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Locomotives to
Be Used Over
Whittier Branch
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 14.
—-(AP*—Fast-developing Alaska
has rtew diesel locomotives for
the first time on the new rail
road tunnel, one of the longest in
North America, which was cut
through the mountains by U. S.
army engineers.
The new line connects with
Whittier, an important deep-water
harbor, which is so new, it does
not appear on maps available to
the public.
I The announcement was made by
the Interior Department’s divi
sion of Territories.
The two diesels will be placed
m service on the 62-mile line con
necting Whittier with Anchorage.
The port of WhPtier is located
on Prince William Sound, about
the center of Alaska’s crescent
shaped southern coastal arm.
The installation was named for
Whittier glacier, which was named
for the poet Whittier.
Whittier is connected with the
Seward-Anchorage line with a
I • 14-mile track which runs under
the Kenai mountains, through
two of *he longest Alaska tunnels,
one 13,090 feet, and the other,
4,910 feet.
The diesel locomotives were
procured to save the expense of
installing forced-draft ventilating
systems for the tunnels, said ben
jamin Thoron, director in the di
: vision.
The Alaska Railroad boomed
* through war traffic, operating. at
'} a profit of $4,500,000 for the fis-'
!- cal year of 1043.
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I German lines'
ROME, July 14.—(AP)—Amer
ican troops knifed through fierce
ly-defended German lines yester
day to capture the Village of Pas
tina, 13 miles caJt-southeast of
Livorno, and drovt on two miles
9 through San Luce, almost due
east of Livorno.
The thrust was »aced by the
442nd regimental combat team,
composed of American soldiers of
Japanese origin, who followed the
secondary highway, midway be
tween the Italian west coast and
the Era valley, aril threatened to
outflank the enem; strongholds.
Both of these rotes are of ma
jor significance Hie push on
. Livorno.
Hard fighting vis scored by the
French troops on the right wing
of the American font, where the
,y ^ < French troops advanced 2 1-2
miles north from sV t)onato, and
captured San Glmlgrino and a
neighboring village o:La Casette,
which brought them within 1?
miles of the Amo riv* at empo
li and tended to develp a threat
to the flank of the (fenders of
Poggibonsi, five miles ist of San
Gimignano.
To measure a fraction part of
a cup of shortening, fi the cup
with water, pour off vter equal
( to shortening required and add
shortening until water tes to the
cup rim.
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REPAIRS IN I U N C L E—As soon as the immediate area was fairly safe from retreating i*ia
J work started in this ordnance renatr •*~<,*'trd in Wakde Island jungle.
Japanese Continue
Break-Through j
;Try In Guinea
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ON
NEW GUINEA, July 14.—(AP)—!
Today, 45,000 Japanese continued >
I their try for a break-through in
: the British New Guinea trap,
.northwest of Wewak, and suffered
very , heavy losses.
General. MacArthur said large
enemy forces moved west yester
day in an attack on Aitape, and
smashed into American outposts.
Fragmentary battlefield reports
. covering the action made no men
tion of the break-through any
where.
A headquarters spokesman said
that preliminary assaults were
checked after severe fighting,
i Headquarters reported a steady
! stream of bombing raiders at
j tacking Yap, in the western Caro
; lines, and during the day shot
, down three out of 15 interceptors.
New Attorney
For Alaska WLB
SEATTLE, Wash., July 12.—
(AP)—Roy E. Jackson, 12th reg
ional WLB attorney here, has been
appointed enforcement attorney
at Juneau, Alaska, George B.
Noble, board chairman, announc
ed today.
Jackson will conduct enforce
ment hearings in Alaska on al
leged violations of the Wage
Stabilization Act.
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ATG EVENTS
Non-Commissioned Officers'
meeting Frida? night at 1930
Hours. It is imperative that all
officers attend this meeting in
asmuch as there are pertinent
matters that are in need of be
ing taken care of. Please see that
YOU are therel
MAJOR BRONSON,
Commanding.
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Major General
j Roosevelt Victim
Of Heart Attack
■r HAL D. BOYLE
! WITH THE AMERICAN
TROOPS IN NORMANDY. July
114.—<AP)—Brig. Gen. Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., 54, soldier son of
a soldier father, was claimed by
death Wednesday.
Serving in three invasions, and
on many battlefields, in North
Africa, Sicily, Italy and France,
General Roosevelt died of a heart
attack while resting in the cap
tured German truck he was us
ing as an office and bedroom for
the past few days.
Son of the former President of
the United States, Teddy Roose
velt, General Thoedore Roosevelt,
Jr., was serving as assistant com
manding general of the Fourth
Infantry Division.
He died two hours after a visit
from his son, Quentin, a captain,
fighting in the First Infantry Di
vision, in which the general serv
ed as deputy commander earlier
in the war.
The friendly General Roosevelt,
one of the best loved generals in
the army, will be buried in the
Fourth Division Military Ceme
tery, and his body will rest in the
soil of the same country with his
brother Quentin, who was killed
in the last war.
Stricken with a heart attack
! four days ago, Roosevelt, whose
| knobbed cane, wide grin and bald
! head were a familiar sight on
many a front line observation
post and artillery position, in
sisted on carrying out his stren
uous daily tours, which encourag
i ed his troops.
