VOLUME 4 4 INDEPENDENT ❖ SEWARD, ALASKA 4 SATURDAY ,IAN. 24, 1948 * UNITED PRESS SERVICE 4 Price 10 cents No. 58
E. S. Cunningham Shot and Killed
at Kenai; Wm. Frank is Arrested
(by Pauline Tellis Wise)
( Ethan S. Cunningham, a World
War veteran and a resident of
Kenai, was shot and killed about
6:30 P. M. Jan. 19. 1948. Charlie
Wagner sent Jimmy Manino to
summon the US. Marshal, Allen
Peterson and the U.S. Commis
sioner. Paul S. Wise. They found
him about forty yards from his
home on the foot trail. ;
All indications were that a
struggle had taken place before j
the shooting. Five empty cart
ridges were found on the gr- !
ound within a few feet of the :
body. Three had taken effect in
Cunningham’s body. One in the I
hand, one in the head and one
in the abdomen.
William Frank was placed un-1
( der arrest by the Marshal at
'the home of Charlie “Windy"
Wagner who had persuaded him
to give up his gun. a 30-30. and
wait there for the Marshal.
Both men and their families
were homesteading up the Kenai
River four miles from Kenai.
Mr. Frank gave no reason for
the shooting, other than a quar
rel they had about a year ago.
BOY SCOUT TROOP
TO RECEIVE CHARTER
AT BANQUET
sir
The Seward boy scout troop j
No. 30 will hold their charter!
meeting next Monday night
with a banquet at the Methodist
Church at 6:30 p. m. Invited
guests will include the scouts,
their parents, members of t ho
scout committee and their fam
ilies and friends.
Highlight of the occasion will
be presentation of the charter
to the troop with Bill Merritt,
scout leader in charge of the
banquet. Guest speaker will be
Robert Baumgartner. There will
also be a short, program in which
the scouts will demonstrate th
eir scouting accomplishments
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SLEIGHRIDING
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Many small children are now
enjoying sleighriding on our
streets. Because there is no oth
er place for them to sleighride.
we ask that you drive carefully
around town. Remember—a spo
ken word can never be recalled,
so too—a hit child may never
be the same again,
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WALLACE BISSELL
RECOVERING
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- Wallace Bissell, who has been
in the hospital for a week, is
recovering rapily from a hernia
operation. He will be released
from the hospital in about three
days.
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Patronize those who Advertise
V.F.W. CONVENTION
FOR SEWARD
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Word was received yesterday
by the chairman of tlie Depart
ment Encampment Committee
that the dates of May 19th thr
ough 23rd/ had been approved by
the Department of Alaska. Vet
erans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, for holding their
Encampment in this. city.
On the basis of 1946 and 1947
Encampments, with the increase
of new Posts in the Department,
the committee expects 300 dele
gates to attend.
The change of dates was made
in order to accomodate several
notables from the States, who
could not attend in the month of
June; including the National
Commander and President of the
Ladie’s Auxiliary.
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SHIPPING NEWS
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S.S. Denali returns to Seward
from Seldovia January 27th for
Juneau. Ketchikan and Seattle.
Jumper Hitch scheduled to sail
from Seattle Feb. 3rd for Ketch
ikan. Juneau and Seward, receiv
ing freight through Jan. 30th.
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Oliver Amend is now living at
his home on Third Avenue. He
returned from the University of
Alaska on Wednesday. Oliver
was studying mining engineer
hut expects to enter the Arts
and Inters Department when he
goes back to the University in
the fall.
Leo Douglas Of Seward
Files For Legislature
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may not cvoose his on job j/
may not assent HIMSEJ from work (J
MAY NOT STRIKE VL
may wr picket j
MAY NOT Employ labor %■'
MAY NOT TRAVEL
MAY NOT OWN jewelry'
may NOT Ring * ChuRCh BELL
WNOT BE FRiENRS WITH A FOREIGNER
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Of SPEECH -FREEDOM Of ASSEMBLY
FREEDOM Of REUCm Art FREEDOM
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Released, by permission of Robert Ripley, for reprinting for educational purposes.
This great Ripley cartoon shows the pitiful plight of the common
man, as divested of all rights and property, under that vicious form of
organized larceny which is Communism. Therein a cruelly disciplined
minute minority is forced to enslave *.he energies of the greater mass
of productive people. There government, so-called, owns everything.
