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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25

TOKYO, June 25.-From Japan csc broadcasts today, it is stated that Tokyo newspapers published the first pictures of Japanese land ings on sparsely populated Aleu- tian Island outpost and printed with them the first detailed Japanese version of the attack, written by a Domei correspondent.
 The occupied island was acknow- ledged to be 'only a barren outpost of four barrack-like buildings"
 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, Japanese soldiers are advancing across the Aleutian tundra. Still another picture is of two bearded American prisoners.
 Give Attack Version
 Here in part is the naval cor respondents 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 r,,orioo,, troC,,e ,,,o,,Jd axa,- bo conf to retake the island they declared rather bitterly, Hell, NoH
 sWhen the landing party assem- bled at newly improvised shrine only 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.
 Take Wireless Station
 However, when no response came, they entered the house and Amer ican soldiers stationed there 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 air defense facilities 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
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25

 Fishing 10
 Begin Today
Five-ddy Delay in Season 5 Opening Ended al Re-
 quest of Contiliator

Fishing in the Icy Straits dis trict, delayed for five days when Alaska Native Brotherhood purse seiners refused to accept the l5 cent price offered for Pinks by the operators, was started today. Roy Peratrovich, President of the ANB and William Paul, Jr., legal rep resentative of the organization, re- quested all members of the ANB to begin fishing, as the result of a wire received from Charles. A. Wheeler. Commissioner of Concil- iation for the United States De- partment of Labor
 Requests Fishing Start
 Wheeler requested fishing to be- gin with all possible speed due so the acute need for our armed forces for salmon" under the con- dition that all seine fish caught and delivered be credited at the packers last offer which was Is cents for pinks. l6 cents for chums,
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL
 REVIEW WAR
ConqressionaI Leaders Given Report on LibYan
 Defeat, Second Front

WASHINGTON, June z5-Presi- dent Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill today gave Congressional leaders a 45- minute review of the world situ- ation" touching even on the British defeat in North Africa and the prospective opening of the second front in Europe.
 Legislators called the survey very satisfactory and very encouraging. l"
 Speaker Sam Rayburn told the newsmen the Libyan phase of the war was covered in some detail' but the second front was mentioned incidentally.
 The President and Prime Min ister followed up the Congressional conference with an appointment Of the Pacific War Council
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
MORE SCRAP
 NEEDED FOR
 PRODUCTION
Nelson Says Raw Material Shortages Must Be
 Filled In

WASHINGTON. June 25.-Don- aid Nelson told Congress that the nations raw materials shortages are admittedly due in part to the too little, too late" policy and eventually might force a scrapping of metal fences, gates. statuary and other decorative works.
 The head of the War Production Board said in 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- ton of raw materials is steadily increasing, Nelson cautioned that scrap collections will have to be stepped up markedly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
WAR DAMAGE
 INSURANCE E
 NOW EXPLAINED
Rates Against Enemy A. lacks on Various Items
 Are Announced

In a letter from the office of Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond, dated Washington, June g. the following is quoted directly and in it's entirety from a release dated June ? from the Secretary of Com merce relative to war damage in surance against enemy attack:
 Jesse Jones, Secretary of Com merce, today announced that ar engagements had been worked out with the fire insurance industry to act as Fiduciary Agents for the War Damage Corporation in writing policies of protection against enemy attack.
 Tt will be necessary for everyone who wants protection against en- emy attacks to make his applica- ton as soon as the necessary blanks are available, because the blanket protection now in full force will expire, by law. June 30.
 "The program has been worked cut in cooperation with representa- tives of the insurance industry, and great majority of those writing fire insuranes will participate.
 Anyone wanting the protection should contact his local fire in- surance agent or broker.
 The necessary manual of rates, rules and regulations, and appli . cation blanks are being printed and
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
NATIVES ARE ' EVACUATED
 FROM NORTH.
More than 800 Are Landed in Funfer Bay and
 KiIIisnoo '

According to information received here today, approximately $50 ma 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.
 A lesser number of whites 'so have been evacuated and are le- ported to have landed in Seattle.
 The natives apparently will be housed at the old cannery at Funter Bay, and at the abandoned saltery at Killisnoo Harbor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
TREASURY SECRETARY
 TALKS OUT
Declares that Bombings Get efAefion-NorthIdnd
 Leads Nation

