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The Nome nugget., 1944-12-04
BRITISH UNITS ADVANCE ON
 SIECFRIED LINE

PARIS, Dec. 4.-(AP)-The Seigfried Line of guns threw sal vos at the captured Saar river bridge inside Saarlautern today, while the U. s. Third Army troops were storming across Its intact span, 1t has been reported.
 They fought with the last spot ey German defenses which pro- tected the second city of the in- dustrial Saar.
 At the top of the western front the British Second Army advanc- ed thousand yards to the de- ,molished Maas river bridge. Outside the Dutch road center Of Venlo, the troops arc mapping
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-04

up the last Germans west of that water barrier.
 Other men of Gen. Montgom- ery's 21st Army group encoun- tered foot-deep floods at the Ar hem Ninmegen area, opposite which the Canadian First Army entered Germany within gunshot of the northern end of the Seig- fried Line at Klev.
 Americans of the First and Ninth Armies fought inside Jul ich Linnich on the Roer river, before Cologne and moved slow ly and painfully toward the third bastion on that flooded stream.
 Duren and four other towns went down before these armies yesterday in one of history's most violent battles.
 For over a week the troops have been on this battle-ground and although there are but a hundred ruined houses at Lucher-
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-04
THE NOME NUGGET

burg, Luchem and Brandemberg, the armies have stood on the Doer river for 20 miles, but at no place has it been crossed.
 General Patton's Third Army and infantry has fought deeper into the vulnerable Saarlautern and have encountered some Ger mans beyond the Saar river in the eastern part of that city.
 At Golksstrum all members of the Home Guard of that city have been mustered into service.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-04
STATEHOOD PREDICTED
 BY CANFIELD

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4. -(AP)-Rep. Garfield, New Jersey Republican, predicted to- day that Alaska would soon be admitted to statehood, when he spoke at farewell gathering for Delegate Dimond, who will return to Anchorage soon to assume the duties of district judge of that division.
 Garfield said that Dimond was far ahead of the parade when he crusaded for the construction of the Alaska highway.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-04
LADIES AID
 MET FRIDAY

The Ladies Aid Society of the Federated Church met at the par sonage for their monthly meeting last Friday. Mrs. T. Lehmann and Mrs. Earl Coulthard were hostesses. They are planning an- other of their popular food sales sometime before Christmas.
 A report was given of the inn provements which have been made on the parsonage. A bath room and pressure water system have been installed by the La- dies Aid and the Hobby Club has added a sun porch on the east side.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-04
CLASSIFIED ADS

FOR SALE-Child's bed. Call Black 45.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-04

FOR SALE g x 12 French Will ton Rug, and 8-way Floor Lamp Call Nome Nugget. I Roy Baier, will not be respon- sible for any bills contracted by my wife, Ceceia Baier, after this date Nov. 30, 1944. Roy Baier. WANTED-SeWing machine. Call The Nome Nugget. 2r WANTED - Washing machine. Any make. See Nick Ezuka- meuw.
Evening star., 1944-07-25

Russians, and by its capture the Red
Army cut of Brest Litovsk far to the
east, where street fighting was re-
ported.
In the south the capture of Lwow
appeared imminent as Russian
troops swept around to it's west side
and took Jaworow, 80 miles to the
west. The fall Of Sadowa- Wisznia
and MoScyshka cut the LWow- -Kra-
kow-German SileSia trunk railway.
The capture of Moscyshka put the
Russians Is mile seast of Przemysl.
Other Russian forces are moving on
Przemysl from the north.
Red Army troops southwest of
Lwow crossed the Dnestr River and
captured HalicZ, IA miles north of
Stanislawow, gateway to the Car
'pathian Mountain passes.
The destiny of Warsaw over
shadowed all the other immediate
developments in the Russians tre-
mendous offensive. but the Red
Army reported that in the Baltic
Lithuania area Soviet troops had
captured Vabalninkas, 70 miles
southeast of Riga, while northeast
of Lake PeipuS Red column had
entered Sosnitsi, 48 miles southeast
of Narva.
Northwest Of Bialystok the Rus
slams have captured korycin, rail-
road town 38 miles from East Prus-
sia. By-passed Bialystok itself was
in a precarious position, with Rus
sian troops attacking it frontally.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Estate Of Co|poys
Valued at $4,000

