"News oj oAmencas Last Frontier”
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KODIAK, AI 4.SKA NOVEMBER 6, 1943
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“Lights Go On Again”
Throughout Territory
The longed for blackout of
the dimout is heie!
Effective Nov. 1, Proclama
tion No 6, which established the
dimou in this and other Alaska
areas, is suspended by Pro
clamation No. 7 in its entirety,
for homes, business establish
ments and vehicles.
There now remain no restric
tions of any kind for artificial
illumination.
Don’t, however, throw black
outs away, military officials
warn, as there is always the
possibility of restrictions being
applied again if conditions
should warrant it.
The order says the dimout
may immediately “become oper
ative throughout all or any part
of Alaska upon notice to such
effect by the Commanding Gen
eral Alaskan Department ”
Boat Wrecked
On Bear Hunt
Al Kreiser, Harry Nightingale
and Al de Santo left on a bear
hunt Oct 23 and returned last
Saturday without any bear but
with a story of a harrowing trip
that included loss of their boat.
After staying in Ouzinkie the
first night they ran out of gas on
their way to Port Bailey and
were towed in there. On Tuesday
they headed for Spiridon bay but
ran into a storm and having
trouble with the engine went in
to Viekoda bay to work on it.
The exhaust pipe had loosend
causing a leak that necessitated
use of the hand pump. As the
storm continued they decided to
turn back. As they came out of
the bay the waves broke over
the cabin of the 38-foot Agta,
and finally the motor drowned
out.
The boat drifted in between
two reefs so they anchored it and
taking their guns, but no food,
went ashore in a skiff and decid
ed to walk to the old Harry
Howe lumber mill where they
thought they could get food. Af
ter following t he beach as best
they could they got at the camp
the next morning only to find the
cupboard bare except for some
corn meal and tea. They contin
ued on and hit Port Bailey Wed
nesday night.
When they returned to the
Agta they found it on the rocks
with the bottom hammered out.
After getting the rest of their
things they returned here with
George Howland on the Bear.
The Agta is owned by Al de
Santo and Russ Gal breath An
attempt will be made to refloat
it this week, one of the owners
said
Officials Seek Relatives
Of Late Harry Eden
Harry Eden, from Ouzinkie,
passed away at the Griffin Mem
orial hospital Sunday, where
he had been receiving medical
treatment for over a month, and
funeral services were held
Wednesday, with interment in
the local cemetary.
Eden had lived in Ouzinkie
since 1922, and was employed by
the Katmai Packing company as
watchman for the past few
years. Officials report there are
no known relatives and that
they are investigating now to
discover where he came from to
Alaska Only information avail
able is that the deceased receiv
ed citizenship papers in 1889 in
New Jersey.
Materials Stolen
From Road House
Robbery of building materials
and supplies from a building on
Mill Bay road, built but never
operated as a road house, and
owned by Mrs. Ray Dell, was
reported to police officials Sat
urday.
Stolen from the vacant build
ing were two complete toilet
sets, 4 packages of building
board, plumbing fittings and
electrical supplies. Most of the
electrical fixtures were recover
ed being discovered by a rabbit
hunter cached in the brush a
cross the road from the building.
Mrs. Dell, currently in town
from Anchorage on business, re
ported she is considering sale of
the property and has received a
cash payment from one party
interested in operating the
building as a road house, but
that the deal was not completed
and no announcement could be
made at this time.
Victory Cafe Has
2 New Owners
The Victory Cafe, located a
cross the street from the
Orpheum theatre, was sold this
week by its owner, Henry Kit
te son, to Lloyd Smith and A1
Miller, who completed the trans
action Thursday and are now
operating the restaurant.
Kittelson purchased the cafe,
formerly known as the Star
Cafe, from Lorena Kizer in Jan
uary. Kittelson, who is also a
taxi operator, said this week his
immediate plans were indefinite,
but that he planned a business
trip soon to Fairbanks.
The new owners have both
been employed at the Victory as
cooks. Smith worked at the
Blaze Destroys
Kreiser Home
Fire discovered just before 10
o’clock Wednesday night de
stroyed the 3-room home of Mr.
and Mrs. A1 Kreiser, located on
the right side of Mill Bay road
just past the Club Montmartre,
with a total loss of furnishings
and personal belongings. The
owner reports insurance ou the
house was carried in the amount
of $1500.
Mr. and Mrs. Kreiser and two
children attended the show that
evening, and Mr. Kreiser took
his wife to work at Helen’s Eat
Shop and then drove home.
As he drove in the driveway
he thought he smelled smoke
and after he got out of the car
he could hear the fire burning
inside the tightly closed build
ing. The children, ages 3 and 5,
began to cry, so he drove over
to the Montmartre only to find
it closed, so came on in to town
and turned in the alarm and gut
| Mrs. Kreiser. Returning he
saved some rain clothes from
the back porch ana just as he
went back to see if he could get
inside the back door blew out
from the force of the pent-up
flames One fire truck answered
the alarm and pumped from the
lake behind the Montmartre
but the fire had too much head
way. The walls were still stand
ing after the flames weie ex
tinguished. It is believed the
f re started from an oil stove as
the floor around it was burned
through.
