"News.of ^Americas Last Frontier
/OL 13 NO 43
JANUARY 9. 1954
KODIAK. ALASKA
PRTCE 10 CENTS
VFW 7056 Plan Dinner
For National Guard
Kodiak VFW Post 7056 will
be host to several National
Guard Odicers this coming
week. The local post will spon
sor a Kodiak King Crab din
' ner on Wednesday at the club
rooms.
Efforts to form a National
Guard heavy weapons com
pany are being made, Elwood
Watson, commander of VFW
Post 7056 said yesterday. £1
Earlier, Brig. Gen. John B.
Noyes and Major Ivan T. O'
Brien were in Kodiak to ob
tain information and lay the
ground work for the com
pany.
Maj. O’Brien has written
Watson that on January 12, a
party consisting of Capt. A.
E. Ashely, Master Sergeant A.
J. Anderson and himself are
planning on being in Kodiak
far three days.
^The party intends to re
cruit and organize a heavy
weapons comoany here. Wat
son said that everyone in
terested in joining the new
unit should attend the dinner
and meeting. A person need
not be a veteran to join the
National Guard, Watson said.
Those attending the meeting
are not obligated in anyway
and may ask any questions
they desire.
Ben Shell Dies
Here Thursday
Ben Sholl, 66, died Thurs
day afteryoon at his home in
Kodiak, Funeral arrangements
are pending the arrival of one
his daughters here from Vir
ginia.
Sholl has lived in Kodiak_for
several years. He was a ma
chinist and cannery foreman.
He is survived by his wife,
three daughters and three
sons and by his grandchild
ren.
j At one time he served on
the Kodiak City Council and
was a member of the local
American Legion Post.
Sholl was born in Norway
and was a naturalized Ameri
can citizen. Several of his
j children live in Kodiak. They
are Cecil, Edgar and Melvin
Sholl* Phyllis Sholl, Mrs.
Archie Zehe and Zoe who
lives in Virginia.
Anita Jones was on the PN
A outgoing manifest this
. week.
i -
The glass from one of the
main dooa to Kraft’s Super
market fell from the door
Friday.
Changes Mind
Corporal Claude J. Batchelor of Kermit, Texas, Ameri
can prisoner of war who turned his back on Communism is
shown giving a ‘‘thumbs up” greeting from within the heli
copter which was to take him from Panmunjom to a hospital
near Seoul, Korea. His hand is almost covered in the__over
Jzed Communist overcoat tuf is wearing._(AVirejphotg
via radio.
Readers Denied
Jan. 2 Mirror
On P.O. Ruling
The January 2 issue of
the Kodiak MIRROR was
barred from the mails by
the action of- Postmaster
Maurice Brings and the
ruling of Louis J. Doyle,
acting solicitor for the
U. S. Postal Department.
The article in the MIR
ROR had reference to
The Red Heart Carnival
at Kodiak Naval Station.
The annualcarnival bene
fits many organizations
in Kodiak by its dona
tions.
Many Kodiak residents
expressed surprise and
disgust on the ruling.
The article was taken
from a publication which
had previously passed
through the U. S. Mails.
Subscribers not re
ceiving their January 2
issue of the paper may
call at the MIRROR of
fice for a copy. Expur
gated editions of the is
sue will not be issued by
the MIRROR staff.
“We feel that we are
being denied our con
titutional rights of free
speech and freedom of
the press by the action
of two representatives of
the U. S. Government,”
Mel Crawford, MIRROR
editor, declared yester
day. “Every paper in the
territory except the MIR
ROR carries such stories.
They are harmless.
Either small thinking or
prejudice is responsile
for such action.”
A territorial police training
school will be opened in An
chorage on January 12, A. P.
Brandt, superintendent of
police announced this week.
At the same time Brandt
named several new territorial
patrolmen who were selected
on the basis of recent exami
nations, and who will con
stitute the first students in the
new Anchorage school.
