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VOL. XLVII. No. 89. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1945 PER COPY~^~157
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Planes And Fleet
Continue Rain Of
Shells And Bombs
GUAM, July 25—</P)—American
Superforts struck three Jap oil re
fineries near Tokyo at midnight
Wednesday (Jap time) within a
few hours after Third Fleet car
rier planes and warships pounded
coastal defenses of the enemy
homeland.
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Between seventy-five and a
hundred Superforts hit Mitsubishi,
Hayama and Asaishi refineries, all
within a few hundred yards of
each other at Kawasaki on Tokyo
bay, about ten miles from Tokyo
city.
It was the second Superfort raid
on Nippon within thirty-six hours.
Carrier planes smashed for the
second consecutive day at the
smoking remnants of Japan’s
dazed navy in the 'huge Kure
Naval base, after heavily damag
ing seven warships yesterday. Ad
miral Nimitz didn’t reveal the
strength of today’s assault, but it
is presumed to equal yesterday’s
twelve hundred plane strike at
airfields and other military instal
lations. The main home island of
Honshu was also hit.
Returning pilots reported de
struction of Jap planes on the
ground. {fP) correspondent Rich
ard O’Malley aboard the carrier
f agship said a thick blanket of
fog closed in late in the day and
fifteen cruisers and destroye. s
moved boldly inshore early yes
terday and shelled another Jap
fighting lair, seaplane base and
the airfield at Kushimoto on the
southwestern tip of Honshu.
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Tokyo radio, heard in London,
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BRITAIN-SWEDEN AIR
TRAFFIC RESUMED
STOCKHOLM, July 25—Regu
lar air traffic between Sweden
and the British Isles has begun
again. Temporarily the British
landing place is Prestwick, some
fifteen miles south of Glasgow.
Later a field nearer London will
be made available. The trip takes
from seven in the morning until
1:30 p.m., and costs about $120.00.
American built Dakota planes are
being used.
Looking Out At “Setting Sun”
PRISONER OF WAR — A Japanese soldier looks out
from a barbed-wire prison camp enclosure on the isiaud ox' Guam.
Chinese Govt.
And Communist
Troops Clash
CHUNGKING, July 25—<JP)—
Chinese government troops and
Communist forces clashed in the
border region of Shensi province
in North China, but an army
spokesman said the incident was
not serious.
Maj. Gen. Chi Chih» charged
that Communist forces attacked
the temporarily occupied Chung
yao district of Shensi province,
about seventy miles north of Sian,
which he said was “definitely out
side of the Communist border re
gion.”
Communist sources here how
ever maintained the government
troops started the attacks, and de
manded that the army forces
withdraw to their original posi
tions.
REX LANGTHAM
RETURNS TO NOME
Rex Langham, local manager
of the Alaska Airlines returned
here yesterday aboard one of the
company’s airliners from Anchor
age, where he has been for the
past week on company business.
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the
deepest in the world.
Petain Trial
Brings Muttered
Juror Protests
PARIS, July 25—(^—Mutter
ing protests arose from jurors and
spectators at the treason trial of
Petain when the old soldier curtly
refused to answer questions about
telegrams congratulating the Ger
l
mans on their success at Dieppe,
and seeking for permission of the
French troops to participate in the
defense of Vichy territory along
side the Germans.
Petain stolidly refused to ans
wer questions, adhering to his
vow on the first* day of the trial.
Judge Paul Mongibeaux then
read the record of what he said
was the telegram of Petain to Hit
ler, asking permission for Vichy
troops to help the Germans in the
defense.
The issue arose during the cross
examination by former Premier
Daladier, whose angry testimony
was punctuated by chair slam
ming and shouts.
Daladier was followed on the
stand by the last elected president
of the Third Republic, Albert Le
brun, who recited the succession
of military defeats which preced
ed the French armistice.
U. S. Fleet Entered t
Sea Of Okhotsk
Year Ago
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WASHINGTON, July 25—f/P)— .
The Navy has finally let it be told
that more than a year ago United
States warships penerated through
the Kuriles into the Sea of Okhot- j
sk, just north of the Sea of Japan
itself.
The Navy explained the opera-1
tion was not revealed at the time
because no Jap craft were en
countered. Stormy weather then
prevailed and it is believed it pos
sibly concealed the United States
Task Force from the enemy.
Normal Bell, (JP) correspondent,
on a mission was riding on the
flagship of Rear Admiral Wilder
D. Baker. Bell has now released
the story and said this scouting
mission cut across the enemy’s
lifeline to its northern bases on
Paramushiro and Shimushu. It
also struck directly at the vital
Japanese fishing industry.
The Task Force was making the
bold search under the orders of
Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher,
and was the same one which
bombed Paramushiro February 4,
the first sea attack against the Jap
home territory. The mission was
“Beaten, Routed
And Broken”
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25—(JP\
—Admiral William F. Halsey, boss
of the current Fleet and aerial at
tack upon Japan, said, “The Pa
cific Fleet opened a new phase of
naval warfare, the final plunge
into the heart of Japan.”
Halsey’s broadcast, made from
his flagship off Japan was heard
here by the American Broadcast
ing company. “I said after the far
flung battle of Leyte Gulf that the
Japanese fleet was beaten, routed,
and broken; and nothing has hap
pened since to change my opinion.
What is left of the Japanese navy
is helpless. But just for luck we
will hunt them out of their holes.”
carried out early in March, 1944,
while planes of the Fleet Air Wing
continued the “express” bombing
of the northern Kuriles.
The combined moves by air and
sea threatened to bring Paramu
shiro and Shimushu under at least
a limited blockade. The task foree
search mission failed to encounter
a Jap vessel of any ytpe, but the
officers pointed out it was yet too
early for the fishing season. The
trip was cold, rough and wet.
Long-Distance Telephone Service To
“States” Inaugurated At Nome
Long-distance telephone service
to the “States” was inaugurated
Tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m.,
Nome time, through the Alaska
Communications System office at
Nome.
The first call to go through was
made by Mr. V. G. Seiffert local
manager of the Northern Commer
cial Company “Caterpillar” de
partment. The call went to Mr.
Vollney Richmond, Jr., Vice Pres
ident-general manager of the com
pany, whose offices are in Seattle.
Mr. Seiffert states that his first
conversation over the new system
was so successful that the com
p a n y contemplates a weekly
schedule for the transaction of im
portant company business.
Charles Code, owner of the
Dream Theater here called his
wife in Seattle at 7:15 a.m.
H. G. (Hank) Miller called his
wife in Portland, Oregon, at 7:30
a.m.
Major M. W. Collie talked to lvs
wife in Midland, Texas.
G. R. Jackson, local banker,
called R. W. Jackson in Chicago.
The longest phone call was made
by Captain Glenn H. Spanabel,
who takled to his wife in Hamp
ton, Va.
Pfc. Pete ’ Shaughnessy phoned
his mother in Tacoma and P'ic.
Raymond Del Guerra call0'1 his
wife in San Francisco.
Phone conversations were all
reported as being remarkably
clear and easily understandable
The service goes by direct radio
phone to Seattle, where land lines
are then connected.
Lt. Stanley R. Morgan, Officer
in Charge of the Nome Stat'on
states that calls can be made at
any time day or night.