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Show The Cache American. Lotran. Cache County. Utah Page Two Occupation of Aleutian Islands by Japs Constitutes Serious Menace to Entire U. S. Hattie of Kiska Isle, Main Foe Stronghold, Improved Merchandising, Manufacturing Methods Boost Baker's Bills; Raw Ctuen, By BAUKHAGE 3w-shapc- A'nrt Anmlyti and Commentator. WNU Service. 1341 II Street. The Aleutian) extend west from renlntu-l- a thousand miles, for nearly rhere are about 70 Islands and M inlets, all cif which are Included In the territory of Alaska. The largest of these Islands is Umnak; Unala'ka Is the port of entry fur western Alaska, and the center of Uie fur trade. Desolate, rocky, and forbidd.ng, the Aleutians apparently are a con-nuslion of Uie main Alaskan range. This la a land of (.& I Li. ; J JAP ZERO COMES TO NACGIIT . . . Somewhere la Uie barren Aleutian Islands, this Jspsnese Zrre fighter plane finds Its final resting place. Downed by defenders during a recent raid, Ita battered remains are shown bring examined. The plywood "belly tank," lor gat to give it greater range, Ilrs In the foreground. N-- Washington, D. C. The recent debate In congress over the stabilization of prices and wages goes as deep into the home and liie farm and the factory as any national issue ever hat. I received a typical letter on the subject a query about the relative cost of wheat and bread, what the farmer gets and what the baker charges. In trying to answer it, I found a mountain of statistics and a wide variance of opinion; but it was a childhood memory which gave me the most convincing part of the answer. First the letter from my listener in Bismarck, N. D.: "Before you put too much blame on farm products for the rise in the cost of living, please explain soon in one of your radio talks, why during World War I, when wheat was selling for $2.25 to $2.50 per bushel, that bread was selling for ten cents a loaf while now, posted local prices at this point are 92 cents (for wheat) and bread retails at 13 to 15 cents a loaf . . Now the memory: It was a clear summer morning. School was just out and there was a treat in store tor me. I got up long before the family was twake, slipped into the summer kitchen and poured myself a glass of milk and put a couple of cookies In my pocket As I went quietly out the front door, I tiptoed across the stoop where the empty pan with a red lay beside it I walked down Locust street to Arthur Barnes' house just in time to climb into the bread wagon beside him and his father. We crunched down the driveway and through the empty streets to the New York Central station. Before we got into the freight yards the train from Buffalo was rolling In. By the time Mr. Barnes had backed the wagon up to the freight station platform the bread crates were waiting. cost the U. S. some brave fliers and consome good bombers. It is stant fight with the weather, and fugs and mountains have taken a bigger toll of our planes and fliers than have the Japs. The climate resembles that of IceSome are of the opinion that Uie SO land; mean temperature. July. may be holding Kiska to guarJaps degrees; January, 33. Rainfall is antee their position in northern waheavy, and clouds and fogginess are ters, from which they take great almost constant All summer long quantities of fish with which to feed the fog lies thick over the land. the empire of Japan. This view is Uie lash Uie winter, gales During not held by Sen. M. C. Walls; ren tens. tD of Washington, member of the Iractlrally treeless, the islands nflairs subcommittee that military shrubs. are rich In visited Alaska. Senator Wallgren The Aleutian natives Uvo in rude claims that the Japs must be driven huts and spear fish. Indians and from the Aleutians before a North Eskimos in the interior live on reinPacific offensive can be launched. most the deer, while the Aleuts, for of said: Wallgren "Occupation part, make their living at Qshing. of the larger islands at Uie three It may be said with a full degree of tip of Uie Aleutian chain puts Uie certainty Uiat this Is one place in Uie Japs squarely across our bridge to world where the fishing Is usually Russia. very good. There is no need for The Japs must be persuaded with alibis. and bombs (the only langunfire Trouble Starts for Aleuts. understand) that the guage they Things were going along nicely for Aleutian islands are unhealthy for the Aleuts up to the time of the any but Aleuts and Americans, and Japanese Invasion, and then their this is being done as fast as feasible. whole world began tumbling about At present the Japs menace