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THe OHTGOII CTATECI lAII. Colaa, Ortffsa. Sunday liorclng, August 22. ISO
Canadian Tells
CountryB.en's
Part on Kiska
By HERB JONES '
Canadian Press War Correspondent
KISKA ISLAND, Aug. 17-(De-layed)
Kiska island ' Is - in our
hands without the firing of a shot.
It is now more than 55 hours
since first units of our combined
American-Canadian force, biggest
Pacific invasion force, since Guad
alcanal, set foot on this north Pac
ific island early Sunday (August
15) from the Bering Sea side, but
not a single Japanese has been en
; countered.
Oar commanders believe the
Japanese palled eat, Just how
no one Is sore, a short time be
fore our- arrival.
They left behind crude mines
made of dynamite and marmalade
tins buriec? on beaches and tun
dra, sod hut and dugout machine
gun nests and emplacements with
ammunition and guns still there.
Our advance reconnaissance un
its found Kiska harbor, believed
the most heavily fortified of the
Japanese emplacements, theirs for
the taking.
Pvt. F. M. Brownlee of Denver,
Colo, one of the first to enter
Kiska harbor camp, told me build
ings there . were intact . and had
been occupied as recently as a
week or two ago. A 700-foot fly
ing, strip was pitted with : our
bomb holes from recent air at
tacks, .-c"- :,: ;. , . - 1 ,', ' ' ? .-, - ;:r
Some Canadians in the ad
vance party te reach this spet
where resistance was expected
threw grenades la dareais but
there was no shra of life.
; Despite the lack of resistance we
are digging in on the island. Our
SCreat transports anchored here at
Witchcraft Point and at the more
southerly landing near Quisling
cove continue to disgorge their in
vasion cargo of men and mater
ials. Heavy machinery is working
at both beachheads, building roads,
setting up communications. The
weather has been hot.
Yesterday I trekked .three miles
inland from this Canadian-Amer
ican beachhead almost to our ad
vance) combat teams. Just beyond
brigade headquarters we found a
sizeable Japanese emplacement
partially destroyed..
' It seems the enemy left oulck-
ly," for stepping carefully to avoid
possible booby traps I found dish
es, cooking utensils and other ma-1
terial intact. Some Japanese rifles j
were 'found here and r- nearby
streams were littered with old
Japanese blankets and i rottinf
rice. Our troops got souvenirs, but
no Japs. ,
After writin this I am itrikin!
out overland for Kiska , harbor
about five miles south on the
south side of the island. Our forces
who arrived strong: and confident
! and itching for action are disap
pointed at not meeting the Jap
anese.
This is a hell ef aa lavas-
ion," is the common expression.
' Canadians are . wondering in
view of developments how -i long
they will be here. We are occupy
ing the island rapidly and it is
tne unofficial opinion Canadians
may be sent home.
'Task Force9 TacMes Tomato Crisis
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Senate to Ask
Fatter Draft
Confusion End
y;
AP Man Landing With Troop
T 7- O - r Try. -m '
Msexcriuvv seizure, OT kvisita
Editor' Note:!.. The following disnateh hv . w:inam' t rxrA- I
, J W.WAUCU,
Associated Press correspondent formerlv nf th sa
SeatUe and Tacorna bureaus,, represents the second time Worden
naa anuea who American combat operation forces in Aleu
tian assau.es. lie landed with the tmnrxi whirh ah., i
.. . " "- c-
uMuueu uuw me occupation was completed.'
'Long Tom'A::is I!cm2siz
" Bv WHJLTAM T. wnpnrw
BAMBOO BAY, Kiska, August .18 (Delayed--Landing
- c ..... vhuwui nore to xnaxe a I or tress i
vx uie xuiixier dapanese-neia island
WASHINGTON, Aug. ll.-ijpy-
down on the issue of drafting fa
thers. Chairman Reynolds (D-NC)
of its military committee - de
clared ; Saturday that "conflict
ing" statements on manpower re
quirements had created ! country
wide confusion.
