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VOL. 47.—No. 29. NOME. ALASKA, MARCH 10, 1944. PER COPY—L5c
BOMBERS
'AGAIN HIT
PRODUCTION
' _
LONDON, Mar. 10.— <AP>— |
British four-engined Lancasters, j
striking again at Germany's air- !
craft production, reached tar j
* into southern Fran'ce last night,
and bombed a large factory at
Marignane, near Marseille, the Air
Ministry announced.
The RAF strike kept the allied
aerial blows going around the
clock after yesterday’s bomb;.\g
of Berlin through dense clouds, by
the American Eighth Air Force j
Already there has been a shake- j
up among the top men of the Ger
man air force, precipitated by the
series of heavy assaults on Ber
lin, with at leastj 324 Nazi planes
p destroyed, Swedish press dispatch- j
es reported.
A United States communique j
last night said yesterday’s blows j
against Berlin coordinated in a
raid specified for objectives in'
*t>al Germany and identified by I
the Berlin radio as Hanover.
The raid cost seven heavy bomb
ers and one fighter, but the fie-1
\tfea contrasted sharply with the
41 bombers and 11 fighters lost
Monday
1 PRESIDENT
RESIGNS
BUENOS AIRES, Mart 10 —
CAP)—Pedro Pablo Ramirez, for
mally resigned the Presidency of
Argentina today.
Ramirez, whose administration
broke relations with the Axis only
to confront a palace coup in which
Edelmiro Farrell became acting
, president, under an ^njjounced
delegation of powers.
Ramirez sent notification of his
* resignation to the supreme court,
merely to acknowledge receipt of
a notification manifesto Ramirez
addressed the nation, but declined
to make public immediately either
document.
Meanwhile the Farrell adminis
tration ministers were discussing
the situation at a special cabinet
meeting
TO CHECK
i "PRICES
Beginning March 13th through
out the nation—its territories and
possessions—a ceiling price check
up will be made to show the ef
fectiveness of specific prices in
holding the cost of living from ris
ing to inflationary proportions.
OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles is convinced that price
► control can and will be best ad
ministered from a local board
level. Voluntary compliance, not
enforcement measures, has been
the ultimate aim. Consumers and
merchants have a mutual stake in
this drive, the results of which
will have a strong bearing on fu
ture OPA policies.
All grocers artd butchers in Ket
chikan. Wrangell, Petersburg, Ju
neau, Skagway, Sitka, Cordova,
Valdez, Seward, Kodiak, Anchor
age, Palmer, Fairbanks and Nome
will be visited during the week of
March 13-18 as Alaska’s part in
this survey, one of the most ex
tensive ever undertaken by the
OPA.
BATTLEFRONT
IS QUIET
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES. Mar.. 10.—(AP»—Activ
ity on all battlefronts in Italy
dwindled, with minor patrol op
erations yesterday in the face of
severe weather.
Allied headquarters said that
allied aircraft managed to get into
the air however, with 900 sorties
of medium bombers again attack
ing shipping and other targets in
Santo-Stefano, and Montalto di
astro, northwest of Rome.
Two allied planes are reported
as missing.
GERMANS
ABANDON
RAILHEAD
LONDON, Mar. 10 — (AP>—1The
German radio announced that
Nazi troops abandoned Uman
one of the strong bases in western
Ukraine
Uman is a railhead which lies
about midway between Vinista
Kirovograd, about 25 miles east
of the Bug fiver an^is a hinge be
tween the Russian drive toward
Nikolaev and the other Soviet
southern Ukrainian drive into old
Poland on the west.
The entire southern Ukrainian
front blazed with the great Rus
sian offensive, Moscow said, and
resulted in the capture of Staro
Konstantinov, storming the inner
defenses of Tranapol, and breach
ing the German lines guarding
the Black Sea ports Nikolaev and
Kherson.
