The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1944, Page 12

PAGE SIX Unde Sam Has Always Resortedfo WarBonds In Ali Struggles; Now Is Time fo Help Agam B — NATIVES OF - ALASKA BUY MANY BONDS Record for Year Ending December 31 s Excellent AP FEATURES it's just as hard for an army to march on an empty wallet as on an empty stomach, and an empty feeling in the wallet has almost wrecked Uncle Sam’s armies more than once in historic battles Money troubles were in at start—and almost ended—the Alm-r- ican Revolution. In the winter of 1776, General Washington was in desperate need of money. He begged Robert Morris, unofficial financier of the Revolution, for 500 pounds to obtain intelligence of enemy movements across the river so he could s offensively Morris gave his personal note security to a friend, Washington - received the 500 pounds, and they| The Indians “Aleuts and Eskimos| bought the information that|of Alaska have been more than do- brought victory over the British in'ing their part in the purchase of| the battle of Trenton, N. J War Bonds, according to records Finances In Turmoil made available from the Alaska Of- The nation’s finances in the war fice of Indian Affairs 1943, s As of the of the year Some Natives of the Territory having 'chased about $161225 through the started the war, trying to pass Juneau office, alone, and if figures the cost to her neighbors. There on the total amount purchased by | no national treasury, no credit. | these people at all points through- | were almost fa las! a e 13 as i dupl ndent colonies bickered charged that Massachusetts, as had pur- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SAYS JAPAN BE DEFEATED FROM ALASKA Noted Air Authority Urges Offensive from | Territory The few million dollars worth of bonds purchased by Alaskans last |year were put to good use right in the Territory during 1943 as United | States and Canadian troops routed |the Japanese invader from the |Aleutians —and civilians all the way |from Nome to Juneau and Ketchi- |kan rested easier. | At present, outside of a few small raids on the Paramushiro Japanese | | bases, things are pretty quiet in Al-| jaska—but huge bases are being| {rushed to completion, and these| {bases are going to be used to attack' the Jap at home. Alexander P. deSeversky, widely knewn authority on anything that |flies. is convinced that the ultimate {aerial offensive against Japan will from Alaska—smashing soon the 3,000 miles of water rates the northern Ter- ritory from the enemy homeland. And the necessary aviation pro- gress to make such an aerial of- fensive decisive and less costly | | come he Continental Congress had no out the Territory were available, |lives and substance will come more power to levy taxes on the people this amount would probably be | rapidly than any progress than can who had revolted against unjust much larger Jbo made in a step-by-step approach taxation But that amount, alone, would|from Australia or China or by is- The states were slow to provide purchase about six amphibian steel | land-tosisland conquest, he states. for the requisitions of Congre tractors such as the fighting men | Says Seversky: and then it 5 difficult to get cf the United States are using in{ “Viewed as a region for island-to- meney because collection methods storming and regaining islands held | island activity in combined land, were inefficient by the Japs in the Pacific 'sea and air operatons, the Alaska- Communities Listed About $125,000 worth of collective | ency, bonds have been purchased through | s the Juneau coffice, and purchases | and by communities include: and: Atka, § Gambell, $3,200; Kln-\ wack, $4,000; Solomon, $100; "Burn- | At the beginning of the war, ett Inlet (Unalaska), $2875; Shis- fighting Americans outnumbered mareff, $700; Fishooktown, $25; Ga- the British two to one, but fantas- lena, $350; Holikachuk, $950; Kan- tic financing helped prolong the atak, $250; Karluk, $5325; Kiana, conflict. 1 Kinz Cove, $1,625; King Is- Private Issues Next land, $2,550; Kokrines, $800; Kwi- Historx repeated when the War giliingok, $50; Nunachuk, $50; Between*the States started in 1861. Nunapitchuk, $925; Point Hopc.i Uncertain financing was the rule $1,000; Sand Point, $250; Shageluk, | North and South. Soon a meal in $125; Sevoonga, $10,275; Tyunek,} Richmond cost $75, as bond after $100, | bond burst from central and local — Most On the brink of disaster named Morris superintendent nance. He stabilized the ci a national bank was created, arr were collected from the states, loans engineered from France Spain. i Congr of fi of these purchases have ! Aleutian approach naturally is the' least favorable of all, because it is difficult and sometimes impossibie | to coordinate all these three forces |in blinding storms, sleet and fog., When we talk of a strategic attack ' on Japan, we are considering stra- | tegic aerial action and not local v.ac- tical operations such as we under- took in the Attu-Kiska situation. | “When we forget amphlbxous teamwork and look upon the region | simply as a base for a direct aerial | offensive, the picture changes. In| strategic attack through the skies,’ we are interested in the weather over the target, not in the weather at the base of origin. Science Aids | treasuries. been made at great sacrifice. One | In the North, Congress taxed lux- buyer, a crippled carving instruc-| uries, incomes, corporation earnings, tor, earns $20 a month for mnn‘ and directly taxed the land. Green- months of the year and supports| backs were issued which were worth three children, yet he bought a $50 one-third their nominal value at bend. | war’s end. a Here's Sacrifice | Finally, in desperation, the fed-| One person, alone, was respon-! eral government