Sailor volunteers from the Philadelphia navy yard, lending aw land
at the request ef the war manpower, commission, onload tomatoes
at a cannery at Camden,' NJ.- Bumper crop had ripened It days
- ahead of time.
Odd Angles '
On Days News
l He said that there was a strong
possibility that the committee will
ion Manpower Chief Paul V.
McNutt and Draft Director Lew
is B. Hershey and nigh ranking
army; men in an effort to get a
"definite, one-time statement" on
the requirements of the armed
forces. , ' :
EPHRATA; Wash. -JP) A lo
cal water shortage has brought
a ban on Saturday night baths
at the Ephrata army air base.
LOGAN, Utah Events in
today's diary of the DaOey Broth
ers circus: : - j. :', -' x
A truck broke down; a new mo
tor was obtained, and it wrecked
the transmission.
A case of monkeys , fell ' into .
canal. A bear escaped. The town
was in an uproar until its cap
ture. , . - 1 1
A large crowd was on hand for
the opening. Lights and : seats
failed to arrive. The circus gave
up and cancelled the performance.
KODIAK. Alaska MfPi Adver
tisement in the Kodiak Mirror:
'Folks T. T. Jackson has nur-
chased Peabody's dog house and
is willing to sell same at a small
profit If you have no doe. this
house can readily accommodate
a full grown man."
Only 19, but Oh,
What a Happy 19! -
- PAWTUCKET, M. August tl
VP)- Naracaasett park's daily
doable payoff hit 231t Satur
day for the largest payeff of the
current New England racing
season. -
Only 19 patrons parehased the
lucky cembinatien tickets.
National League
(Saturday Scores) '
Chicago . 413 99113 13 9
Brook. 199 999 999 1 1 2
Warneke and MeCBllongh;
Gregg, Sayles (J). Lohrmaa (9),
and Bragan.
CineL ,.999 199 9192 S 1
Boston . 199 119 99x 3 9 1
Walter and Mueller; Andrews
and MasL j
Utts. 999 999 9 4 19 t
N. Y. 921 999 9993 1
Rescigno, Butcher (2). Brandt
). and Lopes; Feldaaan, Allen
9), and Mancase.
Coast. League
(Saturday Seres)
Oak. .299 993 999 19 z
8. Fran. 941 919 9197 9 2
Lots. Kleinke (2), Debiasi (7)
and Leonard; Esverly and
Sprins.
Pauline Betz
Champ Again
SOUTHAMPTON, NY, Aug. 21
--PauMBe Betz of Los Angeles,
and Louise Brough of Beverly
tuns, Calif., finalist in the 1942
nationals, met again Saturday in
me uue round of the Meadow
Club ; invitational tennis tourney
with the same result a triumph
for Miss Betz.
The championship was all but
decided in the first set wnicn
ended with Miss Betz out in front,
11-9. The second also went to her,
o-i.
KANSAS CITY (IPi Raymond
Little, 19, a federal prisoner, had
no trouble finding a job after his
I escape from the county jail.
He walked eight blocks and
went to work as a parking lot
attendant. But time drasreed. and
he left along with a customer's
car.
Little was captured by denutv
sheriffs after "a 90-mile-an-h6ur
chase. The government alreadv
had charged him with car theft
PHILADELPHIA VP) An
nouncing that there had been some
misunderstanding regarding two
occupations, Frank L. McNamee,
regional director of the war man
power commission, today an
nounced: "It's barkers. - makers of nuns.
not bakers, makers of buns, who
are classed as non-deferrable in
new draft regulations.w
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (JP)
Walter Oldeham, 325-pound mer
cerizing plant employe, couldn't
replace his Uttered overalls. In
desperation, he asked the OPA
ration officer. The OPA couldn't
get any such outsize eanneni
either. Finally, OPA called on a
tent maker. He tackled the ioh:
with four assistants, turned out
custom-built new denims for
Oldeham.
