"News of oAmencds Last Frontier”
fOL. 4 NO 17
KODIAK, ALASKA SBPTEMBER 2, 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
fMystery Of Baby Buried Under Schoolhouse Solved
Roosevelt Criticized In House For Pacific-Aleutian Trip
Washington (JP)—The Presi
dent’s recent trip on the Pacific,
during which he visited Kodiak)
fcis Scottie dog Faia, and Repre
leatative Clare Boothe Luce’s
rv*est columns for Walter Win
iliell, came in for some spirited
•onunent in the House during a
et-to between Democrats and
Republicans.
Rep. Michael Bradley, Demo
irat, Pennsylvania, lashed at
lie columns that Connecticut
Republican Clare Luce (wife of
lie publisher of Time & Life)
ta£ been writing as pinch h'tter
or Winchell. “They,” he said,
eire flippant, wisecracking, ir
esponsible and unreliable. This
;entlewoman, through innuendo
jid insinuation, attempts to
onvince tbe American people
hat the President of the United
ifcates is callous regarding the
welfare of men fighting in the
'acific.”
Representative Knutson, Re
publican, Minnesota, one ol
aany Republicans who leaped
t> their feet to defend the Con
resswoman in her absence, said
« had read Mrs. Luce’s columns
nd found them “very temper
fee”. He said she omitted some
tkings about the President’s
rip. “She did not inform the
ountry that the President was
ccompanied by a flotilla of
attleships, cruisers and de
troyers that should have been
ut in the far Pacific fighting the
aps. Neither did she comment
q the rumor that Fala, the
'resident’s little Scottie dog,
ad been inadvertently left be
ind in the Aleutians on the
stum trip and that the absence
f the dog was not discovered
otil the party reached Seattle,
*»d that it is rumored that a
estroyer was sent a thousand
*iles to fetch him.”
Andrew Roring, 61, was taken
e* the hospital yesterday after
»:had been discovered lying on
be floor of his home. Neighbors
oticed lights shining and went
sa investigate. He is believed to
%ve suffered a stroke.
Mrs. Fred Torsen, offOuzink
» flew to Anchorage and back
Ms week via Alaska Airlines.
(These first pictures were rad
*ed to Washington from the new
ignal Corps transmitting sta
«n at Cherbourg)
Soldiers in American vehicles
Me down a wide, sun-lit street
the edge of Paris.
Citizens of Paris crowd into a
reet and celebrate the libera
on of the French capital.
Health Service
Doctor Leaves
Dr. Robert W. MacCalmont,
Jr., accompanied by his wife, left
this week for Ketchikan en route
to Juneau. Dr MacCalmont, a
surgeon of the Reserve Corps,
U. S. Public Health Service, had
been assigned here in March of
this year by the service. He
had returned here July 28 after
going to the States to get his
wife.
At the time of his appoint
ment his duties we-e described as
being care of legal beneficiaries
of the Public Health Service and
to enact public health policies.
It was reported that lack of
sufficient number of such cases
School Days
School starts next Tuesday,
September 5, the day after Lab
or Day, at 9 o’clock sharp. Kin
dergarten students will not start
then, however, as their teacher
has not yet arrived.
Sgt. E. K. “Ek” Guerin, for
mer operator of the Owl Cab in
this city and who has been sta
tioned on a crash boat in the Al
eutians, stopped over in Kodiak
this week on his way Westward
after being in the States.
was reason for his call to Jun
eau, where he will be re-assigned.
While here he superintended
the work at the Griffin Memor
ial hospital.
Armstrong Rites
Held Friday
Funeral services, conducted by
Senefont frlaiutin, Second Priest
of the Russian church, were held
yesterday at 2 pin for Lawrence,
Armstrong 25, who died at 6 am
Thursday. Death was ascribed
to tuberculous meningitis.
The deceased was born in Ko
diak on June 3, f919 and had
worked locally as a fisherman.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Effie Mathews, Aberdeen,
Wash.; his father, Mr Karl
Armstrong, Vashon Island,
Wash ; a brother, Karl Arm
strong, Jr., Aberdeen; a sister,
Mrs. Mary Cooper; and a grand
mother, Mrs. Chris Anderson.
Yanks In Paris; French Celebrate
The discovery of the body of
a baby in a tiny homemade
coffin of used lumber buried in
the basement of the Kodiafc
school!) «use caused a senna
tion here Wednesday morning
but the mystery was quickly
solved two hours later when
Walter Shuravloff, former jani
tor, admitted to the burial.
The body was found by Mil
ton Cori and Bill Flory at 10:30
as they were digging for a new
water line in preparation of the
opening of school. The box was
struck under about 8 inches of
dry soil in the unexcavated
portion of the basement. When
the nailed lid was removed from
the coffin the body was disclos
ed, wrapped in two coverings of
different material fastened with
badly corroded pins.
Solution of the mystery fol
lowed a tip furnished by Harold
Naughton, 17, son of Commis
sioner C. C. Naughton, coroner,
when he remembered the jani
toi’s wife had given birth to a
stillborn boy, their thirteenth
child, on January 26 this year.
The father was questioned
but denied the child was his.
Tracing the wrappings and pins
to the hospital by deputy U. S.
Marshal Paul Herring and City
Police Chief Jack Allman led to
the knowledge that a nurse had
wrapped the body for the father
in identical material. When the
two started out Mission road to
confront the father with the ad
ditional evidence they met him
walking to town on his way to
tell them the truth.
It developed he had not wanted
to admit it in front of the moth
er because she thought be had
buried it in the cemetery after
he had gotten the burial permit
from Commissioner Naughton.
He said he did not bury it in
the cemetery becau-e the ground
was so frozen at that time of
year. Such burial by fathers is a
common custom here where there
*re no undertakers. No charges
were placed against the father.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Matfay
ind children, who make their
home in Alitak, were visitors in
Kodiak this week.
Tyler Adds Machines;
Names Local Manager
Leo Tyler who has purchased
the Heinie Berger coin machine
interests in Anchorage and Sew
ard, announced yesterday that
he plans to leave soon to take
over his new business, James
Martz, manager of the Island
Fountain, will handle the local
machines with an interest in the
Kodiak business, Mr. Tyler said.
Mrs. Tyler and son Victor will
remain here. Mr. Tyler will div
ide his time between the 3 cities.