AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving passengers last Friday
evening about midnight were Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Cardiff, Albert Flor
ence, Homer Crewson, Rose, Lil
lian and Julia Silverman, Bob
Brandt, Harold Heide, Art Car
penter, Bill Herning. Keith Rob
erts was a passenger from Galena.
Departing passengers were
George Bayer, Aimer Rydeen,
Akagsyloon Evan, Garne't Martin.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Huntley, R.
Hammer, William Darden and
Harvey Beard.
WIEN AIRLINES
A trip was made on Saturday
to Golovin and Council and re
turning passenger from Council
was Leon Bagley, Internal Rev
enue collector. Another trip was
made on Saturday to Kotzebue,
Deering and Shismaref with John
Shaeffer for Deering and Dr. Ed.
Seinfelt a passenger from Shis
maref to Kotzebue.
Pilot Peterson made a trip to
Unalakleet this morning with J. L.
Connors and J. O. Kempten.
ALASKA AIRLINES
The Lodestar piloted by Capt.
Dugan and co-pilot Williams ar
rived Saturday from Anchorage
with Stanley Totom, Mae George,
Mae Dell George, Helen Sands,
Ann Robbins and Mary Wildes.
Pilot Weaver left for Fairbanks
for a routine engine check-up.
$500 FIRE AT LINCOLN
HOTEL SATURDAY
The Fire Department was call
ed out Saturday morning at three
o’clock to answer an alarn) from
the Lincoln Hotel. A fire started
in the women’s lavatory and J
quickly spread to the upper floor
between the walls, to room eight
directly above. Due to the quick
action of the Fire department the
fire was brought under control
with damage estimated at about
$500.
Yanks Erase
Jap Gties
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northern tip of Honshu yesterday
afternoon.
The broadcast, monitored in
San Francisco by FCC said the
operation proved to be “another
blind bombardment of no effect
at all.”
Feeble anti-aircraft fire wag the
only opposition offered in the en
tire series of explosive assaults.
Battleship forces spearheaded by
forty-five thousand ton superbat
tleships Missouri, Iowa, and Wis
consin, all but destroyed the iron
and steel center of Mororan on
Hokkaido island yesterday. Car
rier planes burned out practically
all of industrial Kushiro on the
same island the day before.
Superfortresses made a return
visit to attack the Nippon Oil com
pany plant at Kudumatsu, about
five miles southeast of Tokyuama
with high explosives. Returning
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Superfort crews said the bombing
results were “good to excellent.'*
Fires and explosions were visible
a hundred miles. “It turned clouds
on the horizon blue. They stayed
that way for thirty seconds.”
One pilot said no Superforts
were lost. More than a hundred
Mustangs from the Iwo base
struck six Nagoya airfields and
destroyed or damaged thirty
seven Jap planes and then pounc
ed on the shipping in Nagoya bay
and the railroad yards. Three
Mustangs were lost. Only eight
interceptors came up to fight.
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I Tokyo claimed that Jap pilots
! “bagged a sizeable number” of
[ American planes, but admitted
American airforces “did not suf
fer serious attrition yet.” Vague
hints have been thrown out about
forthcoming “secret weapons.” ]
Elsewhere in the far western
Pacific Navy search Privateers
heavily attacked Korea, and army
Liberators hit Sinapo and shipping
off southern Honshu. Thunder*
bolts ranged to the China coast.
Attack fighter bombers hit two
Kyushu island cities.
Carrier planes struck three air-1
fields in Honshu. Communiques
of three American commands re
Navy Reveals
U. S. S. Thomas
Rammed Sub
WASHINKTON, July 1«—W—
The Navy reveals that the destroy
er escort Thomas a year ago
rammed and sank a German u
boat loaded with mines destined
for planting in Altantic seaboard
i waters.
The u-boat was almost cut apart
in the ramming and sank in sec
onds. The Thomas picked up
twenty-nine survivors, including
Captain Lieutenant Hans Steen.
ported aerial assaults on eleven
Jap cities: Muroran, Hakodate,
Esashi, Kushiro, Sendai, Shibetsu,
all on Hokkaido island; Nagoya,
Aomoro, Kudumatsu, all on Hon
shu island, Miyazake, Kagoshina
on Kyushu island. Tokyo radio
also additionally reported that
carrier planes alro raided Otaru,
Abashiri, Ashigawa and Obihiro,
all on Hokkando island.
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