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EDITORIAL
Bombers For
Britain
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(New York Times)
Over the stormy lanes of the
North Atlantic there is being en
acted one of the greatest dramas
of this extraordinary war. From
Canadian airports, some of them
maritime, some buried in the
bush like the huge landplan
base at Hattie's Camp. Nfld., Am
erican bombers are crossing in a
steady and successful ferry ser
vice an ocean which only a de
cade ago was the most hazardous
arena of adventurous long-dis
tancs flight. Hundreds of bomb
ers have reached beleaguered
Britain in safety. According to
the most reliabe sources of in
formation, not one has yet been
lost. The performance is an out
standing tribute to the develop
ment of planes, engines, instru
ments and pilots.
With improving flying weather
and increased production of big
(bombers coming from American
plants .this ferry service may b
expected steadily to increase. It
■will supply Britain with one of
the weapons she most urgently
needs.
Minor Amendment
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
When Nazi authorities admit,
as they have in recent days, that
the Royal Air Force is causing
damage in Germany, it reflects
not only the fact that the offens
ive operation of the RAF have
been stepped up. but also a note
worthy change in German pro
paganda strategy.
The praetic of the German
propaganda ministry heretofore
has been to minimize to the ex
treme, or deny altogether, any
damage which British bombers
might be doing in Germany, and
meanwhile to expand upon the
terrific punishment which the
luftwaffe is meting out to Brit
ain.
This was propaganda strategy
well calculated to buoy up Ger
man morale through the hard
ships of a short war, but it was
very poorly suited to a long war.
After so long a time even the
most stupid would b gin to wmn
der how England could still be
standing, and would begin to
ponder the officially denied dam
age to his own country — for, no
matter how vigorously bomb
damage may be denied by the
staff of Joseph Goebbels, it can
be seen by the people of the af
tfected community.
FEBRUARY AIRLINE FIGURES
SHOW INCREASE OVER 1940
United States air lines flew 31
per cent more revenue miles, car
ried 55 percent more revenue pas
sengers and increased their air
express poundage by 59 percent
last month over February, 1940,
according to figures released by
Donald H. Connplly, Adminis
trator of Civil Aeronautics.
Administrator Connolly said
the 16 domestic air lines reported
that they had flown a total of
8,785,961 miles and had carried
196,924 passengers and 1, 109,
352 pounds of air express, sub
stantial increases in each cate
gory over the figures for a year
ago.
"SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
t At Nugget Office
Work Begins
On 145-Mile j
Alaska Road
A final location survey for the
145-mile Palmer-Richardson high
way road is now being made,
C' ief Engineer Ike P. Taylor of
the Alaska Road Commission
said recently on his return to
Juneau after purchasing equip
ment for the big construction
proj ct and for other commis
sion work in Alaska.
Construction work in the new
highway link, longest to be built
in Alaska since the Steese High
way, will begin as soon as wea
ther conditions permit. The com
mission will try to have the high
way open for use by the fall of
1942, Taylor said.
A $1,009,000 appropriation for
the highway was includ d in a
deficiency bill signed by the Presi
dent April 1 and the money is
now available.
The highway will connect the
Anchorage road system east of
Palmer with the Richardson
Highway system at approximate
mile 116 between Copper Cen
ter and Gulkana. The new road
will be 24 feet wide at the crown
of the grade and will be surfac
ed with gravel.
Work will be carried on from
both ends of the highway, under
direction of Alaska Road Com
mission District Office Sup rvis
ors at Valdez and Anchorage.
Taylor and Assistant Chief En
gineer Hawley Sterling will be
on the scene part of the time.
Considerable difficulty in ob
taining delivery of necessary
equipment is being experienced
due to defense demands through
out the nation, Taylor said, but
some priority on delivery will be
afforded the project as it is on
the national defense list.
Equipment operators and other
workm n will be hired at Anchor
age and Valdez. Insofar as prac
ticable, the local labor supply
will be exhausted before calls
•are made for workers from Out
side, Tayor said.
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FIRST BEAR HUNTERS
OF ’ll ON WAY
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KETCHIKAN, April — One of
the first b'g game hunters of the
1941 Alaska season, Dr. Elmer
Rusten of Minneapolis, a doctor
on the staff of the University of
Minnesota Medical School, and
Mrs. Rusten visited here enroute
to photograph, study and hunt
K< diak brown bears at Uyak
Bay on the north side of Kodiak
Island.
Earl Olmstead of Anchorage
will be their outfitter and guide.
