Eodiak Mirror
_ "cffevos of {America's Last frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Entered in the Postoffice at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
KODIAK PUBLISHING COMPANY
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local news published herein
An eye-witness description of
the Aleutian area visited by the
seismic wave of April 1 was
brought here this week by Frank
Beals, local Aleutian Wildlife
Refuge agent.
Mr. Beals was at King Cove
on the fateful morning, and was
awakened at about 3 am by the
earthquakes. Others reported
lighter shocks beginning around
2 30.
fn the harbor there was a PAF
cannery tender at the small dock
and the skipprr was awake and
up when he thought he felt his
boat grounding Going to the
bow of the boat, he discovered
it was on dry beach. He then
rushed to the stern to see how it
was but by the time he got there
the stern was above the dock —
the water had risen that swiftly.
The surges of water continued
all that morning and into the
afternoon with diminishing in
tensity, at about 15-minute in
tervals.
The »ext 2 days Mr. Beals
visited other spots where the
wave had struck. The Pankof
gas light beacon, which charts
show as 82 feet above the water,
w5s completely washed out.
At Ikatan, a village on Uni
malt island, he sav where a
home belonging to J >hn Gardner,
Jr., had been washed to sea. The
■house was a new one, and Mr.
Gardner, his wife, and 3 small
children, were visiting at neigh
boring; False Paps when the wave
hit Ikatan
The wave did not approach
from the bay side of the village,
but from the rear, across a level
of land separating it from Otter
Cove (Banjo Bay). The wave
swept into Banjo Bay, cut across
country in a half-mile swath,and
Gardner’s house was directly in
it» path. The house was carried
to sea 15 miles and deposited on
the beach of another island A
cannery boat got it the next day
and towed it to False Pass, wh°re
Mr. Beals said foundations were
being prepared for it when he
eft Apparently Mr. Gardner
did not think much of his first
site Seven or 8 other homes in
the village escaped destruction,
beng on higher ground, although
me shack was washed away
Only casualties there, were 5
-sea lions and a fox left on the
beach of Banjo Bay
At Sanak harbor (Company
haibor) on 8anak island, the
home of John Carlson was flood
ed 4 feet inside by the water,
which also rushed overland from
a bay to the south The occu
pants took to the upper floor,
and the water went through with
such fence as to break down L
oarlition and crack a door. Carl
son’s fishing b >at was deposited
above the house.
His warehouse near the beach
was picked up and set down at a
distance, completely squashed.
GENERAL DOUGLAS
MAC ARTHUR SAYS
“Red Cross has done a 100 per cent job in this
theater.
Mathematical limitations alone prevent my
saying Red Cross services here have been more
than 100 per cent.”
Be generous in your contribution of this great cause
A small dock and carpenter shop
were also destroyed
A number of small fox islands
around Sanak island were wash
ed clear by the wave, every
building, house or shed being
completely wiped out. It was
suspected all fox were gone too,
but a check had not been made
when Mr. Beals left there.
The Coast Guard boat Cedar
was at Sanak harbor after visit
ing Scotch Cap, and men aboard
said the only thing left there of
the lighthouse, where 5 lost their
lives, was the concrete founda
tion.
Beals said he did not stop at
Unga, because of the diphtheria
epidemic.
Listening to the radio during
the occurrence, he said they
heard the report that a tidal
wave was 10 minutes out of Ko
diak.
Fight, Child Cases
Involve Couple
Two complaints, one brought
by Mrs. Anne Farrow, against
Henry Halloran, charging as
sault and battery, and one
brought by Mr. Halloran, charg
ing Mrs. Farrow with neglect of
her child, resulted in a not guilty
verdict by jury and a dismissal,
respectively, on Saturday and
Tuesday.
On Saturday a jury found
Mr Halloran not guilty of as
sault and battery after an argu
ment between the two id which
Halloran was hit by a hammer
and Mrs. Fairow received a
black eye and a cut lip. The ar
gument ensued af er Hal oran
went to Mrs. Farrow’s home and
took her 19 months old daughter
to her former hu band while i
Mrs. Fairow was away.
The jury, consisting of Rev
John S. Winter, foreman; Viola
Sipprell, Mary Higgins, Edith
Mulford, R. O. Urdahl, Melvin
Rockstaad, Rev. G. S. Moionyi
S. B. Thorsheirn, Wm. Fitzger
ald, O. E. Olsen and Charles
Skinner, brought in the not
guilty verdict and on the same
same day Halloran filed charges
that Mrs. Farrow was neglecting
the care and custody of her
child.
At the second trial Tuesday
before U. S. Commissioner G W
Bubendorf after several witness
es were introduced who testified
that Mrs. Farrow was not neg-'
Mectful, her attorney, William H
Olsen, asked for dismissal or the
cha'ge. The court dismissed the ]
action on the grounds that the |
prosecution was malicious and |
rendered j udginent against the
complaining witness for the costs l
and disbursements Attorney!
Talmage L Smith was attorney ,
fo.' the prosecu'ing witness.
I
Town Topics
Captain R. R. Lyons com
mander of the NOB-NAS babes,
left to seek his first Kodiak bear
on Tue-day morning in the
Uganik bay region. His mentor
will be Charles Madsen, presid
ent of the Kodiak Guides Assoc
iation, and also making the trip
are the latter’s son, Roy, station
ed in the Navy here, and Harry
Christopherson.
