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SOVIET GUNS
HlT CAPITAL
OF HUNGARY
MOSCOW, Dec. 18.—CAP)—
Soviet big guns were firing
from newly-won positions about
five miles from Budapest, throw
ing an avalanche of steel against
the inner defenses of the Hun
am an capital, while other Red
Army units reached the Slovak
border at a new point, 72 miles
northeast of the city, it has been
reported.
The scope of the Red Army’s
Hungarian offensive was ‘empha
sized by Pravda, the official Rus
sian publication, which said: ‘‘As
many German divisions were en
gaged on the southern sector of
the eastern front, as against all
| the allied forces in the west.’’
Pravda repeated figures pur
Pon#g to show 220 enemy divi
sions, 200 of them German, tied
up in the east as of December
I 1st.
The Pravda article was direct
ed against the U. S. Army and
Navy Journal, which question
ed whether Russia had fulfilled
the military decisions at Tehe
ran.
ADVANCES ARE
MADE ON ISLE
OF MINDORO
‘ GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP
| PINES, Dec. 18.—(AP)—Today,
the United States forces which
made landings at dawn Friday,
against weak opposition on Min
doro Island in the Philippines,
[have advanced and shoved their
[outer defenses six miles beyond
the ^town of San Jose, taken Sat
urday, Gen. MacArthur announc
ed today.
The American forces have
seized command of strategic
ligh ground and established an
»rc of defense reaching at its
'arthest point, 11 miles from the
>riginal beachhead.
; Gen. MacArthur added, “The
gputhern end of Mindoro Island,
is less than 155 miles from
Manila, is now quite secure.’’
f The sanguinary battle for Ley
I continues unabated, as the
ranks push from both north and
jouth in the Ormoc corridor.
I Japanese casualties are mount
ing apace, the communique re
nted, as an additional 2,012
fikep1^ slain were counted up to
llturday.
NEW PAA HOSTESSES ON ALASKA RUN
The first stewardesses to fly
to Alaska for Pan American
Airways, line up at Seattle in
front of a converted Douglas
DC-3 .They are left to right:
Barbara Fowler, Peggy White
side, Phyllis LaSota, Mary
Myers, Virginia Smith and
Marcia Black. Gold-wing in
\ signia on their Tunis blue uni
forms were presented to them
after completing six weeks’ of
intensive flight training.
NAGOYA AND
HANKOW HIT
BY SUPER-FORTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18.
—(AP)—The Jap war machine
yesterday again felt the sledge
hammer blows of 200 Super
Fortresses, which were unions;i
ed from separate bases, it was
reported today.
The giant craft again struck
Nagoya on the Nipponese main
land, and Hankow, in Jap-occu
pied China.
Dispatches from Saipan said
that reconnaisance photographs
of the December 13th blow,
showed four large assembling
buildings and 22 smaller struc
tures destroyed or damaged se
verely.
Japan made no claims of loss
of American aerial giants.
Adm. Robert E. Peary wgts ac
companied by a Negro and four
Eskimos when he discovered the
North Pole in 1909.
NOME WEATHER
REAL TOUCH
OF CHRISTMAS
—————
Nome seems o be having a
real touch of Christmas weather,
with snow covering up the ugly
spots and blanketing the unkept
areas of the city with a white
; loveliness.
The wind, which reached 55
miles an hour in the early hours
of Friday morning, subsided and
did very little damage, as only a
few smokestacks and windows
were blown in.
Difficult travel which usually
follows a storm, was not encoun
tered by the early travelers, as
the U. S. E. D. were on the job
early in the marning and cleared
most of the thoroughfares for
trucks and pedestrians.
Inhabitants of the Commander
Islands, situated in the Bering
Sea, are descendants of Russians
and Aleuts.
a
BRITISH IN
DRIVE ON
ELAS FORCES
ATHENS, Dec. 18.—The Brit
ish forces launched a full-scale
drive against the left wing of the
Elas forces in Athens, it has been
reported today.
It appeared likely to be only
a matter of hours before the
seige of the capital will be lift
ed.
Within a short time after the
jumping off at dawn, the British
had capured Enan, the Elas’
stronghold on the highway lead
ing from Athens through the
summer resort of Phaleron to
Kalamaki airport.
The Elas forces are estimated
at about 200, who have barricad
ed themselves in a brewery,
which they have equipped with
| heavy machine guns.
"Around the World News in
Pictures" appears regularly in
The Nugget.
DOUGHBOYS
UNARMED WHEN
SHOT BY NAZIS
By HAL BOYLE
FROM THE AMERICAN
FRONT LINE CLEARING BEL
GIUM, Dec. 18.—CAP)—Weeping
with rage, a handfull of dough
boys today described how the
German tank force ruthless
poured machine gun fire into a
group of about 150 Americans,
who had been disarmed and
herded into a field during the
opening hours of the present
German counter-attack.
“We had to lie ther^ and lis
ten to the German non-coms kill
with pistols, every one of our
wounded men who groaned or
tried to move,’’ said T-5 William
Summers, of Glenville, West Vir
ginia, who escaped by playing
dead.
The dead Americans were
members of an artillery observa
tion group, which were battling
and trapped on a road fork by
powerful German armored col
umn with Tiger tanks whose
heavy guns quickly shot up two
dozen American trucks, which
were lightly armored vehicles.
There were no heavy weapons
in the American column and the >
entire unit quickly had to sur
render.
A. T. G. DANCE IS
FINE SUCCESS
The A. T. G. held the first pub
lic dance since the quarantine
closed all public meetings last
Saturday evening. The party was
held in the Nome Public School
and, considering the weather,
■"is well attended. The A. T. G.
plan on a series of dances to be
held from time to time. These
parties are open to the public and
are increasingly poi&lpr.
NOTICE!.!
I
Polei’s Store will be open
Thursday, Friday and Satur
day evenings from 7:00 to 9:00
P. M. for Christmas shoppers.
I
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