’News or oAmericas Last Frontier
VOL. 2 NO. 8
KODIAK, ALASKA, APRIL 25 1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
Russia Internes American Plane, Six Men
Territorial Primaries Will BeHeld Tuesday
One Bear Per
Man New Limit
The following changes in game
^illations have been received
■om the Alaska Game Commi
ioD, by Jack Benson, local rep
sentat ve.
(1) Prohibits the taking of
brown bears on the Alaska
Peninsula west of the mail
trail Connecting Herendeett'
Bay and Portage Bay.
(2) Reduces the bag limit for
bears on the Kodiuk-Afog
nak Island group from two
to one.
The changes are effective as
Marcn 31, 1942.
The Alaska Game commission
io wishes to, remind all con
med that'the regular seasonal
seel period is' in-effect on all
me animals, land furbearing
imals, and game birds The
option of course is brown
urs, tin which the season closes
me 20 in this area.
In making the local announce
ent, Wildlife Agent Benson
Ids his appreciation to the peo
e of this district for the splen
d support in game conservation
nl management
Primary Election Facts
All duly qualified voters residing within the town of Kodiak are
eligible to vote in the primary election to. be held next Tuesday, at
the City Hall, between the hours of 8 a. m. and 7 p. m.
The following candidates are to be voted upon:
Delegate to Congress
Territorial Treasurer
Commissioner of Labor
Anthony J. Dimond u
Oscar G. Olson . D
Michael J. Haas D
Walter P. Sharp D
For the House, Third Division
v£ ‘- •?:-'itosep,b W. Kehoe . D
Harvey J. Smith D
Wnj. A. Egan D
Josenh B. Diamond D
W. E. Huntley D
Stanley M-cCutcheon D
Michael Hatton • D
Aimer J. Peterson- R
Moritz A. Anderson R
.... ■ ..A
For the Senate, Third Division
Don Carlos Brownell D H. H. McCutcheon. D
Karl Draf5er ,f% . D
•“ Woman Arrested
:v: Geraldine Owehs^Was arrested'
Monday on a drunk and disord
erly charge and was sentenced by
U. 6. Commissioner G. G. Naugn
ton Tuesday to 20 days in jail,
after the defendant pled guilty.
Held For Observa<ion
Martin Forren, fisherman, is
being held in jai 1Tor a 10-day
period for observation of insan
ity.
amous "Petty Girl” Artist
Comes Here To Hunt Bear
Peorge Petty, whose air-brush
ineations of the feminine form,
mplete with telephone, became
t famous Petty girl of Esquire
igazine fame, has taken time
from his bare subject to in
Ige in a new subject—bear,
tompanied by his son, George,
,he arrived by plane in Kod
1 this week, and joined by
iie Eli Metrokin, flew over to
>rluk Thursday in search of
I of the famed Kodiak an
tis.
Petty got a bear for himself
a previous trip to Kodiak in
16, and the present trip is a
duation present for his son,
tout of high school,
fte met Petty buying mag
»es in a local drug store (we
heed he didn’t buy a copy of
Quire). Smooth shaven, stocky
! said he expected to lose some
the latter on the trip) he
n’t look like any kind of an
ist in his black and white
*kered wool shirt and the ac
Bpanying hunter’s accoutre
»ts.
I promised my son this trip
along time.” he said, “and
tflie Madsen wired, me say
that if I expected to make it
1 I’d better make it now. So after
15 days by plane and boat, from
our home in Winettka we got
here.” Winettka is a residential
suburb 17 miles north of
Chicago.
Currently the Petty girl is not
appearing in Esquire, as the
thousands who pay 50 cents for
her. plus the free magazine, have
noticed.
“The Petty girl is working for
the Navy now,” Petty said. “Be
fore making this trip I had just
finished a set of posters for en
listment purposes, featuring the
Petty girl ” So if Navy enlist
ments take a jump, you’ll know
why. In the barracks of con
tractor’s employees, and all
branches of the service at Fort
Greely and the Naval Air sfati jn,
she outranks all contenders as a
favorite wall decoration, being
miles ahead of Dorothy Lamour,
airplane pictures and Saturday
Evening Post covers
After the hunt Petty said his
plans were indefinite, but he has
already taken steps to enlist in
one of the branches of the ser
vice If everything works out
right the Petty girl’s father will
join her in working for Uncle
Sam.
Souvenir Collector Gets
Thirty Days In Local Jail
• : Beweeke ErickSen, base em
ployee, was charged with larceny
and sentenced' to.obdays-mj-ail
April 23. The complaint • was
Signed by Charles Marisen, own
er of the Totem Igloo Curio Shop,
and it is alleged Erickson shop
lifted 11 banners, 2 composition
hears, 1 knife and 1 ashtray from
the souvenir store.
