Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1942 — Page 6

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Dutch Harbor Evacuees Arrive in Seattle

To Describe Horror of Japs' Dawn Attack

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the squadron consisted of pombers and about 15 fighters.) They arrived from different direetions, in groups of three. They im- |

mediately encountered a barrage of: fire from the blazing guns aboard! the transport and ashore. The ship, | which Japanese pilots apparently! believed to be a United States war] vessel and later claimed to have been sunk, found herself a prime target. The planes dived for her, braving] heavy fire as they loosed bombs estimated at from 500 to 2000 pounds in size. ! The ship moved away from shore, | her guns forcing the planes upward. More bombs fell and although some hit close enough to shower decks with water, the transport | escaped a direct hit i An enemy bomber, meanwhile, | was bagged by the ships gunners and fell with a trail of smoke be-| yond the hills back of Dutch Harbor. | A Japanese fighter plane staggered] and plunged, flaming, into the] harbor. Another fell on land.

Marksmanship Good

But most of the invaders were still in the air and their marksmanship was accurate. They hit an oil] tank, blowing it 500 feet into the| air. They blasted warehouses and barracks. Streets of Dutch Harbor and Unalaska were machine-gunned. Three sailors a gun position were killed by a direct A ma-chine-gun bullet pierced the® hand of a young aviation machinist and went on to kill one of his buddies.| Women and children were hustled | into cellars and dugouts and some} were taken to secluded valley. Workers for the Siems Drake Puget Sound Co. contractor for the navy base, made for open country. Panic? Everyone said “no.” They were excited and frightened, but they could take it. If they weren't hardy they wouldn't have been at} Dutch Harbor.

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Although wounded severely, this man smiles as he is carried from a troop ship at Seattle, Wash, as it docked with the first group of evacuees and injured civilians, soldiers and sailors from Dutch Harbor,

Alaska, since the Japanese raid.

Japanese planes—others said more were hit and one wounded soldier said, “we got 17.” but at least three were generally believed scored. “Repeated waves of four and five Jap bombers came over at altitudes of 12.000 to 20,000 feet. The trans-

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port’s crew threw up a barrage of fire at each formation. “I am sure that at 6 a. m. the men in my command had the transport’s shell bursts bracketing cne bomber flying at 15,000 feet and at a range of 12,000 to 15000 feet. Smoke poured from it and the plane fell beyond the mountain in back of Dutch Harbor. “A pursuit ship dived on the por side. My battery saw shells burst around the ship which was flying at 600 feet and at a range of 730 feet. With bursts of smoke and flame it staggered and flew lower and lower toward the sea. We then diverted our attention to the next attack

Riflemen Keep Pumping

“A pursuit ship dived on the starboard side of the transport, flying at about the same altitude and range. It, too, staggered, and with bursts of smoke and flame inflicted iby anti-aircraft fire disappeared {beyond Priestly rock.” He said riflemen, meanwhile, | pumped a continuous stream of bul{lets at the attackers. | A leader among the evacuees was {John W. Fletcher, 36, mayor of | Unalaska and operator of a motion i picture theater. Loading his car with women and | children he and his wife headed for }& deep valley. They were about there when a small fighter plane | zoomed over the hill at a terrific | speed. | “I said to my wife, ‘hot dog! here {comes one of our fighters’ But it | wasn't. It was a Jap plane.” he re- | lated. “The Japs flew low over the city, machine-gunning everything. I counted 21 of their planes. They {| seemed to know exactly what they | were after and bombed buildings and installations.”

“It's Hard to Think Straight”

B. C. Duggan, 55-year-old SiemsDrake brick foreman from Long- | view, Wash, estimated that 25 bombs | were dropped altogether. D. W. | Mitchell, 23, ship's cook first class from Salt Lake City, believed the number was closer to 60. Mr. Duggan said the morning of | the attack he was asieep on the | Northwestern, a steel freighter used by Stems-Drake as a restaurant and

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State to Fight Syphilis by Ending ‘Pick-ups’ in Bars, Hotels. , (Continued from Page One)

2. Transference of information to the ABC, from which excise men will be dispatched to investigate taverns under suspicion. “Not Moral Crusade” “This will be no moral crusade,” Dr. Ferree said, in explaining that

health. “Commercialized prostitution one of our biggest reservoirs of infection,” he said. Of all Indiana men examined under selective service since Nov. 14, 1940, a total of 2.7 per cent of them - ' was infected with syphilis, he said.

