Russians Capture !
Russians Capture
Seaplane Base
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MOSCOW May 6—The assault
forces of Marshal Rokossovsky’s
Second White Russian army cap
tured the German island seaplane
base on Ruegen, forty-five miles
south of Sweden yesterday. Hun
dreds of Germans were brought
out of hiding in the little Baltic
ports around the island and swel
led the number of prisoners to
nearly 7,000. All of Germany’s
Baltic shores have been cleared
while Soviet forces in Czechoslo
vakia smashed into the outskirts
of the Moravian war production
center and railway junction of
Olmuetz one hundred twenty
eight miles from Prague on the
main rail line.
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Chamber Of Commerce
Will Elect Board
The Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce will hold
its regular election Thursday eve
ning at 8:00 p.m. (Meeting place
will be announced in the Wed
nesday Nugget).
The Nominating committee has
been busy this week making up
a tentative list of probables for
membership to the Board of Di- \
rectors.
The list is as follows: G. R.
Jackson, V. G. Seiffert Chris
Roust H. A. Bernier, F. C. Bing
ham, J. C. Kehoe, C. C. Tanner,
O. S. Weaver Guy Boyd, Ken
Rank, Edw. Seidenverg, Garnet
Martin, M. J. Walsh, Joe Wallace,
Art Hartford, C. Dudley Warner,
W. H. Cameron, A. Polet, Geo.
Madsen, Robert Long, John Solon,
Joe Amarok, Guy Mish and W. A.
Boucher.
The first Catholic Mass in Bra
zil was celebrated on May 1, 1500.
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BALTIMORE, MD.—If and wh«i j
Capt. George E. McCabe, U. S. ,
Coast Guard, gets to Japan after
the war, he’s assured of a first-class
Japanese guide, a prisoner of war
he carried recently while serving
as skipper of an attack transport
on the South Pacific.
Captain McCabe has on display
in his office here a framed letter in
Japanese script, dated October 10,
1944, and addressed “to the honor
able captain.” It is 2 feet square.
The Nip prisoner who wrote it
seemed deeply grateful, along with
100 other prisoners, that he wasn’t
tortured upon capl . observed
Baltimore’s new c; in of the
port.
“Depending on the great favors
of the captain,” the letter read, “we
have been great bother to the crew
of the ship and I, as representative
of the rest, make a deep bow to you.
“I have been thinking that this
war will not last. America and
Japan are two of the world’s strong
countries, but ever since the Meiji
era, Japan has been closely related
to the United States and trade has
flourished between the two coun
tries, has it not?
“We all look forward to the com
ing of peace in the near future,
throughout the world, with the end
of this present war. Then, cap
tain, if you come to Japan I should
be delighted to show you the scenic
spots, many of them truly spec
tacular.
“Finally, I think that the Ameri
can armed forces and the Ameri
cans have a splendid country, and
I have always admired the United
"States.
“We respectfully pray that you
may go to heaven, honorable sir.”
First Lt. T. H. Harbaugh, U. S.
M. C., who translated the letter for
Captain McCabe, added this note:
“The ascent to heaven is not in
tended to be immediate.”
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SATURDAY GAMES
National Laagua
Boston 5, 4; New York 15, 6.
Brooklyn 10, 12; Philadelphai 1,
8. Chicago 5, St. Louis 1. Cincin
nati-Pittsburgh gome postponed.
Boston 5, New York 15 Brook
lyn 10, Philadelphia 1. Chicago 5,
St. Louis 1. Cincinnati-Pittsburgh
game postponed.
American League
New York 7, Boston 3. Cleve
land 2, Chicago 3. St. Louis 5, De
troie 0. Philadelphia 3, Washing
ton 7.
Pacific Coast League
Los Angeles 4. San Diego 5.
San Francisco 8, Sacramento 5.
SUNDAY GAMES
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American League
New York 0, 2; Boston 5, 0.
Cleveland 2, 4; Chicago 3, 6. Phil
adelphia 3, 0; Washington 2, 2.1
St. Louis 0, 0; Detroit 3, 1.
National League
Brooklyn 7, 10; Philadelphia 5,1
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7. Cincinnati 3, 1; Pittsburgh 1, 5.
Boston 3. 1; New York 4, 1. <Sec
ond game ended in a tie*. Chicago
2, 1; St. Louis 6, 5.
Pacific Coast Laagua
Portland 7, 10; Hollywood 6, 0.
Seattle 2 1; Oakland 12, 5. Loa
Angeles 2, 4; San Diego 1,*5. San
Francisco 7 1; Sacramento 15, 11.
In Mopup Of ,
Czechoslovakia
PARIS, May 7—iff*)—American
and Russian armies beat through
Czechoslovakia and Austria in a
final mop-up of organized Ger
man resistance. Embattled patri
ots in Prague said that the army
tanks were only fifteen miles from
the city, the larest still in German
hands.
Gen. Patton threw nearly a
♦
quarter million troops into the
closing campaign in advances up
to twenty-five miles. His tanks
and infantry advanced to within
fifty miles southwest and fifty
two miles south and Prague.
The German controlled Prague
radio said Gen. Konev’s army had
driven into Bohemia from Saxony
point about sixty miles north of
Prague.
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