Capture Two
Filipino-Japanesc
Collaborationists
By FRED VAMPSON
MANILA, April 22—(JP)—'Two
additional cabinet members and
accused collaborationists of the
fallen Japanese dominated Phil
ippine puppet government have
been captured near Baguio the
besieged commonwealth summer
capital on northern Luzon, Gen.
MacArthur said in a communique.
The cabinet members, Claro
Recto, minister of foreign affairs
and Rafael Alunan, minister of
agriculture and commerce and
the four member^ 9* the cabinet
captured last week as the Yank
Thirty-Third Division closed in on
Baguio are all confined for the
duration as a matter of military
security and then will be turned
over to the government of the
Philippines for trial.
* Meantime on Mindanao the
Twenty-Fourth Division contin
ued their drive eastward toward
Davao along the highway Afo in
the valley of the big Mindanao
river, while bombers swept en
emy concentration lines of com
munication.
Heavy bombers sank or dam
aged an eight thousand ton
freighter transport at Saigon in
French Indo China. Rail installa
tions in Indo China were heavily
pounded.
! BASEBALL
SATURDAY GAMES
Pacific Coast League
Portland 1, Hollywood 0; Seat
I tie 3, Oakland 2; Los Angeles 7,
San Diego 3; San Francisco 8,
Sacramento 2; Seattle 2, Oakland
0, nine innings; Portland 7, Holly
wood 6, 11 innings, second games,
first games 7.
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American League
Philadelphia 8, Boston 2; Wash
ington 2, New York 1; Cleveland
j 2, Detroit 3. Other games post
I poned.
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National League
Chicago 4, Pittsburg 3; Brook
lyn 2, New York 3; Boston-Phila
i delphia game postponed.
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SUNDAY GAMES i
Pacific Coast League
j Oakland 3, 3—Seattle 1, 2; Hol-j
lywood 1, 10—Portland 16, 2; San,
j Diego 12, 9—Los Angelas 1, 4;
| Sacramento 5, 5—San Francisco
9, 12.
American League
Philadelphia 6, Boston 1; Cleve
land 3, Detroit 6; New York 5,
| Washington 2; St. Louis 3, 3—Chi
cago 4, 5.
National League
Brooklyn 3, New York 1; Chi
cago 3, 5—Pittsburgh 0, 2; Boston
3, 6—Philadelphia 2, 7; Cincin
nati 0, 9—St. Louis 2, 7.
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Brazil was named after the dye
wood which was the early set
tlers’ chief export.
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Many Japanese
Dead In Southern
Okinawa Fight
By LIEF ERICKSON
GUAM, April 22—(IP)—Dough
boys of the Twenty-Fourth Army
Corps have killed 11,738 Japanese
and captured 27 in southern Okin
awa alone Admiral Chester Nim
itz announced. This excludes the
Japanese killed by the Marines on
northern Okinawa. Admiral Nim
itz also reported that hte desper
ate Japanese defenders held the
Twenty-Seventh, Seventy-Seventh
and Ninety-Sixth infantry divi
sions to no gains through Sunday
as heavy artillery and naval air
bombardment continued all along
the southern F“ront.
Marines of the Third Amphibi
ous Corps occupied Taka island
east of Okinawa and seized half
of Sesoko island one mile west of
Motobu Peninsula.
Japanese aircraft made strong
attacks on United States forces
around Okinawa yesterday, sink
ing one light unit and causing
other damage. Forty-nine of the
attacking planes were destroyed.
1 The light unit may have been a
destroyer or might have been a
smaller ship.
Carrier based aircraft swept
the Sakishima islands, southern
most of the Ryukyus Saturday
and Sunday and Amami and other
of the northern Ryukyus from
Wednesday through Friday, de
stroying twenty-six Japanese
planes and heavily damaging
Amami airfield installations.
Army Mustang fighters from
Iwo Jima heavily raided Subuka
airfield thirty-two miles south
J west of Nagoya on Honshu island
; Sunday destroying twenty-six
planes and damaging twenty-one.
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DIES AT PIONEER HOME
Word has been received by the
! Nugget of the death of Emil Jor
gensen, of Nome, at the Pioneers’
Home at Sitka on April 3. Mr. Jor
gensen, who was born in Den
mark on January 1, 1880, came to
Alaska in 1906. He worked as a
| longshoreman in Nome as a sailor
on coastwise vessels out of Nome
i into Siberia and as far as North
| Cape, and also worked for a time
| for the Lomen Commercial Com
pany. He was admitted to the
Home on March 24, 1944.
EDWIN A. MURPHY IN CALIF.
Edwin A. Murphy, formerly
stationed her with the U.S.E.D.,
writes that he is now with the 822
i Army Air Forces in the Special
ized Depot and misses his Nome
friends. He is glad to be at work
j again after having spent six weeks
! in the Army hospital in the Aleu
tians and further hospitalization
in Arizona for bronchitis. His
present address is 6100 Vinevale
Ave., Marywood, Calif.
| foster mcgovern becomes
ASST. BANK VICE PRESIDENT
The Nugget is in receipt of an
announcement from Foster L.
McGovern that he has resigned
his position as manager of the
Alaska Department of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce, which he
has held since 1932.
He is leaving this post to be
come Assistant Vice President of
the National Bank of Commerce
of Seattle and hopes that his many
Nome friends will look him up
there.
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AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Incoming passengers Friday
were A. Alicki, Ray Niles and
Jack Westfall. Outgoing passen
gers were Rev. Ed Johnson and
Charles Woodring.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Barney Belleview was a passen
ger to Deering; and from Kotze
bue to Nome were Mrs. Joe Ama
rok, Mrs Dwight Milligrok and 2
children, and Bain Barger. The
Boeing arrived Sunday with Jack
Chandler for the Glenn Carring
ton Company, and Harvey Star
ling from Unalakleet. The Boeing
will leave tonight with Father
O’Connor, Ralph Weeks, Mrs.
Swanton for Fairbanks and Willie
Nayakik and Steve Ungudruk for
Barrow.
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