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"News oj oAmerica’s Last Frontier”
KODIAK, ALASKA, JANUARY 31. 1942
NO.?*
Manila Reinforced; Hitler Speech Bitter
Army Unable To Give Road Aid
Fo Make Partial
CPC Unit Refund
The Kodiak Electrical associ
ition has received word that all
Jans and specifications have
een approved by REA Repre
gntative Collins, and as soon as
ley get the approval of the REA
dministration in Washington
ids will be called for machinery,
Materials and transmission lines
*he power house will be a forced
ccount. Hubbell & Waller have
een authorized to represent the
[EA in calling for bids.
The first unit has left Seattle,
nd the second unit has left the
ictory in Illinois, and Hubbell
t Waller are now seeking a man
ger for the plant who must meet
IEA specifications and be ap
roved by the KEA.
As soon as arrangements are
wnpleted the CPC will distrib
te to unit holders a return of
oproximately 90 cents on the
ollar on each unit. The 90 per
int is the valuation of all assets
the CPC by REA ruling, and
Hows the general policy.
The refunding may await the
sposal of two rewound mach
es now in use by the CPC
hich the KEA is not taking
rer, but it is thought the roach
es can be disposed of easily.
Blinn’s hall was crowded to
ie doors last night with cele
ants attending the President’s
irthday ball, which proved to
i one of the biggest dances
er held there. Proceeds of the
mce and other activities will
1 Published next week.
The Rotary club was informed
by letter at the regular meeting
Tuesday noon at the Brown
Bear cafe that the army is not in
a position to give any further aid
on road repairs at the time, af
had been requested.
Wayne Waldrip said that al
most all of the funds collected by
the Rotary had been expended,
but that the remainder would
be used for hauling gravel tc
build up the road and cover the
large rock which has been used
to fill bad spots in the road, one
spot alone taking 7 loads of rock
He reported that there were ad
ditional funds pledged which had
not been collected yet, and that
they would be used in graveling
also. To keep the road from get
ting in the same recent bad shape
again and to get the most out ol
the work that had been done he
pointed out the necessity of a
great deal of additional gravel.
Brigadier General Charles H,
Corlett, in his reply to the re
quest for aid, said that while he
was familiar with the condition
of the roads that he could not
see his way clear to authorize
the use of military equipment at
this time because “every bit of
available equipment, both of the
Army aid the Contractors, ifi
now being used on vitally needed
road projects within the reserva
tion.
“While appreciating the Kod
iak needs”, he continued, ‘I feel
the community should be able to
find a way to maintain certain of
its key roads without mihtaiy
help. I am sure the city has gain
ed more, economically, than it
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fealth Nurse Reports On
Clinic Set For February 5
A clinic will be held at the
'iffin Memorial hospital on
lUrsday, February 5th in the
nic room at 1 p. m. This clinic
being held to provide immuni
tion for small pox and" diph
eria for the pre-school group
children Dr. A. Holmes John
n w*ll donate his time and the
iblic Health department will
cnish the immunizing material.
There have been three cases
small pox and seven cases of
phtheria reported to the Ter
; tori a) Department of Health
the Territory of Alaska dur
gthe year 1941. There were no
^ >n Kodiak but that does
mean there cannot be in the
ture. This might occur much
ore readily now with the large
number of new residents being
brought here through the De
fense Program. These two dis
eases are still quite prevalent
in some of the western states
and little is being done to pre
vent the spread to the local resi
dents by the boat paseengers.
These two diseases can posi
tively be prevented by the use
of vaccination and it is the right
of every child to have this pro
lection against the disfiguring
scars of small pox and the ser
ious effects of diphtheria. While
these illnesses are rare, when they
strike, they are severe as at any
time.
A child should have the vac
cination for small pox after he
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New Registration
Set Next Month
All men between the ages of
20 and 44, who have not prev
iously registered, will be required
to do so whtn the first selective
service registration of 1942 is
held February 16, according to
John McCormick, selective ser
vice director from Juneau, now
in Kodiak on draft business.
This will include all men who
have reached their 20th birthday
on or before that da e, and all
who have not reached their 45th
birthday at that time.
Blanket deferment for all de
fense workers at the base had
been asked for by the contract
ors but McCormick reports that
no such group deferment will be
granted.
"However/’ he said, "we real
ize the base is a vital spot, and
we will do as much as possible
not to take men who are needed,
especially in key positions, both
here and at Unalaska. Each re
quest for deferment will be treat
ed as an individual case.”
He also stressed the fact that
men who have registered with
other boards in the te:ritory or
with any boards in the States,
must report immediately to the
local board, if they have not al
ready done so.
