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SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1943'. learned at Attu, Atlak and Am-• chita.Three hours after Yank troops £ landed in the north sector of Bam-boo' bay, caterpillars had roads run-;: -ning toward the front to haul am-;:v munition, rations and guns with minimum manpower.^Tbe first two days turned into vast game of hide-and-seek, with American and Canadian troops searching for the Japs.The departed enemy had the island beautifully fortified with machine gun emplacements spotted all the way from Broad beach near Vole an Point on the northwest side of the island to Kiska harbor onthe east side.They could have put up tremendous opposition if they had the desire to do it but they chose to flee, probably with their morale as low as any troops in history.The Japs could not stand tnepounding Kiska took for months before the unopposed invasion. Tntrlguing Mystery. Washington, D. C. •—(INSI— TheNorth RoadNow Clearedto Japan(Continued)Would Revive Program for Revenue Discarded by Last Congress.spectacular recapture of Kiska,bombarded into a ghostly shell of the once-powerful Japanese base, left military circles buzzing Saturday night with an intriguing mys-tery.How did the Japanese garrison manage to escape under the almost constant surveillance of American planes and warships?The navy, itself, claimed to be nonplussed. Vending more complete reports from the battle area, the department stated:“It is not known how the Japanese got away, but It is possible that enemy -surface ships were able to reach Kiska under cover of the heavy fogs that have been preva-lenl *Observers were puzzled how theJapanese could have brought in transports, loaded them with battle-shocked troops, and then snaked them out again when American and Canadian planes were ranging over the island 106 times in 14 days—as many as 24 attacks ir. one day—and American warships were standing off shore.Three Alternatives.Only three alternatives appearedpossible:1. The remnants of the enemy force were allowed to escape and■ carry back their accounts of American military might for its obvious psychological effect on the Japanese home front.2. Evacuation of the original 10,000-man enemy garrison had been started long ago and was carried out piecemeal over a period of weeks.Or it had been so decimated that the problem was solved by ferrying the few remaining alive in small boats to transports lying well beyond the American patrol zone.3. The Japanese had employed immense new cargo submarines as troop carriers to save their beleaguered soldiers.A sub base had been early established by the Japanese at Kiska and it has been reported from, various fronts that' they were employing submarines as cargo vessels in defense against increasing American sea-air pressure.Koreans Reveal Big Subs.One Was reported sunk off Lae, New Guinea last March. And as far back as September the Japanese were disclosed to have subs with space enough to carry collapsible airplanes.Korean secret agents, a number of months ago, informed Kilsob K. llaan, Washington representative of the Sino-Korean Peoples league, that the Japs had developed a super-submarine with a gross displacement of 4,500 tons, twice as large as a modem destroyer;Designated both for cargo-carrying and combat the undcr-sea monster was said to have a cruising range of 20,000 miles .and carried two collapsible planes, and four 6-incb deck guns beside the usual complement of torpedoes.Washington, D. C.—(d*)—President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organizations rallied his unions Saturday behind a revenue program ‘reviving the idea of a 525,000 ceiling on individual incomes to offset what he termed “selfish minority1' congressional demands for a sales tax.Outlining the CIO’s program in a letter to all of the organizations affiliates, Murray declared thatChairman George (D-Ga) of the senate finance committee and Representative Disney (D-Okla) of the house ways and means committee “have already begun to campaign for a sales tax and opposition to any increased taxes for personal high incomes or any increase in corporate taxes.1Congress rejected the salary limit earlier this year, passing a rider to an administration-favored measure to nullify President Roosevelt's crder for the limitation. The president let it become law without his signature.Doubts Sales Tax Passage, Senator George, on the sales tax issue, told reporters Saturday that “I don’t think a rales tax could or would be passed unless the administration recommended it.Senator Radcliffe (D-Md), a member of the finance committee, declared that he favored a sales tax and argued that the poor man, those with moderate incomes and the rich- all would be better off with it.He expressed belief that such a sales levy “probably a little higher than two per cent should be substituted for the victory tax.Back from a trip thru the country, Senator Reynolds (D-NC) said be found “a lot of people expressing themselves now in favor of a general sales tax, and a lot of people against it.”As to any increase in income taxes, he observed:“We don’t want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.”