The most spectacular of the
day’s developments was the dis
closure by Stalin, of a new Rus
sian drive launched by Gen. Mal
inovsky, in southwest Krivoi Rog
here in four days of intensive
fighting, by the Third Ukrainian
army. The drive was westward
across the Ingullest river, and
routed nine German division, and
captured Nov, Bug, and Groz
h.any respectively, 53, and 40
miles above Nikolaev, and Kazn
ka. 17 miles northeast of \ovi
Bug. lYr
DANCE TO BE
HELD SAT. EVE
Inaugurating a precedent by
staging a Benefit Ball, with the ob
ject to accumulate a fund for fu
ture social activities, the Alaska
Territorial Guard will stage such
event in the high school gym
nasium Saturday evening, March
11th. Admission will be $1.00 per
couple, with dancing starting at
nine o’clock.
A War Bond has been included
as a door prize for this event.
REDS BOMB
REVEL
STOCKHOLM, Mafr 10.—Rus
sian planes Thursday night bomb
ed Revel, capital and major port
of Estonia, dispatches from Hel
sinki to the Swedish press said.
The dispatches also said that
fires could be seen at Helsinki,
the Finnish captial, 50 miles across
the Gulf of Finland.
JAPANESE BASTIO N—< lose UP map of Pararaushlro Island, Jap naval base In the Kuriles,
* whisk has been under aerial attack by the U. S. Inset shows relation to Aleutians and Japan.
DEPARTMENTS
ARE AGREED
WASHINGTON. Mar. 10.—
(AP»—The army and navy agreed
formally on the President’s an
nounced that regular army and
navy men may accept nomination
to public office, provided that such
nomination be tendered without
activity on their part.
Other members in the services
may become candidates “without
being tendered nominations”, the
President told his press and radio
conference.
The agreement paralleled the
existing law and was largely for
clarification purposes. It was not
directed at any one person and no
controversy could be made of it.
One provision in the agreement
declares that no member of the
; land or naval forces, while on
active duty “will use his official
authority or influence for the pur
pose of interfering in an election
or affecting the course or outcome
thereof.”
CONTROVERSY
NOT NEEDED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 10.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt asserted
what Winston Churchill had
about the disposition of the Ital
ian fleet as correct, and that no
controversy could be made of it.
He intimated that he would vio
late military security by discuss
ing what vessels might go to vari
ious places, and spoke in answer
,to a conference question whether
myth ing further might be said
abbut the status of the Italian
fleet since “considerable comment
and controversy discussion” had
arisen.
The President said a week ago
that one-third of the Italiah fleet
or its equivalent might be turned
over to Russia.
The President remarked a “lot
of people omitted some of his key
words when he agreed with a re
porter on those words “or the
i equivalent”.
TELEPHONE
LINE NOW
COMPLETED
EDMONTON. Mar. 10 — <AP^—
Final strands in the 2600-mile
telephone system installed through
Alaska and northwest Canada,
were joined in a 595-mile circuit
from Norman Wells, Canada, to
Whitehorse, Brig. Gen. Ludson
Worsham, commanding the North
west Service Command of the U.
S. army, announced.
The Alaska telephone system
connects Edmonton, Dawson,
Skagway, Fairbanks. Whitehorse
Norman Wells with the United
States and ranks with the Alaska
Highway and anol project, as one
of the most ambitious construction
projects ever undertaken in the
northern wilderness.
The Miller Construction Com
pany of Indianapolis, was the
primary contractor of the line
which travels the previously un
explored country and crosses four
ranges of the MacKenzie moun
tains. at one place crossing the
MacKenzie via a four-mile sub
marine cable
VISITS IN
THE SOUTH
SEATTLE — Back in Seattle at
the Atwood Hotel after a trip to
Arizona and California is Jack
Sutherland, oldtimer from Nome.
When he landed in Los Angeles
he was forced to “bunk” with Wm.
