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The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Dewey Criticizes The National
 Administration

CHICAGO, June 23.--tAP)--- Governor Dewey, of New York, sent the Republican platform drafters message criticizing the national administration S "sprawling, overlapping, bureau cracy," calling the new regime in which the President will act with Congress to "raise federal ser vice to a high level of efficiency and competence"
 The message from Dewey, who supporters contend will win the Republican nomination on the first or second ballot in next weeks convention, was read to the platform committee after Sen ator Vandenburg presented a pro- posed foreign plank calling for the creation of peace forces" to pervent further wars.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Carrier Planes Sink Japanese
 Aircraft Carrier

PEARL HARBOR, June 23.-- (AP)--U. s. carrier planes sank one Japanese aircraft carrier and three tankers Monday in the third smashing blow against the Jap- anese fleet, following Up Sundays air battle off the Marianas, in which 353 Japanese planes were destroyed.
 In a combined attack, the third hardest blow to the Japanese navy since Pearl Harbor, was ad- ministered.
 A communique from Admiral Nimitz said there was possibly a fifth vessel destroyed or sunk in Mondays battle between the Mar ianas and the Philippines.
 Nine or 10 additional enemy vessels were damaged.
 Stunned by surprise, the enemy fleet offered no counter-a attack, and fled with no sign that the two fleets would join a big sur face battle.
 The Fifth U. S. Fleet suffered no ship losses and only 49 of its planes were lost.
 Sundays air battle represented an attempt by Japanese carrier based planes to break up the Sai- pan campaign.
 Saipan is the principal enemy stronghold in the Marianas and lies 1,5O0 miles from Japan and the Philippines.
 Some of the American pilots downed were rescued, Admiral Nimitz stated in his communiqua.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Newest Aircraft Carriers Assigned To Pacific Force

WASHINGTON, D. c, June 23. -tAP-From navy headquarters comes the report that the newest and biggest American aircraft carriers have been assigned to task force "58", and was revealed as history's most powerful anc destructive naval unit"
 It was disclosed Thursday night by Rear Admiral Arthur W .Radford, acting deputy chiel of naval operations in the air, fr describing the gig force which routed the Japanese fleet east oi the Philippines Monday.
 "We may safely assume that most of the 22 big carriers com missioned since Pearl Harbor have been operating as part ot the big task force '58'," The Bradford broadcast of the navy communique said. "In addition to the crariers, the force was made up of battleships, cruisers and destroyers.
 He added: Tt has been given the entire Pacific ocean. even. to the gates of Japan"
 The navy gave no definite fig ures on the big force, but said that in the six months since its secret organization, it has Ire versed the direction of traffic ir the Pacific ocean,"
 An indication of the size ot Task Force 58" was given in the navy statement of. Japanese pi- lot who saw the force" scatter ed as far as his eyes could peer and who was captured later and reported, "One look at the Amer ican task force "58' convinced him that Japan had lost the war"
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Terrific Naval
 And Air Attack On Port Blair

RANDY, Ceylon, June 23.- lAP)--The allied Southeast Ares Command reported today, a ter. rife naval and air attack on Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in the Indian ocean, to the west of the Malay coast.
 The announcement of the at tack on the port said that con siderable damage was done to shipping, harbor facilities, ware houses, supply dumps, hangars and other military installations
 The attack was carried out by an allied naval task force which included several aircraft carriers and other warships,
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Nipponese Tell Of Loss of Naval Aircraft Carrier

NEW YORK, June 23.-(AP)- Japanese headquarters today an- nounced in a report, acknowledg- ing the loss of one aircraft car rier, two oil tankers and 50 planes in an engagement with an Amer ican task force west of the Mar ianas. !.
 The communique admitted the Japanese "were unable to inflict decisive blow to the enemy"
 A broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commits sion said, "Only a part of the combined fleet participated in the action which began June 10th, Japanese time, and contia- ued until the following day"
 The Tokyo communique assert ed the Japs sunk or damaged five allied aircraft carriers, and one or more battleships, and 100 d- lied planes destroyed.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Allied Forces in. Italy Making ;. Good Progress

