The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1944, Page 10

PAGE FOUR Army Finally Locales NO WORK STOPPAGE TRANSPORTATION 1 Aleut in Aleutians ALEUTIAN I1SLAND BASE til recently, thousands of Am- vl 1 solaier and sailors have e Y‘ pent mor and years on the T oy AN Alcutians without seeing a native, IR yecognizing one if they did see the Aleuts were evacuated the war to southeastern pt a few on Attu who by the Japanese. It Army special service b cfficer tc aite a native Aleut oh 1 the Aleu He turned out to be Pfc. Ralph Prokopevif, who return- ed to the 1slands after being drafted more than two years ago from his heme on Atka Island. - HAWAIIAK IRON MAN IS ALL AROUND STAR HONOLULU Hawaii has a real iron man in Walter Gouveia, 27- year-old plantation worker. After winning. a five-mile mara- (then by a quarter of a mile, Gouveia |valped his plantation baseball team [teat a Navy nine, 8-1, by hitting & | home: | came the main event. Play- ing as a one-man volleyball team Walter defeated a six-man Navy team in twc successive games. He played them a third time one-hand- d and won again. --e Purchasers of clothing in Britain ° ‘l wve been cut down by $2,400,000,- 000 in two years of rationing. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA PROBABLE ON DAY THAT REICH FALLS Production Must Continue as 'Two Are Down with One to Go” SEATTLE, Oct. 25—Rumors of nned celebrations involving stop- ye of work on the day that Ger- many capitulates are deprecated by Rear Admiral 8. A. Taffinder, Commandant of the 13th Naval District I am confident that such work toppages will not take place in the Northwest,” said the Comman- dant, “as the -home front here rea- lizes the truth of the slogan, ‘two down and one to go’, effective when Germany is defeated. ‘Preduction must continue. Ships jcad and sail from the Pacific Northwest ports and as these con- unue as they did on Labor Day, he biggest holiday that labor cele- brates, I am sure there will be no toppage when the European ws is over ‘Let us remember these things: “1-—~The Allied Nations’ progress is remarkable on all fronts. The ure looks bright both in Europe and in the Pacific. ‘2—The war with Japan demands an all-out effort in the Pacific. “3—The Pacific Coast will be in greater and greater measure the springboard from which our planes, ammunition and supplies leap to NTINENT AND the front to down the Japs. “4—We learn that the Army will demobilize men as the Atlantic| phase of the war is over, but in he Pacific the Army and Navy must fight on with adequate rength to bring a real V-Day. 5— We want to get our fighting men in the Pacific back- home as soon as we can., They are doing their best to finish the job and get home. If Japan were defeated at the same time Germany is we could gef all of them back at the same time and have a true V-Day. “6-—Let us not risk dolaying the return of our fighting men one day by knocking off work for even cne day when Germany is out. “7--The Naval Commandants on the West Coast are united, are aill the people on tlhe c , in not alone a thorough job but a through ]ob with no stops’.” - KODIAK BEAR, ARMY NEWSPAPER, HAS "'30” FORT GREELY, Alaska — The Kodiak Bear, famed soldier news- paper at Fort Greely, has suspend- ed publication because of the lack of printing facilities on Kodiak Is- land and increasing difficulties with its “remote control” system of printing The newspaper, noted for its dis- tinctive GI slant on the news, was established a few days after Pearl Harbor by Maj. Roy D. Craft of San Francisco, at that time a lieu- tenant. The Bear was publicized k national magazine, and writ- ers of news service: newspapers and magazines were soon quoting from the soldier publication. Requests for coples came irom all sections of the United States, from South America, Canada and Europe, with libraries, colleges and | nnym FERERN ] IT TAKES SOME WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, .1944 TO PULL '‘DRAGON'S TEETH AMONG THE WIDELY ADVERTISED features of Germany’s Siegfried line havz bzen the steel and concrete tank obstacles in the Aachen area. These have become known as “Dragon’s T2 how these “tecth” are being pulled. U. S. Engineers have been blasting these passes a 1st Army tank hammering its way into Germany. Signal Coips photo. h,” but above is demonstrated rany paths and through one of (International) historical socleties asking to be put were now available to Fort Greely Carl E. Davidson of Kettle Riveg, on the mailing lists. Fan mail soldiers at poured in. and Army Material for the paper- here, was mailed to Ancno: miles away, where it was printed at a commercial plant. The news- papers were returned here when- ever transportation was available, resulting in a considerable delay.|was Pvt, The Bear, in an editorial in its Minneapolis last edition, explained that up-to-|no longer date pericdicals and newspapers | He was ass 1941 when publication. exchanges, srepared that in contrast to the situation in Le Tomahawk, mimeographed Army ; material here newspaper, in France. was at a premium, there was no longer a great need for such a First editor sted by Pvt. news stands Minn, who succeeded to the editor- and ship. Major Craft is now editing i FOR WSMEN ONLY RALEIGH, N. C.