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Only a few days before the Army's Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, Chief of the Western Defense Command, had conferred at Sitka with the Navy's Commander A. J. Isbell-and the photograph, suddenly appearing out of the Navy's rigid Alaskan censorship, had been the only clue to an Alaskan action...
...over the lack of a real unified command on the Arctic front. Said he: "Naval forces in the area are commanded from Seattle, while Army units are commanded from Anchorage, Alaska. That means the two responsible officers are 2,000 miles apart." The highest ranking military man on the Alaskan scene is Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner, who controls Army operations there, but when concurrent Navy sea or air action is needed, orders must come from Vice Admiral Charles Freeman's headquarters in Seattle...
...Japanese might have been happier had he heard the ominous prediction of Congressman John M. Coffee that "there will be an attack on the Alaskan mainland, British Columbia or the Pacific Northwest before the end of summer." By week's end public clamor and military silence had grown so great that the Senate Military Affairs Committee decided to send out its own scouting party, headed by Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, to find out what was really happening in unhappy Alaska...
...since then indicate that the Japanese have been digging in on those craggy isles astride one main sea route between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Kiska alone gave Japan a harbor, a potential submarine base, enough flat terrain for an air base within bomber range of Dutch Harbor and other Alaskan bases...
Salmon packers last year sold about 7,500,000 cases for some $60,000,000. This year the loss of many an Alaskan salmon will cut the total to 5,500,000 cases-maybe less. Whatever the pack is, the Government will take it. Meanwhile the industry worries about higher costs (wages are up 25%) and where to find more canning employes (the Japs have gone to concentration camps, the Filipinos to war and better jobs...