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GEO S MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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BLOW AT ALASKA
ISOLATION
If the plans of tho Post
office Department and Con
gressional leaders for aerial
development in Alaska, as
outlined yesterday in an ex
elusive news dispatch to
The Empire, materialize it
will be the greatest single
stride forward the Terri
tory has taken in a decade.
For it means the two things
that the north needs most
—better transportation ar$
communication.
With the Clipper ships
spanning the great distan
ces of the Pacific on regular
schedules, the comparison
of regular plane service be
tween Seattle and Juneau,
and then feeding out into
the Territory, is a gigantic
stroke for Alaska.
A highway between con
tinental United States and
the north will come in time,
but it is the airplane that
must come first to assure
rapid transportation and in
dustrial development.
Linking Seattle, Ketchi
kan and Juneau on a regu
lar plying air line would be
a death blow at isolation of
which we are now so aware
It would mean a matter of
hours to the business cen
ters of the west coast where
today we are confronted
with a handicap of three to
four days by water travel
in the first instance. It
means, in a few words,
linking the $65,000,000 an
nual production income of
Alaska with the marts of
trade. And given such
transportation the territory
could send that production
figure millions higher.
Already the advantage of
the airplane in transporta
tion of machinery, equip
ment and supplies to outly
ing mining projects has
been demonstrated, and a
sure fast service from the
States by air could easily
mean development of some
workings that are now ly
ing idle because of lack of
transportation.
The air mail feature of
the program now being
pushed before Congress for
Alaska also would lend its
share to progress in the
north, as we have often em
phasized. Many a business
proposition has chilled due
to the lack of facilities for
getting adequate informa
tion to a given destination
when it would do the most
good.
The 60.000 inhabitants of
the 600,000 square miles
that is Alaska hold no false
hopes, but if the Congress
wants to make this rich Ter
ritory an integral part of
the United States nothing
can bring about that result
quicker than an air line &
air mail between Seattle &
the north, necessarily, sub
sidized.—Juneau Empire.
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(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Cloudiness was increas
ing this morning in ex
treme western Alaska
while generally fair skies
with unlimited ceilings and
visibilities prevailed over
northern Alaska, central
Alaska, and the Yukon Ter
rtory while rising tempera
tures were observed in wes
tern Alaska. An area of
low barometer is causing
unsettled weather in south
eastern Alaska. Snow was
falling at Ketchikan and it
had snowed at Juneau dur
ing the night, where eight
inches of snow were meas
ured on the ground today.
Airways conditions at 11
a.m. were as follows:
Nome cloudy, temp. 14
Solomon clear 18
Golovin missing
Kotzebue cloudy 25
Candle clear 8 below
Nulato clear zero
Kaltag clear 2
Unalakleet clear 6
Ruby clear 14
Flat clear 6
Fairbanks clear 10 below
Bethel clear 4 below
Cordova clear 24
Juneau clear 28
Ketchikan snowing 30
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Hawaii's Plea
For Statehood
Refused Comm.
(By The Associated Pressl
Washington. D. C., March
—Hawaii’s plea for state
hood was rejected by a 3 to
2 vote in the house territor,
ies subcommittee which vis
ited the islands last year,
it was made know recently.
The majority, while prais
ing Hawaii,held that “there
should be considerably
more study of the statehood
proposal before giving a
favorable report to the
King bill.” Delegate Sam
King of Hawaii sponsored
the statehood bill. Hawaii
now has the same status as,
Alaska.
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