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The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16
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HE FIRST practical effects of specific war pro-
 duction cutbacks being felt rather
 generally for the first time. The trend is bound to continue and before many more months pass can lcelation of contracts may rise to point where Ireconversion will become the No. problem before the nation, though neither the European nor
 Pacific
 l, is difficult to predict with exactitude just how for when the big of cutbacks may come. lStraws in the wind the decisions of the War Production Board to permit the manufacture of 900 flatirons for civilians and the production
 Of 50,000 bathtubs for housing needs in 1914 WIPE concluded its announcement about the irons
 with this statement: "It is possible that war pro- lduction demands by the middle of 1914 will have
 diminished in certain fields of production so that Ia number of other items of civilian goods can be put into production but as things stand at present little be done but to prepare plans against the time when conditions permitting such production will prevail"
 Many weeks months may pass before com
 plete picture of this changing condition may be drawn Government procurement agencies almost every day are ordering production stopped in some plant. Reports on such cancellations are not now being gathered in a central place Even if and lwhen they are, WIPE has the task of realocating unusued materials to other war uses, or more probably, to civilian goods
 l Other straws in the wind: production of tanks already sharply reduced, will be trimmed further small arms and ammunition for them will be whit tied down because of tremendous supplies; alumni mum output IS so high that industry officials are quite worried about how to maintain employment
 levels; definite plans for production of rail- road locomotives are well along. and the same ap- pl1es 10 1relght cars; office equipment manufac-
 turers may move back rather rapidly to their for
 ner products; electrical equipment companies are
 Te+flns ready to make a quick change-over
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INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT

< CCORDING to Josh Lee member Of the Civil H Aeronautics Board the chief problems that require solution by the Government and soon, ii air cargo is to play it's destined role in the world trade are:
 l. The freedom of innocent passage, estab- lished through multilateral agreement Meaning that non-military craft would have the right to Fly nonstop through the air space over any coun- try with which such an agreement has been reach ed.
 3 The right of technical stop, established through multilateral agreement. Meaning the right to stop for fuel repairs. bad weather or an ener- gency
 8 The right of commercial stop for scheduled operators Meaning the right 10 land at specified bases for the purpose of taking on and discharg- ing traffic, for regular airline operation.
 ! The right of commercial stop for non-scheduled operators This would be for the benefit of char ter and contract operators.
 s The right to establish and use international aviation facilities This would include air naviga- ton aids, communications channels and neteorolo- gical information essential to the operation of an air transport system
 G. An international authority with the function of recommending the rules of the road" Here would be a governmental machinery for the pur- pose of establishing uniform safety rules and reg ulations, uniform communications procedures and standardization of weather reports. 4 sort of in ternatonal CA.
 If our great plans for the rest of the world are not to fade out, and if there will be q victory 1T 1944, then it is apparent that speedy action is needed these probems-all of which must
The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16
COMPLETES SPECIAL
 COURSE IN CHICAGO

Mrs. Dazey Wood, widow of Rev. Wilbur Wood, who was pas tor; of the Federated Church, has just completed special course in electric and physio-therapy at Northwestern University at Chi cago, where. she has been study ing for the past year. Harriet and Norma Wood are visiting with their grandmother and will join their mother when school is out.
The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16

In making landings, the soldier advised his brother, the best thing to do is Make your peace with God before you start, keep a tight upper lip and get the hell off the beach quick. Else you won't get off it at all.
 Above all I can say, never be caught short on a hole. If you are dug in, an :86 can light 2 1-2 or three feet from you and it will not hurt you. It will cover you up and scare hell out of you.
 And, if you are in hole, small arms can't even scare you, The enemy will finally have to come in range. There is nothing satisfies mans soul so much as having the enemy make a frontal assault"
 With you dug in, he just can't win. The Germans tried that on us at Sidi Blu Sis, Tunisia. They are still burying ferries.
 Also, tanks are a joke if you are dug in"
The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16
A Soldier Tells of How to Stay Alive