ROME, June 23.-(APl-Allied forces in Italy are making good progress along both coastal sec tors, but. it is apparent that the Germans are planning a deter mined stand along the positions between Lake Trasimento and Lake Chiusi, and north of Peru gia, it was reported today.
 In. the central sector the all lied headquarters indicated tha, the Eighth Army was encounter ing strong resistance" north of Perugia and southwest of Lake Trasimento, where German coun- terattacks were repulsed, the communique said.
 The Algiers radio news round up said allied forces in the Ad- riatic sector, were g miles from the important seaport of Ancona.
 On the west coast the Fifth Army, despite strong resistance, pushed forward astride Highway One, leading through Livorno to Pisa, and is approaching Folon- lea, some 50 miles below Pisa, believed to be the anchor of the next major German resistance line.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Mrs. Will Rogers Dead in California

SANTA MONICA, June 23.- tAP)-Will Rogers widow, whom he courted on a bicycle, Is dead
 Mrs. Betty Blake Rogers, 65 died at the Rogers ranch home in Santa Monica canyon last night,
 Relatives said she had been i'll several weeks after suffering a severe attack of influnza in Wash ington, D. C., during the winter
 Three children survive, Will Rogers, Jr., former congressman, now. an army lieutenant; James Rogers, acting publisher of the Beverly Hills Citizen, and Mary Rogers who resided with her mo- ther.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
U. s. Forces Take One of Three
 Defense Peaks


 SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITION AIRY FORCES IN ENGLAND, June 23.-lAP)-American forces captured one of the three defense peaks dominating Cherbourg, al- lied headquarters. said today.
 The peak is four miles from the sea southeast of Cherpourg. and at Tourlaville, Americans are now storming the remaining two fortified peaks.
 Headquarters said prolonged siege is unlikely.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Appointment of Williams As Alaska Secretary !Okayed
By Senate Comes in Record Time

WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 23.--tAP)-Within two and one half hours after the President had sent the nomination of Lew Williams publisher of The Wransel Sentinel. as Secretary of Alaska the Senate confirm ed the appointment.
 MT. Williams, resident of Alas ka for many years. formerly re- sided in Juneau, until his ass,iinp- ton of the ownership of The Wrangell Sentinel.
 Throughout the course of his residence in Wrangell, MT. Will Hams has acted in the capacity ot postmaster for the southeastern city, and also as mayor. < Prior to that time, he was iden- tified with newspaper work in Juneau and other parts of the Territory.
 MT. Williams has many friends in the Territory who wish him well in his new appointment, and offer him hearty congratulations.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Bomb Noemforh Island, Japanese Flank Position

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
 QUARTERS ON NEW GUI- NEA. June 23.-tAP)-Intensi- fled bombing of Noemfoorh Is- land. Japanese position flank ing the American invasion of Soeu. and Biak. off the Dutch
 New Guinea coast, and a one plane assault on a lS-ship con- voY near Palau. was announced today by headquarters.
 Liberators pounded Noemforh, approximately 30 miles west of Biak, Wednesday, in a stepped-u assault against stores and person nei areas near Kamirikornasoren airfield, base of possible coun- ter blows against Biak, where the Americans hold three alrdromes.
 500 miles to the northWard, one Liberator sank one merchan man near the end of the Palau group.
 The direction of the convoy was undetermined.
 Palau is at the southern end of the great naval battle-ground sur rounding the Marianas Islands.
 Tn the Biak area the allies were hopping up the stubbornly resisting Japs, both on land and in the waters off the bloody is land, where they halted evident Nipponese attempts at infiitration sinking three barges heavily la den with personnel and supplies
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Infantrymen Rock German Defenses in City

SUP REME HEADoUAR- TIERS OF THE ALLIED Ex- PEDITIONARY FORCES IN ENGLAND. June 23.-tAP)- American infantrYmen rocked the German defenses of Cher buorg today, and continued the powreful attacks on the port. an official announcement re- ported.
 According to the communique, "There were strong indications that German forces had with drawn from the eastern tip of the peninsula to the city, for a house. to-house stand"
 Gen. Bradley's all-out offen- sive is now in it's second day, and is striking against German re- sistance at every point.
 A particularly heavy battle ragged for control of the big air field at Maupertus, five miles east of Cherbourg.
 Inside the besieged port the German garrison stood up stub bornly under yesterdays 1,000- plane assault on the forts and pillboxes comprising the city's defense.
 The United States ground for ces were forced to fight for every inch of the advance.
 Small gains were reported around the port itself, but good progress was made on both the eastern and western sides of the peninsula.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Red Army Said To Have Launched
  Sulrnarnrer Drive

