2 NO. 30
PRICE 101CENTS
"News oj oAmericas Last
KODIAK, AIASKA, SEPTEMBER 20, 1942
t/ork On Water & Sewer Project To Start
Baska Highway Will Be Ready By Dec. 1
ghmgton (/P) — Ihe Ala
ghway will be ready fer
about Dec. 1, Secretary
c>n announced, and traffic
ectcd to move steadily on
miles until spring thaws
it impassable in April ori
only is the highway be
mpleted months ahead of
ale but instead of the con
a,ted rough “pioneer road
; aska highway as now be
»nstructed by a corps of
?crs is well-graded, and
rained, and will afford 2
traffic over many long
hies.
nson said the muskeg bog,
bod to give the highway an
> eady base over long
ties, proved one of the
• difficulties. The engineers
^od that the threat of the
proved wholly unfounded
of it was successfully skirt
d that which was unavoid
■ontinued on page 4)
*bery Try
Club Fails
»uty U. S, Marshall Paul
accompanied by City
[man Ray Cote and George
an answered a call to the
Montmarte before midnight
i..y after Clark Odekirk,
5er, reported a trunk, con
g $1400 in cash, was mis
rom his room,
tkirk reported that, he had
a noise, and on going up
to investigate discovered
lank was gone, presumably
g been thrown out a win
some unknown thief,
investigating behind the
rag the trunk was found
it had apparently landed,
i«ked. with the trunk and
intents untouched,
arrests were made and no
2t8 named by police.
st Returns
iw Leaders
it returns in the general
irial election show the fol
< results for the contested
if representative to the ter
1.1 legislature, all other pos
being uncon tested:
Kehoe 1440
-m Egan 1328
sy McCutcheon 1283
iy Smith 1237
Peterson 1223
Andresen 831
tjy precincts are still unre
1 and may change the
Land Office
Head Visitor
Norman M. Littell, assistant
Attorney General of the U. S.,
in charge of the land division of
the Department, of Justice, was a
recent visitor heie to make ade
quate arrangement for legal ser
vices for the Army and Navy in
dispatching land cases and com
pensating owners. It was his first
trip to Alaska and after return
ing to Seattle he will go to Wash
ington, D. C.
The current war effort, he
said, has fostered the largest ac
quisition of land in the nation’s
history. Over 8,000,000 acres
have been acquired, including
(continued on page 4)
Invitation Extended
To Navy Dance
There will be a navy dance at
the new enlisted men’s social
center at the base tonight at 8
o’clock. There will be a bus leav
ing the bank at 7:30 and tran
sportation is provided both
ways. All couples and others!
wishing to attend aie cordially!
invited to do so.
Magazines Sought
For Soldiers
Anyone having ol J magazines
can put them to good use by
leaving them at the Erskine
warehouse, and from there they
will be distributed to soldiers
and members of the Army tran
port service
Blackout Hours
Shortened
Blackout hours have been
shortened as the result of a con
ference this week between Mayor
Nick Miell, Police Chief Jamefc
Pierce and Councilman Ray
Martin, representing the town;
and General Corlett, Command
er Deyer, Colonel Martyr, repre
senting the military, and until
further notice the blackout siren
will be sounded at 10 p. m. each
night.
Carpenters local 2162 has join
ed with the Alaska Territorial
Guard in asking that the black
out be strictly observed, so that
no blackout pati ol be necessary,
(continued on page 4)
Smoke Over The Barents Sea
At,nu ked by Nazi torpedo planes, this cargo vessel in a Russia-bound convoy goes np in smoke
m the Barents Sea. Two other ships were hit in this attack, described as one of the biggest (Onvoy
battles yet to take place on the Arctic route to Northern Russia.
Trailing smoke, a German torpedo plane heads away from a U S. destroyer and toward the sea
during a Nazi attack on a United Nations convoy in the Barents Sea along the Arctic route to Nor
thern Russia. Gunners of the destroyer listed this plane as a victim of their- gunfire. One ship was
unk and two others damaged.
s
The water and sewer projects
have been revived after a temp
orary hold-up, and the A. T.
Beckett Company of Oakland,
Calif., are starting to assemble
material and men for the work,
according to a letter from H. H.
Waller, project engineer, to City
Attorney Warren A. Taylor. At
torneys for the FWA have re
quested Waller to make up a
description for easements over
all the private lands that the
water and sewer system will
cross.
In describing the project Wal
ler said:
“There is one lot, namely
about one-half of lot 11, block
10, that they will have to purch
ase or condemn to be used as a
sewage pumping plant.
“This is the area alongside the
creek behind Dell's cafe. All of
that portion of Kodiak in the val
ley of this creek drains down
that way and the only thing we
could do was to design a pump
ing plant for that spot and pump
the sewage up over the hill into
a manhole in the school yard
from vhere it would flow by
(continued on page 4}
Juveniles
Confess Thefts
Five juveniles were picked up
for questioning this week and
confessions were obtained to the
theft of a wallet containing $85
from a home on Mission road ard
of candy, canned hams and cigars
belonging to The Cub which
were stored in the basement, of
the Orpheum theatre.
Parents of the five boys invol
ved were ordered to pay the loss
es and after a severe reprimand
the youngsters were released.
Special Oil
Delivery Cut
Because of frequent instances
of unnecessary trips being asked
fo>' oil deliveries, and to con
serve on equipment and because
of the shortage of manpower,
theThompson Transfer company
announces this week elsewhere
in this issue a new plan of reg
ular routing of the oil truck,
and ask the cooperation of con
sumers in eliminating special
trips.
Oil users are asked to check
their own tanks and place orders
before they are «mptv and also
to increase storage capacities to
help with the oil problems.
The new plan of delivery is an
adaptation for local needs of new
delivery rules required Outside
by the Office of Defense Trans
portation.