ALASKA - YUKON PIONEERS
LOBBY FOR ROAD CUT-OFF
Organization Prepares Symposium for Submission to
U. S., Canadian Officials Pondering Proposed West
Link with Alaska Highway
In a symposium prepared by
the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers in
Seattle, opinions of authoritative
nature were compiled recently
for submission to both United
States and Canadian officials now
pondering the proposed West cut I
off to the Alaska Highway. Ex- j
eerpts from expressed opinions j
include:
J. W. MAXWELL, President of
Automobile Club of Washing- i
ton:
“Wherever roads or highways 1
may be built, the consensus of '
opinion in the West insists that 1
the 450-mile short-cut branch !
road between Hazleton, B. C.. i
and Whitehorse, Y. T., as well as i
the highway on to Fairbanks. Al- !
aska. must be completed before !
an enemy attempts to invade Al
aska.”
LEW G. KAY, Chinese Business
Man of Seattle and Alaska:
“The bombing of the Burma !
Road has taught us we need two
roads to Fairbanks and Nome for
proper defense —the authorized
Canadian prairie highway from
Chicago to Fairbanks and the .
West’s short-cut branch from 35 1
miles north of Hazleton, B. C., to 1
the main highway near White- '
horse. This two-way system
would provide for loaded trucks
to go to Alaska by one route and
return by the other.”
JOHN P. HARTMAN, Pioneer
Good Roads Advocate and
Northwest Railroad Attorney:
“Alaska coast air bases now ex
isting at Metlakatla, Sitka, An
chorage, and Kodiak, if support
ed by air bases a hundred or two i
hundred miles back of the coast
range mountains on the Canad
ian-Alaska highway s y s t e m,
could relieve airplane carriers
from Alaska service to go where
they are needed more urgently, i
Such main land bases would be
of more value for air defense [
than as many carriers which
would cost many times the air
bases. In fact, the cost of the I
whole highway system of Can
ada and Alaska would be less j
than the cost off one large plane
carrier.
“The Canadian-Alaska high- j
way system when completed wall (
release submarines, airplane car
riers, naval vessels and merchant
ships from Alaska service for use i
in other battle areas where there !
will be more need for them.”
“The highway from Minnesota ,
when completed to Alaska will I
be of value in bringing supplies
from the East and Middlewest to
the defense of Alaska. It leaves
the western part of the country
lacking in the proper connection
with the balance of the arterial
highways. This missing link lies !
between the West Coast and AJ- |
ask a.
“The short-cut branch road par ;
alleling the coast a hundred 1
miles behind, the coast range and
coast is already built more than
one thousand miles north of Seat
tie and Spokane to 35 miles
north of Hazleton, B. C., which
leaves around 450 miles of new
road construction to Whitehorse.
Y. T.
“When completed the mobility
and freedom of transfer of sup
plies, munitions, men and equip
ment will be absolutely fluid and
make it easy to quickly defend
exposed localities on the North
I American Continent.”
A. J. GODDARD, Recorder of At
aska-Yukon Pioneers, Inc.:
“The building of the cut-off
I would provide, at comparatively
i small cost, what’would amount
, to two highways — tap a much
greater source of supply: beside
providing for one-way thorough
i fares if found necessary for war
] supplies."
TOM SMITH, King County Com
missioner of North District:
| “Completion of the Paficic
| Coast portion of the Alaska high
; way as a part of the proect now
under way under the direction of
the U. S. Army engineers, seems
to me to be one of the imperative
| es in the proper defense of Al
aska and the Canadaian and Am
erican Pacific Coast.
The “military value of the con
1 struction now under way would
be seriously impaired, if this
vital Pacific Coast link is not com
| pleted. Here is one wartime ex
penditure and project that will
| pay dividends for all time to
come.
"In my opinion all of the Pac
; ific Coast states and their peo
ple should insist that this pro
: ject be given consideration and
priority at this time.”
C. E. ANDREWS, Eugene. Ore..
who devoted fifty years as cus
toms collector, school teacher,
reindeer service, research and
history writing to Alaska:
“The great circle route of
world trade from Tokyo to San
Francisco or Seattle passes with
in sight of Alaska.
“The prime necessity of build
ing a land road is to get quick
, connection with the head of the
1 navigation on the Yukon River
at Whitehorse so that men and
I supplies m reach Northern
British Columbia, the Yukon
I Territory and Alaska without
i the danger of ‘U' boat sinkings
1 as is now the terror of the At
lantic.
“If a road was built to White- i
; horse, the inland navigation on ,
the Yukon River is protected to
I the mouth, nearly to St. Miehaei.
