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Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15
Brother Safe In South Pacific

Very welcome news has been received this week concerning the safety of Rollin Ayers, broth CT of Forest Ayers of this city, who is a naval officer and pilot in the South Pacific and who previously had been reported missing Tn action".
 The favorable report was sent directly by It. Comdr. F. R. Udahl on his return from avia- tion duty on the same mission. It Comdr. Udahl was recently a house guest here of MT. and Mrs. Ayers.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

After May the city clerks office will be housed in the ely hall and hours will remain at 1 to 5 on weekdays except Saturdays
 The local SelectIve Service Board which has occupied the city hall, will move to new quarters in the clty-owned resi- dence in front of the city hall, which also houses the travel control bureau.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15
2 Properties
 Change Hands

The Kodiak Library, curio and book store, located on Alas ka Way next to the former Brown Bear site. was sold this week by Cecll Helsel, owner of the HeIsel Photo company, to Mrs. Catherine Blankenburg, Sale included stock, equipment and lease on the building, which is owned by Mrs. Jessie Nelson
 The shop will be opened next Monday with Mrs Dorothy Haag as manager.
 Sale was announced this week of the building and land of the Kodiak Cleaners (form rly Kndi- ak Steam Laundry) by Joe Loughran, founder of the Iaun- dry, to it's present owner and operator, Emmett Jennings.
 Amount involved in the trans action was not made public.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15
Pardieu Named As Postmaster

Jacque p Pardieu received word this week of his appoint ment as acting postmaster, made on the recommendation of Dele gate Anthony Dimond, and at midnight Tuesday took over in his new position He has been employed at he local post office the past few months
 He replaces Al King, who has been postmaster since April, l9 40, and who plans to enter some branch of the armed services
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15
ance Tickets } Go On Sale

|nly 225 tickets are being sed on Sale for the Griffin norial H Hospital l Guilds ing dance to be held Satur- evening, April P, at Blinn's he tickets will sell for $5 a ple, ladies free, and will be ale at the Bank of Kodiak ry afternoon from 1 to 2:30 week days beginning Wednes- ,April l9, according to Mrs. 'ren A. Taylor, chairman of ticket sale committee.
 blect of the dance is to raise 70 to be used for hospital is.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15
6 Anchorage
 Planes Destroyed

Anchorage (SpeciaD-Flames consumed the hangar of the Nor ris- Knudsen Go. at Merrill Field Tuesday, hospitalized Miles Oar nall, a mechanic. and destroyed 6 planes. Ongin of the blaze was undetermined.
 Included in the loss was the company's new Beachcraft plane valued at $8O, ,OOO.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15
Boys & Girls

Here is a chance to do your bit in the War effort.
 Merit pins will be given by the OPA to all boys and girls who will volunteer to distribute Government OPA posters.
 If you would like to earn pin call at the OPA office, in the Lyric theatre building, today.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

The local OPA office stressed this week the importance of people cooperating in saving on gasoline and tires by carrying all small packages home from stores. This practice has become established in the States and is urged here in all cases except for large deliveries too heavy to carry
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

Five out-of-town patients were admitted to the GM hospital this week: they are Florence -Ander- son and Emma Grimert, Chig- nix; and Spiro Kaboures, Axel Andraeson and Daniel Wilson, Unga
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15
fish Bill Is
 Condemned

The WalIgren Fish bill was n lemned in strong terms this epk by the United Fishermen Alaska when the local union iopted a resolution urging that ery effort be made to prevent ,sctment of the same into a W as it is an unjust and un- merican deprivation of the ,opIe of Alaska of a voice in e disposition of the most valu- ,le natural resource of the Ter tory".
 The resolution, copies of hich were sent to President oosevelt, Delegate Dimond, nest Gruening and the chair an of the Fisheries Committee the House of Representatives, i'd:
 "The bill discrimlnates against baa@ G44 resident fishermen Alaska and makes their live Iood and economic condition pendent upon the whim of a ,vernmental bureau.
 '[t tends to create and per- tuate vested interests in traps d fishing locations in the Ter Ory.
 It tends also to deprive the rritory, or the future State Alaska, ot any and all control licensing rights pertaining to d fish traps or fishing ations."
 The local unions action fol- Ved similar condemnations at chorage, Ketchikan, Cordova iJuneau.
 Governor Gruening approved locals action in a wire,. say : Am in complete accord h your opposition to the bill ihave stated so emphatically. :" The Fishermen's union is also Iorsiug B. L. Bartlett for egate
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

