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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,637
JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1950
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J. BOLAND
DIES AFTER
ACCIDENT
John Boland, 31, longshoreman
and cab driver, died at 5:13 o’clock
this morning at St. Ann's Hospital,
following serious injuries sustain
ed in an auto accident on the
Douglas road between Whingding's
and Douglas two hours earlier.
Boland’s pickup truck which he
was driving with Don McCammon,
another longshoreman, turned over
in the ditch landing with all four
wheels in the air.
Tom Kelly-, Yellow Cab driver,
stopped at the scene of the acci
dent and helped to extricate Mc
Cammon who was pinned by an
ankle between the seat and dash
board. He notified the telephone
operator who called the police,
who in turn dispatched the ambu
lance, driven by Joe Sadlier, to
the scene.
Sadlier, accompanied by Phil
Bertholl, found Boland walking
around apparently uninjured. They
examined McCammon who was ly
ing on the ground and found no
broken bones and wanted to take
him to the hospital but Boland
directed them to “run along.”
A few minutes later Leonard
Redmon, Yellow Cab driver, stop
ped, picked up the two men and
took them to their homes. Mrs. Bo
land called Dr. John Stewart who
took Boland to the hospital where
it was discovered that the right
side of Boland's chest was caved
in. Boland suddenly became breath
less an died quickly.
Boland is survived by his wife,
Bernie, and two children, Gwen
dolyn, 8 and Madge, 4, who live at
1003 Pike Street. He was born in
Cumberland, Washington, June 14, |
1919, was a member of the local
Moose and Elks lodges. He had
lived in Juneau for the past ten
years ahd served in the Army dur
ing the last war. No funeral ar
rangements have been made. Tne
remains are at the Charles W.
Carter Mortuary.
Nomination of Lie
For Another Term
Is Before UNSC
(By Associated Press)
At Lake Success, the United Na
tions Security Council faced the
problem of nominating Secretary
General Trygve Lie for another
three-year term of office or pick
ing his successor. Russia is deter
mined to throw Lie out because
he supported wholeheartedly UN
action in Korea. The United States
strongly favors another term fo:
Lie.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
IGopyrlsht. 1UO. by Bell Syndicate, lne.1
By DREW PEARSON
LOS ANGELES—There is a ten
dency on the part of some candi
dates in the current election cam
paign to wave their war service
before the voters as a great political
asset. When a candidate thus ap
peals for votes he then automati
cally invites public scrutiny of his
war record.
Such a situation exists in Calif
ornia where candidiatf; Edward
Shattuck is played up as a “vet
eran of two wars’’ in his race for
tthe imiortant job of Attorney
General.
The record of Colonel Shattuck
happens to be interesting. It is
interesting not only to California
voters but to every family Whose -
son or husband is being drafted
into the armed forces. For Colonel
Shattuck occupied a high-up place
in the Selective Service office in;
Washington with its power of life I
or death over much of the nation.
Yet, while he held this key war
post, and was busy drafting others,
the record shows that he kept his
own public-relations man in Cal
ifornia ready to promote and pub
licize everything he did. In f*ct,
Shattuck had decided even as early
as 1941, before Pearl Habor, that
he would use his war job to run
for political office.
No scrap of publicity was too
meagre for the Colonel to overlook
of it served to promote his pol
itical future.
"We might try for a story in
the Monthly Alumni California
Magazine,” Shattuck wrote his pub
licity man on July 3, 1941, after
he was made General Counsel of
(Continued on Page Four)
SHIP TIE-UP IS
DUE FOR HEARING
NOW ON MONDAY
SEATTLE, Oct 20—(/PI—A week
, end postponement of a scheduled
Congressional hearing into the Se
attle-Alaska ship tieup was an
nounced last night by Rep. Mitchell
iD-Wash).
The Congressman said he was
calling the postponement to confer
today with U. S. Atty. Gen. J. How
ard McGrath on the “legal aspects
of the Port Security Bill, and how
to apply it on the Seattle-Alaska
case.”
McGrath will not testify during
the hearing which Mitchell tenta
tively rescheduled to begin Monday.
Mitchell will conduct the hear
ing as chairman of a House labor
and education sub-committee ter in
quire into the dispute between the
Alaska Steamship Company and the
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
(Ind.)
The Union has declined to sign
on -stewards for Alaska passenger
service because of procedures u-ted
m screening employees by Coast
Guard secruity officials.
As a result, the company sus
pended its passenger service and
concentrated on freight shipments.
