The Civil
Aeronautics
Administration
(Continued from last issue)
(Speech by Br'.g.-Gen. Donald H.
Connolly. Administrator of Civil
Aeronautics, before the luncheon
session of the annual convention,
National Aeronautics Association,
Tuesday. June 6, 1941. at the Ken
tucky Hotel, Louisville, Ken
tucky.)
Progress in the development of
the Federal airway system also
is noteworthy. It was hastened,
last autumn, by a supplemental
appropriation of $2,000,000 above
the rgeular budget allotment.
More than 3.000 miles of airways
have been added. Many vital ele
ments in the long-time plan have
Ibeen completed in all parts of the
country. By next year ihe back
bone of the Alaskan system will
be complete, and we will have
service on the important Pacific
islands.
Last October, the first money
ever appropriated to this office
for airport development was
made available. It was $40,000,000
and with it we are now at work
on nearly 200 sites which have
been certified as important to the
national defense. Our contribu
tion to the discussions with the
Army and Navy has been to sup
port locations which, so far as
possible, will be practical for civ
il operations after the emergency.
All in all, we have had an act
ive year; but if the appropria
tions for fiscal 1942 emerge free
from conference without serious
shrinkage, civil aviation will
' have for the coming year a big
ger program that it ever had be
fore. More than $144,000,000 has
been voted to thus agency by the
Senate, and the only substantial
difference between the Senate
and House appropriations is the
amount for airports. This differ
ence grows primarily from the
fact that, after the House had
passed our appropriation but be
fore the Senate had considered it,
the President asked for a $61,
500,000 addition to the airport
item. The Senate granted this re
quest, and the House must now
consider it in the conference. If
the House concurs, our 1942 air
port improvement program will
exceed $94,000,000.
As for pilot training, both Hous
es have approved $25,000,000 for
B.ext year.
We are aware, of course, that
the size of this program is due
in large measure to the defense
emergency. At the same time, we;
feel two other factors are in-j
volved. One is that, under our
present administrative set-up, civ!
il aviation has a voice at the I
cabinet table and thus can make,
its needs heard. The other is vin
dication of what I call this coun
try’s ‘ambidextrous policy” re
garding transport facilities. In
short, we always have built cer
tain types of civil facilities in tim
es of peace which could be con
verted easily and quickly to de-1
fense facilities in times of emer
gency. We have done if for a
long time with highways and
■waterways.
We have done it, also, with
airways. The proof is that our
facilities and our plans are 100
percent useful now. We have
done it, in large degree, with
airports —even when our pow-.
ers were only advisory. For the (
nation’s civil airports literally
are proving life-savers to the
armed forces. And we have done
it in the training of civilian pi
lots. For proof of that I refer you
again to the statement of Gen-!
er-al Johnson.
The immediate concern of all
of us—in the government and out '
— must be preparedness. I think!
the past week’s reaction to the |
President’s proclamation is proof
that as a people we are ready to
do whatever is necessary in this
respect.
But surely we can be pardoned
if, after so many hard and pio
neering years, we lift an eye up
ward now and then to the shin- j
ing future of this industry. We i
know the day will come when!
we look through the other part
of our bifocals once more. On
that day the vast aviation facil-1
ities now concentrated on defense1
will ibe turned to peaceful rival
development. What civil aviation
will be then, no man here can pre
diet with accuracy. But every
man can smile in anticipation of
it.
3-Hour Law
Suspended In j
Three Areas
WASHINGTON, June 20 — By
an Executive Order issued by|
President Roosevelt, the eight i
hour labor limit for laborers and
mechanics employed in Govern
ment defense construction work
in Alaska, Canal Zone and Puerto
Rico, is suspended.
The suspension is effective for
the duration of the current Na
tion Emergency period and ap
plies to workmen engaged in
building cantonments, air fields,
fortifications and other public
works necessary to National De
fense. ••
President Rosevelt said the or
der is necessary because it will
be impossible to accomplish the
necesary work within the time
required and in the interest of de'
fense because of the remoteness
of tl*e areas affected and the
sources of the labor supply from
the United States, and also be
cause of transportation and hous
ing difficulties.
NOTICE
Th>-* unique and numoroui
and typical Alaskan stationery- j
"Sourdough Roadhouse Letter ;
heads and Envelopes”, have bee
orougnt strictly uptoda'e. and ar
now available at the Nugget offl
ce.
Youth Gives
25 Transfustion
. The Alaska Territorial Employ
men Service reached an all time
high In total complete place
ments during the month of May.
Executive Director Walter P.
Sharpe of the Unemplyoment
Compensation Commission stat-l
ed.
A total of 1,458 men and wo
men secured jobs through the Em;
ploy merit Servcie Division of the
Alaska Unemployment Compen-i
sat ion Commission during this;
period.
Sixty-four percent of the place
merits were on national defense
projects. The Anchorage and Fair,
tanks offices were credited with j
the majority of placements.
The number of initial claims!
for unemployment compensation!
benefits received during May, ■
1941 was 25 percent less than |
April, 1941, while initial claims'
received during May, 1940 were
73 percent more than those re
ceived in Apri, 1940.
Record Number
Of Placements
Made In May
GREENICH. Conn. — Twenty
tvvo-year-old Harry Lambertson
has set somewhat of a record by
giving 25 blood donations to the
American Red Cross for ship
ment to Britain and for the na
tional defense plasma reservoir.
“It’s very simple,” he said. “A11
one has to do is to call the New
York City chapter and make an
appointment. They send you an
■appointment card which you take
with you to Presbyterian Hospit
al.
“After checking your pulse and
heaitbcat, the doctor paints your
arm with alcohol and iodine.
