Week’s News Highlights
Kiska Described
From an Alaskan port (J3) In the
first eyewitness account of
operations against the Japanese
occupying Kiska, evacuees
described the courageous work of
young Navy fliers who blasted
the enemy forees with 1000 lb.
bombs in continued attacks
They told too of futile Japanese
bombing of the unprotected
Aleutian island which was wit
nessed by natives hiding in near
by sod huts. While awaiting
evacuation, Mr. and Mrs. Char
les R. McGee, Indian service
teachers, said a force of Navy
pilots dropped their flying boats
in their little harbor one evening
after the Japs ocoupied Kiska.
and then for two days and nights
McGee said the Navy pilots'
working in two hour shifts, drop
ped bombs on the Japs at Kiska
sinking a large transport, a sub
and other ships and downing two
defending Jap zero fighters.Sink
ing of Jap warships by Arm and
Navy aircraft has been announc
ed by Navy communiques.
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Navy fliers got tougher each raid
The procedure was to fly high
over Kiska, dive through clouds,
level out at sight of the objective
and then dive bombed from about
300 feet Some pilots were puz
zled when they scored dircted
hits on a large transport and it
failed to go under. Later they
found out that rocks w’ere hold
ing the smasned vessel up."
The McGee’s (he is an ex-ma
rine from San Diego, her home
is Ottawa, Kansas) turned the
schoolhouse into a Navy bar
racks, were the pilots grabbed
cataaps. Most planes came back
with bullet holes in the pontoons
The McGee’s remedied that by
donating the schools stock of
pencils, which wefe broken and
stuff into the pontoons to keep
them floating.
Then the McGee’s reported that
a Jap reconnaissance plane sight
ed them and the Navy ordered
their evacuation. The fun w'as
over with the score much in the
Navy’s favor.
While the Navy was using the
village as a temporary base the
native Aleut9 scattered to fishing
camps. Navy pilot s left the home
base and a vessel took the Mc
Gtes and 62 natives.
The Jap attack on the island
was described by Steve Gardner,
young native chief, who was
among the 24 left behind by the
vessel. He and his tribesmen were
hiding m a sod hut near the
village. Gardner sighted 5 4-mot
ored Jap bombers coming in from
the East. He said “the planes’
drst target was the island har
bor used only the day before
and stores of gasol ne. Next the
bombers made two trips over the
village and scored a direct hit on
the vacant schoolhouse, and then
dropped 6 bombs, all of which
were wasted ”
Returning, enemy plaBes
swooped low and machine gunned
ithe tents in one of the fishing
villages, then left, roaring direct
ly over where the natives hid,
unharmed.
Gardner and his 23 compan
ions were flown out the next day
in 2 Navy planes. None of the
Aleuts had been on planes before.
Said one native, 68, “very good
ride. Alla same like duck.”
Call Workers
Seattle—An urgent call for
workers for A aska defense de
fense projects and industries has
been made by Joseph Flakne,
Alaska director of the U. S. Em
ployment Sevice.
Worker are sought for the Ala
ska Road Commission, Siems
Drake Company, and the Ala
ska-Juneau mines. Both skilled
men and common laborers are
needed, it was said.
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Washington (;P)—An author
itative source said that the V\ ar
Labor Board awarded a wage in
crease of 44 cents a day in the
Little Steel case, instead of the
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to wartime industrial wage
structures
Employer members joined
with public members in 8 to 4
vote, according to the source,
who said the labor members had
served notice they were filing a
dessenting report.
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157,000 employees of Bethlehem,
Republic,Island and Youngstown
Sheet and Tube companies, but
it is generally believed wage will
apply to about 400,000 other
workers throught the steel in
dustry, and will have immediate
bearing upon the one dollar day
wage demands of 400,000 auto
mobite plant workers whose
bases are now before the board.
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