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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
i VOL. 47.—No. 16. NOME. ALASKA. FEBRUARY 9, 1944. PER COPY—I5c
AT PEARL H A R B 0 R—Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and Bluejackets stand at attention at a U. S. Naval Hospital at Aiea,
Pearl Harbor, as Admiral Chester W. Nhnltz, CSN, prepares to present 63?. Purple Heart medals to Pacific area veterans.
TONS OF BOMBS
LOOSED ON .
CISTERNA
^ ALGIERS. Feb. 0 ~<Ap.—TTm'
ed State? f’ghter•
poured hundred o' on*- of bo’Y,hs
into C'!s,r“rrr' *o p t’'** main
stronehofd in the Nazi line around
the invasion bridgehead.
Allied troops stnieV out on “ag
gressive patrol activ:tv” r-ains'
the consolidated positions of th'>
Nazis.
German patrols were also active
in this vital sector, and Nazi ar
tillery continued \vi*h the shelling
of the beachhead area.
Mitchell bombers, during the
p morning and afternoon raids,
pounded the buildings where the
Germans had concealed tanks and
guns. Returning crewmen said
the bombs had levelled a large
part of the town, 15 miles north
west of Anzio.
Today’s German communique
broadcast declar 'd the Nazis had
advanced several miles in the
beachhead area, capturing 700
prisoners.
“Strong enemy counterattacks
supported by tanks and naval ar
H tillery, were repulsed,” according
to the communique.
A dispatch from Stockholm,
Sweden, quoted Berlin as saying,
“The waters of Nettuno looked
like a ship’s graveyard.”
Americans battling in the Cas
sino main front, occupied four
more towns on the front, and at
one time fought within 75 yards
of the Benedictine Abbey on
^ Mount Cassino.
Allied planes flew about 1500
sorties during the day.
INFLICT
DEFEAT
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LONDON, May 9.—(AP)—Yugo
slav partisans inflicted “a devas
tating defeat” to the Axis troops
near the town of Gacko, 45 miles
south of Sarejevo, the broadcast
communique of the Yugoslav army
of liberation, said.
NOMINATION
CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON'. Feb 9.—<AP)
—The Senate today confirmed the
nomination of Anthony J Dimond
as United States District Judge
for the Third Division, and Lynn
Gemmill as United States attorney
for the First Division, for the
Territory of Alaska.
BARTLETT
DECRIES SET {
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WRANGELL, Alaska. Fob 9 —
Labelling the present system of
government “outmoded and Ineffi
cient and only a stop-gap between j
territory-hood and statehood," E
L. Bartlett, former secretary of j
Alaska, addressed the first “State- !
hood for Alaska” dinner ever held I
in the Territory here last night
Bartlett struck vigorously at the |
lack of coordination between fed- I
| era! and territory agencies, which |
he blamed “not on men at the j
head of these departments, but at !
the antiquated system which
, never intended to be anything but
i a stop-gap until statehood,".
He declared the cost could be
i defined by “taxing some of the
j millions of dollars which are now
, going out of the Territory without
paying one cent in taxation”
Before a capacity crowd, who
j paid a dollar a plate to cheer for
! the 49th state, Bartlett declared
i for an early referendum so Alas
ikans can express a “just right as :
| American citizens.”
The affair was sppnsored by
the Wrangell for Statehood, , Club. I
’$109,609 VOTED j
TO COMMITTEE
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 —<AP)—
The Senate , voted $100,000 to th.e
Truman committee, for the con- ,
tinuance of its work, bringing the
total received by the group, to :
$350,000. J
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^MFILED
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Don't ask your Social Secur
ity Board office for a statement
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of your 1943 earnings for income
tax purposes. Josephine S Wright,
.administrative assistant for the
j Alaska office, which is located in
| Juneau, requested today.
The Social Security Board can
no h ?lp you because your employ
er’s tax return will not have reach
ed the board in time to permit it
to rhake available a statement of
I your .annual earn.-gs for income
| tax returns.
Mrs. Wright sale today that
; each year, ‘ come tax time.” hun
; dreds of Alaskans request state
ments of their annual earnings for
use in making out income tax re
turns because they know that the
Social Security Board keeps care
ful records of wages paid to work
ers in jobs covered by the old
age and survivors insurance sys
tem It is op. the basis of these
records that benefits are calculat
ed for the insured worker or his
family.
Wages paid during the last three
months of 1943 will be- reported
to the collectors of internal reve
nue during January. During Feb
ruary and Mareh these reports
will be forwarded tq the- Baltimore
offices of the Bureafi of Old-Age
and Survivors Insurance. There
the wage amounts will be record- j
ed in the social security, account |
maintained for each individual
worker. This will not be com
pleted until the end of June.
‘‘More than 600,000 wage items
are received each day in the ac
counting offices of the Social S#
turity Board,” Mrs. Wright said, i
‘"so it is understandable why it j
will take until June 30 before the '
wages received during 1943 ley the.
47,0P0,000 persons who worked
last year in jobs covered bv' old
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age and. survivors insurance are
totalled for each individual. We
are sorry--but when it comes to
income tax returns, the Social
Security Board cannot be of
help.”
13 MORE JAP
PLANES DOWN
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
.TUE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC.
, ? A A—’ \P>—1Today's communi
que r" rted 13 more Japanese
p: nes downed and 10 daditional
probably destroyed in the day’s
raid on Rabaul.
