Japan’s Home Islands—Honshu
Honshu, some 800 miles long and up to 250 miles wide, stands but
122 miles from Korea. It is the world’s fifth largest island, home of
two-thirds of Nippon’s 65 million people.
The main industries of Honshu
are centered in and around five
main cities, each with over a mil
lion. population: Kyoto, Nagoya,
Osaka, Kobe and Tokyo, the capi
tal. Tokyo had some 6,500,000 res
idents before the war and ranked
in size only under London and
New York.
Mountainous terrain discour
ages cultivation for more than a
sixth of the land, yet agriculture
is a leading occupation. Rice is
the principal product, though rich
es have come from silkworm
breeding too. Iron, tin and other
raw materials have had to be im
ported, although Honshu has large
coal and copper deposits. Honshu’s
cities and seaports are the em
pire’s arteries. Earthquakes oc
cur as often as four times a day
on the island, but violent and cas
ualty-creating quakes usually de
velop only once every three to six
years.
The spine of the island, the
Grand Japanese Alps, rises to
12,425 feet at Mt. Fujiyama, near
Tokyo. A strange contrast on Hon-1
shu is its climate, mild on the
west and severe in the east.
Honshu, or “Hondo” as it also is
called, is about the size of New
York and Indiana combined. Its
coastline is greatly indented and
runs 6,630 miles.
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Mae George Leaves Alaska
Airlines’ Shopping Service
To Take Over Gift Shop
Mae George, who has been in
charge of Alaska Airlines’ Shop
ping Service ever since it started,
has resigned to take over owner
ship of the Tillianna Gift Shop in
Anchorage. The company regrets
to see her go. She and Colonel
Castner, vice president of the
company, originated the service
late last year, and through Mrs.
George’s untiring efforts, it has
become a real boon to Alaskans.
Mae George is formerly of Jun
eau, and has a wide acquaintance
in Alaska. She made trips to the
various stops on Alaska Airlines
routes, renewing old contacts, and
making new ones, with individuals
and merchants; finding out the
needs of each community. Thus
Alaskans learned that they can
order what is unobtainable in lo
cal stores through Alaska Airlines’
Shopping Service at no extra cost.
The service procures the goods in
Anchorage, Juneau, or even Seat
tle, and ships them by Alaska Air
lines.
Able Lavada Holman is now in
charge of Shopping Service head
quartered in the airline’s down
town Anchorage office. She is
aided by Jane Law, wife of the
company’s president, Theodore N.
Law. Both women are kept con
stantly busy filling orders for ev
erything from cat. parts to per
fume. For example, in the past
few months Homer citizens have
ordered: rifle shells, brooms, ham
burger, yeast, truck and car parts,
anti-freeze, and a 750-watt bulb
for the Chamber of Commerce
movie projector.
Besides practical things, a look
at the Shopping Service order
books will show that Alaskans are
eager for the good things of life
too: clothes of quality, fresh food,
and many luxuries. From Nome
have come orders for a. female
canary, 6 pair of 51 guage hose, j
clothespins, buttons, lace-trimmed
nigh tgowns, cocktail napkins, j
dressy black shoes, and guitar
strings. One man ordered twelve
dance records, including two wait
zes. And Shopping Service sent
yard goods to the home economics
class at Kodiak High School.
Besides shopping, the service
takes clothes to the cleaner for
out-of-towners, sends packages
and wires for people in remote
spots, procures jobs, and some
times even rooms.
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A C.A.A. plane piloted by Mor
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a group of officials from Washing
ton, D. C. The party is composed
of Messrs. Bayne, Graham, Dyer,
Lawrence, Fowler and Simmons.
They are on a survey of Civil
Aeronautics activities and possible
plans for the post-war period.
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