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VOL. XLVII. No. 78. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 194 5 PER COPY — 15f
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Yank Planes
Sink Or Damage
23 Jap Vessels
* GUAM, June 29——'Twenty
three surface craft were sunk or i
damaged Wednesday and Thurs
day by American planes off Koria
in the Japanese home waters.
Headquarters reported today
that off Koria in Empire waters in
a two days search planes of Fleet
• * Airwing One sank a small tanker,
a small cargo ship, unidentified
vessel, four small craft freighter,
damaged small freighter trans
port, five small cargo ships, small
coastal cargo ship lugger.
On the same dates Marine and
Army planes of the Tactical Air
► force hit the Amami island group
north of conquered Okinawa and
the Sakishima group to the south.
The raiders set a small cargo ship
and coastal vessel afire, sank two
luggers and damaged two other
coastal vessels and a barge in
other raids off Truk and Yap in
W the Carolines and enemy bases in
the Marshalls and Palaus. Admir
al Nimitz said enemy planes
dropped a few bombs on the Okin
awa area Wednesday without
damage.
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FOURTH OF JULY
COMMITTEE PLANS
BIG EVENT
The Fourth of July committee
is busy making plans for the fit
ting celebration of Independence
Day in Nome.
The children and grown-ups
i, will have their races, pie-eating
contests, ice cream and other
goodies, planned by the sports and
refreshments committees.
The customary speechmaking
and parades will take place on
Front Street, and the A.T.G. will
probably hold a dance in the eve
ning.
Further announcements will be
made Monday and Tuesday
through the Nome Nugget.
A
FRED ROBERTS FAMILY
LEAVE FOR THE STATES
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roberts and
children left Wednesday evening
via the P.A.A. for the States. Mr
Raterts has not been well for
some time and plant; on entering
the Mayo Clinic for treatment
a
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Superfortresses
Fire-Raid Four
More Jap Cities
GUAM, June 29—(/P)—Marian
as-based American Superfortress
es spread incendiary destruction
on four more Japanese cities to
day. Between four hundred fifty
and five hundred planes rained
more than three thousand tons of
fire bombs on Sasebo, Moki, No
beoka and Okayama in predawn
raids which brought to eighteen
the number of Japan’s cities that
have been hit in the Superfortress
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PLAYFIELD SHOWS
GOOD ATTENDANCE
After three weeks of activity on
the play field, a check up finds
there are 117 enrollees, with at
tendance ranging from 16 to 78
daily. One nveer knows just what
the attendance is going to be.
Thus far the children who have
the highest average attendance
since enrolling are: Edith Ann
Morton, Laura Mary and Charley
Johnson. Kay Coulthard, Julia
Ruth Brown, Helen Marie and
Lois Anne Joe, Clyde, Richard
and Ruth Nershak, Edna Stanley,
Margaret Willoya, Gary and Joan
Longley, Gladys James, Marcella
Johnson, Dale Morton, Henry
Longley, Peter Larson, Michael
Tavis, Homer Bernhardt, Nancy
Rainey, and Gay Bianca.
! TRUMAN PUTS
WORLD PEACE
UP TO SENATE
KANSAS CITY, June 29—(/P)—
President Truman put squarely
up ot hte Senate what he termed
the decision on future peace.
Unless United States leads the
way by ratification of the United
Nations charter and the world
court he declared, “there can be
no peace in the world.”
His solemn warning was voiced
in the homecoming ceremony last
night, at which he received an
honorary doctor of laws degree
from University of Kansas City’s
law school, and it increased spec
ulation that he may submit the
charter to the Senate Monday in
person.
“We are going to have to ratify
this constitution of San Francisco,
and I want to say to United States
to do it first,” the President de
clared. Meanwhile the President
arranged a late afternoon confer
ence with Alfred Landon, 1936
GOP. Presidential nominee. It is
one of a series of moves to unite
both parties and all factions be
hind nonpartisan objectives.
OIL CITY, Pa. (^)—The cast of
the high school play was on the
stage to have its picture taken
when the large curtain, valued at
$1,000, caught fire. The cast was
producing— “Friday, the 13th.”
Chinese Capture
Liuchow Airfields
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I CHUNGKING, June 29—(/P)—
1 A Chinese army spokesman an
nounced that Chinese troops had
captured the main airfield in the
southern suburbs of Liuchow,
which General Chennault’s Four
teenth Airforce was forced to
abandon to the Japs last Novem
i
ber seventh.
The spokesman said the Chin
ese forces had also retaken the
city’s south railway station. Fierce
fighting was reported raging in
the western and northwestern
suburbs of Liuchow, where other
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American Fleet
Shell Jap Positions
On Borneo
MANILA, June 29— UP) —'The
The presence of the United States
Seventh Fleet in the hostile wa
ters of Makassar Straits between
the Celebes and southeast Borneo
was disclosed today.
General MacArthur announced
that the surface craft had downed
three Japanese planes there Mon
day. There was no further report
of action, and no confirmation of
persistent Toyko radio reports of
the Allied fleet bombarding Jap
anese positions on Borneo and the
southeast coast port of Balikpa
pan.
Since June fifteenth the Japan
ese have contended that landing
attempts have already been made
on that coast. General MacArthur
disclosed that planes of the United
States Fifth and Thirteenth Air
Forces and the RAAF continued
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Some Airmail
Rates Reduced
WASHINGTON, June 29—(/P*—
The Postoffice department has
announced that the air mail post
age rate from continental United
States, including Alaska, to Rus
sia has been reduced from seven
ty to thirty cents a half ounce.
The rate to Cuba from the United
States and Alaska has been re
duced from ten to eight cents a
half ounce.
Japs Nervous About Aleutian Activity
Transfer Industries To Manchuria
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 29—(/P)
—Japan gave top priority to the
transfer of its home industries to
Manchuria and turned nervous at
tention towards the Aleutians
where Tokyo radio said the United
States is massing a mountain of
trained fighters and paratroopers.
The transfer of the war indus
tries to the Asia mainland is de
clared by a Tokyo radio broadcast,
I recorded by Federal Communica
tions System, to be even “more
fundamental” than the dispersion
i of the industries from Japan to
escpae American air blows.
Tokyo said the "division is com
posed solely of Alpine troops” be
ing stationed on Agattu island in
the outer Aleutians near Attu.
The paratroopers are being placed
1 through the northern region. The
broadcast claimed that Fletcher’s
United States Ninth Fleet was
awaiting the opporutnity to strike
from the north with the light unit
fleet which recently attacked a
Jap Convoy in the Sea of Ok
hotsk.