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PASSES AWAY
ENROUTE
TO NOME
Word was received today by
Mr. and Mrs. M. J Walsh that
their daughter, Mrs. Maurice
King, passed away at North Bend,
Washington, while enroute to
Alaska with her husband, to be
reunited wi4h her family.
Mary King had been ill for
some time, but it was hoped she
was improving. She was born in
Nome, and was the eldest girl in
the Walsh family She attended
the Nome Public School and later
at'ended the University of Alas
ka, where she graduated in a
course in Normal Training, after
which she taught school in both
Candle and Kodiak, Alaska.
At Seward she married Maur
ice King, who was a pilot for
Pollack Airways, and later for
Alaska Star Airlines.
The past few years they have
made their home in Fairbanks.
Mary Walsh King was loved by
all who knew her, and was known
as always being a happy and un
selfish person. Her passing is a
shock to all because of her youth
and seemingly good health
She is survived by her husband
and a small son, who is now with
his grandparents, enroute to South
Bend for the funeral arrange
ment; her fathe rand mother, Mr.
and Mrs. M. J. Walsh of Nome;
her brothers, Joseph, who is em
ployed by the CAA in Anchorage;
James and Pierce, who are with
the armed forces; Kevin with the
PAA at Fairbanks; and three sis
ters, Eileen, Noreen and Patricia,
in California; Anna Walsh in
Fairbanks; and Kathleen Walsh in
a special me4orolog:cal school of
the PAA
Mr. and Mrs. Walsh and grand
son left immediately for the
States.
The Nugget extends its deepest
sympathy fo the Walsh family in
their hour of sorrow and be
reavement
ROOSEVELT
ILL WITH
BRONCHITIS
WASHINGTON. Mar. 29.—CAP)
—President Roosevelt disclosed
disclosed that he has been suffer
that he has been suffering with
bronchitis for the past three
weeks, and today had gone to the
Naval Medical Center here for
X-rays.
The President had spent the
better part of the last 10 days
away from his office Coughing
considerably throughout the press
conference, he said he saw no rea
son for alarm over his bronchitis,
as he felt fine otherwise.
PATTERSON TELLS OF
NEW DRAFT STATUS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 29 —(AP)
—Undersecretary of War Patter
son told the House Military Com
mitted'. thot the time had arrived
when 3,500,090 4-F’s, between the
ages of 18 to 37, be assigned to
essential industry, or-be inducted
into the army in labor battalions,
as the committee reopened its
study on the manpower situation.
SUPPLIES FOR FICHTE RS_a huge Army crane unloads supplies from a Coast Guard
~ manned supply craft on a beach in the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshalls invasion.
HEAVY 8 0 N 0 BUYER — Richard Lyon, 9, English
born son of Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, signs up with Lorraine
Moore to invest his entire salary from his first important Holly
wood motion picture role in U. S. war bonds.
CHANCES
ARE MADE IN
LIBERTY SHIPS
SEATTLE, Mar. 29.—<AP'—
Changes have been' made in the
design of Liberty ships, which
have virtually eliminated the dif
ficulties which caused “cracking”
of some of Ihe earlier-built Lib
erty vessels, according to Edgar
Kaiser, general manager of the
Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation,
in testifying before the Truman
Committee
Kaiser said, “The Liberty ship
John P. Gains, broke in two with
;1he loss of ten men in Alaskan
waters, because it was improperly
loaded.”
He declared:
“You can break any ship in
half by loading it fore and aft.
That’s the way they broke the
Gains’ back!’
HUM( 1ST
DIES IN CANADA
TORONTO, Canada, Mar. 9-—
(AP)—Stephen B. Leacook, noted
economist and humorist died in
the Toronto General Hospital,
after an illness of several weeks.
DEMOCRATS
WIN IN STATE
OF OKLAHOMA
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MUSKOGEE, Okla., Mar. 29 —
tAP>—The democrats reasserted
their grip on Oklahoma’s tradi
tionally “Bourbon” Second Dis
trict by winning the special con
gressional election in the face of
a determined republican challenge
and heated campaign, which
brought Senator Barkley, a demo
crat from Kentucky, and Senator
Moore, a republican from Okla
| homa, from Washington for major
speeches in the campaign.
Both senators agreed that the
sole issue was the support or re
pudiation of the national admin
istration.
With 305 out of the 330 districts
reported, the only ones left were
the small, scattered precincts.
Democratic Candidate W. .G
Stigler had 20,193 to 17,771 for
republican, E. O. Clark.
The result was the third demo
cratic triumph ip 11 special con
gressional elections since MM2, the
GOP’s winning eight.
Said Clark: ,
“I wouldn’t want to interpret
the results of this campaign, that
we were decisively beaten, and
that’s all I can say about it.”
CAPTURE
IMPORTANT
ILACk SEA PORT
. # MOSCOW, Mar 29 — lAP.i
General Malinovsky's Third Uk
rainian Army pushed across the
south Russian steppes and cap
tured Nikolaev, the Black Sea
port, where the Bug and the In
guIs rivers join the Black Sea,
then moved forward toward the
main port in southern Russia,
Odessa, on a curving 175-mile
front.
300 miles to the northwest other
Russian forces were reported
with n 40 miles of the Czecho
slovakian frontier.
Further west in Bessarabia, the
Soviet communique said, units of
General Konev’s Second Ukrain
ian Army were within eight miles
of the Odessa-Tiraspol-Iasi rail
road, the last principal escape ar
tery from Odessa.
