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(The following letter explains itself but a carbon
copy of a note sent by the Military Censor at Unalaska
to Postal Censors that “this article has been read and
passed at point of Origin,” indicates that censors can't
get together. Note the deletions made by the Postal
Censors. Editor.)
UNALASKA, Alaska, August 4 — To the Juneau
Empire: Recently my attention was called to quoted
statements made by the (ex) mayor of Unalaska, rel
ative to the air raid attacks here by Japanese on June
3rd and 4th. As a civilian and as the local United Stat
es Commissioner and the attorney for the Cty of Un
alaska, I wsh to refute many of the exaggerated as well
as untruthful statements attributed to Mr. Fletcher
and appearing in many papers.
I resent, as do the other civilians here, Mr. Fletcher's
allegd statement that our military forces would have
been more effective had there been coordination be
tween the army and navy. That is not only a fabric
ation; but it casts a reflection upon our fighting forces
here which has no basis in fact and most certainly is
unjustfied. I am sure that I personally witnessed more
in detail the attacks on June 3rd and 4th than did Mr.
Fletcher, for the primary reason that immediately upon
the first attack Mr. Fletcher, with his few friends, went
far up into the hills where they remained, hidden
away, for all of three days (. . . . Deleted by Postal
Censor . . . .) But this alleged statement by Mr.
Fletcher has just as much truth in it as has many of
the other statements reputed to him. For example. Mr.
Fletcher says it was very cloudy at this time, when
as a matter of fact the weather was practically clear.
He states: “the civilians were shaking like leaves”
during the raid. I saw during this occasion many times
more of the civilians than did Mr. Fletcher; but I did
not see anyone “shaking like a leaf;” in fact, our people
were particularly calm, there was no hysteria except
that shown by the Mayor himself. He is, no doubt, the
one who “shook like a leaf;” for he was the first to
leave the town after the raid began and go far into
the hi Is, and he was the last to return to town follow
ing the raids. Likewise, he was the first to leave on a
vessel for the States after the attack. As Mayor of the
city, it was his duty to remain in town. It was like
wise his duty to have stayed with his city following
the attack, instead of “running out on the town'” post
haste* for the States to seek publicity with exaggerated
statements not representing facts. I am told that Mr.
Fletcher made the statement just before leaving Un
alaska: “Boy, the story I will tell of what I saw, with
all that 1 can add to it, will be ‘terrific’ ”.
The people of Unalaska regard Mr. Fletcher no less
than one regards a captain of a vessel who, believing
his ship is sinking, deserts her with all of his crew
and passengers still aboard. And, when there followed
weeks of no further enemy raids and the “ship'’ did
not sink, he excitedly wired from Seattle to each of
th. six councilmen, urging them to have instituted at
( nee proceedings to disincorporate the city. Very much
like the deserting captain, who found his ship did not
sing after all, returns to scuttle her to save his face
. . Deleted by Postal Censor . . . .) In the news
papers of July 17th, Mr. Fletcher is quoted as intimat
ing the miltary forces here are lying down on their
duty to get the Japs off Kiska and Attu Islands. This,
most certainly, is an unwarranted and unjustified state
ment Both our army and navy are right on the job;
they have been right on the job ever since the Japs
landed on these islands; and from my observation as a
civilian and from available information I can get, all
the headway that is possible is beng made to oust the
enemy. Both the personnel of the army and navy,
every day that weather permits, are doing a big, fine
job: there is complete coordination between them; and
the brave fellows in both branches of the armed forces
mc together winning out. But, while they AR.E win
ning. they also are equally giving of their precious
blood and some with their lives.
1 he weather in these westernmost islands at this
time >f the year is anything but id- al for blasting out
the Japs from the air. But in spite oft his handicap,
and in spite of Mr. Fletcher, the Japs, I am certain,
will be driven out or annihilated before the passing of
many moons. And, when this is accomplished, the army
and navy will share equally the honors and the people
i debt of gratitude to both branches of the
lri !ii try forces.
