Rep. Magnuson Denounces Selection
Of Route C for Highway to Alaska
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WASHINGTON, June 8 (AP) — Representative
Warren G. Magnuson of Seattle, chairman of the Al
aska International 'Highway Commission, warned t
day t,hat the United States could lose Alaska if it did
not at once start construction of a highway west
the Rocky Mountains to the northern territory.
Magnuson, who has just returned to Washington
after five months as a lieutenant commander attach*"'!
to Navy task forces in the Pacific, assailed, in a speech
prepared for delivery in the House, the selection of
“Route C” to Alaska as “so fantastic” that it had been
ignored by the American and Canadian International
Highway Commissions.
Magnuson’s speech will be delivered to the House
tomorrow or put into the Congressional Record.
The Democratic congressman said the American
commission had selected “Route A” and the Canadian
group selected "Route B.”
Stupidity and Credulity Increditable
Magnuson charged that selection of Route C fr n
Fort St. John, B. C., was a waste of “millions and mil
lions of dollars” of United States money for a r . d
that would never be practicable. He declared that the
“stupidity and-credulity of those in power” who sel
ected Route C “is incredible.”
Magnuson described how the Canadian government
had built two small airfields along the proposed R >uu
C, now being constructed, by Army engineers, at the
request of the United States, and charged that 14 bomb
ers or pursuit planes being flown to Alaska had cr\.ck
ed up on the mountains near one of the fields at Wat
son Lake.
“I am told the loss of life has been small, if any.” he
said, “but many needed aviators are now in the hos
pital at Whitehorse.”
The congressman said he • understood the route
chosen had been selected after an Army officer had
flown over it and had seen level ground, NOT kn
ing the level ground was muskeg swamp on which NO
highway could be maintained. He charged the air
line route on which the two airfields were construct
ed was owned by a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad “which still has, and after the war will still
have, the sole commercial right” to use it.
He quoted a Canadian as saying that in the con
struction of the road and airfields the United States
was making a “wonderful gift to the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad.”
“Perhaps,” Magnuson continued, “the fact that the
Canadian Pacific Railroad does NOT go to Pr me
George has something to do with the selection.”
He said airplanes could fly the A Route but pc>
rnission to establish airfields along it had been den * .1.
Selection of Route C Made Arbitrarily
The congressman, asserted the selection of Route C
was made arbitrarily and that when it became known,
members of the Canadian commission wired his com
mission urging the plans be stopped. He said com
mission members had been denied access to those in
authority. (Magnuson at this time was on active duty
with the Navy in the Pacific, on leave from Congress).
“We can easily lose Alaska unless we make a mighty
effort to connect the territory to American bases by
every possible means of transportation, he said.
Contending that either of the two western routes
could be built for $50,000,000, he charged that con
struction on the route selected bv the Army would
cost “NOT less than $100,000,000 if it can be'built at
all.” Magnuson said he wanted to see “our planes fly
ing in serried ranks from the United States to Alaska
and then to Russia, to China and over Japan.”
Notice id Rendering Final Ac
count and Report *>1 Aclir.ini -
trut< r and Petition for Final
Ord' i ot Distribution.
No. f) 40
In ti>e Probate Court In and For
the Cape Nome Preci. ct. Tt rri
tory of Aia::i
I 'he Matter ct the Eiate of
MRS. ANNA FEMKYFR. D. -
. c a 1.
NOTICE is hereby given that j
Mr. Leroy M. Sul:: van, A dm n- ■
iMr. 'or of the estate of Mrs. '
An: Femeyer. deceacd, has
rendered for final settlement. ar.J
filed n the above Court his final
ace .nt and rep r and h s pet- '
it ion for final order of distribu
tion and that Saturday, August
2D. 1942, at 10 oVock A. M.. a
the 11Tice and court room of the* ■
C : V in Nome. Alaska, has been
i si t as the time and place for tho j
set: ement of the accoun. and re
par ‘ and for hearing ■bj etions
; t ■-11 to. if any tm.ro be, and for
a h ring on the petition, nd all .
p ;'■* ms interested are hei .-by
no: :i d then a d there to appear
and low cause, if my they '
hiivi why the account and re-1
pert should not be settled and |
allowed and why distribution of
the estate should not thereupon ■
he m-mediately made to the per
sons cut tied thereto withou fur
ther notice or procedure. A: the
hearing the Court will adjudicate
and decree who are the heirs and
d -tiobutees of any residue of the
v- ate. Reference is made to the
account and report and petition i
for lurtlier particulars.
Dated at N >me. Alaska, this
29;h day of June, 1942.
1a roy M. Sullivan,
Administrator
Pub.ash June 29. July ti, 13, 2(1
N O 1 1 V K
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d wen part ami two chair . Cali
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>lanes into the air at one time.
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crew hurries to refuel a P39 pursuit plane engaged In Datrol of the Panama Canal area. Caribbean sea is also being watched.
JOE LOUIS STIC KS TO
MILITARY TILL TRAINED
WASHINGTON. June-— Sec
retary of War Stinison said Joe
Louis will make no more public
appearances except those strictly
for the armed forces until he
completes his basic military train
ing.
Louis is now a corporal and is
stationed at Fort Devens, Massa- j
chusetts.
Stimson said Louis isunabfle to j
keep up with his military train- j
ing because of his many public !
appearances and that is the rea
son for banning them now.
Joe Louis was one of Uncle
Sam’s very best “tax collectors.’’
Every time Joe packed the fight
fans in by thousands, Uncle reap
ed a harvest in ticket sales. So
the Treasury can thank Louis for >
at least a cool million in win
nings. On two recent occasions
the same Louis has donated his
entire purse to the Army-Navy
relief. „
Now he’s having trouble pay
ing bis own income tax; is draw
ing only $51) a month as a private
and asks Uncle’s permission to
put on another title fight to
square up his tax bill and hand
the rest to Army-Navy relief.
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