This advice on how to keep alive in battle was sent by a wounded U. $. soldier n Italy to his brother, a lieutenant al Camp Van Dorn, La.
 Never dig in under q conspicu- GUS tree-riflemen use the tree as an aiming point and let you have ii.
 Never dig in or take cover be- hind a landmark such as rock pile or fence, or in culvert or under a bridge. The enemy will throw a searching fire to drive you into place like that-and then murder you with rifle fire.
 When you're caught in artil- iery fires for heavens sake keep moving! When you get up close they will have to cease fire, but If you stop and dig in you are done.
 ''If you hear a bullet crack by your fanny, don't be there for the second one. It will be between your shoulders or your eyes damned uneomfortable in either place =.
 When you are on the march or attack, always keep an eye ahead of you. Look for Q hole or have place picked out to fall in. Sometimes you may be caught short, as witness me
 Whatever you see or find on the field of battle leave it, un- less you've killed the man your
The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16

write that unification was com plete years before it really was. And Russia, he says, decided he was a naughty boy S we'll Russia and China pestered the New York executives of the Times for years with demands that Abend be recalled in disgrace, and got exactly nowhere.
 The truth, according to Abend, is iaat China was not unified until the Japs began their major attack in the -thirties, and that then the unification was a compromise which set over the differences between Chiang and the Red" Chinese armies until after the war. The truth is that Japan deliberately tipped her hand many years before the pres ent war began, and most of our diplomats in China refused to read it, he adds. As late as 1885 an interview with an important Japanese frankly explaining Jap ans campaign against the white race was buried in the back pages of the Sunday Times. And so on, in shocking but q am afraid un-
The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16
NEWS OF NOMEITES IN THE STATES

Gordon Parlette, formerly but cher at Polet's, and also associated with George Madsen, originators of the Nevada Grill, is now busy on a defense project in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 MT. and Mrs. H. s. Sprinsteen, who mined the famous Bessie Bench for many years, are now located at Deer Lodge, Montana and are both working, doing their share in defense work
The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16
SENDS GREETINGS
 TO NOME FRIENDS

R. w. J. Reed. sends greetings to his Nome friends from Long Beach, where he has made his home since his retirement from the service of the U. s. Customs. Mir. Reed will be. remembered by the oldtimers as he was customs officer here for many years. He is now well past 70 years of age and feeling fine.
The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16

yet be solved before true international air transport goes into operation.
 Far-reaching plans being made along this line but the work of knocking down the barriers which will allow putting these plans into opera ton speedily. that this industry will be able to absorb its share of postwar unemployment, has hardly been .started-tJuneaur Empire).
The Nome nugget., 1944-02-16

self. Then bes careful of foun- tain pen sets"
 Relating how II men were killed when an .88 shell hit a culvert, the private reported:
 This private was sweating them out in an irrigation ditch. I got wet fanny. but I still have a fanny"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-11
Mrs. Roosevelt Urges Parents
To Teach Girls eIfProtection
More Police Around Hoins Point Suggested
In Comment on Dorothy Berrum Staying

