Mrs. Hall Elected
Garden Club President
Mrs. Robert Hail was elected
president of the Kodiak Gar
den Club for the coming year
V»ednesday at a regular meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Ben
Sifcraft.
Mr?. Lee F. Bettinger was
chosen as vice president, Mr?.
John Rohwer as Secretary and
Mrs. John Given, outgoing
president was elected trea
surer.
flHerbert Leonard Heglin and
Richard Glen Koch of Kodiak
were scheduled to be inducted
into military service Tuesday
at Fort Richardson.
Rotary HearsArctic Story
Of Man Against Beast
| A thrilling story of a des
J perate fight between a bull
; walrus and a hunter was
| vividly described for the
Rotary Clu'o Tuesday by Char
les Madsen.
The encounter occured in
1909 among the ice floes of the
Arctic ocean duiing a hunting
expedit on for walrus skins.
Madsen and an Eskimo
hunter finally killed the en
raged and wounded walrus
only after a narrow escape
from death. Madsen had
wounded the bull and had
gotten into his boat to pursue
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him when he ran out of am
munition for his rifle. The bull
charged the big skin boat and
rammed his long tusks through
the bottom. The Eskimo hun
ter coming to help was also
charged and his skin kyak
overturned.
Finally, both men got onto
the ice and arranged to get
back aboard the Sea Wolf,
Madsen’s schooner. They then
went back and got the walrus.
I The story told Tuesday at
the Montmartre Inn following
the luncheon was the third
heard by that group. Pictures
, taken over 40 years ago of
walrus, Arctic ice and Eski
mos were also shown.
The recordings, there are
more to be made, will be trans
cribed and published in book
form next year.
‘ ‘I hope to put the book on
the market on the anniversary
of my 70th birthday,” Madsen
said.
He also told of his outfitting
and preparing his schooner for
the hunt.
I outfitted in Seattle and
started for the Arctic early in
the spring. We encountered a
terrific storm in the gulf and
lost part of our pilot house.
We put into Kodiak for re
pairs arriving in April 1909. I
was very impressed with the
beauty of Kodiak,” Madsen
said.
The schooner remained here
for two weeks undergoing re
pairs The only two stores
here were Otto Kraft’s, father
of Ben Kraft, and the Alaska
Commercial Company.
; Nome was headquarters for
j Madsen during the years he
■ was hunting and trading in
j the Arctic.
Aviation Film Showing
Monday Ai Hall
Our Community Builds an
Airfield is the title of a film
that will be shown Monday
evening at 8 pm at the Onion
Hall.
The film has been loaned to
Clarence Dizney, chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce air
port committee by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration at
Woody Island. It was sent
here from the CAA in Anchor
age.
All persons interested in
Aviation and the building of
plane facilities here are invited
to attend. There will be no ad
mission fee.
Tony Schwann, territorial
director of aviation, will pro
bably arrive in Kodiak some
time within the next 30 days
to discuss aviation facilities
for Kodiak, Dizney said.
E. A. Pearson has filed suit
for divorce from Florence
Pearson, according to a legal
notice appearing in an Anchor
age paper.
The interior of Knudsen’s
store is being repainted and
decorated this week. Edward
Pagano has been wielding the
paint brush.
Kodiak Blackout
Saturday Night
Kodiak “blacked out” Sat
urday night when the CAA
station on Woody Island re
ported the approach of an uni
dentified plane or plaies.
A “yellow alert” was given
around 10:30 pm by several
rising and falling blasts on the
fire alarm. Residents in some
sections were slow to turn out
their lights and the street
lights remained on long after
the warning was given.
City police assisted in noti
, fying those residents to turn
out their lights. The all clear
' signal was given about 30 min
utes after the alert sounded.
| The CAA station on Woody
I Island received the first flash
of the alert from Elmendorf
Air Force Base in Anchorage.
|Thay in turn immediately
! notified the Navy and the U.S.
, Marshal’s office,
j The Marshal notified George
jSonntag, civil defense chair
i man for Kodiak. The identity
* of the plane or planes causing
■ the alert was not known at the
! CAA station. They recieved
the first news at 10:15. They
reported that at 10:32 Sonntag
j called and said the alarm had
' been given.
Mrs. Les Sorum, Bank of
Kodiak employee, flew to Ho*
merthis week.
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