\ieutians Schedule Party
• To 'dark 1st Anniversary
The Aleutians’, a group formed
from those who arrived May 1.
1941, on Kodiak island on the
Aleutian, chartered by Siems
D'-ake from the Alaska Steam
ship company, will hold their
first anniversary party Saturday
evening, May 2, promptly at 9
p. m. at the American Legion
hall.
An Aleutian party held last
year was a big success and mem
bers in charge of this year’s
promise an even bigger event.
The entertainment committee
has arranged for dancing to the
music of the new ABC orchest.. a.
and other entertainment features
will be provided.
An invitation is extended to
all Aleutians and their invited
guests to attend what is promised
as the “best party Kodiak has
ever seen.
A free immunization clinic
will be held this week by Dr A
Holmes Johnson, at the Griffin
Memorial hospital, Monday,
April 27, 1 to 2:30 p. m., and by
Dr. A. Bates Jones, at his office
Friday, May 1, 10 to 12 a. m.
For details see page 5.
There will be a regular meet
ing oi the city council, Mayor
Nick Miell presiding, at the City
Hall Monday evening at 8 p. m.
Registration
Postponed
As no supplies, have been re
ceived from Washington, the reg
istration of all men between the
ages of 45 and 65, scheduled for
April 27, has been postponed.
The new date will be announced
later in plenty of time for every ;
one concerned to be notified.
KBA Membership Carries
Vote For Coming Election
Person's-'-interested in voting
for a new board of* directors of
the Kodiak Electrical Assdciation
riiay do so upon payment of the
$5 membership fee. Each mem
bership allows- one vote in the
election of 9 director shin May 4.
So far 12 KEA- members ’have
been nominated- and it is ex
pected other nominations will be
.nifrde from the floor the-night of
the. naeeting.
The 8.5- fee is required by law,
and is the only source of income
for the. current expense0 of the
association. "
5 Drivers Arrested
There were five arrests for
trrfhc violations this week One
Was for drunken driving and the
remainder consisted of charges of
parkii g and driving after hours.
Moscow—The official Tass
news agency announced an Am
erican plane, identified by its
crew as a participant in the air
raids on Japanese cities last Sat
urday, made a forced landing in
the Siberian coastal region after
losing its bearings, and in accord
ance with international law the
Soviet authorities interned the
plane and crew.
This is the first word from any
source of the landing of any
planes which raided Japan. The
Tokyo bombing has not been
confirmed by any. of the .United
Nations.
The plane carried 5 men and
1 captain. The exact location of
it&.landing was not given.
. Los Angeles LR)—Five sol
diers were killed and 16 wound
ed- in the premature explo
sion of -a mortar shell near
Lanisea, headquarters of the
southern California sector. The
shell, being fired during drill, ex
pTodecT "before it cleared the gun
muzzle.
Lohddn(iP)—1The largest force
of RAF fighters ever sent against
a 'single objective escorted
bombers attacking the Nether
lands port of Flushing in a day
light raid, following a predawn
assault on the German Heinkel
! factories.
•New Delhi (AP)—The Japs are
driving northward in eastern
(continued on page 9)
Hunting Story is Related;
Saga Of Kewan Recalled
(Editor’s note: Hobart Wise
man, school teacher, hunter and
trapper, now employed at the
naval air station, is the author
of the accompanying article des
cribing his experiences hunting
the famed Kodiak bear, at the
time he was teaching at Afognak.
Included in the narrative is the
story of the famous native hunt
er Kewan, killer of 41 bears,
himself killed by one some years
ago. Wiseman, characterized by
Hunting & Fishing magazine as
“getting more bounties than any
other hunter’’ in connection with
cougar hunting in the Skagit
Valley, is an avid hunter. A bear
trip he conducted recently to
Afognak was the subject of a
Mirror article April 4.)
I must Gonfess at the start
that the reason I became inter
ested in a teaching job at Afognak,
on Afognak island, north of Ko
diak island, was because of the
opportunities offered for hunting
the famous Kodiak bear. I and
my wife no sooner got our home
there arranged than I began
landing out all 1 could about
bi ars.
One day while walking a near
by trail 1 met my neighbor,
Tichon, after a greeting po rat
ed to a clump of trees not
far away, relating that that wan
the place where he was chewed
and mauled by a large female
bear. He was a man of Aleut a»d
Russian stock, now second priest
in the Kussian church at Afog
nak. He rolled up his slee*$
and showed the remnant of an
arm. The bear had knocked
him unconscioijs and seized bis
arm in its ferocious mouth and
dragged him some distance. His
partner in the encounter climb
ed a tree and the bear leaped to
ward him. He saw the beast matri
Tichon like a cat would a mouse.
To the man in the tree it seemed
the bear would never leave
Knowing bears hate the smell of
smoke he tore off a piece of bis
clothing and struck a match t«
(continued on page 4)