Mrs. Roosevelt today blamed
the parents of America who let
their daughters come to Wash
ington "unprepared," for such
incidents as the murder of 18-
year-old Dorothy Berrum.
Parents afraid or embarrassed to
describe "the evils of life" to their
children can do q great deal OF
harm, she said. and added that
youngsters OF 10 are likely to feel
that they Are capable Of taking care
Of themselves, and able to judge
their companions a: a moments
glance, unless instructed otherwise.
mo enc. evidently, told these
youngsters that In having q good
time you run certain dangers. You
should not let your children go on
where they must be responsible for
themselves unless you are convinced
they are capable" she said.
Mrs. Roosevelt also said that more
police around Hams Point and care
by the services in examining men
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Germans Report
big Red Drives
Northof Warsaw
MemeI EncircIed
By Russian Forces,
Berlin Announces
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK R.-Cluj,
capital of Pennsylvania and
sixth largest city of Romania,
has been captured, the Ro-
manian command said today
In a special broadcast COM
munique.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-Two great
new Russian attacks north OF
Warsaw were reported today by
the Germans, who announced
the evacuation of their frontier
bastion of Taurage, just across
the border in Lithuania from
East Prussia.
The autumn offensive is in full
swing" Berlin said. 1T may now
be said that the general attack on
East Prussia has opened. This Of
fensive was expected. The thrust
past Lomza Tin Northern Poland)
is directed toward Allenstein and
Danzig, and the thrust from Memel
is toward Tilsit and Konigsberg, -
capital of East Prussia and a city
of $4,000.
The new Russian drives were To-
Gated north of Warsaw and south
OF Roman, which lies near the
Narew River northeast of the de-
stroyed Polish capital. The Ger
mans acknowledged local breaches
which they said were cleared or
Taurage lies on the Jura River
20 miles from Tiisit on the road be-
tween that city and besieged Riga
capital Of Latvia
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Polish Premier Invited to Join
Churchill Stain Conferences
MikoIojczyk Expected
To Leuve London Soon
For Moscow ToIks
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE exiled
Polish governments Ministry of
Information said today that Pre-
mier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk had
been invited to join the confer
ences between Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stain in
Moscow.
The invitation. extended also to
Polish Foreign Minister Tadeusz
Romer, tended to confirm belief that
the long-standing Soviet Polish dis
pute was prime cause for Mr..
Churchill's trip to the Russian
capital.
1t appeared here that Mr.. Church
i'll had gained the first objective In
an effort to end the dispute and
mend potential rift in Allied rela-
tions.
The cabinet of the exiled govern
ment, hurriedly summoned into spe-
cial session, approved acceptance of
the invitation lin principle" and it
Is probable that the peasant born
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Strange Aachen Attack
Marked by Moments
OF Complete Silence
Many Citizens Displayed
White Flags at Windows
In Defence of Nozis
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
and DON WHITEHEAD,

Associated Press War Correspondents.
OUTSIDE AACHEN, Oct. IL
(2:05 P.M0.-Aachen is being
burned and beaten before our
eyes today, but the final assault
has not yet reached the tre-
mendous fiery scale we had ex-
pected.
This is being written from a cap
tured German barracks on the edge
of the frontier city of 10000, a
gateway to Cologne and the Ruhr.
At noon-this silent city not hav-
ing answered the American ulti-
matum for its unconditional sur
render-big guns began to below
against it and soon divebombers
came screaming in shrilly, in flights
waving from six to a dozen at a
time. Their bombs sometimes are
high explosives, sometimes fire
bombs.
The whole face of the city is
clouded in smoke which intermit-
tently almost clears away.
Cathedral Unframed.
The Aachen Cathedral built in
1856 and containing a throne of
Charlemagne, stands unframed as
yet, and the sun is glistening now
on its lofty spire.
The Germans simply are sitting
like moles beneath their barracks
down in the main part of the town
Their antiaircraft guns are not &C
tive against our planes, but single
Messerschmitt- just challenged
us. 1t dropped two bombs near this
position and sailed safely through
our ground fire.
1t is strange attack. There are
moments of complete silence In
which birds can be heard in the bar
racks courtyard. And then 1t will
break out again-our artillery bursts
rolling through this valley, in which
Aachen is situated, like heavy blanks
dropping on a concrete floor.
Hill Is Objective.
Just ahead is one of the main
American objectives, Observatory
Hill. 1t commands the city from
the north and now it lies quiet, half
in the sunshine and half in the
shadows. A church surmounts It's
crest.
There is not the slightest stir vis-
is grayish, there it Is brown. At
Hundreds of white flags which
civilians had run up this morning
before expiration of the ultimatum
are no longer there. Storm troopers
presumably pulled them down.
Fires spring up and then are ex-
tinguished. The smoke above the
doomed city is multicolored-here 1t
is grayish, there is is brown. AT
still other places, such as to the
right of the cathedral, the smoke is
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Kidnapped Boby Found in Maid $
Home Disguised With Sun an

