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Robot Bombs Said
’ To Be ‘Secret’
German Weapon
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STOCKHOLM, July 17.—(AP)
—Stockholm's Tidninged publish
ed a story today, but did not give
due source of the information,
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aaying “Robot bombs weighing as
much as 10 tons and capable of
being shot into the stratosphere
as far as New York, have been j
concentrate in large numbers in!
western Jutland.’’
Denmark correspondents said \
they were unable to confirm the
report, but that “This information
was not grasped from the air.
The Stockholm new-spaper is
frequently the outlet for propa
ganda stories of secret weapons in
the Germans’ planned sources of
^ contact.
Swedish reporters of the paper
said “We were informed that the'
Nazis have assembled 10,000 robot;
bombs in western Jutland.”
The weight of the bombs are re-;
ported to be 10 tons each and with
speeds up to 700 miles per hour, j
The robot is said to move inj
hhe stratosphere at an altitude
above 65,000 feet, and beyond
reach 6f fighter planes and anti
aircraft. «• >
According to information, the!
^ new robot bomb should reach
New York because of the flying
altitude and speed. j
Denmark described the report
as “fantastic”, but competent mil-i
itary experts on the other hand,
said it is a well-stablished fact
that the Germans are experiment-:
mg with a new robot capable ofj
traversing much greater distances
than those currently used against
England.
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American Troops ,
• Capture Heights ;
| Of Montener©
ROME. July 17.—(AP)—Ameri
can troops today pushed through
! Montenero, and captured the;
I1 heights of Monte Maggiore over-,
looking the port of Leghorn, and
are now within four miles of the
heart of that| grea't Italian port.
Other American forces are'
moving up around Livorno in a
9 flanking movement within five1
and one-half miles of the Amo|
river, east of Livorno, toward j
Pisa ' ‘
On the British Eighth Army
front the Germans’ difficulties;
grew and tettee mounted with the;
British capture ol the key com
. munications center of Arezzo.
Upward of 250 bombers raided
’Vienna yesterday.
Forty-four planes were downed;
9 -with American losses at 15 bomb
ers and five fighters.
ON VACATION FROM
... X FAIRBANKS
Gilbert Vallun, of Fairbanks
arrived in Nome Saturday on a
vacation trip which included Pt.
Barrow, Kotzebue and way points.
He expects to return to Fairbanks
when transportation becomes
available.
NOTICE OF CAKE SALE
The members of Rebekah
Lodge No. 3-a. will hold a cake
sale Friday, July 21st, lit Leh
mann's Store, to raise funds to
Teplaee regalia lost in our re
cent fire. The sale will begin
a| 10:00 a. m.
PLASTIC WASP IN PLAN E—This plastic figure of
the average WASP, designed by the sculptor, G. W. Borkland.
and made of “plasiaoele.” a cellulose acetate plastic, Is used to
fistiie internal clearances and seat adjustments in planes for the
AAV. The msirikht is shown at the controls of a training plane
at Chicago municipal airport.
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Six Lives Lost
In Fire At
Pleasure Resort
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j DENVER, Colo., July 17.—(AP>
, Six lives were taken in a holiday
i mg throng Sunday when a sudden j
burst of flame swept through the
j Old Mill, on a scenic boat ride,
at a pleasure resort near here.
The dead are Pvt„ and Mrs. Rob
ert Mclllvain, Pvt. and Mrs. R.
L. Jacobberger, George Keithline,
10, and Edward Lowery, 30. The!
latter two were employees who;
! tried vainly to pull the boat to'
j safety.
The bodies of the soldiers and
their wives were found in the
| gaily-painted boat passageway,
face downward in shallow water.
The cause of the fire was un
known.
Shimada Resigns
From Jap Post
NEW YORK. July IT.—Admiral
Shigetaro Shimada was “relieved
of his post” as Japanese navy min
ister, and was succeeded by Ad
miral Nomura, the Tokyo radio
announced today. The report did
not mention Shimada’s post as
navy chief of staff, which he held
investitute.
The radio said the post was
changed as part of preparations,
“in view of the present grave war
situation ‘to unite’ all efforts to
ward certain victory.”
