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VOL. 2 NO. 26
KODIAK, ALASKA, AUGUST 29, 1942
Navy Plane From Kodiak Missing With 14
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Rotary Starts Drive For $1200 For KODK
Sign Recreation Center Lease
KODIAK .
DIARY ...
One of the city’s new fire
trucks had a workout the other
day by some volunteers who
didn’t belong to the volunteer
fire department. Said members
ex-officio apparently needed
transpoitation to the base,so they
helped themselves to one of the
new fire trucks and rode out Ab
bert’s highway.
Before they came to the first
guardhouse they carefully park
ed it in a bend of the road and
from al! evidence proceded from
thence afoot.
The next day a man came in
and reported the lost being
found and then went out and
hrough the fiie truck back.
His bill to the city was allowed
Monday night, in the amount of
1650, of ~ Nch $2 included taxi
fare.
So far the Kodiak Transit
company or any of the taxis,
have presented no formal com
plaints that the city is provid
ing unfair competition in the
transportation realm.
The city, we understand too,
plans no further such competi
tion.
We are in receipt of the follow
ing letter and contents noted
(with pleasure):
“For your information I no
ticed in the copy of the Kodiak
Mirror of June 27 that you won
dered where some of the copies
(continued on page 4)
McCoy Resigns
From Police Force
Barney McCoy, city patrol
man, resigned this week from the
city police force. His resignation
took effect Monday, and as yet
no one has been appointed to re
place him.
Assurance of quick action on
providing a long-sought recreat
ion center f#r Kodiak was indic
ated by the signing of a lease by
the American Red Cross for the
American Legion property near
the Russian church. Red Cross
representatives are getting mat
erials together now so improve
ments can be made as soon as
possible, and a staff of 1 man
and 3 women will be imported
to supervise the facilities.
The lease is to be in effect for
the duration and 1 year afterward
unless terminated during that
year by the lessee. The Red
Cross agrees to pay $1 per year
rental, and to make all alterat
ion and improvements to provide
a recreation center for officers
and men of the Army, Navy, and
Marine Corps, stationed at or
oear the city.
The Red Cross also aerees to
liquidate an indebtedness of
$3710 from its own funds or by
public drive
Most important provision for
local residents is that at the ex
piration of the lease the American
Legion will receive the property
and improvements and the
premises are then to be used as
a community center by the local
inhabitants.
This clause of the lease will
mean that other organizations
can use the facilties and civic
and other groups will have a
place to hold meetings and to
use as headquarters for various
activities.
Transfer Road
Commission
The Alaska Road Commission
has transferred all local equip
ment and road work to the Army
Engineers who will hereafter take
care of maintenance and con
struction of all local roads out
side the city limits, according
to an announcement made by
Claude Rogers foreman for the
road commission who has now
been transferred to Anchorage
Before leaving Rogers had been
stationed here for two and one
ha'f years and the road commis
sion built the original trails to
Abberts ranch, now the location
of Buskinvi le, and to Mill Bay
and the Mission.
Filipino Held
After Stabbing
Estaban V. Lambos, Filipino,
ir being held in the Federal jail
in connection w'th the alleged
stabbing of four other Filipinos
aboard a ship which at the time
was in this precinct.
Two of the four men were ser
iously injured and one of them
is in the Griffin Memorial hos
pital.
The four injured men are:
Pedro C. Abella, Casrimero A.
Abella. Leocadio C. Cabotage
and Adriana Cabarlos.
No formal complaint has been
placed against Lambos.
A plea by Bill Merritt, of
station KODK, for funds for a
transcription and script seivice
for the station, the only one of
its kind operated by non-comis
sioned personnel, brought quick
action at the Rotary Club at its
luncheon Tuesday.
The service costs $1200 for one
year, and would enable the stat
ion, which it is reported
will soon be increased to 1500
watts, to provide more than
just records for its legion of
listeners on the island.
One of the services is l e:ng
provided by the Welfare com
mittee at the base, and the Rot
ary Club voted unanimously to
sponsor a drive to raise money
for a second service.
The drive was kicked off with
a $100 donation by the club it
self, and in quick succession the
following members donated: Raj
Martin, $100; Frank Hermann
$100; Jorgen Fredrickson, $100
R H. Chadwick, club president
$25.