—North Caro- of the Kodiak Bear jj,; nhas set aside a mountain trout: Eugene T. now a lieutenant and a tributary of the South Toe River Newhall of stream for women anglers only. It’s this post. called Neal's Creek, which "rur (mow Sgt.) through the state game farm. There is ACROSS THE CO HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS TO ALASKA only one excuse for telling . United Air Lines’ Mainliners recently completed a record of 55.000 flights over the famous Main Line Airway between Pacific Coast cities and New York. First to blaze a direct transcontinental route from Seattle, Vancouver, B. C., and other coast ports, first to pio- neer air service from Seattle to San Diego, United has achieved an unmatched goal of 275 mil- lion miles’ flying experience. We’relooking ahead. Through an application recently filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board, United seeks authority to offer the Territory of Alaska the ad- vantages of Mainliner Service. If its application is granted, Anchorage, Yakutat, Juneau and Ketchikan will have through service to Seattle...thence south and eastward over United’s nationwide system. At '.b“"m OG,,.“, Anchorage, United’s key east- west route would serve the net- work centering there from the West, South and North; at Juneau, the lines from the West and North. Today, United’s objective is to do its share in a tremendous war job. In addition to conduct- ing its Coast-to-Coast ahd Bor- der-to-Border domestic airmail- passenger-express services, United personnel, flying for the Air Transport Command, have operated hundreds of flights from the U. S. to Alaska. In postwar days, expanding Alaska and the West will need more and faster air transporta- tion. United is therefore look- ing to the future, preparing yet finer Mainliner service with which we hope to serve the Territory,of Alaska. UNITED AIR LINES SEATTLE—Fourth Ave. and Union Street VANCOUVER—723 West Georgia Street Helen Con s M Y FATHER was born in Russia but he came to America years ago. With my brothers Al and Mike, I was brought up as a good American. “When I was in my teens I met a handsome young Navy man at a Shriners’ convention in San Francisco. His name was Bryan Conner. It was love at first sight—and you know the reputation of the Navy for action. Bryan proposed that night. He didn’t know when we could marry because he had to get right back to his destroyer. But we weren't going to wait. “I rented a motor boat, went out to the destroyer and talked to the captain. In five minutes Bryan was on his way back to shore and we were married. “As time passed we had a fine baby boy. We named him William. By the time Bill was growing into young manhood my husband was assigned to recruiting service in Atlanta. He and Bill had great times hunting and fishing together. We were a happy family. My two brothers visited us often and we'd have the jolliest parties and picnics. “Then the war started in Europe. Our son came to us one night and explained how he felt about it. He wanted to be prepared so he enlisted. “Like any mother I hated him to leave home— but I couldn’t stand in his way. Bill joined up. “‘Pear] Harbor was more than my husband could take. He had lots of friends on the Arizona, the Utah, and other ships. He was 48 years old but he asked for active duty and he got it—on a PT boat in fhe South Pacific. *“My brothers got in too—Al in the Army, Mike in the Siabees. There they were—all four of them in'it, my husband and brether Mike in the Pacific; my son and brother Al in Affrica, “I had to do something. So I went to welding school. After 1 finishéd school I taught weiding. My thoughts were always with my husband, my son, and riy brothers. I was working for them, I was living for their return. On June 30th of last year I opened this telegram: The Secretary of War desires that I tender his degpest sympathy to you in the loss of your son. Repbrt reccived states that he was killed in ac- tiop.on June 28th in the North African Theatre of Wnr. “Four days later, on the 4th of July, I got an- othér méssage: ners story Deeply regret to inform you that your brother, Michael Zadorkin, was killed in action in per- formance of his duty and in the service of his country in the South Pacific on July 2, 1943. “On July 8th I read: The Secretary of War desires that 1 tender his deepest sympathy to you in the loss of your brother, Allan Zadorkin. Report received states he was killed in action on July 6th, 1943. “Some time later T saw my husband. He was as shocked as I was about the death of our only son and my two brothers. But he was all the more de- termined to fight on. “T remember seeing him off. It was at a subma- rine base in Florida. At two in the morning. There was a light mist over the harbor. I kissed my hus- band and he went aboard his PT boat. I watched him as long as I could see him waving good-bye. “!It wasn’t many weeks later that I opened a final message: Deeply regret to inform you your husband, ‘William Jennings Bryan Conner was Killed in action in performance of his duty and in the service of his country. “I am not asking for pity. Not even sympathy. My men died the way they would have liked to die —fighting. We must carry on their fight. | “I won't be meeting my boy or my husband or my brothers again, but I want to see to it that other women get their men back. | “The last thing my husband wrote me was: eep up the good work at the bomber plant.” [hat's what I am doing . . . welding dnd riveting. And I'm going to keep on doing it as long as I can stand on my two feet. I am going to stay at my job. Iam going 10 buy War Bonds.I'm not licked and 1 never will be. I'm going to live to see that day— that great day—when our enemies are made to pay in full for the lives they have taken away from all That is Helen Conner’s story. Her tragedy is made public here only because it makes this fact crystal-dea: a war can be won only by sacrifice. . Buying War Bonds may call for sacrifice on our pan. But when our sacrifige is compared to that of Helen Conner or her men, doesn’t it make you feel that putting every last cent into War Bonds is really litotle enough to do? See if you can’t buy another nd—today. War Bonds—_ to have and to hold