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News of oAmenca s Last Frontier
VULi 12 NO 14
KODIAK, ALASKA JUNE 7 1952
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Marine Commits Suicide
On Naval Station
a la-year old Marine com
mitted suicide Wednesday at
Kodiak Naval Station.
Private James N. Quinn
connected a hose to the ex
haust pipe of a military jeep
and placed the end of the hose
in the vehicle. His act took
place on a little used sec
tion of road on the Naval
Station. A search party found
bis body in the jeep.
The Marine private, nep
hew of Mrs. Billie Johnson of
Stockton, Calif., was found
lying beside the end of the
hose inside the jeep with the
cracks around the door stuffed
with paper.
Staff Sgt. Sivert Raines,
commander of the guard,
found the jeep at 10:30 am
Wednesday stuck in deep
snow 21 miles from Bells
Flats on the “Burma Road”
that leads behind Old Woman
Mountain.
Sgt. Raines reported im
mediately to Lt. Col. M. G.
Cokin, commander of the
Marine Detachment, who con
vened a Marine Board of In
vestigation to examine the
circumstances surrounding
the death.
Pvt. Quinn was a Marine
regular who had been in Ko
diak since April of 1951. He
was assigned to patrol the
magazine area on the Ski
Chalet Road on the four t®
eight am watch. When he did
■ot return at 8:30 am Sgt.
Kaines started his search.
The body was sent to Bre
merton Naval Hospital Thurs
day awaiting burial where
ever next of kin desire.
Navy Chief Fined
By Magistrate
Edwin M. Elza, Kodiak
Naval Station chief, was
fined $50 and had his drivers
license suspended for 30 days
when he was found guilty of
driving while under the in
fluence of intoxicating liquor.
City Magistrate Robert
Hedloff heard the case Monday
and assessed the fine. Elza
was arrested Saturday night
by the city police.
Local Man Fined;
Loses License
Leslie McCarthy received a
$50 fine and a 60 day suspen
sion of his driver’s license
when he was found guilty re
cently of driving while under
the influence of intoxicating
liquor. The case was heard by
City Magistrate Robert Hed
Toff.
Late Bulletins
By Associated Press
Washington (-P) — Unani
mous approval was given by
the House Insular Affairs
Committee to a bill which will
allow Alaska to control its
fisheries. Only four of the
committees 19 members were
present and the session lasted
only five minutes.
The vote was called after
committee aides reported the
Interior Department, which,
controls the fisheries through
the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, did not plan to be
represented at the hearing.
New York (^P)—Newsprint
hit the highest price in history
last week and threatened to
add 50 million dollars or more
annually to the cost of U. S.
and Territorial publishers.
Two big Canadian producjrs
announced price increases of
$10 a ton, bring the New York
cost to $126. The price of
newsprint varies according to
the point of delivery.
Kodiak—The latest shipment
of newsprint to arrive for the
Kodiak MIRROR cost around
$180 a ton. This is the highest
price in history and is the
second increase within a year.
During World War II news
print prices were frozen at
$50 a ton.
Hal Waugh, big game guide,
was in town this week from
Anchorage.
THE GENERAL CONCENTRATES
General Dwight Eisenhower listens so hard he’s almost scowling as President Trun an
uses both hands to put over a point after the general arrived at the White House. With them
is Secretary of the Army Frank Pace. Eisenhower came directly to the White House after
I flying in from Europe with Mrs. Eisenhower. (.Pwirephoto)
Coast Guard Flies
Unga Patient
Mrs. Susie Brandel of Unga
was flown to Griffin Memorial
Hospital Sunday aboard a
U. S. Coast Guard PBY
piloted by Cmdr. J. D. Mc
Cubbins and Lt. H. G.
Cassel.
The Coast Guard duty of
ficer was notified by the U. S.
Commissioner that Mrs. Bran
del required medical attention.
The PBY, with Navy doctor,
Lt. jg. H. McLaren and Navy
corpsman J. Brown left
around 2 pm from the Naval
Station.
Mrs. Brandel was taken by
boat from Unga to where the
PBY landed and returned to
Kodiak around 9 pm.
Crewmen aboard the plane
were J. H. Ferguson, B. E.
Brownell, R. F. Eastman and
J. Couglin.
Honolulu (A1) — An emer
gency committee declared
food supplies critically short
in Hawaii. At their request
the Governor of Hawaii ap
pealed to striking West Coast
Sailors Union to clear relief
ships for the islands immedi
ately.
At San Francisco Secretary
Harry Jackson of AFL Sailors
Union of Pacific said the ap
peal was “merely a pressure
move by Matson Navigation
Company.”
At Fairbanks the Chamber
of Commerce asked the CAB
to lift all flying restrictions on
non-scheduled airlines serving
Alaska. The C of C said food
shortages had already de
veloped because' of the strike.
Eisenhower Campaigns;
Taft Leads In Delegates
Island Seafoods
To Chignik
The Island Seafoods floating
cannery under the manage
ment of Pete Deveau was
scheduled to leave tomorrow
for Chignik on the Alaska
Peninsula. The cannery is
manned by a crew of 20 and
they expect to be at Chignik
during this year’s commercial
fishing season.
A power barge, skippered
by Lew Peters and the Kasi
lof, a tender, captained by
Crin Coolidge will accompany
the floating cannery.
Deveau has been making
preparations during the past
weeks for the season.
Ellis Returns
From Outside
V. G. Ellis, head of the In
surance Department at the
Bank of Kodiak, returned
home early this week after
spending several weeks in Se
attle.
Ellis, president of the Ro-1
tary Club 5533 for the coming i
year, attended the district
conference in Bellingham,
Washington.
Robert Gootcher, Northwest
Police Officer’s Association
representative, was in town
this week selling advertising
for the association’s official
magazine, The Bulls Eye.
Auuene — uenerai
Eisenhower met more than
300 newsmen in an unusuai
press conference. While re
porters fired questions his.
answers were televised across
the nation. '
He gave his views on every-i
thing from civil rights to his
boyhood dreams. He declared
the principal, campaign, issue
this fall will be world pea*e
and security.
Earlier, the Republican
presidential candidate ad
dressed around 9,000 people
massed around a flag-covered
platform in his first public
statement to open his cam
paign.
Meanwhile, Taft led Eisen
hower by 630 votes in the
South Dakota primary. Taft
held his narrow lead in the
f*nntpst fnr 1A nAminafintr
delegates and the prestige of
a victory in the final ballot
box test before the Chicago
convention.
The 14 delegates involved
would not change the relative
standing of the two major
candidates. Taft had 420 dele
gates and Eisennower 387, on
the Associated Press tabula
tion, not counting South Da
kota.
Cordova (A5)—The 1952 A
laska Republican convention
was held yesterday against a
background of factional con
troversy. To add to the fend
between Taft and Ike sup
norters and het.ween nrn-white
and anti-white factions, there
was some charge-throwing
this week within the Eisen
hower camp at Anchorage.
Mrs. Barbara Dimock, co
chairman of Ike-For-President
group and candidate for the
territorial legislature, charge
J. C. Morris, chairman who
appointed her, with consist
ently failing to organize
Eisenhower supporters.
Rent Board
Holds Meeting
The local Rent Advisory
Board met recently to set up
a table of values, Bonnie Nel
son, local representative said,
yesterday.
Members of the board are.
Mrs. Patrick Lynch, H. K
Spencer, Alvin Miller, Jiffi®
Bennet and Dave Gibson
The Garland, Seward-“Ko
diak-westward mailboat, is
expected to be in port Thurs
day. The vessel is now out on
the chain and will stop here
on the return trip to Seward.