The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-04
ATTU ISLANDERS NOT RETURN TO
 REMOTE VILLAGE
AIeuts Tell of Jap Impris- onment = Will Re-
 settle at Aka

Attu, that remote island at the extreme tip of the Aleutian chain, is not to be re-inhabited by it's for mer villagers. That decision has been reached by the Attu survivors new quartered in Seattle after their release from internment in Japan, it was revealed here today by Don c. Foster. General Superintendent of the Alaska Native Service
 MT. Foster returned to his head quarters here yesterday from Seattle where he sat in with the villagers while they reached their decision to accept the invitation of Atka towns folk to consolidate peoples. Sixteen of the 25s Attus that survived inn prisonment by the Japs are to be taken, with household supplies and other replaced equipment, to Atka by Army transport. New housing is being provided there by the ANS.
 Of the nine other survivors, two are being treated for tuberculosis in Manila hospital, two are hospital ized for the same cause at Tacoma, Washington, four orphans already are at Eklutna vocational school and fifth orphan is soon to be placed there.
 The larger group going to Atka in- cludes Alfred Golodoff, four months old baby born in Japan. Four other Attu infants born in Nippon have died
 The Attu fold related their ad- ventures to MT. Foster, declaring they received very fair treatment at the hands of Japanese civilians whom they learned to like. Japa- nese army officers, however, were an entirely different matter. Cruel and brutal, their visits to the clay pits where the able-bodied Attu men were put to work were marked by harsh treatment of the Aleuts. While the men made bricks in the clay pits, able-bodied Aleut women were given hospital work by the Japs.
 The Attus remarked on the very good medical care given them by their captors. Three of their num- Der, showing indications of tubercu- losis, immediately were hospitalized. The others were innoculated and periodically examined. During the last three months of the war, how ever, captors and Aleut prisoners alike received practically nothing to eat, the Attu folk report. They feel sure the war could not have possibly lasted much longer because of the food shortage. During that final period, daily rations to carry them through their hard work consisted of three tablespoons of rice each, three times day. They were given weak tea and. once a week, bit of "slimy. gooey fish"
 Immediately following their cap- ture on Attu in the first Jap invas- ion of North America, the Attus were taken to Kiska. There they were crammed into the black hold of coal ship and taken directly to Japan. Throughout that mis- erable voyage they saw no daylight.
 During their imprisonment in Japan, the Attus were forbidden to speak either their native Aleut tongue or the English language. They had to learn and speak Japa- nesc.
 Mike Lokanin, chief spokesman for the. survivors, is certain in his belief that the Japs bayonetted to death Foster Jones, the white teach CT on Attu, though his widow was accorded better treatment than that received by the villagers. Lokanin related that both he and Jones were subjected to considerable torture in efforts to make them reveal the of a suspected radio station on Attu.
 Lokanin later was forced to bury a blanket-wrapped corpse which he has no doubt was the body of Foster Jones. It was buried about 10 feet from the corner of the site of the old Attn church.