Stanley McCutcheon, candid ate for nomination as Territorial representative arrived in Kodiak Thursday He will speak at the special meeting of the Central Labor Council to be held tomor. row.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

Mrs. Anne Summers and Mrs. M. Oleane Wallace left this week for their home in Alabama. They have been employed in the upstairs store at Erskine's.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

A. w. Wilkins, representing the tax department of the Federal government, arrived in Kodiak this week on 8 busi- ness trip. He is a brother-in-law of Martin Jensen.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15
Mun Has Narrow Escape When
 Boat Gets Lost In SnoWsform

Sverre Nilsen, 52, is in the Griffin Memorial hospital this week recovering from frost bite and severe exhaustion suffered when he became lost in g snow storm on his way from Kodiak to his home at Pineapple Cove, 3 miles from Ouzinkie, the fore part of the week. He was making, the trip in a dory with an out board motor and was towing 9 smaller dory.
 According to Mir. Nilsen he left Kodiak Monday afternoon and was somewhere opposite Mill Bay when binding snow began falling. Not being able to see he ran into bed of kelp and fowled his motor and was unable to get it re started.
 He began rowing he said, but had no compass and could see only few feet ahead of him The snow continued through the night as he rowed blindly, alter hating the rowing with periods of resting by sitting in the bot tom of the boat.
 With the coming of daylight and the slackening of snow he saw land but didn't know where he was. He said he cut the small dory loose then to try to make the beach, which, although he didn't know it then, was on Long Island. in the opposite direction from what he had in- tended.
 About this time a boat with military personnel came along and saw the boat offshore. The military boat tried to put in to lit but the water was too shallow so they picked out another spot along the island and got ashore and then waded out to Nilsen's beat.
 hey reported that Nilsen was in the bottom of his boat sitting 1 in about 6 inches of water and appeared unconscious. They said there were no oars in the boat and that the first sign Of life Nllsen showed was when they removed him from the boat and he began muttering inoo- hersntly.
 They carried him some dist ance to first aid station where he was given medical treatment. Wednesday he was brought to the local hospital and only III effects of the adventure are two badly swollen hands.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

Miss Ruth Thompson, bo ok keeper for the Kodiak Candy Company and Kodiak Bottllng Works, left this week for vaea- tion in the States.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

Chris Mathisen was admitted at the GM hospital this week from Port Bailey with a fractured foot bone, suffered when he fell from 8 gangplank.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

L. c. Peters, of the Depart ment of Interior, arrived in Kod- iak this week on a routine trip during which he will visit other points on the island.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

! term of the District Court
 be held in Kodiak starting 10 am on May 22, according word received here yesterday n Anchorage.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-04-15

Bill Torsen, IF, of Ouzinkie, underwent an emergency appen- dectomy at the GM hospital last Friday evening.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07

velopment was the rapidly with
which the Bell plant at Marietta
Ga. was going into large scale
production Of the new Bog super
bomber. This craft. the most pow
erful in the world. will play an i'm
rortant part n big push" against
the japanese when it gets under
way.
The overall production picture
involving other weapons. such az
ships. guns. communications and
electron'c equipment and combat
and motor equipment was describ-
ed as good" in December despite
the Christmas holiday and absen-
teeism that preceded II as war
workers thronged into stores 20
do their Christmas shopping.
Higher Than 1913
Meantime WPB officials strove
FOR new records To- all types ~
prediction in 1919. The prod1c-
ton time. ible has not yet been
disclosed and actual schedules
probably will not be revealed be-
cause Of security reasons But
the once OF War Information. in
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Jet Propelled Plane to be
Secret Weapon of Allies

