Oldest ’Newspaper In Alaska. ** J lie Neus of the Pav In Pictures" Member of 1 In* Associated Press
= THENOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 93. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 17. 1942 Per Copy is*
Eye-witness Account Kiska Battle
German Army, Million Strong, Rolls Into Caucasus
THREE LOSE FRONT TEETH AT DUTCH HARBOR
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When bombs dropped by Japs at Dutch Harbor d upped close by, these three “walking wounded"
soldicis lot their front teeth. After a little den la I work they’ll be ready for another go at the
enemy. Left to risht: Pfc. Robert Milam. Chicago: Corp. Bruce Richardson of Hot Springs, Ark.,
and Corp. Louis R. Prentice of Bokechito. Okla They recently weie brugfit to Seattle, Wash.
First Eve-W itness Account Operations
Against Jap Forces Occupying Kiska
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGee. Indian Service Teacher-.
And Steve Gardner, Native Aleut, Tell Story
AN ALASKAN PORT. July 18
PP) —In the first eye-witness ac- |
count of ep rations agr. inst the
Japanese occupying Kiska. evac
uees described the courageous
work f»f young Navy fliers who
blasted the enemy forces with :
thousand pound bombs in contin
ued attacks and told too of futile
Japanese bombing of an unpro
tected Aleutians island. Witness
es said the natives were hid in
a nearby sed hut awaiting t.-vae- :
uation.
Pilots Worked In 2-hr. Shifts
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Mc
Gee, Indian Service teachers,
said a force of Navy pilots in
flying boats dropped onto their
little harbor one evening after
the Japs occupied Kiska. Then
for two days and nights, McGee
said, the Navy pilots, working in
two-hours shifts dropped bombs
on the Japs at Kiska, sinking a
large transport, a sub, and other
ships and downing two defend
ing Jap Zero fighters.
In the attacks on Kiska, the
sinking of a Jap warship by
Army and Navy aircraft has
been announced in a Navy com
munique.
Dive Bombed From 300 Feet
McGee continued: “The young
Navy fliers got tougher after
each raid. Their procedure was
to fly high over Kiska then dive !
through the clouds and level out
in sight of their obectives, then
dive bomb from about 300 feet.
The two Zero fighters were shot
down in their first attack.
“Some of the pilots were puz
zled when they scored direct
hits on a large transport but
. which failed to go under. It was
found that rocks were holding
the smashed vessel up.”
McGee is an ex-Marine from
San Diego and Mrs. McGee is
from Ottawa, Kansas.
The McGee? turned the -civ
house ever to the Navy f< r a bar
racks where the pilots grabbed
catnaps. Most of the plane? c .m
back with, bullet holes in their
pontoon? but the McGees remed
ied that by the donation of the
school's stock of pencils, broken
and stuffed into the pontoons t.
keep them afloat.
Then the McGees reported a
J. p reconnaissance plane was
lighted and the Navy ordered
the island evacuated and the fun
was over with the score very
much in the Navy’s favor.
While the Navy was using th.
village as a temporary base, the
native Aleuts scattered to fishing
camps. The Navy pilots left f r
their home base and a vessel
took the McGees and 62 natives
Japs Attack Native Village
The Jap attack on the island
was described by Steve Gardner,
a young native child, who wa
among the 24 left behind by th
vessel. He and his tribesmen hid
in a sod hut near the village.
Gardner said he sighted five 4
motored Jap bomber? coming in
from the east. He said: “The
planes’ first target was the small
island’s harbor. used only th
day before for stores of gaso
line. Next, the bombers made 2
trips over the village and scored
a hit on the vacant schoolhouse,
then dropped 6 bombs, all wast
ed.”
The returning planes swooped
low and machine-gunned the
tents in one fishing village then
left, roaring directly over the
hut where the natives hid un
harmed.
Garner and his 23 companions
were flown out the next day by
two Navy planes. None of the
Aleuts had ever been in a plane
before. They said “Very good
ride, alia same like duck ’’
Steel \4 orkers Get
44 Cents Raise
V,'ASHINGTON, July 16 1 T
An authoritative source said the
War Lab. r Board a.varf -d 3
wage increase of 44 cents a day .
n ‘he Li't’e Steel Case, inste d 1
•if the $1 asked by the CIO Unit- i
oil Steel Worker-. The division is •
regarded generally as the key
store of the wartime industrial
w age structure.
Employer members joined with ,
the public members in an 3 to 4
vote, accord ng tu the source, who 1
declined to be quoted by name.
The labor members served no
nce that they are filing a dissent
ig report.
The board also awarded the
nion, security in the form of
aintenance of the membership
ause and company check-off.
Union dues and a minimum daily
wage guarantee asked in the case
’ v two companies was also grant
1 to the two other companies
1 the case. That guarantee is
already in effect.
The case directly affects about
157,000 employees of the Beth
1 item, Republic, Inland Steel,
eid tlie Youngstown Sir- : and
Tube Companies, but it is gi n
rally believed the wage will
apply to about 400,000 other!
corkers throughout the steel in- 1
dustry, and have an immediate
bearing upon the $l-a-day wage
demands by the 400,000 automo
bile plant workers whose cases
ire now before the board
Lomen Commercial Co.
