VOL. 46.—No. 94. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1944. PER COPY—15c.
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A ROOSEVELT
VISITS ALEUTIAN
ISLAND GROUP
By Norman Bell
AN ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE.
Aug. 3 . < Delayed!—President
Roosevelt paid this Aleutian base
a surprise visit today and was in
turn surprised with what he saw.
He said that he was thrilled and
gratified.
It was the Presidents first trip
to the Aleutians. He came in a
Warship by way of Honolulu.
The chief executive praised the
members of the armed forces par
ticipating in the > Aleutian cam
paign construction program and
said that tl}py had driven. out the
enemy by* the building of the new
military ahd naval air bases in
^the remote and barren islands in
an fa credibly short time.
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President'Roosevelt was accom
panied by Vice Admiral Frank
ack Fletcher, commander of the
North Pacific.
The President made a tour of
the islands’ installations and ex
pressed a wish, that the people
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back borne could see what has
been done. The Japanese, he said,
will never again be able to
threaten North America by an
Alaskan invasion.
President Roosevelt’s im
promptu remarks were made at
an informal luncheon at the en
listed men’s mess, where he made
his noon stop.
He predicted that many of the
soldiers and sailors who live in
over-populated states would seek
new homes in Alaska after the
war. The territory’s size and
known resources he added, invit
ed settlers.
The President did not discuss
specific war plans in any theatre
nor did he comment on the na
tional political campaign for which
he is nominee for the fourth
term.
He ate lunch with the base com
manders and enlisted soldiers, sail
ors and marines, with a propor
tipnate number of Negroes mixed
throughout the long mess hall.
New cable
SHIP LAUNCHED
SEATTLE, Aug. 13.—f API—The
• new cable ship, Basil O. Lenoir,
was delivered to the signal corps
of the Alaska. - Communication
System today.
tt was designed and built in
Seattle and is the sister ship of
the Col. William A. Glassford,
hies is Alaskan waters.
ROOSEVELT
ON TOUR OF
PACIFIC AREA
ROOSEVELT
BREMERTON, Wash., Aug. 13.
—<AP)—President Roosevelt came
home after a 15-day inspection of
the Pacific war zone on Satur
. day and declared that the Unit-:
ed Nations must prepare perma
nent defenses against any futurei
aggressions of the Japs as they
cannot be trusted by word or
honor .
He visited Pearl Harbor where
he conferred with the war chiefs i
of the Pacific and inspected mil-;
i<ary bases in the Aleutians. He
brought a laugh when he said'
that he had played hookey near
Juneau long enough to sneak
three hours fishing with the re
sult o fone halibut and one flound
er.
Permanent Pacific bases must
be obtained he said to protect
this hemisphere from Alaska to
Chile. Concerning Japan, he
said that it will take years of
proof before we can trust Japan
and include her as a member in
the security of nations, which
seek permanent peace.
Speaking of his trip to Alaska,
he stated that it gave him a
chance to talk of the social and
economic future of the people of
Alaska with Governor Gruening.
He said: “I assure you that the
tan I acquired these last few days
is from Alaskan sun. Your people
of the northwest realize that the
line for sea and air navigation
is following the great circle course
from Puget Sound to Siberia and
our control of this route must be
undisputed. With the end of the
Japanese threat there is an excel
lent outlook for permanent peace
in the whole Pacific area and it
is logical that we foresee a great
interchange in commerce in our
shores and those of Siberia and
China in this commercial devel-!
opment.
“The Aleutians will become a
stepping stone to both water and
, plan cargos. It also means the
! automatic development of trans
portation to Alaska via British
Columbia as far north as the Yu
kon. Ten years ago I talked to,
Macenzie, the prime minister of
Canada, in regard to the devel
opment of highways and air
routes. Even a railroad to Alaska
via British Columbia and the Yu-;
knon aroused both nations but it
took the war to get quick action.
The Alcan Highway is practi
cally completed and the air route
to Fairbanks enables us to de
liver thousands of planes .to our
ally by way of Alaska and the
Bering Straits and Siberia.”
CROSS-COUNTRY CYCLER S—Barbara Travers, 19
(left), and her sister. Shirley. 21, stop in Denver on their cross
country bicycle jaunt from Portland, Ore., to their Dearborn,
Mich., home. They worked on the coast in a war plant. '
NIMITZ BACK j
FROM TRIP TO '
MARIANAS
By Charles McMuriy
U S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-!
QUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR,'
Aug. 13.—(AP)—Admiral Chester
W. Nimitz is back from the Mar
i
ianas where he is considering,
moving the headquarters in order}
to keep in closer touch with the
westward push. |
He stated he did not believe j
that the invasion of Japan would
be necessary to win the peace.
He disclosed that he had been'
in Guam and Saipan and had
conferred with navy, army and
marine leaders, which followed
significant war plans in the con
ference betwen President Roose
velt and General MacArthur.
TWINS BORN
IN NOME
Production was speded up when
Mrs. Marshal Moy gave birth to
twin boys at the Maynard Col
umbus Hospital. Mr. and Mrs.
Moy are employed by the CAA.
The President said that when
he returns to Washington he in
tends to set up a study of Alaska
and the Aleutians as a place.
which many veterans ot this war,
especially those without -strong •
home roots, who can go and be ,
pioner*.
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SHOWS FDR
WHERE TO FISH
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 14,
AP—Last Thursday was a red-let
ter day’ for Joe Jyamuevs and his
crew aboard the seiner. HAROLD.
The veteran Ketchikan fisher
man reported Sunday that the log
of his little craft, showed the fol
lowing entry—“Aug. 10, Went a
longside, saw the President of the
United States, we were called to
show them where the fish were.”
Samuels said, “Neither the Pres
ident, nor any member of the crew
were seen to catch any fish, but we
did not follow the ship after it
IeP Tolstoi Bay, at the northern
end of Prince of Wales Island.”
I
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CHURCH SPIRE
TO COME DOWN
•One of Nome’s oldest landmarks
is about to be destroyed. The.
outstanding and inspiring steeple
of the Catholic Church, which
has stood proudly at the end of
Stedman Avenue since 1901, has
become hazardous, due to rotting
timbers. Rather than have a fatal
accident during some storm, it j ■
has .-been decided to tear it down
as far as the belfry Many a trav-j
Bier on the trail in the early days r:
set :his course to town iby the j
light of that cross high in the sky. ]
It is a pity that the only church !
spire, the symbol of helping man j
to keck up, must be demolished, i
GERMANS ARE
CAUGHT IN
COMPLETE TRAP
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS, EXPEDITIONARY FOR
CES IN FRANCE, Aug. 14, AP—
American, British and Canadian
forces, drove furiously ahead in
the wake of dertruction of the
cream of the German forces in
northwestern Europe which were
caught in an almost complete trap
in Normandy.
Approximately a hundred
#iousand Germans which is a
fourth of the entire force which
the Allies came in contact with
since “D” day, fought a confused
gruelling battle under the sky,
filled with allied planes. The
Nazis are trying to escape the
jaws of the pincers which are
within 18 miles of closing.
General Eisenhower, In one of
his rare orders of the day, told
all men of the armies, air and
naval forces that it was an oppor
tunity for a major allied victory.
It may be grasped he said, only
through utmost in zeal, determi
nation and speedy action. The
trap was sprung it was disclosed
after five days of secrecy and
shrouded operations west of Pa
ris when powerful American arm
ored infantry spearheads sweep
ing in two 50-mile arcs through
Lemans, converged upon the Ger
man flank. In the rear with a
sudden twist to the north, the
Americans took through Alencon
and the Canadian First Army, five
rmles above Falaise, the American
armored hammer is beating the
Germans against the Canadian
and British anvil blow Caen.
ZERO HOUR t
APPROACHING
MOSCOW, Aug. 14. AP—The zero
hour for an all out assault in East
Prussia is rapidly app-' Thing as
the Russian armies striving
to rip Nazi defenses wide open
from the south.
The enemy stronghold of Lomza
which is a vital communications
center, linking Warsaw with Jun
ker Province, is menaced by Rus
sian ground forces, tanks and
planes.
In the northwest the Bailystok
drive threatened Eeat Prussia,
from the south and Warsaw from
the north.
Great tank battles are being
fought west of the Vistula River
IP the Kielce region about 100
miles south of Warsaw and within
85 miles of Krakow,, the last Pol
ish bastion, guarding the industr
ial centers in German Silesia.