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VOL. 46,—No. 111. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1944. PER COPY—15c.
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JAr AIK rUKCE
BROKEN AFTER
SECOND RAID
By CHARLES McMURTY
LT. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS IN PEARL HAR
BOR, Sept. 25.—(AP>— Carrier
planes of the Halsey-Mitscher
naval team, forced the Japanese
fleet to leave its “former anchor
chorages in the Philippines to
seek new refuges in the same
general area,” Admiral Nimitz
announced today.
The report said, that, on the
second raid on the Manila area
September 21st, U. S. Time, the
Japanese air force in the islands
had broken.
The admiral said later that
American warships on Saturday
frustrated a Japanese attempt to
reinforce their garrison on Peli
liu Island, where the U. S. ma
rines were making gains.
YANKS NOW
NEAR TOWN
OF BOLOGNA
ROME, Sept. 25.—(AP>— Ex
ploiting their success in smash
ing through the heart of the
German vaunted Gothic Line,
American troops of the Fifth
Army punched to a point within
10 miles of Bologna, on the Ri
mini highway, via Aemilia, of
the ancients, allied headquarters
announced today.
At the southeastern edge of
the Po valley, however, the Brit
ish Eighth Army ran into heavy
fighting with Nazi infantry, para
* troopers, and armored forces,
which were desperately holding
the line across the entrance to
the broad plains to the north.
1,200 BOMBERS
ATTACK YARDS
AT FRANKFORT
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LONDON, Sept. 25.—(API—
More than 1200 American heavy
bombers, with fighter escort, at
tacked the railway yards and
other targets in Frankfort, Co
blenz and Ludwigshaffen, all of
which are in front-line Germany
and part of the western defenses.
Tremendous explosions echoed
across the Channel from Calais,
indicating that heavy bombers
were battering the German gar
. rison there, which is surrounded.
™ Over 4,000 tons have been thrown
at the Germans there last week.
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COAL MINERS ‘FOX HOLE ‘—a shift of bituminous coal miners at a mine near Bishop,
IV Va.. In the Pocahontas area, emerge from their home-front “fox hole."
ROOSEVELT
FLAYS GOP
LEADERS
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.—
(AP)—President Roosevelt open
ed his fourth term campaign with
• a hard-hitting speech accusing
the Republican opposition of at
tempting to claim credit for the
> New Deal.
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He charged the GOP operators
of being “guilty of the most ob
vious garden variety of fraud,”
while speaking before the AFL
i teamsters union.
| The President said, “The
' whole purpose of the republican
oratory these days is to persuade
| the American people that the
democratic party was responsible
J for the 1929 drachma and the de
| pression, and that the republican
party was responsible for all so
' cial progress under the New Deal
There is one thing I am too old
for. I cannot talk out of both
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sides of my mouth at the same
time.”
Roosevelt made point by point
and replied to almost every criti
cism levelled against his admin
istration by his republican oppo
nent, although he did not men
tion Dewey’s name.
He declared that the govern- j
ment welcomes “all sincere sup
porters of the cause of effective
world collaboation—and that mil
lions of republicans are with us.
I am actually four years older,
which seems to annoy some peo
ple. In fact, millions of us are
| eleven years older than we were
when we started to clear up the
mess dumped in our laps in
1933."
Roosevelt said that the opposi
tion had carried the attack
against the administration, even
down to include his little dog
Fala. The President said that as
soon as Fala heard that “the re
publican fiction writers” made
the story public, that he had been
1 left behind in the Aleutians and
had been rescued by a destroyer
at the expense of 20 million dol
lars, his “Scotch soul was furious
and he has not been the same dog
since.
“I think I have a right to ob
ject to libelous statements about
my dog,” the President added.
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The “walkie-talkie” portable
radio telephone developed during
the war will provide constant
communication after the war. For
instance, you may call your hus
band while he’s driving home from
work to tell him to Stop at the
grocery store for a loaf or bread.
Soak clothes only about 14 min
utes, as excessive soaking will
weaken fibres and make fabrics
greyish. • • • . • :
DROP 105 TONS
OF BOMBS ON I
DUTCH CELEBES |
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ON
j NEW GUINEA, Sept. 25.—(AP)— j
; Today’s communiques announced i
that heavy allied bombers were
continuing their sharp neutrali
zation raids and dropped 105
tons of explosives in the Dutch
Celebes attack.
Headquarters reported that
Japanese interception was neglf*
gible.
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FALL SESSION
OF COURT IS
OPENED TODAY;
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The Fall session of court con
vened this morning at 10:00
o’clock. As there were 10 short
on the grand jury panel, a spec- j
ial venire was‘called.
;■ They are as follows:
• T. C. Lehman, Hugh Gabbard,!
Ole Hay, Edith Thompson, James
Baldwin, Roy Adkins, Lambert
Voss, Henry Moon, Pauline Ga
brielson, Elizabeth Timmer.
They will meet again Tuesday
morning at 10:00 o’clock.
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u. S. TROOPS
PUNCH INTO
REICHSWLAD
LONDON, Sept. 25. —LAP)—
American troops punched into
Reichswald in Germany, adjacent
to the Siegfried line anchor of
Kleve, while the British army
forces have broken a ring around
the besieged “Red Devil’’ para
chutists north of the Rhine at
Arnhem, and began consolidating
their bridgehead for the main
push into the northern Reich,
headquarters announced. •
The Yanks were engaged in
fierce combat with the Germans
in the Reischwald troop concen
tration area, five miles east of
the Waal river crossing at Nij
megen, which is 50 miles north
west of the Krupp armament
center at Essen.
The Americans who broke
across the German frontier at the
new point near Beek, a Dutch
border village, which is three
miles southeast of Nijmegen, are
going head-on against Kleve,
eight miles to the southeast.
Gen. Eisenhower’s communique
said that the Polish re-inforce
ments from the British Second
Army, slipped across the upper
branch of the Rhine at Arnhem
by night. They are hard pressed
but stout-hearted. The British
airborne division fought alone
for a week, counterattacking the
Germans right on down the line,
while Hodges, with the U. S.
First Army, ripped the Ger
man counterattack to pieces in
the area east of Aachen. They
also turned huge 240 millimeter
guns on targets only 18 miles
from the Rhine.
General Patton’s Third Army
slashed close to Baccarat, 28
miles southeast of Nancy, and
only 45 miles from Strassbourg.
The Germans announced the
loss of Epinal on the Moselle
front, 40 miles below Nancy.
They are making a desperate
stand at East Epinal with Allied
gains being hard won. The Ger
man army is throwing in coun
terattack after counter-attack and
have left the battlefields strewn
with reckless losses of tanks and
troops. German civilian armies
are shoveling frantically to create
new lines of trenches.
Chemists are studying the pos
sibilities of developing chemical
and fibrous bi-products from the
large amounts of redwood and
redwood bark wastes which nor
mally result from lumbering op
erations in the West.