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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 132. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Nov. 4. 1942. Per Copy 164
Last Link Alaska Hiway Completed
Thirty Million Americans Cast Ballots Yesterday
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’Dozers ’’Drive Golden Strike" Alaska
Highway 20 Miles l rosn Boundary
WHITEHORSE, Nov. 4 (/P) — The final link of
the Alaskan highway was completed with dramatic
suddenness in a spruce forest of the Yukon Territory.
Corpora! Refines Sims, Jr., husky Philadelphia
negro, driving south with a bulldozer, saw the trees
starting to fall toward him. He quickly backed his big
machine away as another bulldozer, driven by Private
Jalufka of Kennedy, Texas, broke .through the under
brush and the north and south crews finally met. Sims
leaped out and warmly shook Jalufka’s hand. It was
the Yukon version of driving the golden spike. Three
men near-by were Lieutenants Ralph Hunt and G. H.
« Jones, and civilian Harold Richardson of Chicago,
Western editor of “Engineering News.”
Richardson said: “I never saw anything so excit
ing and so filled with history.”
Immediately after the meeting, Sims and Jalufka
turned their bulldozers and began widening the trail
they had been opening for the meeting, 20 miles east of
the Alaska-Yukon boundary at Beaver Creek. The for
mal dedication of the highway will be held near there
on November 20th.
American Navy Sinks 2. Possibly 9
» jap Warships In Battle Oct. 11-12
PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 3 (/P) — American naval
gurus sank two and possibly nine Japanese warships in
the Solomon Islands the night of October 11-12 in an
engagement which*is described here by Captain Er
nest Gregor Small as “A Hell of a melee,” which com
pletely surprised the enemy.
“We sank one heavy cruiser and I believe we got
two others and one light cruiser, and we know we
sank one destroyer, and probably four others” he said.
The encounter took place on a calm moonless
night in the Savo Island area. Captain Small said the
I battle area became “Just filled with burning ships,”
after the engagement.
The battle resulted from action on the part of
the Americans to intercept a Japanese expedition to
Guadalcanal.
Destroyers Shell Japs on Guadalcanal
Navy Revises Damage Oct. 26 Battle
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (/P) — U. S. destroyers
moved in and bombarded enemy positions at Guadal
canal the Navy reported, while aerial attacks continue
against the enemy. Despite sea and air attacks west
ward of the vital Henderson airfield, however, the
Navy said, the Japs landed troops and reinforcements
eastward of the field, on the north coast of Guadal
canal.
At the same time the Navy announced, in the battle
I off the Stewart Islands on October 26, northeast of
Guadalcanal, two aircraft carriers, one battleship and
five cruisers were bombed and damaged. Reports of
the Stewart Island sea battle revised the Navy’s orig
inal statement of damage to the enemy by elimination
from the list of ships hit: one battleship, substituting a
cruiser; and adding another cruiser. One heavy bomb ’
hit a light cruiser, the Navy said, previously reported
as hitting a battleship. The announcement also added
to the list, the report that four heavy bomb hits were
scored on a cruiser of the Mogami class.
Two-Piece (largo
Plane Invented
A new invention for which a
patent has just been granted may
be the answer to the vital air
transport problem for both Army
and civilian goods.
Benjamin C. Scheufele of Phil
adelphia has devised a cargo
•plane composed of two parts.
One part carries the engine and
wings, the other the cargo. The
engine part can fly another part
immediaely without loading and
unloading.
The cargo part of the plane
fits into the engine half. The tail
assembly folds up so that the
whole cargo can be towed along
the streets directly to its des
tination. Tlie inventor believes
that use of his system would de
crease the number of engines
■and wings needed.
Soldiers Get
Jobs At
Shipyards
Tacr ma (/P) — The U. S.
employment service report
ed a number of soldiers
from near-by Fort Lewis
wen- being employed at
the big Tacoma plant of
the Soattle-Tacoma ship
build og Corporation.
Sc oiiers from near-by
arm. imps can use their
furl o’::or week-end
lea\, ■ > make extra mon
ey i irking in the ship
yard Others who have
long 1 raves can go to
Cen: • Washington and
help relieve the shortage
of annle pickers.
M. K. Conway, manager
of th :■ employment service,
said r special shift, which
start • fi:30 p.m. and runs
until 1.1:30 p.m. at the ship
yards, was not limited to
soldiers but to anyone who
wished to apply for extra
work even though employ
ed on other jobs. Only com
mon laborers are being hir
ed at present for the spec
ial shift.
Senators Want
An End To
Enlistments
WASHINGTON — Republican
Senator Warren R Austin of Ver
mont proposed that the enlist
ment of men to the armed forces
be halted immediately, as well
as the commissioning of Army
officers from private life.
Austin said that such a move
is necessary if civilian manpow
er is to be kept under control,
for the best possible use of the
manpower resources of the Unit
ed States.
Democratic Senator Sheridan
Downey of California suggested
the halting of induction of older
men into the Army also would
■help relieve the crisis.
The statements by the fwo
Senators came during debate on
the bill to draft 18 and 19 year
old boys for military service.
Russians Place
War Casualties
At 20,000,000
MOSCOW — A Soviet c o m -
'■ 'Utator, broadcasting over the
official radio declared that 20,000,
000 persons in Europe are dead,
wounded or missing as a result
of two and one-half years of war.
In addition to these persons,
the Soviet commentator said j
5.71)0,000 persons in western and
southwestern Europe had been
driven from their homes and j
“doomed to unprecedented tor
ture.”
A fui ther 930,000 persons in i
these countries were said to
'have been tortured, while 1,790,
000 otillers —- described as “com
pletely innocent" were said to j
have been thrown into prison
camps by the Germans.
