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"News oj oAmencas Last Frontier”
VOL. 3 NO. 33
KODIAK, ALASKA OCTOBER 16, 1943
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PRICE 10 CENTS
Man Charged
With Absconding
Melvin T. Ellison was arrest
ed in Anchorage Oct. 3 and re
turned here by deputy U. S.
Marshal Oscar Olson for a hear
ing Monday before U. S.
Commissioner C. C. Nauehton
on a felony charge on a com
plaint sworn to by Camilla Weir.
The complainant alleged she
had given Ellison $400 to match
$400 he is said to have told her
he had invested in a taxi, but
that he paid $300 down on the
ear, turned it back to the garage
and received $150 and then left
town.
Ellison, who waived testi
mony, was held to answer to the
grand jury and bail bond was
furnished in t he sum of $1000.
The defendant was represented
by George Grigsby, Anchorage
attorney, and Talmage Smith,
local attorney.
Brother Killed
In Asiatic Theater
Arthur Larkin, local director
for the Red Cross, returned here
this week after a trip to the
States following receipt of word
of the death of his brother, Capt.
Howard Larkin, attached to the
Air Corps, reported killed on
September 15 in the Asiatic
theater of war in an accident.
On his 3-weeks trip director
Larkin visited his father in
South Bend, Ind., his own fami
ly in Pittsville, Mass., and stop
ped briefly in New York, Wash
ington, D C., and San Francis
co.
Final Bond Figures
Given For Alaska
Final figures in the 3rd War
Loan drive were released this
week, revealing that Kodiak ex
ceeded its bond quota by over
$10,000. The figures follow.
Anchorage
Juneau
FairbaDKs
Ketchikan
Skagway
Seward
Petersburg
Kodiak
Sitka
Cordova
Wrangell
Nome
522.306.50
417.342.50
402.726.25
292.757.25
142.678.50
133.625.50
74.488.75
51.096.25
50.007.50
27.883.75
25.038.50
20.731.25
Automobile Stolen,
Abandoned In Ditch
A coupe belonging to Jack
Allman was stolen Wednesday
evening and left wrecked in the
ditch near Talmage Sminh’s
bouse a short time later, offi
cials reported. The car suffered
some damage.
12 Witnesses
Are Subpoenaed
Subpoenas have been issued
at Anchorage for the following
persons to appear there before
the grand jury October 25:
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Delane,
Mrs. E. E Bell, William Wyn
koop, George O. Thompson, Sid
Olds. Christine Tolbert, Chas,
Lattin, Tom Nelson, Thomas J.
Felton, Louise Coon, and deputy
U. S. Marshal Paul Herring.
Actor's Visit Off
Navy officials received word
this week that because of "un
forseen circumstances” the ex
pected visit of Spencer Tracy,
actor, had been called off.
Charles Cook installed a wier
in the stream behind the Chick
en Pie House to catch debris so
the culvert under the main steet
will not plug pp and flood the
area as happened last week in
the severe rain storm.
Week’s News Highlights
Pacific Front
Flying at great height, 10 Jap
planes dropped bombs in the
Massacre bay area of Attu is
land but did no damage. This
was the first enemy raid in the
North Pacific since the fall of
Attu. Gen. MacArthur threw
the heaviest Allied air fleet yet
assembled in the Pacific area
against Japan’s key sea-air bas
tion at Rabaul, New Britain is
land. The resultant devastation
crippled 177 enemy planes, 60
per cent, of the Jap’s air strength
at Rabaul & sank at least 17,
600 tons of ships, including 3
destroyers, 3 merchant ships, 43
small cargo vessels & 70 harbor
craft. Several other ships were
severely damaged & wharves &
waterfront installations were
fired. The raid cost the Allies 5
planes out of the hundreds that
participated. In a 2400-mile
roundtrip flight, American
bombers hurled the 4th heavy
assault on the enemy oil supply
base on the Macassar island of
Celebes; flames were visible 90
miles away. Japs continued the
retreat northward up Ramu
valley, New Guinea, as Austra
lians pressed toward Madang.
