Allied Spring
f Offensive In Italy
: Goes Forward
ROME, April 16—Gen. Mark
Clark announced “Spring offen
sive in the Mediterranean theater
has begun.” United States Fifth
and British Eighth armies are en
gaged in operations around the
entire battlefront. The British
Eighth Army’s strike on the east
ern end front a week ago and the
United States Fifth Army fight
along the central and western gec
► tors were preceded yesterday by
1233 heavy bombers of the United
States Fifteenth Air force which
blasted German targets south of
Bologna. At places a carpet of
bombs fell within five and a half
miles of Fifth Army lines. The
* experience of the British Eighth
army in its weekold offensive in
dicates that the Fifth army faces
bloody fighting in its effort to
break out of the mounains south
of Bologna into to broad Po val
ley. - *
The Germans have chosen to
* fight in northern Italy despite the
military disasters which are rip-1
ping the Reich apart.
Opportunity
Knocks ^
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FAIRBANKS, April 15-^P)—
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arrived via the Pan American
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the coming season.
Mr. Kricken says the company
will be starting the season’s work
soon to complete the present con
tracts on the various construction'
jobs on which the company is
working in the Nome area.
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(above), head of the Hollywood
Models Guild, says swim suits
like this should be w'orn only by
models, otherwise their value
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Russians Open
Huge Offensive
On Eastern Front
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to the Oder Bruch low plain on
the west bank of the Oder north
east of Berlin. “Bitter fighting is
in progress along the entire front”
said Berlin’s bulletin.
German broadcasts indicated
the Russian assault is being
mounted on an even broader front
than reported. A new bridgehead
across the Oder was forged in the
first hour’s offensive in the
Schwedt area thirty miles south
of Stemmin, forty-four miles
northeast of Berlin.
The Germans said that strong
Soviet tank forces made breaches
and attacks t o w a rd Seelow
Heights twenty-seven miles east
of Berlin and eleven miles west of
Kustrin.
By German account the Russian
offensive is directed by General
Vashily Sokolovsky. The enemy
said he replaced Marshal Zhukov,
commander fo the First White
Russian Army at the southern
end front.
Moscow dispatches said the
Russians had driven well past
Stpoelten, twenty-eight miles
west of Vienna in a drive up the
Danube valley. Berlin said the
Russians in southeastern Moravia
and central section of Czechoslo
vakia are driving strongly from
Goeding toward the Austerlitz
battlefield where Napoleon with
out-numbered French forces won
the classic victory over Russian
Austrian forces in 1805.
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Yanks Break Up
Counterattacks
On Okinawa
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By MURLIN SPENCER
GUAM, P.I., April 16—{&)—'
Three Japanese counterattacks,
were broken up by United States
artillery Saturday night along
the bitterly contested “little Sieg
fried Line” in southern Okinawa.
The lines remained unchanged
yesterday, the twelfth straight
day. Marines in the north con
tinued to mop up small groups of
the enemy in their drive which
carried them to within ten miles
of the northern tip of strategic
Ryukyu.
One isolated Japanese force on
the western side of the Motobu
peninsula offered stiff resistance.
Admiral Chester Nimitz reported
that Keufu island in the Kerama
group just of the Okinawas south
west coast was invaded yesterday.
Eight Keruma islands were seized
by the Seventy-Seventh Army di
vision shortly before the invasion
of Okinawa began Easter morn
ing.
! MEMORIAL SERVICE
Yesterday afternoon a special
Memorial Service was given at
the Federated Church for Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in accordance
with the proclamation from Pres
ident Truman for a national day
of mourning.
Rev. V. Booker arranged a fine
program centering around the de
ceased President’s life and the
Four Freedoms. Other speakers
on the program were W. L. Angell,
principal of the Nome Territorial
School, David S. Mazen, postmast
er and O. D. Cochran, Senator of
the Second Division. Special mu
sic was furnished by the Junior
Choir who sang the “Rosary.”
The congregation sang “Lead
Kindly Light.” The program
closed with the singing of “Amer
ica.”
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