But government cannot invent—cannot create. It can only consume.
To invent is solely the function of the individual. With the people’s
incentives suppressed—and with ruling gangsters satiated with loot—
there can be no mounting surge of invention, as has made and kept
America great and her people free. “Working from behind her iron
curtain,” says National Patent Council, “Russia strives to reduce to her
level the unshackled peoples of the world, first by destroying their
national obstructions to commercial piracies. Through misguided
Americans, she labors now to break down our Patent Laws, our Trade
Mark Laws, our Fair-Trade Laws—and all our great network of pro
tective laws which provide, for our people, compelling incentive to create
and produce—to make and keep our Nation strong. Patents make jobs, j
Patents propel America.”
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Wo were informed today of
the intention of Leo M.- Douglas
to file for a seat in the Terri
torial legislature, on the Demo
cratic ticket.
Mr. Douglas states lie has
been in Alaska for 3G years and
during that time has worked as
a sailor and fisherman, lias tau
ght school at King Cove and
Sanak and has operated a gro
cery business.
In filing for this office it is
with the idea of giving the pub
lic the benefit of his large ex
perience in AM ok a both as a
working man and as a merchant.
fie is a friend of organized
labor and has shown himself as
such.
Originally from Indiana. Leo,
as his friends know him. has
made his home in Seward and
the 3rd Division for many years,
and is a heavy taxpayer.
The one thing that the voter
may be sure of and that is that
Mr. Douglas will stand staunchly
for an economical administration
of Territorial finances and will
be against any great increase in
taxes.
This does not mean that the
necessary appropriations for wel
fare, schools, hospitals, etc., will
be cut or opposed except as is
deemed necessary and in keeping
with an economical program,
which must be kept on an even
keel. 1
“Should a recession come it is
well to be prepared in Territorial
business just as well as in pri
vate business. It is indeed a poor
businessman who does not pre
pare for a period of poor buisi
ness when business is good,”
said Mr. Douglas.
"It is for that reason I feel
that I should offer my services
and experience to the voters and
taxpayers of the Territory,” he
said.
— AS I SAW IT
(by Pfc. B. Good)
(All persons are warned against
the use of any portion or excerpt
of this ntory without the express
permission of the writer and the
publisher)
Southwest Pacific.
Manila, Luzon,P. I.
U.S. Army under the command
of two well-known generals of
the armed forces, stationed in
the southwest Pacific.
Washington, D.C.
War! Officially declared by the
U.S.A. on December 7th 1941.
West to East.
War, between the United States
of America and the Japanese
War Lords.
The World.
War, that meant death to mil
lions of the population of civi
lized peoples. People who had
just built up empires and livli
hood from the now cool ashes of
one great world war barely 20
years dead. ,
Many have been the tales of
the experiences of war and the
brutality in the treatment of
prisoners of our American boys,
men and women of the Armed
Forces.
On these pages 1 have begun
to set down my own persona!
experiences as a soldier of the
United Slates, being stationed in
Manila. Luzon at. the beginning
of this last great war.
Much of the hardships, beat
ings and mistreatment I had to
endure at the hands of my Jap
anese captors and guards, I
would like to forget. However,
where ever 1 go in my travels,
the past knowledge of the hor
rors of treatment of prisoners,
travels with me, always a close
shadow that is present even on
the brightest day.
The Philippines fell in early
1942 to the Japanese and all
those who were unable to take
flight to the mountainous regions
were gathered in by the soldiers
of Japan and the horrors I have
mentioned began.
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There was little opposition
against the Japanese assault.
* * *
48 hours after the Japanese
forces landed they began whole
sale slaughter of all the old
people, and the young men they
had gathered up.
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Infant male children were tos
high and caught—on upturned
bayonets.
I
I Pregnant women were forced
to kneel while their abdomens
were cut ope»; left to die.
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Old men and women were for
ced into empty houses, after
which the house was saturated
i with gasoline and set on fire.
:;< * *
The American Army personnel
was taken to the Bilibid prison
outside Manila, where old rr.edi
ival tortures were put inter effect
by the Japanes. Tortures of the
Rack, where the body was sp
(Continued on page 3)
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