WASHINGTON, June 25-Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury today blame "over-optimistic statements about the war" for the lag in war bond sales.
 Morgenthau said this sentiment made it improbable that the June sales will reach "S80o. 100000"
 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 sold.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
Community Is Razed by
 Nazi Orders
Czech Villagers Lose Homes Following Ger
 man Accusations

LONDON, June 25 = The Czech community at Lesaty, Bohemia, has been razed following accusation ag- ainst the villagers by the Nazis that they hid parachutists involved in the staying of .Reinhard Heyd- rich, the "Hangmah of Europe"
 This is the report received here by Czech Government list ners picked up from broadcast by the Budapest station.
 The French News service Lesaty also quotes Prague announcement saying all adult males in the popu- lation were executed in the com- munity, numbering about 100.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
Tokyo Broadtasts Story on
 AIeutian Islands Aita(k;;
 Eve 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 Che expedition off, shore and he offered sympathy to
 The correspondent visited the colorful material
 The officer said, "Too bad the enemy did not show some fight. Did you get enough material?"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
The Washington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

WASHINGTON-W 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 COP 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 1914 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 had been misquOted.
 Willkie is publicly opposing the reelection of Fish. But so far he las 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. self. 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 COP nomination in 1940 over the violent opposition of the machine bosses, are arguing differently with Willkie. They say very frankly that it is not enough for him to be ag- ainst COP isolationism; that if he means what he says he must take up the cudgels militantly and fight for his views within the party.
 POPULAR HERO
 These advisers have told Wilkie that thav and tha r,aliticionS E,ou,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-25
SOMETHING
  E NOW UP
 IN EUROPE

LONDON, June 25-An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Zurich says the German High Command has ordered all telephone communi- cations between Germany and non- Axis countries stopped until fur ther notice.
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POPULAR HERO

These advisers have told Wilkie that they and the politicians know
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Anti Aircraft Fire

The anti-arcraft fire which went. up from the ship was something to behold"
 Fletcher ssIo that he had heard there was s!zeable task force in inc Pacific off the Aleutians."
 He said the most vivid recollec- tion of the Smbing was the "sure prising suddenness with which it came. was awakened by
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-09
Emotional Illness
Cases Are Common

PTTTSBURGH-A United States
army medical officer told the s2d
annual convention of the Pennsyi-
vania Medical society that between
200 and 400 cases of emotional
illness" occur in army camps
throughout the nation every week.
ct is high but not alarming
especially since we have an army
of millions" 1t. Col. Duncan White
head of the Lowell General hos
pital, Fit. Devens, Mass, said.
Col. Whitehead said that "men-
tai crack-ups" among army men is
caused by "such factors as teasing
and razzing by fellow soldiers, re-
moyal from home and family, strict
discipline and intimate living in
larger groups" Worry. anxiety
and excitement are also important
factors, he said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-09
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In Duke 3 Death

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-09
SO Today. Would
Gun for Hitler

