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Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29

An unusual coincidence occur red at Old Harbor, a village south of Kodiak, that should come under the heading of Be- lieve It or Not.
 On learning there was about to be a new arrival at the home of MT. and Mrs. Herman An drewvitch, Mrs. Marie Bailey expressed her hopes that it be a girl and that she be named Marie. Her husband, Fred E.. Bailey, hoped for a boy and that it be named Fred.
 On May IA MT. and Mrs. hn- drewvltch became the proud parents of a seven and three fourths pound baby girl, which they named Marie.
 The June first mail brought an announcement to MT. and Mrs. Bailey of the arrival, in Michigan, on May IA, of a seven and three fourths pound nephew which was named Fred F.
 This was a complete surprise to the Baileys and turned out to be an unusual coincidence, inas- much as both babies were born on the same date, were the same weight. and each named after one of the Baileys.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29

We read the Kodiak Gyrene, Circulation app. 20O), put out by the Marine Corps, every time it is put out, and an item in the last issue put US out, too.
 The seemingly innocuous art icle said simply:
 "If you have troubles,
 And don't know what to do,
 Don't be afraid,
 Dial 612."
 The minute we read it we had a trouble, for we began worrying about whom we would get if we called and then worried over whether it should be "who' we would get
 The article had a sort of Dor othy Dix air about it, so we
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29
Boxes in Demand

Post office box rents are now due and must be paid as of June 30, as the information on the notice explains.
 All the boxes are now rented and as there are over Is applica- tions for new boxes it will be necessary to furnish them from any that are not renewed by the date required.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29

collected, and etc. Some days she has quite several dollars ID the box.
 The other day when somebody didn't show up for work it wss necessary for Mrs. Ellis also to make a few beds. As the afore- said box had quite a bit of mon ey in it she took it on her bed making tour. First she did room P, taking the box with her. Then she did room 4, of Fred Gepner' She took the box with her from 2 to 4. Then she took the box with her and did room 6.
 Having finished, she took the box and started for home in the Fielder building. Out on the street as she walked along she suddenly realized that the mon ey in the box wasn't ,attliDg as usual so she looked into the box to see why
 In the cigar box, surprisingly enough, were cigars! Back she hurried to the hotel and looked in room 2, and then In room 4, and in the latter her search was ended. For there..was her money cigar box where she had left it. So she left the box Of cigars and departed with her own box of money.
 That should have ended 1t but when Fred Gepner returned to his room he was quite surprised to find the box of cigars. They weren't his. Investigation dis closed they had come from room 2.
 You figure it out.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29
AANN JEAN GEORGE,
CITATION
a minor.

10 CLAYTON B. GEORGE, REETING.
 You are hereby commanded to eand appear in the above en- atled court, at Kodiak, Alaska n Monday July 29, 1916, then md there toshow cause, if any here be, why the court should Aot adjudge Jo Ann Jean Geo1ge 70 ebe the adopted daughter of Emil knudsen of Kodiak, Alas Ia, and her name changed from 10 Ann Jean George to Jo Ann 'san Knudsen, and further why the petition of Emil Knudsen and Margery M. Knudsen on file herein should not be granted.
 And If you fail so to appear, Adgment and decree will be ent- ned against you as in said peti- Dor prayed for.
 Dated this 10th day of June la46.
 c. W. Bubendorf
 United States Commissioner
 and Ex-officio Probate Judge Pub. June 15, p, 29.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29

(eontinued from page 10) right to beat me up if he wants to and you can't do anything about itp
 To which we might add that If she is planning that move, she had better hurry. We have it on good authority that the husband has already taken steps toward getting a divorce.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29

Mrs. Georgya Craig Wilbur Ellis is spending the summer a-elerking at the Kodiak (form- erIy Sunbeam) hotel
 As a badge of her office she carts with her a cigar box, which is repository for keys, moneys
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29
Directory
KODIAK

KODIAK @TRAL LABOR COUNCIL meets the 1st Sunday d each month at 10 a. m. Fishermen's Unlon Hall Glen Robinson. President Stuart Nuckols, Secretary
Kodiak mirror., 1946-06-29
Kodiok Diary

(eontinued from page 1o)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-07
GIRL FOR ECKLUNDs

A daughter was born. to MT. and Mrs. Paul Ecklund of Thane this morning at 5:45 o'clock in St. Ann's Hospital. The infant weighs 6 pounds, IS ounces. MT. Eek lund is employed at the Alaska Juneau Mine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-07
IOE P ALOOK A