Alaska, their ears; the war had come to and Alaska is of strategic importhe Far North! tance to the safety of continental It was almost unthinkable, a few United States. Alaska lies athwart years ago, that this land of fog and any Jap invasion of this continent, and is the route by which America may most easily strike against Japan and pay off some old scores. And yet, the only way to get supplies and men to this vital area is by plane or boat. Americas Burma Road. Fast Delivery Very fortunately tor Alaska and We stood beside the crate. Mr. America, the Alaskan highway is now well under construction. This Barnes was in the delivery wagon. highway, the greatest wilderness un I wasnt nearly as adept as Arthur, dertaking in American history, will of course, for he had much more enable the U. S. to rush munitions practice in extricating and tossing to guard the bases that lie closest the loaves and he often had to wait to Japan. Today 30,000 bull dozers a second or two, while he toyed with the unwrapped loaf before I had and logging crews are hacking into MacDonald's managed to toss mine to Mr. Barnes wide swath Wilderness, creating a corridor for who deftly caught it and put It in in the layers that rose from troops and equipment to roll to the place Far North. This highway will link the wagons floor. This lack of dexthe U. S. to its Arctic outpost, and terity on my part made me a little nervous and one loaf went wild. Mr. w'ill be of immense strategic imBarnes reached out nobly but it hit portance. the side of the wagon and caromed We may all be grateful that Donald MacDonald, an elderly engineer, over into the cinders. Mr. Barnes was a man of deeds, was so determined in his purpose to a highway through to Alaska. not words. He leapt out of the get so are Contractors camp along the Alaskan highway job. Camps As if gifted with prophetic vision, wagon and recovered the treasure. located that the thick poplar growth serves as protection against winter for 20 years MacDonald promoted I looked sheepishly at Art There storms. The camp area is graded to assure proper drainage. the idea. To prove that his idea was half my pay gone, surely. But no! Mr. Barnes was frowning, he solitude would some day become a ka and American cities, and while was sound and perfectly feasible he land of increditile battles in the air the navy has done remarkable work made a trip to Alaska on foot, at looked around, whipped out his knife While an and with a few expert incisions reand on the sea that some day along up to this time, it may take a com- great personal danger. Alaskan was moved the cinders, gave the crust commission highway to sea coasts land bined and these dangerous get operation an affectionate stroke with his bare them out. When the occupation of created some years ago, with Macone of the worlds greatest concentrations of cruisers would steam, the Aleutians first was made it was Donald as one of its members, it wrist and leapt back into the wagon with it The loading continued in without the benefit of destroyer assumed that such occupation was was not until December 7, 1941, that silence for a moment Then Art smoke-scree- n and without air supgesture to anything was done about building merely a leaned over and said In a reproving the The on attack in Pearl Son of highway. to Heaven the the Tokyo guns up enemy's pacify port, right on Kiska island, and carry the war for the bombing of the Japanese Harbor brought into sharp relief the whisper, "Dont say nothin about that. to Japan. capital. But as the invasion persist- military importance of a highway It was that concern over a posU. S. destroyers were in that bated and grew in force this idea was to this northern U. S. outpost and tle line, too, but they didn't lay down abandoned, and the real danger to Americas Burma Road was begun. sible aroused public opinion over a lapse in our sanitary discipline Work Proceeds Apace. any smoke screen. The Almighty America in the presence of the Japs foreshadowed one of the dewhich in the Aleutians became apparent. had taken care of that. The highway was started at Daw10,000 Japs on Kiska. son Creek, just across the British velopments that has increased the The Aleutian islands came into the cost of bread. world spotlight last June when the It has been estimated that at least Columbia line from Alberta, and will The incident I have described took Japs made their attack on Dutch 10,000 Japs have occupied the island extend along the east side of the place about 1898 and it reveals some Harbor from aircraft carriers. This of Kiska alone. Many of these, no Rockies. The work is