They may fly to the Bering S:a
to hunt polar bears, Rusten said.
This is the couple’s fifth spring
bear hunt. A year ago they hunt
ed for grizzlies and black bear
in the Moose River district in
British Columbia.
The main object of this trip,
said Rusten, is to study the hab
its and hibernation characteris
tics of the bear, taking photo
graphs and shooting only "on
the side.”
The Doctor said Mrs. Rusten is
his “aide de camp" and always
accompanies him. She does her
share of the shooting. They ex
pect to hunt until May 20.
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GOVERNOR ASSAILS LOBBY
SOME MEMBERS OF RECENT
LEGISLATURE IN MESSAGE
(Continued From Page One)
hesitatingly sacrifice the public
interest and the inter st of their
constituents. Among the major
ity of honorable legislators, there
are naturally some who can bn
mi-lead, some who can be intimi
dated, some who can be tricked
and in all th. se methods the
Lobby is particularly skilled.
The Territory is now growing
fast (33 1-3 percent since the
1010 census) and this • growth
brings with it many require
ments. The Board of the Budget,
composed of two elected officials
the Territorial Treasurer, the
Territorial Auditor—and the Gov
ernor, found that with the ut
most prudence and economy th>
expenses of the regular Terri
torial departments would be
$600,000 in exo:ss of anticipated
revenues. It was evident also
that many new requirements
were not included.
Needs of Territory
Additional or better school fac
ilities are needed almost every
where. Vocational education, cut
off four years ago with the year
ly forfeiture of $30,00 of Federal
funds, is surely needed so that
our Alaska youngsters shall not
continue to lose opportunities for
st ady, gainf u 1 employment
which would be theirs if they
were technically trained. The
University of Alaska with the
largest enrollment in its history—
307, of whom 117 are Freshmen—
is obliged to turn away Alaskan
boys and girls because ther,; are
no accomodations for them.
In this national defense crisis
Congress and the War Depart
ment allocated four companies of
the National Guard to Alaska.
The militia is an institution as
old as our United States; it harks
back in spirit to the days when
the minute men took down pow
der horn and musket from over
the mantle and went forth to de
fend their liberties. Today every
thing that we hold dear, the lib
erties for which our ancestors
fought and died, are imperiled as
| never before. In this fateful hour
! our Federal adminstration is
1 pouring $70,600,000 into Alaska
for defense. Much of this expendi
FAIR OF IRISHME N—Frank Aiken (left), Ireland's
minister for defense coordination who has conic to U.S. to examine
the possibility of buying: military supplies and wheat, chats at the
Irish legation with Kobert Brennan, Irish minister to U.S.
lure is also of great economic
a d social benefit to Alaska.
Great airports, long needed, new
roads such as the trunk-line con
necting Anchorage with the Rich
ardson Highway, are being con
struct d. Nearly very commun
ity in Alaska has been, is being
or shortly will be, materially aid
i'd economically by the Federal
Treasury. For the National Guard
—an institution of which the 48
states and our other territories
have b en proud— the Federal
government has started to send
into the Territory additional hun
dreds of thousands of dollars
yearly for equipment and pay.
The one and only collaboration
which the Federal government
has ever expected of the Terri
tory, the first request of Alaska
in its history, was that Alaska
build its own armories as ev-!
1 cry state and Territory has done.
It is hard to believe that the
Legislature, in response to this |
call for patriotic service-, did not
cheerfully do its small part. But
no measure was more savagely
fought by the gold and cannery
lobby, whose policy, frankly de
dared was "not a cent of expen
diture by the Territory for the'
Territory that w.a can prevent.”
To the everlasting credit of the
Fifteenth Territorial Legislature
let it be recorded that a ma
jority of both houses favored
building the armories and voted
th, - needed appropriation: Five
out of eight in the Senate—Walk
er, Roden, Brownell, Nordale, La
Boyteaux and ten out of 16 in
the House — Jenne, McCormick,
Egan, McCutcheon, Lander, Her
bert, Gordon, Lyng, Leonard
Smith and Stangroom. By the
tr achery and deception of sev
eral House members — one of
James V. Davis used the Trojan
horse device of co-sponsoring the
bill in order to defeat it—the |
measure was deliberately stalled,
so that it could not reach the
Senate until after the 50th day,
when, under the rules, a two
thirds vote was required and
three votes out of .eight sufficed
to kill it.
(To be concluded in the next
■ issue of the Nugget).
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