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Jond Campaign Opens To iBuy Bomber
lap Gun Emplacements Struck
jets Needed To
Assure Fishing
pe Central Labor council has
jo informed by Frank Mar
jj A. F. of L. organizer now
* Wrangell, that any data
ith will assure fishing this
| west of Kodiak should be
1to Henry Roden, Stratford
•jel, Seattle, immediately.
Specially wanted are statistics
the number of persons from
rluk to Bristol bay who are
jendent on the fishing industry
■a livelihood.
t is presumed the information
i be used in connection with
(leafing on protection of the
ling industry on February 12.
festory col. 2, page 6.)
Dngshore Rates
Are Increased
ford has been received here
} effective 12:01 a. m. Feb
ty 4 longshore rates of pay
be $1.20 an hour, and $1.80
overtime.
he increase amounts to ten
son the straight time and
nty cents on the overtime,
'the previous rate.
) other changes were made in
longshoremen’s agreement,
communication said.
ecause Sunday work at the
! has been suspended the
Carrier’s union will here
r hold meetings on the 2nd
4th Sundays of each month
P m. at the American Le
b hall.
Pacific Front (AP) — Japanesi
gun emplacements on the south
eastern shore of Manila bay, ap
parently designed for an attacl
on the fortress of Corregidor
were destroyed by artillery fir<
from the American fortification
the War department'reported.
Nine Jap transports were re
ported debarking troops at ports
in the Lingayen gulf, approxim
ately 125 miles north of Manila
bay, evidently to reinforce large
enemy concentrations already on
Batan peninsula and other parts
of the islahd of Luzon.
The Batan front, the depart
ment said, was relatively quiet
the past 24 hours, with decreas
ing enemy bombing attacks.
Tokyo (AP)—Through London
came reports that Tokyo head
quarters issued high sounding
claims that the Japanese naval
planes “virtually annihilated”
the entire Dutch Indies fleet,
with 2 cruisers sunk and a third
heavily damaged. The attack oe
cured in Java sea. south of
Macassar straits. In addition
they claimed a U. S. cruiser of
the 7000-ton Marblehead type
listed and was badly damaged
and another 5000-ton ship sunk
Wavell, at headquarters of the
United Nation’s command of the
soutwest Pacific, said it was ob
viously propaganda effort.
The Tokyo communique made
no attempt to reconcile its claim
of three cruisers with calling it
the “entire” fleet, when it is a
known fact that a large part of
the Netherland’s European fleet
was in Pacific waters before Ger.
many invaded Holland.
1Q00 Goal Exceeded For
resident’s Birthday Gift
pith the goal set at $1000 to
He both the base, army and
to, the Committee in Celebra
Nf the President’s Birthday
£ rePorts net proceeds of
p.54, more than 26 per cent
N than the quota. This does
t include funds raised by con
dors employees, which were
ft direct to national head
ffters.
Pal figures, submitted by 0.
‘Wgerson, treasurer for the
2"“ittee, follow:
“jrthday Ball
Tickets sale and
proom, Biinn’s
Jlchet sale NAS
ichet sale, Lt. Craft,
t Greely 164.0
Nations and misc.
$293.7!
7.0i
1 Greek
192.1
Ticket, sales and misc.
Reported by Tony
Kvas and Warren A.
Taylor 288.65
By Frank Hermann
and Ray Martin 198.45
Other donations,
including milk bottle
collections 85.78
Cake raffle 124.40
Less disbursments 52 80
67.60
Donation 1.00
Woody Island School 1 04
$1300.54
Less Hall rent,
printing and misc. 35 00
$1265.54
Chairman Erskine expressed
(continued on page 4)
' U. S. Marshal Handcuffs
Prisoner to Door—But
Only in Interest of Diet
One morning this week wher
1 dieting U. S. Mashall Paul Her
ling demanded two pieces o
toast, and his housekeeper, Mrs
Kachel Gibson, who was suppos
ed to be coooking only diet
dishes, offered nothing but grape
fruit juice for breakfast, the en
suing argument ended when the
Marshal took the law into his
hands and handcuffed Mrs. Gib
son to the door, where she stayed
handcuffed until he blackened,
scraped brown, and ate two
pieces of toast,
“I just bad my mind made up
T wanted toast,” the Marshall
said. We are unable to quote
Mrs. Gibson.
New Restrictions
Placed On Liquor
Any person giving, selling ui
procuring liquor for soldiers,
sailors or marines during hose
hours in which such sales are pro
hibited to them, will be prose
cuted under the Civil Defense
ordinance. This new regulation
was adopted at a meeting of the
Civil Defense committee Sunday
in the city hall.
Also included was the provision
that taxi diivers violating the
above rule would in addition,
upon conviction, have their taxi
operator’s license revoked In the
case of taxi owners, the taxi op
erating permit will be removed
Sale of liquor to men in un
i'ormis restricted between the
hours of 4:30 p. m. to 8:45 p. m.
