Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON


Consolidated Features.-WNU Release.
NEW YORK.-Harold McCracken,
explorer for the American Mu-
scum of Natural History, says Japa-
nese in the Aleutians are just like
Japs in Aleutians Florida, and
Must Be Bayoneted he says fur
Out, Not Bombed n m o {, e
bomb them out. They can hole up
like gophers in the native huts, and
in Mr.. McCracken's view must be
"chased with bayonets into the
Boring sea-" if we are to dislodge
them at all.
This should qualify as expert tes-
timony. Mr.. McCracken knows the
Aleutians. In July, 1923, heading
the Stoll-McCracken expedition, he
unearthed sarcophagus, on top of
an almost inaccessible Aleutian rock
islet, containing the mummies of
three adults and child. This Gull
minated his 11-year search for stone
age remains along the Aleutian
land-bridge.
AS an archeologist and explorer,
the author of a number of books,
he has studiously pieced out the his
toric jig-saw puzzle of his various
findings and taken due account of
their bearing on war and peace and
the present and future of mankind.
In 1884, he elaborated plan for an
international grand jury" to end
war which, in some aspects, was
the first of several suggestions for
fusing individual interests, across
national boundaries, rather than
grouping sovereign nations. More
pertinent to his current observation
is his previous conclusion that the
japanese invasion of the Aleutians
was long planned and carefully pre-
pared.
Mr.. McCracken, lean, gentle
man with h0rn-rimmed spec
tacles, doesn't look like a man
who has killed about 20 Kodiak
grizzly bears, but he has, and
such encounters are minor de-
tail of his desperate adventures
in shipWrecks, billiards. and
lonely tricks in the frozen wilder
ness.
1t was in 1915 that he first went
to Alaska, heading an expedition for
Ohio State university, his alma
mater. In 1919 and 1920, he placered
pay dirt on the Alaska peninsula,
and into 1929 headed up moving
picture expedition, again for Ohio
State university, to film big game.
This led him into the production of
travel and documentary films.
nNE of our first stories, as be-
ginning reporter in Chicago,
was rock and sock fight between
some Jugoslavs and another Balkan
Mikhailouitch around oup, N1 the
Still in There Hegewisch
Seeking the Axis steel e mills mllls.
slavs were outnumbered but they
won.
JQdn
the opposition, better in knee and
elbow work, and could land a chunk
of Stag or a slug of pig-iron on an
exposed skull with skill and author
ity. Their own skulls seemed
strangely resistant to such missiles.
AS to the fight, they seemed
to enjoy it, and when it was over
set up patriotic song which
ranged far over the Stag heaps
and far into the night.
1t would be nice to recall that the
defeated challengers were Italians,
but they weren't and that good news
has been held for another day.
The Jugoslav guerrillas, Is bat
talions of them, are chasing the
Italians out of the former province
of Bosnia. At the time of the Axis
attack on Jugoslavia, we recalled
that Hegewisch battle and would
have made a bet with any taker
that something like that would hap
pen. In the above and other en-
counters we have noted that in fight
ing the Jugoslavs seem to have their
mind on their work more than any
other combatants. And, again, thew
seem to enjoy it.
His faring black mountaineer's
mustache has become gonfalon
of hope to those who want to believe
that victory may be won by a stout
heart and not necessarily by the
biggest tanks. 1t is reported that
5000 Italians have been captured
or killed in the last two weeks and
that the generals forces have now
wrested 1000 square miles from
the Axis. They didn't try to make
their second front a jug-handled
deal.
The rocky-faced General Mikhailo-
witch, colonel of artillery several
years before the war, came out of
the First World war with strong
distaste for the German military
clique
When the blitzkrieg hit, he was
invited to join officials and army
leaders in plane flight to Cairo.
He said he had another engagement.