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EDITORIAL
BURMA ROAD IS
VISIONED FOR ALASKA
One of the most compelling
problems of the World today is
the Burma Road from the heart
of India to the heart of China.
Why. Because over that road
has moved the supplies so vitally
needed or the defense of China
in her struggle for existence in
the war with Japan.
Alaska has no such road—no
back door route of supply. But
she can have such a road, de
clare many authorities by the
building of an International High
way from the States and across
Canada to the heart of Alaska.
Advocates of such a highway are
row pressing the matter urging
-its early completion on the
grounds it will be the only sour
ce of security for the Territory
should the coastal shipping life
lines be severed by an enemy.
Typical of the many appeals
for such a highway is the follow
ing editorial from the Tacoma
News-Tribune:
■ “Did you notice the dispatch
last week which said that the
United States had loaned Costa
Rica $4,600,000 for construction
of a highway? This was done
through the Export-Import bank
of the government which furnish
ed the funds to be used for that
section of the Pan-American
highway extending from San
Jose. Costa Rica, to the Panama
border.
“Jesse Jones, federal loan ad
ministrator. said it would give
about four years' employment to
citizens of Costa Rica, who had
been hard-pressed economically
because of the European war’s
restrictive effects on the coffee
market.
“This furnishes a perfect pre
cedent for government financing
of the highway to Alaska. This
highway by expert testimony, is
vitally needed for the American
defense of Alaska. In time of war
our only contact with our north
w - ern territory would be by
sea or air.A highway from the
state of Washington through Brit
ish Columbia to Alaska wrould be
of immeasurable value to that
territory and would aid this state
Nu.? British Columbia by attract
ing great t^ujist travel from the
east.
' Six former United States des
troy rs have been adied to Can
a fleet. Why could not the
W ington authorities have
ma an exchange of the destroy
> er f r Canadian consent and
par ipation in the new high
w It looks as though this
g' ' i nment were overlooking a
b; " this connection. Our Al
a •.'.■.'n and Alaskan de
1\ ire too important to be,
sid eked."
Kc ugee Woman
Tv lis Of Bombing
On Leaving Port
o
A-k peppery little Mrs. A. Wal
lace .n h arrived in Juneau from
England who will win the war
and you will hear the voice of a
British spire that is giving mis
ter llitir no pleasant hopes for
the future.
"Why, Britain will win — of
C ur ' Mrs Wal rce firmly told
an Emp*re reporter.
And somehow, you fell a bit
ashamed of worrying at all when
you hear that British not of as
surance.
Mrs. Wallace, sister of Swift
traveling man Jack Molyneaux,
arrived in Juneau recently with
•her two little girls, Anne, 4 and
I
Sheelagh, 2. They will reside
in Juneau with Mr. and Mrs.
Molyneaux until the war is ov
er.
Sudden Departure
Mrs. Wallace came across the
Atlantic a month ago on a vessel
which she suggested not be nam
ed. Because of necessary war
time secrecy and last minute de
velopments, Mrs. Wallace did not
even know she was to go with
the children until four hours be
fore they were to catch the ex
press for an unnamed port and
their ship.
Their home, 20 miles out of
London, was in a quieter sector
than most homes, Mrs. Wallace
said and “the nearest bomb drop
ped about two miles away."
Was it frightful? “No,” Mrs. j
Wallace smiled, “The anti-air
craft guns were the worst."
But just as they were sailing
out of their secret port for Am
erica with approximately 500
others, Mrs. Wallace explained
“the Jerries tried to get us” and
adds proudly “But they couldn’t
do it you known There were
bombs dropping all around us
in the water and our ships guns
were firing. The Jerries dropped
the screaming bombs too, but the
guns drowned them out. Every
body was huddled down below
; decks with life preservers but
| e weren’t hit. One of the Jerries
was though.”
Protected Convoy
For half of the 12 days journey
i across the Atlantic the ship on
! which Mrs. Wallace and her
children traveledin protected con
voy, sleeping little for the first
few days and not taking off cloth
ing until almost in Montreal.
But even though Britain will
win Mrs. Wallace feels it will be
a long war and she is anxious to
return to the home she does not
know is still there and to her
husband, who is with the office
i of the Minister of Home Secur
. u>'
I Coming across Canada by train
I Mrs. Wallace was shocked by a
I fellow passengers who declared
I sadly “England's like a sinking
; ship.”
"You’d do a jolly bad job of it
in England right now!” she snap
pcd in retort—and the passenger
■ was given the shoulder for the
rest of the trip.
Mrs. Wallace minimized the
dangers and the trials of the cur
rent conflict, but actions spoke
for words at noon when the Al
aska Juneau blew its shrill call
for lunch.
Fair haired and blue eyed lit
tle Anne flinched at that sound
but relaxed, for this was Amer
ica. nad no bombs fell.
Write to your friends and reia
ives on he ‘Outside’, using Sou:
ough Stationery. They’ll get a bi?
tick <ut of it
Notice of Rendering Account
For Final Settlement And
Petition For Distribution
In the Probate Court in and for
the St. Michael Precinct. Second
Division, Territory of Alaska
In the matter of the estate of
OLE STENFIELD. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that
Peter Bahls, Executor of the Es
' tate of Ole Stenfieid, deceased,
has rendered and presented for
final sett'ement, and filed in the
'above Court his Final Report
| and Petition for an Order of Dis
tribution. and that Monday, the
18th day of November, 1940. at
11 o'clock a.m., at the office and
Court Room of the above named
1 Court in St. Michael ha^ been
set as the time and place for the
1 settlement of the report and for
I hearing of objection thereto if
1 any there be and for hearing the
petition for order of final distrib
; ulion, and all persons interested
j are notified then and there to
(appear and show cause, if any
1 they have, why the report should
nat.be settled and allowed, and
■ why distribution of the estate
i should not thereupon be immed
iately made to the creditors or
| other persons entitled thereto. At
such hearing the Court will ad
judicate and decree who the
heirs and distributees of the de
ceased are.
Dated this 18th day of Septem
ber, 1940.
Peter Bahls, Executor
Publish Oct. 9 16 23 30, 1940
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