The regulations were also a
mended to alio v vehicles to oper
ate until 10:30, with the lights
properly shielded.
Mrs. Nickolas Walkoff, 24,
died February 3 from pulmonary
tuberculous She is survived by
her husband, three children, and
her mother, Mrs William Nik
rasoff. Funeral services were held
at the Greek Russian Orthodox
church.
INDEX
Second Article In Series On
Aleutian’s Importance
page 5
News Highlights 2
Army Fliers Found 6
Fishing Hearing Set 6
Alaska’s Growth Shown 8
Patrol Assignments
For Week 4
Church Notices 7
Women’s Page 10
Classifieds 11
One-Month Drive To Begin Monday;
Plane Will Be Called Spirit Of Alaska
That noise you hear is opport
unity knocking at your door!
Opportunity to do something,
and do something big, in Amer
ica’s fight for freedom—and the
opportunity is open to every
man, woman and child.
Here’s the plan.
To start the ball rolling for
everyone to help, a bond selling
campaign will be pledged direct
ly to buy a heavy bomber to be
named the Spitit of Alaska. Ev
ery series Ebond purchased from
Febauary 9 to March 9 will be
earmarked for the bomber, which
will cost $350,000 — and worth
every cent of it.
Even if the bonds don’t get m
on that famous “next boat” pro
vision has been made so Kodiak
and Alaska can show what they
can do anyway—receipts are be
ing issued in lieu of the certific
ates and will count toward the
pnrchase of the Spirit of Alaska.
An amusing feature of the
campaign here is that it was al
ready under way, a $1,000
bond pledged to start things roll
ing, and plans made for public
izing it even before word was re
ceived from Fredrick W. Ayers,
idmin'strative assistant at Jun
eau that there was going to be
such a campaign!
Ray Mu an who had read
of such a campaign being started
in Seattle, brought the matter
before the Rotary club at their
meeting Tuesday, and suggested
that Kodiak show Seattle a thing
or two and buy a bomber also
The club endorsed the p an with
enthusiasm and made first plans
for it. The next day O. A. Torger
son, chairman of bond sales here,
got the wire notifying him of the
territory-wide campaign.
Martin not only sparked the
idea but pledged the first bonds
toward it. For himself he pledged
a 11000 bond, for his wife $100,
and for his two children, Ray
mond and Grace Marilyn, $25 a
piece. He didn’t let his two em
ployees escape, either. Betty Res
sler pledged $25, and George
Magnuson $50.
There’s a mark for other in
dividuals and business firms to
shoot at.
“Seattle got a head start on
us,” Martin said, “but in the
first two days they got only $0000
toward their bomber, and I’d
like to see Kodiak beat it.”
A census of employers and em
ployees is to be taken, and at a
meeting called yesterday Chair
man Torgerson appointed the
census takers: from Mill bay
road east, W. J. Erskine and
Merril Coon; between Mill bay
road and Brooklyn avenue,
Frank Hermann and Ray Mar
tin; from Brooklyn avenue on,
Warren A. Taylor and R. H.
Chadwick. Results of the census
will be reported at another meet
ing to be held Tuesday afternoon
at 2 at the bank.
In his wire from Juneau Ayer
stressed the fact that the cam
paign must be put across inside
of a month, and added “we want
to make the Spirit of Alaska
mean something more than a
mere phrase.”
The series E bonds are regis
tered, appreciation bonds, non
transferable, issued in denomina
tions of $25, $50, $100, $500,
and $1 000 They mature in 10
years from the date ol the bond,
(continued on page 9)
Budget Allotment For 1943
Less For Territory Expense
WASHINGTON, D.C. (JP)—
President Roosevelt’s 1943 bud
get submitted to Congress last
week asked $1,502,660 for the
government of Alaska, compared
with $1,626,965 this year.
Asked for the Alaska Railroad
was $4,750,000.
Included in the budget were
$708,000 for construction and
maintenance of roads, trails and
bridges; $300,000 for the Palmer
Richardson Highway; $50,000
for public schools; $209,080 for
care and custody of insane per
sons; $152,100 for wagon roads,
trails and bridges; $76,235 for in
vestigation of mineral resources:
$10,000 for Gov. Ernest Gruen
ing’s salary; *5,600 for the Sec
retary of Alaska’s salary; $17,380
for contingent expenses.
$21,000 for salaries to legisla
tors; *8,000 for mileage for legis
lators; *5,200 for legislation em
ployee-'; *15 200 for incidental
legislature expenses.
The Interior Department ap
propriation included $'. 5,870 for
the Alaska Reindeer Service, an
increase of *5,000 over the pre
sent year; and *553,180 as the
cost of medical reliel to natives.
The Roosevelt budget contain
ed no provision to continue the
life of the Alaska International
Highway Commission but the
same as last year, Congress ap
propriated *4,000 for the group.