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"News oj oAmericas Last Frontier”
KODIAK, ALASKA AUGUST 12, 1944
ravel Rules
'elaxed
[eftdquarters, Alaskan Dept—
. Commanding General of the
skan Department has an
need the immediate modifi
od of all Alaska travel con
restrictions, with the except
of the Aleutian islands and
; portion of the Alaska pen
la which lies south and west
techarof lake, located south
'aknek.
0 travel permits will be nec
ry for the travel of civilians
enter, travel within, or de
from, Kodiak island, the
ka mainland and southeast
ka.
jwever, persons in the fol
ig categories may not enter
portion of Alaska without
• approval of the Command
3eneral: alien enemies, per
of Japanese ancestry, indi
ils wlio have been excluded
or denied entry to Alaska
e interests of military sec
, and dependents of armed
s personnel.
e travel control system will
1 to all travel in the re
ed area mentioned above
vill be limited to civilians
are considered essential to
peration of military activi
jivilians who are considered
tial to the war effort, and
ins who had business int
i in the zone on Nov. 1,
and whose presence is es
il to the operation or pro
® of their property.
didate Visits
I, Bartlett, Democratic
date for delegate to Con
arrived here Thursday
Anchorage. He met last
wiih a group of loeal bus
aen and labor represen la
and discussed local needs
roblems, especially in re
to data for a small-boat
r.
has made reservations on
itgoing Sunday plane,
ore arriving here he made
dgn stops at, Fairbanks and
Barrow.
>rtsmen’s Club
>500 Members
! Kodiak Sportsmen’s Club,
tted to the propagation of
ife in this area and to pro
fishing and hunting recrea
activities among the resid
ed visitors to Kodiak, was
d at an organization meet
ld in June.
!r 500 members have signed
d additional members are
sought. Meetings are held
t and 3rd Tuesday of each
Continued on page 4)
Roosevelt
President
Confers
Honolulu (A>)—July 29 (De
layed)—President Roosevelt con
cluded his first war tinue confer
ence with General Douglas Mac
Arthur, bringing to a close 3
days of strategy talks which cov
ered every phase of the quicken
ing Pacific conflict in the Souilr
west Pacific.
I MacArthur was greeted with a
friendly “It’s great to see you,
Doug,” by the chief executive,
who arrived July 26 at this fort
ress island from the marine base
at San Diego, where he boarded
a cruiser shortly after his July 20
speech accepting renomination
for a 4th term.
Admiral Nim tz and other top
flight war chiefs, representing
the full scope of the Pacific cam
paign from pole to pole, were
with MacArthur at the confer
ence table.
Later Roosevelt told reporters
that the meetings planned new
offensives against the Japs and
he reiterated that Ameiica’s Pac
ific war goals are to retake and
free the Philippines and drive Ja
pan into unconditional surrender.
Roosevelt coupled his confer
ences with detailed visits to Pearl
Harbor and other military instal
lations
At a press conference he said,
“We are going back to the Phil
ippines and Mac Arthur is going
to be part of the operation. You
can’t say”, he smiled, “whether
the General is going back direct
ly or by way of North Africa but
he is going back. We are going
to give the islands their inde
pendence. Whatever is required”,
he continued, “we are going right
through to clean up the Japs. ’
A reporter asked if a new Jap
offensive will develop soon. The
President said yes, but reminded
his listeners that soon is a rela
tive term and strategy a con
stantly shifting term
During his stay the President
visited virtually every military
operation on the island from
deadly advanced training course
in jungle fighting to hospital cots
of the wounded. He also review
ed 7th Division veterans of Attu,
Kiska and Kwajalein.
Man Power
Rationed
Man power will be rationed in
defense labor areas as the result
of a new order issued by Justice
Byrnes of the Office of War Mo
bilization The new order, which
affects this area, requires that all
local employers must submit im
mediately to the local U S. Em
ployment Service office, 9 report
of the number of people employ
ed as of August 1.
The local office has also receiv
ed instruction to form a commit
tee for establishing local man
power priorities, to consist of a
representative of the WPB, Sel
ective Service, Navy department
or Coast Guard and War depart
ment.
The order says:
"As a result of concern on the
part of the military services that
civilian production has iulerfer
red with urgent war production,
the following < rdersare effective:
1. Employment ceilings in
war industries to be established.
?. Establish ceiling in less es
sential industrie- which will
make labor available for essential
war production.
3. Set man power priorities
and make such other measures
as may be necessary to insure
proper and full utilization of ex
isting man power.
“All interested governmental
agencies have been instructed lo
control materials, fuel, power
and services to insure compliance
with the determination of the or
der and no increased civilian pro
duction will be authorized with
out the approval of the commit
tee aud none will be authorized
unless the labor is avalable.
“All employers must submit
immediately (to U S. Employ
ment office here) a report on the
number of people it employed as
of Aug. 1.
