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KODIAK, ALASKA — NOVEMBER 3, 1945
PRICE 10 CENTS
Newsmen
, To Visit
Seventeen newspaper corres
pondents, representing various
newspapers and magazines in
the States, will arrive at the
Naval Operating Base Monday,
accompanied by 4 officers, on a
tour sponsored by the Office of
Public Information and arranged
with the approval of the Secre
tary of Navy.
On Monday a press conference
las been planned for them with
enlisted men, to be followed by
in informal reception at the Of
ficer's Mess.
In the evening the visitors will
be guests at a dinner hosted by
Rear Admiral Ralph Wood,
Commandant of the 17th Naval
District, and officers of the Na
val Air Station, and a press con
ference will follow.
On Tuesday the party will
take off for Adak, and then will
atop here again on Nov. 8 on the
l*ay to Anchorage. From there
[part of the group will return*to
Vhe States, the rest going farther
north.
In the group of visiting news
men are the following:
Miss Lee Carson, Internation”
alNews Service.
George Connery, Washington
Poet.
Edwin A. Lashey, Chicago'
Daily News.
A1 Newman, Newsweek.
Arlie McTee, Oil Weekly.
Jack Foisieand Larry Fanning,
8an Francisco Chronicle.
Glenn Neville, New York Mir
ror.
John Paul Wollstad, National
fttroleum News.
Carl Bigelow and Al Reck,
Oakland Tribune.
Fred Grahav, New York Times
Geue Sherman, Los Angeles
Times.
B. M. Talbot, Jr., New York
Journal American.
Gerald Ritson, Newark New
Jersey Evening News.
Richard G. West, New York
Herald Tribune
Bob Mahaffy, Seattle Times.
Oil Prices At
1941 Level
Diesel, furnace and stove oil is
reduced one-fourth cent in price,
and lubricating l cent in price
Per gallon, as of November 1, the
local office of the Standard Oil
company announced today.
In a wire to Al Torvanger, lo
cal acting agent, the company j
*aid the new cut in price reflects
the recent reduction in the War
Shipping Administration tanker
cates in Alaska, and brings prices
revolved back to 1941 levels.
Man Gets
6 Months
James Bunch, who now lives in
Afognak, was found guilty and
sentenced to 6 months in the
federul jail yesterday afternoon
by U. S. Commissioner G. W.
Bubendorf on a charge of petty
larceny.
Bunch, who pled not guilty,
testified he had entered a home
on Mission road and removed a
stove and other articles to take
to his home. He claimed he pur
chased the stove from an heir to
the property and that the party
who sold them to him told him
to help himself to a lamp and
other articles.
The house, purchased last
week by William McDonald
from the Phillip A. Nelson es
tate, was bought with the furni
ture, including the stove. Plaint
iff McDonald said a window was
broken and the door left off the
hinges and that some of the ari
icles taken were his own proper
ty put in the house since he pur
chased it.
Mrs G. W. Bubendorf has re
ceived word from her parents in
Texas that her brother, Pfc. Leo
Hargett , a prisoner of the Japan
ese for over 3 years, arrived in
Seattle Oct. 25 on his way home.
Earlier in the week she received'
first word that he was safe, in
India. He was captured in
March, 1942 in Java.
Flight Made Via Kodiak
Washington CP)—FourB-29’s
carrying 43 tired but happy meD
home from war completed the
first non-stop flight from Japan
to Washington, D. C., in 27
hour3 29 minutes. Brig. Gen.
Frank A. Armstrong, Jr., deputy
Commander of the 20th Airforce,
led the flight home, landing at
the airport at 4:38 PST Friday.
The dist ance was figured at
6545 miles. It was the Army’s
second attempt to make the trip
non-stop.
The flight followed the Great
Circle course across the Pacific
by way of Agattu in the Aleut
ians, Kodiak, Sitka and Fort St.
John, then eastward across the
United States.
General Armstrong said the
weather was “terrible” and that
they did not know until they
reached Kodiak whether they
would make it. As it turned out
his plane landed with 800 ga'lons
of fuel, enough for about 3
hours.
