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VOL. XLVII. No. 43. NOME, ALA~K A, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1945._^M==
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BREMEN AND
'* HANOVER SOON
FALL TO ALLIES
PARIS, April, 9, —</P)—Allied
w troops fought within sight of the
burning north German cities of
Bremen and Hannover, as tank
forces rcashed beyond both cities
down the last 63 miles toward the
Elbe river, a water barrier which
flows within 50 miles of Berlin.
Ninth Army troops are expected
# ot enter Hannover during the day
An estimate of German cas
ualties came from the Headquar
ters of General Omar Bradley,
f
whose Twelfth Army Groug has
captured more than a million
Germans. German losses are
% estimated at 50,000 a day for
the past few weeks, while Allied
losses are only a fraction as large.
Canadian forces closed to within
ten miles of Zuider Zee, where
hard pressed Germans blew the
« dykes virtually trapping them
selves in Holland. The force es
timated at nearly 100,000 Germans
are fenced in.
The British 2nd Army was re
ported nearing Bremen, sending
shells whining into the city.
British forces also menaced
Hamburg, Germany’s second city,
« 54 miles from their vanguards.
The Ninth Army is fighting
within 128 miles of Berlin, and
has captured Hamelin, and Hil
desheim, and threatened Bruns
4 wick from positions less than 20
miles away.
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At the southern end of the
front, the American 7th and the
French 1st Armies are fashioning
another trap in and near the
Black Forest where the city of
Pforzheim fell, and Crailsheim
95 miles from Munich was captur
ed.
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5,THE BEAST’ FOLDS ITS WINGS —The Curtiss SB2C-4, newest version of the Navy’s
Helldlver div*-bombei, is known to Pacific fleet men as “The Beast.”
RUSSIANS
IN VIENNA
LONRON, April 9,—{JP)~The
flame of battle rolled over three
fourths of Vienna today as the
Russians fought into Schroen
brunn Park, the site of the sum
mer palace of the Hapsburg Mon
archs, nad also reached the Franz
Josef railway station in the north
ern part of the city.
The German broadcast recorded
in London said further that , in
the southern part of the city the
Russians had fought to within
one mile of the city’s center and
they are reported to be within 8
miles of closing the Eichape gap.
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East of Vienna two columns
are driving toward a junction
on Marchnel’s, on the flat plains
north of the river.
Far to the north, Marshal Vas
'ildvsky’s tank forces smashed
beseiged Koenigsberg in East Prus
sia, and are clearing the Sam
land peninsula, the last bit of
East Prussia left in German hands
BOMBERS SINK
MUCH SHIPPING
MANILA, April 9, —P)—Army
and Navy bombers, blockading
the China Sea, sank 221,492 tons
of Japanese shipping and probab
ly sunk an additional 44,645 tons
and damaged 108, 630 tons dur-J
ing the month of March.
General MacArthur reported
that for the first three months of
1945 we sunk 345,179 tons of
Japanese shipping, probably sunk
an additional 116,965, and dam
aged another 274,295 tons.
These totals reflect the tight
ness of the blockade which is
preventing the Japanese the of
their rich conquered East Indies.
The Third Ukrainian Army
made bold strides in the direc
tion of Graz, Austria’s second city,
and reached positions on the Laf
nitz river, 30 miles from the city’s
northeastern suburbs, and less
than 150 miles from Berchesgaden
the so-called secret hide-out of
the Nazi leaders.
CHARLES LEE
DRAFT EVADER
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. April
9, —{IP)—Charles Mertin Lee, 36,
a member of the Alaska Federal
Grand Jury for 1941, will be
sent back to Nome next week
t oanswer charges of failure to
report before the Selective Ser
vice Board No. 6.
Lee was arrested on a charge
of vagrancy last week, and waived
a hearing Saturday.
Howard Abramson, a member
of a religious sect will travel
with him as far as Anchorage, to
stand trial for failure to report
to the Unalaska Draft Board in
July 1943.
Both prisoners are in custody
of Deputy Marshal John Rosson.
ICE POOL CLOSED
3500 GUESSES FROH'SlOME
The Nenana Ice F^ool Closed
Saturday at Midnight, with ap
proximately 3500 guesses being
made here. The pool is expected
to be larger than last year.
JAPS OFFER
MORE FIGHT ON
OKINAWA JIM A
By Murlin Spencer
GUAM, April 9, — (JP)—Jap forces
on Okinawa Jima, only 325 miles
from their homeland, are now of
fering the American Doughboys
the stiffest kind of resistance, in
cluding round the clock artillery
fire, but the 24th Army Corps
infantrymen advanced both along
the west coast toward the cap
j ital city of Naha, and inland to
| ward the important airbase at
Yonaburu.
Yesterday the U. S. Marines
I were moving northward from cap
tured Yontan and Katena airbas
es several miles north of the
Doughboys, and continued their
rapid advances against negligible
resistance.
Marine aircraft have already
begun operating off the Katena
and Yontan airfields, and, Ad
miral Nimitz report continued,
: Major General F. P. Mulcahy,
USMC., Tactical Commander of
Marine aerial operations has es
tablished headquarters ashore.
The communique said that.dur
ing the past 24 hours the Japs
have resisted stubbornly, from
well emplaced pillboxes and block
houses, constructed to take ad
vantage of the broken terrain.
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