2.350 miles. It has connections
! with a highway at Circle that
I reaches Fairbanks. Fairbanks
! has rail connections with Seward
| and Anchorage and highway to
Valdez. When St. Michael is
reached, it is but 90 miles to
Nome, and other Seward Penin
j sula ports and the Bering Straits.
“If Alaska is lost, the back
door of Canada is wide open. Our
Pacific enemy is reputed to have
from a million to a million and a
half men in Manchuria. Suppose
i it turns a half-million of these
! against Alaska and a fleet of sub
marines against the Alaska coast
] shipping1' How long wrould Al
aska last?
The finishing of the West’s
short-cut road by the nearest
route, in the shortest time, and
at the least cost is of vital im
portance to both the United Stat
es and Canada as well as to Al
aska and the Pacific Coast.’’
NEW INCOME TAXES MAY BE
DOUBLE PRESENT SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON, July — An eleventh hour devision
which will boost the average individual’s income taxes
another one percent to almost double the present rates
was put to and yielded by the House Ways and Means
Committee in considering the new revenue bill, which
is above $6,000,000,000.
The committee adopted the motion to add one per
cent to a new surtax on a graduated scale from 12 per
cent on the first $2,000 of personal income to 81 per
cent above $5,000,000.
The present rates are from six to seven per cent.
Thus, with the six per cent normal tax compared to
the present four the committee’s new combined rate
will be increased from 10 per cent to 19 per cent in
the lowest brackets. *
Two-Man Front
Is On Trial
In England
LONDON, July — Two Brit
ish soldiers who started out to
create a second front all try them
selves went before a court mar- j
'■ tial at Aldershot,
j Tin two Tommies had been as
| signed to the Dentist corps and
i didn't like t. They decided that
I if they oad to pull anybody's
| teeth they might just as well be
' Hitler 's. Die two men applied j
j for a transfer to a fighting unit. ;
The request was turned down.
The accused said they acquir
led in true old-time military man
l ner a full set of commando wea- 1
pons. Then they crossed the ■
| English channel by boat. The
i two-man army was scaling a j
I high c':.r near Cherbourg on'the
; French c ist when suddenly the
] Germans sounded an alarm and
: turned on searchlights. The Tom
I mil s decided the enemy was ini
too great a force for a success- j
i ful attack and retreated to their i
i boat.
The boat ran out of gasoline
I before the invaders found an
! other suitable place for a land
J mg. The two-man invasion army
i was picked up in mid-channel in
u half-starved condition two,
weeks later. The court martial
a d not announce its decision con
corning the fate of the fighting
dentists
Spy Suspect
Alleged % as
Once In Alaska
—
New York, July 15 — G
men nabbed another Ger
man suspect in the Brook
lyn area. He is Washington
Glendale Spiezelberg, 35
vears old. He was born in
Berlin. He came to the
United States in 1925 and
has worked as a sailor, fish
erman and sailor in Alaska
and in a number of defense
plants in Chicago, Detroit
and elsewhere. Spiezel
berg is charged with violat
mg th spionage act.
When caught he had in
; his possession a copy of sec
ret plans for Bonnelly En
i ret plans for the B-24
oomber, stolen from the
Bonnelly Engineering Cor
poration of Detroit where
he workd until recently.
He was in Alaska from
1929 to 1935 and once ap
plied unsuccessfully for a
! pilot’s license to take ships
j into waters adjoining the
| Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
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!
WASHINGTON, July War j
Information Chief Elmer Davis
announced the complete reorgan
zation of the Information Servic
(■', saying:
"This is a people’s war and to
j win t the people should know
as much about it as ii. > can.”
The simplified war rif .-ination
t-up announced will l>< under!
I Dav.s and his assistant. Milton
; Ki-oiiiiower, il has thri mala!
i divisions:
j A domestic branch under Gat'd
j ner Cowles, Jr., an overseas
, branch under playwright Robert
; Sherwood and a “policy develop
! ment" division under Archibald
MacLeish.
Davis told a news conference
he was “not satisfied" with the
way the military commission con
ducting the trial of eight German
spies was holding out on trial in
formation. He said General Mc
Coy, head of the eon-mission re
fused to proceed in accordance
with a “time honored and most
generally satisactory principle of
newspaper reporting of trials."
Davis also said, however, that
he had generally found that the
armed services did not withhold
news just because it was bad
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CVPT. COLIN KELLY, JR.
PORTRAIT OF A HER O—Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow
(above), chairman of the New York U.S.O. women's committee,
unveiled this portrait of Capt. Colin Kelly, Jr., which was painted
for ihe United States Military academy by Bradford Lambert
(right). The portrait was hung in a New York City art gallery
where the admissions charged went into the U.S.O. war fund.
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