NOME MARINE
KILLS 60 JAPS
IN DAY’S WORK
■ Br TECH. SGT. J. A. O'LEARY
PELILEU, Palau Islands —(De
j layed)—Marine Private First
Class Arthur J. Jackson 200
pounds of one man gang from
Nome, killed more than 60 Japs
here in a single day of fighting.
He rolled up the impressive to
tal while his platoon was attack -
* ing Jap defense positions on the
southern end of the Island. In
i eight hours, the platoon destroy
c ed or neutralized 40 Jap strong
a points, Jackson singlehandedly
I accounting for 15 of them.
1 His technique was simple:
With or without covering fire,
1 tie charged the Jap hunkers,
1 placed the muzzle of his Brown
ing automatic rifle in the fire
slits or observation apertures and
sprayed the interior.
If the desperate enemy tried a
dash for safety, Jackson was
, ready. “He mowed ’em down in
, windrows,” one Marine described
In all, the big Alaskan expend
ed more than 2,000 rounds of
• Browning automatic ammunition
i during the day. So fast did he
\ worh that men ordinarily assign
I ed to carrying ammunition for
j machine guns were set to bring
i ing up ammunition for his BAR.
1 Jackson, known as “Bull” to
| fellow Marines because of his
( size, and great strength, climaxed
| his one man gang performance a
i few days later when, armed only
I with a splintered rifle stock, he
f clubbed to death a Japanese sol-1
■ dier who attacked him with gren- j
\ ades and bayonet.
The Nome Marine was in his
j foxhole when the Jap and a com
i pan Ion charged him. He killed
j the. first enemy soldier with a
J hurst from his Browning, but the 1
second threw a grenade which
shattered the rifle.
Jackson dodged the Jap’s bay
onet, grabbed his opponent) by
the neck and battered him to the
ground with the stock of the
broken rifle.
A native of Nome, Jackson now
makes his home in Portland, Ore.
He also saw action at Cape Glou
cester, New Britain.—(Jessen’s
Weekly).
RUSSIANS NOW
NEAR CITY
OF BUDAPEST
MOSCOW”, Nov. 3.—CAP)—Rus
sian tanks and guns and men,
rumbled today toward the out
skirts of Budapest, where, front
line dispatches said, panic pre
vailed as the noise of battle
swelled.
Twenty-three miles away, the
Red Army was already smashing
into the outer defenses of the an
cient city of Domsod, on the
Danube.
The Russians are now within
100 miles of the Austrian front,
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and 140 miles from Vienna.
IVPARTHUR IS
NEAR VICTIM
OF BULLET
WITH GEN. MacARTHUR’S
FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES,
Nov. 3.—(AP)—A 50-calibre bul
let was fired during the strafing
of headquarters today by a Jap
plane, and missed General Mac
Arthur’s head by a scant foot, it
has been reported.
The general, who has had a
number of close calls, looked at
the bullet hole in the wall of his
tent and commented: “Well, not
yet.”
DOCTORS BACK
FROM TOUR
OF INSPECTION
Returning from White Moun
tain this morning, Dr. Paul A.
Lindquist and Captain Anderson
report that they have checked
into the death of one child and
the sore throat of another, for
the possibility or diphtheria
symptoms.
Captain Anderson and Cap
tain Ring have been helping the
doctors and nurses secure control
of the situation in Nome.
Dr. Lindquist reports that
there are 20 clinical cases of
diphtheria in Nome, but that
others may have it and not be
reported.
The doctors and nurses can
help only if cases of sickness are
reported at once. A cold, sore
throat, or temperature should be
reported at once. Also parents
should keep their children at
home so they cannot come in con
tact with someone who might be
a diphtheria carrier.
Also here helping in the epi
demic is Miss Mabel Morgan,
chief nurse supervisor of the Of
fice of Indian Affairs at Juneau,
and Miss Christine Sorrel, Office
of Indian Affairs nurse from
Unalakleet.
Miss Sorrel left this morning
by plane for Shishmaref to check
up on a reported sore throat in
that village.
GEO. MARTIN
MARRIED TO
SEATTLE GIRL
•
Word has been received by
Garnet Martin of the North Pole
Bakery, that his youngest son,
George Martin, well-known in
Nome, was married in Seattle to
Miss Peggy Gough on October
31st. Miss Gough is a resident
of Seattle.
George hurried to Seattle while
on furlough from Camp Van
Dorn, Miss., to acquire his new
bride, and at the expiration of
his furlough, the new Mrs. Mar
tin will accompany him back to
his camp location.
Both Miss Gough and George
attended the University of Wash
ington prior to the latter’s en
trance into service.
Tell them you saw it in The
Nugget.
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ROOSEVELT
CRITICIZES
HULL’S REPORT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt today crit
icized t^e published reports given
out by Secretary Hull to a news
conference, with reference to the
campaign of whispering and ru
' mors in regard to the recall of
| General Stillwell from the China
I Burma theater of war.
1 When asked about the state
! ment by Represenative Judd, on
the recall of Stillwell because of
| the refusal of Chiang Kai Shek
to accept the White House ulti
matum that Stilwell be made
commander-in-chief of all China’s
! armies, he replied that that may
have been one of the things they
were talking about last night, and
he gave the same reply when
asked about the report that Sec
retary Hull was planning to re
sign because of his health and
that Vice-Presidentt Wallace
succeed him.
1000 BOMBERS
RAIN BOMBS
ON GERMANY
LONDON, Nov. 3.—(AP)—A
thousand British heavy bombers
| laid 4,480 tons of explosives and
; fire bombs today on Germany,
! over the arsenal at thisseidorf,
just after the day in which U. S.
fighters of the Eighth Air Force
won the greatest victory of the
war over the Luftwaffe.
A special communique from
U. S. strategic air force headquar
ters told of the destruction of *
208 German aircraft over the
synthetic oil center of Mersburg.
They scaled down the American
losses to 40 heavy bombers and
19 fighters.
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