A SeciES or INCIDENTS ARE ABOUT TO OCCUR WHICH WE BGLlEVE WILL 8G THE MOST EXCITING AND IMPORTANT Gx PERlENCES IN JOe PALOOkAS LIFE. THE FIRST THING TO HAPPEN IS A REQUEST TO COME 10 WALTER REED HOS PtTAL AND GIVE AN GXtilBlTlON FOR THe WOUNDED
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
Year In Japan

There is some reason to question the
establishment of democratic. govern
ment in Japan, although progress has
been made during the year of American
occupation in that direction, but there
can be no doubt that Japan's war po-
tential is destroyed.
A War Department summary, con-
densing General MacArthur's report on
conditions, shows that Japan's military
liquidation required the disarming and
rehabilitation of some 100000 or
ganized and armed men in the home
islands and $4,000 0 abroad. Futher-
more it was necessary to retrieve from
overseas some 1000, 900 civilians and to
repatriate to their homelands another
million Allied nationals.
Says the summary:
To-day, after a single year, the rem
nants of the overseas forces, scattered
over thousands of miles, are streaming
home and the work of repatriation is
drawing to a close. Nine million have
been processed in this time. For mag
nitude, thoroughness, speed and precl-
sion, this has constituted a %demobiliza-
ton and repatriation which has no pre-
cedent in history.
"To insure further the destruction
of Japan's war-making power, thous-
ands of military and civil aircraft and
millions of weapons of various ~calibers,
with vast quantities of ammunition,
have been seized and disposed of; rem
nants of the Japanese Navy have been
taken over and are being destroyed or
held for Allied division; and every ele-
ment of Japanese industry utilized for
or capable of adjustment to the making
of implements of war has been either
destroyed or brought under our COM
plete control. Thus, from a material
standpoint also, Japan's %war-making
power and potential is ended"
To say that General Macarthur
struts too much, this seems to supply
the perfect answer.
Would that as much could be said
OF the European occupation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03

ing peace or sowing the fertile seeds
of more and worse wars.
Maybe he is wrong, though it is
hard to see how any sincere believer
in democracy could argue against his
position.
Right or wrong, he has the right to
make the argument. If the preserva-
ton of peace henceforth is to be in
the hands of a United Nations, in which
all peace-loving peoples are participants,
then the fact that his country is small,
located thousands of miles from Paris,
is immaterial. It would be equally I'M
material if Hodgson, Walker and Beas-
ley were country yokels instead OF the
educated, Travelled c%osmopolites they
really are.
It was high time that somebody
should raise the question whether the
glorious world of the future is to be
fashioned by open covenants openly ar
rived at by majority rule, or whether
it is to revert to secret power covenants
forced by the Big Four upon everybody
else.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
Bibles For Germany

Now that Mein Kampf has lost face
IN Germany it is especially necessary
to give the young men of the country,
particularly those between eighteen and
thirty, something else to guide their
thinking and conduct. They have seen
the Hitler preachment confuted in a
terrible way and as a consequence are
lost in a mental wilderness.
In an effort to give them sound train
ing a million Bibles printed in the Ger
man language are to be distributed
among the people and churches as rapid
~ as the presses can produce them. AS
a start the American Bible Society will
ship 100000 copies and a large number
OF New Testaments. simultaneously
$4,000 Testaments will be printed in
Finland and distributed in Germany.
All this is supplemental to the So
ciety's distribution last year, which is
reported to have totaled $4,000 Bibles,
$4,000 Testaments, and $3.50 copies
of the Gospels.
If this movement, which certainly
deserves complete success, offsets the
Godlessnes and other tenets Of com
munism the Russians are sedulously
spreading in Germany, especially in its
zone of occupation, it will have accom-
plished more for the future of the coun
try and civilization at large than all the
diplomatic endeavor the anti-communis.
tic world can bring to bear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
Greek Election

Tabulations from the election in
Greece were too confused last night
to present an accurate picture of the
plebiscite, but it is apparent that a
majority of ballots favoring return of
King George was cast.
Whether restoration of the mon
archy in that troubled land will prove
best for the people can be determined
only by the future, that is to say by
the calibre of the advisers with whom
he surrounds himself and the ability
of the rank and file of the people to
stand by their king when he is right
and caution him against all excesses.
Probably it is better for Greece that
an outright democracy, as we under
stand that form of government, was re-
jected. England's form doubtless would
fit the need best.
The phase of the election that en-
cages deepest interest is that the re-
turns are an unmistakable rebuff for
Russia, which has sought Intellectually
to drop its iron curtain over this, the
only Balkan state not behind it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
Mex enney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

