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EDITORIAL
Risin" Capitals
Of The North
Consider the future of the fu
ture of the towns of the North
land d creed by destiny to be
the pivotal points and hubs in
the great awakening of the re
gion.
Not one but several centers
long slumbering are suddenly
quickened. Under the impetus of
the elaborate defense, t aviation
and highway programs — to say
nothing of contemplated develop
ment plans—these cen: ars lying
in the path of progress are cer
tain to rise to eminence.
As the panomara unfolds, there
is brought to view, not only to
the people of the Northland, but
also to the nations, these certain
points sure to be vested with
glamor and held permanently in
the public eye.
Geographical location has fixed
them as points of lasting start gic
and economic importance.
Conspicuous in the galaxy of
new stars stands Fairbanks,
heart of Alaska, the major inter
ior defense base and hub of in
terior, transcontiental and inter
hemisphere airlines.
On the Alaskan coast line
stands Anchorage, main military
base of the Territory, with its
big army air base ar.d numerous
commercial air lines and close
contact with naval fleets and bas
es.
Whitehorsr, on the Canadian
side of the line, long a mere stop
over point for interior traffic, sud
denly leaps into prominence as
the Northland terminus of new
Canadian defense and commercial
lines and serving American air
lines that will come that way.
Nome, to the westward, wi 1
feel the n w impetus and take on
n:w life and activity. And so
with numerous other points in
Alaska and across the Canadian
domain, to the southward, on the
new routes of air travel.
Naval and other projects also
are bringing vast new activities
and prominence to Sitka. Kodiak,
Dutch Harbor, Juneau and other
seaboard points.
The traffic will flow into a 1
these points by sea and land and
otherwise incidental to the new
buildings programs, and later for
maintenance will be enormous
The whole presents a stirring
picture. The bustling activities
of the construction days d: ,ibt
less will be followed by a stream
of steady traffic ar.d a new era
—cities rising to stature undream
<td of by the early trail blazers—
sleepy outposts of yesteryear de
creed by the hand of destiny to
become brilliant stars on the hori
zon of the new day dawning in
the North. — Fairbanks News
Min r.
Register for the coming city el
ection. Last year’s registrations
•ere void.
LUXURY LINER MAY
LODGE WORKERS
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 21 —
The Consolidated Aircraft Cor
poration revealed that it is neg
otiating for use of the French
luxury liner Normandie as a dor
mitory or defense workers.
The Normandia has been tied
up idle in the United States since
the outbreak of the war. At the
same time San Diego is suffering
from an acute housing shortage.
Consolidated Vioa - Presid e n t
Gott said that his firm is negotia
ting with owners of the laid-up
ship, proposing that it be moved
to San Diego harbor for housing
workers.
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The Washington
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON — A lot l ss
frivolous in the matter of smash
ing precedents is what Senator
Tom Connally smilingly describ
ed as West Virginia’s apparent
ecort “to make two senators
grow where only one gr w be
fore.”
West Virginia is almost notor
ious in th , matter of providing
contests for Senate seats, but the
boys thought up a brand new one
this time.
Hem’s how it happened: Sanat
or Matthew M. Neely was elected
Governor of West Virginia. He
was to take office at noon. Janu
ary 13. Outgoing Governor Horn
er Holt was to relinquish office
wh n Governor Neely took over,
Governor Neely pulled a polit
ical fast one. He took the oath of
office at midnight January 12 and
a second later appointed Joseph
Rosier, former president of the
National Education Association,
to suce ed him as senator. Not
to be outdone. Governor Holt,
who already had appointed Clar
ence E. Martin, former president
of the American Bar Association
to succeed Neely—not once, but
in two proclamations —issu d a
third, dated “o moment after 12,
midnight, January 13.”
IT’S NO. 6
Five times before in its history
as a state. West Virginia has
hatched up contests for scats,
but SenUtoT Conna ly’s commit
tee on privileges and elections ad
mits that the sixth is the all-time
nogin itcher. It’s up to the com
mittee to make a recommenda
tion and then it’s up to the Sen
ate to seat whom it pleases. But
what a problem.
What gets me is that although
Governor Ne ly and ex-Governot
Holt are reportedly mad as hops
at each other their appointees,
who undoubtedly are going to be
most personally affected by the
cutcom; of the contest, are af
fectionate cronies and to all out
ward appearances are having the
time of their lives.
They sit together on one of the
divans at the back of the Stri
ate chamber. They swap jokes
and laugh over each no quip
their situation gives rise to. No
friend approaches one, but that
he is introduc d to the other. You
would think they were that old
team of Damcn and Pythias.
Whoever heard of such a
screwy contest!
