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BOMBING HORRORS TOLD BY ALASKANS Residents Of Dutch Harbor Describe Raid By Japs Over Little Town SEATTLE, June 25—(■£>)—First eyewitness accounts of the Japa nese bombing of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, made public today, disclosed how heavy anti- aircraft fire and even rifle fire drove off the attackers and that the Nippo nese machine gunners strafed flee ing civilians “like rats in a trap.” Civilians among the 98 persons from Unalaska (Dutch Harbor is in Unalaska Bay) and from nearby Cold Bay, evacuated to Seattle aboard an Army transport told in terviewers that a Japanese fighter pilot strafed 250 civilians as they fled to the bare rocky hills for safety. A housewife told how Unala ska’s mayor—John W. Fletcher—who ac companied the evacues here, di rected the flight of five truck loads of women and children to the hills when the Jap bombers and fighter planes came over. How many Jap planes were downed has not been announced officially, and tales brought here by civilians and service men, many of the latter wounded, failed to clarify that point in accounts approved by the Navy. Mayor Fletcher said application was made for 35 death certificates after the June 3 bombing and straf ing, but the total American casual ty lists have not been made public. Joseph Wynans of Des Moines, Wash., said the fleeing civilians, running toward the ravines, threw themselves on the ground as one Jap plane swooped toward them, and the strafter failed to hit a single one though his tracer bullets kicked up spurts of dirt and peb bles all around. “It’s an awdul feeling you get,” Wynans said. “You’re like a rat. You can’t move. You’re cornered. Y>_: don’t dare move because if you started to move, they shot you with marine guns.” “It was the loudest racket I ever heard,” said Ivan Tallman, third cook aboard the bullet - pocked transport, telling how the trans port’s crew7 stood on deck and blazed away at the attackers while gun crews pumped deadly umbrel las of anti-aircraft fire above the harbor. “If the people could only realize the horror of a bombing,” said Mayor Fletcher, motion picture theater operator at Unalaska who came south to confer with the fed eral bureau of Indian affairs on evacuation of natives from the area. He said the natives were “shaking like leaves” after the at tacks. “But you can’t tell people,” he added. “It was the same up there. Until you actually experience it, and see boys fighting for their lives it seems far away. Let me tell you —it can happen here!” 3 UTTLE~OILVMEir MAY GO BANKRUPT (Continued From Page One) ders and perhaps actual shortages of petroleum or some of its pro ducts for direct military use.” Ickes emphasized, too. the ques tion of conservation. There was, he said, no over-all shortage of crude petroleum at present but continuance of this situation, if the war were prolonged, might depend on how well existing reserves were conserved. In that connection, he asked that the proposed war petroleum cor poration be empowered to provide for “the return, upon such terms and conditions as will protect the public interest, to the natural un derground reservoir or other dis position of petroleum products pur chased by the corporation for the purpose of assuring the production Df other petroleum products.” This, for instance, would take care of a situation where a com pany producing aviation gasoline found itself with large Quantities t>f petroleum by-products for which there was no sale. The government corporation could buy the by-pro ducts and store them or, if advis able, pump them back under ground. Specifically, Ickes asked also that the corporation be charged with causing the production of needed amounts of petroleum pro ducts, the maintenance of adequate reserves, the delivery of such pro ducts to shortage areas, and the expansion and most efficient use of petroleum transportation facil ities. 3 Sad Skipper ! Still showing his sadness over the loss of the carrier Lexington, Hear Admiral Frederick C. Sher man is shown during a press in terview on his arrival in New York City. The giant aircraft ves sel, said Sherman, sank on an even keel “with colors flying like the grand old lady she always was.” — (Central Press.) COUNCIL OPTIMISTIC OVER SITUATION (Continued from Page One) “I can tell you this, because it is no secret. I am asking for air sup port. I stressed that today.” But, when asked whether he got any assurances that such support might be forthcoming from Britain and the United States, he replied, “that is a military secret.” Also without revealing the spe cific factors which contributed to his opinion, Dr. Eelco Van Klef fens, Netherlands foreign minister, remarked after the meeting ad journed: “I have