AIRLINES
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ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving yesterday via the Alas
ka Airlines were Mr. and Mrs.
Reddaway from Anchorage and
Don Foster and L. C. Peters from
Vnalakleet. Leaving for Anchor
age was Captain Steinlind.
Barney Crosby of the C.A.A.,
will leave today for Moses Point
with the Alaska Airlines.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Mrs. Jack Westfall returned to
Golovin yesterday with Pilot
Frank Whaley. He also made a
trip to Haycock with a load of ex
press.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
The Pan American plane ar
rived Saturday morning with Gus
Brusilus and Emery Martin. The
plane departed with Paul Sarv,
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Roust and
child, Edith Gallop and Dorothy
.Broderick.
Kidnap Daughter
Of OPA Executive
CHICAGO, Jan. 7— (/P) —Six
year-old Suzanne Degnan, daugh
ter of a Chicago OPA executive
has been kidnapped, the Chicago
City News Bureau said. The kid
naper contacted the family by tel
ephone to repeat a $20,000 ransom
demand. Her father pleaded for
her safe return because “I have
no money.”
The child, daughter of James
I>egnan, board operations officer
the Chicago metropolitan OPA.
Her mother found her missing
when she went to awaken the girl.
The ranson note was discovered in
the child’s bedroom, and a seven
foot ladder was found leaning
against the window sill.
Mother was warning little Nancy
about being careful crossing the
streets.
“Oh, don’t worry,” the child as
sured her mother, “I always wait
lor the empty space to come by.”
DISTRICT LAND OFFICE
PATENT FORMS
BY MAY FIRST
Mr. Ralph J. Rivers, Attorney
General for Alaska, has notified
the District Land Office, Nome,
that the registration forms for pat
ented land will be ready for appli
cants by May first.
—
FILED FOR TIMBER
Abraham Lincoln of White
Mountain has filed Purchase of
Timber Application Serial No.
0984 for Christmas trees shipped
to Nome.
_
During the Christmas season,
the average shopper walks eleven
miles a day.
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R E H I R E D—Dropped by a
movie studio because she looked
,too childlike, June Haver
(above) rot new clothes, a new
hairdress, and won a film con
tract—with the same studio!
WASHINGTON
TWO EXPERTS
IN ESPIONAGE
By JACK STINWET
• First of Three Stories)
WASHINGTON—Anv day now,
a small, comoact fellow with a de
ceptively mild manner will report
back to his job on the county po
lice force at Springfield, 111.
Already a tall, curly-haired,
athletic young man has taken his
chair behind the treasurer’s and
advertising director’s desk in a
Washington, D. C., furniture store
that bears the family name.
Between them they carry the
memories of one of the strangest
Odysseys of this war: More than
12 months of espionage and sabo
tage as leaders of guerrilla fight
ing behind the Japanese lines in
China’s bloody, stinking* but high
ly productive rice bowl.
The first is Lt. Cmdr. Meredith
J. “Muddy” Rhule, late of OSS
SACO (Office of Strategic Serv
ices-Sino American Cooperative
Organization), commander of a
six-man demolition team, and
later trainer and commander of a
band of Chinese guerrillas that
harried the Japanese all the way
from Liuchow to Canton.
The second is Lt. Maury Nee,
ex-Georgetown University foot
ball star and a former member of
Rear Admiral Milton E. “Mary”
Miles’ “naval group” which start
ed out to prick the enemy along
the Jap-held coast of China and
ended with behind-the-lines land
operations deep inside China. Part
of the time Nee was with Rhule’s
command, for although lines were
drawn at the top defining com
mands and operations, it was a
different story in the field where
the men worked as a team.
In SACO (aptly pronounced
socko\ the men were partially un
der the direction of one of China’s
wiliest espionage and sabotage ex
perts, Gen. Tail Li, who bore the
high-sounding Chinese army title
of chief of the bureau of investi
gation and statistics.
First, to take the bald record of
their operations, let’s go to a sum
WICN Alaska Airlines
“Alaska’s First Airline”
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If It’s Freight-W hatever the Weight
Let Wien*Alaska Fly It!
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Nome to Gambell
Jan. 3rd
Jan. 17 th
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Day or Night Phone MAIN 46
For Information
mary of Commander Rhule’s “op
erations report.” It reads as mat
ter-of-factly as a shopping list,
except that in one sentence it cites
that the Commander carried out
his orders with uncommon dili
gence, enthusiasm, ingenuity and
success. But there’s nothing mat
ter-of-fact about the items.
For two months, following Sept
6, 1944, Lt. Rhule was in command
of a demolition team of four offi
cers and two enlisted men operat
ing behind enemy lines between
Kweilin and Tungtao. By destroy
ing or damaging 125 bridges, tun
nels and ferries, among numerous
other things, the team was respon
sible in large measure for saving
the vital air base at Chichiang.
After only 18 days of rest, Rhule
infiltrated the enemy lines again
as commander of a guerrilla band
of 100 Chinese and five Ameri
cans, which was active from Nov.^
25, 1944, until Aug. 15, 1945, when
it moved into Canton, still held by
| 12,000 Japanese troops, whose
commander refused to surrender.
In these Liuchou-Canton opera
tions, Rhule’s command killed
more than 700 Japanese, including
23 officers; wounded 400 more; de
stroyed or damaged 75 trucks, ar
mored cars, etc.; blew up three im
portant bridges and assassinated
the puppet governor of Liuchow.
fcNext: A Few Details)
Do you know a fellow down
your way with one leg named 4
Jones?
Well, now, I’m not sure. What’s
the name of the other leg?
SERVICE CLEANERS
4th and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickleson, Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
RED 19
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
BEN YOUNG
Start the New Year Right
m
Arrange Now for Regular Oil Service
Phone BLACK 19 P.O. Box 331
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
FOR SALE
Nome Drug Store
Nome, Alaska
By the City of Nome
ALL REAL and PERSONAL
PROPERTY
Including Buildings, Fixtures and Inventories
Sealed Bids will be accepted on or before the
28th day of January, 1946, at 5:00 o’clock, P.M.
in the Office of the City Clerk, Nome, Alaska.
The City reserves the right to reject any or all
bids.
For further information contact the City Clerk,
Nome Alaska.