Planes Cause Blackout Order
Au order from the base for a
complete blackout without
flashlights or light of any kind
early Thursday night was recind
ed shortly afterward when ap
proaching planes, at first un
identified, were ascertained to
be our own.
Important. Meetings
All members are urged to at
tend an important meeting of
the Civil Defense Committee to
morrow afterno n at 2:30 at the
city hall.
There will be a meeting of the
Civil Defense Corps at the
American Legion hall Sunday
evening at 7:00. All members
are requested to attend.
INDEX
Page
U. S. wins fleet battle 2
Bond drive on 2
Hearing on rate increase 2
City council story 3
Fish bill protested 5
Fire damages residence 6
Women’s Page 10
Classifieds 11
Manila(^P)—Fighting is light
on the Batan peninsula, but the
War department reported that
the arrival •? fresh Japanese
troops to the front and move
ments behind the lines indicated
the enemy was preparing to re
sume a large scale offensive a
gainst MacArthur’s positions.
Batavia (A3)—Fifty-four Jap
ships have been sunk or heavily
damaged in the first 54 days of
the Pacific war, the Netherland
Indies navy air forces announced.
The staggering total losses inflict
ed on Japanese shipping by the
Dutch alone was announced in
an authoritative summary made
available through the news agen
cy, Aneta. The one-a-day Dutch
average does not include losses
inflicted by British or Australian
action, which is considerable it
self. The Dutch list included 1
battleship, 10 cruisers, 25 trans
ports and 7 destroyers.
Dutch regular army units and
guerilla detachments are also
battling the invaders at four
widely separated part3 of the is
lands, it was announced.
Alaskan Army
Chief Visits Here
Mayor General S. B. Buckner,
commanbing general of the
Alaska Defense Command, was
in Kodiak recently on a tour of
inspection. Although it was his
first visit here since the outbreak
of the war Buckner had visited
Kodiak before in connection
with the army’s defense work in
the Territory.
Walter Lynch was sworn in as
a new member of the city police
force this week. He replaces Wil
liam J. McLeod, who is leaving
for Seward.
Berlin (.5>)—Hitler, his batter
ed armies stumbling in retreat
from Russia, bitteily assailed
Roosevelt and Churchill and
harked back to his old com
plaint that he didn’t understand
why Germany was being fought
“We do not wish to force our
system upon others, therefore I
must ask what actual reason
there is why our system is being
fought.”
The speech marked the ninth
ann iyersary of his chancellorship,
and even as Hitler spoke the
Russians announced the details
of the most spectacular Soviet
gain in the Boneth river indus
trial basin of the Ukraine in a 93
mile drive in "which 25,000 Ger
mans were left dead on the bat
tlefield.
Two years ago Hitler acclaim
ed the Berlin-Moscow pact with
the words “I believe Almighty
God will be satisfied that a sense
less conflict in one area is avert
ed” and a year later the German
troops invaded B ussia and en
gaged the Red Army forces in
a gigantic struggle which event
ually lead to their first major re
verses of the whole war.
Hitler continued “Amenca’s
war with Japan has made us free
to act now and see what our t -
boats may acheive” and declared
“we don’t know whether the war
will end this year but we ;ne
armed against everything from
the North or South.” Speaking
of Russia he said “our armies on
the Eastern front are on the de
fensive against the weather, not
the Russians,” and claimed the
the front there was finally stab
ilized. and added, “we have
fought a struggle that one day
will be the glory of our nation.”
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First Article Of Series Tells
Aleutians’ Strategic Value
(Editor’s note: Following is
the first of three articles on the
importance of the Aleutian chain
written by W. L. Goldsborough
and published by the U. S. Nav
al institute June, 1941. Delegate
Dimond had it reprinted in the
Congressional Record. Although
much as taken place in the way
of defense installations since they
were written, the facts and fig
ures are pertinent.)
The Aleutian chain of islands
constituting a part of the Terri
tory of Alaska, projects some
1,100 miles from the extremity of
the Alaskan Peninsula, and com
prises four groups called, in or
der from the peninsula west
ward, the Fox, Andreanof, Rat,
nd Near Islands. The chain
a
crosses the meridian on the op
posite side of the earth from
Greenwich, the one hundred and
eightieth degree of longitude, so
that while the Fox and Adreanof
Islands arc in the Far West, the
Rat and Near Islands are in the
Far East The islands are net
smooth and round but rough and
irregular in outline with many
promontories and indentations,
so that charts of them indicate
some 100 anchorages, bays, har
bors, and inlets of sorts. (See U.
S. Coast an 1 Geodetic Survey’s
Aleutian Island Charts, Nos.
8802 and 9102.) These indenta
tions are not far apart, since the
islands are sp numerous that the
step from one to the next is com
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