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> VOL. 43. No. 4. MOM E. ALASKA. Wednesday, JAN. 3, 1941. Price per copy l*
President Asks 17 Billion Budget
Propose Congress Appropriate SI, 127,050 Alaska
Italy’s Next Defense Line, Tobruk, Is Surrounded
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President Roosevelt Recommends
Congress Appropriate $1,127,050
For Alaska *41---lncrease Over ’39
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (fP) —
President Roosevelt recommend
ed in his budget message that
Congr ss appropriate $1,127,050
for Alaska for the fiscal year
■ starting Ju'y 1. The amount com
pared with $1,059,560 appropriat
* ed for the current year, and in
cluded $15,600 for salaries of the
Governor and Secretaries; $17,
870 for contingent expanses;
$50,000 for legislative expenses;
$50,000 for public schools; $209,
^ 080 for the care and custody of
the insane; $684,500 for roads,
bridges and trails, compared
with $570,000 for the current
year; $150,000 for wagon roads,
• bridges and trails included $20,
000 for maintenance of Mount
McKin ey Park Road and $30,
000 for construction. The Alaska
Railroad fund was set at $4,250,
000 compared with $4,690,000 for
the current year. The budget al
so included $41,780 for coastal
survey work by the Coast and
® Geodetic Survey; $26,000 will be
for special aerial photographic
equipment and $5,400 for mag
netic seismological work inc’ud
U. S. Navy Is
Reorganize d
Into Three Fleets
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 OP! —
The reorganization of the United
States Navy into three main
fleets, the Atlantic, Pacific, and
Asiatic fleets was ordered by
Secretary of the Navy Knox who
announced at the same time that
the President authorized an in
crease of 42,000 in naval man
power. The reorganization. Knox
irg completion of the observa
tory at Sitka.
Increase for Native Education
The President asked that the
appropriation for the education
of Alaskan natives to be increas
ed from $940,595 to $1,044,495.
Speed Naval Construction
He asked $28 220 for Mount Me
Kinl- y Park and asked $27,985,
000 tb speed construction of na
val and shore facilities along the
Pacific coast and the far north A1
aska projects.
Kodiak Base
K diak air station: extenstion
of barracks buildings $125,000;
extension of bachelor officer’s
quarter: $°').000; roads, walks
and services $ 1 DO.COO; utility han
gar extension $200,000; extension
of land plane runways $500,000.
Sitka Air Statton
Sitka air station: additional
aviation facilities $1,438,000; re
creational facilities for officers
$53,700.
Unalaska Air Station
Unalaska air station: seaplane
parking area $255,000; and addi
tional gasoline storage $40,000.
aid, “really fits the facts” and is
elective February 1. A new set
J commanders headed by Rear
Admiral Husband Kimmel as
Commander in Chief of all fleets
vvill assume authority on that
day.
POWER PLANT IS BEING
BUILT UNDERGROUND
INNERKIRCHEN. Switzer’and,
Jan. — One of the greatest pow
■r plants in .Europe is being built
ndergound in the Bernse Alps
'.ear here to protect it from any
'"-iMo future bombs and shells.
President Asks
Congress For 17
Billion For ’41
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 CP) —
Presid nt Roosevelt asked Con
gress r r $17,485.528,045), an un
orec dented peace-time budget.
R flee':: g that the “Wor d is at
war” . v;i t' e huge cost of pre
oarirf "or ‘ total defense” Roose
volt al' Ted $10,000,811,000 ex
clusive v far national defense
and esf at d the deficit begin
ning J.r 1. at $5) 210 090,0"0.
This f r : Id that the public debt
will b shod by* that d .ficit to
a rec rd of $58,307,000,000 by
June 30, 15)42.
Ii rls Will Meet
Nazi Army If
Danube
UNDATED. Jan. 7 (/P)—400.000
ens were reported
tip's 1 Thrace whil Turkish
sure: erted b’untly that if
Gcrr - ••’••’s v tr machine crossed
hp n ii’ - \'ua Turks wi 1 march
an B 1" • ■' to meet them.
Hitler’s growing army i pcis
■d in Rumoria, for perhaps the
widcT- h raided new thrust in
outheast Europe against Bugar
a, Greece, Turkey or even Rus
sia. Odds of four to one pre
vail, d in Sofia, capital of Bul
garia, that the Germans will
move on King Boris’ little king
dom, possib y in a few days.
