news of ^America s Last Frontier
VOL 12 NO 35
KODIAK, ALASKA NOVEMBER 1, 1952
PRICE 10 CENTS'
PRESIDENTIAL RACE DECIDED TUESDAY
Local Man Badly Injured
In Night Accident
A seriously injured 59-year
•Id Kodiak man hung head
down in an overturned light
delivery truck for over 12
hours Saturday night and Sun
day morning before he was
discovered and taken to the
hospital.
Hans Reeman, operator of a
light delivery pick up, crashed
off the left side of Mill Bay
Road below the former Healey
residence in the heavily wood -
ed and brushy area early Sat
urday night. He suffered a
broken back and severe lace
rations.
When found around 11 am
Sunday morning by Mr. and
Mrs. Nelson Maddux, Ree
man’s foot was entangled in
the clutch and brake pedals,
his head and body were in a
downward position and he was
feebly beating on the side of
the truck with a tin can to at
tract attention.
maaauximmediately notinea
the police and U.S. Marshal.
They rushed Reeman to the
hospital. Blood covered his
face and clothing and he was
semi-conscious.
The Ford pick-up crashed off
the left side of the road, shear,
ed off a large spruce tree and
came to rest on its side. Ree
man was partially thrown
from the cab. He was unable
to give a clear account of the
accident. He said he left town
early Saturday night to drive
to his cabin on Mill Bay Road
and believes he dropped off to
sleep.
The wreck was seen by Mrs.
Maddux as she was riding by
in a car with her husband.
Scores of cars passed the scene
before the wreck was dis
covered.
Reeman has been a resident
of Kodiak for several years.
He drove a taxi before pur
chasing the delivery truck.
Reeman said he has no next of
kin and was born in San Fran
cisco in 1893.
Sandes To Leave
Ed Sande, manager of Don
nelley and Acheson’s clothing
department, and Mrs. Sande,
also employed at the store,
plan to leave Kodiak within
the next two weeks.
They have been residents of!
Kodiak for the past 11 months. |
Sande said they would return
to Ketchikan, where they
were in business for 25 years.
Their children and grand
children live in Ketchikan.
Man Survives
Fail Over Cliff
The city police, U.S. Deputy
Marshal, Navy Shore Patrol;
and others searched the beach ]
near the slide area around 11
pm Sunday night for a man
who stepped over the side of
the cliff, }
James Watkins, civilian'
worker at the base, was found
lying among the rocks at the
foot of the high slide by Ovid;
McKinley, chief of police, and j
Clarence Dizney, U.S. Deputy i
marshal, after a short search.
Watkins was cut and bruised
from his long roll.
Watkins was enroute to the j
base with two other workers j
for Drake Puget Sound in an;
Ace Cab driven by Herman
Beukers. Watkins asked the
driver to stop the cab, climbed
out and then disappeared over
the side. He was later taken to
Griffin Memorial hospital in a
Navy Ambulance.
Woody Inland PTA
To Hold Carnival
The Woody Island Parent
Teachers Association are plan
ning a carnival on November
15, to raise money for a piano.
Mrs. I. M. Coleman is presi
dent of the PTA.
There are 26 students at the
school which is the site of the
CAA station. Mr. and Mrs
George Carey are the teachers
of the school which has seven
grades. I
Emmigration
Check “Painless”
The immigration check on
Alaskans going to the states
after December 24, will be
“painless” and they will suf
fer little inconvenience, ac
cording to a statement follow
ing a meeting of the Air
! Facilitation Commission,
Airlines passengers will be
examined at the airport in
Anchorage before leaving.
Boat passengers will be ex
amined in Seattle, said Paul
Clumpner, chairman of the
commission and head of the
local immigration office.
Ordinary identification such
as most people carry is all
that is required for the ex
amination, Clumpner, said.
Arrangements are being
made for immigration officials
to make their check at the air
port at the same time the pas
sengers tickets and luggage
are being checked.