Freight will now
Be Accepted
For Shipment to the States
Outgoing Shipments
Deliver to Freight office
At Your Earliest
Convenience
Lomen Commercial Co.
Nome Seattle Fairbanks!
To Study De
fense coordination
Of West Coast
WASHINGTON, July 16 .,Pi —
0.daring that the problem of
defense coordination between the
West Coast and Alaska ,,;s rather
fantastic,” Senator Brewster said
that a special Senate sub-commit
e to fly to the area tomor
i ivv Brewster said that S mat
te Hatch and Burton will make
a three- wet k inspection- of the
w) i ■ West Coast >l irting at the
■ tlufan t st paint and project
i 4 into t; ■ Aleut an:* '.here Jap
‘fen ve activ.tj has :■ Ir. ady left
its mark.
"it isn’t ci »r just who is in
: " and tea: there." Brewster
hi reporters. The Army com-'
! h - ■ r .(.i. is 1 c ted iii
A..-a: <rage, and the Navy com
: is b. ! .n Seatth ft wil'
> interest 114 he said, to know
• these two commands
, l together."
He added teat '!: - committee is
anxious to avert any conditions
■ i .■ existed at Pearl Harbor,
m.d that tiie coordination ot de
n.-e act:vit .v. is of paramount
concern.
Reds Concede
?^azi Footholds
UNDATED. July 16 UP) — Gcr '
rr.an footholds some 20 miles in-1
side northern Caucasus and an
•♦t'er at the northernmost rim.
■ • ciffliMc: 11 v conceded by the
ans h.ile tl-.e sanguinary
Voronezh, on the
i north flank of the enemy's men
>cing 1 it! >e along the Don river.
| attained a new degree of fero
; city.
In the battle of Egypt, in the
western world, the other active
! war theater. Axis troops were
| forced to some rectification of
their postion before El Alamein,
and "partially" re-establishing
! themselves on the coastal height
of the Hill of Jesus, as the Brit
ish reported it. The African con
flict, however, still played second
fiddle to the one in Russia.
Since launching the latest all- ,
out effort in Russia on June 28,
the Germans have won effective
control of an additional 25,000
square miles of Russian terri
tory, somewhat more in area “
than West Virginia, although not
all Russian forces therein have
been mopped up.
Pressing behind two spear
heads eastward of this bulge, the
Germans threaten to crash on
through to Stalingrad, at the el
! bow of the Volga river, less than
200 miles away, effectively split
ting the Caucasus and easing the
way for direct penetrations of
the oil-bearing region farther
south.
These implications, a Russian
communique admitted, with the
loss of Boguchar, just outside the
north Caucasus territory, and
Millerovo, 75 miles farther south,
inside the territory and on the
direct line of rail communica
tions between Moscow and Ros
tov', in north Caucasus and one
of Prussia's principal agricultural
regions. If the repeated Axis re
ports are correct the German ad
vance through Boguchar has car
ried well to the southeast. These
advices last located the point of
this spearhead at Migulinsk, 160'
miles northwest of Stalingrad, j
industrial capital of the lower 1
1 Volga.
Nazis Roll Like Tide Across Caucasus
But Are At Standstill At Voronezh
UNDATED, July 17 (/P) — The Germans are at a
bloody standstill if not actually in difficulty before
Voronezh, and are reported losing the initiative there,
but further south in a zone of deeper penetration east
ward, they rolled like a tide across the waving Caucas
ian grain fields, perhaps a million strong. The Russians,
harassed from land and sky, fell back fighting, east
ward t iward Stalingrad on the Volga, and southward
toward Rostov on the Don. At Voronezh, on the north
ern flank of this blazing 300-mile front, a chance for a
successful side diversion against the Caucasus offensive
rested in the balance of a bloods- struggle in which the
Russians are said to have cracked through two lines
of their besiegers.
ILLS. Air Force Bombs Jap Inland
Base At Hankow For 1th Time
CHUNGKING. July 17 (,P) — U. S. bombers in an
attack on Hankow, the great Jap inland base on the
Yangtze river yesterday, scored “very satisfactory
results.” A communique from Gen. Stilwell’s head
quarters s<dd lighter escorted bombers made a raid
also on another Nanchang airdrome on July 3rd.
The communique said the fighter escorted bomber
attack on the Hankow waterfront was the fourth by
t^e U. S. air force since it took over the work of the
Flying Tigeis.
4ii V iolent Battle,
Make Lise of Streamlined l. S. Tanks
CAIRO, July 17 (/P) — British troops, engaged in
a violent but still indecisive tank battle since yester
day at the center of the El Alamein desert line, are re
ported to have brought up American-made General
Lee tanks to dive additional power to the defense.
The General Lee is an improved version of the Gen
eral Grant tuns and mounts 7o milimeter guns in a
turret instead of on the side, and has streamlined
armor. The British are making stubborn efforts to hold
newly won positions at the center of the line. Sharp
lighting was also reported at the southern end of the
line where the enemy is said to have withdrawn
slightly. In the coastal sector, in the north, the com
munique gave no hint of how the battle is going.
JAP TRANSPORT BOMBED OFF KISKA
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The first action picture of the fighting og Kiska, Alaska, releas
ed by the Navy shows a Jap transport afire after being hit by
a bomb from a U. S. army plane over the Kiska harbor. The