IS NOME NUGGET
I OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
,VOL. 47.—No. 9. . NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1945. PER C0PY-^15c
SUPERS HIT
WIDE AREA IN
‘JAP ISLANDS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—(AP)
—Superfortresses have attacked
the industrial installations in Ja
pan’s home islands of Honshu, is
a report from Tokyo,, it has been
^ revealed. They said that Kobe is
the target of General Arnold,
who is commanding the 20th Air
Force.
Tokyo also announced that the
superfortresses of Brig. Gen.
Hansell's 21st Bomber Command,
which is based in the Marianna
Islands, struck by daylight. No
additional details have been an
nounced by the War Department.
They will release another com
munique when operations reports
are-received.
Tokyo admitted some damage
as the result of today’s strike.
This rounds out 41 major mis
sions since last) June and 10 since
January 1st of this year, against
industrial and military targets in
the Nipponese empire.
SUCCEED IN
SMASHING
* BRIDGEHEAD
ROME, Jan. 19.—(AP)—The
counter-attacking Eighth Army
forces succeeded in smashing a
small bridgehead which the Ger
mans had established on the
isouth bank of the Senior river,
earlier in the week, it was re
ported today.
The enemy has now been driv
en back across the stream, it was
also reported by allied headquar
ters.
REBEKAHS AND ODD
FELLOWS TO INSTALL
> The joint installation of the
Rebekahs and Odd Fellows which
is planned for tonight in the Ma
sonic Temple, takes place at
8:00 o'clock. All members are
bringing their families and the
committees in charge are mak
ing plans for a very enjoyable
* evening. David Mazen, Albin Poi
son and Gus Carlson compose
the committee for the Odd Fel
lows, and Mrs. Fred Roberts,
Mrs. Herb Jenks and Mrs. Pete
Reader, the committee for the
Rebekahs.
The Belgian Congo is the
world’s principal producer of in
* dustrial diamonds.
LEGISLATORS
PREPARE FOR
17TH SESSION
«
JUNEAU, Jan. 19.—(AP)—
Twenty-four of the 40 members
of the 17th Alaska Territorial
Legislature, which is scheduled
to open at 10 o’clock next Mon
day morning, have already ar
rived here.
Divisional conferences have
been scheduled for Sunday and
many have plans for new bills
to present in both the Senate and
the House.
To date there is nothing defi
nite on the election of president
of the Senate or speaker of the
House.
Governor Ernest Gruening and
Secretary of Alaska Lew Wil
liams conferred with legislators
about the opening of the 17th
session of Legislature, and also
about the annual reception in the.
governor’s mansion on January
26th, from 8:00 o’clock in the eve
ning until midnight.
ENNS BAKERY
LIBERATORS
HIT AT JAP
IWO JIMA ISLES
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAR
BOR, Jan. 19.—(AP)—Army
Liberator bombers, escorted by
Lightnings and fighters, ham
mered the air strip and other in
stallations at Iwo Jima Islands on
Monday. These islands are in Ja
pan’s volcano group, which is 750
miles north of Saipan.
Pacific Fleet headquarters re
ported that Iwo Jima Is the base
from which the Japanese planes
have raided the B-29 base at
Saipan and has been a target for
both th0 air forces and the navy.
Warship attacks as well as
planes have been hitting there
almost daily. The latest blow is
the 37th air attack since Decem
ber 7th, and the 30th consecutive
daily attack.
NOW RESIDING \
IN MINNESOTA
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Taylor now
make their home in Staples,
Minn., where they have resided
since leaving Nome. Mr. Taylor
was assistant clerk of the court
and Mrs. Taylor was a photog
rapher here.
Subscribe ro The Nugget.
