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VOL. 46.—No. 141. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1944. PER COPY—15^
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PARIS, Dec. 11.—(AP)—Infan-1
•^ftry and tanks for the First Army
advanced a mile and a quarter
today, it has been reported.
These fresh troops are driving
the weakening, but still determin- j
ed Germans up the Rohr Valley
to the towns of Dhorn and Echtz.
The latter town is two and one
half miles northwest of the
brown ruins of Dured.
The main forces of Gen. Hod
ges are driving along a 10-mile
front, which is more than six
inches deep with snow.
• The area west, northwest and
southwest of Duren, on the Rohr
river, is a stronghold of an esti
mated 39000 germans.
Twenty miles from Cologne, to
the south, Gen. Patton’s Third
army beat down all counter
attacks in the steel city of Dil
lingen.
Near Saarlautern they fought
the severest kind of battle in a
house-to-house campaign.
The Third Army is also fight
ing inside the Siegfried Line at
Dillingen and beyond Saarlau
tern.
Fighting is necessarily slow on
Gen. Patton’s right, as the Sev
enth Army is at grips with the
German east side, at the big
French base of Haguenan, into
which the 79th divisilon forced
its way yesterday. Heav fight
ing raged in several places in
the Haguenau area, including the
streets of Reichshoffen.
First Army troops in southern]
* Alsace, captured that defensive
center, more than 10 miles north
west of Mulhouse, and pressed
eastward against the German
units, which are Withdrawing
across the Rhine.
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RETURNS TO NOME g*9g m
FOR SHORT TIME
Alice Regan, who has been em
4 ployed by the Magids Bros, for
the past couple of months in or
ganizing their stock and making
the complicated OPA reports, re
turned to Nome on her way back
to Juneau. She said that she is
filled wtih admiration for the
people of this part of Alaska and J
their hospitality and kindness and
^ has only good things to say of
the Seward peninsula.
Graad Coulee dam contains
enough concrete to build a high
way from New York to Seaattle
and back.
LION QUI ^ T ” ' ' ”"i’* v0n- r" of Henrietta, African lioness in a San Fran
V wiijie. Moe and i>"wnld.
NAZIS IN PANIC
AS REDS SWEEP
7-MILE ADVANCE
LONDON, Dec. 11.—(AP)—Rus
sian troops drove on Bucharest
from their position seven miles
to the north and five miles to the
south of the city, it was reported
today.
Moscow advances said that
great panic swept the Nazis in
side the capital as strong forma
tions of Marshal Malinovsky’s
Second Ukraine Army also posed
three miles east of the Danube,
straddling the city in an all-out
frontal assault in that direction.
The drive is expected to be un
der way at any hour, but as yet
no official Russian reports have
received. «
It appeared that the Russian
command felt that the Germans
might consider he siuation hope
less and not make the city its bat
tleground.
Other Russian columns far to
the north of Budapest, reached the
central Slovakian frontier on the
front, with at least an eleven mile
advance.
A Soviet communique said that
40 more place fell yesterday dur
ing the Second Ukraine drive,
noith and northeast of the capi
tal.
A Berlin broadcast said that a
tremendous Soviet offensive is in
the making in the Vistual bridge
head area.
ENGLAND AGAIN
VISITED BY |
ROBOT BOMBS
LONDON, Dec. 11.—(AP)—
Damage and casualties were in
flicted last night as the Germans
biombarded soulthern England
with “Vee” bombs, it has been
reported.
Another large scale counter
attack against the allied bridge
head was west of the Lamong riv
I er on the approaches of Faenza.
They were defeated decisively,
allied headquarters said.
One of the fiercest of these
counter-attocks was directed at
gaining a foothold on the ridge
running southwest from San
prosper'o to Pideura, just west
of Faenza.
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Both San Ptospero and Pideura
were captured.
The Eighth Army troopg were
slugging matches for . the Ger- j
mans, who fought desperately J
against the inevitable encircle
emnt of Faenza.
At the stronghold of Bologna
on the Rimini Highway, the
crack 19 th Panzer Grenadiers
were used, backed up by tanks
and self-propelled guns.
Read it in The Nugget.
At Baranov, Poland, a large
scale drive is aimed at Cracok
and could be expected at any
time.
VOLUNTEERS
BATTLE TO AID
NENANA STORE
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 11.—(AP)—
Volunteers battled vainly in ex
treme cold weather to save the
Norrhern Commercial Co. store
at Nenana, but as the tempera
ture was below 40 degrees minus,
the store and the adjoining post
office burned to the ground.
The blaze started from an
overheated stove pipe in an un
occupied apartment above the
postoffice.
The loss is estimated at $50
000, according to Elwyn Pym,
manager of the store. He stated
thta all that was saved was the
liquor stock, 50 cases of canned
goods and the postoffice records.
The flames for a time threat
de th enearby Coghill General
Store, but water was kep flow
ing at that place despite the cold
weather.
The company expecs to re
open soon in makeshift quarters.
MARRIED
RECENTLY
Mary Barr of Deering and Wil
liam Bell Jackson of Angoon,
Alaska, who is in the army, were
married recently in Fairbanks.
Butter was made by some
tribes in Tartry by filling a skin
bag with milk, tying it to a sad
dle and dragging it over rough •
ground by way of churning.
NAVAL FORCES ,
TO ACT IN
UTILITY ROLE
LONDON, Dec. 11.—(AP)—A
great new BZritish Pacific nav
al command, in addition to the
present far Eastern fleet, has
been created to join the U. S. sea
power in an all-out offensive to
bring Japan to her knees, it has
been announced.
This was disclosed by the Ad
miralty, reflecting Winston
Churchill’s promise that Britain
would send the greatest possible
forces to the Orient to help defeat
Japan.
The fleet will be commanded
by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, wh<T
has been since August, command
er of the far Eastern fleet.
Simultaneously they closed the
far Eastern fleet, which was to
be centered in the Indian Ocean,
as an East Indies station.
This command lapsed when the
the Japs overran the Malayan
Peninsula. They captured Singa
pore and the fleet will be com
manded by Vice Admiral Sir
Arthur Power, who has been sec
ond in command under Fraser.
It is believed that this new net
up will operate under the com
mand of Admiral Nimitz in the
central Pacific, or with Gen.
MacArthur in the southwest Pa
cific, as the strategy demands.
ON VISIT TO
JUNEAU HOME
Private Lew Williams, son of
the new secretary of Alaska and
Mrs. Williams, has been on a visit
to his home in Juneau. He will
report shortly to Fort Benning,
Ga., for overseas assignment with
the paratroopers.
NOTICE. MASONS!
The funeral of Julius Jensen
will be held from the Feder
ated Church on Tuesday at wto
o'clcok in the afternoon. Ma
sons will meet at the Masonic
Temple at one o'clock.
Luther Dunbar.
n Shopping Days
Till CHRISTM AS