses, lo- j
comotive depots, oil refinery and!
a nearby airdrome, in ruins.
AIRWAYS
Pan American Airways
Capt. Bert Lien arrived this
morning wi'h Mrs. Faye Peter
son and Mrs. Margaret Chapp and
mail aboard. He left immediately
for Fairbanks with a full load of
mail.
Wien Alaska Airlines
Friday evening Pilot Hager
came in from Fairbanks in the
tri-motor with the following pas
sengers: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mul
lins, Fred McCalloway, Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Noonan and daughter,
Noel Johnson and H. C. Hoganson.
Hager departed for Fairbanks via
Galena Sunday with express and
passenger R. T. Carter for Ta
nana.
Pilot Geo. Oswald came in Sat
urday from Fairbanks with a ca
pacity load of expres. Oswald also
departed for Fairbanks Sunday.
Frank Whaley made a trip to
Moses Point Friday with express
and with G. L. Hughes and O.
C. Gearhert of the CAA for Moses
Point and returned via Solomon
with R T. Carter and T. Kangas
from Moses R>inf for the CAA
and Paul Ivanoff from Golovin.
Pilot Whaley is scheduled to go
to Diomede this afternoon.
Alaska Airlines
Friday: Don Emmons went to
Candle, Deering and Kotzebue on
the mail run with Mrs. Chas.
Evern for Candle, Charley Clark
for Deering and Elwood Hunni
cutt for Kotzebue. Paul Ivanoff
was a passenger to Golovin.
Capt. Peterson arrived from
Fairbanks with Leonard Smith,
Jimmy Smith, Albert Anderson,
Oscar Lindgreni Tom C. Johnson,
Ivor Kriken, Chesley MacDonald
and Ruth Jordon.
Capt. MacKenzie arrived from
Anchorage with Alvin Polet and
Theodore Harhat.
Sunday Don Emmoos arrived
from the north with Sam Reed
from Kotzebue and Mr. Stevens
from Deering.
NEW ARRIVAL JOINS
HOSPITAL STAFF
A new arrival at the Maynard
Columbus Hospital to assum ea
position on the nursing staff, is
pretty Miss Kathleen Jordan of
Superior, Wis. Miss Jordan says
she likes Nome very much and
hopes to be with us for a long
time. Kathleen was trained at the
St. Barnabas Hospital in Minne
apolis Minn.
BOMB CROP IN BRITAIN —Goldsmith never envisioned a British pastoral scene like this, in which a farmer drives his
flock of sheep past a pile of 500-pound bombs stored for invasion dav by a l SAAF ordnance u* it.
ALASKAN
REUNITED
WITH FATHER
SEATTLE, Apr. 17.—<AP»—
John C. Johansen, 18, left his Ke
naij hom six years ago to visit in
Norway and was reunited with
his father here today.
In October, 1942 after the Ger
man invasion of Norway, the Ges-j
tapo took him to a prison camp, j
He was finally released after j
making a promise not to take
arms against Germany.
John is now heading back to
Alaska and to his mother, and
also to a baby sister he has never
seen.
ATTACKS MADE
ON ISLAND
OF PONAPE
PEAR HARBOR. Apr. 17.—fAP>
—Ponape Island and other small
pin-point islands around it, took
the brunt of American plane at-j
tacks Friday, Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz announced, and also re-1
ported s*rikes on other Japanese
positions from Nauru on the equa
tor to Matsuwa in the Kuriles.
Ponape’s airfields were potted,
despite the heavy anti-aircraft fire
and a small tanker was sunk, with
two small escort vessels forced to
the beach.
Navy search planes bombed Pe
kin Island, also Oruluk and Ulul.
AITAPE IS
RAIDED BY
BOMBERS
—
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Apr. 17.—(AP)—A record bomb
load of 284 tons was unloaded on
the Japanese north New Guinea
base of Aitape, while other bomb- \
ers hit Truk, despite the heaviest!
interception ever encountered.
During the past two weeks Hoi-!
landia was deluged with 1334 tons
of bombs. Wewak with 373 tons
and Hansa Bay area with 771
tons.
TELLS MEN |
TIME IS SHORT !
FOR TOKYO .
—
SEVENTH AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS. Apr. 17.—(AP»
—‘‘It will not be long before you
are over Tokyo" said Major Gen
eral Willis Hale, in a farewell talk
to his men.
General Hale has been named
to command land-based air forces
in the forward areas in the cen
tral Pacific, where heavy bombers
will w'age war on the production
centers of Japan.
No other air fore ehas advanced
its heavy bomber bases so far in
so short a time as the Seventh Air
Force advanced 1,330 miles west
ward in five months. Our most
advanced base is now only 1800
miles from Tokyo.