rarely attended a meet ing which was so encouraging. When I say that, it sounds a bit trite. I can’t go into details, but I want to emphasize one point: When I say ‘encouraging,’ it is not just a matter of routine, but I have very definite reasons for saying so.” Reporters remarked that was a ] rather strong statement, in view of the situation in Egypt. He re plied that although this Is all one war, today’s session primarily was a Pacific area meeting. While it is an important one, he said the Egyptain situation was only one incident of the war and that it was necessary to keep things in proper proportion and not look at them in an isolated man ner. Nash declared flatly, in discus sing the German onslaught in North Africa, that “I don’t think they’ll get to Cairo.” “There is something mo r e ahead,” he said, “that might not justify the pressimism in some quarters.” Asked whether the conferees went into the matter of a second European froift against the Axis, the New Zealand minister replied affirmatively. “They’ll be hit, all right,” he as serted. President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, the newest member of the council, remarked on the White House doorstep: “I am leaving this place hopeful and happy,” and he said his remarks were with respect both to Euroe and the Pacific PARADE TO OPEN WAR BOND DRIVE —in keeping with the Treasury de partment’s plea for a billion dol lars worth sold through retail mer chants during the month— is four per cent of last year’s total mer chandise sales. Many local firms wi?l have spe cial displays on bonds and stamps during the campaign. Boy Scouts distributed material yesterday. And several stores have named chairman and bond clerks. Insig nia will be awarded those meeting the quotas. 5 -V RAILROAD PASSENGER TRAVEL The railroads are doing a magni ficent job. . . . with 600,000 fewer freight cars than they had in 1918 they are hauling more tonnage, more troops. However, war de mands come first so passenger travel will be hit hard. . . and dis. tribution of fresh fruits and vege tables will likewise suffer. G*W FIVE STAR *2.15 FULL QUART ; ■ *6 PROOF QOOOERHAM & WORTS LIMITED, PEORIA, ILLINOIS NAZIS OBLITERATE ANOTHER CZECH TOWN (Continued from Pare One) been executed. As In the case at Lidice, the excuse was the allega tion that Lezaky harbored para chutists blamed by the Germans for Heydrich’s death. In less spectacular phases of the continuing purge, it was announced in Prague that 18 Czechs had been sentenced to death there and 12 at Bruenn yesterday on charges of being in contact with enemy agents, possessing weapons or fail ing to report to police. One of those sentenced was said to have wounded a German policeman in resisting arrest. Exclusive of Lidice and Lezaky, the latest Czech government esti mate here said at least 382 patriots had been killed since the attack on Heyarich but this figure did not include 50 or more other recent executions. Heydrich, the ruthless Gestapo agent who was Reichs “protector' of Bohemia and Moravia—remnan’ of Czecho-Slovakia — was mortally wounded May 27, by fragments of a British made bomb, the Nazis said. The assassins described as for mer Czech army officers who were dropped by parachute from a Brit ish plane, last week were report ed killed in a Prague church while resisting arrest; but the mass slaughter among Czech civilians continues. In other occupied countries, too the population is answering the Nazi terror with sabotage, accord ing to reports reaching London These included: Seven rexists (Belgian Nazis) killed at Liege in a bombing at the Magant electrical manufactur ing plant; A munitions train derailed at Meirelbeke, near Ghent; A warehouse full of German uni forms and supplies destroyed by arsonists near Trondheim, Nor way; And several German officers killed in an attack on a train near Oslo. TRAVEL SURVEY TO BE STARTED (Continued from Pare One) of the necessity of the gasoline and rubber conservation program. “We want our present cars to last as long as possible.’ Drexler was appointed Wednes day by Mayor Hargrove Bellamy at the request of Joseph B. East man and W. Vance Baise, national and state administrators respec tively of the war transportation program. Other members of the local com mittee are: W. L. Dixson, person nel manager of the Atlantic Coast Line; K. D. Femstrom, vice-presi dent of the North Carolina Ship building company; Chief of Police Charles H. Casteen and W. P. Far rar, representing the Chamber of Commerce. 