CONTINUED from Page onel
health has been a bakers dozen II
trips 10 TIE hospital - = result of
fails off kulldingss~
Mr.. Weed. whose birthday party
Thursday was unqnestionshly q
stellar event enjoyed BY his M
merous crcnies around the Pierce
county tnfirmary. VAS employed
on the initial Camp Lewis cen
struction project when "just .
younester Of To-cdd years"
CAME HERE IN 1870
He came 10 this state in 1904
and settled in Pierce county in 1870
after lifetime Of roaming the ma
ton from border TO border and
coast 10 coast in pursuit Of his
trade. He was born on a farm IN
Dupage county. III. on Oct 4
is4s.
Because he never wished 80
be hamperod In his travels.
Mr.. Woods never married
but had q couple Of mighty
narrow escapes he says with
q wink.
Il smoked like sin for the first
so or so years but had 10 give II
up before II stunted my growth.
figured. Been taking my rations
OF splitting tobacco every day since
and can't say as II hurt me.
PUSSY ABOUT DRINKS
Liquor Well. what kind Of
liquor you offering on. I was
going to say I'd have TO decline II
II was some OF this here moon
shine. maybe. because I'm old
enough now to be kind OF fuxSy
about what I drink. you know.
Matter of fact. though. I drink a
lot of water and that's hard to
beat"
Mr.. Woods principal In
diligence h reading. He has
acquired n modest sort Of fame
from the fact that he win read
anything that's printed. chief
ly newspapers and magazines.
Has 10 do 20 90 keep mp with
what's going on and 10 find
out how all this mess turns
out, he says.
He says that from the way
things looked TO him on his Goth
birthday lat the moment he was
sitting on the porch of the Pierce
county infirmary overlooking the
rich crops Of the surrounding
county farm lands) he shouldn't
be surprised IL he'd have another
birthday party about this very
same time next year.
ct must he the second hum
dred years that are the hard
est" ne said, because I'D say
off-hand that the first 30 have
been the best years Of my
life"
HIS nodded his head with a wink
and punctuated the remark with
a bang of his cane.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-09
Increase Is Grained
To Five More Firms

Special overtime" additions to
established log ceiling prices have
been granted five additional WASH
ington logging operators to speed
movement of lumber to war pro-
duction, State Director Henry B.
Owen announced Wednesday.
Permission to boost log prices
was given the Puget Sound Pulp
and Timber Co.. of Bellingham, De-
xroot Lumber Co., of Bremerton.
A. w. Salmon of Aberdeen, the
Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills OF
Bellingham, and Peterson Manu-
featuring Co., Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-09
BY RUSSELL ANNABFL
United Press Writer

NOME. Alaska fDelayed) -
Alaska's Eskimos are in there
pitching TO help win the war.
Even the women and children
have defense projects. In every
village along the Arctic rim experts
are tanning the skins Of wolves.
leopard seal, parks squirrels and
polar bear and using the skins In
the manufacture Of muclucs ina
tive fur shoes), parkas. caps and
gloves for troops stationed in far
northern outposts.
Mrs Edna oLeary of the bureau
Of Indian affairs, has disclosed
that 5000 pairs Of muciucs have
been turned over TO the army this
year, and the value of all fur gar
ments accepted by the army in
the past nine months Is s216, 900.
The clothing is made by the Eski-
mos AZ . communal endeavor and
- inspected and marketed for
them by the bureau of Indian af-
fairs. Approximately 200 villages
take part In the work.
CLOTHING EQUIPMENT
Use Of native-made clothing by
the army Is an experiment. accord
ing to military authorities, who
believe that while most of the gar
ments will prove excellent, some
will be found impractical for
troops because of the difficulty
Of repairing them and of manu-
featuring them on a mass-produc-
ton basis. The water-tight seam
sewn by the Eskimo women re-
quires twisted sinew thread and
cannot be duplicated by a machine;
explorers wearing Eskimo clothing
IN the Arctic usually have had to
include seamstresses among their
personnel to do their sewing.
Even If war should come to their
remote seacoast, the Eskimos are
determined there will be no famine
IN the tribal igloos this winter. In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-09
Where Is Your
Social Security
Or Auto Card !?

Where is your social security
card? Where is your army or
navy discharge? Where is your
auto certificate of ownership !!
The only full protection for them,
rs well as for your war bonds. Is
IN YOUR own safe deposit box. The
cost is about a cent day at the
Washington Safe Deposit Company
NJ 18th and Pacific in the wash
ington Building. Working people
like our hours from $50 to $50,
daily, and on Saturday from s:So
10 i. and then from 6 to IN
A.. vsnino Adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-09

