"News oj cAmerica’s Last Frontier”
yOI* ^ NO. 24
KODIAK, ALASKA OCTOBER 21, 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
Boy Caught
After Theft
A brief career of crime for a
tf.year-old juvenile from a vil
Iggeon the mainland ended in
Kodiak Wednesday when deputy
p. S. Marshal Paul Herring
checked up on the boat the youth
arrived in and took him in for
questioning.
The youth admitted, police
jjid, to entering the Grimes
Packing company warehouse at
Ouzinkie Monday and taking a
]5 ft. red dory with outboard
motor, a gallon of yellow paint
ind other articles. According to
police he said he then went to a
navy station near Kodiak and
took a rifle and shotgun with
ammunition for each, and some
food and other articles; he then
went to Spruce island and stayed
overnight and painted the boat
with the yellow paint and started
for Kodiak. He threw the guns
overboard on the way here, he
told police.
No action has yet been taken
pending receipt of word from the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Last Rites Held
For Joseph Lohr
Joseph Lohr, age 60. passed
way at the Griffin Memorial
hospital Wednesday morning af
ter being admitted the night be
fore for treatment. Death was
escribed to heart failure.
Mr. Lohr was born in Kodiak
on March 30, 1884 and had lived
here all his life, being employed
*8 a fisherman.
Funeral services were conduct
ed yesterday at 2 pm from the
Russian parsonage with Father
Gerasim Schmaltz officiating In
terment was in the Russian cem
etery.
The deceased is survived by
'wo nephews, Nick Lohr, em
ployed at Helsel Photo company.
>nd Fred, in the Army Air Corps
10 Louisiana; and a niece, Alice,
•tEklutna. He was preceded in
death by his parents.
On Furlough
Charles Rutkowski is visiting
lr>ends here after arriving this
'eek on a furlough from duty in
'to Aleutians, where he has been
fotioned over a year and a half.
He is co-owner with Stan Aus
wtnan of the Cheechako club.
y°on Anyway
The noon siren did not blow
J noon yesterday Reason:
ie°rge Slawson, customary blow
*» was attending a draft board
meeting; deputy U. S. Marshal
Herring was out; and Mrs.
Wring didn’t think about it un
'*110 minutes too late.
Mac Arthur, Men In Philippines
Gen. MacArthur’e Hdqts. Phil
ippines (J3)—Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, making good his vow he
would return to the Philippines,
announced from those islands
Friday that his Navy and Air
supported forces have invaded
and secured expanding beach
heads in the central Philippines.
“In major amph bious opera
tions we have siezed the eastern
coast of Leyte island in the Phil
ippines, 600 miles north of Mor
otai, 2500 miles from Milne bay,
in New Guinea,” the special
communique dramatically pro
claimed from the invasion scene
striking point, where he is in a
position to quickly cut off the is*
land of Luzon, on which Manila
ia situated, from Minandao, on
the south.
Supplies were being poured a
shore in preparation of a show
down battle with an estimated
225,000 Japanese under Field
Marshal Jicihi Terauchi.
MacArthur, aboard a warship,
went along with the huge con
voy from New Ginea, and within
4 hours after his forces landed
he began making plans to go a
shore.
The greatest moment to date
in the Pacific war brought im
mediate acclamation for MacAr
thur’s invasion forces from Pres
ident Roosevelt in Washington.
“The whole American nation
today exults at the news that
the gallant men of your com
mand have landed on Philippine
| soil,” the President paid.
On Leyte, a suitable air base
island 300 miles southeast of
Manila, the invaders secured
Taclobnn, on the northeast end
of the island 1 with minor casual
ties”.
A Tokyo radio communique
also reported landings at Cabal
ian, on the southern tip and said
earlier landings occurred at the
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Local Rancher Home After Varied Trip
Jack McCord, operator of
cattle ranches on Sitkalidak and
Chirikof islands, returned to
Kodiak this week after leaving in
the Spring for the East. In Wash
ington, D. C transportation
problems for refrigeration units
were ironed out and McCord has
a contract to furnish 300,000
pounds of beef to Fort Greely
by the end of the year.
After leaving Washington,
Lowell Thomas, internationally
known radio commentator, inter
cepted him by wire and asked
him to be his house guest near
Pawling, N. Y, and to tell stor
ies about Alaska to 500 conval
escent fliers located at a rehabil
itation camp near there.
At the Quaker Hill community
center reception room is a huge
“History of Civilization” fire
place containing rocks from the
pyramids of Egypt and other
ancient ages. McCord promised
Thomas a rock from the old
foundations of the first Russian
settlement in Alaska, on Kodiak
island at Three Saints bay, to be
added to the fireplace.
In New York at Rockefeller
Center McCord appeared on
Thomas’ national broadcast, tell
ing of the Alaska of the present
and the future.
Another highlight of the trip
was being proposed for member
ship in the famed Explorers
Club. Thomas proposed him with
Rex Beach and Carl I.omen sec
onding it. McCord visited with
Rex Beach and his wife in New
York, having known Beach for
years and being pictured as one
of the characters of Beach’s
famous book, “The Iron Trail”.
