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ICKES ANNUAL REPORT
ON ALASKA
(Juneau Empire)
S cretary Ickes devotes exactly
117 words to Alaska in his an
nual report for 1940, copies of
which have just been received in
Juneau.
The report has sections on the
Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau
of Mines. B inn-evill Power Ad
ministration, Bureau of Biolog
ical Survey, Bureau of Fisheries,
Geological Survey, National Park
Service, Office of Indian Affairs,
Division of Territories and Island
Possessions, Hawaii, the Equator
ial Islands, the Philippine Is
lands, Pu rto Rico, the Puerto
Rico Reconstruction Administra
tion, Virgin Islands, the Virgin
Islands Co., General Land Office.
Grazing Service, Director of
Forests, Division of Investigation,
Petroleum Conservation Division,
Bituminous Coal Division, Office
of the Solicitor, Personnel and 1
Managem-'nt, all the multifold
and varied activities of the larg
est and fastest growing Depart
ment of the Federal Government.
In fact, it is quite a report.
But only 117 words to relate'
what this great Department did
in Alaska in 1940. Here they are:■
“Activities throughout the Div
ision have expanded considerably
due to the vast defense programs
which have been inaugurated in
Some of the areas. For Alaska,
where Army and Navy air bases .
are being rushed to completion at
various strategic points, the De
partment of Interior is support- j
ing a bill (S-3577) which would
m ke possVb '3 accelerated devel
opment and colonization of this;
sparsely settled Territory. The1
plan, in effect, would provide ‘a
d lrnse’ in the form of an active1
p ulation to furnish needed sup j
p s and services to the regular
ti ns which will ha stationed
th ■. It is generally con-cod :d
fiat new cctivitk s and industries •
rr ' be developed in Alaska if
t! T. rrnory’s economy is to be
fc. : up and maintained.”
■ trdk to say, S-3577 is the
L v'itch w 'ti d let down the
BEAUTY QUEEN
SEASON IN ALASKA
With spring just around the cor
nor and winter festivals in many
Alaskan towns approaching, eachj
of the live towns becomes inter
ested in the el ction of its queen
for 1941.
Anchorage already is conduct-1
lag a c < t st to choose a queen
for it- annual Fur Rendezvous.
Nome has selected a queen each
year an] may be expected to
soon get busy in the matter
again. Juneau, Matanuska, Ne
nana. Seward and other towns
have joined in the movement
each year.
And the queens from each
town have gone to Fairbanks to
enter the all-Alaska contest for
the honor of “Miss Alaska.” Fair
banks is now voting on condidat
es for “Miss Fairbanks.” The
University of Alaska will name (
its que n.
The Miss Alaska contest has
become an institution there and
is looked to by all Alaska as
properly belonging at Fairbanks.
The prestige and publicity it
lends to Fairbanks and the Terri
tory is much worth while.
“Miss Alaska” becom:- vested
with a glamour that has a rare
charm to people ail ofer America,
doubtless inspiring many to visit,
this land of unusual.
We hope that Nome will get
busy and some sporting interest
in this most popular event. We
have some very promising mat
erial among our younger debu
tantes.
United States immigration bars
so that foreign refugees could en
ter Alaska only. It is a bill which
no Alaskan from D:legate Di
mond to the littlest Eskimo at
Point Barrow, wants enacted. Mr.
Pokes knows this. His devoting
:'v entire section on Alaska in
his annual report, brief as that
section is, to a plug for this rid
iculous piece of legislation is
proof again that the Secretary of
the Interior has no love for Alas
kans and no respect for their op
inions. His report is a deliberate
s ap at ail of u;.
With members of both houses gathered in the House chambers for the first joint session of the 77th
Congress, President Roosevelt pleaded for a ‘“swift and driving increase" in production of arma
ment: and aid to the fighting democracies. Behind the President on the rostrum were Vice President
Garner (left), and Speaker Sam Rayburn.
British reported the capture of more than 30,000 Italian in the "sui
side garrison” at Bardia, Libya, along with their commander, Gen.
Annibale Bergonzoli (facing, arm upraised). Gen. Bergonzoli is
known to the British as “Electric Whiskers.”
