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"News of cAmencd’s Last Frontier”
TOL. 7 NO. 23 KODIAK, ALASKA AUGUST 9, 1947 C > PRICE 10
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Twenty Missing On Kodiak Navy Plane
Shipping
May Stop
Seattle (JP)—Harry Lunde
berg, boss of 60,000 AFL Sea
men, declared sailors will mar
ships without a closed shop
contract, “regardless of the
Taft-Hartlery Labor Act ”
*There will be no American ships
manned by AFL sailors aftei
Sspt 30 (when existing eontracts
expire) unless the union has s
rinsed shop and new men an
hind through hiring halls,’
Kondeberg said.
Seattle (JP)—An Alaska long
rime tieup that started Tuesday
in Juneau has spread to Feward,
Ketchikan, and threatened to
shut down major ports in the
Territory.
Seward CIO longshorem n ser
ved notice they will refuse to
work any ship which sailed out
Seattle since Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haag
want on the Dei ali as far as Port
Bailey, accompanyiog Mrs. Car
at Kelley, Mrs. Haag’s sister,
who is en route to the States af
ter visiting here.
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11 Queens
Sign Up
Eleven queen contestants have
9gned up so far in the Pontiac
raffle-Queen contest being spon
sored bv St. Mary’s Catholic
eburch, Father Louis Fink an
Bounced today.
Registration for queens, who
may be sponsored or solo, will
dose today at 8 pm. Local aspir
ants may register at Knudsen’s
or the Island fountain or at the
Chaplain's office at the base
The first contestants are:
Betty Beals, sponsored by St
Mary’s Choristers
Virginia Bnner, Talley’s Beau
ty Salon
Albertia Farrow, Tony's Place
Kathleen Flood, American Le
gion
Donna Frost, AC8 A Mrs Bern
Nachweih
Cleo Gregorioff, Kodiak Foun
tain
Cecilia King, 0 Kraft A Son
Betty Kizer, Rotary Club
Genie Miller, VFW A Auxiliary
Cherie Morrison, Public Works
Metal Shop
Shirley Muffiey, Ship’s Service
Tickets for the Pontiac to be
raffled Sept 2 entitle the pur
chaser to 100 votes each Tor their
favorite The Pontiac sadan,
which arrived on the Denali, is
on display by the Island foun
tain and tickets sre on sale
thrAlltfhnnf fnarn
Interested Elks
Asked To Register
Osky Weeda, visiting sales
man, and Max La Lande, owne:
of the Idle Hour bar, have de
i cided to make a survey of Kod
iak to determine if there an
enough people interested t<
warrant the formation of ar
Elk’s lodge in Kodiak.
All Elks in town and at thi
base, and all persons interests!
in joining an Elks lodge, arc ask
ed to register at once with Ma:
La Lande. About 30 are needei
to get a local lodge going, Mi
La Lande said, and the result
of the survey will be sent to Ai
chorage.
Official
Coming
William Warren, newly ap
pointed assistant Secretary o
the Interior, is due to arrive al
Kodiak Monday noon, according
to word received by Mayor Let
Bettinger. Names of others ic
the party were not given.
To provide a meetiug with Mr
Warren the Chamber of Com
merce luncheon scheduled for
Thu sday will be held instead on
Monday evening between 7 and
G W. Bubendorf, president, an
nounced today.
The meeting will be open to
the public so all who wish to
may attend and reservations
should be made with Mr Buben
dorf to enable plans to be made.
The dinner will be held et the
VFW club.
Feventcrn tourists from Se
attle making the round trip on
the Denali looked Kodiak over
during the visit of the vessel
this week at this port
Odom Due
Over Kodiak
Cairo (JP)—A third of the waj
aiound the world Pilot William
Odom arr ved here Friday nigbi
at 10:44 EST. He was 21 hour!
51 minutes out of Chicago anc
hoped to complete the flignt ir
90 hours to beat the 180 houi
solo record set by Wiley Post, ir
1933. 1 he next leg of his trip ii
to Karachi, Inaia and stops an
planned at Tokyo and Anchor
age.
Kodiak—Odom is expected ov
er Kodiak sometime today arm
| arrangements have bein madi
for the plane t > talk by long dis
tance through the local ACS of
flee to Seattle if contact can b<
made.
Theater
Damaged
(Picture on page 4.)
Fire of unknown origin Satur
■ day morning gutted the auditor
! ium of the Lyric theater, one of
> Kodiak’s two motion picture
1 houses, but was confined to the
one building by the combined ef*
1 forts ef local, Navy and Army
I fire departments.
' The alarm was turned in at
£ 8:34 am by Bill Grath, who saw
1 flames and smoke at the rear of
• the building. Mrs. Margo Lester,
3 going to work an estimated 5
‘ minutes before the alarm, said
she saw no smoke when passing
the theater.
Both fire trucks answered the
call and were aided by good wa
ter pressure from a full reservoir
tank, although salt water was
pumped from the bay later dur
. iag the fire to conserve the city
water.
Although breaking out at the
left rear of the theater first the
entire interior was soon in flam's
and fire broke out the front be
fore being brought under control.
One Army and 2 Navy trucks
from the base arrived to aid in
the battle and had the fire .'oon
(continued on page 4,
City Dock
Awarded
Official notice that the city or
Kodiak has been swarded the
city dock was received yesterday
by Mayor Lee Bettinger from
the Office of Land Management,
Department of Interior, Wash
ington D. C.