As mementoes of his trip Mc
Cord returned with autographed
copies of Thomas’ “Pageant of
Life” and “Woodfill of the Reg
ulars” and of Beach’s “Personal
Exposures”.
After work in connection with
supplying beef for his contract
with the army McCoid said he
planned on going to Fairbanks
in connection with his mining in
terests and later make another
trip to the States.
Alternate Plan For Hospital Awaited
Aii alternate plan for opera
tion of the Griffin Memorial hos
pital was mailed from Juneau
Thursday, according to word
from that city, and the local hos
pital board of trustees is await
ing the letter before any definite
announcement can be made re
garding any further steps in
transferring the hospital to a re
ligious institution.
On Monday the following wire
was received by Dr. Paul A.
Lindquist, district health com
missioner, here investigating de-i
tails of the hospital, from Dr. C.
C. Carter, Territorial Commis
sioner of Health:
“Advise authorities that the
attorney general states that the
Territory cannot be held respon
sible for accrued indebtedness of
hospital because the Territory
did not incur it and because no
legislative appropriation made
for such purpose. Only apparent
hope is in appeal from Kodiak
authorities to Legislature. It has
been agreed by the Offices of the
Governor and Commissioner of
Health that similar conti acts will
be submitted to any organiza
tions interested in operating Ko
diak hospital, contracts to in
clude a provision for ratification
by the Territorial Legislature
and further agreed that no auth
orization to enter or operate the
hospital will be given by any
Territorial official until action
taken by Legislature.”
On receipt of the above wire
the local board wired back ask
ing for ‘‘assurance of no change
in management prior to meeting
of Legislature (in February) so
personnel here” could be so ad
vised and retained.
In reply the wire was received
saying an alternate plan was be
ing mailed here for consideration.
This wire, from the office of the
department of health, said:
“Suggest trustees consideration
of alternate proposal contained
in letter air mailed today (Thurs
day) which might settle matter
sooner to all concerned.”
The matter of indebtedness of
the hospital has been one of the
main concerns of the local board
in connection with the transfer^
and the board announced this
week that a concerte 1 effort will
be made toward collection of
money owed the hospital.
As of September 30 the debts
of the hospital amounted to
$9170.50, divided as follows:
City of Kodiak (loan) $3500.00
Construction account
(malerial) 780 14
Construction account
(labor) 1072 86
Mortuary equip. 664.50
Current operating exp. 3153.00
Against the debts of $9170.50
the hospital has money owing to
it in the amount of $9480, of
which one board member estim
ated slightly over $7000 can be
collected. In addition the hospit
al carries a bad debts account
amounting to $1216.75.
The hospital showed an oper
ating profit for the first eight
months of this year of $3901.30,
with income of $18,741.49 and
expenses of $14,840.19. For 1943
the hospital operated at a loss,
with income of $16,676.80 and
expenses of $18,066 64.
The drive to collect on the
money owed the hospital will
start immediately in an effort to
get the hospital in the best pos
sible financial condition prepar
atory to the transfer of the in
stitution.
City Warns
On Sewers
A special and final warning
was issued this week by the city
council, following a special meet
ing Wednesday, that all people
not having made sewer applic**
tions by November 1 will be
penalized as provided by law.
The step is necessitated by
the fact that the lease with the
federal government is now in
effect and revenue from the sys
tem must go toward payment
for the system.
As pointed out at the meeting
by J. B Sledge, auditor for the
Federal Works Agency, the city
has fallen down in its obligation
by not enforcing the sewer or
dinance so the revenue can be
obtained.
With an estimated 500 poten
tial connections to the system
existing in Kodiak, so far only
137 have applied for the sewer
connection.
The ordinance provides that
everyone in the city limits must
connect, pay a connection charge
and a sewer fee of SI monthly.
Jackson Not Guilty
In Liquor Case
A jury trial was held Tuesday
afternoon in the U. S. Commis
sioner’s court and a not guilty
verdict was returned in favor of
the defendant, T. T. Jackson,
charged with selling liquor with
out a license.
Acting as private prosecutor
was Lt. Paul \Y. Schaffner,
Army officer, who had signed
the complaint that alleged Jack
son had sold liquor to soldiers
within a military camp on Afog
nak island.
Two soldiers, Privates Norris
and Cesena, testified they had
purchased liquor from a boat
but said they could not identify
the boat, and neither identified
Jackson as the man from whom
they had purchased it
Jackson, and his witnesses,
Henry Auvinen, Glen Banks and
Loveis Griffin, testified that the
trip they had made in Jackson’s
boat was a pleasure trip and that
there was no liquor aboard.
Attorney for the defendant was
Talmage L. Smith. Jurors were:
Norman Fjeldheim, Harvey Ed
wards, Emil Olsen, John Gibbons,
Martin Jensen, Claia Peck, Gus
Johnson, George Magnusen,
Ruby Whittington, Lewis Clark,
Clarence Selig, and JohnThevik.
Peeper Seen
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Young
reported that an unidentified
.Peeping Tom was seen outside
their window Tuesday evening
The Young’s live in the Taylor
apartments.