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NEW ELECTION
TO BE HELD
, ON MAY 30th
DUBLIN, Eire, May
Ifrth.—(AP) — Dublin
today officially announc
ed that a general elec
tion will be held in Eire
probably May 30th, as a
result of the defeat of
Prime Minister Eajpon
de Valera’s government
on the transport bill vote,
64 to 63.
The party took the minority
spot last June after the first war
time election, which ended in 67
seats to the oppositions’ 71. This
was a portending of rough going
in issues such as' that resulting
in the one-vote defea'.
Irsh observers hastened to say
that DeValera's neutralty policy
has nothing to do with the rebuff
since the leaders in the opposi’ion
endorsed the stand on that ques
— tion.
The negative balloting on the
transport bill, which provides for
the amalgamation of Eire’s two
biggest transport companies, is
the equivalent of a no-confidence
vote.
The reversal meant that not
only DeValera, but all other
members would resign and stand
for re-election.
ENCIRCLEMENT
I OF CHINESE
TROOPS DENIED
P SEATTLE, May 10.—(AP>—The
encirclement of 80,000 Chinese
troops in north China’s Honan
Province, was claimed by the Jap
anese over the Tokyo radio, al
though allied reports of the fight
ing fronts listed nothing but Jap
anese reverses.
Dispatches from Loyang said
that strong counter-attacks had
hurled the Japs back across the
Yi river, in the strongest push
toward that gateway to Chung
king.
This drive left the enemy spear
head seven miles south of Loyang,
while another invading force was
annihilated 45 miles northeast of
the city.
Chinese newsmen said “Most of
the 80,000 Chinese troops which
the Japanese claim to have trap
ped were presumably east of the
Peiping-Hankow railroad.
Chungking reported the Nip
ponese had brought up strong re
inforcements in an effort to crack
|_ the stubborn resistance of the
f Chinese forces in the province,
and to close the 14-mile gap in
the road which is the only escape
route into eastern Honan.
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* EXPECT RAISE
I IN AIR TEMPO
. AT AN ALEUTIAN BASE* Uv>
10.—(AP)—da th* northern ex
tremity of the Feciffc front,' Nor
, man Bell* an AP correspondent,
r today reported in % delayed dis
patch from the. Aleutians, fore
casting an increasing tanno in
► «ir assaults on the Japanese Kur
ile Islands.
T R 0 P H Y—Drawing alongside a transport. Coast Guardsmen and Marines display a Japanese flag
, they seized after wiping out Jap defenders on Cngebi Atoll in the Marshalls.
ROOSEVELT
DECLINES TO
TALK POLITICS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10
—President Roosevelt’s renewed
refusal to talk about a fourth
term convinced most of the cap
ital’s republicans and some dem
ocrats that he plans to accept
another nomination, with only a
little more than two months re
maining before the Chicago con
vention.
He declined, in a news confer
ence yesterday, to comment on
Na'ional Chairman Hannegan’s
statement in New York Monday
night, “with firm conviction” that
the President would again be a
candidate and would be re-elect
ed.
Roosevelt told the reporters he
was just back from a month’s va
cation in South Carolina, and
hadn’t read the speech and
wouldn’t talk about it if he had.
Senator Bushfield, republican,
commented tartly that, “The
President may be fooling himself
about what he is going to do but
he isn’t fooling anyone else ”
Senator Johnson, a democrat,
and an opponent of the fourth
term, said, ‘‘He’s quite a kidder,
isn’t he?'*
GOVERNORS
SON IS CADET
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GLENDALE, Calif, May 10,—r
aaawer.ag * routing
questionnaire feta*. Pater B.
Grueningv 2t, AAF aviation cad**,
f»aX° his • .hem* address & the
“Governor’* IftnaftO, Juneau,"
and until *%’«*»’ (*
the Mir* Lam* FU#>« Aeedemy,
where fie yeuflfc ton Bean in
training for the paat toff** iron Bo.
did no* know he **** toe son of
Al*ska?S governor, totof* Q. Niqh
olsqn. traimtoB dwtee. reported
today.
Young German
General Named
As Nazi Air Chief
SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN
May 10.—<AP)—Germany is re
ported to be striving to hastily
right its shaken western defenses,
on the 4th anniversary of the
start of the drive through the low
countries, as the gigantic Ameri
can and British air campaign is
developing with conclusive force.
With defeat in the air facing
him, Hitler designated Major Gen
Pelz, 29, to command the air
forces in the west.
Sources disclosed he was given
this task of keeping together a
force to strike back at the inva
sion fleets, no matter what dam
age was done on the homeland.
Germany’s defensive position
was emphasized last night in a
comment on the Berlin radio by
Lieut. Gen. Dietmar:
“There is no doubt that Ger
many now lives in a state of
siege,” he said.
GERMANS ADMIT
EVACUATION OF
SEVASTOPOL j
LONDON, May 10.—(AP>—The
German radio today announced
belatedly,, the evacuation of Ger
man and Rumanian troops from
Sevastopol. The remaining forc
es are notv. penned m the western
Tip of the Crimea peninsula.
The buHettg said: •
“After two days at extremely
bitter and hard battles, which had
turned the city «f Sevastopol Into
»• rubble, our troops were evacu-!
at*d.“
The German radio also *n-|
nounced that fierce battles wfre;
raging qver the eastern Alps,
possibly heralding another blow
by Mediterranean-based plages
aimed at Austrtan targets
BRITISH GAINS
ARE REPORTED
IN EAST INDIA
KANDY, Ceylon, May 10.—
'AP>—British gains were report
ed in eastern India when tanks,
planes and artillery stopped 750
Japs near Kohima where a spokes
man for the British said a column
cut through the jungles to encir
cle a Japanese force west of the
base, and also several towns and
villages were captured near Pa
lel, 2" miles southwest of Im
phal
Even the Japanese attack in
northern Burma indicated ad
vances and allied gains toward an
attack on Myitkyina, the main
enemy base in the area.