“Selfish Minority.”Murray said in his letter that a “selfish minority in congress was pushing sales tax and other plans to burden war .workers who are least able to pay” and was using “propaganda to the effect that low-income groups have an access purchasing power which is supposedly adding to the dangers of inflation.” The intention, he said, is “to levy a national wage cut directed primarily against the Iow-ineome groups.Murray suggested income tax exemptions of $800 for single persons. $1,500 for married persons and $400 fcr each dependent to allow a $30-a-week couple “barely enough to maintain “the health and productivity of the civilian population.”Admiral Kinkaid added, was disappointing lo^ everyone.“However, had the Japs chosen to stay and fight from their entrenched strongholds and foxholes. our casualties would have been heavy.Army estimates of potential casualties in taking Kiska by force ran to 7,000 wounded and killed.Admiral Kinkaid said the bloodless victory of Kiska changed the whole Pacific course.“The northern route—the shortest route to Japan—-is now cleared and from Attu we are only 630 miles from Paramushiro. Japan’s northernmost navaL air and army base, ’ he declared.Admiral Kinkaid said the Japanese infestation of the Rat and near island bases last June served the United States well.“It made us aware of our danger and as a result we rushed to completion a chain of air and sea bases to defend our western approaches,” he continued.“Now, when the time comes we will be ready to use them for a gigantic offensive which will breakJapan’s back.”The Kiska campaign, the admiral added, was not without drawing Japanese blood.“A goodly number of the estimated 8,500 Japs were killed—how many is difficult to estimate—by the relentless pounding of the Eleventh air force under the command of Maj. Gen. William O. Butler and by our heavy surface bombardments.“More than 5,500,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on Kiska since last August. Two of the navy’s bombardments were the heaviest in Pacific naval warfare.“We have sunk many of their ships and submarines in this Aleutian theater.”An unofficial estimate, has placed the number of ships sunk at over 30 and the number of submarines at over eight, and there were many “possible sinkings.’Admiral Kinkaid cited one of these possibilities:“An army bomber was credited with a possible sinking off Holtz bay, Allu.“Subsequently I have learned from unimpeachable sources that that vessel was sunk and that only 10 of some 1,300 Japanese soldiers escaped from that vessel.“Men do not live long in Aleutian waters. There were many more of such possible sinkings.”Admiral Kinkaid described the apparent contact with the re-ireaimg Japanese m tms manner:Loicomnalert way ed S ing s; ard . Alliei Norw to h Euro;AxtempimmiRtionsaidtheianyS\vdent:thatAUiethescuti ly aiFranCTin NpeoperatiagaiiandItalytern.T fan a 1peoingsabandFirst of BelatedChecks for StateBonus Are MailedAmerican warships made contact with some “objects’' at night and in the fog by similar instruments to those used in the battle in which two modern battleships sank Japanese ships in the south seas during the night of Nov. 14.Salvos were fired at these objects” and they disappeared.Admiral Kinkaid pointed out that during another night action an American destroyer fired a salvo during a heavy log and made a direct hit on a Jap submarine which might have been evacuating Kiska Japs.TTundlt;receDay.Inon tthewesilieveChualreifor Vi fore mot-com to t Be Mcr-cr-ii co-oinCanlie-'tioicorThis sinking was confirmed because the Japs beached the broken sub on a nearby Aleutian island.It was credited with a top speed of 22 knots on the surface and 10 knots submerged.According to Haan’s agents the Japs now have at least 24 of these craft in service.Leonard Rosekrans, Waterloo, Among Beneficiaries.P:cffiledcho:theAll!Aforeadeperver;sueforeIVingspirreaingmo:tiorEDITOR OF AMERICANWEEKLY IS STRICKENClearwater, Fla.—Abraham Merritt, 59, editor of the American Weekly, widely published Sunday magazine section, died suddenly of a heart attack early Saturday after-Des Moines—(.lt;P)—The first checks in belated payment of bonus claims to world war I veterans, totaling $34,020, were mailed Saturday by the Iowa state bonus board.One hundred and one of the checks were sent to Iowa veterans still living in the state, and 70 others were mailed to lowans living in o4her states now.Claimants are Iowa veterans who did not receive their bonuses 20 years ago, Edwin H Curtis, Chariton, la, executive secretary of the board, said.The recent legislature extended to Dec. 31, 1944, the time for filing such claims. The old deadline was Dec. 31, 1924. The bonus orieinnllvThe Aleutian campaign was costly in materiel to the Japanese. These they can ill afford to lose because they cannot replace them.They lost equipment in the holds of sunken cargo ships, transports and warships and they lost all of their equipment on Attu and what they could not take with them from Kiska.They lost men in their Aleutiancampaign.some estimates have placed this at 10,000 men on sunken ships, the bombings of Kiska and the Attu fighting.'‘Kiska proved that the Japs know when they are whipped,” Admiral Kinkaid said.“With enough weapons we can drive them from one island to another. It will not be easy, but Kiska demonstrates that it is possible.tevi\v.sl\I'Geterex-Ipoim i sptHeni?tocnGrbutocuIIra'wianth
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Waterloo Daily Courier
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