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...poison and sanitation control in the village. In addition, hunters have been forbidden to shoot such valued rat killers as hawks, eagles, owls and foxes. As a final touch, the Army called up part of its K-9 Corps, ordered a dozen specially trained terriers from the States. The Aleutian, official servicemen's publication, announced: "The WOOFS are coming." For the first time in Dutch Harbor's history, the rats were definitely...
...Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate braininess, dug up an Aleutian skull larger than Daniel Webster's. Hrdlička concluded that U.S. life had streamlined the European body, that Uncle Sam and the Gibson Girl fairly represent...
This ex-private and son of a Confederate soldier was unmoved by his rare double honor. At his headquarters after the presentation, whittling a stick as usual and staring at the impenetrable Aleutian fog, stocky, deep-jowled Gene Landrum commented: "You know, this is a hell of a place for a Florida...
...Three days earlier, U.S. bombers, skirting the Aleutian fogs, smashed at the strong Japanese home base of Paramoshiri, in the Kurile Islands. As the planes circled the rocky island, they saw an antique fortress, a square mile of modern military installations, a ship-filled harbor. The bomb bays opened. Fires flared up throughout the area, near hits were scored on harbor shipping. The raiders took nearly 200 photographs...
...force cruised offshore, pouring round after round of high explosive on the rocky island. No answering flashes came from the shore batteries. Perhaps the Japs, anticipating invasion, did not want to give away their guns' location. Perhaps U.S. battleships which supported the Attu landings were still with the Aleutian fleet; their 14-in. guns would outrange the Jap batteries. But the second shelling, by a single smaller warship, roused the enemy to reply. Results: to the warship, no damage; to the Japs, gun positions revealed. A third shelling brought no reply...