PORT DODGE. IaWjPV-Evi.
dently thinking the censor might
oe tough on one occasion and lax
on another, Sgt Jordan Hogan
wrote in several consecutive let
ters to his parents that he had en.
joyed a trip to Stratford-on-Avon,
name ox bnaKespeare. each time
giving a run account of his exper
iences there.
Finally, the censor mado this
notation on one of Hogan'a let
ters: .
"Please inform your son that
you are now well acquainted with
tne details of his visit to strat.
ford-on-Avon. I'm tired of read
ing about if
of Kiska, left undefended by the
enemy who moved out myster
iously in race of a terrific ore-In
vasion nau oz shells and bombs.
wmy ... a ,iew land mines and
booby traps none very effective
greeica tnousands of American
ana Canadian troops who swarmed
ashore expecting savage resistance
rrom a Japanese garrison estimat
ed at 7U0O to 10,000 men.
There have been ne Ameri
can deaths ashore doe to en-
: emy action, and the Japanese
made ao attempt to nse nrfM
.lyessels or ; aircraft despite the
obvious lush target of the lar
gest concentration of ships ever
- in the Bering aesv.-V
Patrols penetrated to - all im
portant parts of the island and to
little Kiska nearby. .They found
no living Japanese onlv ahan
doned artillery pieces in midst of
wreckage ; caused - by American
bombs, and gear abandoned bv
apparently hasty flight a week, or
iu days ago. . vXJ' z' l
How the Japanese escaped re
mained a strange riddle to mark
the anti-clunactl Kiska cam
paign. Perhaps the Nipponese,
recognhdng they faced eventu
al defeat or death, have been
reducing the garrison so grad
ually for several months that It
was unnoticed by -aerial reconnaissance.
It is possible that a considerable
number could have put to sea in
Japanese landing barges - - (many
disappeared in early July after
the last large naval bombardment
of Kiska) but if so they faced a
horrible trip even if they expect
ed to contact their own submar
nes or surface craft at sea.
But one thing is sure. The last
days : on Kiska of the Japanese
garrison were made a nightmare
by a virtually continuous rain of
bombs and shells. Heaw. medi
um and fighter bombers were over
the island every time the weather
, x or several weeks before our
task force landed, PBYs bombed
at night, even dropping beer bot
tles for the sake of their nerve.
wracking whistles. In addition to
incendiary and demolition bombs.
The fleet moved in at least twice
in j large force, and destroyers
were offshore lobbing . in shells
every night for two weeks.
The first landings began Son-
; day, August 15, when units hit
Quisling Cove, en the west side
of Kiska. In rubber boats to es
tablish a beachhead. Meantime
naval " artillery pounded the
Gertrude Cove area from the
i
sooth. These landings were fol
lowed by rerolar forces at dawn
Sunday at Quisling and before
dawn Monday at Bamboo bay.
'On the second day. still exnect-
ing resistance, thousands of Am
ericans and Canadians poured
ashore from two landing noints.
bcouung columns moving. inland
met no resistance. When scouta
reached Salmon ' lagoon on the
east side of the island, formerlv
an important enemy center, the
story was the same.
Ad van ring trooDs found manv
unaezended trenches. At least one
pack type field gun had been
abandoned after: parts ' of the
breech were removed. This run
with nearby ammunition never
had been fired.
This strange "battle without
aa enemy continued under a
weird bank of fog, which pre
vented aerial activity the first
two days of the occupation and
likewise hampered land recon
naissance.
Then a PBY flew low over the
island, dodging fog banks, and re
ported no sign anywhere of a sin
gle defender. Elaborate works
near Salmon lagoon were similar
ly abandoned. , Advance parties
found a new road network -
A US heavy artillery emit hauls a 155mm. rifle along a Sicilian road
wnicn engineers are repairing, xnese "Long Tenor were used with
great effect In the Sicily campaign and are new hnrlinr shell ai
the Italian tnalnland. - . I I
tending north from the main en
emy camp to Rose H11L .
