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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLVII. No. 82. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1945 PER COPY —15^
WAC, Survivor
Of “Shangrila”
Arrives In Slates
HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., July
9—</P)—A pretty WAC corporal
and two other survivors of “Shan
grila” arrived on an army trans
port plane frmo New Guinea en
route to Washington to report the
Army plane crash May thirteenth
that cost the lives of twenty-one!
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others.
The three are still wearing
bandages over burns suffered in1
the crash in a New Guinea valley
surrounded by fourteen thousand
foot peaks.
The three are Cpl. Margaret
Hastings, Oswego, N. Y., Lt. John
S. McCollom, 26, Trenton, Mo.,
and Sgt. Kenneth Decker, 34,
Kelso, Washington.
“Charlie The Tramp”
Passes Away
Charles Goetzenberger, 76, well
known miner of American Creek
in the Kougarok district, passed i
away here suddenly Saturday
morning at ten o’clock from a
heart attack.
“Charlie The Tramp” has been
known for years by many people
who have never known his real
name.
Goetzenberger came to Nome in
1910 from the States, where he
received the nickname, “Charlie
The Tramp.” Charlie had never
been known to stay in one place
for any length of time, although!
ho was well-known throughout!
the country.
For the past few years, Charlie'
has been a partner of Nick Sime
on in them establishment, “The
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Glue Pot,” a soft drink, and ice
cream parlor. Funeral arrange
ments are awaiting a reply from
Charlie’s brother, who resides in,
Ashland, Wisconsin.
ESTELLE WOLF IN TOWN
ENROUTE TO JUNEAU
Miss Estelle Wolf who has been
employed by the Ferguson Air
ways for a short time, is here en
route to Juneau, where she plans
to make her home. Miss Wolf was
at one time employed in Nome at
Lehmann’s Store.
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Celebrate Generals’ Homecoming
H 0 L LYWOOD LIGHTING — A real movie-style pro
duction was given the night program of the Patton-Doolittle home
coming festivities in Los Angeles memorial coliseum, as smoke
bombs burst against a pattern from giant searchlights.
President Enroute
To Big Three
Meeting
WASHINGTON, July 9—</P)—
President Truman is enroute to
Europe and the Big Three meet
ing. He left Newport News by ship
Saturday. Accompanying him is
his staff of advisers, including
Seci’etary Byrnes. The meeting
will be held in the Potsdam area
near Berlin.
Subs And Planes
Blockade Jap Ports
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9—UP)
—Tokyo radio reported a “con
siderable number” of American
subs and mine-laying Superforts
attempted a blockade of Jap har
bors, while raiding planes swept
widely over the home islands in
their daily strikes.
Domei claimed “at least seven”
subs had been sunk in Jap waters
since the beginning of June by
Nipponese planes which are “con
tinuing their assaults on enemy
Mac Arthur Lauds
Filipinos In First
Congress Session
MANILA, July 9 — (IP) — Gen.
Douglas MacArthur told the cheer
ing session of the first congress of
the Philippines “The magnificent
resistance of great masses of you
people have given to the world the
true measure of the strength of
your character and has establish
ed your spiritual capacity for self
government under any standards.”
VISITING* IN NOME
Mr. • and Mrs. C. Stalberg are
; visitors in Nome from Seattle,
where Mr. Stalberg is airways en
gineer for \he Alaska sector of the
Pan American Airways.
subs.” This claim and all reports
of air action are without Ameri
can confirmation.
Radio Tokyo said “the United
States is making a serious calcu
lated attempt to raze the Jap
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mainland thoroughly before an in
vasion and thus try to weaken all
resistance before a decisive battle
for the mainland can be fought."
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Australians
Advance Through
Borneo Jungles
MANILA, July 9—HP)—Closely
supported by American warships
and aircraft the Australian jungle
veterans advanced against spora
dic Jap resistance all along the
front of the southeast Borneo in
vasion coast around Balikpapan.
Naval units ranged the length
of the coast, pounding Jap gun po
sitions, while Mustangs and Spit
fires, Kittyhawks and Liberators
of the Australian and American
air forces kept up a steady attack
on Jap positions, smashing guns,
warehouses, barracks and small
coastwise craft.
One column of the Assie Sev
enth division of infantry, driving
inland from captured Balikpapan,
completed the isolation of the
Pandansari refinery area in the
northwest tip of the town, where
a Jap death stand rearguard put
up the stiffest fight.
U. S. Planes Afjain
Destroy Airfields*
Planes* Ships
GUAM, July 9— OP) —Flying
new “Jack” fighter planes. Japan’s
recently idle combat pilots jumped
inio-aerial warfare over the home
land again Sunday, try ng vainly
to stem the assault of long range
American Mustangs from Iwo
Jima which ravaged Tokyo air
fields for the fourth time in five
days.
Iwa based Mustangs and Okm
awa based Marine Cmvrurs and
Navy search planes destroyed or
damaged fifty Nipponese planes, j
many on the ground, and sank j
eight small coastal shins and dam-!
aged six others.
Seven Mustangs are the only,
American planes reported missing!
from the day’s far ranging forays!
which struck at nearly every sec
tion of Japan’s shrinking empire.
Fifth Air Force Mustangs from
Okinawa swept Kyushu for the
fourth straight day after Gen.
George Kenney told them “You
are on Japan’s doorstep. There
are no holds barred nowforevery
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Alaska Airlines
Plane Crashes
On Tundra
Headed by Captain James Mil
lerick, Sonoma. California, the
Nome Flight of Air Transport
Command’s Alaskan Division Air
Search and Rescue Squadron, late
Saturday successfully located and
flew to safety the seven passen
gers and two crew members of an
Alaskan Airlines passenger plane,
forced down in the tundra wilder
ness, seventy miles from the near
est civilization.
A Public Relations spokesman
from Alaskan Division headquar
ters disclosed that the airliner, en
route to Fairbanks, was forced
down by engine trouble, about
three hundred miles from ATC’s
far north Nome Air Base. ^Editor’s
note—The original Army report of
the crash erroneously reported the
plane was out of gas.)
Answering the ill-fated air
craft’s distress signals, Captain
Millerick and a picked crew, vet
erans of many Arctic search mis
sions, immediately flew to the
scene of the crash in a PBY Cata
lina Flying Boat, locating and
di-opping supplies to the doomed
Alaska Airlines’ Electra within
five hours after the crash report.
Unable 1o evacuate the passen
gers from the scene of the crash
by air, due *o swampy terrain, a
ground search party was organ
ized and flown in for rescue op
erations.
Although suffering from shock
and exposure, none of the airlin
er’s pas. engers were injured— hoy
Were flown by Air Transport
Command plane to ?>.h Ch-.dh.
(Continued on Pago Four)
Five Suicide Planes
At lack Hrilisli
Carriers; Fail
GUAM, July 9—(JP)—Three car
riers of the British Task Force at
tacking the Sakishima islands be
tween Okinawa and Formosa were
struck by five Kamikaze planes
but suffered only minor damages
and continued operations. The
United States Pacific Fleet head
quarters announced.