The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1942, Page 1

5SIONADL “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9070. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TELL STORY OF JAP RAID, DUTCH HARBOR Alaska Goes Over Top In War Bond Sales TREASURY SECRETARY TALKS OUT Declares IHaT Bombings | Get Action-Northland Leads Nation WASHINGTON, June 25—Henry | Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury, | today blamed “over-optimistic statements abcut the war” for the | lag in war bond sales. | ‘Morgenthuu said this sentiment | made it improbable that the June sales will reach “$800,000,000.” “When news is good, the people‘ just can’t get mad enough to buy | bonds. This is true in England. Whenever towns are bombed, the sales go up. This is true here too. | Alaska and Hawaii lead in bond sales on a proportionate basis,” said Morgenthau. Later, the Treasury Secretary said Alaska is the first state or territory to make the June quota goal and has gone ove: the top and then be- yond the quota for other months in war bonds cold. SOMETHING | L IS NOW UP IN EUROPE LONDON, June 25—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Zurirhi says the German High Command | has ordered all telephone communi- cations between Germany and non- Axis countries stopped until fur-| ther notice. | The Washingiunf Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN | WASHINGTON—Wendell Willkie | is wrestling with the toughest deci-| sion of his political life. { He must choose between taking| off the gloves and wading bluntly | into a powerful Republican office-| seeker whose views he detests, or| remain silent and permit himself to be elbowed out of party leadership. It is not an easy decision to make. The GOP leader whom Willkie would have to challenge publicly is Thomas E. Dewey, candidate for governor of New York and aspirant for the White House in 1944. Dewey has been on all sides on- the for- eign policy issue and recently was quoted as declaring that while he was against “Ham” Fish it was because of his associations and not his isolationist views. It was not until ten days later, after the quo- tation appeared in an advertise- ment, that Dewey contended he TENNIS A Jeffregs follows ¢! A HOLLYWOO rough a tennis shot 6n a Hollywood, Calif,, court. D—Movie Starlet Anne Tokyo Broadcasts Story on Aleutian Islands Atfack; Eye Witness Gives Account batteries set up for an expected visit from Dutch Harbor.” | The account said that on the third day of occupation no enemy |action was yet reported. The correspondent visoted the Commander of the expedition off- shore and he “offered sympathy to The correspondent visited the colorful material. The officer said, “Too bad the TOKYO, June 25.—From Japan- ese broadeasts today, it is stated that Tokyo newspapers published the first pictures of Japanese land- ings on a sparsely populated Aleu- tian Island outpost and printed with them the first detailed Japanese version of the attack, written by a Domej correspondent. The occupied island was acknow- enemy did not show some fight. i | \ EVACUATED FROMNORTH ' More than 500 Are landed‘ in Funter Bay and- Killisnoo % | | i | | | According to information recezved | here today, approximately 550 na- tives have been evacuated from Atka | Island and the Pribilof Islands and | | have safely been transported to the ! Southeast Alaska district. | | The evacuees have been taken | under orders by the Navy Depart- | ment to Funter Bay and to Kil- | lisnoo Harbor, according to the re- | port. The largest number of na-| | tives, some 445, were taken from | | the Pribilofs. | | The evacuation trip was started | | several weeks ago but has been kept | secret on account of the presence | of part of the Jap fleet in the Aleu- | | tian Islands area. x A lesser number of whites Iso have been evacuated and are 1e- ported to have landed in Seattle. The natives apparently will be'l housed at the old cannery at Funter Bay, and at the abandoned saltery at Killisnoo Harbor. ALASKA WAR COUNCIL HAS WIDE POWERS All Federal—ngncies in Territory Would Be Directed The newly created Alaska War Council, indirectly under Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, will have, ;hroad powers of control over all | Federal agencies in Alaska, ac- (cording to the full text of the ex-/ lecutive order which created the | Council on June 11. ! Under its terms, the heads of civil Federal departments and govern- ment-owned corporations conduct- ing activities in Alaska, or their bkl ‘( Bering Sea ~ A - AREhiTiA First the battle of the Coral Sea. Jap cruiser and damaged seven other ships in the Aleutian Isl ROOSEVELI, CHURCHILL Given Report on Libyan