H. “Billy" Brown due to room
shortages. While in Tucson he
stayed with Harry Hicks, Nome
ite, who runs a hotel there. In
Phoenix, his home was with “Dago
Joe” Grashio, former barber of
Anchorage and Hyder, who runs
the Jefferson Hotel. At Azusa,
Calif., he enjoyed a visit with
Jack Parr, Anchorage and Fair
banks, who runs a cafe and tav
ern. While in the south Jack
visited several aluminum and iron
plants, and after a swing into east
ern Washington for a short time,
expects to “hit off” for Valdez.
COMMANDOS
GAIN ISLAND
LONDON, , Mar. 10.—<AP>—
“British commandos, under Capt.
Randolph Churchill, landed on
Lissa Island off the Dalmatian
coast of Yugoslavia, the Berlin
radio 3aid.
The broadcast said that Church
: ill. 32, son of the British Prime
: Minister, had taken command of
the allied troops on the island, but
it remained to be seen whether his
forces would include the 2000
followers of Marshal Tito there.
Young Churchill, first member
of parliament to bcoeme a para
trooper, recently conferred with
Tito presumably after be para
chuted over Yugoslavia,
The Berlin broadcast identified
him as a “British general with
the name of Churchill, but there
was no doubt here that Berlin
was talking about the prime min
ister’s son.
No immediate confirmation,
however, was given on the land
ing report.
DIMOND PUTS
UP NEW BILL |
WASHINGTON, Mar 10 — (AP) j
—Delegate Dimond introduced a
bill today which authorizes in
creases in wages of certain em
ployees of the Alaska Railroad, in
service since May 1, 1943 to Sep
tember 30, 1943
FORMATIONS
RAID ENIWET0K
PEARL HARBOR. Mar 10 —
(AP)—Several formations of Jap
bombers raided Eniwetok Wednes
day for the first time since Amer
ican forces completed the capture
Of the northernmost atoll in the
Marshall group February 2£.
Only “small” damage was done,
reported Admiral Chester W. Nim
itz.
SEADLER IS
INVADED BY
AMERICANS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Mar. 10.—<AP)—American war
rhips moved unopposed into the
big Seadler harbor on the invaded
Admiralty Islands as marines vir
tually cut Wilaumez Peninsula in
two.
On the north coast of New Brit
ain, the once mighty Rabaul show
ed marked signs of deterioration.
Headquarters reported that war
ships and supply vessels entered
the waters between the Jap hld
Manus Island and the American
controlled Los Negros, with the
aid of cavalrymen of the First Di
vision, steadily expanding a foot
hold in the Admiralty group
The marines on New Britain
overcame the bitter Jap resistance,
inflicting heavy casaulties, and
pushed within two miles of Talx
sea, on the eastern side of Willau
mez Peninsula
Planes, based on Solomon Is
lands, found Rahaul’s big harbor
deserted of serviceable Jap jbckpc
and the airdrome virtually -strM*
ped of aircraft.
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MARRIED
COUPLES I
NEEDED
WASHINGTON, Mar t<5 —<AP)
—Married couples who yen to be
alone should see the CAA, the
Civil Aeronautics administrator,
about jobs in Alaska
The CAA announced that they
want 30 additional couples who
are willing ,to live tr. remote out
posts on federal airways
50 couples in all will be hired,
while 23 are now in training ua
Seattle, W. P Platt, supervisor of
airways in Alaska, in charge of
the task of recruiting personnel
for the outposts which ire used
principally to supply weather in
formation to- planes operating in
the Alaskan area.
IRVIN COBB
'lE'D AT 67
NEW YORK, Mar 1-1 — ;AP)—
Irvin Cobb, 67, humorist and
writer died in his apartment after
a long illness.
For the past three months he
has been suffering from a series
of complications, including dropsy.
His wife was at his bedside when
the end came.
EARTHQUAKE
IS REPORTED
LIMA, Peru, Mar. 10—(API—
A severe earthquake shook the
city of Lirrtaf at 4:28 a m. thU
morning.
ATC T ENTS
Special meeting tonight it the
High School C ymnasium. Ail
members requested to attend.
CAPT PRONSON,
Commanding