John B. Colpoys. United States
marshal in the District for many
years, who died here July at the
age of SO, left an estate valued at
more than $1,000, according to a
petition filed yesterday in the Reg
lister of Wills Office at District
Court for probate of the will.
The estate included personal
property valued at $48,5 ,549 and real
estate of an assessed value of more
than $4,000. His daughters, Miss
Margaret M. Colpoys and Mrs.
Anna B. Huntemann, listed as the
only heirs at law, were made the
principal benefciaries.
The will left them real estate at
720 Fifth street NV, of an assessed
value of more than $4,000 and in
structed that Mr.. Colpoy's publish
ing business-in connection with
the publication of the Trades
Unionist-conducted there be in
corporated under District law and
capitalized at $25,00O. Machinery
stock, bills receivable and $1,000
cash are to be used for this purpose.
Accordingly, each share of stock
is to be worth $1OO, with each of
his daughters to receive IS shares.
In turn, 40 shares are to go to Mrs.
Ruth D. Carey and Fred Walker,
described by Attorney Vivian O.
Hill, who file5 the petition, as hav-
ing run the publishing business for
Mr.. Colpoys
The two daughters were left the
residue Of the estate after certain
other bequests are taken care of.
The will bequeathed $1,000 to Mr..
Colpoy's grandson and 500 each
to St. AIMS Infant Asylum, St.
Joseph's Home and School, the
Little Sisters Of the Poor and
Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Miss Stump Arrives Here
To Head Emergency Nurses

Miss Charlotte Arnold Stump ma
tive of Romney. w. Va, graduate OF
Columbia University, and of Emer-
gency Hospital class for nurses in
1929, has arrived to take over her
new post as superintendent of
nurses at Emergency.
She succeeds Miss Hetty Sher-
man, resigned, VINO left Emergency
June q.
Miss Stump took postgraduate
work In obstetrics at New York
Nursing and Child's Hospital. where
she subsequently served in several
capacities. She later was attached
to Sloane Maternity Hospital, New
York, where she became head nurse
and ward instructor. She was at
Presbyterian Hospital at Newark.
N. j., and at Hackensack IN. J1
General Hospital where she was
instructor of nursing arts for five
years. She came here from Hack
enSack,
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Bomb Resistant Material
For Windows Sent Enq|and

A large shipment of acetate sheet
ing for replacing window glass
blasted by robot bombs in London
and Southern England will be sent
to Great Britain this week by the
British War Relief Society, it was
announced today by the Community
War Fund.
Bertram Cruger. vice president of
the Chase National Bank and Lon
don Committee chairman of the So
ciety. now in New York consulting
on new emergency needs. explained
that the sheeting has high resist
ance to explosions and proved sue
cessful during the blitZ of 1910 and
l94l.
The sheeting cannot be obtained
In Great Britain, Mr.. Cruger said.
and is scarce in this country. 1t
will be cut to size at its destination
and will be used in windows of hos
pitfalls, schools, children's homes,
churches and similar institutions, he
declared. Further shipments are ex-
pected to be made soon, he added.
The British War Relief Society is
National War Fund agency, sup
ported in Washington by the Com
munity War Fund
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Stuttgart Main Target
of Widespread Raj
/ Niqht Raids on Reich
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 25.-Waves of
Allied planes were over the con-
tinent today in improving
weather after a fleet of perhaps
1000 Raj heavy bombers bat
tered Stuttgart during the night
in the major blow of far-flung
operations.
While the main force of the RAF
assault was directed at Stuttgart, an
important engineering and trans
port center in Southwest Germany,
Mosquito planes bombed Berlin and
other British aircraft attacked
Frankfurt and Aachen.
Still other RAF planes blasted
flying bomb sites in Northern
France, laid mines in enemy waters
and attacked German shipping in
the English Channel.
From these and other operations
Is planes were reported missing.
Two of these were lost in an attack
on oil storage tanks in France.
The attack on Berlin by the Mos
quitos with their 2-ton block busters
was the second straight night that
the Reich capital had been hit and
the 14th time since D-day.
Frankfurt and Aachen presumably
were diversionary targets as the
main weight of the night Raj blows
was directed at Stuttgart. Another
bomber force attacked oil storage
tanks at Donges near st. Nazaire
for the second night in a row.
Lengthening nights aided the
raiders.
There was every indication that
the Stuttgart attack at least equaled
the previous nights raid on Kiel,
which was hit with nearly 5000 tons
Of explosives in its heaviest batter
ing of the war.
Southern France also was under
attack last night for the second
time in less than "a hours as Italian
based bombers struck German air.
field in the Rhone Valley in a quick
follow-up to daylight blows yester-
day on airdromes in that area by
Mediterranean Air Forces heavy
bombers, which also smashed at tar
gets in Northern Italy and Yugo-
SlaVla,
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Navy Expects 10 Fill
Most Of $4,000 Quota
From 17-Year-0Ids

