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Nick !\ , mayor of Kodiak
up to tin nine lie was inductee
jpto the aimed forces here this
ponth, has been transferred to
another post in Alaska where he
Kill receive his basic training in
the infantry, it was announced
this week
Mrs. Miell, teacher in the
public schools, will continue to
made her homo here.
Jiii ts Bund , taxi drivel, was
fti/U i ito to £1 d8ys in jail and
fined iKC ^ onday by Id S.
I ommrssioner C. C. Naughton
du a cl aige of driviDg a motor
vehicle without the content of
the owner. Bunch pled guilty to
the charge, made by Bemy
Haag, that he had borrowed
Haag's car to use in an attempt
to pull his own car fiom a ditch.
h ( harles Lange, nee Bar
bai h I emidoff, returned to Kod
iak lint- week and plans to stay
after a sojourn in Anchorage,
Sew aid and Seattle. Mr. Laage
will join her here in about a
week
Henry Futoransky, manager
of the men’s department of the
W. S. Eiskine & Co. store, left
recently for Seattle via Fairbanks
and Anchorage. He may return
to the Territory and locate at
Fairbanks according to present
plans.
Mrs. Charlotte Nacband, who
has been employed at the W. J.
Erskine & Co. office, is now
working in a ll. S. Army office
at Fort Greely.
Miss Ruth Pratt vs as honor
guest at a buflW su er given
Wednesday evening by Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Kiser, h. onng her
birthday. Guests were vlrs. Wal
in, Mr. and Mrs. I l Bailey,
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil dson, E.
Kainulam, elma An mg, Mr.
and Mrs. Wooga Harold
Pratt, Eleanor Dooley and Bob
Traver.
BIGGEST POND OF THEM ALL, THE MIGHTY PACIFIC IS
CROSSED BY THREE ISLAND CAUSEWAYS TO CONQUEST
THORNS WORRYING JAPAN
. ATTEMPTS
- TO SMASH
THORNS
S JAPANESE
BASES
Ou. s.
BASES
RUSSIAN
BASES
AUSTRALIAN
BASES
THE MILITARY PROBLEM of the Pacific is de
fined by islands.
Therefore it was no wonder that insular Japan
started war on continental United States by attach
ing its chief island outpost, Pearl Harbor. For, as
indicated on the map, every American base might
be a dagger against the island empire. (Or against
America.)
The reason simply is that the Pacific is too vast
for action by high seas fleets without island bases.
And in this widest (9,300 miles), deepest (35.400
feet), biggest (with more area than the continents
together) of all oceans, the Pacific he', island chair-;
that have changed the affairs of mankind sinoe long
before the Japanese empire or the American re
public were dreamed *f.
Along the Aleutian islands tramped prehistoric
peoples from Asia to settle the Americas. And from
South Sea isle to South Sea isle, the prehistoric
Polynesians sailed frail canoes and even reached
South America.
Today the Aleutians are crucial in the ocean war
and some of the southern isles—last remainders of
a sunken continent—are the dry land airplane car
riers which guard Japan and present America with
an avar-ready threat.
NEXT WEEK: Global Map-- “Cutting The Lines7’