Eodiak Itlirror
"£P{ev>s of cAmeric*'s Last frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Water Rates
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lice & fire chief $400; city c'erk
$200; city treasurer $30; water &
sewer superintendent $350; night
patrolman $300; city health of
ficer $50
The council also:
Allowed $1800 for the school
budget.
Appointed A1 Nixon as tax as
sessor ,
Ordered a chlorination unit
under the city’s priority, the cost
to be reimbursed by the A. T
Beckett Co.
Appointed Lee Bettinger to
the board of trustees of the hos
pital. It was reported that the
hospital is full and that conver
sion of the nurses’ quarters into
hospital rooms is being discussed.
An effort is also being made to
secure some emergency Red
Cross hospital supplies stored
here for the use of the hospital.
Mrs. Warren A. Taylor, wife
of Attorney Taylor, left this
week for a visit with ttieir
daughter, Mrs. Betty Strelow,
in Denver, Colorado. Mr Stre
low is in the service of the U. S.
Marines and is a veteran of1
Guadalcanal and at present is
stationed in California.
Word has just been received
that Mrs. Strelow gave birth to
a son on May 10. Mrs Taylor
planned to be with her daughter
but the stork planned otherwise.
The boy, who has been named
Michael, is the Taylors’ first
grandchild.
Fire Damage
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T T. Jackson, owner of the
Coney Island, had been at the
base and arrived back in town
during the fire. He announced
this week that he plans to re
open as soon as repairs are made
The building, the former resid
ence of the late Charles “Big
Charley” Houtari, is owned by
Ben Kraft, who is in ttie States
on a business trip.
The fire was a particularly
nerve-wracking experience to
Mr. and Mis. Pierce, who are
still making repairs as a conse
quence of the Brown Bear fire a
year ago in December that spread
Clean Up!
to their place with complete loss
of their apartment and heavy
loss to the building and stock.
Also n February this year there
was a costly fire at the Kodiak
Bottling Works and Kodiak Can
dy company, housed together, in
which Jim Pierce is a partner.
Use of the water system fire
hydrants was a new first for Ko
diak. The mains are now full of
drainage water for testing pur
poses and the estimated 13,000
gallons in the lines were totally
used up.
During the fire Mrs. Kenneth
Fuller ran an automobile over 5
lengths of the fire hose and was
fined $26.50 Thursday in the city
magistrate's court for violation
of the ordinance that prohibits
such action.
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Safe Robbery
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had been torn in half and patch
ed with transparent tape.
“I put that bill in the safe in
June or July, 1942,” Schultz
said “It was just a keepsake be
cause I was losing some of the
bartenders to the army and it
seemed that we would never be
together again.”
Stanley S. Hughes, clerk at
the Cheechako Club, said Iaco*
petti, after the burglary, pre
sented the patched bill along
with three other burned ones
and had them changed for a $20
bill.
“I commented that the bills
were all burned on the edges and
he said ‘That’s nothing. I’ve got
a hundred more of them!”,
Hughes testified.
, J. H. Pierce, chief of police at
| that time, testified that he had
all business houses alerted to
watch for burned bills in the be
lief that the safe would have to
be opened with an acetylene
torch and it was likely that the
currency would be burned. He
also said he picked up burned
bills from the steamship office
and was told that Iacopetti had
presented them in purchasing a
j ticket to Seattle.
! Private Robinson said Iaco
petti early >n October invited
him to “make a little easy
money.
“I asked him how and he said
he knew how,” Robinson said.
“He said he had seen a lot of
money put in the Ship’s Tavern
(safe in the Schultz home and he
planned to steal the safe. He
wanted to use my car to move
the safe but I refused to have
anything to do with it.
“On the ev> ning of Oct. 21 I
was at the Cheechako and Iaco
petti told me the thing would
happen that night and that I
shouldn’t say anything about it.
He said he was going to take
same other fellows and steal the
safe. I didn’t say anything to
anybody because I value my
neck too highly.”
Beatty revealed that Iacopetti
had confessed to him that he
was in on the safe robbery.
“He pointed out Eddie, Gus
and Frank as the ones who
helped him,” Beatty said. “Hej
used a cab to haul the safe away
and said that he had kept it in
the car a week. He wanted me
to rent un old gambling house
where he could open it. He plan
ned to swipe a torch.”
Beatty said he became ill in
Nov and borrowed $2000 from
Iacopetti to go the States.
“When 1 went he hollowed
out the handle of a chisel and
stuck $1500 in it for me to take '
to the States”, Beatty contin
ued “He wanted me to give
some cf the money to his wife.”
Beatty identified a chisel pre
sented in court as one of the
tools in Iacopetti’s tool box.
William J. McDonald testified
that he found the chisel buried
beneath an old gambling house
on Mission road outside of
Kodiak.
“In Maich, 1943, we had in
formation that the safe was
buried beneath this house,”
McDonald testified. ‘We found
the floor had been cut open near
the door and so we tore it open
and started digging We found
the joists had been sawed in
half. We dug about two and
one-half feet when we found a
layer of cardboard. Under it we
found this chisel and some pieces
of fire clay. Then we kept dig
ging until we came to water but
we didn’t find the safe.”
Members of the jury were
Mrs. Olive Hosier, Gertrude
Mulcahy, Glenn Broostrom,
Lawrence Smith. William Stolr,
P. Brennan, Bob Romig, George
Kerin, Douglas Rather, Trella
Hartman, John Brown and
Harry Downing
After Iacopetti said he was
without funds to retain an at
torney, Judge Simon Hellenthal
appointed Aimer J. Peterson to
represent him.
NOTICE
Persons already hooked up to
the sewer system must now make
application for such service at
the City Clerk’s office and pay
the hook-up fee of $5.
Anyone not complying with
this notice will be consideied as
having made an unauthorized
connection and will be subject to
penalty.
City of Kodiak
NOTICE
Connections must not be made
to the sewer or water mains
without proper application being
made at the City Clerk’s office
for approval and record
A penalty of $100 fine or 30
days jail sentence or both is pro
vided for anyone making such
connections improperly.
This requirement will be strict
ly enforced.
City of Kodiak
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Classifieds
FOR SALE—Island Transfer
company, with trucks & equip,
ment, or latter individually.
See W. F. Lewis.
FOR SALE—Small family size
Olympic range like new. Also
small restaurant range good
working order. T. T. Jackson,
Coney Island Cafe.
FOR SALE—Rayon print dress,
new, size 12 large See Mrs,
A. J. Fenner, Polar Bear Cafe,
FOR PLOWING—Victory Gar.
dens see Knute Solberg, Mill
Bay.
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regard to an inheritance due
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