Infection Is 2 Per Cent

Pre-marital examinations, required by Indiana law, show an infection rate of 2 per cent. Under the educational aspect of the campaign, Dr. Ferree said that films will be shown defense workers, literature sent to tavern owners. who will be asked to post it in their establishments, and manuals sent to law enforcement officials summarizing the legal procedures

“We know where practically all the segregated districts are,” the health officer said. “The health board, with the help of the state police, made a survey and found that they existed in practically all towns of county seat size.” Gets Co-operation

Police over the state, he explained, had been highly co-operative in the effort to close up “districts.” “The problem now is with the girls. Police, by driving them into hiding, can prevent the number of exposures,” he said. Army figures, according to the health board, show that 70 per cent of all soldiers will associate with prostitutes wherever they are found, irregardless of the consequences. Expressing optimism over the results of the drive against the sources of venereal disease to date, Dr. Ferree said that “more has been accomplished now than ever before.” In a booklet to be distributed by the health board, syphilis infections

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

LONDON, June 25.—The complicated and highly specialized work of running a modern air force probably accounts for the length of time it is taking to establish an American bomber command in the British Isles. The Americans, who may be impatient for—and the Germans, who fearfully must 4 on be anticipating § —the inaugura- § tion of the American air offensive over Europe may not realize the tremendous preparation which goes into air operations in the : modern war. in the old Miss Kirkpatrick days of aviation a pilot, a mechanic and a bomb-loader were about all the men required to put a plane into the air. In the last war planes took off, found their way over enemy lines, dropped their bombs and returned. The necessity for

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among those examined for the army are reported to be found at a na-| tional rate of 452 per thousand | men. The highest rate in the country has been found in Florida, with 170 per thousand. The lowest state is New Hampshire with 5.8 {men infected out of every thousand:

SETTLE RINGLING'S ESTATE TAX CLAIM

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 25 (U. P) —A $850,000 settlement of the $3,451,000 federal income tak claim against the $22,000,000 estate of John Ringling was reported yesterday to Governor Spessard L. Holland by Leonard Bisco, New York atoorney for the estate’s executives. The estate borrowed $525,000 from the Manufacturers Trust Co. of New York and with added available cash assets provided the money to pay off the federal tax claims, Mr. Bisco said. The settlement apparently lowered | other outstanding claims to $649,- | 340, a figure that must be cleared | before the state of Florida, the chief benefactor of the late John Ringling’s will, could receive title to the circus king’s property. Mr. Ringling provided in his will that the state receive the Ringling | museum at Sarasota, which has| been appraised at $11,000,000. The | will also stated that money re-| ceived from the income of his other |

| hotel for workers. He was awaken{ed by gun fire, apparently from the] | transport. | I dashed out and saw three | i squadrons of Jap planes, one con-| | sisting of five planes,” he said. “1 | Was soon on my way to the power | house, the only bombproof building j there. The rest of the day was a nightmare, with alert after alert. “Your nerves and mind go haywire in a raid like that and it's | hard to think straight, but most of | the people were calm and the Stars land Stripes, thank God, are still | flying over the harbor.”

Wants Gun Next Time

Another worker, Richard Hummell, 43, a painter from Seatile, said | ie wouldn't return to Dutch Harbor “unless they give me a gun.” “It’s laying there on your back, ‘not being able to fight, that's the]

Pvt. first class, Bd Shapiro, former Chicago boxer, said the planes flew so low “I could see the leering faces of some of the pilots, although our gunners were giving them hell.” { James Parsons, Dutch Harbor {restaurant operator who was ac|companied by his wife and two {small daughters, displayed a 60 {caliber Japanese shell that fell in

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ALLIES .RECONNOITER IN CELEBES ISLAND

MELBOURNE, June 25 (U. P.).— Allied planes have extended their reconnaissance flights into the heart of the Netherlands East Indies, with a filght to the Kendari area of Celebes Island, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Operating more than 850 miles from Darwin, the allied planes conducted their reconnaissance, which may result in allied attacks in force, and fought off three enemy planes which attempted to intercept them.

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