now proceedwas a hit and run attack, and the doubt, have been taken care of by ing apace, the ring of the axe and of the primitive methods of the bakcarriers disappeared in the mists. the fleets heavy guns and by the the blast of dynamite now being ing industry which sanitary laws, popular taste, cost of labor make As we now stand, the Japs are navys big Catalina flying boats and familiar sounds in wilderness fasttoday. impossible nesses which for centuries knew Attu and and bombers, the only Kiska, Aggatu. occupying army's Take the most obvious: packagKiska island is some 20 miles long, that dare the dangers of fog and the howl of the timber wolf and the and is separated from Little Kiska mountain to dump their loads of crashing of the brush as the lordly ing. Can you imagine bread being shipped in crates and massaged by by a narrow strait. Kiska appears explosive on the venturesome Japs. moose went by. Uncle Sam has a way of getting human hands today? Yet even as to be the main Jap stronghold in The "Cats, condemned by some this area. When the Japs moved in as slow, lumbering and outmoded, things done in a big way, when he late as the time of which my corthey renamed this island Narukami. have been the hero planes in the de- rolls up his sleeves, and while this respondent writes, 1914 wrapping Narukami or Kiska, as we prefer fense of Alaska, searching out the is a stupendous undertaking, it will bread was unknown in many comnot be so very long before the North munities. y to call it has had considerable at- Japs in islands, and spendThis one sanitary measure is only tention from the U. S. navy since ing endless gruelling hours on patrol American lifeline to Alaska will be the Japs took possession under cover duty. When the "Cats" and the Fly- an accomplished fact one more one of many which have made the of Kiska's fogs. For, on the very ing Fortresses go roaring through gigantic stride in the direction of cost of bread higher the conditions same day the battle for the Solomon the "soup, as the fog is called in the conquest of ambitious Japan. with the bakery have changed even more radically. Of course, labor is islands began at the other end of the Alaska, there is hell to pay on When completed, soldiers and i mored equipment will reach Fair- - the most important factor. In 1914 world, a U. S. navy task force glided However, trying to bomb the Japs banks in 80 hours from Edmonton, men worked much longer hours for through the fog almost up to the much less money. Aleutians has Alberta. very guns of the invaders and hurled out of the This trip by ocean from Seattle, takes eight days to Anchorage and another day to Fairbanks. The cost of the highway will be $40.000,000 less than the cost of one battleship. America's bombing planes are the Brig. Gen. William Morris Hoge is in charge of the construction of lethal successors of the weaponless the highway, which follows almost planes which were used exclusively mile for mile the route MacDonald for observation purposes in World blazed through the forest fastnesses War I. says the Aviation News committee. years ago. The men on the construction job are living much as our foreThe Rockefeller foundation is profathers did, depending to a consid-erabl- e extent upon their ability as viding yellow fever vaccine free to hunters and fishermen. Surrounding the government for the use of the forests provide both fuel and shelter. armed forces. A heavy weapons unit, shown on a four - hour practice inarch in Alaska. d berry-bearin- honey aiw.' UO'N ;! 'uwa.'01 C Umol'VtL: OalaLaaSla. HUS )UH KENT BLADES Material Cost Relatively Slight. islands, or Catherine Archipelago, are a chain of small Islands in the North Iacific which point forever towards Japan. This geographical fact took on military significance after the Jap attack on Dutch Harbor last June. AkrekS toward Kamchatka Present Cost of Bread department wanted RAZOR BLADES CHARLES A. SINT.LER b Htttrrn Nwp.pr p!ri4 The Aleutian Wheat Price Minor Factor In .Unique in Warfare By CLASSIFIED tons of steel and TNT Into Jap shipping and shore Installations in Kiska harbor, wreaking great havoc on Jap ammunition and oil dumps, and on her runways for planes. Battle of Kiska I'nique. The battle of Kiska was one of the few battles in this greatest of all wars where ships went to bat in the way, relying on the punch of their guns. The navy's drive right up to Kiska's enemy guns was nothing short of brazen and has few, if any, parallels in the history of naval warfare. It was a hit and run attack built on sheer nerve and courage, but it more Uian acPearl complished