Fairbanks And
Anchorage Plead
For Govt. Airfields
(By Charles D. Watkins)
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Govern
ment construction of two large
airports in Alaska for use of
planes on international routes was
urged upon the House interstate
and foreign commerce committee
yesterday.
Alaskans, civil aeronautics offi
cials, interior deaprtment spokes
men and commercial airplanes
testified for two bills before the
committee.
One would appropriate $5,000,
000 for a large airport at Fair
banks and the other $8,000,000 for
an international airport which
witnesses said would have to be
located at Anchorage.
Witnesses testified that army
airports near the two cities had
made useless the existing munici
pal airports because they are in
the pattern of the army fields.
They said that because of this the
government was obligated to con
struct the airports and Alaskan
witnesses said the government
should maintain and operate them.
Neither city is financially able
to construct, operate or maintain
such expensive airports as are
needed, the Alaskans said.
James M. Landis, chairman of
the civil aeronautics board and
co-chairman of the air coordinat
ing committee, said in a letter to
the committee it had been estim
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ated 75 per cent of air travel to
the Orient will pass through Alas- i
ka. He said the war department,
which has permitted civilian'
planes to land at Ladd Field near,
Fairbanks and Elmendorf field!
near Anchorage, had restricted
that privilege for reasons of na
tional security.
“It is the opinion of the air co
ordinating committee that the fed
eral government, with least possi
ble delay.” Landis said, “should
provide the separate airports at
Anchorage and Fairbanks which
are essential to the development
of the United States international
aviation in the northwest and to
the development of these two vital
centers of our Alaskan Terri
tory.”
Robert B. Atwood, editor and
publisher of the Anchorage Times,
Fred W. Axford, president of the
Anchorage chamber of commerce,
and A. H. Dale, mayor of Fair
banks, told the committee they
favored government construction, i
operation and maintenance of the1
two fields. They said their cities'
did not have the tax revenue to
meet the expense.
Achmed Abdullah, novelist and
adventurer, had a Russian-Ortho
dox father, a Moslem mother and ,
is himself a Roman Catholic.
Though a British subject he was
born at Yalta, in the Crimea.
Three World
Circling Airflighis
In Preparation
NEW YORK, (/P)—Preparations
for three world circling flights—
two of them in cub planes—were
being made Wednesday. Two will
start from New York, and the
third, an attempt at a solo speed
record, from Chicago.
One flight, in a single engine
cub plane, is to be non-stop.
Ted Thompson. 35. oi Belle
Glade, Fla., and Hunter C. Moody
35, Decatur. 111., plan to take off
from New York about August 15.
Thompson’s refueling would be
accomplished in the air by picking
up five gallon plastic cans of fuel,
100 gallons at a time, with a spe
cial device they patented, similar!
to ‘that used by mail pickup
planes.
Their 20,762 mile route will be
via Gander. Newfoundland; Shan
non Eire: Athenio, the Aleutians,
and Alaska, and would take about
10 days.
In Chicago, Capt. Wm. Odom,
of the Reynolds Bombshell, who
last April piloted the converted
A-26 around the world with Mil
ton Reynolds, Chicago pen manu
facturer, as navigator, and Tex
Sallee as flight engineer, prepared
for an August 1 solo flight.
Franklin Lamb, president of the
Reynolds Pen co., said the flight
would be an attempt to cut in half
Wiley Post’s 1933 record of 187
hours. Lamb announced the flight
plan routed the plane through
Gander, Paris, Cairo, Karachi,
Calcutta, Shanghai, Tokyo, An
chorage, Alaska; and bacK to Chi
cago. *
Ine second flight planned from
New York involved a pair of cub
planes and the two pilots, Cliff
Evans, 26, of Washington, D. C..
and George W. Truman, 39, of Los
Angeles announced a more lei
surely schedule for their two lit
tle planes of from 30 to 40 days.
They plan to take off next week
from New York passing through
Greenland, Iceland, the British
Isles, Europe, North Africa, India,
Burma, China, Japan, the Aleu
tians, and Alaska. Each plane
would carry fuel sufficient for
about 26 hours flight, they «aid.
The longest over-water flight
faced is the 1.850 mile hop from
Japan to the Aleutians.
Latin-America can absorb S10
billion worth of new and used ma
chinery in the first ten years of
peace, the U. S. Office of Coordi
nator of Inter-American affairs
1 estimates.
Governors Give
Seey. Marshall
Confidence Vote
SALT LAKE CITY, (/P)—Secre
tary of State Marshall had a vote
of "faith and confidence” from
the nation’s governors yesterday
but he lacked any specific approv
al of his plan for the economic
rebuilding of Europe.
Turning to a day’s play after
ending their business sessions,
governors generally interpreted a
foreign policy resolution which
; they had adopted as a reiteration
of their faith in the workability
of the bipartisan international
policy.
But despite a personal plea by
Marshall in a Monday night ad
dress for their backing for “a
1 course of action fully consistent
with our own national interests
and yet equally considerate of the
incalculable stake which this
country has in the preservation of
European civilization,” the reso
lution avoided anv reference to
Europe.
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