The Navy expects to get the bulk
of the $4,000 men needed to reach
its increased strength through
voluntary enlistments of 17-year-
olds rather than through the draft,
Secretary OF Navy Forrestal told a
press conference today.
Explaining how the new naval
strength, announced Saturday. will
be reached, Secretary Forrestal said
the Navy expects to get only 5000
additional men month through
selective service. or approximately
10000 by June 80. l945, when the
Navy expects to reach a strength of
3 .389 900 men.
Selective service, 1t was explained
will continue to furnish replace
ments. In October, for instance. the
call has been increased from % 900
men replacement figure to 30
600 men. which includes replace
ments and 5000 men toward the in
creased strength.
The emphasis will be placed on
voluntary enlistments, the Navy ex-
planned. because of the need for
youth in the amphibious operations
in the Pacific.
Selective Service had predicted
that If 1t was called upon to furnish
the bulk of the additional personnel
a stricter deferment policy would
have to be applied to men in the
26-29-age group to secure sufficient
men to meet the increased demands.
Mr.. Forrestal said that approxi-
mately 100000 men would be sought
by volunteer enlistment before July
l, 1945.
He made it plain the Navy does
not contemplate seeking any of this
increase by voluntary enlistment be-
tween the ages of SO and so.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
One in 4 Radios
Needs Repairs,
WPB Reveals
y the Associated Press.

One in four of the $4,000 900 ra-
dios in American homes needs re-
pairs and one in six won't work
at all.
A War Production Board survey
shows the radio leads the list OF
home appliances generally in need
Of repairs.
Among other appliances surveyed
and the percentage found to be not
in working order were:
Electric toasters, fans. vacuum
cleaners, 7 per cent; electric irons,
Oil cooking stoves. per cent; wash
ing machines, Oil burners, S per
cent; wood cooking stoves, wood
heating stoves, per cent.
In better repair were electric
cooking stoves and heating stoves,
wood water heaters, mechanical re-
frigerators, Oil heating stoves, oil
water heaters, gas cooking stoves,
gas heating stoves, gas water heat
ers, electric water heaters, hot air
furnaces and hot water boilers.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
rst-Degree Murder Trial
Opens in District Court

Stanford Carrier, 26,' was sched-
uled to go on trial today before a
jury in the court of District Justice
James W. Morris on a charge of
first-degree murder in the Staying
of Paul Higgins, IS. on New Year
Day l943.
An alleged companion of Carrier.
George K. Burton, on June / was
sentenced by Judge Harry E.
Watkins OF West Virginia to serve
from seven to 81 years for the same
Staying after having been found
guilty of second degree murder
Judge Watkins imposed the sentence
on Burton while sitting here as a
visiting justice.
Carrier was granted a severance
and therefore scheduled to be tried
separately.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Russiu
Continued From First Paee)

