vCommuc-o !n.m 1 «i>* Qu*>
"Japan needs fish food; Alaska's
coast is the greatest salmon ground
in the world.
"Japan wants meat; Alaska has
a million reindeer ready for slaugh
ter. and grazing room for 10 mil
lion.
"Japan needs copper; Alaska has
! unlimited quantities with railroads i
and machinery ready to bring it to j
tide water.
"Japan needs gold; Alaska pro-!
duces ml lions a year.
"Japan needs timber: Alaska has j
100 years supply.
“Japan needs agricultural ground: j
Alaska has millions of acres.
“Ten million Japanese could
thrive in Alaska, and the available
raw material would also half sup
|piy
Japan’s needs.
| “Endless other advantages could
be mentioned, but it is needless.
| “Within a week after declaring
I war on the U. S.. Japan will have
| seized Seward and Cordova, land
ling 10,000 men to operate the rail
j roads to the coal and copper. They
[will quickly mine the quarter-mile
[entrances to the harbors, making
them safe against recapture by our i
j fleet. The rest of Alaska could be
| leisurely occupied and fortified.
Japanese ships are all coal burners,
land half of their fleet could be per
manently operated out of Seward. I
needing no supplies from Japan
"Washington and Oregon are
within easier striking distance from
Seward than from Hawaii, but Ja
pan will not wage an offensive war
on the United States, only just
enough to assure keeping our fleet !
at home while she preys on our j
commerce and firmly establishes]
herself in Alaska.
“Let Japan occupy these wonder- [
ful harbors for two weeks and the
United States could not dislodge;
her until we had constructed a j
Navy twice the present strength, j
Our rugged mountains, and stormy j
seas render airplane offensives on J
towns almost impossible from the I
South.
“Japan has superior fighting air- j
plane strength than we and could '
quickly establish a strong base at,
Seward to use against all naval op- ;
eration the U. S. would try.
“Nowt, all I’ve said may seem far
fetched to unthinking people, but
there is enough evidence in its sup
port to justify our apprehension.
Japanese fishing and sealing!
j schooners are thoroughly at home
in Bering Sea, and evidence has
' appeared at times showing that
one or more members of the crews
were naval officers. Japanese prep
i arations here for the proposed!
“good will flight” across Alaska last I
summer yielded her exact data on !
all our aviation facilities, both wa- j
and land.
"I was very glad to see in "Lib
erty” magazine the statement from
General Wiliam Mitchell that ‘the |
KEY point t-o the whole Pacific is
our Territory of Alaska.’
“One hundred warships at Ha-,
waii, where tens of millions of do!- j
Iars have been spent on land forti- I
fications; and not even a gunboat j
in Alaska waters!
“Not a piece of field artillery!
within 300 miles of Seward. Not a i
soldier or marine in Alaska proper j
with the exception of a small de-1
tachment at Chilkoot Barracks. j
“Not a dollar spent in harbor i
fortification!
"And yet Alaska has given over a ;
billion dollars of' wealth to the'
United States
“As the Mayor of the most strat- ,
egically important town in Alaska,
I appeal for some immediate de
fensive protection for Alaska, es
pecially here at Seward, the ocean !
terminus of the Government rail- !
road: the Gateway and Key to Al- :
aska!
“ ‘A warship in time would save :
nine,’ and I believe a few of those j
100 warships should be stationed in 1
these waters immediately to show j
that Alaska will not be wholly de- j
fenseless and to relieve her citizens !
of anxiety.
“At least one harbor in Central
Alaska should be fortiifed at once,
to be a safe base in time of need.
Years ago a beautiful naval reserve
was established near Seward with
the intention of developing it, and
fortifying the harbor entrance but
there it lies, withdrawn from home
stead entry for 15 years and yet
not a dollar spent on it. Millions
of dollars for protecting every
other Territory, but not one for Al
aska. Why?”
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: LOS ANGELES MAKES
STRONG EFFORT OST1
! KM III El
I
i In the matter of proposed ex
! tension of air mail service be
I tween Seattle a n d Southeastern
| Alaska which is pending in the
' Post-office Appropriation Bill, the
: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
j has sent the orignal of the follow
ling copy to its Congressional rep
resentatives in Washington. The
! copy of was sent The Gateway in
, the last mail.
Hon. Joe Crial. House Office
i Building, Washington, D. C.
"We understand that an item
: has been included in the Postal
Budget to provide for an extension
of air mail service from Seattle to
Southeastern Alaska and that Sen
ator Jones, of Washington, has
been pressing the matter strongly
S so that it may be included in the
appropriations bill.
"This is a matter that it seems
ito us the entire Pacific Coast
can consistently support, particu
larly if the Postoffice Department
is planning any extension what
ever to existing air mail services.
"We have been impressed over
the past two or three years with
the extent of appropriations that
have been granted to the Post
office Department for the exten
sion of our foreign air mail ser
i vice, particularly with Latin Amer
ican countries. Practically all of
the aid, however, that has thus
far been extended in this direction
| lias been on behalf of the eastern
section of the United States with
| appropriations from the Pacific
! Coast for similar extentions prac-!
1 tically ignored.
“For last year’s operations the'
Postoffice Department asked for
an appropriation of $5,100,000
which practically all went into ex
tensions in Latin American coun- i
tries and with a request for an ad
ditional appropriation of $1,500,
000 for a route down the eastern
coast of South America- Of this
entire appropriation, the only ser
vice provided for from the Pacific
Coast was between Seattle and Vic
toria at an estimated annual cast
of $16,197.
“We made a strenuous effort up
and down the Pacific Coast to ob
tain a badly needed extension for j
our coast air mail
Editor’s note—The second page!
of the letter was inadvertantly
not mailed to this paper but it is
safe to assume the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce wound up
their strong letter by asking their
Washington Congressmen to leave
no stone un-turned in procuring
this service for Alaska.
ANOTHER ADVENTURE
Ken Chisholm, University of San
Francisco student and football star,
who for the last three years has
been a member of Fr. Bernard Hub
bard’s exploration parties in Alaska,
returned “home” to Seward today.
Ken is enroute to Anchorage to
await the arrival of the “Glacier
| Priest” when both will make a dog -
I sled trip into the Valley of Ten
I Thousand Smokes and other parts
! of the Alaska Peninsula. Fr. Hub
bard, professor of geology at the
University of Santa Clara, will ar
rive from the South in a few weeks.
Four of his articles dealing with his
Alaska explorations and discoveries
have been accepted by the Satur
day Evening Post.
MEMBERS OF ANTLERS
Three members of the Seward
High School basketball team were
initiated into the Anchorage Order
of Antlers, No. 1351, Saturday by
the Anchorage Antlers. Those join
ing the organization were Adolph
Rodgers, Edwin Manthey and Ed
win Sandbeck.
FOR HOSPITAL TREATMENT
Miss Agnes Wallin of Chignik,
accompanied by her sister Christine,
arrived in Seward on the SS Starr
Monday to receive medical treat
ment at the Sew^ard General Hos
pital for an accident in which her
hands were seriously scalded a
number of years ago.
Straight Heels are an aid to foot
comfort as well as for appearance.
Shoes are polished when heels are
straightened, at the Seward Leath
er Works.
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and repairing. We stock up
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