The new officers are S. T.
Barton, 25, Anchorage; V. W
Chellis, 35, Anchorage; M. E.
Bankworth, 25, Juneau; E. M.
Chappie, 25, Haines; J. E
Swain, Vancouver, Washing
ton; G. 0. Williams, 25, Se
attle.
Instructor9*in the Anchor
age police school will be ter
ritorial police officers who are
graduates of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation police
academy and also Anchorage
.FBI agents, Brandt said. ____
President’s Speech Asks
Stronger America
Fails To Comment
On Statehood
The president’s long speech
covered a multitude of sub
jects but Alaska Delegate E.
L. Bartlett was more interest
ed in what he failed to men-,
tion: Statehood for Alaska.
However, the president did
renew his request for state
hood for Hawaii. -‘I had hoped
again,t hope that the presi
dent’s speech might give the
administration’s blessing to
the greatest of Alaska’s
political aspirations, state- |
hood,” Bartlett was quoted as »
saying. |
He also said, ‘‘now we
know that the face of the ad
ministration has been turned
away from us.”
Senator Hugh Butler of Ne
braska said he would call a
meeting of his Senate Interior
Insular Affairs Committee to
try and unscramble the state
hood bills. He had combined
them last year.
Radio Club Holds
Initial Meeting
The first meeting of the Is
land Radio Club was held
Thursday evening at the Com
munity Baptist Church.
Verne St. Louis was elected
president of the club. Other
officers are Lee Jordan, vice
president, Rev. John Mol
letti, secretary-treasurer and
Wilton White, herald.
The next meeting will be
held January 14 in the same
place at 7:30 pm. Members of j
the club, other than the newly ‘
elected officers are Kermit Sei
fert, Neil Sutherland, Stephen
Zdepski, H. F. MacDonald, \
Arnold Ewing, Milt Furness, j
Jr. Alfred Vaughn, Pete De- j
veau. R. Lee. Verna St. Louis,
Blanche Shepp, Florence An
derson, Billie Jordan, Minnie
Deveau, Leon Johnson.
Other members are Stephen
Shepp, Leroy Wittick, An- j
thony Reed, Eddie Naughton, i
Sam Molletti,. Jane Smith. 1
Jean Smith, George Hicks,
Milton Smith, John A- Mol
letti.*
The meeting Tharsday will
be partly devoted to a discus
sion of dues and other fees.
Burke Riley, former secre-.
tary of Alaska, was in town !
the past week renewing ac
quaintances and looking over
the town. He was an outgoing
PNA passenger Thursday.
Earlier it was announced
that Riley would accept a posi
tion here. Riley said later that
he had changed his mind. P
Suggest Commies
Lose Citizenship
If Convicted
Washington CP)—President
Eisenhower laid before Con
gress Thursday a massive
program aimed, he said, to
ouildin'g a “stronger
America.’’
In a 7,000 word state of the
union message he declared tide
nations must pursue peace
from- a position of military
economic strength, but is pre
pared to use atomic weapons
if the need be to “preserve
our freedom.”
On the domestic front. the
president’s proposals ranged
from the revision of farm,
labor, social security and tax
laws to demands for votes for
18 year olds.
He further proposed that
American citizenship be strip -
ped from Communists con
victed of conspiring, here
after, to overthrow the
government by force. •
On the ever lively issue of
taxes he called for a postpone
ment of reductions in corpora
tion income and excise levies
scheduled for April 1. How
ever, he pledged more cuts
later as new economies take
effect.
Senate and Houge members
broke into rebel yells and war
whoops and their heaviest
measure of applause at the
proposal to deprive C)ri
munists conspirators of their
American citizenship.
TEARS OE JOY
Kyoko Araki, Japanese wif i
of Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor,
wipes tears from her eyes in
her Tokyo home as she looks
at an Associated Press photo
of her husband after his
voluntary return from a pr j
Communist POW camp at
anmunjom ( P