Existence OF the new fighter
was disclosed last night by the
L. s. Army Air Forces aud the
Royal Air Force IN a Joint an
nouncement that gave no specific
data on speed. range and altitude.
But &, said that several hundred
successful flights with the propel-
lcr-less planes had already been
made here and abroad, MANY u
them al high attitudes and extreme
speed and all without a single
mishap'
While the announcement care
fully AVOIDED mention Of exact
speeds. the London Daily Mail said
the new plane probably would
have horizontal speed OF between
800 and 600 miles an hour. Few,
If any. current propeller type
planes have attained that range,
although they have exceeded 1t In
vertical dives
Tho principle Of jet propulsion
on which the new fighter plane
works differs from the rocket prin
Ciple, although there are many
resembIances, including the alb
sence OF a propeller Jets involve
compression. heating and eypan-
sion Of air mixed with fuels,
whereas rockets carry their com
bustible oxygen in the fuels
Thurs, jetpropelled machine
is limited 10 the stratosphere while
rocket machine theoretically
could move ahead indefinitely and
fly Off into space because it does
not depend on oxygen from the
outside
Both principles are similar In
that they involve the reaction Of
tremendous pressures OF energy
which. when released drive the
o A
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
'An Accident, Indeed!' Says
Luce of Pearl HarbOr Attack

Administration was 10 be blamed
for allowing the Japanese cancer
TO grow in the Pacific.
America became a nation Of
Lypochondriaes, introyorts and psy-
chotics under the New Deal" she
declared. Forgotten in a mount
ing fever OF imaginary ills...~was
the japanese cancer that was grow
ing in the Pacific In the end II
reached our very vitals. The NOR
tai horror of Pearl Harbor over
took us
She said that President Roose-
welt recently characterized Pearl
Harbor as an accident
An accident. indeed she said.
Forgive me II | seem to speak
bitterly Of this astonishing de-
scription Of the calamity that ig-
norance and indifference to the ia
panese menace brought upon our
nation. but the making OF our tu-
ture Pacific policy must begin with
a full understanding OF the mean
ness. the folly and the stupidity OF
American policy IN the Far East
In the past ten years"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Soldiers Likely to ReceiOe Vote

Washington, Jan. = Develop
ments during the recess have tend
ed to isolate the bloc OF southern
ers and Republicans in Congress
who would leave soldier voting
to the mercy OF the diverse and
complicated absentee-voting laws
OF 4S states.
II now seems assured that Con
gress will scrap the states
rights" bill, already passed by the
Senate and pending in the House,
and enact instead the Lucas Wor-
ley bill. The latter would enlist
the services Of the Army and Navy
in distributing and collecting a
simplifed ballot for president,
vice president and members OF
Congress. The ballots would be
returned TO the states for count
ing.
1t took two veteran Republicans,
Secretary of War Stimson and Sec.
rotary of the Navy Knox. to show
how simple it would be for mos,
servicemer TO vote Iader resGriC.
tons Of state laws: in short, what
fake the original Senate bill was.
Obviously the two cabinet Of
ficers were stating cold facts and
not putting out political tips.
Nevertheless they performed. in
cidentally, a service to Republi-
cans.
For it has been gossip around
town how Republican leaders miss
ed the boat politically on the SOL
dier-vote issue by failing TO come
out strong for a workable measure.
Instead, they let enough Republi-
cans stray over with southern
"states'-rights' and "poll-taX"
Democrats to put part OF the blame
on the COP. for the impractical
measure that went through the
Senate.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
New elders
Being Tested

Dearborn, Mich, Jan. TEST
flight OF the new CG-13 troop car
rying glide began jap. 6, 1914 at
Ford Airport.
A larger edition of the success
full CG-4A, a 15-passenger model
now in quantity production at the
Iron Mountain plant OF the Ford
Motor Company, the CG-13 was de-
signed by Waco Aircraft Company
to fill a need for elders capable
Of carrying larger combat units.
The new glider, an experimental
model, is a high-wing monoplane,
with plywood wings of stressed
skin design, externally braced. The
fuselage is a framework OF welded
steel tubing covered with fabric.
1t is the first the Ford Company
will build for the Army Air Forces
under the terms OF a contract
signed June Is, 1918.
Construction of the smaller GID
er will continue on a quantity
basis at Iron Mountain in what
may prove to be the nations larg-
est glider manufacturing plant,
and this program will run concur
rently with construction Of the
CG.13 models.
The first CG-13 was built at the
Ford Engineering Laboratories to
enable company engineers to make
minor changes. cross-check engi-
neering data and adapt it to Ford
production methods before release
to the plant at Iron Mountain
where the remaining gliders will
be built. Upon completion the
remaining gliders will be tracked
to Ford Airport in Dearborn, reas'
sembled and towed to their desti-
nation by Army Ferry Command
tow-planes.
Although the new glider is only
slightly larger than the CG-4A it
is equipped with landing flaps to
facilitate take-off and reduce land
ing speed, and a special nose sec
ton that permits rapid loading and
unloading.
The smaller elders are equipped
Soc GIIDERS-Page
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Plan
Suggested

