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HIT IWO JIMA |
FOR 14TH TIME
IS REPORT
U. S. ACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAR
BOR, Jan. 22.—(AP)—Another
neutralizing aerial strike against
the Japanese in I wo Jima, in the
volcano area, 750 miles south of
Tokyo, was reported by Admiral
Nimitz, today.
The admiral said this rocky isle
which is thd hop-off point for the
Japanese planes that are attack
ing Saipan and the Superfortress
base, was hit again for the 18th
time, by* the American army Lib
erators.
This was the 14th raid this
month.
The raiders downed one plane.
On the northern end of the Pa
cific, from the Eleventh Army
Air Force of Liberators, word
comes they are operating singly
• and have bombed Matsuwa on the
Kotan Islands, south of Paramu
shiro in the Kuriles.
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BATHER —Something snappy I
for the beach is modeled by Eve*
• lyn Keyes, young movie actress.
YANKS GAIN
MOMENTUM IN
PHILIPPINES
By JAMES HUTCHESON
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS ON LUZON IS
LAND, Jan. 22.—(AP)—Tarlac
was smouldering from Japanese
torches when it was captured
yesterday with its two adjacent
airdromes, as the American
steam-rollers gained momentum
in its drive toward Manila, which
is now only 65 air miles away.
Headquarters reported the two
converging Yank columns have
seized the important rail high
way to the city, whilg other U.
S. infantry have captured the
nearby road towns of Papaz and
Victoria.
To the east the Americans
main Manila highway on the
drove another wedge into the
long-slowed left flank, and cross
ed the winding Agno river at
Santa Maria. They have also cap
tured Rosales On the east-west
road. To the south they have
pushed eight miles toward the
hills to San Leon, heading for
another highway which leads to
Manila via a circuitous foothill
route.
The Japanese have tried an
other night counter-attock at
Moncaca, which is some 20 miles
north of Tarlac, but Gen. Mac
Arthur reported the enemy was
repulsed bloodily.
MRS. WHALEY NOW
LIVING IN SEATTLE
Mrs. B V. Whaley, better
known to Nomeites as “Ma”
Whaley, has returned to Seattle
as she thinks “the great North
west hag of the rest of the
old U. S. A. beat”. She ismak
ing her home at 7446 So. 116 St.
and enjoying her grondchildren,
who are in the same neighbor
hood, namely the children of
Senator Frank Whaley and
George Whaley.
GIRL SCOUT TROOP
TO BE ORGANIZED
A meeting was held last week
of school girls between the ages
of 11 and. 15 years, who are anx
ious to organize a Girl Scout
group. Twenty-one girls; attended
the meeting and are most enthus
iastically awaiting word from
Girl Scout headquarters as to
whether they can proceed to or
ganize as a group, rs. Vernon
Booker is assisting them in their
plans.
MEAT SHOP SANTA — Louis Speroni, New York City
butcher, dresses up as Santa Claus to reward some of his little
friends for their faithful help in the fat salvage campaign. Carol
Ball, 6, sits on counter at right.
SNOWFALLS
LIMIT YANK
PATROL TRIPS
ROMT, an. 22.—(AP)—Snow
falls on the already snowbound
mountain positions have limited
even the patrol activity along
the Italian front on the first an
niversary of he historic landing
at Anzio.
In the Adriatic sector the en
emy raiding party penetrated two
and one-half miles into the Al
lied lines near northern Alphon
so, after a heavy artillery bar
rage. However, they were thrown
back to their original positions
by the Eight Army troops.
Farther, in the southwest, the
patrols are active on both sides
of the Senior river to which the
Germans are clinging as a de
fense line.
The Eighth Army sector of al
lied headquarters said that the
enemy patrol action has been
speeded up on the American
front in the south and southeast
of Bologna.
ATTENTION PIONEERS!
Special meeting, Wednesday,
January 24th, at the Whaley i
House. Refreshments will be
served.
OLE HAY. Pres.
PLAN ALASKA
LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—(AP)
—Representatives Mangusno and
DeLacy and Delegate E. L. Bart
lett are planning an Alaska leg
islative program, it was announc
ed today by Representative De
Lacy.
The announcement was made
without detail, but DeLacy told
the reporters that it will mean
the real “unfreezing” of the Ter
ritory’s great resources, and its
“tremendous post-war possibili
ties.”
He also told the reporter that
Delegate Barttlett had been
placed on the Territories Com
mittee, including Indian Af
fairs, Merchant Marine, Fish
eries, Mines and Mining, Naval
Affairs, Rivers and Harbors and
Roads.
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BREAK THRU
DEFENSES
IN SILESIA
MOSCOW, Jan. 22.—(AP)—The
Red Army is driving swiftly
through the heavily foritfied
areas of Germany, it has been
reported today.
They have broken through the
first defense line of the East Oder
river in Silesia.
In the East Prussia sector the
Russian troops reached positions
52 miles from the Baltic in a
drive to cut off that province from
the rest of the Reich.
Pushing northward from the
captured city of Tannenburg,
Marshal Krokosovsky’s’ tanks
approached within 10 or 11 miles
of the main track of railway
which connects East Prussia and
Berlin.
Big guns have already begun
to shell the railways and ap
proaches in several sectors, jn
the center of the great Soviet
winter front, Poland’s Marshal
Zhukov’s first White Russian
Army is getting the upper hand
^ a big tank battle between War_
ta and the Prosna rivers. They
have pushel within 200 of Berlin.
Marshal Zhukov is fighting for
routes into Poznan and the Ger
man frontier just beyond.
The marshal’s tanks, by strik
ing through strong panzer units
which had moved out to halt
hit, have gotten closer to the Ger
man capital than any other land
army in this war. The Germans
ara fighting back furiously in this
area, field dispatches said, but
Marshal Zhukov is still on the
move.
There is no incations that his
offensive is materially slowing
down.
The First Ukrainian Army, un
der Gen. Konev, achieved great
strategic success in breaking the
first line thrown up by the Ger
mans east of Oder. It stretches
through Oels, Namslaw, and
Kreutsburg down to Beuthen.
Marshal onev’s tanks are now
about 14 miles from the main
railway connecting Silesia and
Berlin. Great panic was caused
in Breslau as the Russian col
umns are 35 miles away.
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VISITS IN
NOME AREA
Miss Dorothy Whitney, Terri
torial health nurse, stationed at
Anchorage, paid Nome a visit
recently on an inspection trip.
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