yOL> 3 NO. 30
KODIAK, ALASKA SEPTEMBER 25, 1943
PRICE 10 CENT®
Band Concert And Show
Wednesday For “Bonds"
A combined band concert and
motion Dicture program will be
beld next Wednesday evening,
frith one performance only, at
the Orpheum theatre, to mark
tbe approaching end of the 3rd
War Loan, conducted locally by
O. A. Torgerson, bond chairman.
And the most important feat
ure is the fact that admission
will be free to anyone buying a
bond, of any denomination, at
the box office. A special bond
salesgirl will be provided, and
receipts will be issued which will
admit the one buying the bond
to the show without charge. Reg
ular admission charges will pre
vail for those not buying bonds.
Jhe band concert will be pre
sented for the first time in Kod
iak by a full Army Concert band
nnder the direction of Galen Pie
penburg, conductor, in a program
of classical, martial and seini
popular numbers.
This Golden Bear band, com
posed of 24 instrumentalists,
should be familiar to the major
ity of the citizens of Kodiak.
Their versatility and ability to
play any and all types of music,
coupled with their sincere desire
to spread the music around has
net with the thoroughgoing ap
proval of all Kodiak music lovers.
During the past 2 years (they
nre now entering their third year
in Kodiak) they have rolled up
thousands of miles under their
GI wheels, traveling from one
place to another.
Featured in their concert edi
tion is T-Sgt. Raymond Brown
o« the oboe and Sgt. Geo. Siva
no drums Other solo men are
Sgt. Edward Laurel, trumpet;
Sgt. Wm. R. Thompson, horn;
Cpl. Jerry Zmescal, clarinet; and
Sgt. Charles N. Wetzel, trom
bone
One of the outstanding num
bers on the program will be Saf
ranek’s Atlantis, a descriptive |
suite in 4 parts so arranged as to
give ample scope in which to
bring out the particular qualities
of each instrument.
The full program will run two
hours, and an intermission has
been arranged during which a
Humber of short motion pictures
•rill be shown, including a special
Technicolor showing of * Men of
the Sky”.
Also during the intermission
ft. H. Chadwick will speak a few
Uordson the current bond drive.
On September 18 Kodiak had
officially reported $15,862.50 in
Bond sales toward the quota of
640,000, and it is hoped the bond
i*Jes at the show, with other
pledged sales, will bring Kodiak
in over the top.
The program will start prompt
(y at 7:30 pm, and patrons arc
urged to attend early for best
seats, and doors at the Orpheum
will be opened at 7 pm 60 bond
sale admissions may begin. Re
ceipts will be issued at the time
of purchase and the bonds will
be obtained later at the Bank of
Kodiak.
Although the Golden Bears
have played at practically every
hall and outpost on the island,
thjs is the first time the full band
has had the opportunity to play
for the townspeople. The entire
program promises to be a rare
treat so don’t forget to make it
a date for next Wednesday Buy
a bond and see the show-of-the
year free!
Mrs. Nick Miell has been ap
pointed chairman of the commit
tee to raise funds for a gift for
the cruiser “Alaska” (See story
page 3.) The appointment was
made by Charles Skinner, mayo**
pro tern, and Mrs. Miell will
name her committee members.
City Acts
On Water
The city council, at a special
meeting Thursday afternoon, ap
propriated $500 for immediate
installation of a drip-method
chlorination process in the city’s
water supply. Request for the
action came from Army officials,
who said military personnel
would be excluded from town un
less such action were taKen.
An Army sanitary official said
the laboratory tests over a per
iod of time had been checked
and re-checked and that the wat
er was dangerous for human con
sumption because it was “con
taminated from fecal matter”.
With the water in such con
dition, it was pointed out, the
potential danger was great be
cause disea®e in epidemic pro
portion could originate from such
a source if disease germs were
present in the feces While the
water has been used without
serious effect the inherent dan
ger of its continued usage is so
great that the chlorination was
insisted upon.
Weeks News Highlights
World Front
Among the revelations in
Churchill’s speech to the House
of Commons was that a US air
borne division was scheduled to
land near Rome simultaneously
with the Salerno attack but was
called off because Germans held
Rome's airfields. He announced
enemy losses in Sicily as 165,000
killed, wounded & captured. Ex
plaining the rescue of Mussolini
by the Germans (Picture pagell)
Churchill said his delivery to the
Allies was impossible before the
armistice because this would
have disclosed Badoglio’s inten
tions to the Germans. Concern
ing new developments he said a
conference of foreign secretaries
of US, Britain & Bussia will be
held soon with no questions
barred. He expressed a confi
dence & a hope that a meeting
beween Br., US& Russia leaders
would be held before the war’s
end.
Mediterranean Front
Allied artillery pounded Ger
man positions before Naples &
planes concentrated on roads &
rail lines over which the retreat
ing enemy must travel. Refugees
from Naples entered Allied lines
& said the Nazis were devastat
ing the city by fire & I heft. Am
erican Ranger units landed on
Corsica to join patriots & French
colonials in clearing the island of
Nazis. The enemy has fallen back
to the northern end toward the
port of Bastia which has been
blasted by Allied bombers to
prevent escape. US troops landed
on Sardinia to assist 4 Italian
divisions that drove the Germans
from that island. Br. forces oc
cupied the islands of 1 eros, Cos
& Samos in the Eastern Agcan
pea. These positions out
flank the enemy on Rhodes &
Crete & RAF planes based on
the new islands are said to have
attacKed Crete already.
