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MANPOWER CONTROL SET
GERMAN WALL
CRUMBLING !
BEFORE YANKS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, June 2.—(AP>—The
German wall before Rome is
crumbling as the Fifth Army cap
tured Bon ViHetri and Valamon
tone, two of the biggest fortress
ciMes guarding the Eternal City,
with the forces astride the Via
Cassilina, after cutting it near
Valamontone, threatening annihi-'
lation *o whatever troops the
Germans are unable to withdraw
of the nine divisions battling on1
* the lower front.
Velletri is an Appian Way
junction, 18 miles from Rome, and
is already in the hands of the al
lies, and American troops are
fanning out beyond the city into
^ the Alban hills and fighting with
'in sight of Rome’s prize build
ings.
On ‘he via Casilina, 20 miles
southeast of Rome, German forc
es were fighting a rear guard
• action, both north and west of
the main breakthrough by the U.
S. tank and infantry forces, which
are now smashing up *he Via Cas
ilina, and entered Ferentino, only
18 miles southeast of Valamon
tone, and also struck up the east
side of the highway to capture
Veroli, five miles northeast of
^ Frosinone.
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REDS SMASH
NAZI ATTEMPTS
TO CRACK LINES
LONDON, June 2— <AP>—Red
Army troops smashed all German
attempts to crack the Russian
lines north of Iasi in Rumania,
and even counter-attacked in
some sectors, inflicting heavy cas
_ ualties on the enemy.
Moscow said in a broadcast or'
a communique telling about the
fourth successive day of the bat
tle, said 800 Nazi soldiers were
killed and 17 tanks put out of
action.
A Finnish communique report
ed strong Russian attacks on two
* fronts facing Finland on the Kar
elian isthmus to the northwest of
Leningrad, and between Lakes
Ladoga and Onega.
Moscow made no mention of
these actions, but told of an hour
* of skirmish southeast of Stanis
lwow in old Poland, which cost
the Germans 100 dead. Also in
cluded in the report was scouting
action, northwest of Vitebsk, in!
White Russia.
'U. S. to Champion
Liberty- Hull
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 2.
—1AP)—A statement of potential
and explosive significance to Col
onial empires, such as British and
Dutch, was made by the United,
States Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, when he declared that the!
United States would champion,
liberty for everybody, and vir-j
tually promised recognition of
any peoples who want to assert
their freedom effectively, and
added, the Americans would sup-!
port liberty “that all peoples
** might aspire to liberty,” as such
a motto has dated from the ear
liest days of the republic.
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ERNEST BURGH
GRADUATED
GOLDEN, Colorado — Ernest
Earl Burgh, son of Mrs. Roy bum
mers, Nome, will be granted the
professional degree of engineer of
mines at the spring commence
ment exercises of the Colorado
School of Mines, May 26. He re
ceived the unique diploma etched
in silver which the School of
Mines uses instead of the custom
ary sheepskin.
Burgh is a member of Sigma
Gamma Epsilon, honorary engi
neering Society, and the Barbs,
independent student organization.
He is afco a member of the local
student tahapter of the American
Institute of Mining and Metallur
gical Engineers.
“Ernie" Burgh graduated from
the Nome Territorial High School
in Nome a few years ago.
$122,000 LOSSES
SUSTAINED IN
SALMON LOSSES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 2.
—<AP>—A government spokesman
today reported $122,600 in salmon
fishermen indemnity losses were
sustained in ,1942 as a result of
the navy ordering the boats home
from the customary fishing
grounds. |
Lt. Colonel Olmstead, deputy
'director of supply of the War
Food Administration, in testi
mony made public today, and told
the House Appropriations Com
mittee a fund of $6,000,000 should
be set up to reimburse fishermen
for losses incident to war, and
urged the fund to be continued
to encourage fishermen to take
salmon.
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Pope Expresses j
Hope For Peace >
LONDON, June 2.—'AP»—The
Pope, in a speech at the College
of Cardinals, expressed his hope
that peace would soon appear over
Rome’s hills, and the whole
world, but he added that the de
mand for total victory might pro
long the war.
In the Italian language, the
Pope called on the victors to
give “hope and faith to the van
quished, and that whoever lifted
a hand against Rome, would be
guilty of matricide.”