President Roosevelt announced
the average destruction of 130,
000 tons of Jap shipping month
ly. Navy revealed that in a n>is
sion over Ballale 10 new Grum
man Hellcat fighters bagged 8
of 15 Zeros without the loss of a
Hellcat.
Russian tront
Fate of Kiev appeared to
hinge on great battle raging
north of the Ukrainian strong
hold. Refugees repoited Kiev as
almost completely evacuated by
the Germans. Soviet troops
stormed into Gomel, German
White Russian bastion. Russians
captured Zaporozhe, southern
anchor of the Nazis’ Dnieper
(continued on page 4)
Post Commander
Is Transferred
Col. William D. Frazer, com
manding, Fort Greely, who has
been transferred and will leave
by first available transportation
for the State®, was an honor
gue6t at the Rotary Club lunch
eon Tuesday. He is succeeded in
command of the post by Col.
E. L. Macaulay.
Speaking of his regret at leav
ing, Col. Frazer said he wished
he had become better acquaint
ed with more of the citizens of
Kodiak, but that the job to be
done here had prevented it.
‘T am sure the town of Kodiak
has a good future”, the Colonel
said, “as I believe installations
made here will be permanent. 1
have never been any place—
and I have been 34 years in the
Army—that I like as well as the
Territory of Alaska. I hope I
can come back when I will have
ibe leisure time to enjoy it.”
R. H. Chadwick responded
with a few w’ords expressing the
club’s regret at the Colonel’s
departure.
Main speech at the dinner
was provided by R. L. Clifton,
school superintendent, who gave
a history of public school
education
Major Harry Hornecker was
also a guest at the meeting.
A wedding license was issued
yesterday to Margaret O’Leary,
Army nurse, and Lt Edwin J.
Thornton, both of Fort Greely.
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This war bond advertisement, puplished in a Los Angeles newspaper, struck home with poignant
sharpness to Mr?. Ross E. Woodbury of surburban La Canada, for the body in the casket was that
of her son, Lt. R, E. Woodbury, Jr. Letters to her from his comrades had previously identified the
picture as showing the funeral of her son as it was being held in far-oflf Tunisia.
113 Found After
Aleutian Crack-up
An Aleutian Island Base—A
Navy patrol bomber crew, which
earlier had been cited for the
rescue of Army flyers under Jap
anese gunfire at Kiska, today are
thankful for their rescue by the
Army from a lonely Aleutian
island.
‘ We had only two cans of pea
nuts when we made the island
beach,” said Lt. J. D. Jolly, Tur
lock, Calif. The 13 men, 8 crew
and 5 passengers, crawled onto
the wet, cold beach when the
plane was forced down by me
chanical trouble on Oct. 8 and
was wrecked on a rocky reef.
"We still had one can of pea
nuts the next day,” recalled
Jolly, "but the Army bombers
came over and signaled and we
knew it wouldn’t be long so we
ate it right away."
A boat notitied by the Army
flyers reached the men from un
inhabited Amlias island in the
central Aleutians Radioman An
thony M Mitchell, Owensboro,
Ky.,8aid the plane taxied for 3
hours along the southern end of
Amlias seeking a beach with the
men bailing all the time About
100 yards from the beach the
plane hit a reef and balanced on
the rock bottom The waves were
20 feet high and a breaker
knocked the plane off the rock
and it sank Radioman Johnny
C. Butts, San Antonio, Texas,
said "the water was awful damn
cold The boys got a fire going
right away and we just about
sat on it all night.” They were
spotted at 2 am the next day.
Council Holds
Special Meeting
Lacking a quorum for t be re
gular council meeting Monday
night, a special session was call
ed Tuesday afternoon at the
city clerk’s office.
The matter of appointing n
councilman to replace C harles
Skinner, now mayor, was dis
cussed, and one name, that of
James Pierce, former council
man and former chief of police,
was submitted for the position
but not acted upon, as Council
men Sholl and Wodlinger asked
the appointment be postponed
until the return of Councilman
William Smith, absent on a
short trip to Anchorage.
The council also approved
current bills and authorized pur
chase of uew forms for drivers’
licenses, city vehicle tax and
pinball tax.
Norman Hangartner was sen
tenced to 90 days in jail this
week on a charge of attempted
smuggling of liquor into jail.