A system OF loading zones for
Ypsilanti merchants was proposed
by the Ypsilanti Safety and Traf-
&c Committee Thursday night at
their meeting at Hotel Huron.
Upon the realization that many
merchants have service access to
their place OF business only at
street entrances, the committee
recommended that parking be re-
stricted at these stores at certain
times OF day to permit trucks to
load and unload.
This recommendations Is to he
referred to the Ypsilanti Police
Department.
In addition to this recommends
ton. it was reported by William
Potts OF the Michisan Automobile
Club that consider lie progress
has been made in the problem Of
parking lots in Ypsilantl.
Andrew Smith. chairman OF this
committee. whic his sponsored by
the Michigan Automobile Club and
Ypsllanti Junior Chamber of Com
merce. expressed confidence that
we shall soon have the traffic and
safety situation in Ypsilanti well
in control
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Carver Names
New Officers

At the meeting OF the Carver
Center Association and Executive
Board at Carver Center Thursday
night new officers and members
we're elected to the Board and a
check for $50 was presented TO
the Association by Frank Seymour
or behalf Of the Washtenaw Indus
trial Union Council.
In a report to the Association,
Jesse Rutherford. director. pre-
scented a very enthusiastic picture
OF the activities at the center not
ing the marked increase in the use
OF the center by children, and the
library by both children and war
workers. the making OF 200 attrac-
tive ply wood souvenirs by the
boys at the wood shop, and the
formation OF a new boys club
Newly elected officers Of the
Executive Board are Santee
Brockman, president; Herbert
Francois. vice president: Mrs.
Ethyl Williams. secretary, and Mrs.
Gertrude Francois. treasurer. New
Sec CARVER-Page )
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07

Washington, n. up Tie
nation produced more than $500
airplanes in December a gain over
the record OF s,7S9 in November
but short OF the 5000 goal conn
IDENTIFY expected by War Production
Board officials, II was learned to-
day.
The objective would have been
achieved. it was understood. had
the Army not withheld acceptance.
for various reasons. Of a large hum
Der OF planes at the last moment.
WPB officials nevertheless were
far from disappointed over the
months showing. They pointed to
the steady increase in the output
OF heavy bombers on which the
greatest emphasis now is being
placed and where Il will continue
for months to come
Total bomber production remain
ed a military secret but as one
WPB Official described il. the out
put isn't pleasant news to the
enemy"
Production officials said one OF
the most heartening year-end de
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Presidential Report Likely
to be Home Front Message

In his conversations with con
gressional leaders. the President
has given no hint OF an extensive
legislative program. The message
it is expected, will be confined
chiefly to necessary war measures,
with a warning that steps must be
taken to maintain the economy
when victory is won.
Facing attacks both from the
farm bloc and organized labor, Mr..
Roosevelt was represented as re-
fusing to make any compromise on
the issue Of consumers food sub
sides, and to be standing firmly
by the form OF the little steel for
mula of stabilizing wages.
While the President is expected
to deliver his message in person
on Tuesday-the End session Of
the 18th Congress converting on
Monday-it is possible that the af-
ter effects of grippe may cause
him to send the message TO Cap
itol Hill for reading by clerks.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Death Claims
.GeorgeGaudy

George Milne Gaudy. one OF Up
silanti's oldest business men. died
Thursday afternoon at the Michi-
gan Masonic home at Alma, where
he had made his home since June.
Born at Standardization. Ont,
Nov. 10, 1865, he came here when
a young man Of IS and opened a
bakery-confectionery store and lat
er a restaurant.
He held public Office for many
years, as mayor. two terms, coun-
Gilman, assessor, supervisor and
relief administrator. He served as
postmaster for nine years.
In February. 1896. he was guest
of honor at a Board Of Commerce
dinner in recognition Of the 50th
anniversary of the founding Of his
bakery-confectionery store.
Mr. Gaudy aided IN arriving at
terms for the purchase OF the city
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Russians to
be Difficult