LONDON, June 2s.-tAP)- The Germans today announced tha. the Red Army was strik- irs on inc third anniversary of Killers surprise xsvasion of Russia.
 Il has been reported that the Soviets have launched their long awaited summer offensive on the cas- ern front.
 While Moscow has not as yet confirmed the opening of the drive, the German command, in official broadcasts. declared the Red Army had rnoVed forward yesterday on a broad front north of the Pripyat marshes, on the noos' direct road from Moscow tc Berlin and Warsaw
 Ire assault was coordinateC with the attack and allied ad- vances in France and Italy.
 The Germans said the large scale offensive was set in motion from south of Mogilev to north o1 Vitebsk, with heavy tank anc plane support, while Moscow an nounced that triple Russian spear heads drove deeper against tht Films north of Lake Omega, ant up the Aunus Isthmus, as wei as along the northern reaches O the Karelian Isthmus.
 Berlin also said The initla thrusts were parried, but bitter fighting is still going on on either side of Vitebsk."
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
AUTHOR RETURNS TO NOME FOR BOOK DATA

Miss Jean Potter, author o1 ."Aiaska Under Arms" has ne turned to the fsnorth country for more information on the his tory of Alaskan aviation.
 Making personal contacts with all the 'bush pilots", and all who have been connected in any way with aviation. Miss Potter is also writing for 'Time", the weekly magazine.
 Tn the near future, Miss Potter expects to go to College, Alaska, where she will write her story on aviation in Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
Recognize Nation Of Bolivia

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23. -(AP)-The United States and 17 other American republics today recognized the government of Bo- livia, thus ending six months of diplomatic isolation of the South American nation.
 The recognition followed the decision of the Bolivian govern ment regime to definitely favor the United Nations cause.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
PORT STILL UNDER SIEGE
Expect Large Take of Skins

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23 -(AP>-"Between 6O,Oo0 and TO- 900 Alaska seal skins will be ta- ken this summer in the Pribil- ofs,' Secretary of the Interior Ickes said today.
 Last year a record number of 1l7,O00 skins wer etaken, to make up for the 1922 season, when no skins were obtained because of military operations in Boring Sea.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
MRS. SWANToN ON
 BUSINESS TRIP HERE

Mrs. Harry Swantop is spend- ing few days in Nome on busi- ness for the Ferguson Anyways of Kotzebue. Mrs. Swanton is the bookkeeper for the company. Harry Swanton, her husband, is pilot for the same firm.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
NoTICEl

The committee for the Fourth of July celebration. will hold a meeting in the Court Hoom of the Federal I,ilding, Sunday afternoon st 2:0o o'clock.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23
NOTICE!

The Chamber of Commerce will meet in the office of Sec refsry L. Leach, af e:ec o'clock Monday evening.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23

Tell them you saw it advertised in The Nome Nugget.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23

The people of Manipur, India do not eat meat.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-23

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28

golden glass of fresh orange juice and look what
happens You geyour full days quota ofvitamin Boost
your supply of other vtamins and food values And
there's nothing like the delicious aPPetizing tang Of fresh
grange JUICE TO start your morning singing!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28

WhoIegran cereal with milk, egg and buttered toast
good YET like most foods even most fruits and
vegetabesD they lack vtamin C. And Studies prove that
when you miss vitamin breakfast you're almost
TO fall short for the day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28

BY planning for vtamin you have solved big problem
You need than any other vitamn and you need
daily 1t helps prevent fatigue and Infection protects teeth
and gums, and keeps you feeling JOang'
Oranges your best practical Of vtamn C. One
6 10 ounce glass of delicious juice nsures your daily
quota together with healthy bonus Of A, B., b o.
calcium and other minerals.
Save shopping trips by ordering weeks supply Of trade
marked Sunkst Oranges They are good keepers, the
hnesfrom Il cooperating California Arizona growers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28
Look what orange juice adds to
breakfast

Two things wrong with the skinny breakfast
people eat 1t won't carry you through good mornings
work 1t your chances Of getting your day. vtamins
especially {. That's why government medical and nu-
triton authorities say us so important 10 ger the ngtt
morning meal.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23

