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4 BRITISH AND
BELGIANS MOVE
TO EASTWARD
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LONDON, Sept. 27.—(AP)— |
British and Belgium divisions, i
moving to thq eastward, built up j
the invasion of Holland to the j
Maas river, on points along a j
V 40-mile front, it was reported to- j
day. !
They battled to within three.
miles of Germany.
Eastward and westward the!
drives carried 10 miles or deeper :
on both sides of the corridor
carved up to Nijemgen. From;
there on a thinner line to Arn
hem widened the push to split
Holland.
Silence still hides the fate of
the British airborne division in
} the Arnhem area, across the Ne
der Rhine, but it is indicated
that the news blackout there
might be lifted soon.
The Berlin radio said that the
crack sky troops were wiped out
and that 1,500 Britons were kill
ed and 6,450 were captured, 1700
of them wounded in this bitter
battlefield wedging into Holland.
The British Second Army
struck to the eastward through
mediocre resistance, to Boxmeer,
13 miles south of Nojmegen. On
the upper end of the Seigfried
Line heavy action still marked
the long American front from
Aachen to Zelfort.
The doughboys fprged slowly
ahead to the southeast at Nancy,
and east of Epinal, where the
Germans said that the new Amer
ican offensive was underway in
a battle with heavy guns around
Me*z, which is the strongest fort
res in Wetern France.
I
IN NOME FOR
GRAND JURY DUTY
Abraham Lincoln, manager of
the White Mountain “Log Cabin”
store, is in Nome for the Grand
Jury session.
NEILY IN FROM
KOTZEBUE
B. W. Neily, deputy marshal of
Kotizebue, is in town on business,
< during the fall session of court.
LADIES AID FOOD SALE
Tht Ladies Aid will hold a
Food Sale next Saturday, Sep
tember 30th, at the N. C. Store, j
beginning at 10:00 a. m. Any
\ ladies wishing to make dona
tions of fobd, who have not
been solicited may contact
Mrs. Christy Waldheim or Mrs.
Jessie Lehman. All help and
cooperation will be appxecailed. >
GERMANS IN
DESPERATE
RIGA RETREAT
MOSCOW, Sept. 27.—(AP)—
The German retreat at Riga
was turned into a desperate re
treat by the swiftly pursuing
Red Army, it has been reported.
The Russian infantry has
cleared the northern part of
Latvia to within 30 miles of the
Baltic seaport, to the north and
east of Riga.
The enemy is making no at
tempt to hold an organized line,
but are fleeing overland through
the escape corridor to the west
ward from the city along the
coast direction.
East Prussia is being kept open
regardless of the losses on the
front.
The Red Air Force has wreck
ed a hundred trucks and dozens
of railway cars w’hich w'ere being
used by the Germahs, who were
fleeing to the Northern Baltic.
In a three directional drive on
Riga, the Russians yesterday
overran more than 300 commun
ities.
For all practical purposes, the
neighboring Estonia, to the north,
wras liberated .
On the southern end of the
eastern front, the Russians ap
peared to be concentrating a new
pressure o nHungary, although
nothing has been said officially.
The borders of Hungary may al
ready be crossed.
Paris radio quoted Istanbul
diplomatic circles as that they be
lieved it now only a question of
time before Hungary appeals to
the allies through Turkey, for an
armistice.
Along the Polish-Czechoslovak
ian border, where heavy fighting
is in progress, the Russians bat
tered their way through deep for
tifications and seized Turka,
which is 12 miles from the fron
tier.
GRAND JURY
BRINGS IN
TRUE BILLS
Yesterday the Grand Jury, sit
ting in the fall session of court,
brought in four true bills, and to
day are continuing with other
cases.
True bills were brought in the
cases of Richard Nilsson for
grand larceny, A1 Alokeok for in
tent to rape, Elmer Merril for
larceny and Franklin Brown for
larceny.
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MOBILE CLASSES U N I T_pfe. Edward Schmaidinst
of Allentown, Pa., grinds an optical lens to fill a prescription in
his workshop with the 12th medical supply mobile optical unit at
a Fifth Army base in Italy
DEWEY PLANS
ANSWER TO
DEMO BLASTS
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ENROUTE TO ALBANY-, Sept. |
27.—(AP)—Homebound from the
West, Dewey gave renewed indi
cation that he was ready for a!
swift counter-attack against the i
expected new blasts on the Re
publicans by President Roosevelt.
Dewey announced that he plans
to speak in West Virginia on
October 6th, which is just one
day after Roosevelt takes the air
to talk on Democratic party ral
lies.
he governor smilingly told
the news conference yesterday
that he had been appraised in
the President’s radio date, when
a reporter remarked that the
lapse of time was so short be
tween the two speeches it might
not give sufficient opportunity
for Dewey to prepare an answer
to what Roosevelt might say.
Dewey observed that' he had
written the Oklahoma City speech
which he had delivered on Mon
day night, in just 12 hours.
AIR-BORNE
1 ROOf'S LAND
IN YUGOSLAVIA
ROME, Sept. 27.—(AP)—Allied
sea-airborne troops landed in the
Albanian Islands of Yugoslavia,
tne allied command announceu
i
toaay, in opera uons to mock tne [
uenuaii atittciunents iieeing irom j
tne Damans toward tne Remh.
nanu forces oi tne Adriatic
campaign are already opera ung
on a wiue from, but no lncuua-!
lion is given as to me sue oi me
units involved.
Jsviuenuy, tne purpose is to
provide slid another facet on the |
many-sided squeeze oi tne Nazis
m sou tneas tern Europe.
The allied naval command1
said that tne Royal Navy land-!
mg craft, supported by destroy- j
ers and light coastal vessels, have
been operating since September
loth along the southern Dalma
tian Island, off Yugoslavia, car
rying allied troops an dpartisans
who are striking the German
withdrawal routes.
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INVASION OF
PALAUS GROUP
PROVES COSTLY
By VERN HAUGLAN
U. S. PTCIFIC, FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAR
BOR, Sept. 27..—(AP>—Today’s
communiques report 686 Ameri
cans killed, 406 missing and
4,480 wounded, in the invasion ot
the Palaus group, through Sep
tember 25th, according to Ad
miral Nimitz.
The First Division of U. S.
marines, which opened the cam
paign September 15th on the yet
unconquered Peleliu, have lost
580 killed, 401 missing and 3,
639 wounded.
The 81st Division, which con
quered Anguar, and have now
joined in the Peleliu campaign,
sustained 186 dead, five missing,
and 769 wounded, mostly in the
Anguar drive, the report contin
ued.
Admiral Nimitz announced
that the enemy dead amounted
to more than 7,000, in the two
campaigns.
The marines on Peleliu drove
almost to the northern tip of the
island and encircled the beseiged
Japanese Umorgrogol hill en
trenchment.
The 81st army troops took ad
ditional ground in the center of
the island.
HEAVY BLOWS
SHIPPING *
ARE CONTINUED
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS ON NEW GUINEA,
Sept. 27.—tAP>—Today commun
ique states that heavy blows at
Japanese shipping are continu
ing to the south approaches to
the Philippines.
Fliers nave sunk tour freight
ers at Halmahera and Borneo.
Headquartei’s announced an
other 3,000-ton freighter sunk at
Borneo on Monday.
General MacArthur’s planes
have been raiding In the Halma
hera area, and sank three small
freighters. MacArthur’s forces
now stand within 300 miles of
the southern Philippines.
A 65-ton bombing neutralized
the Japanese Ceram air romes.
686 more Japanese have been
killed in the jungle war around
Hollandia. This is accounted for
by the inland patrol and native
regulars.
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