One of the latter voyages, however,
ran into difficulty yesterday when
steward department crew members
of the SS Baranof also refused to
sign aboard. Company officials said
the Baranof dispute had nothing to
do with the screening program.
They did not enlarge.
TEST WILL BE MADE
SEATTLE. Oct. 20—(AT—Atty. Gen.
J. Howard McGrath pledged assist
ance of the Justice Department to
day in conducting a Congressional
hearing into a dispute that has
halted steamship passenger service
to Alaska.
The Alaska Steamship Company
stopped passenger service and tied
up some of its ships after members
of the Marine Cooks and Stewards’
Union (Ind) delayed signing on ves
sels as a protest against the Coast
Guard “screening" procedure for
crewmen.
“This is the first test of the na
tional security program and the new
port security act,” McGrath said at
a news conference. “We do not want
mything to happen that would de
stroy public confidence in the act.”
Mitchell announced last night a
weekend postponement of a Con
gressional hearing on the ship tieup
dispute.
BIG THREE GIVE
ADVICE TO NATION,
PRESENT CRISIS
(By the Associated Press)
America’s only living ex-President,
an Allied military leader in World
War II and an elder statesman of
fered to the nation last night their
advice on keeping this country
strong in a tension-packed world.
The advice came from Herbert
Hoover, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Bemad M. Baruch, Pfesiden
tial adviser in two World Wars.
Mr. Hoover called for military
self-help* from Western Europe, and
■reorganization of the United Na
tions to take the world’s military
economic burden off the shoulders
of the United States.
In a foreign policy address broad
cast from New York, Mr. Hoover
said:
"We cannot carry the load for
long without fulfilling Stalin’s
nopes of bleeding us economically to
impotence.”
In Pittsburgh, Gen. Eisenhower
said America must be strong enough
to meet her world-wide obligations,
but stay out of a preventive war
because “war begets conditions that
beget further wars.”
Eisenhower, President of Colum
bia University, spoke at a founders
days program at the Carnegie In
stitute of Technology.
Concerning universal military
training, he said: “It will demand
sacrifice, but can any sacrifice be
considered too great, if it guaran
tees a lifetime of freedom?"
In Rochester, Minn., Baruch, the
80-year-old financier, urged a two
year all-out mobilization of our
military and economic power to
balance Russia’s rearming.
“A limping approach to mobiliza
tion," he said, “encourages new So
viet adventures.”
Although he abhors further gov
ernment centralization, he said,
stiff anti-inflation measures should
be speedily taken.
Baruch expressed his views at
Mayo Clinic’s Plummer-Judd Me
morial Lecture.
KODIAK VISITOR
Steve Dunk of Kodiak is stay
ing at the Juneau Hotel.
KOREAN WAR
ENDING SAYS
MacARTHUR
Surprise Movement Made
as Parachuters Dropped
-Reds Are Trapped
(By the Associated Press)
General MacArthur personally
directed today a highly successful
parachute landing by thousands of
American troops 23 miles north of
Pyongyang, Red Korean capital. He
said the war is now definitely com
ing to an end.
Since Pyongyang itself is Just
about secured by United Nations
forces, the paratroopers struck from
the sky to seal off Red forces flee
ing their lost capital.
“It looks like we closed the trap,”
MacArthur said as he watched from
his plane the first parachute land
ing of the war. He added: "Closing
that trap should be the end of all
organized resistance. The war is
very definitely coming to an end.”
The number of chutists was not
officially reported but the best
estimate was 3,000, confirmed by
AP Correspondent Hal Boyle and
Photographer Max Desfor, both of
whom witnessed the operation.
Surprise Movement
The paratroopers fanned out to
ward the towns of Sukchon and
Sunchon. The maneuver was a com
plete surprise and the Americans ap
peared to be meeting little resist
ance. Artillery, including such
equipment as heavy 105-mm. how
itzers, was dropped to the men who
went into action immediately.
As pictured by MacArthur, the
closing chapter in the historic
United Nations campaign has begun.
The war started last June 25 when
North Korean Communists invaded
the western-recognized South Ko
rean Republic.
Aerial Climax
The aerial climax came less than
24 hours after United Nations troops
seized Pyongyang. In the captured
capital, three bearded American
survivors said 280 U.S. prisoners of
war were beaten and murdered in
a death march from Seoul to
Pyongyang.
The story of the inhuman treat
ment of U.S. prisoners at the hands
of the Communists was reminiscent
of the Bataan death march in the
Philippines in the last war.