FIXING SALARIES AND WAGES OF THE
EMPLOYEES OF THE MUNICIPAL
WORKS PLANT OF THE VILLAGE OF OF
BLUFFT0N. OHIO, AND REPEATING
ALL PREVIOUS ORDINANCES INCON-
SISTANT THEREWITH.
Be it Ordained by the Council of the VIII
lage of Bhuffton County of Allen and State of
Ohio:
SECTION 1: That from and after the first
day of December. 1914, the salary of the
chief engineer and plant superintendent of
of the Municipal Electric Energy and Water
Works plant Of the said Village shall be Two
Hundred and Tewenty-fve tS22s.00) Dollars
per month. payable seni-monthy.
SECTION 2: That from and after the first
day of December 1914, the salary of the in
side maintenance engineer of the Municipal
the said village shall be Two Hundred and
Twenty ts22O.o0) Dollars per month. payable
semi-monthly.
SECTION 3: That from and after the first
day of December. 1914, the salary of the cleo
trican and foreman of outside maintenance of
the Municipal Electric Energy and Water
Works plant of said Village shall be One
Hundred and Ninety (Sl90.00) Dollars per
month, payable semi-monthly.
SECTION 4 That from and after the first
day of December. 1914, the salary of each
Electric Energy and Water Works plant of
the said Village shall be One Hundred ard
Ninety (s190.0Ol Dollars per month, payable
semi-monthly.
SECTION s: That from and after the first
day of December. 1914. the salary of each of
the Firemen of the Municipal Electric En-
ergy and Water Works plant of the said
Village shall be One Hundred and Seventy
(s170.00) Dollars per month, payable semi
monthly.
SECTION s. That from and after the first
day of December, 1914. the salary of each
of the lnemen of the Municipal Electric En-
ergy and Water Works plant of the said VIII
laQe shall be One Hundred and Seventy (ST70.-
00) Dollars per month. payable seni-monthiy.
SECTION z: That from and after the first
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23

Mrs. Nettie Young was a Sunday
dinner guest of Mrs. Bruce Plumbs
at Lima.
Mrs. Emma Baker of Chicago
spent few days the past week with
relatives in this vicinity.
Miss Julia Ash of Ada was a
visitor the past week of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clayton Rupright.
Mr.. and Mrs. Olan Larue of
Mansfield were week end visitors of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Larue.
Joe Mezarons with the u. S. Navy
spent the past week with his brother
Louis Mezarons.
The Home Builders S. S. class of
the Church of Christ had a rabbit
supper at the church basement on
Saturday evening. Those enjoying
the affair were: Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
vim Reigle, Mr.. and Mrs. Kent Am
stutz, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Amstutz,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Van Meter, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Lewis, Mr.. and
rs. Edwin Keiffer, Mrs. Walter Beck,
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Barber, Mr.
and Mrs. Merrill Arnold, Mrs. Oral
Fett, Miss Alice Lewis, Mrs. Mar
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ing noise in the fox hole he jumped.
The Alphabet picked up the field
telephone. He identified his post.
listened for a moment and then
said, eyes, sir No, sir, it
hasn't lifted yet"
put the instrument down and
told his visitors, THAT was your
boss. He wanted to know If you got
here. Like you heard, I didn't give
away you being with us, but you
better get back where you belong
and beat it as soon as you're
through"
They went, Mr.. Winkle with alac-
rity and Mr.. Tinker with regret.
Lifting the hood of the command
car, they looked for the trouble. Mr..
Tinker saying, This is good time
to follow procedure, Pop. We follow
enough of it. we can hang around a
long time"
They began TO work, Mr.. Wrinkle
moving fast, Mr.. Tinker taking his
time and glancing at the beach
ridge.
Mr.. Wrinkle was the first to hear
the plane.
From out over the sea there came
q sudden roar. Guns began to spit
virtually at the same instant There
was the crackle of the Alphabet's s
machine gun. Added to it was the
louder firing of more machine guns
and what sounded like small can
non.
"Duckl" yelled Mr.. Wrinkle. He
dropped the wrench he was holding
ana dived under the command car.
Lying there, his heart beating so
fast 1t seemed to equal the rapid
firing of the guns, he expected Mr..
Tinker to join him.
Instead, he heard the quick firing
of a Garand. He could see Mr..
Tinker's feet and part of his legs,
braced to take up the shock from
the gun.
The plane came over. 1t appeared
to know exactly where to come.
There was rush and a terrific,
staccato banging, several loud ex-
plosions that shook the earth, and
then it was gone.
The firing stopped.
Mr.. Wrinkle opened his eyes with
out havir. realized that he had
closed them.
Again he saw Mr.. Tinker, who
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23