To remove lint from blue uni
forms brush lightly with a stiff
brush which has been dipped in
water and then shaken well to re
move the excess water.
A cake containing one cup of
flour fills an eight-inch round pan
and a cake containing one and
one-half cups requires a nine-inch
pan.
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Lt. Gen. Lear
Assigned to Head
Ground Forces
: WASHINGTON, D C., July 12.
—<AP)The War Department today
' announced that Lt Gen. Ben Lear
has been assigned to command the
army ground forces, relieving Lt.
f Gen. Leslie McNair, who has been
given “an important overseas as-j
signment”
General McNair has been in:
command of American ground
forces since March, 1942. While
on an inspection trip in North
Africa in 1943, he was wounded
by shell fragments.
General Lear assumed tempor-j
1 ary command at that time. He was
bom in Hamilton, Canada.
Advertise it in The Nugget.
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Russians Close In
On East Prussia
Border of Nazis
—
MOSCOW, July 14.—<AP'—The
Russian army pushed on today
from captured Wilno, where the
Germans lost more than 13,000
dead and prisoners, and edged to!
within 28 miles of Kaunas, in!
Lithuania.
The Germans have evacuated
Pinsk, in the western Pripyat
marshes, 100 miles from Brest
Litovsk.
The German radio said the town
on the railway from Luniniec to
Warsaw has been outflanked for
several days, and the Red Army
is only 60 miles from Brest-Lit
ovsk.
Other Red Army units are 21
miles from the strategic railway
through Kaunas to Riga, the Lat
vian seaport capi'al, and from
j Tallinn, Esthonia, front line dis
| patches said.
Marshal Cherniakovsy’s caval
ry and tanks are within 50 miles
of Eydtkuhnen, a border city in
;East Prussia, while farther to the
south, in the Grodno region, the
Russians are officially reported
within 29 miles from the Suwalki
i triangle of East Prussia.
According to the latest German
I radio reports, the Russians are
now fighting on German soil, in
East Prussia, but these reports re
' main unconfirmed as yet.
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MISS CONSTANCE
ERICKSON TO WALES
ON VACATION
• Miss Constance Erickson, pastor (
I of the Lovinia Wallace Young
Mission Church of Nome, will
leave for Wales, Alaska, as soon'
as transportation permits, on a
| few weeks’ well-earned vacation.
Miss Erickson has been faithful
to her Eskimo congregation, and
has also helped considerably in
the maintaining of service in the
■ Federated Church.
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FIXING A CORSAIR — With the help of a portable
crane Marine mechanics at a Bougainville airstrip attach a folding
wing to a Corsair lighter. Corsairs' folding wings save space Mi
aircraft carriers where they are stored below desks. ,v
Infantry Used In
Drive Down
French Coast
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITION
ARY FORCES IN ENGLAND,
July 14.—(API—A communique
said today that American infan
try and tanks were driving down
the Cherbourg peninsula, along
the entire front.
The communique added, “The
whole United States army front,
from St. Lo to the sea is on the
move.”
The Germans are apparently
conducting an orderly withdraw
al, while the Americans were tak
ing over several important vil
lages and advancing up to 10
miles in some sectors.
On the west coast the dough
boys closed in tighter on the Ger
man stronghold of Lessay, and
some elements were approaching
within a half-mile of the town.
In the fighting for the strategic
St. Lo Island end of the line on
the 30-mile American battlefront,
the First Army made a flanking
move to the south, cu'ting off the
city from the east.
On the eastern sector of the
iNormandy battlefront there was
little activity, but the British
forces reported they had lost St.
Honorine, one mile north of Co
loobellis, in recent German coun
ter-attacks.
General Bradley's American
forces pushed three miles down
the west coast of the peninsula
to St. Germain Suray, three mile?
west of Lessay, and a few mile?
in land along the highway from
Le Haye du Puits to Lessay.
Advanced units reached the
city of Beauvais, below Carentan,
and at St. Je de Day the Ameri
can lines bulged sharply south
ward, engulfing the villages of
Tribehou, Gournet, Le Hommet
and Darthenay.
Four of nine roads leading to
St. Lo, are now in American con
trol. *
Wilno Taken By
Russian Troops
LONDON, July 14.—(AP)—The
old Polisn city of Wilno, the gate
way to the Baltic, fell to the Red
Army yesterday, after five days
of bloody street fighting. Premier
Stalin said tonight, while new
gains in the southwest placed the
Russian armies less than 30 miles
from the East Prussian border.
Soldier Dies in
Freak Plane Crash
FAIRBANKS, July 14—(AP)—
A soldier, flying a rented plane
from Anchorage, Alaska, crashed
to his death against the base of
a three-story concrete building on
the campus of the University of
Alaska, near Fairbanks last night.
The young man was near the end
of his journey to see his girl
friend in Fairbanks^
The plane was owned by Jack
Carr of Anchorage, and is a total
loss.
Players on the volley ball court
bseide the building, said they saw
the plane hit a wire near the edge
of the court, and that the motor
was functioning properly prior to
the crash.
The soldier had just recently
obtained his private license.