Eoiiak Mirror
‘'extents of America's Last frontier '
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Personals
Mr and Mrs. l'\ J. Williams,
of Portland, Ore., en route on
ttre I.akina to Port Williams
cannery for the winter, looked
Kodiak over during the vessel’s
call in port here. Mr. Williams,
who worked for Washington Fish
Ac Oyster company Outside, is a
refrigerator engineer.
Jack Lydick, former local A
laska Steamship agent and for
the past two years with the A*
laska Transport Service, visited
his former home in Cordova
from Seward recently, and got
in some duck hunting.
Mrs. Millicent P. Clayton,
employed in Army Ordinance at
Fort Greely, returned here on
the Lakina after a trip to Seattle
to meet her son, John, who came
HENRY FORD RECENTLY SAID:
*‘After all, people have made a lot of money out
of this war while the servicemen have made prac
tically nothing, and have lost from one to three
years productive time.”
Our best way of using a part of that money and
bringing home the servicemen more quickly for
productive effort is to.
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Campfire Girls
Select Officers
The Yoyekoi Campfire Girls
met for their second meeting
Thursday in the social room of
the Baptist church. Each girl
chose an Indian name which she
will be called throughout her
membership, and they selected
their group name, Yoyekoi,
meaning northern lights.
Officers elected were Donna
Fitzgerald, president; Marilyn
Chamberlain, vice-president;
Gale Blankenburg, secretary
treasurer; and Sylvia Larsen,
scribe.
Zoe Johnson and Lorraine
Magnusen were welcomed as
new members, bringing to 18 the
total membership.
Notice
Sewer bills may be paid be
tween 10 am and 1 pm and after
5 pm at the Frontier Gift & Book
Shop. From 1 to 5 pm they
should be paid at the city hall,
except Saturdays and Sundays.
City of Kodiak
north from San Francisco.
John returned here with his
mother, and will be a new stud
ent for the Kodiak school. He is
in the 8th grade.
Bonnie Nielsen, high school
student, returned on the Lakina
after 7 mouths spent in the
States, where she visited with
her father and step-mother in
Lynwood, Calif.
She is making her home here
with her aunt, Mrs. Allie Mor
rison.
R H. Chadwick, local repre
sentative for National Grocery
company, returned this week on
the Lakina after a 6-weeks trip
to Seattle. On the way out he
attended a Rotary convention
at Ketchikan.
Mrs. Alta Dizney, who left
Kodiak in March on a visit to
Oregon, returned on the Lakina
this week. While Outside she
visited in Salena and in Corval
lis, with her parents.
Mrs. T. M. Caldwell, of Che
halis, Wash., accompanied by
her niece, Josephine Moberg,
stopped in Kodiak yesterday on
their way to Seldovia to make
their home.
William J. Robertson return
ed to Kodiak on the Lakina from
Aberdeen, Wash. Mrs. Robert
son and son remained for the
time in Aberdeen, where William
is a Junior in high school.
Clark Peterson and Glen Cru
ger, who arriyed on the Lakina
from Seattle, left the same day
yia Alaska Airlines for Homer,
where they said they plan to
romestead.
By Associated Press
Southwest Pacific—Liberator
bombers hit the major Jap oil
center of Balikpapan in Borneo
with 40 tons of bombs in another
heavy raid. 19 Jap fighters were
downed and 7 Liberators were
lost in an hours battle over the
Borneo objective Tues., it was
announced today, This was the
2nd heavy assault on the vital
objective in 4 days. 60 Liberat
ors on Sat. hit Balikpapan, term
ed by Gen. Douglas MacArthur
the “most lucrative strategic
target in the Pacific.”
Rome—5th Army troops ham
mered out gains up to 3 miles
yesterday over rain-bogged
mountainous terrain of approach
es to the Po valley & captured
the road j unction at Loianol less
than 14 miles south of Eologna.
British invasion troops in
Greece striking along the north
shore of Peloponnessus from cap
tured Patrai, overwhelmed the
fortified port of Rion, guarding
the narrow entrance to the Gulf
of Corinth. Enemy security bat
talions surrendered at a number
of other points, a Greece com
munique said.
Moscow—Russian & Yugoslav
troops fight Germans in outskirts
of Belgrade. Dispatches indicate
patrols crossed to the south bank
of the Danube from captured
Pancevo, less than 9 miles from
the capital Tito is reported at
the far front & it is believed his
Army was the first to formally
enter the city. Other Russians
are in northern Yugoslavia less
than 30 miles across flat frontier
' country from Szeiged 2nd largest
Hungar.an city, which is imper
illed frontally from Rumania
also.
London—Germans acknow
ledging a break through, threw
their heaviest counter-attack at
Uback breach in an effort to seal
;>ff the hole in the Siegfried line
U.S. 1st Army tanks & infantry
surged forward on the 5th day
of battle as flight upon flight of
Allied planes, operating up to
10,000 ft, rushed into battle,
eager to take advantage of the
first good weather since start of
the drive
In the first storming assault
Americans rushed from the top
of a commanding height a mile
east of Herback which was teiaed
yesterday, to drive a mile and a
half south of Ubach but dough
boys were held on the side of a
ridge. Enemy armor was sup
ported by the heaviest artillery
they have been able to concen
trate against the Americans
since the war began.
Germans declared that more
Allied parachutists were dropped
in Holland to reinforce the Allied
held western loop between Ned
er, Rhine & Waal, west of Ar
hem & Nijmegen in Holland.
Fourteen new puppies Tues
day is the record of Blackie,
Labrador dog of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Erbes, of this city. A pot
on the number was won by the
jog’s owner, indieating collusion, j
On Friday Toodles, dachshund |
)f Ray Martin, had only 6.
‘The North Star*
Due At Orpheum
A vividly told tale of a Rug.
sian frontier village and its he
roic people in the early days of
the Nazi invasion is presented in
Samuel Goldwyn’s newest screen
achievement “The North Star”,
coming attraction at the Orph
eum theatre.
Said to be the most dramatic
film of the year, it boasts a cast
of Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews,
Walter Huston, Walter Brennan,
Ann Harding, Jane Withers,
Farley Granger and Erich von
Stroheim, and blends a touching
rumarfce with its stirring plot.
A small community near the
Rumanian border is the setting
for the picture, which opens on a
spring harvest festival, when a
group of school children are
planning a walking tour to Kiev.
A young air force bombardier
home on leave is going with
them, and the whole village is
gay and happy, unaware of the
fate in store for it.
oramineu wiui meatiness mo*
ments of suspense and action to
contrast with the scenes of gaiety
and romance, the film is said to
offer an exceptionally authentic
portrait of Russian life and of
the guerrilla fighting which char
acterized the early phrase of the
war Miss Baxter and young
Granger have the romantic roles,
with Andrews playing the part
of the bombardier, Huston that
of a doctor, Miss Hardine a vil
lage matron, Brennan as a farm
er and von Stroheim as a Nazi
surgeon.
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