WHY You Lose at Bridge by
S. J. Simon of London, is one
of the most enjoyable bridge books
it has been my pleasure to read.
l do not know the author, but his
publishers claim he is one of the
worlds greatest bridge players.
am giving you today the very
first hand out of his book. MI
Snug" (South) quickly and easily
found himself in a four-spade
contract.
When West made his opening
lead and the dummy went down,
Mr.. Snug said, PLAY the ace OF
diamonds, which won the trick.
Now he saw that il he could make
the right heart finesse and club
finesse, and if the spades broke,
he could. make a grand slam, Sc
his next remark was, Probably
missed a slam, partner"
He played the king of spades
from dummy, and when East dis
carded a heart, MI. Snug chuck
led and said, Lucky we did not
get into the SIAM" He proceeded
to draw another trump, and by
this time it had occurred to him
shat he might not even make his
contract.
He cashed the ace and king OF
clubs, intending to ruff the third
club and hoping that the queen
would fall. But West overtrumped
the third club, cashed his high
trump and winning diamond, then
let Mr.. Snug ruff the next dia-
mond. Then Mr.. Snug misguessed
the heart finesse and said, Sorry,
partner, but everything was
wrong"
The hand Of course was ice-cold
for five-odd.
Mr.. Simon sums up MI. Sumg's
mistakes as follows: fir t,
hasty play to the first trick; sec
ond. mismanagement of trumps:
third, failure to throw q loser on
a loser; and fourth, failure to
count the hand. Even though he
misguessed the trumps,, he could
have assured four-odd by discard
ing his losing diamond on the jack
of clubs. Then he would not have
been forced to guess the heart
finesse.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
Religion

BY L 7. ELLIS
ooh. WHAT A

ooh, WHAT A CHANGE
AS a world traveller, l do
not marvel greatly at the material
changes which I have seen come
over the backward nations. These
things are quite applicable: any
body can understand their why and
how.
But I do marvel endlessly at the
changes which I have seer wrought
in human character - dirty lives
made clean, weak lives made
strong, selfish lives made loving,
pagan lives made Christian.
Only a Power surprising all 9TH
err powers could work this wonder.
Some authority and potency far be-
yond the preachers message or ed
ucation's wisdom or civilization
methods must be at work thus tc
change stubborn, contrary, self.
ceatered human hearts.
This Power of Christ is at once
the hope and help of every Chris.
tian worker. It goes farther thar
his uttermost efforts, and makes
avalling his weakest attempts. The
secret OF the trolley car is in the
power house; the secret of success.
u service for Christ is in ..his
"au power"
Why are we so weak and troub,-
ed and ineffective, u Father.
when Thy limitless power awaits
our appropriation. Center all our
expectation and all our ACTIVITY
upon Thee, in Whom are o,,r
springs. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
Australian Country Bow

1t seems incredible that so violent
a dispute could have been provoked by
Australia's original dispassionate sug-
gestlon that, before reparations are
finally imposed upon the former Axis
nations, it should be determined
whether they can be paid.
So far as can be determined from
news dispatches the Aussies did not
question whether the reparations ask
ed by Russia and her satellites are
Justified, or dispute that they are pay
able. Colonel Hodgson, DR.. Walker and
MIR. Beasley appear merely to have pro-
posed that the nations that will be ask
ed to sign the treaties should be inform
ed what the facts are.
Soviet spokesman Vishinsky says
that Colonel Hodgson is like a country
boy come to the big city and eager to
try out the gadgets. That is not only
untrue and unfair, but the weakest sort
of argument.
Colonel Hodgson apparently has read
history. He knows what happened when.
after World Wa I, the Allies imposed
impossible reparations upon GERMANY.
He has seen that wars are conceived
whenever any vigorous, potentially pow
erful people is so degraded, so enslav-
ed that it must fight for existence like
a cornered rat.
1t is extremely doubtful that the
Aussies have any sympathy for any
Axis nation. They may be $4,000 miles
from Paris, but they have plenty of
gold star homes to prove that they
were at the very heart of World War
II. That, however, is not the real point.
Colonel Hodgson and his associates
contend that the small Allied nations
are entitled to a voice in the peace they
fought to make possible. He feels that
no nation, however small, should be
expected to sign a treaty unless it has
been told what has gone into that trea.
ty-until it knows whether it is max.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03