The three U.S. liberated prisoners
in Pyongyang had hidden under a
school and had been fed by North
Korean students. One of the three,
Capt. William Locke, 30, of Enfield,
Ga., said that during the death
march Americans "died like Tiles
from starvation, cold, pneumonia
and dysentery.”
For Allied Victory
After the paratroopers took off
from their mission to the north of
Pyongyang, Gen. MacArthur landed
at an airstrip in the center of the
city. He gave orders to U.S. Eighth
Army Commander ,Lt. Gen. Walton
H. Walker to send South Koreans
racing towards the Manchurian
oorder to complete the Allied vic
tory; The South Koreans pushing
out from the city of Hamhung
have already reached within 92
miles of Communist China’s border.
Only a few stray shots echoed in
the bomb-pocked streets of Pyong
yang as South Korean troops moved
into the city proper to clean up the
last of the die-hard Communists.
Associated Press Correspondent
Tom Lambert reported the finish
of the occupation of Pyongyang was
accomplished against only light
opposition.
Reds Surrender'
Some 6,202 Communists surren
dered during the fight for the capi
tal', bringing the U.N. total of North
Korean prisoners to 80,000. •
Communist Premier Kim H Sung
and members of his government
had fled. They were said to have
taken refuge In far North Korea
or across the border in either Man
churia or Soviet Siberia.
Correspondents said thb main
part of the city was not badly dam
aged. Oiyifians cheered the Ameri
can and South Korean troops. Many
waved South Korean flags and
some had United Nations banners.
Some buildings already bore stream
ers reading “Welcome to United
Nations forces.”
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Princess Louise from Vancouver
scheduled to arrive Saturday after
noon or evening.
Freighter Sailor’s Splice from Se
attle due to arrive 9 p.m., Sunday.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle Friday.
i Survivors Tell Ghastly Tale of
American Prisoners' "Death
March/' Seoul to Pyongyang
"UNSPEAKABLE
ATROCITY" OF
REDS IS TOLD
By Bill Shinn
SEOUL, Oct. 20—(/PI—Eighty Kor
ean political prisoners—both men
and women—were set afire with
burning gasoline by retreating
Communists at Koksan, 50 air mileo
southeast of Pyongyang, the com
mander of the South Korean army
disclosed today.
Maj. Gen. Chung II Kwon told
this correspondent he had never
seen such an “unspeakable atro
city.” He visited Koksan yesterday
during a front line inspection of the
Republican Second Army Corps.
No one could see the "horrible
\ sight of bodies with gas “without
| shedding tears,” Gen. Chung said,
i "Atrocity is not an unusual thing
' as far as the Communists are con
j cerned,” the Korean general said,
"but burning living people with
gas is more than a sin and crime.”
He said the Korean Reds jailed
the men and women in a warehouse
near the Koksan police station and
set it afire with gas.
| The families of the victims were
crying with "agonized faces and
i hurting hearts,” Gen. Chung added.
! Maj. James H. Houseman, Ameri
j can military adviser to the South
.Korean army commander in chief,
confirmed the atrocity. He said
grimly:
“To the Communists, life means
nothing.”
LARGEST BAG OF
RED TROOPS YET
TAKEN PRISONERS
WASHINGTON, Oct. *0 — —
The Army reported today that
United Nations forces took more
than 7,000 prisoners in Korea yes
terday—the largest bag for any 24
hours since the conflict began.
A spokesman told reporters that
5,600 prisoners were taken by the
U.S. 24th Division alone.
He also said that roads leading
north and northwest of Pyongyang,
the North Korean capital, are re
ported choked with vehicles and
North Korean troops.
The landings made by United Na
tions paratroopers will block the
main escape routes, he said, and
this situation should give the United
Nations air force a field day.
SECOND FLORIDA
HURRICANE MAY
HIT AT ANY TIME
I MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 20—Ml—A hur
ricane bearing winds of 90 miles
an hour, with gusts exceeding IOC,
boiled across the Oulf of Mexico
today in the direction of the Tampa
St. Petersburg area of the Florida
coast.
At 2:30 p.m. (EST), the Weather
Bureau reported the storm center
was about 270 miles west of Fort
Myers, Fla., and moving east
northeastward at about 15 to 18
miles an hour.
Hurricane warnings flew along
about 120 miles of the Florida Gulf
coast fromr Fort Myers northward to
Cedar Key.