A blurred windshield put a Fort
Lewis soldier In the hospital for
two hours Thursday morning.
The soldier. Anthony Del Monlco.
was hit at 18th and Pacific at
$50 a. m. by a car driven by
Walter C. Wenlow, 400 SO. 33d
1T. Wenlow told police he did not
see the pedestrian because his
windshield was blurred. Del
Monico was taken by police car
to Tacoma General hospital where
he was released in two hours after
receiving first aid for scalp abra-
sions and a bruised left knee.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-09
Alaska Eskimos Working Har'
10 Help Lick Hated Japanese
Busy Moking Fur Clothing for Troops.
Storing Food. Toiling on Wor Projects

legged tribesmen are putting Up
large Quantities Of Eskimo food.
They are filling casks and skin
bags with moss berries. salmon
berries and sour grass preserved
in seal oil. They are drying bales
Of fat humpback salmon and stor-
ing the fish in their stilty-legged
caches out Of reach q sled dogs.
They are shooting ptarmigan and
ducks and geese and packing them
IN melted fat.
EskIMos WORK HARD
The white men say we've gotta
work like hell 20 win this war"
says Spike" Milagrok. chief of
the Diomedes. And that's okay
with US" Eskimos can work ~
hard as anybody"
This fan many Of the sea-island
Eskimos win not make the annual
return voyage 10 their ancestral
fishing and walrus hunting
grounds. Instead they vill remain
on the mainland to herd reindeer
and to work at lightering and on
defense projects. At present the
men Of three tribes are thus en-
ployed in Nome under the super
vision of their chiefs. the most
colorful Of whom Is Milagrok. A
great hunter. traveller and trader,
Spike has roamed both the Alas
kan and Siberian Arctic and pro-
fesses admiration for the Soviets.
his neighbors 10 the eastward
GOOD OBsTETRICIAN
Spike Ia especially proud OF the
service he has rendered his tribe
In the capacity Of obstetrician. BY
his own count he had presided at
the birth of 400 Eskimo children
without single loss.
He refuses to reveal his methods.
Spike is also an accomplished
ivory carver. Scores of delicstely
patterned bracelets and necklaces
carved by Spike have been pur-
chased by American soldiers and
sent to their wives or sweethearts.
and some have found their way
into museums.
Because Eskimo women do not
fully understand the moral code
Of white civilization. they have
been a problem in some northern
posts.
Commanding officers have had
to place several Eskimo villages
out Of bounds to troops. and in at
least one case the chief of an
island tribe would not permit the
women of the tribe To accompany
their men on the annual trip 10
the mainland. A few of the women
who were already on the mainland
were cast out Of the tribe and
denied return passage TO the island.
But such untoward results OF
the impact of the two races are
easily shrugged off by the Eski-
mos. Their main interest now il
in winning the war and they are
working hard at 1t.
They hate the Japanese. have
always hated them. But perhaps
the bitterest of them all Is Spike
"Those Japs copy my bracelets
and necklaces" he growls. Every
time I made something new the,
would copy 1t in imitation ivor,
and sell 1t at half price. Japs art
no good"
Kodiak mirror., 1942-04-11
Boy Scouts Are Praised
 For Evacuation Wo

Officers of the Army and Navy today paid tribute to a Kodiak Boy Scout troop and their Scoutmaster for their serv ces "throughout the station during the critical days immediately following Japan's attack upon this country" and aboard the U $. s. Grant when they render ed invaluable aid" as a junior patrol aboard the transport which evacuated women and children to the States.
 Lieut.. Col H. L. Branson Troop Executive Officer of the Grant, and Commander James Perry, commanding officer of the Kodiak Naval Air Station, sent copies of their commendation to Amby Frederick, Scout execut- we director for Alaska.
 When the Grant sailed south with hundreds of evacuees, the troop formed a junior patrol to assist Army and Navy officers
 "They rendered invaluable service in caring for the passen- gers," Colonel Branson wrote They are to be commended for the way in which they perform ed their duties and are a credit to the training of the Boy Scouts of America"
Kodiak mirror., 1942-04-11

names ofmembers willing to act.
 Among the visitors were Charles Wheeler and John Vog- Ter pursers from the Columbia, who told of experiences on a recent trip here. Another visitor was F. s. Frazier, scout execut- i've, who expressed enjoyment of his first trip to Kodiak and said "the scout program has been carried on well here without much help from outside. Even a cursory srvey shows a definite need of scouting activity, and plans now are to make ? or 3 re- gular visits year to assist Tn the scout work.
 He told the club that the Boy Scouts needed a flag and Forest Ayres was appointed and author ized to purchase a suitable flag for them.