When Sir John Yeamans was
governor of the Island of Barba-
does, he fitted out a small vessel
and sent her under the commend
Of a Capt. Hilton, on a voyage OF
discovery. Hilton, according to in
structions, coasted along the
shore of the mainland, until he
discovered the moutl. of the Cape
Fear River, which he entered and
assembled with his vessel, as TAI
as the junction of its two main
branches, now known as the North
West and North East. Here ne
anchored and proceeded with
small boat 20 ascend, selecting
the North East branch as the most
inviting for farther exploration
Several points attracted the at
tention and admiration of the ad-
venturers, to which they attached
names more or less Characters
tic, and it is somewhat remark
able that even at this remote time,
many of those places retain the
names given them by the first
white men who had passed that
way. Such, for instance, the first
attractive point on the right bank
of the River as they assembled was
named Hilton, in compliment OF
the commander of the party.
Without encountering any I'M
usual adventures, so far as tradi-
ton relates, about the highest
point which they reached was a
place called Stag Park. named SO
by them on she West bank of the
stream. The tradition is that they
saw a heard of deer on a handsome
bluff, which overlooks the stream
at this point. Standing amidst a
magnificent park of forest trees,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03

tors, than their red skinned coten-
ants of the forest.
Meeting with some obstruction
to his farther ascent, Hilton with
his party returned 70 their vessel,
and after exploring a short dis
lance up the North West branch,
from the bank of which they were
assailed by some Indians, they
set sail for Barbados, to make
report of their discovery.
Sir John Yeamans himself at
terward visited the Capt Fear.
and brought a colony with him and
made a settlement on the West
bank of the River, near the mouth
of a stream, which he named
Charles River, now known as Old
Town Creek. Finding this location
unhealthy and otherwise insult
able. Yeamans soon abandoned it,
and sailing farther South, he set
tied with his colony at the juno
ton of the Ashley and Cooper
Rivers, where be founded the city
of Charleston, naming it after his
Sovereign and patron, Charles
End.
Not designing to follow, the prog
ress of Yeamans with his colony,
we will return to the Cape Fear,
of whose early traditions the
writer has undertaken at the
solicitations of some much valu-
ed friends, to narrated so far as
his memory serves some imper-
feet sketches. After this section
began to be visited and settle
ments made by emigrants from
Europe and the other provinces,
amongst the earliest places that
attracted attention was Stag Park.
It was first located and patented
by George Burlington, then gov
ernor of the Province of North
Carolina. This Gov. Burlington
was a very worthless and pro-
fligate character, so much so,
that on one occasion being at
Edenton he was presented by the
grand jury of Chowan Co., for
rlotous and disorderly conduct on
the streets with a party of rowdy
companions. Of such material
as this. did our English rulers
make governors for the guardian
ship OF the lives and fortunes of
their loyal subjects in these prov
inces.
After having ~disgraced himself
In America Burlington returned
to England. where still pursuing
his profiligate habits, he not long
after lost his life in a street brawl.
in the city of London. Before that
event he had contracted a debt
to a Mr.. Strudwick, for which he
mortgaged the Stag Park estate
of ten thousand acres. and a large
body of land which he owned in
what was knowns as the Hawfields
in Orange County.
Mr.. Strudwick sent his son Ed,
mund to look after his property
thus acquired in this country. The
tradition "a shat this gentleman
had fallen into d~isfavor with his
friends on account of his having
married an actress in the CITY of
London, which was the cause of
his coming to settle in America
residence was divided be-
tween Stag Park and the Haw-
fields. He left a son whom the
writer has only heard mentioned
as Major StrudWick, and as quite
an influential citizen of Orange
Co., where he chiefly resided. He
married a Miss Shepard of Orange.
by which marriage there were
Continued on Page. Eighty
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DINNER AT THE While
HOUSE by Louis Adamlc Thar
per: $3.50.
Just as with ordinary people one
thing leads to another, SO win ''
thors one book leads to ano'1 III.
It has happened with AdamIc. nm
"Two-Way PASSAGE" published TIVE
years ago. in which he sus2eS''-
that we in helping to r%ehaoAi'st
Europe should give European
salutary lessons in democr'c.
earned him an invitation 10 Q
White House dinner.
Churchill was there. SEEING jill.
evitable the oppcrtunitv to conps.;;
the two leaders, Adamic ioo'
Churchill magnificently, but re7lS
hensibly, of one mind. and H0o,E
welt of several. The EngIsn.'o.
goal was survival Of The B.T,s
Empire and victory; Roosevel' d:
peared to reflect the tremeooO.-
diversity of America. Pf'Ia 4.
democracy at homo ard aosc-a ...
certain of its capabilities, the Va.
time president was perhaps NJ. ~. NJ
termined enough to do MISSION. a..
work for it abroad, thinking "a. ,,s
that the fact that We hao d = ".
thing was no reason for letting o.
err peoples in on ii. too.
From then on Adamic traces =. !
deterioration internationally =.
the position Of democracy L4 ra .t.
ca as as9 well as Britain. Church ,t.
went diligently about his 9 2rs.
ness, and we are told Of the En-. B.+
on's secret meetings with BS. Io4
reactionaries in Rome IN 5
which so disturbed the h''5 4ssf
that, to forestall HIM. .-.1
switched their objective oa -
Warsaw down into the O@
thians. ~.
says Adamic, are ore WOW "a.
"Official WASHINGTON ht.
nara1vzed bv its u%ninforfneu -,
Russia, the slavs, Com NJ i, M
At bottom, it lacked ldiA'
American way.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
Doctor Says
|L0SOF WEIGHT
DEPENDS ON FOOn
BY WILLIAM A. O'BREIN "