the ones who hijacked bod Murray's
1926 model for JOY ride one night
last week are reported to have en-
countered plenty Of trouble when
they found ii wasn't gear shift
job and finally gave up trying to
operate it.
One of the oldest hunters who en-
joyed the opening of the season here
Friday was James Light, 72-year-oId
manager of Wayne Lakes fish hatch
cry in Greenville. Light, a former
newspaper publisher and later post
master of Ansonia has been making
notable success in the fish hatch
cry field.
And Pvt. William Tschantz with
the Marines in the South Pacific
sends the menu of a turkey dinner
with all the trimmings, celebrating
the 169th anniversary of the found
ing of the Marine Corps, on Novem-
Der 10. The corps was created by
resolution of the Continental Con-
gress on November 10, 1775.
Add to hunting tales-the one con-
corning Arden Baker who handles
personnel headaches at the Triplett
plant. Out hunting Saturday with
no luck, Baker decided there was no
point in coming home empty-handed,
so when he sighted a field mouse he
proceeded to blow it to bits with his
trusty firearm.
p. S.-As there was nothing left
of the mouse, Baker returned empty
handed.
Dreams do come true, Mrs. Robert
Matter, of near Bluffton, learned
this week. She laughed with friends
a week ago over a dream she had
in which she Unexpectedly received
goat. The other day when she re-
turned home from a visit she found
goat tethered in the front yard
with a sign about its neck reading
Merry Christmas. She still doesn't
know who left it there.
Come requests for printing in the
Bluffton News the addresses of
overseas service men. We have
pointed out on several occasions that
for reasons of security publication
of addresses of overseas men is ban
ned by censorship regulations. How
ever members of the soldiers family
are permitted to supply this infor-
nation to friends on request.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23
CHAPTER XII

Mr.. Winkle pulled his steel helmet
more securely on his head and
pressed on the accelerator of the
car.
The .jeep shot off the road and
along the sand trail leading to the
beach. The command car stood
where it had been left, in partially
cleared space enclosed by low
palms. Mr.. Wrinkle stopped along
side it.
AS they got out, he glanced at the
tent, set at one side among the trees.
Ordinarily, the off-duty members of
the machine-gun crew would be loll-
ing or sleeping there. 1t was empty.
Up on the low ridge, fifty feet
away, a helmeted head appeared
above the sand. It was the Alpha
bet. Recognizing them, he waved
briefly and then disappeared.
"It amt like him." Mr.. Tinker
observed, mot to be hospitable to
his friends"
Mr.. Wrinkle took their tools from
the back seat of the jeep. His
hands shook a little. He pulled his
helmet still more securely over his
head and said, WED better get to
work"
1--WE can take a minute" Mr..
Tinker said, ito see what's going
on up there"
Reluctantly, Mr.. Wrinkle followed
him to the ridge.
They didn't receive a very warm
welcome. IF you got to come here, :"
Sergeant Czeideskrowski snapped,
"get down in
They scrambled below ground lev
el, launching themselves into the fox
hole, crowding Freddie, Jack, and
the other men who sat listening at
tentively or kneeled to stare out over
the ocean.
Freddie, at the machine gun,
whose snout pointed across the
beach, greeted them, Maybe
you're Just III time Tor the perform
ance."
IF they try any landing here, -
Jack threatened. they'll get blast
ed back to where they came from. -
lie nhgeTeu gTenadeS hanging from
his belt.
Mr.. Winkle looked at the boy,
hardly recognizing the tough, reck.
less youth as the same person ne
knew at home.
Mr.. Wrinkle peered out over the
water. 1t made him want to return
to bis Own W.. work: At SHARP blzz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23

CHAPTER 1: Wilbert Winile. a. pro-
prietor of the Fixit repair shop, located
In the alley back Of his home, Is notified
by his draft board that he Is In IA. He
breaks the bad news to his wife. Amy.
and marches off to work without kiss
Ing her goodby.