Its objective. Harbor was a stab in the back. The Kiska attack was not an act of national treachery, but a bold frontal assault which should have been expected, but evidently was not The Japs were as completely surprised as the U. S. force were at Pearl Harbor. American submarines, too, have done splendid work in the Aleutian area, having sent many Jap cargo vessels, transports and warships to the bottom. The Jap invasion of the Aleutian islands is a constant threat to Alas- 4X) land-base- d face-savin- g 7 4 hide-awa- j milk-tick- Cost of Ingredients And when t come to the content of the bread, of which wheat, the commodity which most concerns my listener, Is the most Important, we find it almost negligible in figuring the cost of the finished product Expert studying the question, state that there are few food commodities in which the chief raw material provides so small a fraction of the final cost as in bread. According to current statistics It would take an Increase of 60 cents bushel in wheat to .cause sn increase of one cent in a loaf of bread. Compare this with potatoes tor instance. When a housewife buys potatoes, she pays only for the spuds themselves plus the cost of handling. Now all of these factors are mentioned merely to justify an increase in the price of bread since 1914. Officials concerned with food costs were careful to warn me that they do not all justify the amount of the There is not complete increase. agreement on that subject by any means. Some members In the department of agriculture say that bread could be sold much cheaper and still yield a profit to the baker. Probably one of the most impor tant factors in the price of bread is the fact that the public just prefers to pay more for it than to bake it themselves. As one official said to me: "In the last war when I lived on a Kansas farm the women in the small towns in the vicinity as well as the farmers' wives baked their own bread. Today you'll see the bakery wagon making deliveries right out in the country. Perhaps If the women who still bake their own bread charged for their own time, they would find it cheaper to go to the bakery. Meanwhile, it is another case of charging what the traffic will bear and in this case most of the traffic is willing to bear it There is one comforting thought for the farmer. When Price Administrator Henderson puts into effect the measures to stabilize all prices, he will still have to let wheat go up quite a ways before it hits its own ceiling parity. But bread, for all its yeast, won't be allowed to rise much more. Aviation Accidents Show Marked Decrease The number of crashes- - of military planes In this country reported recently In the newspapers has served to disturb some people. Officials in Washington have received many letters on the subject. One which I received recently from an obviously intelligent womIn it, she an, may be typical. meticulously listed the number of accidents, reports of which had been published, all of which Involved to military personnel. fatalities There were 77 deaths within a comparatively short period. The writer was shocked and asked if the cause might not be an organized campaign of sabotage. Because I felt that there should be some official comment on the subject, I talked at length with an officer in the air force. The rate of accidents in flying in this country today, he told me. Is 68 per cent lower than it was in 1930. I think the adjective "remarkable is justified when you think of the number of planes that are in the air now as compared with the number 12 years ago. We are not allowed to reveal the number of planes now flying but General Marshall recently stated that the goal of the air force was two million men and one hundred eighty-fiv- e thousand planes by the end of this year. We know that we are well on our way toward that goal. With these facts in mind the number of accidents seems incredibly low. One reason for the reduction in the number of accidents is the Air Force This program is Safety program. in charge of a colonel who has the authority to give orders to a three-sta- r general if he violates any of the The air force safety regulations. goes on the principle that it is just as important to prevent the loss of planes and men from accidents as it is to prevent their loss at the hands of the enemy. Beat Diplomats Baer, famous columnist, often called ths U. S. marines the best diplomats tha United States ever had. Arthur ("Bugs") OFFICE EQUIPMENT sn INI.0 SeaOa uS .Aalre. SWa. NKW Ml ftiww . 44i typewrit. . L C. DMK fcX.. It W. 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