The Boston Transcript records
the odyss'-y of a Careful Driver:
“He stopped; he looked and he
listened. All he heard was the
car behind him crashing into his
gas tanks.”
t “It wou'd be very unwholesome if anyone tried” to attack the United States or Canada, Mayor Fior
ello laGuardia (right) of New Cork, chairman of tl:e U. S, delegation on the joint defense commis
sion, said in San Francisco after a full meeting o the commission. At left is Col. O. M. Biggar, chair
man of the Canadian group. Lieut. Gen. John L De’.Vitt, commanding general of the fourth army is
in the center.
‘ON THE I O B ’ ON DEFENS E—Preparedness is (he big topic at this Washington meeting
of Secretary of Navy Frank Knox (center), Edward It. Stettinius, Jr., and William Knudsen (right),
ti mbers of the national advisory defense commission. Stettinius reports progress on defense supplies
of strategic war materials such as tin. rubber, armor nlale. tuliiol (essential to TNT), optical glass.
Four-Man Supreme Directorate
Of Defense Program Established
f]y President to Speed Output Arms
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 UP) —
\ supr me directorate of the
i defen?, program was established
by the Pre-id nt to speed the out
! put cf arms. Roosevelt, follow
j ing, a ong the lines of a previous
! announcement, set up an offic"
ror production management fer
d fense, which will be only nom
inally under his control. William
Hnudsen production member of
the present defense commission,
-—
—a ; named Director General and
Sidney Hil man also on the de
fens commission, Associate Dir
ector General. The other two
members are Secretaries Stimson
n.l Knox.
The four-man group will be
given full authority to formuate
md execute policic:s for turning
?ut instruments of warfare, the
President told reporters at a
i nre=s conference.
Britons Must Live
On Home
Grown Produets
UNDATED, Jan. 8 (JP) — Food.
Minister Lord Pcolton at London
warned bluntly that he “no long
er could bring the world to our
door for the British to eat." He
declared that Britain’s millions
must live primarily on home
grown products and that imports
must be kept to a minimum.
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Longest Highway
Have Alaska As
North Terminus
WOULD GIVE MUNITIONS FOR
1,000-FT. WIDE STRIP
TO ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Jan. —An out
right trade of munitions and war
supplies with Great Britain in re
turn for a right of way to a mil
itary highway through Canada to
Alaska has been proposed by Rep
esentative Andrew' Edmiston of
West Virginia. . .
Edmiston, head of the House
Military Affairs Committee said
in an interview he will offer the
uggestion at the first meeting of
the committee this year.
Ilis plan, which he said has
been approved by Speaker Ray
bum would call for a 1,000 foot
wide right of way over the most
dir-et route so “we could get
here in a hurry if we had to.”
Another reason for the width
of the strip, Edmiston said would
be to permit ample width for
emergency landing fields in facil
itating flying to Alaskan bases.
Congressman Edmiston add' d
that Speaker Rayburn told him
ha would discuss the proposal
with President Roosevelt.
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j Tobruk, Italy’s Last Major Base
In Eastern Libya, 30,000 Troops
Caught In Trap By British Army
UNDATED, Jan. 7 VP) — The
! British report' d that swift-strik
J mg mechanized units of General
, Wavell’s Army of the Nile is
•‘now in contact with the outer
j defenses of Tobruk,” the big It
I alian seaport 80 miles from Eygp
tian border.
After a two-day delay, Musso
lini’s command finally acknow
1 dgcd the fall of Bardia, ending
the seige in which “our troops
for 25 days wrote on the sublime
pages of courage and inflicted
heavy losses on the enemy.”
Mussolini Cabinet
Votes To Fight On
UNDATED, Jan. 7 (/P) —- Mus
solini’s cabinet “solemnly reaf
firmed” Italy’s fidelity and alli
ance to Germany and her deter
mination to fight on, even, as the
British official headquarters csti
| mated that 91,000 Italians were
knocked out of the war in North
Africa, either Killed, wounded,
j captured or missing in the past
| 28 days.
Fascist Casualties
Greece and Africa
Some 150,000 Men
UNDATED, Jan. 8 </P)—Italy’s
last major defense base in east
ern Libya, the port of TobTuk,
was reported cut off from rescue,
“another Bardia,” its garrison of
30.000 Fascist troops caught in a
ghtening trap by the British
Army of the Nile. Tha sea block
ade and tank encirclement of
Tobruk, 80 miles west of the Eg
yptian border was said to ef
fectively bar any large reinforce
ments. A British general head
quarters statement said laconic
lily that “Concentration of our
forces in the Tobruk area is con
tinuing.”
The statement said the total
f British and Australian Cas
ualties were less than 600. The
combin d British and Greek esti
mates placed Italy’s losses at
some 150,000 men captured, kill
ed, wounded and missing in Af
rica and Greece.