The no'ice from Fred JobBson,
director, said the city’s priorty
bid of $70 000 would be reduced
to $65,000 as the law provides
that the maximum price to a
priority holder should equal th*
fair value, which has been set
at the latter amount
The city will have 35 days to
examine title, and 10 days there
afier before making the first pay
i ment
Terms require that $13,000 be
paid down, with the $52,000 bal
ance divided in 10 equal yearly
installments.
i Mayor Bettinger has also been
i ioformed that with the award of
the d-ck the Land Office
will turn over to the city, as a
gift, Tract A Sul division 1,
which includes land adjacent to
, the dock atea and fronts on Shel
ikof highway. Buildings on the
tract will be included in the
: transfer, according to the land
office.
Crewman
Arrested
Seattle (iP)—Richard Me
Lure, 22, electrician on the
steamer Denali, was arrested in
Seattle July 30 and charged by
the postal inspectors in the U.
S. Commissioner’s Court with
theft of 19 sweaters from mails
in a Kodiak shipment.
He was freed under $500
bond. The inspectors office said
that 27 sweaters in all were
missing.
Kodiak—The sweaters were
part of a parcel pest shipment
j sent to O. Kraft & Son of this
! city.
I
The Cape Douglas Canning
corporation cannery boat from
Swiksbak arrived here Wednes
day en route to Seattle, and
brought back local crew mem
beis who have been working
this summer at their location on
the mainland
Missing
The names of the crew and
passengers on the missing PBY
were released yesterday by the
Navy, as follows:
Crew:
Pilot—Lt. (jg) William H.
Zeigler, USN, Columbia, S. C
Co pilot—Lt. (jg) Nave A.
Fuleibao, USN, Grand Blanc,
M ch. (Mrs Fuleihan reside? in
Kodiak, at Knudsen s apart
montd ^
John E Duvall, AMM-1, USN
Per vis Lee Bangert, Sic, USN
Lixville, M«
Bryce Stinnett Herndon.
AIIM2 USN, Alt us, Okla
Pas-engers:
Lt. Comdr. VVilliard A Eth
ridge, USN. Kansas City, Mo.
Richaid Dale Pentzer, CPhM
Oakland, Calif
(Above two attached 17ih Na
val District Headquarters)
Following merobers of Dutcl
Harbor softball team:
Cecil H. Suitt, 8-1, Lake Vill
age Arkansas; Robert G Gantt
S 1, Atlanta, Ga.; Robert D G 1
lespie, S 1. Patterson, N. J
Ronald G. Fullerton,8-1, Hunts
ville, Ohio; William R. Loftus
Y2, Omaha, Neb.; John S. Ung
er SI, Northhampton, Pa ; Ro
bert H Stone, S-l, Chicago, 111
Additional members ol tean
from Fort Mears: Jacob R
Swander, M Sgt, wife at Dutcl
Harbor; John A. Lambo, Firsl
Sgt, wife at Dutch Harbor; A)
bert Dorsey, Sgt , Long Is'anc
City N Y ; Angus MacKay
Tech 5 h Detroit, Mich ; Pat J
McClellan, Tech. 5th, Rio Vi«ta
Texas; Delmar E. Nowak, Tech
5th Alpena, Mich
Kodiak—Late yeBterdey no
trace had been found of a PB^ ,
missing since Wednesday on a
routine passenger trip from hete
to Dutch Harbor, Captain R R
Sutliff, commandant, NAS-NOB
announced.
The plane, with a crew of 5
and J5 passengers, left Kodiak
at 6;26 am Wednesday and was
last heard from in a storm at
10:46 am about 150 miles from
Dutch Harbor. Thirteen of the
passengers were members of a
softball team that competed
here in an Alaska-wide tourna
ment and were returning to tbe
base and Fort Mears, both
located at Dutch Harbor.
Ironically the plane was ODe
that had made 10 successful res
cue missions in this area since
the first of the year, bringing in
injured and other emergency
cases to Kodiak for hospitalisa
tion.
The plane had gasoline left
for ti hours’ flying when last re
ported. Handicapped by 1®W
visibility and heavy seas, planes
and surface craft searched the
area, 'l he search is being direct
ed from Fort- Randall, head
quarters for the 10th Rescue
Squadron, and yesterday 8 sur
face vessels as well as planes
were combing the area as the
weather pern it ted
Two panes from Kodiak
joined 2 others from Adak 2 out
of Fori Randall and a B-17 from
Fort Richardson. The Navy
Fleet tug Potawatomi was dis
patched from Kodiak to aid hi
the search, in which the Coast
Guard vessel Unalga and U S.S.
Sussex are also taking part. The
latter ship, on the way to Adak,
was diverted to the area and is
in clia'ge of all surface vessels.
All transient vessels and planes
have been alerted to watch for
signs of tbe missing plane also.
All of the next ol kin have
been notified of lhe missing s1*
lus of the personnel aboard the
plane.
(See adjoining column for
■ names of those aboard the plane)
Violators Fined
U. S. Commissioner G. W Bu
bendorf flew in the Fish & Wild
life plane to Parks Cannery, Uy
ak bay, Thursday to try some
fish violation cases on complaints
brought by Marcus Meyer, local
Wildlife agent.
Charged with fishing before
the start of the season were Le -
nard, Otto and Alfred Erickson,
and Victor and Raymond Jam
and Henry Haatai.
All were found guilty and each
fined $50, with $^5 of each fin >
suspended.