Cut Shown In TB Rate
(By Nurse Marion Curtis)
The results of the tuberculin
testing in school are interesting
because they show the preval
ence of infection in the commun
ity. If there are very few cases I
of tuberculosis, very few of the
children will have been exposed
and the percentage of positive
reactions will be small. A recent
report on a community of 10,000
in Illinois states that the High
Tonsillectomies were perform
ed at the GM hospital this weeK
on the following: Marilyn John
ston, Harold and Eleanor Unger,
James Anderson, Natalie Olson
and Molly Mahle.
The foreclosure sale of tin ,
Wayne and Helen Mix property!
has been postponed until Nov.
10 at. 2 p.m.
Romancers Pledge
School group there showed on'y
10 percent positive leactions.
The following table shows the
situation here now as:
The first column of figures is
the number of tests, the second
the number of positive test and
the third the percentage of posi
tives.
1940
Kdg. thru Gr. 3— 45 19 42.
Gr. 4 ” Gr. 7— 84 47 56.
Gr. 8 ” H. S.— 49 26 53.
TOTALS 177 92 51.7
1945
Kdg. thru Gr. 3—110 28 25.
Gr. 4 ” Gr. 7— 94 32 34.
Gr. 8 ” H. S — 70 31 44.
TOTALS 274 91 33 2
The great improvement in ibis
5 year period is very encourag
ing. The greatest drop in infec
tion rt.te is in the youngest group
and this is further evidence that
there is less active tuberculosis
in the commun ty now.
X-rays have been taken on all
the 91 children who had positive
tests, Dr. A. Holmes Johnson re
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Afognak Resident
Dies Of Stroke
Nick William Anderson, 54,
of Afognak, died on October 30
following an apoplectic stroke,
according to the death certificate
filed at the U. S. Commissimer’s
officer yesterday. He was a fish
erman and carpenter.
Mr. Anderson is survived by
his widow and 3 children, Wil
liam, in the Army; Nick, Jr.,
and John at borne.
The Chamber of Commerce
will hold its regular meeting in
the banquet room of the Victory
cafe Thursday noon.
Lois Andrews, former wife of
George Jesse!, stage and screen
star, and now a movie actress in
Hollywood, holds hands with
David Street, radio and film
singer, to whom she plans to be
married next month.
Hears From
Family In P I
Word that his family is well
and safe in the Philippines came
this week to Arthur A. Bryan,
70, prisoner of the Japanese for
almost 3 years, who is now visit
ing his brother, Ernie Bryain, of
this city.
When taken a prisoner from'
his 100 acre cocoanut plantation
near Zamboanga his wife, Elena,
and daughter, Maiy Arlene, now
7, were left behind. All during
his imprisonment he did not
bear from them, and could not
get to them before being repatri
ated to the States.
According to word he received
this week his family had suflered
from malaria but were complete
ly recovered, but ail his hold
ings, including equipment, per
sonal belongings, anu furnishings,
weie completely “wiped out” by
I the Japanese invaders.
Because of this loss Mr Bryan
said this week that he did not
think it worthwhile to return to
the plan ation. Although con
templating locating here aa one
solution to his problem, Mr.
Bryan is still undecided about
his future.
Aid Asked
On Library
Through the efforts of the Am
erican Legion, Post No. i7, Kod
iak, Alaska, it is now possihJe to
establish as a fact that the Dity
of Kodiak is to have a public li
brary. As a start the Army Head
quarters at Anchorage, Alaska
has offered to donate approxi
mately 2,500 books. With this
as a beginning, the Ltgion
has announced that the Library
is to be housed in the Legion
Building.
There will be an organise* ion
meeting at the Legion Hall at
7:30 pm Nov. 19 to arrange for
administrating the library, and
for its finances. *
All clubs, organizations, un
ions and other groups and mdiv-1
iduals interested in seeing that
Kodiak hasalibraiy are aekeV
to send a representative or at
tend.
It is hoped by the Legion tha
enough interest is shown ano
that the necessity for having
such a leature for the town will
biing cooperation, suggestions
and mutual help
The trial of Emanuel Davis,
of Kodiak, indicted on two mor
als charges, has been set for next
Tuesday at Anchorage.
Mrs. Bette Ball ami infant
Danielie left via Woodley Thurs
day for Anchorage.