Spearheads of Malinovsky’s
forces which captured Nikolaev
: at the mouth of the Bug river,
i were already reported driving
along the coastal roads toward
[Odessa, 75 miles to the west.
Other columns were plunging
south from bridgeheads 60 to 80
| miles up-stream, where Doman
[evka and 40 other Russian towns
| have fallen into Soviet hands.
Berlin asserted that Konev’s
| army sketched along the east
j bank of the Prut river, the boun
dary line of old Rumania, have
now crossed that stream in an as
sault on the strategic rail junc
tion city of Iasi, but neither the
! Russian communique nor front
; line dispatches confirmed this re
| port, of the first Soviet invasion
! of Axis territory.
BOMBERS DUMP
300 TONS ON JAP BASES
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
/
Mar. 29 —(AP)—Today, in swings
over enemy bases in the Bismark
Sea area, allied bombers dumped
nearly 300 tons of bombs, hitting
Kavieng, New Ireland; Rabaul
New Britain, and positions on
Bougainville, Wewak and Hansa
Bay. *
The New G«inea coastal points
were the heaviest hit, where the
allies have already dumped
around 2,500 tons of high explos
ives so far this month.
CHURCHILL
ASKS FOR VOTE
OF CONFIDENCE
LONDON, Mar 29.—(AP)—
Winston Churchill, amid cheers of
♦he Commons, bluntly demanded
its support all down the line on
his government’s program and
called for a vote of confidence,
stating his war leadership as the
single issue.
On an amendment to the educa
tion bill, he had 'aken up the
challenge of the opposed b 11,
which was defeated by one vote
last night.
The grim-faced prime minister
refused to dis'inguish between
domestic problems from the basic
! issue of government leadership
but said that at the next sittin,
i
;of the Commons the amendmen
, providing equal pay for men and
women teachers written in over'
the government’s objection, would
be stricken out.
“This deletion will be regarded
as a vote of confidence of the
| present adminis'ration, otherwise
it will entail the usual ‘constitu
tional consequences,” he said.
With the resignations of mem
bers and the formations of new
cabinet members, Churchill de
clared:
“I cannot attempt to control the
activities of members. I can mere-,
ly offer them some suggestions j
As consequences may attend their
actions, certainly we cannot go i
on to present a basis of govern- ;
ment which has been defeated |
after the language used from this
bench, and into the very great
tasks which lie before us.”
Churchill was interrupted often
by cheers. Once when he declar
ed, "It is really impossible to dis
tinguish between a vote on domes
tic policy and a vote on general
policy in the war in this coun
try.”
With some cries of “rubbish,”
the House approved the amend
ment 117 to 116.
TROOPS WITHDRAW
FROM HILL 202
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, Mar. 29.—(AP)—Indian
Gurkha troops and New Zealand
ers withdrew from Hangsman
Hill and Hill 202, just below the I
top or peak of Monastery Hill,
after a two-week occupation, as
they could only be fed by air, and
the artillery and mortar fire was
thundering around the town.
These points were lost when the
general offensive failed to dis- j
lodge the Germans from Cassino.
On the Anzio front, allied artil
lery scattered German infantry
formations which were taking
positions to attack three miles
west of Cistema.
Allied planes flew 1500 sorties
yesterday, downing 13 enemy
craft with a loss of 10 allied
planes.
GALVINS RETURN
TO NOME AFTER TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. "Larry Galvin re
cently returned from the Outside
where they have been vacationing
and attempting to get some busi
ness done relative to his business
in Nome—the Diesel Oil Sales.
JAP LOSS
GREAT IN
INVASION
NEW DELHI, India,
Mar. 29. —(AP)— Allied
fighter planes smashed a
oig bomber thrust, made in
support of the Japanese in
vasion of Indin territory,
uowning 24 planes, but the
enemy ground forces have
ian.cn up new and ad
vanced. positions.
1 ne Southeast Asia Com
mand announced the Jap
invasion cm urn n in the
UKhrul area, 32 miles
northeast of Imphal, India,
and was main taming pres
sure despite their heavy
casualties in these attacks.
Mountbatten's communique also
reported Japanese activities in
the hilly jungle country, 50 miles
to the northeast, but allied troops
drove the enemy back in the Chin
hills and captured much valuable
enemy equipment in surprise at
tacks.
Allied forces were also hold
ing posiUons on the Tamil Paiel
road, leading to Lake Loktak, but
the Japs stubbornly resisted at
tempts to clear them from the
upper part of the Tiddirn Imphal
highway.
Gen S‘ill well’s American
trained Chinese troops are attack
ing Nipponese positions south of
Khawnclaw river and east of the
transport road in that area
PETITION ^
DENIED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 29 —(AP)
—The examiner for the Civil
Aeronautics Board recommended
against allowing Alaska Airlines
to purchase the assets and busi
ness ot' Cordova Air Service, on
the basis that the purchase would
fur* her reduce competition in the
interior of Alaska,
The recommendation was sub
ject to the review' by the whole
of the board.
The Alaska Airlines offered
$30,1)00 for the line, which oper
ates under temporary authority
from *he board.
DESTROY
2100 PLANES
LONDON, Mar. 29.— iAP>—To
day it was announced that Brit
ish-based American Air Forces
have destroyed more than 2106
German planes in the last ei|£it
weeks, and since February 1st*
have blasted Germany and ooOU
pied territories with 3700 tone of
bombs.
The announcement was made
by General Doolittle, in a radio
speech beamed to the National
I Press Club in Washington, D. C.