Vice-President Has One to Four
Chance Of Becoming Mr. Big
Iiy JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON, Jan. — (Sec
ond installment of a two-part
lett r to Vice President Henry
Agard Wallace, setting forth
some facts about his new job as
V. P. and President-to-be of the
Senate):
In spite of a'l I said in the
first pert of this 1 tter, Mr. Vice
President of the United States,
don’t think that your job is so
punk as some of the musical
comedy writers have made it ap
pear.
One of your predecessors once
wrote an article entitled “The
Vice President — Fifth Wheel of
the Government.” And even if
that funny fellow, John Nance
Garner, did paraphrase it to read
"The spare tir: of the govern
ment,” rhere’s a lot of evidence
that the spare tires has on oc
casion served pretty well.
The record shows that nine of
the 32 men who have held your
jobs have become Presidents, in
cluding a few gentlem n you
may have heard of before: John
Adams. Thomas Jefferson, Theo
dore Roosevelt and Calvin Cool
idge. That means a V.P. has more
than a cn to four chance of be
coming Mr. Big himself and at
hast one chanc: in eight of go
ing down in the history books in
—
•ap’.tal letters.
MAY BE
ASSISTANT PRESIDENT"
What’s more, if there is any
I truth in the talk going around
Washington that President Roose
velt plans to make a sort of “as
1 sistant President,” you don’t need
, to worry about Senators, the
President and the public making
the Thottlebottom of the third
term.
The unofficial title of “assist
ant President” is nothing new. It
is true that for 140 years after
Adams no Vice President ever sat
in the Cabinet, but long before
President Wilson’s absence in
Paris brought Thomas R. Mar
shal into the Cabinet, Vice Presi
dents had had the resp ct of their
chief executives and worked
closely with them.
The newspapers of President
] McKinley’s day first applied the
i title of “Assistant President” to
George A. Hobart, McKinley’s
first-term V. P.. who died in of
fice; but President Harding was
the first executive to use the
phrase officially. He announced
before his inauguration that he
intended "to create the office of
Assistant President” and bring
Mr. Coolidge into the Cabinet.
Since then Vice Presidents Cur
tis, Dawes and Garn:r have sat
in the Cabinet often enough to
keep the precedent alive and
make their post something more
I than that of mere chair-warmer
on the Senate dais.
VOU CAN EAT AT HOME
As a matter of fact, Mr. V. P.,
you can see that the duties and
obl gations of your new job have
changed a lot in recent years.
Right u.p until Coolidge held it,
it was by fixed tradition the post
of the Government’s official “din
er-out.”
Mr. Coolidge didn’t take much
i dining out and tried to abolish
the tradition. Since he wasn’t ex
actly a lion in the dining salons,
he got enough cooperation from
Washington hostesses to crack
the custom, and Garner, some
times referred to as “the Cactus
■Coolidge. was able to shatter it
completely. You can probably
get by without even dining out
on the maid’s night out.
Althoug your job officially is
pretty much one of waiting
around in case something hap
pens to the President and of pre
siding over the Senate over
which you have no real author
ity, you really can make a whole
1 lot of it if you want to.
When you ara inaugurated, an
hour or so before the President,
you can even make your inaugur
ation speech a biting harangue to
the Senate if you want to.
“Hell ‘n’ Maria” Dawes did
just that and although it almost
knocked soma of the Senators
right out of their seats, they
took it “Charley” Dawes got a lot
more space in the history books
than usually is accorded Vice
Presidents.
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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Fair and continued cold tonight. Tuesday increasing cloudiness
1 and not quite as cold probably fallowed by light snow Tues. night.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 5 Lowest te mp — -16 Precipitation — 0
Totol precip this month 0.07 Total since Jan. 1, 194L 0.07
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
t2 Midnight —--- -6 52 N 17 Clear
1 a m --- -13 56 N 5 Clear
.2:30 p m . .....16 22 N 7 Clear
• Tomorrow: Sunrise 9:00 a. m. • Sunset 3:32 p. m. *
One Year Ago Today
' Highest temp-3 Lowest temp — -16 Precipitation — 0
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