never matched in the east, brushing
aside any obstacles encountered. IT
appeared that the next few hours
would determine whether Hitler
would attempt stand on the
Wisla. Fleeing groups OF dusty
tattered Germans were declared
rushing for the closest bridges on
the river. --.--.t
Poles Accompany Russians.
Members of the new National
Committee of Poland went west with
the Red Army toward Warsaw
keeping contact with the seat OF the
temporary governing body at Chelm
In oach captured Polish town the
committee opened recruiting Offices
for the Polish Army fighting beside
the Soviets. Hundreds of admins
trations were established in liberated
towns.
The fall OF Lublin was announced
by Premier Stain yesterday in a
special order of the day and shortly
afterward a special communique was
issued declaring that the Germans
had lost 500 800 troops killed and
captured since the Soviet summer
offensive opened on June %.
These casualties were reported In
fiicted by four Russian armies. AT
present there are at least seven Red
armies battering the Nazis westward
on ar 800-mile front from the Baltic
to the Carpathian Mountains.
In the encirclement Of Nazi forces
at Brody. northeast Of Lwow, the
forces of Marshal Konev alone were
reported to have captured 17,l75
Germans and to have found 10000
dead in the area.
5000 Square Miles Freed.
Since Marshal +. K. RokossovSky'
forces crossed the l939l94l Ger
man-Polish border five days ago
they have liberated over 5000 square
miles in their mighty drive toward
the west.
The fall OF Lublin, 81 miles south
east of Warsaw, after a little more
than "a hours of street fighting was
celebrated in Moscow by the firing
of 20 salvos from 224 guns, followed
by the playing of the Soviet and
Polish national anthems.
Lublin was the scene of some of
the most shocking incidents of the
Germans anti-Semitic terror pro-
grams and formerly had a popula-
ton of 115, 1000, OF which 30 per cent
were Jews.
laundering west on the shortest
road to Warsaw, columns of Soviet
armor and mounted troops passed
through Lukow in hot pursuit Of
shattered German rear guards, leav-
ing behind them 500 populated
places which they had freed from
the Nazis.
Belzhitse Captured.
After capturing Lublin Marshal
Rokossovsky's forces seized Belz-
hitse, 13 miles southeast, to put So
Wet troops less than 20 miles from
the Wisla River.
The seizure of Lukow represented
a 40-mile gain in "a hours by the
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Laskey Says Butchers
Fear ReprisaIs Over
Tie-In Sale Reports

Many retail meat dealers here are
reluctant to report cases Of forced
tie-in sales Of meat from wholesal-
ers for fear their supplies will be
cut on, John L. Laskey, District
Once Of Price Administration en-
forcement, said today.
Until butchers report violations Of
OPA regulations, local enforcement
ofncials are absolutely powerless"
to take any action, Mr.. Laskey said.
Mr.. Laskey admitted that the
practice Of requiring retailers to buy
undesirable meat cuts in order to get
better grades of meat was continue
ing here despite warnings it was .
violation Of Federal regulations,
He disclosed that he regularly
hears from one dealer who COM
plains Of tie.in sales but that the
butcher refuses to appear before a
grand jury to tell his story because
he is afraid his only source Of meat
will be cut OH.
One of the latest reports received
by the OPA Is that from a butcher
who claims he was forced to buy a
large quantity Of spareribs, a meat
cut which is hard to sell in the sum-
mertime, before being able to buy
other meats, Mr.. Laskey said.
He indicated OPA Investigators
were striving to uncover cases of
tie-in sales in the meat trade here.
Meanwhile, the agency prepared to
present evidence tomorrow in the
case against the operators of the
Stables Restaurant. They have been
charged with purchasing between
l TOO and 1900 pounds of meat last
December without surrendering
ration points. The hearing will open
at 10 pm. in Municipal Court Build
ing.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Germans Stuve OFF Yunk Attack
On Norman Island of Witches