Finally our in v a dinar forces
reached to the center of the main
enemy cams near Kiska harbor
and returned un-fired on. In all
the grass-covered, mountainous is
land there was no sign of a Japan
ese.
Trucker Alert,
But Not Enough
Some : Asbury Transport truck
driver thought he was doing some
one a good turn when he reported
to Salem police Saturday that he
saw someone carrying a box from
a warehouse near which his truck
was parked.
He was to himself.
An investigation revealed that
his truck tool box was missing. -
ONEIDA, NY-rVMr. and Mrs.
Selah E. Northway are driving to
Florida, free of gasoline ration
worries. Northway rebuilt has
carburetor to permit the ' use of
Dotued cooking gas.
ar Prisoner
Mail to Total
Million Pieces
WASHINGTON. Aus.
The American Bed Cross said Sat
urday that 1400 .tons of supplies
for prisoners of war held by the
Japanese would be loaded on the
exchange shin Gripshoun when
she sails for the; orient-
Almost one billion packages
will be included In the shipment
The Gripsholm also will carry.
when she sails, packages sent by
the next of kin to prisoners and
internees. The army has announ
ced the next of kin who have re
ceived labels furnished by the
provost marshal j general's office
should have them in New York
by August 27. I . a
The Red Cross said it was ex
pected that mail ifor officially re
norted nrisoners of war and civ
ilian Internees will be carried on
the Gripsholm.
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AURORA, 111. -(p)- The Wheat
land plowing matches, which have
been held annually in Wheatland
township near here since 1877.
nave seen called off for the dur
ation. Paul Schillincer. resident!
or tne Wheatland Plowing Match
association, said today. Reasons:
wartime economy, gas rationing i
ana tne farm labor shortage.
IS'
How They
: j W 1. Tt. W X. pet.
fnW SM il .'iW HAIllmil KSt 7fl c
Bmn Fran 7 47 .6T7,Sn Oie 5 73 .434
Seattle 68 69 36OakUn4 4 73 .425
Portland 62 S3 .48TSacramt 33 M .299
. oaiuraay resuiis:,
At San Diego 5. Portland 0.
At San Francisco 7. Oakland S.
At Sacramento 1-S. Seattle 4-3.
Only games played)
KATIONAL. LEAGI7K
t. Louis 72 38 .S49 Chicago 53 SO .469
Cincinna 62 S2 J44 'Boston 5l 89 .464
Pittsburg 63 53 .543 PhHadel S4 S3 .V2
Brooklyn 5S ST J94,New Yrk 42 72 J6I
Saturday results:'
At Philadelphia 3. St. Louis 2.
At New York 3. Pittsburgh 4. i
At Brooklyn 1. Chtcac IX -i V
At Boston 3. Cincinnati x, : -
W It Pet. ' W L" Pet.
Washlngn 62 54 . J34 Bostot S5 59 .482
Detroit 82 JT7 St. LalTse 69 .455
Cleveland 57 53 Jilt PhUadel 40 JJ
Saturday results: .
A! Cleveland 3. New York S.
K0"1 -. Philadelphia 3-J,
At Detroit 6, Boston 7. ...
At Chicago 5, Washington J '
BIG SIX
In Baseball
By the Associated Press
Battlag (tare leaders ia tt leaf ne)
Pteyer aad eta OABI H Pet
WakrfjeWjTigers U1 479 t7 134 J31
Appling. Whita Sox lis 42 42 142 J31
Herman. Dodgers 418 442 S4 142 .321
Witek. Giants 112 44S 44 14 J1S
Cwtrifrh t. WhiteSox 9S328 4S MS9
Bus srte4 las
NattoBal Lear Aaerteaa Ltagua
Nicholson, cubs tSEtten, Yankees 54
Horn runs;-
Laarua Aaseriraa Laaraa
Nicholson, Cuba IStYork. Tigers 25
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