fOL. 3 NO 34
"News oj oAmencas Last Frontier 9
KODIAK, ALASKA OCTOBER 23, 1943
PRICE 10 CENT!
New Draft Rule
Affects Outside
Registrants Here
Men registered outside the
Territory who enter Alaska and
stay more than 30 days must re
port to a local draft board and
receive a certificate of transfer,
which he must carry while in
the Territory and surrender on
leaving, John L. McCormick,
Territorial Director of Selective
Service announced today. The
regulations, which follow in de
tail, are effective Nov. 1 this
year.
A—It shall be the duty of
every person between the ages
of 18 and 45 registered with a
local board outside the Territory
of Alaska, who is in or hereafter
enters the Territory of Alaska,
and has remained or does remain
in Alaska for a period of 30
days, to present himself at the
Selective Service board in Alas
ka having jurisdiction over his
present employment, and com
plete the Report to Board ot
Transfer, (Form 65)
B—It shall be the duty of
every person who has completed
or who is obligated to complete
the Report to Board of Transfer
to:
1. Receive ancr thereafter re
tain in his personal possession as
tong as he remains in the Ter
ntory, except as provided in
sub-paragraph (4), the portion
of such Report to Board of
Transfer (Form 65) entitled
“Certificate of Board of Trans
fer;”
2. Keep his Board of Trans
fer advised at all times of the
(continued on page 4)
The Bank of Kodiak will dis
continue opening on Saturday
evenings, beginning November
1, O. A. Torgerson, president,
announced this week.
Works On Line
Charles Hopp finished work
this week on the Kodiak Water
Company dam, cleaning it to in
crease the flow of water, and in
stalling a new chlorination set
up. Hopp said the first installa
tion had proved unsatisfactory
and did not provide protection
for the chlorinating unit in freez
ing weather.
Is Operated On
Arthur Daigen underwent a
major operation at the Griffin
Memorial hospital Thursday.
Married At Fort
George L. Moebius and Bar
bara Smith, both of Fort Gree
ly, were married at the post
Oct. 20 by Chaplain Francis
Bailey.
Death Claims Yank In The Jungle
This U.S. soldier dived under a truck on Rendova Island in the Solomons when a Jap bomber
winged over. But the truck wasn’t enough protection. Three comrades on burial detail now pull out
his body from beneath wreckage of the truck. JP Press Photo from U.S. Signal Corps.
World News Highlights
Pacific Front
Japanese troops advanced by
infiltration moves in the jungles
northwest of Finsohafen, New
Guinea Intended to save trapped
Jap forces by reaching the coast,
the enemy drive is not presently
aimed at the recapture of Fins
chafen Elements of Australia’s
9th division bar the wav to the
coast & control areas on both
sides of the enemy positions.
Several thousand troops locked
in combat at the mouth of the
Song rivpr, where the Japs
sought to achieve a solid line. In
the heaviest enemy raid of recent
weeks 30 Jap planes harrassed
Australian positions at Finschaf
en; bombs caused minor damage
& casualties A small force of
Navy Liberators attacked Tara
wa, major Jap base in the Gil
bert islands, met no enemy air
craft. Navy announced that the
bombers encountered "consider
able anti-aircraft opposition but
suffered no damage” Striking in
the midst of a thunderstorm.
Allied airmen destroyed 60 Jap
planes & at least 3 vessels at
Eabaul, New Britain, which
brought the toll of Jap planes to
237 destroyed in the last two
assaults on Rabaul.
Russian Front
Soviets smashed a 3-mile wide
breach into Nazi defenses north
west of Kiev. Further south Red
Army columns hammered a deep
wedge into the crumbling Ger.
lines along the great bend of the
Dnieper river. Germans drew re
inforcements from other parts of
the long Dnieper line to offer
hastily improvised actions at 1st
one point & then another in an
effort to halt the growth of the
Soviet bulge. Swiss radio report
ed that Russian troops complete
ly encircled Dniepropetrovsk &
threatened entrapment of two
German aimies, one in the Mel
itopol area & the other in the
Crimea.