“Governmental agencies shall
promptly issue any aopropriate
regulations to make effective the
foregoing.”
Man Dies Thursday
Andrew Peterson, about 50,
passed away Thursday night af
ter a cerebral hemorrhage. Fun
eral services were held yesterday
for the deceased, who had been
employed as stream warden by
the Bureau of Fisheries
He is survived by his ex-wife,
divorced, and by a son and
daughter, all living in Seattle.
Milton Cori, taxi driver, was
fined $100, sentenced to 30 days
in jail, and had his driver’s lic
ense suspended indefinitely after
conviction on a drunken driving
charge in the city magistrates
court. He was picked up after
running a taxi into the ditch.
Brother Killed In
I Action In France
Mrs. Ray Martin received
word this week of the death of
her brother, Cpl. Tony Barcott,
presumably somewhere in France
where he had been stationed with
an anti-aircraft unit. The in
formation was relayed to Mrs.
Martin here by her father in San
Pedro, Calif, and beyond the in
formation that Cpl. Barcott had
been “killed in action” there
were no further details.
Cpl. Barcott was unmarried
and is survived besides his fath
er by two brothers and one oth
er sister. He was 32 years old.
Before entering the army he was
in business in Evereti, Wash.
Guam Sailor Evades
Japs 31 Months
Pearl Harbor (.R)—Chief Ra
dioman George Tweed, graying
42-year-old seaman from Port
land, Ore., outlasted Jap squads
which remorselessly hunted him
for 31 nightmare months on now
liberated Guam. Tweed lived in
precarious flight of the persistent
Japs, who huntfd him like an an
imal A 50-man patrol was fina’
ly detailed to And him before he
was captured. Then 10 days b< -
fore the American invasion of
Guam, on July 20, he escaped.
After capture of Guam he has
been reinstated in the Navy and
promoted from radioman first
class and returned to the States
to be reunited with his wife and
2 sons in San Diego.
His companions, 3 other Navy
men, were caught and killed dur
ing bis hideout.
In Portland this week Tweed
said: “I know we’ll beat the Japs
but it means the invasion of an
awful lot of islands.”
Launching Slated
Launching of the Victory ship
S. S. Kodiak has been set for
Dec 16 at the Oregon Shipbuild
ing company yards at Port'and,
Ore , according to word received
by Emil Knudsen from officials.
Arrangements are being made
for a sponsor from Kodiak to at
tend the ceremony.
Former Resident
Dies In Home
Thomas A. Shannon, a former
Kodiak resident, passed away at |
the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka on
July 31.
Mr. Shannon was born July 4,
1868 at Olden, Mass., came to
Alaska in 1902 and prospected
until 1914, when he accompanied
Stefansson’s expedition to the
Arctic.
He lived and worked in Kodiak
for 10 years prior to his admis
sion to the home on Oct. 23, ’42.
Steamship
Line Sold
Seattle (JP)—Purchase of the
Alaska Steamship company’s
fleet by the Skinner-Eddy corp
oration, Seattle, for an unan
nounced sum, was announced
here by President G. W. Skin
ner. The firm had already acquir
ed cantrol of the steamship capi
tal stock from the Kennecott
Copper company. Skinner said*
the KeDneeott interests disposed
of the ships because their mining
activities in Alaska had largely
ceased before the war.
Alaska Steamship has 17 ves
sels, including freight and pass
enger ships. Prior to the war,
for insurance purposes, the fleet
was valued at about 10 million..
The sale was announced sim
ultaneously in Mew York, where
E T. Stannard, president of
Kennecott. withdrew as president
of the steamship company. Skin
ner became its new president.
Other new officers are: vice
presidents; Lawrence Bogle, Se
attle attorney and L W Baker,
general manager of the steam
ship line for 5 years; treasurer,
Raymond Anderson; secretary,
C. N. Mitchell.
Skinner said there would be no
change in operating personnel.
In addition to the fleet the
transfer also involves purchase of
all properties owned either by
Alaska steamship or its sub
sidiaries.
Worker Stabbed
A Filipino employed at the
ioca! cannery was sentenced to
6 months in jail on an assault
and battery charge after he
stabbed another Filipino em
ploye in the neck with a sliming
knife. The victim was not ser
iously injuitd.
KEA Board Picks
Storage, Ice Plant
The board of directors of ti e
KEA met Monday night, with
Ivan A. Bosman, REA engineer,
and Elton Bennett, REA field
auditor, and made recommenda
tions for the two men to take
back to REA headquarters with
them, concerning cold storage
facilities to be undertakenjby
KEA.
After a round table discussion'
of cold storage needs the direc
tors went on record as favoringr
1. Construction of 50 indiv
idual lockers.
2. Use of the remainders!
the space provided in. the new
KEA building foi bulk cold stor
age and fish room.
3. Erection of an ice manir
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