3 RAIL OFFICIALS SEE NEW LOADER Installed In Freight Cars, It Permits Greater Use Of Space WASHINGTON, June 25— Ufl — The “utility loader,” a device for the loading of general freight in box cars, was demonstrated today to a group or government and rail road officials. Col. E. S. Evans, Detroit indus trialist who developed the device, said it “makes possible not only capacity loading for freight cars, but maximum loading of all types of freight and box cars without damage in transit.” The “utility loader is a system of cross braces and supports, per manently installed in box cars, to permit floor-to-roof and end-to-end loading and eliminate iiie neces sity for temporary bracings for each shipment. Evans said that by locking the freight into units the danger of shifting is eliminated, thus reducing damage. Some officials informally expres sed enthusiasm for the device, say ing it would permit a great in crease in the railroads’ transpor tation capacity with a minimum use of steel. One railroad official called it “all right,” but said the railroads needed steel more to make necessary reparis to rolling stock. 5 -V col. McCroskey GETS PROMOTION (Continued from Page One) by officials as required to meet the needs of the increasing army. The brigadier generals advanced to major general were: Charles W. Ryder, a native of Topeka, Kas.: Edwin P. Parker, Jr., Wash ington, D. C., Charles H. Gerhardt, Fort Leavenworth, Kas., James L. Bradley, Washington, D. C.; Terry De La M. Allen, El Paso, Tex.: John S. Wood, Little Rock, Ark.: Geoggrey Keys and Paul W. New garden, both of Washington, D. C. and Roscoe B. Woodruff, a native of Osklaoosa, Iowa. The colonels promoted to briga dier general included: Samuel L. McCroskey, now sta tioned at Colfax, Wash. General McCroskey was one of two officers who first came to Wil mington to assume command of Camp Davis, soon after construc tion started last year. He served as executive officer to Brig. Gen eral J. B. Crawford during his stay at Davis. | OPEN AN ACCOUNT | impoRinm CREDIT IHFORmnilOH Our Government's New Credit Regulations DO HOT PROHIBIT Buying Jewelry on Easy Terms THE JEWEL BOX Invites You to Use One of Our 3 WAYS to Buy: 1. CHARGE ACCOUNTS Buy on a 30 io 70 days charge with no regulated down payment. 2. BUDGET PAYMENTS Buy what you want and take up to a year to pay. With no extra charges for credit. 3. LAY AWAY PLAN No regulated down payment — small weekly terms until you take your pur chase. Balance on regulated credit terms. JAPANESE SUB SINKS SOVIET MERCHANTMAN (bontinued from Fate One) Japanese warships April 24 at a point 130 miles off Japan, and then escorted to a Japanese port for inspection. Later the Russian ship was re leased, and the ship was home ward bound when torpedoed. “From the circumstances of the sinking,” the announcer said “it appears that the Angarstroi was sunk by a Japanese submarine.” (Tokyo in its first announcement of the sinking early in May said that a U. S. submarine had made the attack, and charged that it was carried out “in an effort to create friction between the Soviet Union and Japan.” (This charge was repeated sev eral times later, the last time as recently as June 21, but both American and Soviet sources meanwhile remained silent until the Moscow broadcast early today. (Moscow apparently wanted to be sure of its facts before accus ing Japan of the sinking. Japan and the Soviet Union have a neu trality and friendship pact, even though they are on opposite sides in the global war. (This neutrality, while each na tion was heavily engaged in war, has been watched closely, observ ers generally feeling that eventual war between the two nations is inevitable, even though for the time being it appears to be to the interest of both to remain out. (The Russian - Japanese border has long been regarded as one of the most dangerous tinderboxes of the world. There have been fre quent border clashes, several of them reaching proportions regard ed seriously in both Moscow and Tokyo. (There have been several reports in recent weeks of Japan rushing troops toward the Siberian border. Russia always has maintained strong forces in this corner of her vast empire.) SINK U-BOAT SYDNEY, Australia, June 25— UPl—Members of the crew of a Rus sian freighter said today that their guns sank an attacking submarine presumably Japanese, which at tacked their ship off the East coast of Australia recently. The freighter’s master and two crewmen were wounded. 5 CHURCHILLVWINS SUPPORT AT HOME (Continued from Page One) lost confidence, in cooperation of the three fighting services in sup ply arrangements and in S White hall’s selection of general officers for field operations. Eight conservatives, seven labor ites, four independents and one liberal signed the insurgent mo tion which seeks to condemn the “central direction of the war.” Prominent among them were Les lie Hore-Belisha, former war sec retary, and admiral of the fleet Sir Roger Keyes. 5 N. E. A. PLEDGES SUPPORT TO U. S. 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