also taken to police headquarters,
was released after making a state
ment. Detectives said they were
convinced he had no knowledge of
the abduction.
Holding Mrs. Smith on an open
charge pending further investiga-
ton, police said the identification
bureau had reported the print Of
one finger found in the King home
corresponded with one of Mrs,
Smiths prints.
a Detroit private detective also
Was assisting Dayton (Ohio) police
Ia another kidnapping not linked to
the King case.
Detectives went to the Smith
home yesterday. accompanied BY Mr..
King and his l7-year-old son, En-
DRY, Mr.. Wencel said, but they were
told BY Mrs. Smith that the child
was III and his eyes should not be
exposed to bright lights.
The child then was examined in 4
lSee KIDNAPING. pace Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-11
BY the Associated Press.

Sy tnC ASo0Cidtcu IEcSS.
DETROIT, Oct. 1l.--Robert James
King. 4-month-old white child alb
Quoted 10 days ago by his newly
employed colored nursemaid, has
been returned safely to his parents,
Paul H. Wencel, chief Of detectives.
announced today.
A woman in whose home the
child was found is being held. Mr..
Wencel said she gave her name
as Mrs. Eleanor Smith, 80, and that
she had sought to delude her hus-
band into believing the child was
theirs by altering its complexion
with sln-tan makeup. Positive
identification Of the child has been
made through footprints, Mr.. Wen-
Gel said.
It's my baby" cried Mrs. Clar-
erice King when she and her fus-
band arrived at police headquarters
and saw the child.
Mrs. Smiths husband, Eugene,
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returned from war zones might help
avert further such incidents. She
said, however. she was not at all ia
miliar with the details of the Ber-
rum murder and therefore her sug-
gestion Of more police might not
necessarily be a sensible one. She
stressed that she had not followed
the case closely enough to know
whether any possible arrangement
IN the marine was q result Of war
service or had occurred before.
A proposal that teen-age girls
brought to Washington for Govern
ment jobs be sent back home" was
made by Ray H. Everett, executive
secretary Of the Social Hygiene So
ciety, as one part of a four point
program to solve what he called "one
Of our greatest war problems
Most girls under 20 are too i'm
mature to be running loose in
Washington" he declared.
Mr.. Everett laid the blame for
Continued on page 40 CoIuynY, < \
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Mayor Of Cleveland
Made Issue in Threat
To Strike 81 Plants
Lousche, Democratic
Choice for Governor,
Attacked by Mechanics
By the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 11.-Mat-
thew L. Smith, national secre-
tary of the Mechanics Educa-
tional Society of America, today
termed Mayor Frank ]. Lausche,
Ohio's Democratic gubernatorial
nominee, 1.-The fly in the ONT
ment" in a dispute at the Cleve-
land Graphite Bronze Co. and
reiterated a threat to call sym
pathy strikes in "a war plants in
Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey.
Mr.. Smith said $1,000 MESA mem
bers would walk out at 10 am.
central war time) tomorrow If
the dispute involving discharge of
one employe is not placed before an
arbitration panel.
Refusing comment on telegram
from Undersecretary of War Robert
p Patterson, who asserted the
strike would be "a stab in the back
of American soldiers" Mr.. Smith
declared the unaffiliated union ''has
always been ready to follow the War
Labor Boards provisions" for arbi-
tration.
WLB Ordered Arbitration.
The WLB last August ordered a
tri-partite panel to arbitrate the
controversy, consisting of COM
pany member, union member and
q public member to be appointed by
Mr.. Lausche If the company and
union failed to agree upon the pub
lie representative.
IF Lausche will step out of the
picture, wen call of the strike i'm
mediately," asserted Mr.. Smith.
He said he telephoned William H.
Davis, chairman of the WLB in
Washington, and quoted Mr.. Davis
as Saying the board would make
other provisions for the appoint
ment OF a third party to an arbitra-
ton panel If Lausche steps out"
Terning Mr.. Lausche "the city's
most notorious strike-breaker," Mr..
Smith declared the Mayor, who
apparently fears the public will learn
he is not supported by all labor
groups In his gubernatorial cam
paign, has been the fly in the oint-
ment in settling this dispute.
"Lausche Could Step Aside
Mr.. Lausche's participation In
the panel Is optional, and he could
step aside In the interest Of har-
mony. Instead, he insists on stay
ing IN the picture and as long as
he continues that stand the Issue
will remain deAdlocked."
Mr.. Lailsche, campaigning ct
Youngstown, commented: THE de-
termination Of the method Of set
Ting the dispute WAS made by the
(See STRIKE, Pare Asa
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California Democrats
Fear Many in Party
Will Fail 10 Vote
Leaders, However. Claim
President Will Get
Majority Of 100000
By GOULD LINCOLN,