Pacific Front
Allied air forces dealt the Jap
base on Bougainville island in
the northern Solomons a 4-day
pounding. Jap’s Ballale field in
the Buin Faisi area was reported
to be temporarily unusable Of
ficial figures showed 83 Jap
planes destroyed to 14 Allied
planes lost in the air battle over
the eastern approaches to t,be
Jap bastion at Rabaul. House
naval committee placed Jap navy
losses at 180 warships since
Pearl Harbor, including 3 battle
ships, 6 aircraft carriers. Tokyo
radio announced a plan of evac
uation of large cities to meet
the threat of Allied air blows.
European Front
Tremendous aerial bombard
ments were reported along the
entire invasion coast. Explosions
from the raids were reported to
have been heard from across the
channel on the English coast.
Russian Front
Anapa, last Black sea port in
German hands, fell to the Red
army as the enemy’s Kuban
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Civil *ctU>n
OOCKCO^P^
There will be a fire drill Sun
day at 1 pm, Jack King, acting
fire ehief, announces. All mem
bers are urged to attend.
City Gets Road
Right-of-way
An agreement was signed this
week between the Woman’s
American Baptist Mission
Home, Rev John S. Winter, a
gent, and the City of Kodiak,
allowing the city to construct a
road around the small lake at
the end of Mission road, across
Mission property, to reach a gar
bage disposal spot on the bay.
For $1 legal consideration the
city was given the right to con
struct the road for the sole use
of city owned vehicles and li
cen ed transfers engaged in haul
ing garbage. Under the terms the
road cannot at any time be used
by the public, and to restrict the
passage of the public the city a
greed to build a gate, with pad
lock, at the south terminus of
the road.
Work will be starled immedi
ately on the road, for which
$4000 had been approved by the
city council previously.
City officials also announced
that any dumping of garbage a
long either Mill Bay road or
Mission road or any other public
street or road is against the law
and any violators will be prose
cuted fully.
City Authorizes Pay
Incrcease For Hospital
A 40 per cent increase in sala
ries of the personnel of the Grif
fin Memorial hospital was au
thorized at a special meeting of
the city council Thursday, sub
ject to the approval of the War
Labor Board. If approved, the
raise will be made retroactive o
October 1
The step wa- made necessary
because of inabiliry to obtain
nurses at the present rate of
$100 a month and found.
Plans Statehood Bill
Washington—Delegate Dim
ODd plans to introduce legislation
to give Alaska statehood as soon
as the present war ends. A bill
introduced last spring is not
satisfactory and a new bill is
being drafted. The Territory is
ready for statehood and the
people are anxious that it be a
state, Dimond said, on his re
turn to the capital via the Alas
ka Highway. Declaring that it
was a good road, he said Alaska
is well defended from attacks by
the Japanese.
A complaint was filed Monday
in the district court at Aacbor
age, and summonses were served
here Wednesday by deputy TJ.
S. Marshal Paul Herring, in a
case brought in the name of
Prentiss M Brown, administra
tor of the Office of Price Admin
istration, against the W. J. 'Hrs
kine Co , a corporation, and W.
J. Erskine, P. J. Watkinson, and
William K. Steele, co-partners
doing business under the com
mon name of the Kodiak Dock
& Warehouse company. The
complaint seeks judgment in the
sum of $13,665.36 for alleged
overcharges for wharfage and
handling services rendered by
the defendants in the operation
of a wharf and d^ck at Kodiak
between the dates of Oct. 31,
19*2 and July 20, 1943. The
charges were made, the com
plaint avers, in violation of the
provisions of the Emergency
Price Control Act of 1942 (56
Stat. 23) and the General Maxi
mum Price Regulations promul
gated under the authority of said
act.
Papers in the action were
brought to Kodiak by E W.
Hepp. assistant OP A inspector,
Fairbanks, who said this action
is the fifth for the territory, in
cluding a new one brought a
gainst Odom-Ed wards company,
Anchoraee, territorial Coca Cola
distributors, seeking judgment
for approximately $57,000 for
alleged overcharges by that firm.
The next term of the district
court opens in October, Hepp
said, but no date has yet been
set for the trial.
The complaint against, the
Peal dock company, first
brought, by the OPA in this city,
consumes 7 pages. It asserts that
for the base period of March,
1942, the defendants charged the
following highest prices:
General freight—$2.80 per ton
or 40 cu ft., which includes
wharfage ($1.60) A handling
($1.20).
l.iquor—$3.20 per ton, in
cludes wharfage ($2) A handling
($1.20).
Minimum charges—$0.60 per
ton general freight,, applicable
to items of .214 tons or under,
same rate for liquor applicable
to tonnage items of .185 tons or
under.
The complaint continues
“That contrary to terms
of provisions of General Maxi
mum Price Regulations the de
fendants without authority in
creased the rates for the said
classes on the 15th of Oct. to the
following rates:
General freight—$3.60 per ton
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