ROBERT LEDGERWOOD
RECOVERING
Robert Ledgerwood, who was in
the Odd Fellows Hall when it
caught fire, has been recuperating
from the shock in the Maynard
Columbus Hospital and will soon
be at his own home again.
MUSSOLINI
REPORTED
GRAVELY ILL
B7ERN, Switzerland, Apr 17.—
'AP*—Tlie Bern F'ascist Press said
that Benito Mussolini : gravely
ill. thus providing th. .1 . in
formation and confirmation of
long current reports in the Cor
riere Della Sera, which said the
former Duce ‘‘was devoting him
self to reflections in solitude and
was already detached from the
world, awaiting death to strike.’’
LEONARD SMITH IN
NOME OVER WEEKEND
W. Leonard Smith, democratic
candidate for Territorial Highway
Engineer, arrived in Nome late
last week with his son Jimmie.
Jimmie says he is certainly glad
to get away from the hustle and
bustle of Fairbank. where the
housing situation is . real prob
lem. He says Jane Smith and
Judy Bockman will pay Nome a
visit about the 20th of the month,
and Mrs. Smith and Billy will ar
rive about May 5th. Leonard says
he cast an engineering eye over
BOATS FAIL
TO HEED DATE
OF OPENING
KETCHIKAN'. Apr. 17.—<AP‘—
Although halibut fishing season
opened Saturday at midnight, not
a single boat was outfitted for the
fishing grounds, as far as can be
learned here.
Meanwhile a committee of Ket
chikan buyers adopted a proposed
allocation plan for the port of
Ketchikan, based on the individ
ual buyers' purchases during the
past four years.
The plan will be submitted to
V. J. Simpson, the area coordina
tor of fisheries at Seattle, with
the proviso that it will be fol
lowed, only in the event that the^
OPA revises the halibut price ceil
ings to Alaska ports, and that they
come within the Seattle price, less
actual common carrier charges.
the Nenana tee situation but re
fuses to commit himself before
the election, but did state that
Manager Cooney estimated the
pool this year at $120,000.00.
INVASION A R M A D A—Coast Guardsmen shuttle landing craft between beach and anchor
t ace at Eniwetok atoll, bring in fighters and supplies and carry back the wounded.
CASUALTIES
ARE HEAVY
IN INDIA
KANDY, Ceylon, Apr. 17.—<AP)
—Very heavy casualties were in
flicted on the enemy and impor
tant positions captured north of
Imphal, in counterattacks against
the Japanese invasion forces in
India, Lord Louis Mountbatten aa
nounced in a communique issued
from his new operational head
quarters here.
The British have also improv
ed their positions northeast of
Imphal, protecting the vital store
houses and the supply base. Mean
while, official silence fell over
glider-borne operations of Chin
dits. whose newfound strategy of
infiltration by air was reported
yesterday and it appeared that it
promised a new turn in the Bur
ma-India campaign.
Air commandos continued their
tactical offensive against .enemy
communications and supply liijea
in the Yen, Shwebo and Mawlu
areas, about 40 miles north of
Mandalay, where the Chindits,
British and Indians are in a pos -
tion to cut the enemy’s supply
lines to the north, including thoss
to the India invasion front.
MacARTHIR
DENIES BID
FOR POLITICS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Apr 17.—<AP>—General Douglas
MaeArthur broke his long silence
on American political affairs to*
day, to issue a statement which
left wide open, the question
whether he would accept the re
publican presidential candidacy
if offered or if he would ba
‘‘drafted”.
The written statement of Gen.
MaeArthur points out positively
and politely remarks that have
been forced upon him, because
of a release by Representative
A. Miller of their correspondence
which ‘was never intended for
publication".
MaeArthur repudiated the
American press charges that he
has been disloyal to his command
er-in-chief at the White House
and acknowledged the pre-emi
neice of congress as a lawmaking
body.
He repeated his assertions that
he was devoting his energies ex
clusively to his job of soldiering.
The general said:
‘ My letters were amiable ac
knowledgements to a member of
the highest congress, the highest
law-making body, and contained
flattering friendly remarks to me
personally, and to construe them
otherwise is to misrepresent my
intent.
PARENTS OF SON
BORN IN TACOMA
Mr. and Mrs. George Whaley
are the proud parents of a son,
born in Tacoma, Wash. George
Whaley, son of Mrs. B. V. Whaley,
is in charge of the P. A. A. sta
tion in Whitehorse, where he and
Mrs. Whaley will return when the
baby is old enough to travel.
ATG EVENTS
Regular meeting at the High
School Gym, Monday night at
1900 hours. Dance next Satur
day night at Native School
gymnasium. ,