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Advance On j
Mindanao Toward
Davao
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MANILA, April 27 — {/P) — ;
Twenty-Fourth Division in fan
trymen under Maj. Gen. R. B.
Woodruff gained twelve miles
across southern Mindanao Wed
nesday and approached to within
twenty miles of Davao. When the
Yanks reach the gulf they will be
only twenty-five road miles
south to the prime target of the
Philippines, the excellent hemp
port of Davao.
General Douglas MacArthur’s
communique today also reported
that the Thirty-Third Division
maintained pressure on Baguio,
summer capital on northern Lu
zon while bombers and fighters
dropped more than four hundred
tons of explosive in close sup
port. Heavy bombers again pound
ed airdromes on Formosa, Matsu
y yama, Tainan and Kamka air
fields and left badly torn build
ings, installations and railyards
aflame. They also pounded For
mosa. Fuel stores were set afire
on nearby Pescadores islands.
^ Twelve freighters, river boats
and patrol vessels were wrecked
as air patrols swept the China sea.
Avignon, France, was the seat
of the Papacy from 1309 to 1377.
NOTICE
Directors Meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce at Nome Nugget
! Office, Wednesday evening 8:00
P.M.
Chris Roust, President.
NOTICE
Written application* shall be
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received at the office of the City
Clerk, until 8:00 P.M. April 30th.
1945. for the following positions
in the Fire and Police Depart,
ment:
Assistant Chief of Fire and
Police Dept.$350.00 per mo.
Engineer .$300.00 per mo.
Driver .$300.00 per mo.
Utility Man ..$250.00 per mo.
Common Council of Nome.
By Carrie M. McLain,
* City Clerk.
JAP HOME ISLAND TO W N—This village on the beach of Aka Shima was the first town
on the Jap home Islands of the Ryukym to fall before the .American invasion.
Big Three Armies
Form Junction
In Germany
WASHINGTON, April 27—iJP)
—The juncture of the Anglo
American and Soviet armies in
the heart of Hitler’s Reich, cut
ting Germany in two was trium
phantly announced by the White
house. The President gave out a
news statement released simul
taneously from Washington, Mos
cow and London at the prear
ranged hour, nine a.m. PWT. The
juncture of the armed might of
the Big Three occurred at eleven
a.m. PWT yesterday at Torgau, a
town on the Elbe river seventy
five miles south of Berlin.
Patrols made contact a day ear
lier. From military sources it was
learned the American unit in
volved meeting with the Sixty
Ninth Division under the com
mand of Maj. Gen. Emil F. Rein
hardt.
President Truman hailed the
event as a tribute to “the courage
and determination of Franklin
Roosevelt as no words could ever
speak.” The President said as a
result of the meeting “the enemy
has been cut in two” and added (
Seek Joe Bill
Eskimo Native
On Murder Charge
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SEATTLE, April 27 — (/P) —
Search for Joe Bill, 33, Eskimo
native of Nome on a murder war
rant in connection with the slay
ing of Irma Irene McGough, 5,
who was murdered last Sunday,
spread over central Washington.
Members of the Yakima police
force night dispatchers at the
city’s bus depot said a man ans
wering Bill’s description called
the police station from the depot
late Sunday night seeking aid on
the air in locating his wife.
; PVT. ROY BAILEY
WOUNDED IN EUROPE
WASHINGTON, April 27—<iT»)
—Thd War Department reported
that Private Roy Bailey, the son
of Charles D. Bailey of Sitka, has
been wounded in Europe.
that this is not the four of final
victory in Europe, but the hour
draws near, the hour for which all
American people, all British peo
ple and all Soviet people have
toiled and prayed so long.”
BASEBALL
WEDNESDAY GAMES
National League
Philadelphia 0, New York 2.
All others games postponed.
American League
Louis 4, Cleveland 3. Philadelphia
7, New York 5. All other games
postponed.
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 2, 4—Los Angeles
3, 1; Hollywood 3, 1—Seattle 0, 2.
j San Diego 3, San Francisco 4.
i Oakland 4, Portland 2.
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THURSDAY GAMES
National League
Chicago-Cincinnati game post
poned. Philadelphia 0, New York
2.
American League
Boston 1, Washington 4; St. ’
Louis 4, Cleveland 3.
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 4, Seattle 3; Los An
geles 6, Sacramento 5, ten innings;
Portland 6, Oakland 5; San Fran- '
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cisco 5, San Diego 6.
EMIL LORAIN TO OUTSIDE
Emil Lorain, part owner of the j
Lincoln Hotel was an outgoing
passenger to the Stateson busi
ness. |
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 27—
UP) — Russian determination to
wield decisive, perhaps dominant
influence in the creation of world
peace machinery threatened the
United Nations conference with a
series of big power crises, hot
tempers, hurt feelings, as well as
lingering hopes of a compromise
in today’s second round battle
over the selection of a conference
chairmarT Rut even if this could
be settled without more dispute,
the delegates generally took a
pessimistic view.
The fight, which broke out in
the closed meeting of the steering
committee yesterday when Molo
tov’ blocked the election of Secre
tary of State Stettinius as chair
man demonstrated anew the Big
Three disunity which has devel
oped over the dispute about Po
land. There is widespread fear the
same situation would arise over
the even more critical issues the
conference still has to tackle as a
whole.
The conference of forty-six na
tions has been thrown off its
timetable by the chairmanship
outbreak. Today’s ten-thirty a.m.
session was originally scheduled
for another round of speechmak
ing. Instead the steering commit
tee called a second extraordinary
secret session to try and break
the deadlock over the chairman
ship and organize the conference
for work.
British and Americans wanted
to make Secretary Stettinius con
ference president and chairman
of key steering executive commit
tees. Molotov balked when Eden
proposed that Stettinius be given
the committee chairmanships, but
he proposed also that the presi
dency job of presiding over full
conference be rotated among the
big four: Stettinius, Molotov,
Eden and Soong of China.
Molotov’s rejections of this
deadlocked the conference short
ly before midnight last night.
Stettinius met several members
of the Russian delegation, whose
names were not disclosed in try
ing to reach an agreement in as
suring success of today’s efforts
to organize the conference.
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