Asia Front
Admiral Lord Mountbatten,
supreme Allied commander of
Southeast Asia, completed a 5
day conference with Generalissi
mo Chiang Kai Shek & Lt. Gen.
Stilwell at Chungking. Chinese
held positions against an 8-day
Japanese drive in Western Yun
nan province to force the Chin
ese back across the Salween riv
er.
European Front
Germans imitated RAF Mos
quito raids on Berlin by using
fast, new bombers in 6 consecu
tive night attacks on London.
The plane is reported to have a
speed of over 400 mph. London
sources described their operation
ns nuisance raids. RAF bombers
raided Beilin; other formations
dumped blockbusters on Leip
zig. American daylight crews
struck war plants at Dueren,
south of Cologne, & an airfield
at Gilz Erijen, Holland; 8 Fort
i esses were lost in the operation.
A formation of 10 Flying Forts
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Labor Supply Improved
A crew of city prisoners 4
vagrants, is employed on the
city roads and garbage dump
this week.
shot down 59 German planes for
a high bag record in a recent
raid on Muenster. An RAF offi
cial disclosed that 80,720 tons
of bombs have been air express
ed from British bases to half of
Germany’s major cities in the
last 100 days.
Mediterranean Front
Troops of the American 5th
Army captured the important
road junction town of Alife in a
10-mile advance that pursued
the enemy too closely to permit
the Nazis to estab isfa new de
fensive positions British troops
beat off massive German attacks
& pushed on to take Piedmonte
Dalife. Nazi Marshal Kesser
ing’s forces, showing signs of
lisorderly retreat, appeared to
pe withdrawing to form a new
ine about 80 miles south of
Rome. Allied airmen smashed
najor railroads & highways
•adiating from Rome. London
•eports indicated that partisan
ictivity in Yugoslavia has
pinned down 36 Nazi division &
pas wrested a third of the
country f:om the Germans Al
ied air forces raided the railway
mrds at Nis in eastern Yugo
slavia, 40 miles from the Bul
garia border, in operations sup
porting partisans.
Cordova Fire Hits
Packing Company;
Loss $40,000
Cordova (Special)—Fire Tues
day afternoon destroyed the Gulf
Packing company with a loss of
$40,000 to plant and equipment
and with a loss upward of 100,
000 annually to this community
through discontinuance of oper
ation of a crab packing plant
which operated with local help
in off fishing periods.
The fire is believed to have
started from sparks from a retort
burner, shortly after the shut
down of the day's shift, which
set fuel oil afire, creating a nasty
fire to fight.
E A. Haltness is superintend
ent for the Oceanic Sales Co.,
Seattle, and the W. R Gilbert
Co., who have been operating
the plant since the death of Ed
Pfister, former owner.
Local boats came to help the
fire department, pumping four
streams from the bay, which pre
vented extensive loss to the city
pier on which the cannery was
located.
Shooting Accident
Injures Foot
F. Hargo, a dismounted mili
tary patrol, suffered an acciden
tal gunshot wound in the right
foot Tuesday in the Erskine hill
district in town. The patient is
being treated at a military hos
pital and is convalescing satis
factori y, officials report.
Although trained in proper
handling of firearms, the acci
dent occurred when Hargo stum
bled and fell over a h g. The in
jury is not serious, hospital of
ficials said.
Fly To Anchorage
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Delanc,
Mrs. Merrill Coon, E. G. John
son, Axel Carlson and August
Peterson were outgoing Star Air
line passengers yesterday.
Incoming passengers on the
same plane were Mrs. Ray Dell.
R. R. Reynolds, Chas, Golden
rod Capt. John Erwin.
Diseases Reported
The following diseases were re
ported to the Territorial Depart
ment of Health for the month of
September:
Kodiak: Tuberculosis, 1.
Entire Territory, Army and
Navy: epidemic meningitis, 1
Army; scarlet fever, 1 Army, 5
Navy; gonorrhea, 12 Aimy, l
Navy; syphilis, 5 Army; influen
za, 8 Army; German measles,
Army 3, Navy 1; chicken pox,
Army 1; mumps, Army 3.