Brooklyn Scene
I Of Chlorine Gas
Catastrophe
NEW YORK, June 2.—fAP>—
Escaping chlorine gas felled more
than 300 persons in a busy inter
section in Brooklyn, New York,
today. Most of those overcome
by the gas were removed to hos
pitals, some in very serious con
dition.
The gas spread over an area of
two blocks in each direction and
men, women and high school stu
dents began to cough and vomit,
then to stagger and fall flat on
the floors, sidewalks and streets.
The scene resembled pictures of i
war devastation. The gas, heavier
than air, descended through the
ventilators into the subway, fore-,
ing scores of persons to flee to,
the streets, where they too, top
pled over. |
RANGER TRAININ G—Members of a If. S. infantry unit in Northern Ireland leap through
a contact drill in an intensive Ranger course to toughen them up.
U. S. AIR FORCE
STRIKES HEAVY
BLOW ON COAST
LONDON, June 2.—<AP>—The
U. S. air force made the heaviest
single blow yet struck agamit
the German west wall installa
tions on 'he French coast, hurling
more than 750 Fortresses and
Liberators and several hundreds
of fighters over the Pas de Calais
area.
Departing before dawn, allied
fighters struck over 2000 miles
of airways in Scandanavia, France,
Hungary and Crete.
The RAF heavy bombers con
centra'ed in southern and western
French rail yards at Saumur, 150
miles from Paris, on the French
coast.
Night Mediterranean forces at
tacked rail yards in Hungary, 30
miles east of Budapest, at Szol
nok. ■ — *
Mosqui‘o bombers hit targets
in Denmark.
Germans reported air attacks
damaged a convoy off the west
Norwegian coast.
Bombers of the Middle East
Command attacked ports on the
big Greek Island of Crete.
Chinese And U.
S. Troops Attack
City of Myitkyina
KANDY, Ceylon, June 2.—fAP>
—Chinese and American troops
were attacking Myitkyina simul
taneously from three sides and
scored fresh gains in the drive to
reduce the Japanese base in
North Burma, an allied commun
ique said today.
The bulletin added the allied
forces were meeting with stiff
resistance, but were inflicting
heavy casualties on the enemy.
McIVERS HAVE
BABY GIRL
News has been received by
Mrs. Earl Towner, sister of Mrs.
Wallace Mclver, formerly, Miss
Lois Ost, that she has been seri
ously ill and was taken to the
hospital in Juneau. An emergency,
operation was deemed necessary
by the doctor in order to save the
life of Mrs. Mclver. They are the
happy parents of a tiny baby girl,
bom on May 14. Baby is doing
very nicely^ but her mother is
Still dangerously ill.
Court of Appeals
Upholds WPB
In Reviews of Acts
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.
—LAP*—The U. S. Court of Ap
peals for the District of Colum
bia, ruled that orders of the War
Labor Board, are rot reviewable,
by the court’s ruling on the ap
peal, brought about by the em
ployers’ group of Motor Freight
Carriers’, Incorporated, associated
carriers and individuals who rep
resent about 300 trucking compan
ies engaged in transportation of
freight in the New England states.
Three of the appeal court jud
ges, who heard the case, Judges
Miller, Edgerton and Arnold, held
unanimously: “It is clear and un
disputed that there is no statute
which authorizes a review of the
War Labor Board’s order.”
NEW TROOPS
BEING PUT ON
BEACHHEADS
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,
June 2. — fAP>—Reinforcements'
are being poured onto the beach
es of Biak Island to support the
hard-pressed Yanks, who are
stricing to take the airdromes
within bombing range of the
Philippines, headquarters an
nounced Friday.
Meanwhile, the advance units
were held up by Japanese snip
ers atop the ridges of the main
Schouten Island, off the coast of
Dutch New Guinea. Headquar
ters said that sniper fire and mor
tar exchanges were the only ac
tivity on the island.
200 miles down the Dutch New
Guinea coast, southeast American
invaders in Maffin Bay, killed 75
more Nipponese soldiers in patrol
actions and raised the total of
;nemy casualties to 1,453.
On Bougainville, in the north
Solomons sector, an offensive ac
tion sprang up for the first time
n many months, when American
’orces made amphibious landings,
seven miles to the southeast of
I’orokina, in the Empress of Au
justa Bay area.