The principal fighter base at
Lakunai was again the main tar
i get. and was hit with 124 tons of
bombs, by Mitchell and Liberator
bombers from Bougainville on the
raid during adverse weather
, which otherwise limited southwest
Pacific operat ons.
JAP FACTORIES
IN HIGH
PRODUCTION
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9— <AP)
—The estimate of the Japanese
factories turning out aircraft at
the rate of 1200 or more per
month, came from high authority
coupled with the report that the
Japanese, like the Germans, were
concentrating significantly on de
fensive types.
.This report of Nipponese pro
duction is about' 100 per cent high
er than most guesses made since
Pearl Harbor, and goes far to ex
plain the enemy’s ability to keep
replacing the heavy losses, and in
dicate his reserve planes have not
been lessened appreciably.
In a little more than a month,
from January 1 to February 6,
the Japs have lost 700 planes in
the Pacific areas, and more than
200 on the ground. r
LEO, SEippNVERG
VISITS I?j> NOME
..Leb'~Setden\jj?rg, an Anchorage
business 'man, formerly of Nome,
was jn town the past week visit
ing his son and family. Mr. Sei
denverg is on his way Outside, and
said he wanted to see his grand
children before leaving, so hopped
a plane for Nome, arriving la*t
week.
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Many Bases Are
Still to Be Taken
Says Nimitz
BOMBERS ON
RAID OVER
FRANCE
BOMBERS
LONDON. Feb. 9. — iAP>_U. S.
Marauder bombers roared back
over northern France to pound the
German Atlantic wall installations
for the third time in slightly over
24 hours, along with RAF med
I ium and light fighter-bombers in
| dpylight formations, swung out
1 after the RAF night fighters and
i bombers struck objectives in Ger
| many and France, including the
! Rhone aircraft engine factory at
! Limoges, without loss.
I According to reports, the Paris
radio went off the air.
Nineteen German planes were
downed yesterday in the day's
Fortress attack on Frankfurt, the
third in 11 days.
Total allied losses in all the
raids were 12 heavy bombers.
REDS CLOSE
IN ON IRON
RAIL CENTER
i MOSCOW, Feb. 9.—<APi—Rus
jsiun troops closed in on the iron
rail center of Krivoi-Rog from
three sides, and also advances in
the direction of Black Sea ports
of Kherson and Nikolaev, after
breaking the long, tenacious Ger
man defense in the Dnieper Bend,
at Nikopol.
Adolf Hitler said that Krivoi
| ^°8 may repeat what happened at
Nikopol where the Russians wait
ed too long before retreating, and
lost 15,000 dead and enormous
amounts of booty and stores.
NiKopol is the major source of
manganese, essential to the hard
ening of German steel. The Ger
mans' have large numbers of in
fantry, tanks, and artillery at
Krivoi-Rog and show no signs of
retreating, despite the threat of
almost encirclement.
The Red Star, Russian newspa
per, said the 10 divisions which
are encircled near Cherkasy
being exterminated.
Spring arrived in the Dnieper
Bend after one of the most phe
nomenally short mild winters in a
generation, leaving roads a quag
mire of mud.
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LONDON, Feb. 9 —(APi—The
German .controlled Vichy radio
said the’ F'ifth Army was attack
ing violently on the Cassino front,
hurling 30,000 men and 400 trtntfs
strongly supported by artillery,
into the affray.
The movement will effect a re
lief of pressure on the newly es
tablished bridgehead.
PEARL HARBOR. Feb. 9—AJP)
—Air and sea bombardment by
heavy and medium bombers and
lighter planes, and. every class of
| warship, was continued against
the Jap bases, which are still tin
| conquered in the Marshall Is
lands.
Admiral Nimitz reported in 3
press conference on his return
i from the inspection of the Kw»
jalein atoll, announced that all
resistance on the atoll had ceased
“and its capture and occupation
completed.”
In an unusual statement to the
I press, he said:
“I do not believe that we can
I defeat Japan from the sea alone,
j That is the ingle strategy of the
Pacific war, and I do believe the
Japanese can only be defeated
from bases in China, because they
draw food, iron and other sup
plies from China, and Manchuria,
and as long as they have access
1 to these, they will be difficult to
! beat.
I “Furthermore, we want bases
j from which we can deliver ail
raids—not sporadic ones—but Ukt
I those the Germans are receiving."
He admitted the aim was to *et
| our forces moving across the Pa
cific', and another necessary cam
paign would take in the Carolines
j which lie west of the Marshalls.
The raids of the past few days
included the sinking of several
small Japanese boats in the Jal
; uit atoll, and other sinkings
throughout the Marshalls attack. ,
INDICATES
ACCEPTANCE ...
OF NOMINATION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt left the
political door sufficiently ajar for
the fourth term draft to blow
through the opening in answer to
straight to the point question, in
his regular weekly news confer
ence, whether he would “time it
with a stock reply,” which the
President uses repeatedly.
He says it is the old killer of
stories, but politicians are already
fairly well agreed that the chief
executive will run again and noted
that he did not rule out such a
possibility. Vj '*>
Roosevelt, who awarded dunce
caps to the reporters, who asked
the third term questions in 1940,
displayed his willingness to re
ceive political questions.
PROCLAMATION "
IS SIGNED
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 11—(AP)
---President Roosevelt signed the s
procl amation ending the Chinese
exclusion act, fixing the Chinese
Quota at 105 per $ear.
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INCOME TAX BLANKS
NOW AVAILABLE
S. Davis Mazen, postmaster, says
he now has plenty of income tax
forms, both long and short. The
form numbers are 1040 and 1040A.