resorted to high sible for getting the name of Fish- | interest loans rather than to heavy ocktown in the list. This woman, taxes, and the banking house of Hannah Moses Peter, mother of 10| Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil'children, the oldest aged 11, earned War, floated federal bonds at lib---lnn money by trapping. Writes the | al commissions. Cooke organized Indian Office teacher: “I wish you “bond drives” from Boston to San|could have seen the light in their| Francisco, reaped profits for the faces when they brought me the| risk. {money, and heard Hannah remark When World War I engulfed Am- | that now she could start saving for | erica, the nation had started learn- another bond. Knowing the circum- ing its lesson. With 3,700,000 men stances of this family an@ what a under arms, the major burden of sacrifice this bond meant, I was| expense during the war was touched almost to the point of te: met by sale of interest-bearing Yet I wanted to hurl defiance in securities, Liberty Bonds the face of the Axis leaders, because Instead of selling through syn- a nation is as strong as its weak- dicates at generous commissions, est, and as long as what might be| the government sold to ordinary called our weakest are people like citizens in banks, movies and|these we are bound to come out on| churches. Including the 1919 Vic- top! tory Loan, five blocks of bonds to- talling $21,448,120,300 were sold Again, in World War II, the gov- ernment has turned to the sale of hower's new small bonds as a major method of is: meeting costs | Supreme The Government has already had | British and United States Expedi-' three war loan campaigns and all|ticnary Forces Organizing in the have gone over the top. The pre-|United Kingdom for the Liberation sent drive is the Fourth War Luun;of Europe Eisenhower. H to bring more certain and quicker| - victory in the present conflict. Buy| An amphibian landing tractor| Fourth War Loan Bonds. icosts SIB 000. | AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF BIG LONDON—Gen title TITLE | Dwight D. Eisen- is a long one. Tt! i Allied Commander of | 'On the far side of a knoll exposed to enemy guns in the Solomons, one of Pfc. Rondell Lyons’ comrades was wounded. Marine Private l,yom brou, t. Lyons brought him, too, to safety. . But all canteens were empty, and the Japs Iud face of continuous Jap For this he wears the ed men were thirs 'g.e only water hole covered. Lyons went out in the re and brought back water for his comrades. ife for his fellows. | blows, therefore, ! ther “The advance of radio, electron- | ics and instrument flying has been‘ such that weather is no longer an | cobstacle in operating aircraft. Thc take-off and return landings can! be made in zero weather with the same precision as on a clear day. The operating bases in Alaska from which the offensive would be car- ried on against Japan would be elaborately equipped with every aid to instrument navigation. Our only concern would be the weather over‘ Japan, but that would be the same, | whether we uttack from Alaska,! China or aircraft carriers. | “To retaliate, thé Japanese would have to strike back at Alaska, and | nere we hLave a series of advan-! | cayes. Wnbe we are hitting at the! industrial heart of the enemy, the| - | Japanese would be able to strikef only at our Alaskan outposts. Our| airports, being operational bases, would have only the essential facil-| ities for fueling, arming and neces- |sary repairs. The real sources of our would be in the United In the exchange cf we would be strik- | ing vastly more vital targets than| the Japanese. | “And most important—the wea- factor, while it would not in-! terfere with American operations, would seriously interfere with en- emy retaliation. When we strike, our targets—in Japan— will be vis- ible. Their targets—in Alaska—for the most part of the time will be| shrouded in fog and shielded by bad | weather. It will be good tactics to| start an aerial offensive against! Japan in the time of season when, meteorological conditions will give| us the benefit of this weather dif- ferential. H Beat Weather “Experience has shown that fly- ing in low temperatures is not aj serious hazard. During three bitter winters in the first World War, the | writer fought in the air on a north- ern Russian front. He found that| with proper organization and main- | tenance of aircraft the temperature becomes unimportant. Since those days, of course, there has been im- mense improvement in de-icing and | heating devices for flying and main- | tenance of aircraft on the ground. | “It is sometimes forgotten that the maintenance crews suffer more from intense heat than from in-! tense cold. There is always escape from cold in additional warm clothes, but there is no refuge from ! desert heat. Besides, our aircraft| and equipment are now geared Ior[ work in high altitudes, where the temperatures may be 40 or 50 below zero. It is, therefore, nonsense to argue that winter temperatures in| Alaska and the Aleutians militate | against an offensive from that area. “We are now lavishing billions of dollars to construct sea and air power States proper. The least we ean do Treasury Department bases on every little island in the Pacific. Airmen who look to Alaska insist that these resources would be more logically and usefully in- vested in enlarging our oommuni-‘ cations with Alaska, undemldng‘ necessary engineering work iy that | outpost and preparing methodically | for the coming knock-out blows | against Japan. Alaska, as an air| base, may still come into its own— | the other methods of approach to| Japan have not yet succeeded,” Racing Balloonist Now Tends Blimps SAN FRANCISCO—Famed as a stratosphere and racing balloonist of a decade ago, Capt. T. G. W. Settle, USN, has taken over com- mand of all Navy blimp activities | on the west coast, Moffett Field | navy headquarters announces. Re- | presenting the Navy in balloon rac- es, Captain Settle has several en- durance and long distance records to his credit. 