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RED ARMY SAID
CLEARING NAZIS
IN SLOVAKIA
LONDON, Nov. 28.—<AP)—
Fording flooded streams which
are pouring down from the Car
• pathians, the Red Army surged
westward along the full breadth
of eastern Slovakia today, and
captured more than 60 communi
ties, Moscow reported.
In northern Hungary the Rus
sians cleared the enemy from the
right bank of the Risza river and
are now occupying an additional
14 populated places. /
Advances have been measured
to 14 miles on the two closely
linked fronts which total more
^ than 110 miles.
The Soviets said that 400 Ger
mans have been killed and 150
captured, while fighting in the
Slovak town of Vysni Svidnik.
Another 600 Germans were
captured on the highway junction
of the Hungarian border.
The German high command
declared the new Soviet offensive
west of the Danube in Numvary,
reached the coal mining city of
^ Pecs and carried 23 miles be
yond to Mohacs, which is about
100 miles south of Budapest.
Moscow made no announce
ment confirming this.
Elsewhere along the eastern
front, which is widening from the
Baltic to the Balkans, there is a
tenseness as the Germans await
ed the first blows of Stalin’s
promised winter offensive.
QUARANTINE
* IS LIFTED BY
LOCAL BOARD
Although three new cases have
been isolated, the quarantine on
the diphtheria epidemic has been
lifted, it has been announced.
A committee appointed by the
City Council, made it known that
* all places of business will be al
lowed to re-open, but that one
restriction would remain in ef
fect: children under the age of
17 years would not be permitted
to go to the theater or other
places of public gaherings.
It was also learned the post
quarantine would not be lifted
* for a few days.
School is scheduled to start to
morrow.
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TOMMIES SEE ATHEN S—British soldiers, entering the Greek capital of Athens, take time
off to do a little sightseeing in the famous ruins of the Acropolis.
EIGHTH ARMY
PUSHES INTO
PO VALLEY
ROME Nov. 29.—(AP)—Troops
of the Eighth Army today pushed
into the Po Valley and are meet
ing heavy resistance in the Al
bero area, which is about five
miles northeast of Faenza, it has
been reported.
Allied headquarters said that
jn south Faenza British Indian
troops of the British Fifth Army,
made further progress on the
high ground of the north and
to the west of Modigliana.
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ATG EVENTS
ATTENTION GUARDSMEN!
ATTENTION, GUARDSMEN!
Meetings will be resumed on
Tuesday December 5th at 7:30
p. m. at the High School. All
members are asked to be in at
tendance at this meeting. The
long-awaited equipment has
been received and is ready to
be issued.
Commissioned officers will
hold a special meeting Friday
night, December 1st.
RUSSIA SERVES
NOTICE ON
POLE LEADERS
MOSCOW, Nov. 29.—(AP)—
Russia today served notice
through the columns of Pravda,
official newspaper of the Red
government, that the Polish gov
ernment in exile became a hos
tile political force which could
not possibly make future nego
tiations, and also accused the
Polish reactionaries of trying to
split the allies and to foster a
new war.
Pravda added that it looked
upon the withdrawal of Stanis
law Mikolojczyk as premier, as
destroying the last hope of re
approachment to the exiled gov
ernment.
LADIES AID TO
HOLD MEETING
The Ladies Aid of the Federat
ed Church will hold their regu
lar month meeting Friday, Dec
ember 1st, in the social rooms, at
2:00 p. m. There will be the an
nual election of officers. Mrs.
Paul Galloway and Mrs. T. Leh
mann will act as hostesses.
The force of gravity on the
moon is estimated at one-sixth
the strength of that on earth.
NOME TAVERN
OWNERS SEND
OPA PROTEST
Under pressure of specific ceil
ing prices that will bring prices
down as low as 40c for a‘‘shot’,
Nome bar and tavern owners
have appealed for an adjustment
of the OPA ruling that went into
effect November 13th.
The OPA ruling sets prices
that are the same throughout
Alaska, for all establishments do
ing similar business. Fairbanks
advices state that bar owners of
that city have appealed the rul
ing on the grounds that insuffi
cient operating margin is allowed
by the reductions.
Nome OPA manager, Miss
Jenner has stated that she has
%
choice but to enforce the rul
ing, although she thought it pos
sible that some adjustment of
prices may be allowed when ap
peals are considered by the OPA
office at Juneau.
ODDFELLOWS TO MEET
The Odd Fellows will hold
| a meeting at the home of Bro
■ ther Robert Ledger wood Friday
evening at 8:00 o'clock.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
IS MADE BY
CHURCHILL
LONDON, Nov. 20.—(AP)—
Prime Minister Churchill warned
his people today against predict
ing the end of the war with Ger
many, as it may take longer thg^
we think, and possibly not before
the end of next summer.
Churchill addressed Parliament
after King George opened the
tenth session of the legislators
who were elected in 1935, and
said that Britain intended to re
inforce as rapidly as pssible, the
United Kingdom forces, now
fighting in the war.
The prime minister has an
nounced, for the first timS( the
port of Antwerp has been fin
ally opened and is receiving
large convoys of ocean-going
ships, thus making the incompar
able sea base available for nour
ishment of the northern group of
British armies.
Churchill praised the progress
of the allied armies in the west
ern front and said the enemy
everywhere has been thrust back
and that large effective break
throughs to the German front
region toward Cologne had the
highest strategic consequences.
He added, however, that we
must remember the enemy whose
country we have invaded, has
also the supreme stimuli with
which we ourselves responded to
in the dark days of th eearlier
stages of the war.
He lauded the fighting of the
French troops near the Swiss
frontier, where they slashed
through to the Rhine, and declar
ed that it showed the French
army would rise again as sol
diers properly led and properly
equipped as unsurpassed.
Churchill then spoke of the
high accomplishments of the
American armies on the western
front and their capture of Metz
and Strousbourg, which he des
cribed as glorious and massive
achievements.
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