Washington, Jan ms Diplo
matte hope was dwindling fast In
Washington today that Russia can
be persuaded TO make its treat
ment OF the small border states
conform to the American Govern.
ment's conception OF the Atlantic
charter.
As a result OF the Prayda attack
on Wendell l.. Will6ie and other
new developments. the belief was
growing in Washington diplomatic
circles that Russia Is now set on
pursuing the following postwar
policy in respect to its border ter
ritories:
/. Insist on retention OF Lat
via, estonia and Lithuania in the
Soviet Union.
2. Retain that part OF eastern
Poland known as the western
Ukraine and Byelo- Russia.
3. Keep Bessarabia and north
ern Bukovina.
T. Impose a severe peace settle
O. nr-c-fa NJ.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Plane Production High During December

a survey Of the overall situation.
said that despite cutbacks the
1914 program win be an estimat-
ed l. per cent grrd-e" than In
1913.
Based upon information supplied
b. the military services. the sur
yey said the chief war Department
cutbacks would come IN small arms
and ammunition. certain types Of
anti-alrcraft uipment. These cut
however will be more than Offset
by almost doubled production Of
combat aircraft, a tr.pled require.
ment for high-ootane gasoline and
other expansions In merchant ship
ping. trucks. heavy guns. heavy
artillery shells. ground ordnance
and signal items
Program Reduced
The NAVY during the past six
months. cutback IFS program ply
s2.s56. 100000. Principal slazhe
were ships. sl.j9i00060o, inelud-
ing 305 dest. yer escorts, i95 pa
troll craft ar q other vessels:
See PRODCCTIOS-Page 5
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
Ted Winter,
Navy, Missing

William Edward Ted Winter,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. william Win
ter, 3O2 limerick St, has been re
ported missing in action. according
to a telegram which his parents re
ceived Thursday evening from the
Navy Department. The telegram
read: THE Navy Department deep
ly regrets TO inform you that your
son, William Edward Winter. avia-
ton radioman second class, CSNR,
Is missing in action in performance
of his duty and in service OF his
country. The department appre-
ciates your great anxiety, but de
tails are not available and delay
in receipt thereof must necessarily
be expected to prevent possible
aid to your enemies
Aviation Radioman Winter will
have been in the Navy two years
since Feb. l, and on active service
since last June. He was last
home in April OF last year, after
completion Of his training at Great
Lakes. Jacksonville. Fla. and Nor
falk. Va. He is a 1889 graduate OF
Ypsilanti High School and attend
ed the Michigan State Normal Col
lege. where for seven years he was
a member OF the Normal College
Symphony orchestra. having play
ed violin in the orchestra through
out his years in high school Ayia-
tion Radioman Winter was also
organist at Willow Run Chapel.
a member OF the Masonic order
here and Of the First Presbyterian
Church. He has one sister, Ann
Winter, a student in Ypsilanti High
School.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-07
UniionDispute
Angry, Delays
Rail Decision

Washington. Jan. ms 4 bit
ter inter-union sQuabble ana charg-
es Of a White House attempt 10
"discredit" rail brotherhoods slow.
ed progress today toward settle
ment OF the railroad labor contro
yersy.
Labor, official publication OF the
brotherhoods. declared that the
year old wage dispute could be
ironed out now in "a hours by
men Of good will" but scant head
way was noted.
Chiefs of the is unions whose
wage claims still are hanging
fire resumed conferences today TO
chart future programs, with one
of the brotherhood presidents as
sorting that there was little
chance for a settlement before the
latter part OF next week at best.
The White House remained ST
lent, following the Presidents ac-
ton in reconvening a special wage
board to consider the overtime pay
claims OF Is incorporating brother
hoods. Mr.. Roosevelt's' regular
Friday press conference was ex-
pected to be cancelled.
There was no comment from
General George c. Marshall, Army
chief OF staff. to labor and con
gressional demands that he &C
cept or disclaim responsibility
for the New Years eve statement
by high parsonage" viewing the
Army's seizure Of the railroads
and the threatened strike as pro
longing the European war.
Latest development In the sit
uation, dramatized little over a
week ago by the threatened shut
down OF war-yital rail transporta-
ton. was the public condemnation
OF trainmen and engineers by their
associates in the operating big
five"