and also caught the chaplains. Both
men dived into the water filled
ditch. The planes crossed the area
again, raining bullets. A frightened
German medical aid man, seeking
his own wounded in the swamp,
splashed into the ditch with them.
He was terrified until Father Esser
told him they were chaplains.
On learning the German was a
Catholic, Father Esser gave him q
rosary, which he carried for Is years.
The German went his way as the
Strafers passed. The two chaplains
remained more than three hours in
the muddy water, seeking American
wounded. They rescued is men on
this mission.
All this time the swamp was under
direct observation and fire.
Chaplain Once Cited.
Chaplain Stohler once was cited
for bravery. Both chaplains look
like regular soldiers and are distin-
guished as chaplains only by the
crosses on their collars.
The wooded swamp island has q
famous Normandy history. In me-
dieval times it was believed to be
the home Of q mysterious race OF
white witches" Actually, they were
wandering gypsy shepherds, but they
were feared by the peasants, who
thought they possessed occult pow
ers that blighted orchards and killed
cattle. In the reign Of Louis XIV
IS OF them were condemned to be
burned at the stake by the Nor
mandy Parliament. The King null
lifted the order, stopped evacuation
OF the people and appointed a COM
mission to examine the evidence
The commission upheld the Parlia
ment, but the King ordered the
witches" set free.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
General Is Appointed
New Tokyo Governor
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Gen. Juzo Nishio of Japan's armv
clique was appointed governor OF
the Tokyo metropolis today, it was
announced in Japanese broadcast
dispatches recorded by the Federal
Communications Commission.
Suggesting a further tightening of
military controls over the heart of
the empire, the 63-year- retired
general was installed in his post in
a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.
Gen. Nishio succeeds Shigeo Odachi,
new Home Affairs Minister in the
cabinet of Gen. Kuniaki Koiso. He
was a member Of the supreme war
council in 1941.
A Domei dispatch to the con-
trolled Asiatic press announced
that Osachi had chosen Ivao
Yamazaki, 5l-year- -old former na-
val civil administrator, to be Vice
Home Minister. = post he formerly
held.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
|Air Force Denies Plan
To Recruit Women
For Military Flying

Rumors reaching Capitol Hill of a
plan to commission woman pilots
into the Army Air Forces as WACS
we're denied today by an AAF
spokesman.
Some members of Congress who
helped kill the AAF's plan to mill
tarize civilian WASP pilots have re-
ceived reports, 1t was said, that
women will be recruited as wACS
and trained for military flying duty
Il know Of no such plan," the
AAF spokesman said today.
1t was pointed out that after the
House killed the WASP bill recently,
Gen. H. H. Arnold ordered halt
to all recruitment and training of
WASPS.
Present Enrolees Remain.
1t was planned, however, to COM
plete the training Of some 500
civilian pilots already in school,
and to continue the services of TOO
to 800 others now assigned to oper-
ational duty.
AAF spokesmen said today that
the WASP who was killed q week
ago along with five Army men in
the crash Of a big transport in Ne
vaoa was the copilot rather than
the pilot of the ship. She was the
oath woman pilot killed In military
operations in the United States, 1t
was said.
A strong sentiment exists on Capt.
tol Hill against the training Of
women for military flying when
pools OF experienced male pilots re-
main available. Such training would
be an unnecessary expense" 1t was
said. as long as combat pilots being
sent home from the front and pilot
instructors and instructor trainees
are available for immediate duty.
wash Out" Efforts Charged.
Capital Hill rumors were that
some experienced pilot instructors
released by the Armys cutback on
it's instruction program are now re-
ceiving the same basic primary
training at Randolph Field which
they once were giving to Army ca
diets. 1t was contended the AAF is
trying to wash out" these in
structors who are seeking commits
Sions.
| At the same time. instructor
trainees who have been offered a
chance to resign from the AAF en-
listed reserve and return to their
draft boards, it was said on Capitol
Hill, are being advised they will
have no further chance to get back
into the AAF. These cases were
cited as proving the AAF has no in
tention of utilizing the flying ex-
perience of the pilot instructors and
| trainees.
An organized effort probably will
be made at the approaching Amer
ican Legion convention at Chicago
to have the Legion recommend dis
continuance of the WASPS and the
utilization of available male flyers