Ceilings On
Rent Upheld
In Uourt
Denver. Colo. —Rent veil
mgs clamped down in war
communities by the Office
of W a r Administration
were upheld by the United
States circuit court of ap
peals in Denver.
The appellate court sid
ed with the OP A office in
Wichita. Kan. This office
had prevented an apart
ment owner. Temperance
Kimmel. from evictin' ten
ants or collecting more
rent than the Price Con
trol Act rules allowed
, The appends court ruled
that rent ceilings were
part of a statute arising
from the exigent ics of war.
peclared the decision
t “In such a time a nation
that may draft its \oung
men into the armed im .es
I to serve at mode t pay.
most certainly can require
fits citizens on the home
front to make financial mid
other sacrifices essential'll
the successful defense <
our country.”
Seetv. Knox
Opposes Ban
On Liquor
WASHINGTON Secretary
the Navy Frank Knox joined in
1he oppos. 1 ion to the Leo ampin:
ment to the new Selective Sei
vice Act, which would ban all
liquor sale* in areas adjacent to
military and naval establish
ments Knox said in a letter to
the Senate Naval Affairs Con
mittee that no good purpose
would be served by the amend
ment propsed by Senator Josh
Lee, Democrat of Oklahoma. The
Secretary pointed out that alco
holic beverages of all forms al
ready are banned from American
warships.
Secretary of War Henry 1,
Stimson previously expressed op
position to tin Lee amendment,
which would require enforce
ment of prohibition in such largi
cities as New York and Chicago
Jap Doesn’t Want
To (jo To Japan
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina
A Japanese subject named -
omiyaski, whoso arrest and in
ternment has been ordered by
the Argentina government, ap
pealed to be sent anywhere but
Japan or Germany.
The Japanese is a millionaire
rnembei of a powerful Japanese
banking and financial concern.
He arrived in Argentina in 1!U6,
but tried to enter Chile last
month when proof of his espion
age activties was established
But Chilean officials refused 10
permit the Jap to cross the bor
der and he has been held since
in Buenos Aires.
Buy Defense Bonds wj Stamps
Republicans W in State Governorships
Gut Heavily Into Gonpress Majorities
FNDATED, Nov. 4 (/P) —The Republicans swept
the Democrats out of the office of state governorships
of New V ■•rk, Michigan. California and Connecticut
yesterda-. in a war time off-year election, and cut
heavily into admim ’.ration majorities in the Senate
and House. Control .' the House swung in the balance
although the Demounts felt confident they would re
tain a \ a-King margin in the new Congress and they
are sure of the Senate
T m Dewey increased measurably his 1944 Repub
lic: n presidential nun.nation prospects by .an easy
victo \ (,ver Roosev* .t-endorsed Bennett for the Em
pbf Stale governor. • • ending a 20-year Democratic
reign in Albany.
.Mount: n retu. showed that the Republicans
won - \ new Senaf- -eits and had a net gain of 22
in the If use, with 104 races .still undecided. They
won 14 Senate seats t * Iter, to the Democrats" 13,
with 7 c s -til! in r ..bt. The old Senate line-up was
Go Democrats, 29 Pa; ublicans, 1 Progressive, and l
Independent,
The outstanding upset was the defeat of Michi
gan S< natoi Brown i Republican opponent Homer
Fergu-- t. Brown va -rdinarily an administration
supporter and recently piloted the administration’s
miti-inflation bill the ugh the House wih a 28 needed
majority.
The Democrats von 178 House seats, the Repub
licans- 162. the Prog: ives 2, and American Labor 1.
• he '.'iv- ■ en.t House vie ion is 264 Democ^ate*-166 Re
publican- , 3 Progressives, 1 Farmer Labor and 1 Am
erican Labor.
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UNDATED. Nov. 3 (/P) — Upwards of thirty mil
:;on war-minded Americans exercised the right and
privilege, for which their forbearers fought and died
, ,i century and a half ago, and for which their sons and
I brothers are fighting and dying again: the right to
' shape their own government.
In the first war-time election since 1918 the vot
ers cast theii ballots to determine the political com
plexion of the new Congress starting in January. Two
thirds of the 48 state administrations are Democratic,
and the Democrats are holding a comfortable major
ity in the Senate and House. Twenty-eight of the pre
sent governorships are expected, and some new loss
i es, but even the Republicans themselves laid no claims
i of .in upset to give them control of the House where
their chances are considered the best. The Republi
cans needed 53 new seats to gain a majority of 218,
but claimed only 29 to 35. The Democrats conceded a
net loss of no more than 15. Democratic control of
the Senate was not threatened.
The Republicans claimed all governorships of key
states including New York, but the Democrats challeng
ed the claims except for a contest here and there in
which so-called "isolationism” figured. Local issues
predominated and the campaign for more notable for
its preoccupation in the war than in politics.
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MOSCOW. Nov. 3 (/l5) — A conglomerate force
; uf 50,000 German and Rumanian mountain infantry,
! armored troops and sailors edged forward in the Ne
i row sector, southeast of Nalchik, but the enemy was
I reported on the defensive in other parts of the flam
j mg Caucasus battlefront. The main Nazi thrust, which
forced a Red withdrawal from Nalchik itself, was ap
i parently aimed at Ordzhonikidze, some 60 miles away
from the military road leading from the Georgian pass
I through the Caucasus mountains.
The army paper Red Star said the Germans, weak
| ened by enormous losses at Stalingrad, 'were unable
| to maintain a general offensive in the Caucasus, throw
j ing back their full available strength in a comparative
ly local advance below Nalchik. Instead of carrying
! on the previously favored non-stop offensive tactics,
the paper said the Germans are now taking a breath
| ing spell after each assault in order to bring up more
[ reinforcements.