MONKEY IN BED
NO DIVORCE CASE
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 19 — A
Santa Clara County Superior
Court ru ing held that being fore
ed to sleep with a monkey isn’t
grounds for divorc-. Superior
Judge Davis denied a divorce to
Carl Beckman, a State Hospital
engineer. Beckman stated in his
complaint that for 10 years of
their married life Mrs. Beckman
insisted on h:r pet monkey sleep
ing with them. Mrs. Beckman, a
one-time circus performer, said
the monkey slept with thorn only
on cold nights. Judge Davis
commented it wouldn’t have been
much trouble, for Davis to kick
the monkey out of bed if he ob
jected to sleeping with it.
At the same time Judge Davis
granted Mrs. Beckman a divorce
on her cross-complaint and ali
mony of $50 a month.
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TOKLE SOARS TO NEW SKI MARK
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Tcrger Tokle of New York soared oil to a new American Amateur
competitive ski jumping record at Leavenworth. Wash., with jumps
of 273 and 266 feet. Boh Riecker of Iron Mountain. Mich., set the
former record of 257 feet Tokle is shown on one of his j imps.
Fight I lares
In Senate On
Divorce Bill
In heated debate reminiscent ol
the cocktail bill fight of twc
years ago, Senator N. R. Walker
of Ketchikan and O. D. Cochrar
or Nome tangi d acrimoniously
in the Senate over a measure tc
reduce the Alaska residence re
quirment for divorce from twc
years to one.
The divorce legislation, a mem
orial by Rep. Frank Gordon ol
Fairbanks asking Congress tc
amend the Organic Act to allow
divorce after one year’s residence
finally passed, six to two, but not
until Walk r had denounced it
as having no merits whatever
and being a “purely mercenary
measure which will give us a pop
ulation of a type of people no
body desires.”
Senator C. H. LaBoyteaux of
Liv ngood voted with Walker
against the memorial. It had al
ready passed the House, 13 to
three.
For Outsiders, Claim
No Alaskan will be affected by
the bill. Walker declared, saying
it was designed to give easy and
quick divorce to “certain people
who would establish residence in
Ketchikan, let us say, travel over
the Territory and after one year
come up before a Court for a
divorce.” .
W’alker said the measure mere
ly breaks the trail for someone
else trr years from now to lower
the divorce residence require
ment to six months or three
months.
“I s ,e no reason for making a
divorce mill of Alaska,” Walker
declared.
The Senator said that when a
man and wife can’t get along to
gether in Alaska for a year or
two years there is “something
fundamentally wrong with both
p rsons” and that they should be
dealt with as mental cases.
“Stamping Grounds”
Proponents of the measure
were accused by Senator Walker
of having no idea in mind of im
proving conditions in Alaska but
instead an intention to make the
Territory a “stamping ground for
people from Outside with a great
deal of money and a great deal
of time to spend.”
Cochran replied that 40 States
allowed divorce in a year and
some of thuim in even less time.
He denied that Alaska under the
measure would become a divorce
mecca and asked what States
people would come to sp:md a
year in the North to get a div
orce.
Echoes of 1939
Turning on Walker, Cochran
raged: “When a man is permit
ted in this Territory to go to a
grog ship and fill himself up with
booze and go home and b tat up
h;s wife, the Senator savs a year
isn’t enough and the wife ought
to stand that for two years be
fore she can get a divorce.”
' During the 1939 session. Coch
ran was an outspoken foe of Sen
' ator Walker’s bill to legalize the
> sale of hard liquor by the drink.
Senator Cochran said drunken
i ness and non-support, which he
' said was often the result of
< drunkenness on the part of the
husband, wi re the principal caus
> es of divorce in Alaska.
Non-Support
’ Walker retored that if a wo
man can’t get along for two years
without food as the result of her
husband’s expenditures for drink
she can't get along for a year,
or a month or ewn a week eith
er. He said that Cochran, if he
wished to carry his argument to
a logical conclusion would cut
the residence requirement to 3
weeks.
Senator Don Carlos Brownell
said that sine,., the grounds for'
divorce for such reasons as non
support require only a year there
is no reason to make the resi
dence requirement two years.
Walk .r, during his single-hand
sd attack upon the measure, de
dared:
“I will not concede any morals
I have are for sale for any bill
such as this.”
LaBoytcaux had nothing to say
during the debate, but voted ag
ainst the m sorial and against
'suspending the rules for its pas
' sage.
Any man who can feel really
sure of himse.f under any cir
cumstances is probably a moron.
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after Feb. 1 will be II. e.
Kimmel (above), who succeeds
James O. Richardson as-com
mander in chief of the U. S.
fleet, or tincus, as navy men
sometimes shorten the phrase.
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