Defeat, Second Front ISLANDS " ST LAWRENCE 15 ' s, MATTHEW is. 7 UNALASKA UMNAK Then Midway. i(ommunili | Is Razed by + REVIEWWAR NaziOrders CHINA FIGHT Congressiflal Leaders (zech VilI_aEers Lose AVG Attacks_Major Japa NATIVES ARE /| U.S. Air Power Scores Again --- Now Alaska Pacific Ocean - STATUTE MILES Now comes word that United States air might sank a lands (cirele) U. 5. FLIERS SUPPORTING Homes Following Ger- | Base at Hankow-Sev- man Accusations eral Ships Sunk DETAILS OF BIG ATTACK ARE STATED Evacuees Reach Seatfle- Eye Witnesses Give Thrilling Account aramatic eyewitness report of what | happened at Lutch Harbor on June |3, evacuee sewmen told upon arrive | al today, by transport, of how the | Jap air attack at 5:45 am. caught | the civilians at the northern out- ‘,pout by surprise, and how a gal- lant gunner on a shiv at shore .aid a deadly screen of anti-aircraft fire |about the raiding planes, While Army and Navy men quick- ly manned anti-aircraft guns, some lof the ship's crew snatched up |rifles and blazed away at dive | bombers. | In the lifting of the veil of the Aleutian fog and military restric- tions, it also was revealed for the first time that the commander of the Dutch Harbor naval base has commended for courageous duty un- der fire, the army transport’s crew gunners. How many Jap planes were downed has pever been announced Jofticially, and »eports, froms witns <. [of the raid fafled to clariiy ‘i point. 35 Death Certificates | Major Fleteher, of Unalaska, said | that applicavion was made for 35 death certiticates after the day's bombing. Seivice men aboard the | transport at the Seattle dock were tight-lipped about what damage was done at Dutch Harbor, but several of them said that “damage was light, considering.” “Considering what?” interviewers | [ 1 SEATTLE, June 25—In the first | WASHINGTON, June 25—Presi-| LONDON, June 25—The Ozech dent Roosevelt and British Prime community at Lesaty, Bohemia, has Minister Winston Churchill today (been razed following accusation ag- < ainst the villagers by the Nazis gave Congressional leade: a 45 ‘ minute reviev: of the “world sltu-‘m“ they hid parachutists involved ., P in the slaying of Reinhard Heyd- ation” touching even on the British rich, the “Hangmah of Europe.” defeat in North Africa and the pyio i the report received here prospective opening of the second by Czech Government lisleners‘ front in Europe. {picked up from a broadcast by the| Legislators called the survey “very Budapest station. | satisfactory and very encouraging.”! The French News service Lesaty| Speaker Sawm Rayburn told the also quotes a Prague announcementl newsmen the Libyan phase of the saying all adult males in the popu- war was covored in “some detail”| lation were executed in the com- numbering about munity, 100. | but the second front was mentioned CHUNGKING, June 25—With the asked an army corporal who acted force of its fishting planes doubling 8s spokesman for a group of half s bombers, the Amerigan Volunteer @ dozen walking wounded. Group last niyht attacked Hankow, “Considering,” he answered, “no Japan’s major inland base in oc- matter how long you have been cupied China and safik one Jap warned and have been expecting warship and waree transports in the |the raid, there’s bound to be some broad Yangtze River there. | surprise when they finally do come The AVG communique announced Over in force. No matter how much also that other vessels probably Stuff you toss at them, some are were damaged and that military es- bound to get through.” tablishments evidently were blown The corporal refused to be identi- up Tuesday in the Flying Tigers'| fied. Gebut over Hankow in Hupeh Prov-| Included iu the passenger list ince, China’s greatest Interior city.| Were 64 from Dutch Harbor, 34 from Coupled with this blow and oth- Cold Bay and these included 17 ledged to be “only a barren outpost 3 i i rial?” of four barrack-like buildings.” Did you geb égougl materis special representatives on the Coun- incidentally. cil, “shall conform with such re- ¥ The Presiint and Prime Min- ‘ers in which Chinese airmen also ITigured were reports that Chinese One picture shows & Japanese naval party scanning the island and it said they sent their landings in preparation for what is called “the next offensive.” In another picture, | MEN WITH Japanese soldiers are advancing across the Aleutian tundra. Still | another picture is of two bearded | American prisoners. FAMILIES | quests as the Secretary of War may |deem necessary for the utilization in the war of the services. . . of any such department.” The President’s order names the following as members of tihe Coun- cil: The ex-officio Commissioners