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Forecast And
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Nome and Vicinity,
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May 7, 1945
Prepared by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Forecast Nome: Clear today.
Cloudy tonight. Tuesday partly
cloudy but sunny. Slightly warm
er.
Nome Data: Precipitation last
24 hours ending at 8:30 a.m. to
day, none.
Total precipitation this month
to 8:3 0a.m. today 0.02 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours
ending at 8:30 a.m. today, highest
40, lowest 19.
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 43, lowest 31.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 7 in 1939,
highest 56 in 1919.
Sunrise at 4:u» a.m. sunset at
9:51 p.m.
Data for other selected stations
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Barrow 17 Cloudy
Point Hope 24 Cloudy
Kotzebue 15 Cloudy
Wales 28 Clear
Gambell 23 Clear
Nome 26 Clear
Golvoin • 18 Clear
Moses Point 19 Clear
Unalakleet 23 Clear
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Bethel 30 Clear
McGrath 32 Clear
Galena 32 Cloudy
Nenana 35 Clear
Fairbanks 35 Cloudy
Ft. Yukon 12 Clear
Summit 6 Clear
Anchorage 35 Clear
Cordova 27 Clear
Juneau 33 Cloudy
Whitehorse 26 Clear
Prince George 33 Clear
Allies Sink Mucli
Jap Shipping In
Korea Straits
GUAM, May 6—(#)— British
battleships and cruisers in their
first bombarding operation in the
Pacific severely shelled southern
Ryukus Saturday. Sunday United
States Navy bombers in the
meantime sank or damaged twen
ty ships on Japan’s vital shipping
lane between the homeland and
Korea.
The British force which carried
out numerous carrier plane raids
in the Ryijyn chain since itw sa
first announced in action in the
Pacific on March 26, heavily
shelled airdrome targets in the
Sakishima gruop just northeast of
Formosa despite strong enemy air
activity.
Low-flying United States Navy
Beattie 44 Partly Cloudy
San Francisco 52 Cloudy
Ketchikan 41 Cloudy
Australian, Dutch
Capture Center Of
Tarakan City
MANILA, May 7—(JP)—Austra
lian and Dutch troops, using tanks
and flamethrowers to reduce pill
box and tunnel strongpoints, cap
tured the center of Tarakan City .
on Aarakan island just off the
search bombers found good hunt
ing in the Isushima Korea Straits
in a daring sweep was announced
by Admiral Nimitz who for the
first time in the Okinawa cam
paign failed to mention the
ground operations on Okinawa it- j
self.
The Yanks on the island were j
last reported engaged in a new j
offensive. Heavy United States
fleet units of aircraft heavily,
bombarded enemy positions on J
southern Okinawa. Japanese
planes raided American shipping,
in Okinawa Saturday and Sunday, i
slightly damaging one light sur
face unit.
Borneo coast Saturday and took
possession of the airfield.
General MacArthur in an an
nouncement communique which
reported 11,028 more Japanese
dead had been counted and 462
more prisoners had been taken in
the Philippines in the past week.
The Twenty-Fourth division on
Mindanao, attacking strong Jap
anese hill positions west of cap
tured Davao.
Several naval guns silenced
considerable airforce equipment
and seized the center of the is
land. 8he Thirty-First Division
drove northward toward the big
Japanese airbase of DelMonte,
moving with close air support
Gen. MacArthur said the Aus
sies and Dutch Indies troops who
invaded Tarakan Tuesday had to
bring up tanks, demolition crews
and flamethrowers to reduce the
“maze of pillboxes and inter
communicating tunnels” before
Tarakan hill in the heart of the
main city was taken.
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