Earle Butler, formerly of Kod
iak, visited here Thursday after
brmging the Frieda from Seattle.
After discharging a cargo at
Carmel he left Kodiak for Sew
ard on the Reliance to get a load
of coal for Carmel.
Ben Kraft, local merchant,
flew to Anchorage on business
this week and returned Friday.
He reports only 1 restaurant
open in Anchorage as cafe work
ers struck for higher pay.
Four applications for director
of the Kodiak Community Cent
er were considered at a recent
board meeting, and negotiators
ar** continuing for obtaining one.
All were highly recommended
with good ratings and have ex
perience in the type of work
planned.
Mrs. R. L. Clifton, formeily
of Kodiak, was the recent dinner
guest of her son, Robert, at Earl
Cairoll’s world-famous theatre
restaurant in Hollywood
Seated at nearby tables foi
the lavish Carroll “Sketchbook”
revue were Mr. and Mrs Chester
(Boston Blackie) Morris, Linda
Daruell and Pev Marley of the
film colony
Mrs. Clifton is vacationing
with her son and his wife at San
ta Monica, Calif.
The sealed bid sale of surplus
boats, advertised in last weeks
Mirror, has been cancelled to en
able a new sale date so Alaskan
veterans can be given an oppor
tunity to purchase the Army,
Navy, and Coast Guard vessels
under pieference.
The notice on the new dates
and procedures is carried on
page 11.
In an effort to uffer the fullest
(inssihle service the Tagura Tran
sit System is revising i's schpd
ules *o meet the needs of its pas
3enger>. This week a special Set
urdav and Sunday schedule with
more frequent service is being
tried, and a special stop will be
made at the FortGreely flagDole.
The fare from the latter stop to
Kodiak is o"ly 30 cents.
Three crewmen off a Coast,
Geodetic Survey boat were pick
ed up in Kodiak Thirsday eve
ning on a comp’aint by James
Marfz, manager of the Orpheum
theatre, charging them with dis
orderly conduct The men each
posted cash bo^d of $o0 yester
day and returned to the boat.
Thomas Frost, Jr. returned
to Kodiak a civilian this week,
after hi- discharge from the Ar
my. H<- has been stationed to the
iVest wo'd Mr Frost. is the
former Mary Myers.
Wilson Erskine was registered
at an Anchorage hctel this week,
reportedly en route to San Fran
cisco to visit his father.
Ray Martin flew to Seattle
thie week on a business trip, and
will visit with his family in Los
Angeles for the Easter holiday.
Hospital News
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Milden
are the parents of a daughter,
Mary Patricia Jodean, born on
April 18, weight 8 lbs. 3 oz.
A daughter, Judy Louiae,
weight 6 pounds 13 ounces, wm
born to Mr. and Mrs. F. Cook,
April 14.
Jacob Alpiak was rushed to
the hospital early Monday mom
ing, for an emergency appendec
tomy. He is making a good re
covery.
Mrs. Norman Fjeldheim was
admitted to the hospital Sunday
evening, April 14, for a major
operation performed the next
morning. She is improving lap
idly.
The following were recorded
this week at the U. S Commis
sioner’s office:
Sale—Fred Henton, Seward,
to Eugene E Erwin, son of Mrs.
Bea Nachtweih, 155 acres oo
Devil’s bay, 2 miles from Kod
iak. $2250.
Homestead Claims—Two on
Manashka bay by :Eugene Erwin,
Mrs. E. C. Connors, Margaret
Gibbons; and B. E. Nachtweih,
Mrs. E. C. Connors, Margaret
Gibbons.
Sale—(Feb )—O. A. & Ruth
Torgerson to Howard & Margar
et Fread. Lot 13, Block 1, Leite
addition. $1600.
Sale—John Graves to Bark
of Kodiak, in turn to Elmer A
huth Dean, Lot 7, Block 14 A
part of Lot 6, Block 14. $1000.
Sae-(March)—Earle A Ed
vthe Butler to John C. Hughes,
I ot 5, Paul’s sub-division $4000.
Sale—E ich Mueller to Basil
Clark, Lot 13, Block 10. $3000.
Pacific Northern
Airlines
INCOMING
Jack Molyneaux, Mrs. Helen
Halliday. Gordon Jones, Axd
Carlson, Barbara Gomez, Evelyn
Hill, Oscar Rasmussen, U
Comdr. Carrier, Mrs Whitman
& Dana, Jane & John Whitman,
Ben Kraft, Burl Clymer, Cliff
Barnhill, Gordon Jenkins, Ra!|*
Alstead, George Phillips, Zeno
phan Farsovitch, Henry Hover,
Ray Sears, A, A. Owen, Sizelove,
Comdr Fletcher, John Nolan,
David Henley. Robert Howland,
Geo. Keeling, Thomas Frost,
Vi gil Baker, Rose Kennedy,
Chas. t-hristofferson, Cliff Ste
vens, Robert McNealy.
OUTGOING
Bob Mahle, Ira Morris, Ba
chel Rogers, Robert McNealy,
Mickey Moo.e, Virgil Baker,
James Worrell, Emil Maloti*,
W H Gree’y, Myrtle lane,
Robert Brooks, Rachel Rogers,
J. W Rohewder, Ben Kraft, R*y
Mar'in