The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21
SERVICE MEN PROTEST BAN
 ON HUNTING
Sitkd Navy Personnel At- lively Defy Game Com
 mission 10 Make Arrest

Not the Japanese military forces but the Alaska Game Commission is taking the position of Public Enemy No. l, in the minds of Army and Navy men in Alaska, accord ling to recent reports from defense bases throughout the Territory
 Navy blood boiled last week when Chief Storekeeper' Kimes, at the Sitka base, was awarded a hunting license on November 12 after several months of petitionins for the license and just three days before the close of deer hunting season.
 According to Lieut.. Robert F. Ellis, of the Navy Air Corps at Sitka, service men have been act ing in violation of the game law relating to licenses and openly de- flying game commission men to ar rest them in an attempt to bring a test case to court of the pro- vision in the Alaska game laws which prevents Army and Navy personnel from obtaining resident hunting licenses, even though they have continuously resided in the Territory for more than year. The law. it is declared, refuses to look upon the service men as resi- dents of Alaska because it is claimed they are merely stationed here temporarily.
 Asked to Give Up Licenses
 Several of the service men, is sued licenses early in the season by the U. s. Commissioner at Sit ka, were later asked to surrender these licenses, which were declared void by the game commission. A number of the men have refused to surrender the licenses and one Navy man, Fernando E. loyal, even went to the lengths of shooting a deer and sending a motorized state ment to that effect to the game commission in Juneau.
 Ellis, who was in Juneau the other day, also objected in behalf of the service men to list of fifty questions" which he said service men are required to an- swer in applying for license. Even after these questions have been an- swered, Ellis charged, applications are held up in Juneau and 2 the issuing of licenses stalled Until the hunting season is about over"
 Referring to the case of the Chief Kimes hunting license, Ellis de- clared:
 Mrs. Kimes obtained resident hunting license at the start of the season but was forced to surren- der it upon representations Of c. Douglas Swanson, wildlife agent. Mrs. Kimes has lived in Alaska three years, a full year before she married Chief Kimes. Because of her marriage, the game commission claims she forfeited all rights to her claim of Alaska domicile.'
 Letter from Ellis
 Following are excerpts from a letter sent to the Empire by Ellis, with request that it be published:
 This letter has to do with the Alaska Game Commission and the three Friends of Wildlife' who seem to think that they are judges, jury, legislature and everything else when it comes to interpreting the laws of these United States. I refer particularly to Frank Dufresne and Homer Jewell of the Commission who lean on George Folta for legal advice. These three people have forced upon the service men the most discriminatory ruling that I have ever witnessed in Alaska. For un- n-Americanism they are tops.
 Most people in the Territory are aware that this year, for the first time since the Alaska Game Law was enacted in 1925, the Commis- sion has ruled that service men are not entitled to resident hunting privileges.
 Most people are familiar with the court case in Anchorage where in General Buckner finally secured