"News of oAmericas Last Frontier”
VOL. 5 NO. 19
KODIAK, ALASKA JULY 7, 1945
PRICE 10 CENTS
Woodley Gets Kodiok-Anchorage Route
Jap Cap Found On Beach
Carmel Fights
Grass Fire
A grass fire at Carmel, on
southern Kodiak island, that for
a time threatened the Grimes
Packing company cannery there,
resulted in a call for help to the
local Coast Guard office Tuesday
evening.
Both the Coast Guard and a
navy boat responded and the fire
is reported under control.
Children Have Big
Time The 4th
Main Street rang with excite
ment the 4th of July as seeming
ly every boy and girl in town
joined in the large number of
events and went home jingling
with the cash prizes and 10 cents
for every participant of every
contest.
The weatherman provided
sunshine to make the day more
festive and events were run off
with clock-like regularity from 10
am until the final fire hose con
test just before 4 pm.
Every kind of race was pro
vided for all ages and there were
240 winners in the events who
got prizes from 50 cents to $3.
Fastest pie-eater for boye
and girls under 12 was Dickie
Simeonoff, with Gerry Landin
and Buster Bogan runners-up.
Stella Scroggs, Alice Davis and
Carol Larsen won in the older
girls group while Sidney Hubley,
Johnny Ulsen and Mike Kerr
won for the boys.
An ice cream eating race pro
duced winners Johnny Olsen,
Donna Fitzgerald P" d Martha
Olsen, while outsta- ding con
testants in the Hobby Horse
event were Bill Nettl Franklin
Davis, Bill Hubley, and Laur
ence Anders rn.
Ulri winners in the costume
race were Charlotte Nielson, Zoe
Johnston and Stella Scroggs, and
for the boys Richard Hartman,
Mike Kerr and Allen Chernoff.
Winners too numerous to men
tion resulted from the relays,
tugs-of-war, sack races, etc., and
it was hard to tell whether the
spectators or participants enjoy
ed them the most.
Final event of the day’s pro
gram was the fire hose contest
between the Army and City,
which the city participants, con
sisting of Al Miller, Walter Mul
ler, Tommy Clampffer and El
yin Foster, won easily, but
which ended unhappily when an
unscheduled water fight resulted
in injuries to the city team. The
A cap, definitely identified by
a local naval intelligence officer
as being of Japanese origin, was
found on the beach of Near Is
land, across from the KEA plant,
Thursday, by Zoe Sholl, 15,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Sholl.
Exploring the beach while on
a picnic with members of her
family and friends, Zoe found
the cap some feet from the water.
The cap is of khaki, with a
small visor and drawstrings in
the back for adjusting the head
size. It is lined with a coarse
white cloth, on which appears in
2 different places a number of
Japanese hieroglyphics and an
insigne of some kind of black
lines.
The cap was completely dry
and smelled strongly of oil, and
the color was faded to some ex
tent.
It was turned over to the local
naval intelligence officer yester
day and will probably be sent
elsewhere for examination and
translation of the Japanese char
acters in it.
Niel Nielson, 10, of Kodiak, is
an influenza patient at the GM
hospital.
streams of water were to be used
to push a bucket suspsnded on
an overhead wire, but it ended
with the hoses being directed at
each other with the city men
getting the worst of it.
Walter Muller suffered a
punctured right ear drum, and
Tommy Clampffer and Elvin
Foster were given first aid at
a base hospital for injuries to
their eyes. A1 Millei’s eyes were
also injured and bled after he
was struck in the face with the
full force of the hose stream.
A scheduled race up Pillar
Mountain was cancelled when
t nly 6 signed up and it was de
cided to use the prize money for
playground equipment. Loneliest
man in town the 4th was R. E.
Dawson, who, as judge of the
climb, sat on top Pillar waiting
for the participants to show up.
The day ended with a free
dance at Blinn’s hall.
me professional announcing
job of Max Folsom, who furnish
ed a public address system, added
milch to the celebration and
aided in running the events, and
the Chamber of Commerce
wishes to thank Frank Irick,
chairman, Max Folsom, Pat
Wright, Stan Nelson, Gus John
son, G. W. Bubendorf, Harry
Holt, Paul Fretzs and all other
willing volunteers who contrib
uted to the success of the day.
Washington (A*) -The Civil
Aeronautics Board has author
ized Woodley Airways to carry
persons, property and mail be
tween Anchorage and Kodiak by
way of Homer and granted per
mission for Alaska Airlines to
carry mail between Fairbanks
and Anchorage.
Both lines sought the Kodiak
to mainland route, which has
been operated the past few years
by Alaska Airlines, with 4-times
weekly service between Kodiak
and Anchorage.
Home Damaged
By Fire Tuesday
Fire at 7:30 pm Tuesday bad
ly damaged the 2-room home
near the KEA plant of Mrs. An
nie Sandstrom. The building is
owned by Oscar Moe, in the
States, and insurance was car
ried.
Mrs. Sandstrom said her kit
chen stove blew up and that af
terward she left briefly to visit
neighbors. In her absence the
wall behind the stove caught fire
ana spread outside to the two
oil drums, both of which explod
ed. On arrival of the fire depart
ment the fire was quickly ex
tinguished.