It should be kept in mind that these islands were
unfortified; not because of any will or wish of our
armed forces; but because of a silly treaty intered into
with Japan years ago not to fortify them. The treaty
expired in 1936; but like the mills of the gods, our na
tion and our slow-moving (and prior to Dec. 7, 1941,
our isolationist group and uselessly debating) Con
gress didn’t get around to begin preparing these im
portant out-posts against attack until late in 1940, and
then only a gesture was made. We all remember the
weak statesmanship shown in the attempt to fortify
Guam; and it was nothing less than weak statesman^
ship that would have induced a proud nation to agree
not to fortify her own territorial possessions against
the ravages of a conscienceless, barbarous and an ever
threatening enemy to our peace, securitv and our
dignity.
I am writing this simply to set the record straight.
The army and navy don’t need my contradiction of
Mr. Fletcher’s mental gyrations; neither, by the same
token, do they need any alibis for an excellent service
here well done. And, if and when the Japs should ever
come this lar east again, they’ll never get back to their
homeland. The army and navy, — with all they’ve got
here, working as a unit. — will pee to that, notwith
standing Mr. Fletcher to the contrary.
Yours very truly,
Jack Martin, United States Commissioner
and Attorney for the City of Unalaska.
—Juneau Empire
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- Our Smallest ‘Soldiers^
NJ.VV yORK—Armies of yeast cells have been enlisted on the
side of the United States in the battle for the democracies. So tiny
that whole “regiments’’ can be placed on a single slide for study ^
under high-powered microscopes by scientists like this member of
the research stafT of Schenley Distillers corporation, the yeast cells
attack grain mash, converting it to alcohol. In munitions plants, this
same alcohol will be used in manufacturing smokeless gunpowder.
ARMY OF YEAST SOLDIERS’
AIDS IN WAR ON AXIS
NEW YORK — A whole divi
sion of the “smallest soldiers’’ in
the battle for democracy could
line up for repiew on a “parade
ground” no bigger than a micro
scope slide and still have room to
spare, according to Dr. A. J.
I Liebmann, director of the Schvn
ley Research Institute.
The midget soldiers, Saccharo
myces Cerevisiae to Dr. Lieb
I mann, are yeast cells that have
been enlisted in the war against
the axis “because their action is
vital in converting grain into
ethyl alcohol” for use in manu
facturing smokesless gunpowder.
The importance of their part in
'the war is shown in the fact that
■ 140 gallons of alcohol for smoke
less powder are needed every
1 time a 16-in gun is fired.
Since good yeast strains mean
good ethyl alcohol which means
! a greater yield of smokeless pow
der, Liebmann said, “means keep
ing them at regulated tempera
tures, feeding them specified
amounts of amino acids and nut
rient salts and guarding them
from bacterial infection. Stray
bacteria and heat are yeast's
worst enemies.”
Even small amounts of air
borne bacteria would contamin
I
ato the ycgist army, he said, so
its soldiers would produce a tvpe
i of aicohol inferior to that need
' ed by the government’s muoi
1 lions program. Excessive heat
would kill the yeast altogether.
But yeast cel’s have a strong
resistance to cold, he ^aid, build
' ing themselves a protective insul
| ation against it. Under such con
ditinns. a healthy yeast cell rc
, mains in a state approaching sus
1 pended animation for months at
a time. He said this is the meth
od used by the Schenley Re
search Instiute in preserving the
unbroken lines of prize strains ^
developed in peacetime'and now
moving the country by producing
i ethyl alcohol.
“The yeast soldiers are so
small,” Liebmann said, “that
5,000 of them could stand shoul
| der to shoulder at attention on a
line only an inch long.”
He added that under a high
power microscope, they tiny ani
mal-like cells who’ve gone all
out for Victory are faintly yellow
| ish, immobile globes.
“But in a grain mash," Lieb
j mann said, "they multiply rapid
j ly at the same time that theyre
j ‘attacking’ the grain and aiding #
alcohol production. Thus each
yeast cell is not only an import
ant fighter for democracy, but
the ‘father’ of a whole family of
j soldiers.”
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