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ALASKA AIR LINES PROTECTION
Possibility of establishment of priority rights in
airline services and travel as well as securing of parts
end replacements and elimination of certain local
flights is of unusual interest to Alaska, dependent more
than any other region on airplanes for travel, mail, ex
press and freighting services.
Old parts of the nation have many other means of
service. Alaska, with its few roads, must look to the
plane more than any other region. News Weeks refers
to the newly developed situation as follows:
“The airline jam is becoming extreme, partly be
cause of requisitioning of transport planes for British
use and partly because of rapidly increasing travel. At
least one line is having to hire added personnel just to
turn away would-be passengers. The Administration is
preparing to requisition still more airline planes, feel
ing that the British need for military transports in
Africa and the Middle East is more important than the
non-defense traveling still done on airlines. Indications
are that the U. S. will yet have to ration air travel, allot
ting priority cards ter government officials and defense
industry executives and thus giving them right-of-way
over non-defense travelers. A second plan being dis
cussed is elimination of many short-haul flights.”
In her fight for priority rights for her basic mining
industry and the effort to prevent its collapse, Alaskans
cannot afford to overlook the necessity of priorities for
her av'iation services. Without them many of the min
ing concerns of the Territory cannot carry on. especial
ly in the interior. New conditions and regulations are
evolving so rapidly none can afford to go to sleep on
these matters. Alaska must make her needs vocal and
be nimble about it or else.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
POLICE ALASKA WATERS
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Roosevelt’s declaration of a policy of freedom of
me Seas wac rnp npst new a Ai«olto hJ hc^J jomc
time. The President means to see to it that Axis war
ships will be met with direct action when encountered
in American defense waters.
This policy, under Germany’s far-flung sea-raiding
activities, is absolutely necessary to the continued sup
plying of the Alaska civil and military entities.
And don’t think for a minute that Hitler doesn’t
have his eye on us up here! A submarine was seen in
the waters of Prince Wiliam Sound less than two weeks
ago—and it wasn’t a U, S. submarine, either
The people of Alaska should realize the dire
straits they might easily be in were it not for the ag
gressive policy that the United States army and navy
are taking.
So far as Alaskan waters are concerned, it mighl
be well for the navy to interpret Roosevelt’s order of
“freedom" of the seas to mean “policing” of the seas.
Alaska is at once a citadel of democracy and one
of the frontlines against those who would overthrow it.
The President’s defiance of Hitlerism is mighty com
forting to us in the Territory.—Cordova Times.
IS ALASKA GOING SOFT?
Can it be that Alaska, under the impact of an “in
vasion” from the states, is losing its old-time punch?
Some recent dispatches from the Northland are dis
turbing.
First, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, one of
the continents’ most interesting phenomena, is going
soft. A mining engineer reports that only 8 “smokes”
are left in the Mount Katmai region of the Aleutian
Peninsula, and they are “small, mild, and apparently
growing smaller.” Presently, it is predicted, they will
subside to their innocuous pre-1912 state.
Not to be outdone by this Juneau report, Ketchi
kan comes through with a story about the “drought”
in that area. Rainfall in August totaled only .75 inch,
compared with a normal average of 11.57 inches, and
temperatures have ranged through the 70s to a high of
81. Moreover, it’s so dry that for the first time water
has to be shipped out to the lighthouses, and low water
prevents the homing salmon from ascending the
streams to spawn.
Possibly these records are meaningless in a long
range view, indicating just a temporary kicking over
the traces on the part of the Japanese current or some
other phenomenon. Or they may be coincidences. But
they raise questions among the oldest inhabitants.
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ADJUSTS RED NAVAL TORPEDO
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A Soviet sailor makes final adjustments of a naval torpet’o after
the instrument of death had been leaded aboard a torpedo boat,
according to the Russian caption on this picture.
Dry Cleaning
Takes 3 Weeks
In London
By MARGARET BUNNELLE
Wife of Robert E. Bunnelle, Chief
i . of London Associated
Press Bureau
LONDON—Women in England
are streamlining their household
. establishments because it's hard
to get servants and too difficult
and too expensive to do things on
a lavish scale any more.
Thousands have closed down
their large houses and have tak
en small, compact places where
they can do their own housework
i or manage with a part-time maid
Where I live, in South Kensing
ton, there are blocks and blocks
of stately old homes deserted by
their owners. The few modern
apartment houses in this district
have waiting lists, and rents for
these places are exorbitant.
A friend who recently moved
out of a lovely big Georgian
house with a beautiful garden,
into an efficient flat explained
that “It’s just too expensive and
too much trouble to keep up a
big place. Anyway, my family is
scattered. One daughter is driv
ing an ambulance, the other is a
nurse, and my two sons are in
! the army. My husband spends
most of his out of London on war
| work.”
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Women Do Men’s Work
The servant problem has be
come more trying because men’s
jobs have been opened to women.
| Women are now bus conductors,
i truck drivers, railway porters,
j “milk men” and “postmen” as
well as working in the various
I womens services.
Servants who had been accus
tomed to working around the
clock for four or five dollars a
| week and keep find the hours,
pay and more independent posi
tion of these new jobs more at
| tractive.
There are many other house
hold problems. Plumbers and el
ectricians have been drafted, and
you 'have to wait weeks to get
the smallest job done. Laundries
collect and deliver only once a
week. A small family laundry
which used to cost about $2 a
week now costs $4, and the work
is inferior. Many women are do
ing their nicer things themselves.
Speed in Slow Motion
Dry cleaning takes three weeks
and you have to do your own
carrying. Dresses average $1.50
apiece. If you pay 50 cents extra
you can get “express service,”
by which your clothes are finish
erl in 10 days — if the aren’t
blitzed.
Every housekeeper makes a
d iily contribution to the war ef
frrt by saving waste paper, tin
foil, tin cans, bones and food
scraps, which have to be kept in
separate containers for the gar-1
bage collector.
Everyone has to be careful
about using water so there will j
be plenty to put out fires.
( Lavish entertaining is out be
cause- party food and cocktail in
gredients are scarce and prices
way up. Cigarettes are hard to
find, too, and many people make
a point of rolling their own. Day-1
time entertaining has become!
more popular because of the
blackout and transportation diffi
culties, and this summer many
people who have gardens have
entertained out doors.
Pioneer Water Co.
SPRING WATER
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AMERICAN RECRUITS FOR RAF SURVIVE TORPEDOING
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Six American recruits for the RAF, rescued and taken to a British port after their ship was tor
pedoed en route to England, flip coins here to see who’ll buy refreshments. Left to right: Tom Grif
fin, Jackson, Miss., Rivers Grove, Atlanta; B. F.Mayes, Wharton, Tex.; Jack Gilliland, Pittsburgh^
Norman Echord. Kansas City; James Jordan, Pasadena, Calif. Four other American fliers were kill
ed when the ship sunk. Picture cabled from Lon-don to New York.
PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS TO
ALL PARTS OF ALASKA
Approximately One Dollar of Each Fare
Is Spent for Passenger Insurance ?
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
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Irving McK. Reed
MINERAL SURVEYOR, G. L. O.
Surveying for Patent
Office on Second Street, back of Polets
Will be in town until about October 15
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