"News oj ^Americas Last Frontier”
u 4 NO. 10
KODIAK, ALASKA MAY 6, 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
hip To Be
amed For
odiak
be city of Kodiak has been
cted by the U. S. Maritime
jmission as the namesake of
of the new fleet of Victory
s to be built for the Ameri
Merchant Marine, aceord
to word received this week
ilayor Emil Knudsen from
5. Land, chairman of the
mission, at Washington,
lie Victory ship to be named
r Kodiak is one of 300 sched
forour wartime Merchant
tand will be constructed and
ehed in the shipyard of the
on Shipbuilding Corporation
land, Oregon, Date of the
thing has not been set but
igement will be made to
a sponsor designated by the
Dunftv to be present for the
lODy.
the citizens desire to make
presentation to the ship
tscrew thry may present a
le, provide a library of 100
0 books, present a phono
1 with records or give recre
al equipment. There is no
ation to these suggestions,
stter explained.
ese Victory ships are adap
o the same mass production
ods which built srme 2000
ty Ships since Pearl Har
They were first put into
action in the fall of 1943
irst delivery was made Feb.
944.
e Victory Ship does not re
the Liberty—with the same
capacity, the Victory adds
er power and speed. Its
rn, steam turbine-gear pro
>n machinery of 8500 HP
opes 17 knots or more, a
t the 11 knots made by the
ty witn 2500 HR recipro
! steam engines.
ids Needed
‘Rockets’
shington LT)—The Armed
have developed a new
1 gun that is in such “great
ad” that 35 million dollars
e spent in the further re
e»t of its production, it
■sclosed in the House Nav
"rs committee report that
tended a 65 million dollar
Priation for ordnance man
ire,
clues were given as to na
the devices, but the Navy
he money was needed be
anew technique is requir
the new propellant is now
at demand.”
*• Coble and Mrs. Lanning,
Belton. Wash , are doing,
'^ingat the GM hoepital.'
Boy Dies;
Cause Not
Known
Lewis Breslich, 14, son of Mrs.
John Holler, died suddenly at
1:30 pm Wednesday at his home
on Mission road after a few days’
illness Lewis, who was a member
of the 6th grade, became ill at
school last Thursday and was
sent home On Wednesday he be
came suddenly worse and passed
away that afternoon.
To determine the cause of his
death an autopsy was arranged
and was performed Thursday' at
the Army hospital by Doctors
MacCalmont and Newgard, U.
S. Army. The report of the doc
tors said that in their opinion
the deceased died of natural
causes but that the autopsy did
not reveal what the causes were.
It is understood that a final re
port and filing of the death eer
tificate await subsequent chemi
cal analysis yet to be completed.
Funeral services have been an
nounced for Sunday at 2:30 at
the Community Baptist church,
with Rev. Gregory S. Morony
officiating.
The deceased is survived by
his mother; a brother, Lowell,
5th grade student; two sisters,
Mrs. Katherine Massey and
Mrs Evelyn Thomas, all of
Kodiak; by his stepfather, John
Holler, who left Sunday by
plane for Seattle to enter the
Merchant Marine; and by his
father and two older brothers in
the States.
11 Tickets Share Ice Pool Money
Mayor Proclaims “Clean-up Time”
“Clean-up Time” for Kodiak 1
was proclaimed for the next two 1
weeks by Mayor Emil Knudsen, 1
in a message in which he asks <
that every citizen consider him
self a one-man committee to do s
his part in cleaning up homes
and o her property of unsightly ]
waste materials and trash The
Chamber of Commerce and Ro- s
tary Club memberships have al- i
ready pledged to aid in the clean- i
up campaign. I
The Mayor’s message follows: ;
“Fellow Citizens:
“The next two weens is Clean
up Tima. Not to clean up at pok
er or crap games; just plain every
day clean-up. i
“The trash that has accumu- '
ated over a short period or may
>e a long time will look a lot bet
er on the garbage dump than it
loes in your yard.
