"News of oAmencas Last Frontier
VOL. 4 NO. 25
KODIAK, ALASKA OCTOBER 28, 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
Brother On
Missing List
Gilbert W. Bubendorf, book
keeper at 0. Kraft & Son’s, re
ceived word Wednesday that his
brother, 1st. Lt. Arthur A. Bub
endorf, is missing in action over
Germany The message was re
ceived in a wire from a sister in
Houston, Texa°.
Lt Bubendorf, who is 20 years
old, was presumably on a bomb
er mission as he has been engag
ed in that activity in Europe
since May.
Elk’s Members
Asked To Meet
All members of the Elk’s
lodge, whether in good standing
or not, are asked to meet at the
Bank of Kodiak tomorrow, Sun
day at 2 pm, with the purpose
in view of organizing an Elk’s
lodge in Kodiak.
A good turnout for this meet
ing will mean a good start to
ward accomplishing the goal of
the meeting.
Get Trents Ready
Some calendars may still dis
agree on the date for Thanks
giving but they all concur on
naming Oct. 31 as Hallowe’en.
So Tuesday will be the time to
be on the lookout for black cats,
ghosts, witches—and boys and
girls bent on mischief.
“Let Us Soap” will no doubt
be the slogan of the day but as
in the past police warn that any
thing that causes damage to
property is no longer fun.
To Anchorage
Mrs. Kathryn Francis, acting
postmaster, left by plane Sun
day for Anchorage, where she
was called to appear before the
grand jury as a witness. After
arriving there she found she was
not needed until today.
Also leaving for the grand
jury session was deputy U. S
Marshal Paul Herring who de
parted the first of the week via
a small boat.
Pulp Future Seen
Washington (■£*)—The Com
merce Department wants to in
terest capital in the establish
ment of huge pulp and paper in
dustry in Alaska. A Forest Ser
vice statement from the depart-1
*aent said that almost all the
timber in the 16 million acre
Tongass forest is classified as
high grade pulping species.
The depaitment said the in
vestment in such an enterprise
to yield more than a million
tons of paper annually would
run into “millions of dollars per
fcilant”.
War Fund Quota For Kodiak $3000
Kodiak has a job to do — a
simple job for a great cause.
That job is to raise $3000 for
the National War Relief fund.
Nearly everybody, by this
time, knows about the National
War Fund. For the benefit of
those who came in late, here is
the story in a nutshell:
The National War Fund is a
pooling of the leading war relat
ed appeals, except the Red
Cross, to provide essential war
time services to our armed
forces, merchant marine and
prisoners of war and to supply
essential wartime relief to our
Allies and to refugees.
The National War Fund is
government-endorsed but not
government-controlled. It oper
ates in full accord with the Pres
ident’s War Relief Control
Board. Every town and town
ship is included in the appeal
and the money will go for the
USO, United Seamen’s Service,
War Prisoners Aid, Relief So
cieties of Belgian, Britain,
China, Czechoslovakia, Den
mark, France, Greece, Italy,
Norway, Poland, Dutch, Yugo
slav and Russia, and the com
mittees for relief of refugees and
care of European children.
For our own men it means
continuance of 3030 USO units
and clubs, provides recreation
and service needs for our mer
chant marine and war prisoners
aid (not a duplication of Red
Cross work) for the thousands
in the “barbed-wire legion.”
For eur Allies it means care of
child war victims, medical aid
for the under-nourished and ill,
shelter for victims of ruin and
pillage, clothing for those whose
homes have been swept away by
war and aid for the thousands
who have escaped from the ter
rors of Axis occupation.
In the 1943-44 campaign some
35 million Americans gave over
126 million dollars to this fund.
Last year Kodiak did not take
part which is all the more reason
for an over-the-top drive here
this year.
Z. J. Loussac, of Anchorage,
district chairman for the fund,
this week named Lawrence K.
Wodlinger as chairman of the
Kodiak drive and sent word that
our goal is $3000.
All homes m Kodiak will be
solicited by upper grade and
(high school girls, Chairman
Wodlinger stated today. Under
the direction of Harry Holt,
school superintendent, the girls
will go out on Saturday, a week
from today, and contact every
home in town for contributions.
The business section of town
will be canvassed by teams of
men chosen from the Rotary
club. Members of the teams will
be named the first of this week,
Mr. Wodlinger said.
Contributions may be large or
small and the canvassing of
homes is especially directed at a
la-ge number of small contribu
tions so the largest number of1
people may take part in the
success of the drive.
Japs Lose 30 Warships, U. S. Navy 6
Carrier-plane bombed, smoke-hidden, a Jap ship burns at Formosa.
London — (Wed.) — General
MacArthur said tonight the Jap
fleet suffered it* “most crushing
defeat of the war’’ Reuters re
ported. The agency quoted a
special statement from Leyte
saying the Jap southern force,
comprising 2 battleships, 1
heavy cruiser, 1 light cruiser,
and 4 destroyers were complete
ly routed.
•‘Our ground forces con.inue
their advance on all fronts”, the
statement added.
Washington — Admiral King
! said “practically all the Japan
ese fleet” was included in the
battle in the Philippines area.
He said he was not concerned
about the outcome at any time
but added that because part of
1 he fleet was turned back that it
does not mean it will stay back.
Washington — President
Roosevelt announced that the
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Jap planes blasted by U.S. carrier-based planes during attack on Kagi, Formosa.
Interest In
Club Bought
Papers were signed yesterday
eonsummatiDg the deal by which
Jack Allman, fire and police
chief, purchased from Charles
Rutkowski his half interest in
the Cheechako Club Rutkow
ski, who still retains ownership
of the building, returned to
Kodiak last week on a furlough
from duty in the armed forces
to the Westward.
The other half of the business
is owned by Stan Austeiman,
who has operated it alone since
Rutkowski went into the service.
Reports that he had purchased
the Club Montmartre are un
true, Rutkowski said yesterday.
Hospital Status
Same;l Nurse Left
The alternate plan for oper
ation of the Griffin Memorial
hospital, said airmailed last
week from Juneau, had not ar
rived up to yesterday evening,
the hospital board reported.
With today the last, day at
the hospital for Mrs Doris Lan
din, who has resigned to take a
position at the naval base, the
hospital is left with one nurse,
Miss Christine Oslin, hospital
superintendent.
Mrs. Wallace one of the other
nurses, left recently for the
Stales and Miss Mildred Davis,
who has been nursing part time,
leaves this weekend for Anchor-*
age and petit jury duty From
Anchorage she plans to go to
her former home in Wisconsin.
First Snow Short-lived
First winter snow began fall
ing before noon Wednesday, in
termixed with hail. After the
sub-freezing weather of the night
before the snow stayed on the
ground and fluiries eontiwued
until Thursday night when the
snow turned to rain and by Fri
day morning most of the snow
had disappeared.
Stockman Eyes Island
Al Sylling, stockman from
Hardin, Montana, was in Kodiak
this week investigating possibil
ities for stock raising in this
area.
After a trip that took him
through the Interior he said he
was favorably impressed with
conditions here, especially in re
gal d to the large amounts of
natural feed.
Father Passes Away
Miss Betty Carter, teacher iar
the local school, received a wir®
last Saturday telling of the death
of her father at his home in Col
orado.