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1l-Dem-
ocrats In this hitherto Roosevelt
stronghold of Southern Califor-
nia-Los Angeles-have only one
fear. It Is that the potential
Roosevelt voters will neglect to
go to the polls on election day;
they fear that too many men
and women, interested in the
war and their own personal pur-
suits, with money in their
pockets, will fail to vote.
Even so. these Democratic leaders
are predicting that Mr.. Roosevelt
will carry California with a lead of
100000 votes over Gov. Dewey. More
impartial observers take a different
view. Few of them doubt Mr..
Roosevelt will win-but they do not
see so wide margin of victory for
him. They believe it may be a close
election here. If it is it may not be
until November q, when the alb
sentee ballots are cast, that the re-
suit will be known, for there will be
a large soldier vote.
Pacific Vote Uncertain.
Nor is it entirely sure that the
soldier votes, many Of them coming
from the Pacific area, will be as
largely for Mr.. Roosevelt as Demo-
Gratis would have you believe. This
is the word brought back from the
Pacific by men who have been there.
Further, considerable number of
Federal ballots-the so-called bob
tail ballot-have been sent back to
California by men in the services
Illegally, for the time for using this
form of ballot has not arrived and
the men were supposed to use the
State ballots. It has leaked out
that many Of these illegal ballots
showed a preference for Gov. Dewey
Republicans in this State are really
putting on campaign. The Demo-
Gratis complain the Republicans are
spending money like mad. Some of
this money has gone for a private
poll among the voters, and this poll
shows Gov. Dewey slightly in the
lead. There is still another poll,
taken at the instance of group OF
attorneys, and it, too, gives the edge
to Gov. Dewey.
In Los Angeles County, which has
more than 40 per cent Of the entire
vote of the State, is located the
heart Of the movie industry. Holly
wood is far more divided In It's presi-
DENTAL affections this year than IT
has been in past Roosevelt cam
paigns. While a preponderance OF
the movie people. actors and pro-
ducers still appear to favor the
President, Gov. Dewey has a big
following among them, too.
Largest Political Rally.
The Democrats have attempted to
laugh off-but not too successfully
the big Republican rally here when
nearly 5000 persons turned out to
hear Gov. Dewey speak. This was
the largest political gathering ever
held in this or any other American
city.
Another thing that cheers the
Republicans lies in the fact that In
the primary elections for senatorial
x
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President Will Speak
At 4 PM. Tomorrow

President Roosevelt is spending
part of today working on the Co
lumbus Day speech he will broad
cast tomorrow afternoon.
The heads of the diplomatic mis-
sions of all the other American re-
-publics, except Argentina, have been
invited to the White House to hear
the Presidents speech, which goes
on the air at 4 O'Clock.
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Sixth Oversees Edition
Ready for MoiIinu

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