“Gather it together in a handy
pot and call Bill Lewis of the
gland Transfer and it will be
lauled away
“If every one does his or her
hare the job will easily be done
tnd we will enjoy living in Kod
ak a lot more and ihe town will
)resent, a much tetter appear
inee to visitors. If every resident
s a one-man clean-up committee
t. will do the trick.
“By tidying up your yards and
jroperty you show the other fel
nw that you enjoy living here
md in so doing you will enjoy
Kodiak much more.”
Aid Sought For Orthopedic Children ;
For the first time the people of
Kodiak are going to be given the
opportunity to contribute in a
Penny Drive devoted to raising
funds for the famed Children’s
Orthopedic Hospital, of Seattle,
and if the record of the hospital
means anything, the people
should be glad of the opportun
ity.
Here are the facts: In 1943 34
Alaskan children were treated in
the hospital with a total of 6550
days of hospital cate—this means
that 16 of 125 beds were occu
pied by children from Alaska
and 14 per cent of total hospital
days were given to Alaskan
children.
Of greater importance, during
the past year the hospital oper
ated on a basis of 75 per cent de
voted to free care.
Kodiak children, too, have had
the advantage of this splendid
institution. Last year, the rec
ords show, there was Julia, with(
extensive burn scars, who was
given plastic surgery; Leonard,
Mitchell, Marie and Billy, all
with tuberculosis of the hip, who
received expert surgery; and
Charles with osteomyelitis, who
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Floyd Capps of Burns, Oregon, (left) and Oscar Davis, Hale Field, Montana, who killed 2/8 coy
otes in 35 days from the air in southeastern Oregon, displa}’ some of the pelts which netted them j
12,432 at Burns. (-** Wirephoto)
Fairbanks (Special)—The ice
in the Tanana broke at 2:08 on
the afternoon of Thursday, May
4, paying an estimated $125,000
to 7 individual ticket holders and
4 “company” ticket holders
The tickets were in the follow
ing names (no addresses given):
Joseph Hartmann, John Nel
son, W. P. MacDonald, John
Penovich, James Vouros, Alex
Gisson—company, W. R. Sher
win—company, Adriano I.uc
chui, R. B. Morris—company,
Anchorage school faculty—com
pany, Alexander W. Wilson.
In an eleven-way split each
ticket will get over $11,000 as
its share of the largest total cash
pay-out in the pool’s history.
Two recent real estate deals
transacted were sale of the Chast.
L. E. Svendsen home on Brook
lyn avenue to Wes Rhoades for
$4000 and purchase by Art
Deering of the Joe Rouse resi
dence near the GM hospital for
an undisclosed sum.
Safe Robbery
Trial To Start
Word was received here this
week that trials of Alvin Iaco
petti and Edgar Beatty in the
Schultz safe robbery case were
to start Wednesday 01 Thursday
at Anchorage and witnesses left
here by plane Thursday. Leav
ing were Tommy Jones, Sally
Pearl, Mr. and Mrs. William
Schultz and Jim Pierce.
You can tell your friends Out
side now that restrictions on
them for mailing ordinary par
cel post to Alaska no longer
apply Packages sent to Alaska
may now total 100 inches in
length and girth and 70 pounds
in weight. This applies to civil
ians only.
Previously packuges mailed to
Alaska had been held to 5
pounds at one time.
Pacific Invasion
Said ‘Remote’
Fort Lewis (A3)—Prospects of
a Jap invasion of the Pacific
coast 'n force at this time are
“zero”, Lt Gen. Delos C. Em
mons, Commanding General of
the Wes'ern Defense Command,
disclosed.
“Of course, that is taking the
situation at the moment. The
situation may change. It is pos
sible they might raid from a car
rier or converted carrier, hoping
to create confusion and-some
damage but if they were to do it
at this time the only practical
certainty would be losing their
carrier planes,” Gen. Emmons
said.