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VOL. 46.—No, 124.__NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1944. PER COPY—15c.
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EPIDEMIC IS
r:o^ lnl
CONTROL
The epidemic of diphtheria,
which has to date caused two
deaths, seems to be under con
trol due to the vigilant work of
the health nurses and doctor who
have been working day and
night.
Parents are again urged to keep
their children home and away
from public places to avoid con
tact with the disease.
Schools will be kept open, so
all children will have a daily ex
amination to avoid spreading the
infection.
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» 00T8ALL
SCORES
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Pitft 26, Muhlenberg 18.
Franklin Marshall 6, Rochester
0.
t* Yale 32, Syracuse 12.
Boston College 19, Rutgers 6.
LaFayette 19, Kansas State 0.
Iowa State 14, Iowa 0.
Indiana 32, Maine 6.
Norwich 13, Dartmouth 14.
Brown 13, Great Lakes 40.
Wisconsin 12, Minnesota 14.
Ohio State 34, North Carolina
State 19.
William & Mary 2, Colgate 6.
Columbia 0 Notre Dame 13.
Illinois 7 Arkansas 26.
Nebraska 24, Missouri 20.
Brooklyn College 0, Connecticut
# Brooklyn College 0, Connecti
cut 15.
Wichita 6. 14, Rockhurst Col
lege 12.
North Texas Agricultural Col
lege 0, Texas A. & M. 61.
Washington 33, California 7.
Southern California 34, St.
Mary’s 7.
Depiver 36, U|ah Stale 6.
Am- Tulane 27, SMU 7.
Virginia State 70, Winston Sa
lem 0.
Oklahoma A. & M. 46, Tulsa
40.
Rice 7 Texas 0.
Vanderbilt 19 Tennessee Tech
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Virginia 34, V. M. I. 0.
Tennessee 26, Clemenson 7.
Florida 14, Maryland 6.
L. S. O, 15, Georgia 7.
Oklahoma 34, T. C. U. 19.
Randolph Field 19, Third Air
* Force 0.
El Toro, California, Marines
14, Fleet City Bluejackets 0.
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BLOND E —Petite, blonde
June Haver (above) has a sing
ing and dancing part as leading
lady opposite Dick Haymes in
one of Hollywood’s elaborate
musicals filmed in color.
TO ORGANIZE
PARTY TO FIND
CRASHED PLANE
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 30.—(AP)
—Major Jesse G. Hill of Denver
has been designated by the army
to organize an expedition to at
tempt to scale Mt. Brooks, and
search for the bodies of 19 per
sons presumed killed when a mil
itary transport plane crashed last
month.
The army announced that it is
the mission of Major Hill and
party to bring back the bodies
and obtain information about the
accident.
The plane was flying from An
chorage to Fairbanks and carried
two Northwest Airlines pilots,
who were civilians and 16 service
men most of whom were enroute
to the States on furlough.
BRITISH TAKE
KOZONE AFTER
FIFTH BATTLE
ROME, Oct. 30.—(AP)—British
troops captured Kozone, 55 miles
south of West Salonika^ today,
after the fifth sharp battle was
staged. The retreating Germans
in northern Greece, allied head
quarters said in a communique ^
were inflicted with heavy casual
ties in a fight west of the Yugo
slav border, which is one of the
main escape routes.
NAZI STAND
DWINDLING
IN LOWLANDS
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LONDON, Oct. 30.—(AP)—The
German stand in the southwest
ern lowlands has dwindled into
four pockets, it was reported to
day.
The German forces which are
disintegrating under a concen
| trated air attack in the drive of
the allies. They are racing to the
Moerdijk escape bridge, which is
only six miles away from the
pockets below Maas.
The chief resistance center was
taken on Beveland Island while
on the flooded Walcherer Island !
the Germans are virtually cut off
by the Canadian drive which is
within 3000 yards of the causeway
connecting with Beveland.
This tiny six-mile long and
four-mile wide comer of Belgium
where the Schelde river cuts
across the flooded lowlands, is
laced by canals and dikes.
The campaign here is to clear
Schelde and its approaches to the
allied harbor at Antwerp.
The drive, which has gained
considerable momentum, is ap
proaching its conclusion after
some of the most difficult fight
ing in the war.
On Walcheren Island the rem
nants of the German forces are
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fighting from within the island.