. ..- ■■■ ■ I—■ ■ I ————1■»»»————i
oAbr.a ^ 3 |
v/£-%**sLz Taodoro ij
*r<
StaXru*^jp^^V/>j>2Ss ^
Pinamalayarw
MINDORO |S8|j
MANGARN /E^aff <T
' ^ fv~
’? AMtUlONGA ^
* ^ Pmodotodtm g yj
—-rn WH »•* „#/
0 20 I «•
STATUTi MIHS | _ _gj
! MINDORO ISL AND — Cl—sp —» •* Mini— Miii
j In the Philippi***—U» •# L—• an4 wtthl* IM «lka «f
WARSAW SAID
SCENE OF
DESTRUCTION
LONDON, Jan. 19.—(API
Soviet Russia’s leading war cor
respondent reported that the
Germans had exiled every living
inhabitant in Warsaw before
yielding that Polish capital, it
has been reported.
The Red Army! report describes
the newly-seized city as one of
big ruin, smelling and burning
with destruction.
M. Makarenko, who wrote in
Pravda, said “No single, live hu
man was among this devastation.
The Germans had exiled all in
habitants.”
The communist party newspa
per story broadcast from Mos
cow radio, recorded the London
graphic account of Warsaw’s
capture. “Soviet and Polish
troops marched west along the
wrecked streets. Inhabitants are
coming back into the city which
practically ceased to exist dur
ing the abortive uprising last
August when the Germans
wrought destruction with sadis
tic brutality. Methodically they
turned street after street into j
ashes.”
ROOSEVELT TO
TAKE OATH
TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—(AP)
—This morning, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the President who
served the longest, toiled over
what may be history’s shortest
inaugural address.
In an ungamished, abbreviat
ed ceremony at noon tomorrow,
the President will take the oath
of office for the epochal fourth
time and then will deliver a
speech of about 500 words in
length, which may lower the rec
ord of the last wartime chief
executive, Abraham Lincoln,
whose second inaugural address
approximated 600 words.
IN TOWN ON
SHORT VISIT
Chris Neibuhr is in town on a
short visit from his t claim at
Rock Creek. After purchasing
the necessary winter supplies and
visiting his friends, he plans to
return to his mine via dog team
with Fred Rohn.
The broadcast declared that all
of the most widely known struc
tures of the city have been de- |
stroyed.
NORTH SECTION
OF HIGHWAY
IS NOW OPEN
By JAMES HUTCHESON
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS ON LUZON, Jan.
19.—(AP)—The northern section
of the main highway to Manila
opened for Gen. Mac Arthur's
steam roller yesterday, when the
Sixth Army captured Urdaneta,
which is 27 miles southeast of
the Lingayen Gulf, it has been
reported.
This was the first action even
approaching battle magnitude to
be fought in the nine-day-old
Luzon campaign.
A five-mile advance was made
down the central Luzon plain.
Another Yankee column in the
meantime, captured ti^ Paniqui
road, junction, just 12 miles from
the important city of Tarlac,
which is 75 miles from Manila.
Gen. MacArthur disclosed
that th«| United States war planes
are operating off the Lingayen
Air Field, which was occupied
within half an hour after the
landings were made.
The Associated Press corres
pondent, Fred Hampton, said the
fighters based on Lingayen are
directly supporting the ground
operations all over the Luxtrn
battlefront.
Night fighters are now within
‘‘belly tank” range of Formosa
and parts of the China coast.
Urdaneta, the key town on the
main Manila-Baguio highway,
was taken after the American
mobile guns and armored troope
smashed the concentration of
enemy tanks and artillery, which
were cleverly concealed in the
bamboo thickets along the ap
proaches.
When the American infantry
moved into the town of Doen,
they found no live Japanese,
only the charred remains and
seven enemy tanks, as well as a
number of blasted guns.
SPECIAL COVERAGE
ON LEGISLATURE
The Nome Nugget has made
arrangements for reports on the
Legislature direct from Juneau,
covering the highlights of the
daily sessions and special perti
nent issues of the Second Divi
sion and general territorial leg
islation. This is in keeping with
the policy of The Nugget to keep
its readers acquainted with hap
penings of especial interest to
Alaskans of the Second Division.