Then with a bit of anesthetic, he
makes the incision in your arm.i
You can hardly feel it. The blood |
is drained into a bottle which!
seals automatically when the'
tube is withdrawn. I am surpris
ed more people don’t do it.”
TRANSPOR T—As trans
portation chief in quartermaster
general's office. Col. Theodore
H. Dillon will control all War
Department traffic moving by
commercial transport means.
THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pear=on
and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — U ncensored
diplomatic d'spatches indicate
•that this time more is taking
place be'.ween Russia and Ger
many than the usual Nazi sport,
of Russ'an bear-baiting. It now
lool^s as if 1,500,000 German
troops concentrated along the So
viet border mean a real show
down and the possible invasion of
Russia.
For a year Hitler has followed
the.strategy of alternately bully
ing .and coaxing Russia in order
to get the oil, wheat and raw
materials the German army
needs. Sometimes Russia was,
bribed with chunks of Poland or
Rumania, sometimes threatened
by concentrations of Nazi troops.
As a result, various agreements
have been worked out for sup
plies, even for the use of German
experts to aid Russian industry.
But these have been largely pa
per agreements. In terms of con
crete results Russia has coughed
up little. She has withdrawn re
cognition from such . guered
•countries as Greece and *„goslav
ia; made other political gestures.
But when it came to shipping oil,
there were always excuses.
Now diplomatic dispatches in
dicate that the showdown may be
just around the corner.
Within the past few days Hitler
has told his ambassador to de-j
mand the return of that part of
Poland given Russia in Septem
ber, 1939—the bribe which real
ly touched off the war. Hitler also,
demanded that Russia turn the,
Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia'
and Latvia over to Germany.
—
Drive Toward India
He also wants the return of
Bessarabia, given Russia as a
bribe when Germany took over'
Rumania. Finally he is demand
ing part of the Russia Ukraine, as
well as the stationing of Nazi ex-j
perts in the Russian oil fields and
in certain key Russian industries/
Of course, anything can hap-;
pen in Russia. But if Hitler car-j
rier out his threats, it probably j
means that he will go through I
southern Russia and the Caucau-!
sus, taking the rich oil areas
around Baku and Batum, then'
drive down through Iran to the
Indian Ocean. This would put
Germany on two sides of Syria
and Palestine — and the British
would be between a new and
powerful pincers. I
Even more important, Ger
many then would be on the bor
der of Britain’s most coveted of
all colonial prizes — India. Pro
viding of course, Hitler’s war ma
chine were successful.
NOTE:- Hitler’s present de-;
mand that Russia return Poland
and Rumania probably rates as j
the choicest irony of the war. Pol
land, by demanding a part of
Czechoslovakia, precipitated the
Czech downfall. Then Russia, by
taking part of Poland, precipitat|
cd Poland’s downfall. Now Ger-j
many, having swallowed Poland
plus the land she took| from
Czechoslovakia, proposes to swal
low Russia — plus the territory
she took from Poland.
V. «. PROPERTY IS
BOMBED IN JAPANESE RAID
TOKYO. Jure !6 —United Stat'
e« Ambassador Joseph C. Grew;
personally delivered a 301-word
note of protest to Japanese For
eign Minister Matsuoka for the
bumbong of Chungking in which •
bomb? fell in the American safe-'
ty zone and .narrowly missed t'.e
United States gunboat Tatuila.
Ambassador Gre-'v acted as
soon as he received definite noti
fication from Chungking without
waiting for any instructions from
the Amer.can S.ate Department.
Ambassador Grew received
word that at least five bombs fell
in the vicinity of the United S'at
es Embassy at Chungking and al
so the gunboat.
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Music Tax
The Alaska Music Supply Corn
ea ry has received word from var
lous companies that in conjuncj
.on with the new tax program
i articles of luxury throughout
‘he country, there will be a ten
percent excise on all musical in
ruments including pianos.
Various objections raised .by op
ponents of this new measure
point cut that instruments, such
as those which are used in school
orchestras, are in reality not lux
uries and should not be taxed as
uch. They also contend that this
will make it more difficult for stu
d nts, who are limtied financially
to make musica purchases. Phono
graph records are also to be tax
ed according to the plans.
a I j C U I T IN BRONZ E—Seabiscuit, turfdom's great
est money winner of all time, poses in the flesh alongside f ie
l'f»-size statue of himself, unveiled In Santa Anita park, Los
Angeles. The Biscuit’s biggest money race was the $100,COO San.*
Anita Handicap won in March, 194. With the Biscuit is his owner,
Char-'v S. Howard. T . tu wvi the work of Tex Wheeler.
THE MASTER’S TOUCH—Rembrandt’s portrait of a
Polish Nobleman (above) Is part of the late Andrew W. Mellon's
valuable collection of Rembrandts now hanging in the new nation?.!
gallery of art, which is to be dedicated in Washington, March 17.
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Generally cloudy tonight and Tuesday morning with intermittent
light rain and fog. Fair Tuesday afternoon becomng cloudy again
Tuesday night.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 53 Lowest temp — 45 Precipitation _T
Total precip this month 0.27 Total since Jan. 1, 1941 — 2.07
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight---_ 48 94 SW 6 Raining
Sam ----—_ . 46 95 W 4 Drizzling
12:30 p m ---- 50 89 WSW 13 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 1:04 a. m. Sunset 10:56 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 63 Lowest t emp — 50 Precipitation — 0
NAVY SCIMOL NESTLES lH. F0RD PLANT_I„ foreground Is the nearly completed Navy Service school in the I!
—- —r heart of the Ford Motor coiqpany s River Rouge plant at Dearborn, Mich. A thousand recruits are being trained theVe,