Advertisements for
"cures' usually fail 10 ooesy
that in addition to taki r' 10
'guaranteed' remedy. the n.4 he
must eat less if his bodyweiysss,..s a NJ
to be reduced. Reducing s: sss is
foods Oats, oils. sugars F-'S,sT
starches) in the diet forcs. %9a
body to use its fat reserves ne
energy expenditure. w
Exercise is an inefficient ~.
Cd of weight reduction Orl 4sr'
enormous expenditure Of an
can equal the reduction ysl,s ssy
foods. ""V'ag
Most persons who ara
weight find it difficult 10 eyar pas''
because Of the strain on Gse,
hearts from the extra fat p. %-sL'
they have been carrying ar o-.y1
AS weight reduction sets r1ss,
way, however, exercise i 2 '. gas,
tonic to muscles which have 6 5sss
inactive for some time. '''l
Belts and girdles improve j..
appearance, but they do not We ra
duce weight. They coronrAS, ~
fat without reducing it.. ~F
Massage has no effect ON t.4.-
a~ccumulations. They must /.
leached out from the inside. ~, W
cannot be rubbed away from ~
outside. ''
So-called reducing food, b,p,
low caloric-value that is. pna sr-T
value. Fruits and vegetables ~ ..
excellent examples of reducing
foods, All foods, however. are loTs
in calories if only small portion,
of them are eaten.
Weight reduction through II,
use of laxatives or as a result A.
sweating is only temporary. The
lost weight is regained as soon a,
water is taken into the sysfen
Bath salts, reducing pastes, and
soaps do not cause permanent
Weight-loss, either.
Fat is the body's s~torehouse NJ
energy. When we eat foods con,
tanning more energy than we ey
pend, fat piles up in the body for
future use.
Proper weight . reduction ptocs
dure keeps the energy intake be
low the energy expenditure. =
that the body fat is used to max,
up the deficit in the diet.
Persons who suffer from an ey
IRENE overweight condition shout
be examined by a physician ID
prevent unWise weight = reduction
Ordinary overweight individual
require only a simple restriction
IN the amount of high c2Iori
foods, such as butter, cream, fat.
and sugars, they eat.
A good rule is to eat spariagl
of all foods which contain cerea
grains or their products.
Initial weight-Ioss in any pro
gram is usually rapid, for M
first loss consists largely of waite
and of lessened bowel = content
LoW-caloric diets can be used 70
three to four weeks in such a wa.
that three to four pounds weight
loss a week is experienced.
After half the desired weight
reduction has taken place, the die
can be increased and the weigh
loss slowed down. From then o.
one need only learn TO eat IA
right foods in the proper amount
to continue the gradual reduction
Drugs which assist weight re
duction include Thyroid extrac
and benzedrine sulfate. Thce
drugs should not be used excap
upon the advice of a physician
Thyroid extract increases meta
olism, and benzedrine sult3t
helps to overcome the tired ie3l
ing and lessons the tendency f
break training.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03

Guidepost
BY w. G. ROGERS

DINNER AT THE WHITE
HOUSE by Louis Adamic OHa
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
TOP o. THE

A young Chinese boy, STUDYING IN Amer
lea, was given a copy of the New Tesla
ment. Later he was asked if he had been
reading it. He answered.: eyes, 1 am read
ing it and behaving it,"
Quoted by Keith Brooks