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| Report On Kiska, Segula
Saturday (./P)—The Navy an
nounced that landings were
made on the narrow beaches of
Kiska August 15 and that no
Japanese were found. There were
indications the •Japanese had
only recently fled their positions
laboriously built in the rocky
terrain.
The communique said “pre
sumably the heavy bombard
ments of our ships and planes
carried on for some time, and
the danger to their supply lines
by our capture of Attu, had
made the enemy positions oh
Kiska untenable.”
Those bombardments, which
had been unreported for the past
three weeks, were among the
heaviest ever made on enemy
positions in the Pacific. Army
and Navy bombing planes dur
ing the period from August 1 to
August 14 struck 106 times,
dropping ton after ton of bombs.
Surface units joined in the
pounding of Kiska, standing off
shore hurling shells from big
guns onto the island in 15 separ
ate bombardments.
How the Japs escaped from
Kiska under the heavy bombings
and bombardments was unex
plained. The Navy said, how
ever, that it was possible that
enemy surface ships, taking ad
vantage of heavy fogs in the
North Pacific, slipped in and
evacuated remnants of the gar
rison, estimated at one time to
inelude 10,000 Jap tioops.
Explaining the 3 weeks silence
in the Aleutians the Navy said
air and surface bombardments
in the latter part of July de
strayed Jap radio equipment,
cutting Kiska off from commun
ications with the enemy’s home
land. Any mention of the pro
gress of the campaign, the Navy
continued, ‘ would have convey
ed information to the enemy he
otherwise would not have had.”
Monday (A*)—Spreading from
recaptured Kiska, Canadian and
American troops seized the little
island of Segula, and are now
consolidating positions on Kiska
and adjacent Aleutian area. Se- i
gula, 20 miles east of Kiska,
could have been used by Jap
j nese as an outpost of the
main base but the Navy said the
landing was made and “no Jap
anese were found.”
The communique telling of
the landings also reported that
3 Jap midget subs, were found
on the marine railway at the
sub base there
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska's
delegate in congress, left Fair
banks recently for Valdez, his
home city. After a few days va
cation in Valdez the delegate
plans to go to Seward then to j
Anchorage and Kodiak
He also plans late this month
or early in September to return
to Fairbanks and then motor
over the new Alaska Highway
to Edmonton, Canada, on his
way back to Washington, D. C.
First legal action for violation
of OPA regulations in Alaska
was instituted August 20 in fil
ing of a treble damage suit in
the name of Prentiss Brown,
Administrator of OPA against
the firm of George Brothers in
Juneau.
The complaint alleges over
charge of approximately $600 on
sale of commodities to Bechtel,
Price & Callahan, a contracting
firm in Skagway, last February.
The complaint was filed by
Lynn J. Gemmill, Territoiial
attorney', who stated that sim
ilar legal action is contemplated
in all cases wheie evidence of
similar violation has been un
covered.
Action was filed under sane
tions of the Emergency Price
Control Act of 1942 which em
powers such actions when goods
subject to overcharge are
brought by any person or firm
for use in the course of their
business or trade. Transaction in
question covered goods to be
used in commissary operated by
the contracting firm in Skagway.
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