Lillian Morris, employee of
the Kodiak Candy company, a
spectator at the fire, suffered a
sprained ankle that required
medical attention when she step
ped in a hole.
J. C. Morris, well-known An-t
chorage businessman, is in Kodi~J
ak this week visiting his son who
is stationed here in the navy.
Harvey Edwards, painter, left
this week on a 6-weeks vacation
trip in the Interior.
Final 7th Loan
Figures Given
Figures received this week by
War Bond Chairman 0. A. Tor
gerson show that Kodiak made a
little over two-thirds of its quota
of $60,000 in the 7th War Loan
Drive.
Bonds sold in Kodiak from
May 14 to June 30 amounted to
$43,331.25.
Bond sales for Alaska cities
follow:
Fairbanks $570,008.50
Anchorage 947,544.00
Ketchikan 636,690.75
Juneau 486,304.00
Seward 92,508.50
Wrangell 57,240.00
Petersburg 116,387.75
Nome 31,467.75
KODIAK 43,331.25
Sitka 62,943.00
Palmer 18,056.25
Cordova 39,069.25
Young Fisherman Lost
Barbara Allman
Rites Held
Funeral services were held
Monday morning for Barbara
Allman, daughter of Jack All
man, well-known Alaskan and
Kodiak Fire Chief and one of
the owners of the Cheechako
Club, whose sudden passing last
Saturday morning was a shock
to the entire community.
Holy Rosary was said at the
Allman residence Sunday even
ing at 7:30 and Father V incent
Edge said High Mass at the
Church of Notre Dame de Kodi
ak Monday morning at 10. In
terment was in the local ceme
tery. Pallbearers were Vincent
Root, James Pierce, L. K. Wod
linger, George Magnusen, A1
Miller and Stan Austermann.
Business bouses throughout town
closed during the services.
Miss Allman was stricken
about 2 am Saturday while visit
ing with friends' at the Club
Unique. Mrs. Stan Austermann
called Mr. Allman, who rushed
his daughter to the hospital, but
she was reported dead on arrival
there. Dr. A. Holmes Johnson,
assisted by three naval surgeons,
performed an autopsy later at
the base, and d.ath was ascribed
to cerebral embolism.
Ba>bara Marie Ann Allman
was hnn November 6, 1922, at
Seattle, Washington, and her
mother passed away when she
was a year old. As a child she
was taken to France ty her fath
er, where she spent 2 and a half
years. Besides schooling in
France she was educated in the
East and at the Stella Maris
convent, a French-speaking in
stitution, at Biddeford, Maine.
She came to Kodiak for the
first time in 1940 and spent a
year with her father before re
turning to Florida. In 1942 she
was married in Portland, Ore.,
to Air Corps Cadet Robert Wat
son, from whom she was separ
ated. Following the separation
she was employed for 7 months
in a war plant in California, and
then returned to Kodiak in Nov
ember, 1944 and had been mak
ing her home with her father
since.
She was an only child and
there are no other relatives be
sides her father.
Mrs. Gloria England, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Swan
son of this city, and her 2 child
ren, left by boat recently to re
turn to her home in Bremerton,
Wash., after a visit with her par
ents.
• A wire received by deputy U
S. Marshal Paul Herring fiom
Kadiak Fisheries Monday stated
that Fred Sheratine fell over
board from a fishing boat at Red
River Saturday, June 30, and
that the body was not recov
ered.
Fred was born in Afognak on
May 12, 1933, and is survived
by his father and mother, Mr
and Mrs. Sergay Sheratine, of
Afognak; 3 brothels, Ted, who
was with him on the boat at the
time of the accident, Frank, who
has been in the Army since 1941,
and Sergay, Jr., in the service
about 2 months; and 3 sisters,
Mrs. Nettie Ellison, of Afognak,
Mrs. Pat Mullan, of Afognak,
and Pauline, unmarried, who is
working at Port Bailey for the
summer.
Names Of EViiliiary
Land Users Sought
All persons utilizing, with or
without permission, any areas on
Kodiak island controlled by the
War Department, are requested
to advise the Commanding Of
ficer, Fort Greely.
This includes any military
area whether used for gtazing or
any other purpose. Notices to
this effect were posted in local
areas yesterday.
James Livingstone, crew mem
ber on the Lakina, was fined $50
and costs in the city magisi rate’s
court this week on a charge of
theft.
The complaint, signed by P. J.
WatkinFon, of the W. J. Erskine
company, charged that Living
stone took 2 hats and 2 sweaters
from the store. Deputy U. S
Marshal Paul Herring appre
hended Livingstone aboard ship.
The stolen goods, valued at
$31.50, were recovered.
Magazine Article
Tells Of Kodiak
I An article of interest to all
I local people and a fine presenta
' tion for persons interested in the
region appears in the July issue
of The Alaska Sportsman.
It is titled ‘‘Our Kodiak Home’'
and is written by Alfred J.
Smith, of Mission road. In it
Mr. Smith, who came here in
1941 to work at the base, tells
of his life in Kodiak, with special
emphasis on his garden experi
ences.
The article, taking 5 pages or
the magazine, is illustrated with
pictures by the author.