for WAR DAMAGE ister followed up the Congressional conference with an appointment of the Pacific War Council. ———— support, have pushed the Japs back women and IC children evacuees. Pressed further by intervewers, |troops long without adequate air the corporal said: “It's hot stuff |that we are credited with knock- INSURA"(E ls 112 miles and have recnptured|lnl down 11 «f their planes. Per- | Kweiki in the long, harrowing bat- Sonally I aido’t see any planes fall |Ule of the Chekiang-Kiangsi Rail- HOW many uhe navy got, I don’t Iy Straifs | Alaska as designated by the Sec- NOW EXPLAINE way. ,ee - Rates Agaif\;t Enemy Af-| |retaries of the Interior. Agricul- | | Give Attack Version i Here in part is the naval cor-! respondent’s version of the action as | broadcast by Tokyo: | “Questioning revealed of two American men who with eight others had been transferred to this island in December of last year, that when | they were asked if they thought No Permanent Deferment for Married Men fo |ture and Commerce, an official to be designated by the Federal Se- | curity Administrator, and an offi- !cial to be designated by the Fed- eral Works Administrator, an offi- cial to be designated by the At- | torney General and a resident of | Alaska to be elected by the Council know. But when you're doing your }Jon you don't have time to watch |around at what the other fellow is | doing.” | ©. W. Fluck, 45, ship’s porter, Fishing fo ngin_ Today; tacks on Various ltems Are Announced | In a letter from the office of | Alaska Delegate Anthony. J. Di- \mond, dated Washington, June 9. the following is quoted directly and | | | | MORE S(RAP |said that he “spent seven months NEEDED FOR [in Prance as an artillery man in |the last war bt saw more action in two days at Dutch Harbor than lin all those seven months.” “Hell Of An Attack” Major Flecher, meanwhile, said | Be Given had been misquoted. The probable lineup would in- HeSth ool BYlway o ronter Wbl | American troops would ever be sent Willkie is publicly opposing the re-election of Fish. But so far he has not publicly thrown down the| gauntlet to Dewey, whom he dis-| approves of privately almost as strongly as he objects to Fish. Reason is, Willkie believes that to oppose Dewey actively would entail becoming a candidate him- eelf, as there is no other Republican who can possibly stop Dewey. And Willkie sincerely does not want to run for governor. But close friends, chiefly the young, liberal Republicans who were the backbone of the spectacu- | lar campaign which won him the GOP nomination in 1940 over the | violent opposition of the machine bosses, are acguing differently with Willkie. They say very frankly that it is not enough for him to be ag- ainst GOP isolationism; that if he means what he says he must take up the cudgels militantly and fight for his views within the party. POPLLAR HERO These advisers have told Wilkie that they and the politicians know | (Continued on Page Four) Five-day D;I;y inSeason’s clude: in its entirety from a release dated‘ PRODUCTION to retake the island they declared rather bitterly, ‘Hell, No!’ ‘“When the landing party assem- bled at a newly improvised shrine lonly six hours after first setting foot on the island, they learned that the sounds of machine gun fire earlier had been Japanese guns fired : into the air in an attempt to get a | rise out of the enemy. The party | had come upon a group of four | buildings ablaze with light and op- ened up with their machine guns to try to draw the enemy’s fire. { WASHINGTON, June 25—Draft headquarters announce that gen- erally speaking, married men with children will be the last to be called into service, but empiasized that they could count upon no permanent deferment. This announcement was made in enunciating the policy to be fol- lowed under the bill signed yester- day which will allow financial as- sistance to be given to dependents of men in the armed forces. Selective Service officials added Gov. Ernest Gruening as chair- man and also as representative of the Department of the Interior, B Frank Heintzleman for the De- partment of Agriculture, Howard J Thompson of the Weather Bureau as Department of Commerce rep- resentative. Choice for the representative of the Federal Security Administration probably will be Hugh J. Wade, present chief representative in Al- aska, Federal Works | June 2 from the Secretary of Com-| I merce relative to war damage in- surance against enemy attack: Opening Ended at Re- quest of Conciliafor | ™52 Yones, secretary of Com- ,merce, today anqounced that ar- Fishing in the Icy Straits dis- rangements had been worked out trict, delayed for five days when with the fire insurance induslry