Mr. Kreiser, now in the taxi
business, built the house when
he worked at the base 7 days a
week and 10 hours a day. He
worKed on the house every night
from 7 to 10, and it took over a
year to finish.
Kreiser was one of the party
who returned Saturday after an
unpleasant bear trip, as recount
ed in column 1.
A special meeting of the Unit
ed Fishermen of Alaska, Kodiak
local, was held Sunday and the
following officers were elected
pro tem:
E. A. Pearson, secretary-treas
urer: A. J. Cichoski, Emil Chris
toffersen and Chas. G. Anderson
--executive committee.
A regular meeting will be held
after the return of the island
mail boat of December 1.
Brown Bear cafe until it burned
down and has been at the Vic
tory since. Miller recently re
turned from Seattle where he
received a medical discharge
from the army.
The amount of the transac
tion was not disclosed.
Grand Jury Indicts
Mrs. Allred On 12 Counts
Draft Board Has Cards
For Outside Registrant
Registrants of draft boards out
side can now register at the city
hall as cards and materials have
arrived from Juneau, the local
board announced this week.
The new law requires that
outside registrants staying in the
Te>ritory more than 30 days
must report to a local board and
receive a certificate of transfer.
The new rule was effective
Nov. 1.
Alaska Quake
Disrupts Needle
Rev Daniel Linehan, seismol
ogist at Weston College reported
at Boston what he termed the
“strongest earth tremor to be re
corded on our seismograph in
years’’. He placed the site of the
tremor 3450 miles from Boston
in the Alaska Gulf east of Kodiak
island.
The Pa«adena California In
stitute of Technology recorded 2
“very strong” 2200 miles noith
west in Alaska. The shocks oc
curred at 7:39 am P'.VT Wed
nesday.
The University of Washington
seismograph lecorded an extrem
ely strong quake estimated 1400
miles northwest of Seattle The
first shocks were so severe as to
knock the needle off a drum and
another had to be substituted.
The quake was not felt here
but was felt strongly in Anchor
age.
Cafe Has Double i
Fire Trouble
A fire alarm was sound at. 11:
27 am Thursday for a flue fire
at the Chicken Pie House. There
was no dr mage.
Yesterday morning shortly
after 10 o’clock, Jack King act
ing fire chief, returning from
talking to Mrs. Edna Kraft,
owner of the building, about a
new flue, smelled smoke as he
passed the cafe. Finding the
front door locked he went to the
back and saw the kitchen was
full of smoke and the whole back
of the stove was blazing. Dee
Andeison, proprietress, was try
ing to put the blaze out King
grabbed a fire extinguisher and
as he played it on the stove Mrs.
Anderson collapsed against him
and rolled to the floor in a faint.
King was successful in getting
the file out before it spread and
Mrs. Anderson recovered in a
few minutes.
Anchorage (Special)—Louise
Williams Allred, former account
ant of this city where she engag
ed in income tax work, was in
dicted by the grand jury at An
chorage on twelve counts, charg
ing eight embezzlements and four
larcenies _
A no true bill vas returned a
gainst Robert Anderson, Kodiak,
charged with attempting to kill
his infant child.
True bills were returned a
gainst A. C. Muldoon, selling in
toxicating liquor without revenue
stamps; Loney P. Clark, larceny;
Luke Kashoc k- burglary andRoy
Tanksley, rape.
The William A. Schultz safe
case was not submitted, due to
the arrival of witnesses after the
grand jury was discharged. Court
has been adjourned to Novem
ber 15 due to Judge Hi llentha 1
being called to the bedside of his
seriously ill wife at. Juneau.
The in lictment of Mrs. Allred
for the crime of embezzlement
t y agent charges that the de
fendant, while an agent of the
Fairbanks Agency Company,
converted to her own use a $400
Russian dyed ermine coat stored
at the Agency by Mrs. Milton
Brown The indictment alleges
that the crime was committed
September 22.
Witnesses heard by the grand
jury in its investigation of this
charge were John Noble, Sgt.
Joseph H. Periseau and Mrs.
Milton Brown.
Mrs Allred entered a plea of
not guilty to this charge in the
Distric Court and filed a demur
rer through her attorneys, Cecil
Clegg and George Grigsby The
demurrer was overruled but set
ting of a date for her trial was
postponed, at the request of her
attorneys.
Woman Loses Thumb
Amputation of a thumb was
performed Sunday at the Griffin
Memorial hospital on Mrs Ar
thur Levine. The thumb was al
most comoletely severe ! when
a car door was slannned on it.
Deris Landin, formerly mana
ger of the Kodiak Library and
before that at the Griffin JV'em
or al hospital, has returned to
work at the hospital. She is
being replaced temporarily by
Ruth Pratt.
Ernie Bryan, owner of a honiei
stead past the end of Mission
road, has his place well-stocked
now with a menagerie that ar
rived on a recent boat. Included
were a horse, a cow and 2 calves
7 turkeys and sunc guinea hens
and chickens.