Carrier Planes
Attack Strong
Japanese Fleet
U S PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAR
BOR. June 21.—' AP'—American
carrier planes attacked a strong
Japanese fleet, including aircraft
carriers and battleships, in ‘he
Pacific waters, between Luzon, in
the Philippines, and Saipan Island
in the Marianas, before dusk Mon
day. in the first day’s action of
a possible forthcoming battle.
Admiral Nimi'z. in charge of
the Pacific area, said;
“I hope this may develop into
a decisive naval battle.”
The Pacific fleet commander’s
communique said, ‘‘Enemy losses
and our own losses have not as
yet been assessed.”
The communique added:
“With the fall of night our air
attack had to be broken off.”
Nimitz promised that addition
al details would be made known
as soon as they became available.
Bond Sales For
Alaska Reported
Sales of bonds for the period
from June 1st, through to June
17th. totals $654,988.50, with Ser
ies “E” bonds taking lead
with a total of $341,318.00, of
which Fairbanks has subscribed
$199,068.75.
Of all series. Anchorage sub
scribed $136,562; Juneau and Doug
las, $86,117.50; Nome. $37,050.00;
Ketchikan, $36,027.75; Seward.
$33,018.75; Platinum, $28,000;
Flat, $27,000; Petersburg, $12,
037.50; Kodiak, $8,268.75; Wran
gell, $8,137.50; Sitka. $5,831.25;
Skagway, $3,600; Cordova, $3,
412.50; Valdez, $3,150.00; Metla
katla. $2,906.25; Craig, $2,512.50;
Haines, $2,062.50.
Nome’s quota in ’he 5th War
Loan drive is $55,000.
CANDLEITE IS IN
NOME FOR VISIT
Mrs. Solver Xavier is visiting
in Nome this week from Candle.
She will have medical attention
while in the city
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Alaska Bureau of
Army Newspaper
Personnel Rotated
UEAPQH ARTERS. ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — Ro’ation of
Yank's Alaska Bureau s'aff was
completed early th's week with
the arrival of Set. Ray Duncan
from the New York office of the
army weekly.
Sergeant D'docan rl places
Tech. Sergeant George N. Meyers,
who covered fhe occupation of
Adak. Amcha'ka and Kiska and
the battle of Attu during his two
years as a Yank correspondent.
Sergeant Meyers has reported to
the New York office for his next
ass gnmen*. Except for six weeks
he spent at Yank headquarters
two years ago. this reassignment
is Meyers' first stay in the States
in more than five years. A former
Fairbanks newspaperman, he en
lis‘ed in the AAF at Ladd Field,
Alaska.
Sergeant Duncan reported to
Alaskan Department headquarters
after three months at the Yank
home office. He enlisted from
Los Angeles, his home, at Ft.
MacArthur, Calif., and was near
ing completion of officers’ train
ing at Camp Davis, N. C., when
he accepted Yank’s invitation to
ioni its staff. Before the war,
Duncan was a reporter for the
Long Beach, Calif., Vress-Tele
gram.
Duncan’s arrival follows by a
few months the assignment to
this theater of Cpl. John M.
9
Haverstick. formerly of Time.
Haverstick has been operating in
the Aleu*ians since mid-March, j
The Yank “detachment” in
Alaska is headed by Capt. Harry
R. Roberts, officer-in-charge of
hte bureau, himself a former
newspaper owner from Wilkins
burg. Pa.
Duncan and Haverstick will
rove the Territory for copy to
supplement contribu’ion of some
30 Yank field correspondents at
posts throughout the command.
Regular contributors among these
are Sgt. Allan DeLay and Cpl.
Frank Friedrichsen, APO 944; j
Sgh Byron M. Gibson and Pvt. •
Jerome Sheldon, APO 729; Cpl. <
Paul B Lowney and Sgt. Allan ^
Merritt. Ft. Richardson; Sgt. Tom |j
Love, Elmendorf Field, Cpl. Wil- ^
liam Carpenter Good, Yakutat; 4
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S;4t. Don R. Phelps, headquarters,
Northwest Service Command; and
Sg'. Herman Silverman, Head
quarters, Alaskan Wing, ATC.
The Alaska edition, one of the
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Yanks ashore and afloa*, s for all
the men of the Nor'hwest Ser
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Wing of the Air Transport Com
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Nomination Of
Frank Bingham
Is Approved
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 21.
—i AP*—The Senate Judiciary
Commit'ee today approved the
nomination of Frank C. Bing
ham, of Nome, for U. S. Attorney,
Second Division, with offices at
Nome.
AIRWAYS
Wien Alaska Airlines
Pilot Peterson took a capacity
load of freight to Kotzebue and
Deering via Kewalik, on Monday
and returned Tuesday with Anne
beth Rennie from Kotzebue, and
Harold Dimmick from Deering.
Frank Whaley made a round
trip to Lost River Monday eve
ning with P. L. Killeen of the
Geological Survey and A. A.
Route and W. C. Russ of the Boyle
Bros. Drilling Co.
Sig Wien is due in from the
north country today.
Alaska Airlines
The Ford tri-motor arrived
from Anchorage with Edward
Grant. A. R. Johansen, Mrs. A. R.
Johansen. Agnes Amarok, Mr.
Shank, Davts Strandberg, and
Geraldine Awe.
Pilot Weaver went to Unala
kleet with Betty Anaguik, Ka'h
erine Ponipchuk, Mrs. Paul Ama
rok and Herbert Arlowe for Ifay
cock. Passengers from Unalakieet
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were Nils Boyne, Clem Clement
son and Mrs. Andrew McCafferty.
Four Soldiers
Honored: Three
Posthumously
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HEADQUARTERS. ALASKAN ;
DEPARTMENT — The high cour
age of four soldiers, three of
whom went to their deaths in a
vidlent Aleutian storm last Feb
ruary during a search for a
grounded army power barge, was
disclosed recen'ly at Alaskan De
partment headquarters. All four
men were awarded the soldiers’
medal for heroism.
Only Survivor of the four-man
search party is Cpl. Clarence B.
Clement of Pawtucket, R. I. Pos
thumous awards were made to
Sgt. Wilfred R. Scarem of Cuya
hoga Falls, O., Sgt. William E.
Black of Grove C ty, Pa., and Cpl.
George H. Bailey of Cincinnati, O.
Upon learning that the barge
had gone aground somewhere on
an isolated Aleutian island, Clem
ent and Scarem began searching
the eastern shores and Black and
Bailey started a search on the
western side of the island.
The men battled against high
winds, rain and fog as the search
pushed on through the night and
the second day. By the evening
of the second day, Sergeant
Scarem was in such an exhaust
ed condition that he. was unable
to continue further. After Scar
em was situa*ed in the compara
tive shelter of a crevice. Corporal
Clement continued on to find
help.
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