"Nomura took office this after
noon in the presence of the em
peror,” the broadcast announced.
Execute Captured
U. S. Airmen
MELBOURNE, Australia, July
17.—CAP)—Although known to be
unreliable, the Singapore broad
casting station was heard to re
port, that the Japs had "Executed
the captured airmen of the June
13th raid on Japan.”
| Bradley’s Troops
ITake Village of
St. Lo in France
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SUPREME ALLITD EXPEDI
j TIONARY FORCE HEADQUAR
TERS IN ENGLAND, July 17.—
<AP)—General Bradley’s troops
today drove into St. Lo, the heav
ily defended bulwark of Nazi
Normandy, headquarters said.
Southwest of Caen the British
captured Vendes.
To the south the British cap
' tured Evercy.
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American Troops
Cut Off Advanced
Japanese Force
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS ON NEW GUINEA,
July 17.—(AP)—Today, plugging
in the jungle-choked front, Amer
ican troops cut off the advanced
Japanese force which cracked the
allied lines on the Driniumor
river, 21 miles east of Aitape, on
British New Guinea, headquarters
announced.
The Yanks also repulsed two
Japanese counter-attacks at the
river Friday night and Saturday
morning, when elements of the
18th Imperial Army made futile
attempts to crack the allied en
circlement.
The allied positions are firmly
established on the wide river’s
west bank.
Headquarters said the troops
are ready to absorb the next shock
attack by elements ot the 45,000
trapped Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese crossed the river
five miles inland from the mouth
causing one of the allied outposts
to withdraw from the first heavy
attacks.
When the Americans plugged
the gaps in their river front posi- j
tions, they accounted for 344 morel
Japs, making the total in the three;
assaults 612.
Wallace Scuffles
With News Man
Over Picture
WASHINGTON July 17.—(AP*
— A reported scuffle between
Henry Wallace, and a news photo-1
grapher, Robert Woodsum of
Acme, over a picture he had snap- *
ped id a hotel, was “amicably;
adjusted” between the principals,
a White House spokesman said.
He told the Photographers' As
sociation that Wallace was not
available for a statement.
The Washington Star said
Woodsum was assigned to snap
Wallace at tennis, but after wait
ing several hours spied him in the
hotel lobby and took a single shot,
to which Wallace objected, and
asked that it be withdrawn.
Woodsum would not agree to
the proposition and a scuffle en
sued in which both fell to the
floor.
The argument was quickly and
rather amicably settled. Later
Wallace posed for the tennis pic
tures.
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Criticize Results
Of Convention
MOSCOW, July 17.—(AP)—
Pravda, organ of the communist
party, published an article today
which criticized the results of the
Republican convention, calling the
party leaders reactionaries, and
asserting, “Rumblings of the an
cient past can be heard,” in the
foreign policy plank.
The article was by a foreign
editor who said, “Exactly the same
argument was presented byr the
Republicans in the elction cam
paign of 1920."
Red Army Takes
German Held
City of Grodno
MOSCOW, July 17.—(AP>—The
Red Army pushed forward on a
broad front, stretching from the
Baltic Sea to the Pripyat Marshes,
after capturing the German-held
fortress city of Grodno, and des
cribed by Premier Stalin as "cov
erings for the approach of East
Prussia.”
The Germans claimed earlier
that they had evacuated the town
only 45 miles from the boundary,
which in view of the fact that no
further natural boundaries lie
between the Russian forces and
the German homeland after cross-j
ing the Niemen river, according
to the German news agency, DNB.|
A war analyst on the Berlin
radio suggested that the Reds
might be entering a trap in their
lightning offensive to isolate
German troops in the Baltic states.
A column of 57,000 Germans,
captured in the summer offensive,
was shepherded through Moscow
on their way east, in the capital’s
first mass view of captured pris
oners.
SCHOOL CHILDREN HAVE
TONSILECTOMIES
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Sever school children have ben
in the hospital recently for ton
silectomis iencluding Mary Louise
Lyle, June Gray, Eileen Seiden
verg, Dean Bronson and Tess
Bronson.
