tabor Meetings
KODIAK
^jjTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
meets the 1st Sunday
if each month at 10 a. m.
fishermen's Union Hall
Me*-Tg»r; President
jidSanstrom, Vice-President
A. F. of L.
(^ipenters Local No. 2162
Hmts on the 1st, & 3rd, Sun
,y of each Month at 1:30 p.m.
jltbe Union Hall
0. S. Signal Corps.
— Hours of Business —
Week-days. 8 until 8
vjadays & Holidays same hour?
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...WHERE AMERICA FIRST TASTED VICTORY
...AND THE JAPS FIRST SWALLOWED DEFEAT
1Richard cIregaskis'
"GUADALCANAL
DIARY"
with
Preston FOSTER - Lloyd NOLAN
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SUN.
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THE THEATRE THAT'S FIRST
Kodiak Diary
(continued from page 3)
Sports Afield magazine, now on
local newstands. The 10,000
words, with illustrations, is the
work of Sgt. Carl E. Davidson,
Fort Greely, editor of the late
Kodiak Bear. Kodiak bearophiles
will enjoy it.
We note also a new children’s
book has as its locale Kodiak
island. It is described as a story
“of the fight between sheep
raisers and the bears in Hidden
Valley, Kodiak island.”
And by the way, that issue of
Sports Afield mentioned above
has a picture of Roosevelt fish
ing at Kodiak, one of those pre
viously published in the Mirror.
As the notice below on our
War Bond contest explains, the
wire from Associated Press will
be the deciding time in our free
bond contest on end of the war
with Germany.
So there will be no slip up we
wrote our JP man in Seattle to
have an airmailed confirmation
copy of that wire sent to us.
It looks like he’s trying to
confuse us, as he says:
“It’s pretty difficult to pre
dict just how the announcement
may come It is possible there
may be no formal armistice, and
that the Germans will go on
fighting until the country is
completely occupied Or it may
be the official announcement
could be delayed for hours after
an armistice is signed, or the
first hint might come from an
Tony’s
Tavern
t
'THE LONGEST 8A ft
IN ALASKA"
Where they Serve the Best Drinks in Town
The Place with the Friendly Atmosphere
enemy source.”
We’ll just have to make up
our rules as we go along. If there
is no formal armistice, an in
formal one will do. Having just
part of Germany occupied won’t
count—for the contest. Even if
the official announcement is de
layed, it should be our first news
of it, and that’s what we’ll take.
Hints from enemy sourees ab
solutely will not be considered.
The entrants in the contest
keep coming steadily in, but the
winning name will be the only
name divulged And we don’t
want to record the guesses so
far, as we feel it would be an un
fair advantage to others to know
them.
We will say this, however.
The extreme pessimistic guess so
far is dated for sometime during
May, 1945. And one optimist,
one of the first received, was for
the month of September, already
past and gone.
Someone claimed we were pes
simistic, ourselves, in setting the
closing date of the contest as
Dec. 30. Wo’ll It, will still
work out all right, anyway, as
we have entrants for every
month.
Herewith is printed a coupon for
you to fill out and to the one
who guesses the nearest correct
time^the Kodiak Mirror will a
ward a $25 War Bond. The cor
rect time will be decided thusly:
The Associated Press office in
Seattle, which handles the JP
press wires for the Mirror and
other papers in Alaska, will re
ceive a first flash on the end of
the war with Germany. Then
they will transmit it immediate
ly to us. The filing time on the
wire A* sends us will be the win
ning time in this contest.
Be sure to fill in all the blanks
on the coupon. Clip it and bring
it in person to the Mirror office,
hand it to anyone employed by
the Mirror, or paste it to a pen
ny postal and drop it in the mail
box. Everyone may enter, ex
cept employes and their families
of the Mirror and local Signal
Corps employes and families, if
any.
The coupons will be timed on
receipt and if more than one
names the winning minute the
one received first will be tlie win
ner. In case of a tie in other
cases (for instance, if two cou
pons were each 2 minutes off the
winning minute in opposite di
rections) the first one received
will win
The editors of the Mirror shall
Top Story Is Film Hit
The screen’s first mighty dra
ma of the Pacific glory hole,
where America first tasted vic
tory and Japs first swallowed
defeat, will be seen starting Sun
day when “Guadalcanal Diary’
opens at the Lyric theatre.
Based upon War Correspon
dent Richard Tregaskis’ best
selling book of the same title,
“Guadalcanal Diary” will bavs
Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolar#,
William Bendix Richard Conte
and Anthony Quinn in the lead
ing roles, with Richard Jaeckei
Roy Roberts, Minor Watson,
Ralph Byrd, 1 ionel Standerr
Reed Hadley and John Archer..
“Guadalcanal Diary,” the
book, has been one of the
country’s top best-sellers for the
past year. A Book-of-the-Montb
Club Selection, it has since beer*
re printed in several editions; it
ran in Cosmopolitan Magazine;
scores of newspapers published »
pictorial serialization.
be sole judges and all decisions
will be final.
Coupons will be received no*
later than December 30, 1944*,,
and if mailed must bear a post
mark on or before that date. Re
member, one coupon to a person.
War Bond Entry
(Fill in all but last line),)
Month —
Day
Hour (mark am or pm)
Minute —
My Name-.
Address
Received
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