'SOLDIERS TUNE sent for us. He said the men needed | us, and he intended to see that we 0 the men. TIME OF DUS by everything from a plane to a | the tropics afford. With cigarettes dhan il 'PT boat, into every sort of place BY JOHN SELBY | we hired natives AP Art Editor | palms out from under our jeep, we |found bugs in our piano, and Ed- NEW YORK—Soldiers won't sing die McArthur, who had learned in daylight,’ Lansing Hatfield says|to play an accordian to take care| after six months of singing to and | of the places without pianos, used with service men in the Southwest-|to have to separate the bellows, ern Pacific. leaf by leaf, be fore he started. Tt “At night they can't be kept from | Wwas that damp and sticky.” singing,” he adds, “but self-con-| The Hatfield-McArthur combi- sciousness or something gets into nation went at their job a little their vocal cords in daylight.” | differently. Usually Hatfield sang The young baritone, with pianist a group of songs, more or less Edwin McArthur, was sent to the|“important” depending on the tem- South Pacific something over six per of the audience. Then the months ago, and the idea was that team would start something like they would organize soldiers’ enter- “Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” and by tainments and shows and whatno'.‘the time the refrain had arrived, “It didn't work,” Hatfield de-|some of the boys would be sing- clares. “There wasn't time, condi-|ing. It went on from there. tions were bad, men were too scat- Lord’s Prayer Favorite tered. We were a little discouraged “There was talent all over the when one day Genera: MacArthu: place,” xay: Hatfield. “We could to cut banana s T AT MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1944 usually get the names of some boys who did things, and in the second part of our show we'd call them up. Usually they came and loved it. Once we called on a colonel, and he sang well. We had a spoon play- er, dancers, everything. The boys would call for their favorites, and somehow McArthur and I would do them. Even if we didn't know | them, we managed somehow. | “One of the things they wanted again and again was ‘The Lord's Prayer” One officer demanded ‘Danny Boy. He said his grand- mother used to sing him to sleep with it, and he wanted to know how it ended! And there was the | fellow in the hospital. He was dying, and he wanted ‘Ave Maria. He got | it, but T wouldn’s say it was a very| steady performance on my part.” | Hatfield and McArthur often sang as many as a dozen programs a day—hospital shows in the morn- ing, and afternoon and night shows | for the troops. Three-quarters or‘ the time they had pianos, often| good ones, Hatfield says, although | some were full of bugs and small grass snakes. \ you cry!” Worker. young of ours. | struments They want our courage . . . our resolution. to match and sus Odd things happened, too. Once a delegation of negro troops came up to ask Hatfield not to sing “OI" Man River.” They disapproved. And in Australia, where MacAr- thur conducted three formal sym- phony concerts with Hatfield as soloist, General MacArthur's little boy broke away from his mother at a rehearsal, reached the stage, and demanded to be shown all the in- that represented the characters in Prokofieff’s ‘“Peter and the Wolf.” Hatfield was to blame for that. He had given the boy the records of “Peter and the Wolf.” e HOMESICK SAILOR MEMPHIS, Tenn—It was easy for the postman to tell a certain young sailor was homesick. On the back of the letter, addressed to 2 Memphis woman from the sailor in California, was printed in large letters: “TO MY MOTHER — RUSH! ESR A A Each soldier going overseas is accompanied by from five to 12 tons or equipment. “DON’T CRY. Don't let them see Whispers the older Red Cross And as the litters of wounded come up the gangplank of the hospital ship, the novice swallows, shuts her eyes for an instant, and ‘nods. ‘They don’t want our tears . . . these boys Not though they face a future that at first can seem harder than death. they want Courage and resolution in their own. Courage to keep us going on with this great task—no matter what it may cost these coming months in blood and sweat. Resolution to back the boys who are tak- ing these risks, with every breath that's in us and every dollar we can rake or scrape. ‘The boys The guns Messina a: front and walk with given. tears . . . They don’! They only ask us to skip the casy realize, far more than we can, how fast war uses up machines, ammuni- tion, equipment. and tanks that took Hill 609 in Tunisia had te be rebuilt or replaced before they could thunder down upon nd Naples. The landing barges that brought our men to the perilous beaches of Salerno must be repaired and reoutfitted before they can drive ashore in France or the Balkans. We cannot win the wer with the bullets our bonds bought last summer. bullets are already buried in Jap and Nazi graves. desperate, comered enemy is coming on. Bullets and shells . . . ships and planes. boys are asking us for . Those And another horde of the tanks and guns . . . These are the things the the boys at the the boys behind them who will never again do things with two hands, or two feet, or see with two cyes. t ask us to give what they have to invest our money instead of spending it . . . to lend the mere money price of Victory. They only ask us to buy War Bonde KEEP ON BACKING THE ATTACK! Put the Fourth War Over the Top oan Alaska Electric Light& Power Co.