This is the closest the allies
have approached to Myitkyina,
which is now virtually encircled
by allied troops.
ADMIRALS OF
U. S. MEET IN
SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 —
<AP>—The meeting in San Fran
cisco of Japan’s triple-threat, the
Navy’s Admirals Halsey, Nimitz
and King, was looked upon by
observers as a hint that when the
European invasion begins, Tokyo
will be too busy to listen to the
radio.,
The Navy said little about the
meeting except that it was held
last week-end and that Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific fleet
chief, received a new decoration, I
his second Distinguished Service j
Medal, for “sound judgment and
masterful conduct ’’ ..J
Tbia single honor has thus far;
been received by only two others
Admiral Halsey and General
Thomas Hob, Marine Corps, re
tired.
Toil them you saw it advertised
in The Nome Nugget.
U. S. TROOPS
BY-PASS JAP
DEFENSES
IN THE PACIFIC WAR AREA,
! May 10.—fAP>—American troops
cut through and by-passed Jap
anese out circles of defense, and
are now hammering at the inter
mediate defenses, which Rear Ad
‘ miral Daniel E Barbey said was
generally manned by second-line
troops, but also warned however,
amphibious thrus's deeper into
enemy territory should be con
nected and coordinated in order
to meet with the continued suc
cess, such as the recent invasion
of Hollandia area on Dutch New
Guinea.
ROOSEVELT
ASKS FOR NEW
APPROPRIATION
WASHINGTON, May 10.—(AP)
—President Rooseve;* today ask
ed Congress for new appropria
tions totalling S15,676,652,000 to
br ng the total of contemplated
expenditures for military purposes
up to 49 billions for the next fis
cal year.
According to the White House
statement, the <‘Estjmates were
contemplated for the maintenance
and operation of an army of 7,
700,000 men and women on the
offensive in this global war.”
The statement explained also
that it should be available be
ginning the fiscal ,ear of July 1st.
in addition to the $33,607,000,000
unobligated balance of the cur
rent appropriations.
MRS. ROBBINS
OF DEERING.
PASSES AWAY
Muriel Robbins, aged 34, wife
of James Robbins, manager of
the Arctic Circle Exploration Co.,
of Deering, Alaska, died sudden
ly yesterday in their Deering
home.
Mrs. Robbins had recently re
turned from Fairbanks, where she
and the three children had been
visiting. She had apparently
been in excellent health, and her
untimely death comes a shock to
her many friends.
Mrs. Robbins is survived by her
husband, James, and three chil
dren, Barbara, aged 12; Richard,
aged 10; and Wendy, aged 8.
Mr. Robbins and the children
will accompany the body, via air
plane, to Chicago. The family
home is in Oak Park, 111., near
that city.
TROOPS PUSH
ON IN ITALY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, Italy, May 10.—(AP>—
Stitl pushing the withdrawing
Germans, Eighth Army troops
bpv» thrust a .deep wedge into
enemy territory along Italy’s
mountainous backbone, and at la
test report are driving directly to
ward the German base- of Sul
mona.
LLU/IL I^IJL
CHICAGO, HI., May
10.—(AP)—Judge Solly
announce that he would
not rule on the legality
of the government’s seiz
ure of the Montgomery
Ward plant because
“events have transpired
which have apparently
taken the case out o| my
hands,” and he dropped
the injunction proceed
ings, saying: I consider
the case dismissed.”
CHICAGO. 111., May 10.—<AP)
• —Immediate extension of enforce
i menl of the CIO union contract
I with Montgomery-Ward Com
I pany, which was released fi'um
government con'rol last nielit,
was asked by the union, in a tele
gram to the War Labor Board,
in an appeal to extend the ex
pired contract pending negotia
tions of a new agreement.
The appeal followed yesterday’s'
collective bargaining election,
which was won by the union,
whose controversy with the com •
pany led to the federal seizure of
the plant on April 26th.
The action came as Sewell
Avery resumed control of the
plant 13 days after two soldiers
carried him out of the building,
when he refused to comply with
the WLB directive and the presi
dential order to extend the eon
tract
Jesse Jones, secretary of com
merce, issued the ruling last
night, ending the federal possessi
on of the properties.
RAF FIGHTERS
AND BOMBERS
HAMMER PARIS
LONDON, May 10.—RAF fight
ers and bombers hammered both
Paris and Berlin last night and
today, the German radio said.
The daylight raiders were bear
ing down on the European fort
ress for the 26th consecutive day
of thunderous pre-invasion air
offensive.
While the heavy bombers were
concentrating on military and in
dustrial objectives, including air
craft and foundry plants in the
Paris suburbs, swift Mosquitos
unloaded many two-ton block
busters on Berlin, which is still
smouldering from the heavy
American attack last Sunday.
Monday the RAF lost seven
planes from a force of Lancas
ters, which bombed the ballbear
ing factory at Annecy, in France,
just a few miles west of the
French-Swiss-Italian borders.
American Marauders and
Thunderbolts dive-bombed and
strafed railyards and airfields in
France, Belgium and the Nether
lands today.
WORKER SIGNS
CONFESSION
crystal”CITyT Tws, May
10.—(APt—Deputy Sheriff Starnes
said today that Soy la VtUegoh,
26, signed a loafasaion that he
had killed hi& wife, 1/ in
Chicago, by hitting tier,
buck of the head in a,
had a fweed ship they
tailing the bo4* (© /