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VOL, XLVII, No. 65. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 194 5 PER COPY —757
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Forestry Service !
Explains Jap |
Paper Balloons
WASHINGTON, May 30—(/P)—!
Japan’s bomb ferrying balloons
are being launched against United
States from the Japanese home
islands. They travel up to 125
miles an hour and take some
eighty to one hundred twenty
hours to reach the United States, i
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Lyle Watts, chief of the United
States forestry service in giving
added these details in an interview
last night added that the balloons
are unmanned and are equipped
with an automatic ballast drop
ping device.
The Forestry Service has been
assisting the Army in preventing
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any damage from the enemy bal
loons. Watts said the hydrogen
filled balloons attain heights of
from 25,000 to 35,000 feet where
they reach air currents that travel
constantly from west to east.
► Each time they descend to
25,000 feet from loss of gas or
barometric pressure a switch au
tomatically drops sandbags, he ex
plained, and the release causes the
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Chinese Make
Great Gains
Against Japs
CHUNGKING, May 30——
Chinese troops striking down the
Kwangsi-Kweichow railroad have
t reached the vicinity of Ishen,
forty-three miles west of Liuchow,
former United tSates air base,
which field, reports said, the Japs
may be preparing to evacuate.
> The Chinese command in an
nouncing the new success told of
fighting at points along a nine
hundred mile front. The Chinese
are making new inroads from the
western side of the enemy corri
dor, stretching from the Yellow
river to Indochina in the coastal
province of Fukien.
The Chinese also recovered Ning
teh forty-five miles north of lib
erated Foochow. The Japs re
0 treated toward Siapu near the
coast seventy-five miles northeast
of Foochow.
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Coast Guard Saves
Men And Dogs
Monday evening the local sta
tion of the Coast Guard was noti
fied that Tom Dalquist and his
dog team, enroute ot Safety from
Nome had failed to reach his des
tination. Due to the fact that the
break-up came suddenly and
without warning he was cast
adrift someplace in the Bering
Sea.
The visibility was so poor that
it was impossible for planes to as
sist in locating him. The Coast
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Syrian Dispute:
Armed Impasse
LONDON, May 30—(JP) —New
outbreaks of violence are reported
in Syria as the dispute between
France and the governments of
Syria and Lebanon reached an im
passe, laden with threat and grave
developments.
The Beyrouth radio said the
Syrian artillery was brought into
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CHAMBER HOLDS
LIVELY MEETING
The Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce held a reg
ular meeting Tuesday evening at
8:00 p.m., in the court room of
the Federal building. The follow
ing members were present: War
ner, Boucher, Bernier, Walsh,
Whaley, Harper, Webb, Frye, and
Smith.
The treasurer, Richard Webb,
reporting on the membership
drive stated that he had contacted
34 new members.
A communicaion from the Pan
Pacific Good Neighbor Tours,
Inc., was read, and the secretary
was instructed to reply to same.
A communication, which had
been received by A. Polet, from
the National Housing Authority,
was explained as follows: Any
person may apply for building
priorities. The size of the build
ings are limited only by the ma
terials available. The buildings
may be personally financed; on
loans from friends; from the
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Small Nations Gain
At Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30—(IP)
—The small nations checked off
two notable gains in the world se
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curity conference in the struggle
with the Big Five for more power
in the world peace league. These
advances held the prospect of
tempering their fight against the
Big Five veto voting formula, al
though on the hotly debated ques
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Yanks Seize Wawa
Dam Undamaged
By JAMES HUTCHESON
MANILA, May 30—(ff)—Major
General William C. Chase’s Thir
ty-Eighth infantry division seized
Wawa dam undamaged without a
fight Monday, thereby securing
the last of Manila’s three reser
voirs to crack the last Japanese
strongpoint immediately east of
the capital.
The dam is in a scenic rocky
gorge bewteen towering cliffs 20
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Fire Boinhs Still
The Life In
Tokyo’s Heart
GUAM, May 30—^/P)—The war
ring heart of Tokyo was seared by
8,500 tons of six pound gasoline
jelly bombs and it beats no more.
Maj. Gen. Lemay, commander
of the Twenty-First bomber Com
mand says that from the Emper
or’s scorched palace stretches a
scene of desolation with only
stumps of buildings standing.
Fifty-one square miles of Tokyo
is in ruins photographs showed
conclusively. Wood and paper
ashes drifted over the fire-twisted
ruins, borne on Tuesday’s south
erly winds blowing from Yoko
hama Tokyo’s teeming port city
eighteen miles south where fires
were kindled Tuesday from 3,200
tons of incendiary clusters sown
by more than four hundred fifty
of Lemay’s sky giants. It was the
biggest daylight Superfortress raid
against Japan.
Scrutinizing reconnais s a n c e
photographs of Tokyo while the
ninety minute whirlwind of de
struction was loosed on Yokoha
ma, .the youthful cigar-chewing
Lemay declared “we destroyed
every target we set out to de
stroy.”
Fifteen hundred Superfortresses
scattered more than 11,700 tons of
cendiaries on Tokyo and Yoko
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CITY COUNCIL
MET CONDAY
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The Nome city council met
Monday evening in the Clerk’s of
fice. Several committees reported
i on their activities but due to the
absence of the mayor action was
postponed.
An ordinance is ready for con
trol of the loose dog situation and
will await the return of the
mayor.
A proposal of C. A. Sherman of
the Yukon Corp., to reassess the
town and help plan the taxes for
the post war period and its neces
sary activities was taken under
consideration.
Definite plans for clean-up week
were postponed until the next
meeting.