Alaska Native Brotherhood purse to act as Fiduciary Agents for the seiners refused to accept the 15|War Damage Corporation in writing cent price offered for Pinks by the!policies of protection against enemy operators, was started today. Roy attack. Peratrovich, President of the ANB. “It will be necessary for everyone and Willlam Paul, Jr., legal rep- who wants protection against en-| resentative of the organization, re- emy attacks to make his applica- | i ; Take Wireless Station | that they “wish to make it emphatic “However, when no response came, that the new regulations do not pro- ' they entered the house and Amer- yige for permanent deferment of ican soldiers stationed there 'ynen with dependents, but rather Administration will be either Earl D. MCGIHL}"\QUESM all members of the ANB of the Federal Works Agency or to begin fishing, as the result of a M. D. Williams, Public Roads Ad- wire received from Charles. A. ministration district engineer. | Wheeler, Commissioner of Concil~ promptly fled. Their half drunk cups of coffee, still hot, mutely | testified to their hurried exit. The | Japanese took possession of the bar- | racks and a wireless station. “Even before the anchors were overside, the building materials for | making the place liveable and mrj defense facfities were being unlim- | bered and overnight the barren out- | post took on an aspect of throbbing life, buildings being constructed, roads laid out, and anti-aircraft provide an order in which regis- trants with dependents may be in- ducted.” It appeared in some cases that married men might still be called ahead of others if such action is necessary to fill draff calls on time. It is possible that in cases where the draft board is already on the point of sending married men up for induction and cannot substitute single men quickly, the married men will have to serve, The Attornéy General's repres-| entative would be chosen pmbably1 from these three: U. S. District Attorney William A. Holzheimer, FBI Chief for Alaska Ralph Vogel, District Judge George F. Alex- anda. In addition to these members.| the army and navy are to destgnalel responsible liason officers to meet | with the Council and to whom the | (Continued on Page Two) iation for the United States De-| partment of Labor. Requests Fishing Start Wheeler requested fishing to be- gin “with all possible speed due ‘o the acute need for our armed forces for salmon” under the con- | tion as soon as the necessary blanks |are available, expire, by law, June 30. “The program has been worked ocut in cooperation with representa- tives of the insurance industry, and |a great majority of those writing | fire insurange. will participate. “Anyone nting the protection should contagt his 18cal fire in- ition that all seine fish caughf surance agent or broker. and delivered be credited at the packer's last offer which was 15 cents for pinks, 16 cents for chums, (Continued on Page Three) “The necessary manu®l of rates, 'rules and regulations, and appli- |cation blanks are being printed and (Continued on Page Two) protection now in full force wm:d ) Nelson Says_R;w Material Shortages Must Be Filled In WASHINGTON, June 25.—Don- ald Nelson told Congress that the nation’s raw materials shortages are admittedly due in part to the “too little, too late” policy and eventually might force a scrapping of metal because the blanket fences, gates, statuary and other lecorative works. The head of the War Production Board said in a report to the special Senate Defense Investigating Com- mittee that “there are very few im- portant materials concerning which the Government doesn't need to take positive action.” While asserting that the produc- tion of raw materials is steadily increasing, Nelson cautioned that scrap collections will have o be stepped up markedly. — eee BUY DEFENSE STAMPS the Office of Indian Affairs about “who !the evacuation of natives are shaking like leaves.” Continued Pietcher: “There was a hell of an attack in the harbor on this ship we came down on. It occurred before the passengers aboard, and the men and guns put up a curtain of fire. “The ship rad docked at Dutch Harbor only the night before the first dawn of the bombing raid. She was taken out of the harbor after the bombing started. She rushed out from the docks where she could have some maneuvering space. Anti-Aireraft Fire “The anti-acraft«ire which went. up from the thip was something to behold.” Fletcher ssio that he had “heard there was a uizeable task force in ihe Pacific off the Aleutians.” He said tae most vivid recollec- tion of the w'mbing was the “sur: prising suddenness with which it ‘came. I was awakened by (Continued on Page Three)