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Air Mai! and Feeder Fines
Main air route of Alaska along
which regular airmail service
has been established and expect
ed new links in this chain of maj
or routes, derive their business
not alone from larger or hub cit
ies which they serve.
A vast portion of the airmail
and other traffic over the main
routes is due to the outlying re
gions. To and from these small
er communities flows the busi
ness that is the life blood of the
main arteries.
Officials of the Civil Aeronaut
ics Authority, the postal depart
ment and other branches of the
public service now striving to
work out a solution for Alaska’s
aviation and mail problems will
find much of thoughtful sugges
tion in the following editorial
from the New York Times:
“There is much of interest in
the p an for the establishment of
a comprehensive airline feeder
system throughout the United
States, which has been submitt
ed to the Civil Aeronautics Au
thority and the Postoffice Depart
ment by Richard C. du Pont. Mr.
duPont. known for his skill as a
soaring pilot and his diversified
interest in aviation, is president
of All American Aviation, Inc.,
which is conducted with success
on interesting daily operation on
two air-mail routes lying in Pen
nsylvania, tVest Virginia, Ohio
and Delaware.
These routes are operated by
the pickup and drop-sack meth
od, in which sacks of mail are de
tached by the plane in flight
from a line suspended between
poles. Already the little planes
of the system fly 1.540 miles
daily, make 75 pickups and' serve
58 communities.
Schedules have been maintain
ed under adverse weather, and
an average speed of 100 miles
an hour is made in spite of con
tacts at frquencies of from five
to 22 miles. The smallest com
munity on the routes, Glenville,
W. Va., has a daily air-mail dis
patch of between two and four
pounds, which, on a pcrcapita
basis, ext ■ ds that of the largest
air tvnu - ;n the United States.
Based pon this experience,
Mr du Pont proposes the creation
of a Natioanal network of feed
er lines so as to extend the bene
fits of air-mail service, to com
munities without airports as well
as those with them, and to
spread much more widely the ad
vantages of the swift transport
ation of mail.
It is suggested, after satisfac
tory experiment, that small dual
engined airplanes could even per
form passenger service in connec
tion with the airmail pickup,
loading and discharging their
passengers at the relatively wid
ely spaced points at which land
ings are made.
Persons living in off-line points
not served by the great airport
systems would thus enjoy the
time-saving elements of air trav
el to an extent only slightly less
than those in the present route
cities.
Mr du Font’s suggestion is a
bold aproach to a real problem.
It certainly is worthy of most
careful examination by the agen
les concerned with civil aero
nautics.
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things, tie a rope around your
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Alaska Labor
Conditions Unique
SEATTLE—Dr. Don Lescohier,
nationally famed authority on La
bor relations declared that the
great distances from the union
and company headquarters at
which workers who must be sent
from the Outside for work in the
Alaska salmon industry are lo
cated makes the labor situation
in this industry one of the most
interesting in American labor.
Dr Lescohier who is professor
of economics at the University of
Wisconsin is at present lecturing
on labor relations to business
men attending the Institute of
Public Relations being held at
the University of Washington.
While in the Pacific Northwest
he has been surveying the labor
situation in Alaska’s salmon in
dustry. He has visited headquar
ters of unions involved in the in
dustry, discussing problems with
union officers and representativ
| es of canning companies.
In a special interview for the
! newspapers of Alaska, Dr. Les
cohier stated that there were a
; number of problems arising out
of the geography of the industry
and the short season that made
the labor problem unique and dif
fieult. Among the serious prob
lems, he named the dispatching
problem. the varying food re
quirements of the races involved,
and the unusual extension of the
check-off system to cover many
items beyond the union dues.
“The number of races involved
and the consequent problems re
i garding the type of meals to be
i served is a problem seldom
found in other industries. This
■ problem, is in effect a part of the
wage question, since the food of
i the men is a part of their wages,”
Dr. Lescohier said.
“Because the union must select
the crew’ to be turned over to the
employer, which must then be
transported from 800 to 2500 mil
' es away to do the season’s work,
j the responsibility of the union
i for seeing that satisfactory work
ers are dispatched is exceedingly
great. The impossibility of mak
j ing changes in the crew’ after the
season starts makes this a vital
problem in operating the indus
try.”
Dr. Lescohier declared that
from what he had observed, the
present leadership of the can
nery workers’ union recognized
this responsibility.
“We are coming to realize that
unions are a business organiza
tion. Unions must handle their
affairs in a businesslike manner,
just as a bank must, if they are
to continue in operation As the
union organizations grow older
they tend to be better and more
soundly run,” he concluded.
FROM OFFICE BOY TO PRESI
DENT OF GREAT NORTHERN
NEW YORK —Francis James
Gavin, who started as an office
boy with the Great Northern Ry
in 1897 was elected president of
the road. He had been executive
vice-president with headquarters
in St. Paul and succeeds the late
William Kenney
British, French
Remove Mines
Germans Left
UNDATED, Oct. 2 </P—Diplo- .
mats took the offensive in the
European war, devoted to the
major military development on j
the eastern front. A German com
munique reported the first Ger-;
man troops which shattered War
saw were moved “without inci-:
dent.” Defenders of Hela Penin
sula forts “the last point of Pol
ish resistance are said to have
surrendered unconditionally.” So
viet Russian forces pushed com
munization of Eastern Poland
which the red army occupied in
dividing Poland with Germany. J
On the western front a French
communique said “the night was!
relatively calm.” Germany re-!
ported “merely local artillery j
and reconnoitering activity” in
‘the west but said one British
scouting plane was shot down.
A French dispatch indicated
that British and French forces
were consolidating their posi
tions and removed thousands of
small mines left behind by the
Germans.
On the sea Britain lost her;
first merchant vessel in more |
than a week. The Information
Ministry said the 5(H)0-ton Clem
ent was sunk by a raider in the;
south Atlantic.
Director Census
Asks Cooperation
Of Territory
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Juneau, Alaska
The Nome Nugget
Nome, Alaska
Gentlemen:
The time is approaching for
taking the regular Decennial Cen
sus in Alaska. It is the purpose
of the government to secure a
collection of complete and accur
ate data on population, agricul- j
ture, manufactures, and distribu i
tion, in order to enable the Bu- i
reau of the Census to compile
comprehensive and reliable in-1
formation as to the present social j
and economic status of the Terri'
tory. .
Alaska has made much pro
gress during the past decade and
everyone is interested in the re
suit of the census. Publicity will
of great help in securing an ac
curate account The census is to
be taken as of October 1, 1939
and enumerators are now being
appointed. To insure the accur
acy of the staticstics gathered,
the Bureau of the Census needs
i the hearty cooperation of every
person in the Territory, and in
this respect the newspapers,
Chambers of Commerce, trade,
fraternal, social, and religious or |
ganization can be of great help.
Your cooperation wil be great
ly appreciated.
Yours very truly,
Jacob P Anderson
[Supervisor of Census for Alaska)
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