Contributions now total $73f
and other contributions are be
ing sought. The list follbws:
Rotary Club $10C
Ray Martin 10C
Frank Hermann 100
Jorgen Fredrickson 100
R. H. Chadwick 25
Forest Ayres 10
Bank of Kodiak 100
John Raft, 100
Helsel Photo Shop 100
Merritt explained that KODK
now has 2600 records, and uses
280 a day, “so now you hear‘Oh,
Johnny’once a week”. He point
continued on page 9)
Site
Council Buys Land For Fi
Main topic of discussion at the
regular meeting of the city coun
cil Monday night was concern
ing a new fire hall needed to
house the city’s two new fire
trucks. Many locations were dis
cussed, the main two being the
property at the corner of Brook
lyn avenue and Alaska way
owned by the Central Labor
Council, and part of the Thomp
son estate located on Brooklyn
behind Tony’s Tavern.
The labor group offered to
give a year lease if the city
would build a two- story build
ing, with the upstairs for the
Labor Council’s use.
Some objection was voiced to
building on leased land, and at a
subsequent meeting the council
members voted $1800 to buy part
of the Thompson estate. The plot
is 74 by 80 feet with frontage on
Brooklyn and the sale was ap
proved by Probate Judge C. C.
(continued on page 4)
Washington (iP)—The Navy
announced that a large Navy
plane with 14 officers and en
listed men aboard is missing on
an Alaska to Seattle flight. The
next of kin of the men have
been notified.
The plane disappeared bet
ween Kodiak and Whitehorse.
Three planes started the trip and
they were forced by the weather
to fly by instruments soon after
taking off.
Navy aircraft are searching
for the missing plane and other
agencies have been asked to co
operate.
Men aboard included:
Commander Joyce A. Ralph,
42, Ballimoie.
Lieut. Comdr. Burton Dog
gett. 41. Charleston, S. C
Lieut Comdr. Jerome Sparbo,
38, Hopkins, Indiana.
Lieut. Comdr. Paul Toberl
man,38, Los Angeles.
Captain Arthur Barrows,
Marine, 27, Columbus, Ohio.
Seattle (£•)— Three Seattle
men and one from Kansas City
are faced with charges of mail
fraud in connection with the
sale of $300,000 worth of stock
in Alaskan and U. S. mining
enterprises between 1933 and
1941.
Indicted by the Federal
Grand jury were;
Earle W. Knight, publisher,
The Alaska Weekly
Matthew Rease, mining en
gineer
Fredrick Vincent, Seattle
Simond Hedrick, Kansas City.
They were charged with pro
moting a series of enterprises
{which they operated “for their
purposes without regard to the
(continued on cage 4)
Residence Moved
To New Site
A house purchased by Stan
Austerman from Jake Blanch
was moved this week to its new
location behind the Cheechako
Club building The house was
built on its former sight above
the old Russian cemetery at the •
foot of Pillar Mountian.
2 Men Rescued After Fishing Boat
Stranded 27 Days
Dan Euchanan and’ Leonard
Winchell were returned here
Thursday after being; stranded
for 27 days on the mainland
north of Cape Douglas as the re
sult of having the fishing boat
they were on, the Try Again,
beached in a storm in Cookes In
let on August 2.
The two men were on their
way with a load of halibut to
Port. Williams. They had left
Homer July 31, where they had
dropped the captain, Fred S.
Barlett, who had broken bis
hand fishing. Barlett went on to
Anchorage where he later report
ed the men missing.
The Try Again was beached
at 1:30 a. m. and the men had
only enough food for three days.
For shelter they built a barabara
on the beach and Buchanan shot
two bears that came to within
100 yards of it. They lived on
the bear meat and varied their
diet with berries.
Daring the time they were at
that spot they saw only one boat
about 15 miles oat that didn’t
see their signals, so they decided
to take their 13-foot skiff and
row south
Thev ran into some rough
weather and several times in try
ing to make a beach they were
swamped by the waves, coming
to one point they decided to try
signaling so they built 5 large
fires of driftwood
Those fires were the means of
their being discovered by a plane
which dropped emergency ra
tions. The hungry men, not
knowing the rations were meant
for three days, ate them all at
once, and as one of them put it
they “became deathly sick.”
The ioiiowing aay an ainpuiu
ian plane landed and picked them
up and in a few hours they were
home again.
Captain Barlett, who had ar
rived here in the meantime, »e
ported yesterday that he is leav
ing this week to go after his boat
which is undamaged.
The rescued rpen had high
praise for the men who rescued
them.