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■ DEVILDOGS
TAKE HILL
. ONIWO
Elmoni Waite
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 23rd.
—(AP)—The hard fighting U. S.
Marines have paid the highest
* price in the Pacific war theater
for 58 hours of fighting with cas
ualties totaling 5372. on the Jap
held island of Iwo Jima.
The ‘‘Devildogs” have wrested
the 546 foot Mount Surebachi, on
* the south tip of the island, from
the Japanese defenders. The
American flag was raised over the
crater’s rim, by the 28th regiment
signalling the end of that phase
of the fighting
No invasion of the Pacific war
„ for the comparative period has
cost so many lives of our Ameri
can boys.
The Marines have inched for
ward on the north toward the air
base in the center of tne island.
_
BILL TO
MAKE FISH
. ESSENTIAL
WASHINGTON, Feb 23. —(AP)
—Lack of unity in the policy of
drafting commercial fishermen
is seriously endangering the in
dustry Senator Magnuson declar
ed as he introduced a bill to put
these workers on a par with farm
labor in the essential production
of food.
He said, the Draft Boards take
fish-boat captains and engineers
and the result is that a whole
* crew is out of production.
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FIJI FIGHTERS REACH SEA —Ending a five-day march, three advance scouts of the Fiji
regiment attached to the U. S. Marines reach Bouganvilie’s western beach.
AFL&CIO
PROTEST
CEILINGS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23,—(AP)—
The AF of L and the CIO agreed
they will urge the President to
override the advice of the War
✓
Labor Board against lifting the
present wage ceilings. Murray^
president of the CIO, and four
active members of the A.F of L.,
criticized the Labor Board for
their stand on the question, and
said they would fight to crack
the little steel formula on which
the wage scales have been set
Miss Burley To Go
On Annual Trip
Miss Grayce Burley, teacher of
Arts and Crafts for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs is leaving on
»
her annual field trip and expects
to be gone several weeks.
ALLIES
ROLL UP
WEST LINE
PARIS, Feb 23, —(AP)—German
e
reports assert that General Eis
enhower has launched his great
offensive toward the Rhine and
Rhur rivers, with tanks and ar
tillery.
The lines are reported rolling
forward about 15 miles from Du
ren, cracking the line which has
held the Allied forces in check
since December.
Patton’s Third Army has ad
vancd about 3 miles up the Mos
elle valley about 4 miles from
Trier.
In the Pruem sector the col
umns are squeezing the Germans
east of Luxembourg, and have
gained 8 miles.
These advances were made with
the assistance of the greatest
aerial onslaught of the war.
AIRFORCES
AGAIN ON
OFFENSIVE
LONDON, Feb. 23 —(AP>—At
y
least 20 freight yards were blasted
by 1900 American planes in the
gigantic offensive to knock out
the German transport system
which feeds both the eastern and
western front.
! A force of more than 1200fort
resses and liberators escorted by
650 fighters followed the same
pattern yesterday. Widespread
targets were smashed from low
altitudes of 6000 to 12,000 feet.
More than 20,000 planes have
been thrown against the Reich
in the past three days by seven
allied air commands.
Read it in The Nugget.
"Around the World Nows In
Pictures" appears regularly in
The Nugget*
YANKS
INVADE
CAPUL ISLE
C. Yates McDaniel .
MANILA, P. I. Feb. 23. —(AP)—
Veteran Yanks of the American
forces fighting in the Philippines
invaded tiny Capul island, just
off the southern tip of Luzon^ In
a move to clear the Japs from the
main shipping routes from the
United States to Manila.
At Manila they are shelling
point blank at the thick east wall
in the southern part of the city.
! and the lst.Cavalry made ready
for a grand assault to clean up
the last of the Japanese garrison.
On Corregidor the 3rd Para
troop Division continued the grim
task of exterminating the Japs
-with liquid fire and explosives.
CANOL IS
ABOUT TO
BE JUNKED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23,—(AP)—
The Army announc-1 that it was
ready to close dow lie Canadian
Oil Development project and
write it off. $34,000,000 have
been sunk into this strategic war
expenditure.
The Senate War Investigation
Committee told the Senate today
that the Canol operation would
be shut down unless the combined
chiefs of staff overrule their de
cision after a resurvey.
Sec. Ickes told Congress last
year that it ought to be junked
as the project was undertaken
when we were in desperate need
and with our backs to the wall
with the Japs in the Aleutians.