Stove Explodes;
Man Burned
Lew Peters was burned
about the arms and legs Thurs
day night when a kerosene
stove exploded aboard the
fishing boat Wafico number 21.
The boat belongs to the
Island Seafoods Company and
was tied alongside the cannery
Peters had turned the stove
up and was preparing for bed
when the explosion occured.
He carried the stove off the
boat. There was no damage to
the boat. The fire occurtd
around 9 pm.
Mrs. Grace Srafford was an
incoming PNA passenger.
By Associated Press
The presidential candidates
of the Republican and Demo
cratic parties prepared
speeches and President Tru
man was off on a seven state
mid-western swing as one of
the angriest campaigns went
into the final three days.
Dwight Eisenhower said he
will not be talked out of going
to Korea to seek a way to end
the war if he is elected presi
dent.
Democrats termed Ike’s
statement as a grandstand
play for votes. At the time
Eisenhower was addressing a
Philadelphia audience Adlai
Stevenson was telling a Quincy.
Mass., crowd “I still don’t
know where the Republicans
stand.”
Truman continued his bitter
attack on Eisenhower and
Mink Released
On Islan^' %
Mink were reP|jped on Ko
diak Island early this wedT
for the first time by Russell
Hoffman of the Fish and Wild
life Service.
The shipment of the 24 fur
bearing animals 'arrived here
by air from Juneau. It is be
lieved they were taken or
raised at Petersburg. Hoffman
flew in a Navy plane to re
lease the animals.
Another shipment of marten
is expected to arrive here and
will be released. Earlier this
fall several of the animals
were “planted” on Afognak
and Kodiak Island.
Jack Warren was an out-1
going PNA passenger fori
Homer Wednesdav.
Nixon as he began his final
whistlestop tour for the Ste
venson-Sparkman ticket;
In efforts to win the labor
vote both candidates hate
made statements on the Taft,
Hartley Law. Stevenson re
portedly favors repealing the
act while Eisenhower said 'T
am in favor not of repealing,
but of amending the law.’*
Both parties have made ef
forts to win several southern
states by speaking on the mat
ter of tideland oil rights.
Political observers believe'
the Communists will make
their poorest showing tfofe
year. Many of their top leaders
have been indicted for viola
tion of the Smith Act.
New York (AP) —Eisen
hower accused Truman and
Stevenson Thursday night el
“unrestrained slander’' and
said the Democrats are waging
a “dirty” campaign. He far
ther termed it the ‘ ‘most scar
rikms in American political'
history.”
“** Eisenhower did not call the
president and Stevenson by
name but left no doubt he was
talking about them. He made?
his statements during an add -
ress in Madison Square Gar
den.
In Pittsburg, Stevenson ac
cused the Republicans of “ef
frontery and shameless hyp®»
crisy” for declaring the True
man administration has been
soft towards Communism. He*
told cheering crowds his Re
publican opponent had aband
oned the “Republican princip
les of Lincoln.”
Stevenson also accused
Eisenhower of changing
views, depending on where he
was speaking.
IKE AND ADLAI SEEK LAST MINUTE VOTES
Gov. Adlai Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee,
receives a carved plaque of “Old Ironsides” from John Keefe,
17. representing the school children of Quinfcy, Mass,, during
his whistle-stop tour of southeastern Massachusetts. The
plaque was carved from a piece of beam tr,om the.birthplace
of John Adams, second president of the U. S. Center is Coni'
gressman John F. ■ Kennedy who is opposin&S^Henry Cabot’
Lodge for seat in the U. S. Senate. (JP WIREPfrOTO)
Ehwight D. Eiswfetlower (left), Republican presidential
nominee, exchanges grins with Bishop Fred Pierce Carson,
president of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church,
during Eisenhower’s whistle-stop appearance in Philadelphia.
Eisenhower, speaking in front, of a war memorial, told fche
crowd he would not be turned aside by any criticism of his
views that South Korean troops sho dd man the major portion,
of’the battleline in Korea against the Communists.
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