Its dikes and land around the
principal cities of Vlissingen and
Middleburg, have withstood the
flood waters, which were loosen
ed by the allied bombing of the
sea walls.
The Germans have admitted
that many of their guns are un
der water.
To the south in France, the
allied ground troops have made
but slight gains. In the Luneville
sector they are taking the village
of Fraipertuis, and holding it
against determined counter
attacks of the enemy.
Other counter atacks against
the allied positions at Vosges, in
the mountains, were beaten off.
IN NOME ON
BUSINESS
Rev. Emory Lindgrin, from
White Mt., is in Nome for a few
days on business. While here he
hopes to get in enough flying
hours so that he may solo. When
licensed he will work with Rev.
Paul Carlson who has been
flying his plane for several
years.
HUGE VOTE IS
ESTIMATED
FOR ELECTION
UNDATED — State officials
now estimate that more than 44
million persons will vote in the
election a week from tomorrow,
it has been reported.
Most of the rest of the cam
paign will be directed to the
packed eastern and northeastern
states by both President Roose
velt and Gov. Dewey. Both are
headed for Boston in the battle
fbr the Massachusetts vq(te.
The total vote, which is eesti
mated to be 44 million plus, will
include 3,392,000 service men.
This was compiled by the Asso
ciated Press from state officials
who did the figuring on a basis
of the incomplete registration and
the actual vote of 49,815,000 in
1940.
President Roosevelt is expected
in Boston on Saturday night and
his republican opponent will
speak there on Wednesday night, i
He is reserving his own last spot
on Saturday night at Madison
Square Garden in New York.
Gov. Dewey is spending today
in Albany in connection with a
special legislative session which
was called to consider extending
the New York voting hours.
Senator Truman, the democrat
ic nominee for vice-president, in
conference with Andrew Higgins,
New Orleans shipbuilder who is
backing the fourth term, said the
whispered questions as to the
President’s health is all “bunk”.
FIFTH ARMY
PROGRESS IS
SLOWED BY MUD
ROME, Oct. 30.—(AP)—The
Ameican and British troops of the
Fifth Army today made new
gains in the mountains of the
southwest sector at Bologna, it
has been reported.
Allied headquarters said said
the weather has not improved,
which has impeded the progress
of the British and Americans in
northern Italy.
The American infantry sup
ported by tanks, attacked the
Germans north of Marano, while
the British troops pushed up the
highway 67 miles, leading to For
li. They have maintained a con
tact with the German forces who
are withdrawing in order to avoid
being isolated.
RUSSIANS TAKE
TO WIN CITY ON
TISZA RIVER
LONDON Oct. 30—AP>—The
last rail escape route of the Ger
mans to the northwestern part of
Hungary, was blocked today by
the Russians with 10ie capture
of Csap, on the upper Tisza river,
while to the north, Berlin re
ported further Russian gains, it
was announced today.
The liquidation is estimated at
100,000 Nazis pinned against the
Baltic Sea at Csap. This junction
is on the four rail lines at the
southwestern edge of liberated
Lithuania, and was occupied yes
terday by troops of Gen. Petrov's
Fourth Ukraine Army. They
fought their way 50 miles across
the mountain in eastern Czecho
slovakia.
Moscow reported that a Berlin
announcement said the Soviet
troops are attacking in western
Latvia and has penetrated Prie
kule. This area is 20 miles south
east of the Baltic port of Liepaja.
The captured city of Auce, the
communications center, is 70
miles east of Leipaja.
A Moscow communique, one of
the briefest in weeks, didn’t con
firm the Berlin reports of the
Latvia offensive. It did not men
tion the East Prussian front ei
ther, where heavy fighting is
raging along the Kaunas Konigs
berg Highway.
Berlin reported attacks also
against thick German defenses
in the southwest area of Eben
rode, which is south of Gumbin
gen.
CRISIS FACES
CHINA SINCE
ARMY CHANGE
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 30.
KAP)—China plunged headlong
into a new military and political
crisis by the recall of General
S til well, to Washington, it was re
ported today.
Information reaching here indi
cates that decisions must be made
in Chungking in the next three or
four weeks which may determine
the fate of the Chinese war, it
was revealed.
Efforts are now being made
among Americans and officials
there, but there is little real con
fidence that Chiang Kai Shek
will be able to put the military
and political affairs in order
without further delay.
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