If the storm hits as expected, it
Will be Florida’s second big blow
of the week. ’»
, A violent hurricane swept from
the Atlantic over Miami late Tues
day and eafly Wednesday with 125
mile winds, it killed three persons,
injured about 100, inflicted damage
of $l'5,000,000 to $20,000,000 and left
about 250 persons homeless, mostly
in the Mlami-Fort Lauderdale
areas.
NO MEETING MONDAY
OF (IVIL DEFENSE
There will be no Council of Civ
ilian Defense meeting next Mon
day night, according to C. B.
Holland. Meeting will resume with
the ■ return of R. E. Robertson,
council director. He has been at
tending the National Bar Associa
tion meeting in Washington, D. C.
By TOM LAMBERT
PYONGYANG, Korea, Oct. 20—
Wt—1Three nearly starved American
prisoners today told a ghastly tale
of a "death march” from Seoul to
Pyongyang by 283 U.S. soldiers.
Many of their comrades, the
bearded trio said, were beaten and
murdered by their Communist cap
tors. The Reds shrugged their
shoulders and said a few more
atrocities against them did not mat
ter.
The few survivors, said the lib
erated prisoners, boosted the Ameri
can POW’s held in Pyongyang to
373. Most of the 373 were moved to
the north to an unknown fate as
Pyongyang began to totter.
The three said they saw no other
Americans in Pyongyang except
those they marched with from
Seoul.
Dean Reported Dead
They said they were told in Seoul
that MaJ. Gen. William F. Dean,
commander of the U.S. 24th In
fantry Division who disappeared
when Taejon fell last July, was in
Pyongyang.
But when they arrived here they
were told General Dean had died in
Seoul. There was no confirmation of
f this report.
i Swinging down Stalin Street—the
! Russian-named main street of
• Pyongyang—the bearded and long
haired captives were found by a
group of correspondents as the
prisoners marched arm in arm with
I three North Korean students who
had befriended them. The Ameri
cans told of buddies being “beaten
and murdered" on a torture march
from Seoul.
Death March Survivors
The three American survivors of
the death march were:
Air Force Capt. William Locke,
30. Enfield, N.C.. an F-51 pilot
whose wife Ronda and nine-months
old daughter Karon were at Yokoda
Air Base in Japan when he crashed
in North Korean territory near
Waegwan Aug. 17.
Army Lt. Alexander Makaroumis,
27, Lowell, Mass., of Company I,
29th Regiment, captured near Ha
dong July 27.
Army Sgt. Takeshi Kumdai of
I Honolulu, Headquarters Company,
34th Regiment, 24th Division, cap
tured July 20 when the Reds took
Kaesong.
Hide Under School
The three Americans had hidden
under a school and had been fed
by the three students.
They came out today as the city
fell to American and South Korean
troops.
The trio said the Red Koreans
told them they were being moved
from Seoul to Pyongyang for
“safety.”
Captain Locke said he pleaded
with North Korean officials not to
move the men and to giye medical
attention to the wounded. s*
The a Inmen said the, 'North Ko
reans replied:
“We already got enough atroci
ties listed' against us sd a few more
won’t make ally difference.” ,
Captain Locke said that during
the death march Americans "died
like flies from starvation, cold,
pneumonia and dysentery.”
ALEXANDER DEM D
BY WATCHDOG HEARING
Col. Joseph D. Alexander, acting
Adjutant General of the Alaska
National Guard, leaves this after
noon by commercial, air after a
delay to attend the watchdog hear
ing held in the Senate Chambers by
the U.S. Senate Armed Services
committee, investigating Alaska de
fenses.
He had planned to leave aboard
the famous Sacred Cow with the
committee this afternoon. Col.
Alexander is to attend the meeting
in Washington* D.C., of the Na
tional Guard Adjutant Generals
from the States, Puerto Rico, Ha
waii and Alaska.
Following the meeting, Col. Alex
ander will have several conferences
lasting two days on specific prob
lems pertaining to the Alaska Na
tional Guard only. He returns about
October 10. I
VISITING POLLEYS
Mrs. Ed Waltonen returned to
Juneau yesterday after a short trip
to her home In Pelican and is vis
iting with her son-in-law and
daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Clayton L.
Policy. Mrs. Waltonen is convalesc
ing from a recent illness.
U. S. WILL TAKE
PART IN 5-POWER
PEACE DISCUSSIONS
Problems Threatening
World Peace Complex
Warns Dulles
LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 20 — (if) —
The United States announced today
it was prepared to take part in a
five-power meeting on problems
threatening world peace.