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| Byrnes ‘Dark
Horse’ Of Demo
Convention
CHICAGO, July 17.—(AP)—In
the rapidly tightening race for
the Democratic vice-presidential
nomination, Byrnes pulled up into
a challenging position with Wal
lace and Barkley, in a contest in
which the dark horse might win.
Byrnes was Roosevelt’s personal
agent in the 1940 convention and
helped to bludgeon the conven
tion into nominating Wallace as
vice president.
Byrnes is apparently working
behind the scenes here in his own
interests, and the question as to
whether he had the “go ahead’’
signal from Roosevelt was unan
swered, but he made it clear that
his name would go before the con
vention Wednesday, only if strat
egists were convinced he could
obtain a majority.
There is a very strong personal
appeal on behalf of Wallace, and
the President expressed the view
that if he had to chose a delegate
he would pick Wallace.
British Tanks
Storm Into City
Of Noyers
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITION
ARY FORCES IT ENGLAND, July
17.—(AP)—British tanks and in
fantry stormed into the village of
Noyers and troops engaged in
hand-to-hand fighting in the
streets of the city.
Lt. Gen. Dempsey’s British Sec
ond Army attacked on a nine-mile
front southwest of Caen and
caught the enemy off balance.
The British thrust started Sat
urday night as Rommel threw five
divisions into the contest, one of
the biggest battles since the in
vasion and which promised to de
velop as General Dempsey sought
to broaden his springboard salient
| in the start of a major offensive
to the west.
Americans were attacking St.
Lo for the seventh straight day,
and were groping in the early
morning mists.
The siege operations, dispatches
said, were wearing down the di
minishing German resistance, and
troops have pushed to a point
about a mile from the town.
Both east and northwest of Les
say, the Germans’ western an
chor .across the peninsula, was
apparently the Americans’ for the
taking at any time they choose.
Front line dispatches said “Pa
trols entered the north side of
town after crossing the Ay river,
encountering only moderate op
position.”
FLEDGLING TO HAVE
WINGS SOON
Dr. Maxwell Kennedy returned
with Bill Munz from a short trip
to Fairbanks, where he inspected
his new plane, which he hopes to
be piloting soon.
ATG EVENTS
Regular meeting of the Alas
ka Territorial Guard, Tuesday
vening at 1900 hours, in the
High School Gym.
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i A T RIOTIC— Lynne Ba»
p*1. of the films wears a swim
>ut' -v 1th red and white trunks.
I and white top with blue stars.
.Guam Again Hit
By Carrier
Based Planes
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WASHINGTON. July 17.—(AP)j
—Carrier-based planes hit Guam
' again Saturday, carrying the at- j
! tacks out on the former American;
naval base through the 12th con-|
j secutive day, the navy reported'
today. !
The air raid followed the twinj
; assaults of Friday, by both war-!
! ships and planes.
i Buildings and bivoac areas
I were destroyed and damaged and
i rocked by the impact of the
j bombs. Pacific Fleet headquar
| ters announced.
While the attack on Guam was
j underway, rocket-firing carrier
! based planes struck at ground in
| stallations on Rota Island, be
tween Saipan and Guam A di
' rect hit was scored on concentra
jtions of automotive and railroad
jequipment.
] Navy Liberators, ranging north
j ward Thursday, hit a Japanese:
destroyer near Iwo Jima, in the,
I Volcano Islands, with a 500-pound
| bomb, and strafed a 3,000-ton and
jsix 1,000-ton cargo ships, setting
fires and explosions.
A destroyer escort, a coastal
ship and several smaller craft i
were heavily strafed.
Pioneer Women
Hold Meeting
i The Pioneer Women of Alaska
met at the home of Mrs. Nels
Strand for its regular July meet
ing. After the business meeting, j
which was well attended, cards
were enjoyed and refreshments1
were served by the hostess and'
her assistant, Mrs. Aimer Rydeen.
Prizes for the games were won ;
by Mrs. Helen Bockman, Mrs.
Antonio Polet and Mrs. Carrie
McLain.
BOUND OVER FOR
GRAND JURY ACTION
In commissioners' court last!
week, A1 Allakeok was bound
over for grand jury action, charg-!
ed with ran** I