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EDITORIAL
ALASKA ROADS
AND DEFENSE
Alaska‘s greatest gain under
the p-oposed defense projects, it
now appears will be in roads, the
connection of existing random
highways into an integrated sys
tem. Naturally enough, the Army
wants to be able to move trucks,
guns, troops and supplies by
highway between Anchorage and
Fairbanks in event the vulner
able Alaska Railroad should be
put out of commission. Today it
would be possible for a single
enemy plane to completely iso
late the Interior Alaska base
from Anchorage reinforcements
•with one well-placed bomb on a
railroad trestle. While troops
were being moved by make-shift
transportation down the Kenai
Peninsula to Seward across the
Gulf of Alaska by water and in
side by way of the Richardson
Highway, untold mischief could
be done by the invader.
The Army insists upon a road
connecting the present Anchor
age road system with the Rich
ardson Highway. A few weeks
ago Hawley Sterling, Assistant
Chief of the Alaska Road Com
mission, back-packed across the
route on a reconnaissance trip.
The proposed road, one which
would cost $1,500,000 to build ac
ross some of the most difficult
terrain in Alaska, has now been
placed “at the top of the list of
Alaska Road Commission new
construction projects.
The cost of the road, large as
it is in comparison with what Al
aska has been able to spend on
roads in recent years is hardly
an item in a defense program
which Congressmen say is likely
to run to $15,000,000 per year
for the next four years in Alaska
«lone.
The benefit of such a road to
the development of Alaska
would be almost incalculable. It
would be the skeleton upon
which a real Alaika road system
co u Id be built. Ultimately it
would draw branches from all
the rest of Alaska, even from
45c.:‘beast A aska. It would give
Alaska development a push
which would send it far.
I\r >re power to the national de
fer o program which is bring
ing so much of lasting benefit to
Alaska.—Juneau Empire.
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I SAYS ROYAL AIRMEN
ARE 4 TO 1 BEST
A short time ago, the Juneau
Empire printed a heartening let
ter from England in which a 70
I year-old father wrote his son,
;Burriss Smith, airways mechanic
of Juneau, of the fight which
, England is staging against Ger
' many.
Recently Smith received anoth
er letter from his father who in
i cidentally refused to come to the
United States and stayed to raise
produce for the soldiers on his
! little farm.
The letter is as follows:
“I thought you would like to
have even a short letter to show
that we are still alive and kick
ing.
“The Huns are doing their
damnedest, but our lads have got
! them beat in the air in the pro
! portion of about 4 to 1 and ours
I are fighting like gentlemen
should, but the Huns do unspeak
able things.
“When numbers in planes be
come anything like equal, the
Huns won’t have a dog's chance
arid we are catching them up
very rapidly now.
"At sea, of course, they were
beaten from the word go—so, my
dears, although they are a damn
ed nuisance, they will lose this
war and be much worse off than
they were last time, because now
the whole world is sick of them.
"I am awful sorry that you
are not here to help and see the
fun. England was never anything
like it is now in the last war for
soldiers and defenses and the
navy and RAF already are giv
ing them Hell in their own coun
try and you will remember Ger
many was immune in the last
; war and did not know what war
; was except their soldiers were
i killed — now they get bombed
night after night.
“We are rationed in a few
; things, but if we were not told
which they were, we should not
| notice it.
Cordell Hull, Secretary of
State: “Our American history
has not been achieved in isola
tion from the rest of mankind.
William S. Bullitt, American
Ambassador to France: "The Ger
man military machine today is
without question the most power
ful that has ever been created.”
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FDR Will Make
Defense Program
Speech Oct. 12
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 — The
White House announced Presi
■ dent Roosevelt will deliver a na
tion defense speech from his
j special train at Dayton, Ohio, on
j October 12. Secretary Stephen
Early, said the President’s Day
j ton address will be non-political
j and will be carried on three na
tional radio networks and will
start at 6 p.m., Pacific Standard
Time.
Ickes to Stump
West Coast
WASHINGTON. Oct. 5 — Har
old Ickes, Secretary of the Inter
ior, will leave for the Pacific
Coast this weekend to take the
stump for the first time in the
campaign and said he will chal
lenge the Republican Standard
Bearer, IWendell L. Willkie on
his stand on the power question.
It has been learned Ickes will
made a ten-day swing in Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho and
make a major public power ad
dress at Portland.
It was there that Willkie said
he favored the completion of the
Bonneville and Grand Coulee
projects with the proviso con
sumers be permitted to decide
whether the federal government
or private utilities companies
would have control of distribu
tion.
Einstein Welcomed
As U.S. Citizen
TRENTON, N. J.. Oct. 5 — Fed
eral Judge Phillip formally wel
corned Albert Einstein into Am
erican citizenship with the ob
servation that the scientists’ pre
sence here becomes America’s
gain.”
Judge Phillip, pointing that he j
himself, is the son of immigrant:
Jewish parents, said:
“I am deeply cognizant that
only in America has it been pos
sible for me to occupy the posi
tion I do, as a representative of
my country.”
During the administration of
the oath, Einstein sat at the head j
of a class of 88 new citizens.
DAUGHTER IS BORN
TO THE LINDBERGHS
—
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 — A dau- j
ghter was born to Col. and Mrs.
Chas. A. Lindbergh in Doctors
Hospital. The child is the fourth
including the first born which!
vas kidnaped and killed in 1932.1
The new baby is their first dau
ghter.
nOLLl’WOOD STAR-LITES
By Chuck Cochard
HOLLYWOOD (Exclusive) —
The next 12 months will pro
j bably see the most radical chang
I es in this great Fifth Industry
since A1 Jolson spoke a magic
line fit)em the screen and the
talkies were born.
The most important bit of
i news is that fewer lower-priced
pictures (commonly called "B”
films) will be made . . . All be
cause each studio will be contin
ually driving to get more rev
enue for their films because the
foreign market is no more,
thanks to Mr. Berlin-Rome axis.
But let’s be glad that we can
head singing and laughter in
stead of exploding bombs.
Walt Disney’s newest feature
"Fantasia” is almost finished and
it will be released in two months
Advance reports are that it will
be one of the most beautiful
things ever put on film.
Hedy Lamarr will sing in
“Comrade X” — a song entitled
“We Are Free” — quite timely
considering her recent separation
from Gene Markey.
Romantic Spotlight—Katherine
Hepburn seen lately with Direct
or Garsin Kanin . . . Reginald
Gardiner with his first real love
since Hedy Lamarr — it’s Mary
Parker . . . And that is radio
announcer John Conte who is
giving Laraine Day sue ha rush.
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London's anti-aircraft gil*is set up what the British called the heaviest barrage in history to keep away Berlin’s threatened 10,000
bomb-a-day war on England (1). Berlin claimed its guns chased Royal air Force planes away after a 92-minute raid. The German’s
also claimed that their warplanes bombed Liverpool (2) as well as the Woolwich arsenal and a power station at Becton, and that
another plane squadron split up a convoy at Thames Estuary (3). German big guns thundered across the channel (4). British coastal
batteries replied. The British asserted their planes flew across and bombed the German guns into silence. Prime Ministre Churchill
described concentration of German boats along the channel for an attempted invasion and said that British naval craft had gone out
and shc’lcd them (5) The RAF bombed Hamburg and Bremen (6).
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