standard tanker shipment; 31,370
gallons of motor gasoline, or the j
equivalent of one-dhird of a tank
er; 256,358 barrels ;>f Diesel oil
or the equivalent of three tank
•«rs. .
“Admiral King was an able of
ficer whose services were of great
value to the Nation, but after ex
amination of all the facts relating
to the Canol project, '.he commit
tee has been forced to the conclu
sion that he, as a member of the
Join tChiefs of Staff, differed
wtfth the official position of the
^Navy as expressed by the Secre
tary of the Navy, and used the
hight office of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the claim of military
scerecy for the purpose of pre
venting the Congress and the peo
ple from requiring the discontin
uance of a costly blunder by a
fellow officer who was unwilling
to admit his mistake and who was
stubbornly insistent upon com
pleting a project regardless of the
cost in manpower and critical ma
terials. . . .
▼ “This action constitutes a blot
upon the record of two otherwise
capable officers, which it i; the
duty of the committee to report
and comment on to the end that
there shall be in the future no re
currence of a similar type of ac
tion.”
f 5-Cent Air Mail
Doesn’t Excite
Dog Team Postman
Fred Milligan, 50-year-old mail
supervisor for Pan American
World Airways in Seattle, has seen
mail deliveries from Seattle to
Alaska speeded from 44 days to
*16 hours in little more than 30
years, so the advent of 5-cent air
mail this week doesn’t excite the
veteran sourdough at all.
“I ran dog team with 1,000
pounds of mail along the Yukon
River 35 years ago when it took
44 days for a letter to reach Nome
from Seattle,” Milligan recalled.
“The mail would go to Valdez by
steamer, to Fairbanks and Tanana
by horse stage and to St. Michael,
>near Nome, by dog team.”
Milligan was "run out" of the
mail-carrying business by Pacific
International Airways, the prede
cessor of Pan American in the Far
North, when the air line halved
his $1,022 fee for ^rrying mail
from Tanana to Flat, a distance of
380 miles, in 1931.
“Then the air line hired me to
\ fly along the new route to show
the pilots where to land and
where to drop the mail,” Milligan
laughed. “Aviation ran me out of
one job and got me a new one.”
Milligan worked for Pan Amer
ican in Fairbanks for ten years
before coming to Seattle just be
fore the Second World War.
“And now air mail is down to
a nickel,” the sourdough said.
“That means that first-class mail
* to Alaska virtually will be elim
inated.’’
Milligan rpedicied the new air
mail rate will double the amount
of mail for the Territory.
“We made six miles an hour by
dog team in the old days on the
run from Tanana to St. Michael,”
Milligan said. “It took us three
weeks to travel from Fairbanks to
Nome. Now it takes three hours.
“No more dog teams for me.
They’re too slow.”
Adam had one advantage. The
first robin didn’t fool him into tak
ing off his winter underwear.
A spring day in the air is worth
two in the almanac.
SUITABLE REWARD
SPRINGFIELD, 111.,
(/P)—City Commissioner Harry
Eielson borrowed a ladder from
the fire department next door
when he couldn’t get into his city
hall office because he had left the
key at home.
Firemen helped their boss climb
through a third floor window, but
Eielson tore a big hole in the seat
of his pants while pulling himself
across a nail on the window sill.
Manufacturer John W. Hobbs,
admiring Eielson’s devotion to
duty, sent him three complete
suits of clothes.
ROSS E. KIMBALL
for
Territorial Commissioner of Labor
(On Independent Ticket)
COURTEOUS AND HONEST!
HE CAN T BE BOUGHT OR BLUFFED!
Ross E. Kimball promises to carry out present labor
laws with vigor and fight for better labor laws.
NORTHERN
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Phone MATV 105
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Office in Wallace Hotel - Phone Main 11
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