On the west central coast of the
British New Guinea mainland, the
Australians were moving slowly
o north and west beyond Me
lang, and reached Guru, 40 miles
southeast of Hansa Bay.
JAPS MASS MEN
IN HANKOW
CANTON AREA
CHUNGKING, China. June 2.
—f.\P>-—The Japs have massed
280.000 *rcops in the Hankow
Canton areas, in a smashing drive
aimed not only at the conquest of
the entire Canton-Hankow rail-,
way, but to prepare new blows
elsewhere in China.
Major General Theng, army
spokesman, declared the forces
comprised 210.000 troops in the
Hankow area, and 70,000 in the
Canton area, as compared with
the force of only 40,000 men hith
erto used.
He said: “In addition, the Japs
are massing troops in Indo-China
on the Yunnan border, and are
building a new motor highway
be'ween the Hanoi frontier and
their own on Luokay, 160 airline
miles, northwest of Hanoi, and
are constructing a big air base
near the border.
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Train Explodes
Near Anglia
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.LONDON, June 2.—tAP>—An
ammunition train exploded near
Anglia, a market town, lifting
the roofs of adjacent houses and
turning the railroad station into,
a shambles.
The explosion injured a number
of persons and the fireman of the
train was killed.
The station and nearby build
ings caught fire from the terrific
heat and flame of the explosion,
and the blast was felt 20 miles
away.
MOONLIGHT WATER AGAIN
FLOWS ON FRONT STREET
During the past week there has
been considerable work done re
pairing the water mains for the
Moonlight Water Company’s wa
ter system. Andrew Nerland is
in charge of the repair crew, and
he says the water is now flowing
in the pipes, as far as Front
Street, and will soon be running
in other parts of town.
ATG EVENTS=
Non-Commissioned Officers'
meeting for tonight has been
cancelled, because of the High
School graduation exercises.
McNUTT SAYS
LABOR NEEDED
IN WAR PLANTS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 2.
—(AP>—Sweeping new controls
over the dwindling male supply
of workers was ordered by the
War Manpower Commission, to
become effective July 1st, to
provide every job, which is. seek
ing men, virtual assurance of aid.
Every American is required
to apply for United States Em
ployment Service for assignment
in war plants where it is most
needed, regardless of where the
war plant is located
Employers on the other hand
will be permitted to hire only
those men referred to them by the
U. S. Employment Service.
“The successful conduct of the
war now requires the channeling
of all available manpower, that is,
male labor of the nation, to the
jobs of *he greatest war produc
tion urgency, and the retention
of such labor on those jobs," Paul
V. McNutt, chairman of the War
Manpower Commission, declared
today in announcing the new pro
gram.
McNutt said: “The new program
ex'ends on a nationwide basis the
voluntary WMC’s program already
in effect in about half a dozen
areas where critical labor short
ages exist.”
FIFTH ARMY
SEALS OFF MAIN
RETREAT LINE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES. June 2.—tAP>—The
Fifth Army has cut the Via Cas
silinia, sealing off the main Ger
man escape route, and have brok
en into Velletri, which has been
already left two miles behind by
the American spearhead battling
on the heights in sight of Rome.
Plunging across the Via Cassil
ina near Valamontone, the allies
slashed the main road from the
Nazis, who are falling back from
the main front.
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To the southeast, British forces
are pounding up the highway
nearing Ferentisino, only 18 miles
from Valamontone. — • ““ *'
French troops have swung to
ward the highway from the west
in this sector.
U. S. infantrymen entered Vel
letri late yesterday, after other
American units had practically
encircled this key of the German
forces on the Appian Way, 18
miles from Rome.
Aleuts Return
To Pribiloffs
WASHINGTON. June 2— fAP)
—The Interior Department’s
Ickes announced the successful
return to the Pribiloff Islands,
of the 400 Aleuts who were evac
uated nearly two years ago be
cause of Japanese activities in
the area.
These Aleuts are the regular
caretakers of the government
owned fur seal on the Pribiloffs.
FUNERAL TO BE
HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Funeral services will be held
from the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission Church Sunday afternoon
at 3:00 p. m., for Helen Dickson,
aged 12 years, granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ozenna.