. Military Finger
Points To Alaska
To Increase Forces
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with about 200 men) and fighter
groups of 75 planes with about
100 men.
B-29 training missions have been
conducted for some time. The Air
Force sent a fighter group to Al
aska for winter maneuvers and is
replacing that with another fight
er group scheduled to arrive in
the area shortly.
Previous Air Force announce
ments have shown that one fight
er group and one air rescue unit
nr group and oneAir Rescue unit
is on permanent station in Alaska.
Meanwhile, both, the Air Force
and the Alaskan Army Command
denied reports of strange doings
in the Territory. These reports in
cluded an assertion by Rep. Mar
garet Chase Smith (R-Me.) that
Russian planes had "violated" Al
aska by flying across the borders
and a Ketchikan newspaper story
that a B-29 which crashed north
* of Nome last December had been
hit by a Russian shell before it
crashed.
The Air Force said:
None of its planes had crossed
the border of Russia "nor have
there been any confirmed reports
of Russian aircraft crossing the
border of Alaska."
The B-29 which crashed on
Dec. 24. did so because of pilot
error, mistaking a snowy hill for
a cloud. There was no indication
of any damage to the plane before
the crash.
• Bush pilots at Nome, who res
cued six survivors of the B-29
crash last December, also denied
emphatically the report of the
plane having been his by a shell.
The Ketchikan newspaper had said
that reports of the shell had orig
inated in civilian flying circles).
The military picture also had
highlights elsewhere.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American
commander in Europe, denied a
report that he had ordered a sortie
over Berlin by B-29s drawn from
'a 28-plane group which arrived
in the western occupation zone
yesterday.
In Washington, the Navy allow
' cd another glimpse at its planning.
It disclosed the names of three
submarines to be converted to un
usual uses.
i One will be converted to carry
cargo, presumably weapons for
use by commando troops. Another
will become an undersea troop
transport. And a third will be a
radar "picket” submarine. The
job of such a craft is to prowl far
out, surface and |^e what it can
pick up on its radar scope in the
way of activities telling of ship
and aircraft movements.
Gov. Gruening
Says Skinner Has
One-man Monopoly
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he did not name. He said it was
done after the newspaper printed
editorials the companies did not
like.
Gruening and Ralph Rivers, at
torney general of Alaska, testified
that to grant Canadian vessels the
privilege of carrying interport pas
sengers in Alaska would increase
the Territory’s tourist business.
S. W. Fairweather, vice presi
dent, in charge of research and
development of the Canadian Na
tional Railway of Montreal, testi
fied the railroad will be glad to
cooperate with American shippers
if they wish to stop at Prince
Rupert, Canada, and pick up car
goes for Alaska.
Fairweather told chairman
Capehart (R-Ind.* he was present
only at the invitation of the com
mittee to answer questions and
not to express any opinion on the
two proposed amendments to the
Maritime Laws.
Capehart adjourned the hearing
until Maritime Commission offic
ials can testify.
If you expect to save at all,
Do it while your salary is small.
VOTE FOR
* •
Donald MacDonald II
“The Father of the Alaska Highway”
For Territorial Engineer
(Appointed by President Roosevelt as member of the Interna
tional Highway Association)
THE MAN WHO UNDER HIS OWN STEAM HAS STUDIED ON
THE GROUND, MAPPED AND FOUGHT FOR IN THE POLITICAL
FIELD:
The Alaska Highway, the Tok Cut-Off, the Glenn Highway, the
Fortymile Road, the Haines Road (totaling 2,000 miles) UNTIL
THEY WERE BUILT
OFFICIALLY—He located McKinley Park Roads, the Steese
Highway, Final Anchorage-Palmer Road, the Nabesna Road
and Others.
SPECIFICALLY-He advocates construction of the COASTAL
ROUTE to the STATES, (Removing the 1000-mile detour that
blocks the world's most automotive-minded people—the 10 mil
lions of the Pacific Coast) and serving SE Alaska.
Advocates also cooperation with the Navy in construction to
oil fields, opening the great KOYUKUK MINERAL AREA and
the construction down the Yukon to the Seward Peninsula and
Nome.
MacDONALD envisioned in 1929 a backbone system to connect
the isolated roads of the North; a system that has already tied
in the main existing roads and can logically be expanded until
all the mainland cities, mining camps and farm areas can be
reached by car.
Efficient land transport to and within the Territory is the KEY
both of Strategy and Development.
If the people wish to realize this vision, suport the man who
conceived it and can, on his record, make ,it come to pass.
ENGINEERING IS NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE
REMEMBER The PRIMARIES WILL DECIDE
ACS Plans KxjkiimI
In Coming Year
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creased Army defense installations.
Total funds for all purposes will
be about five million dollars.
A new cable from Ketchikan
to Petersburg will be laid this
summer, he said, using “wartime”
telegraph cable that has been ad
apted at Seattle shops of the sys
tem to telephone and teletype us
es as well.
Other construction in the north
will include three new telephone
repeater installations to cost$150,
000 apiece. They will be located
on the Alcan Highway at Big
1 Delta, Cathedral Bluffs, and North
i way. Materials will clear through
Seattle.
Gen. Reeder said the arrange
ments to provide land line tele
phone service along the Alcan
was now perfected.
Improved ship-to-shore tele
phone service terminals will be
installed this summer at Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Sitka, Valdez and
Cordova at a cost of $6,000 afford
ing improved service to canners
and fishing vessels, he said.
Gen. Reeder was transferred
to the general staff as deputy dir
ector of logistics. He will return
to Washington by train today.
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• •
Alaska Born and Raised University Graduate