This announcement was made in
the U.N. Assembly’s Political Com
mittee by John Foster Dulles, Re
publican policy advisor to the State
Department. He warned, however,
against underestimating the com
plexities of the problems involved
and said the United States would
assist on agreements based on Jus
tice. *
Dulles backed the objectives of a
Syrlan-Iraqi resolution calling for
big power consultations. The five
major nations would report back
to the current session of the General
Assembly any progress’ achieved.
Britain and France supported the
basic alms of the resolution. Russia
has not participated thus far in
the debate.
One stumbling block to the whole
proposal revolves around whether
the Chinese Communists or the
Nationalists would represent China
in such Big Five talks.
Russia has insisted that the Chi
nese Nationalists have no right in
the U.N. The United States has
resisted any change in China’s rep
resentation. The whole issue still is
pending before this General Assem
bly session.
In bringing the resolution before
the committee, Faris El Khoury of
Syria said it was apparent that
great power tension has increased
in the last two years. He said news
that the big nations had worked out
their difference "would be greeted
by the greatest Joy throughout the
world."
CHINESE REDS
AID COMMIES
INJNDOCHINA
Embattled Country Given
Assistance, American
Officials Learn
WASHINGTON, Oct 20— I At —
American officials said today the
Chinese Communists have given
substantial help, in the form of
weapons and training, to Red Forc
es in Indochina. Communist ad
vances in that embattled country
are largely attributed to this as
sistance.
Top United States authorities
have been searching for ways in j
which this country might help the
French and native Indochinese arm
ies meet the situation, which is
regarded here with increasing con
cern.
But a week-long policy review In
the government was mostly nega
tive except for the decision an
nounced last week to speed Amer
ican arms shipments to Indochina.
These shipments have a priority
second only to arms for Korea.
President Truman told his news
ccinieSence yesterday that Gen.
Douglas MacArthur and he discus
sed Indochina in their Wake Is
land conference but that no decis
ions were made.
Indications are that as part of
the policy review officials have
considered the possibility of action
along two new lines:
1 Sending American forces to
assist the anti-communist fight in
Indochina. Authorities said, how
ever, there is no present plan to
take action of this kind.
2. Throwing the whole situation
into the United Nations. On this
point, officials reported that such
a move would be up to the French,
who have primary responsibility
in Indochina.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
103Ms, Anaconda 37, Curtiss-Wright
914, International Harvester 32,
Kennecott 6614, New York Central
19%, Northern Pacific 27%, U. 8.
Steel 4114, Pound $2.8014.
Sales today were 1,840,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 230.33, rails 69.93, utilities
40.82.
FROM TULSEQUAH
Lt. R. A. Walker of Tulsequah
is stopping at the Juneau Hotel.
WATCHDOG SENATORS
HEAR TESTIMONY ON
LOCAL DEFENSE NEEDS
What are the vital needs of this
area, as presented by its own re
sidents to visiting members of the
United States Senate Armed Ser
vices subcommittee Investigating Al
aska defenses?
Extension of the Juneau run
way from 5,000 to 7,500 feet along
with construction of an adjacent
seaplane landing area and a hang
ar and operations building.
Paving and otherwise improving
the 318-mile section of the Alaska
Highway running through Canada,
and a new ship terminal near
Haines, all to provide the shortest,
safest and most logical route to
interior Alaska.
General protection of the Skag
way-Halnes area, a key point at
which on enemy could “nip off’
the bulk of Alaska, blocking rail
and highway transportation of
troops and supplies as well as oil
pipelines which might well be the
heartlines of defense, and major
communications to the north.
Encouragement of the reserve
components program of the Armed
Forces In Alaska, to make available
and ready eevry able-bodied man
In the Territory.
Preparedness Committee
Saying, “We are part of the Pre
paredness Committee of the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee di
rected to look Into the defenses
of Alaska," Sen. Lester Hunt (D
Wyo) opened the two-hour hear
ing this morning in the TerritoAal
Senate Chambers.
“We hope,” he said, “to make a
report of Importance to Alaska and
the entire United States."
Besides those making presenta
tions, the floor and galleries were
filled with some 75 spectators, re
presenting city, Territorial and Fed
eral branches.
At Senator Hunt's right was Sfen.
Leverett Saltonstall (R-Masst; at
his left, Ben. Wayne Morse (R-Ore).
Helpfully near by was Col. Justice
Chambers, special technical assis
tant to the Armed Services Com
mittee. A court reporter recorded
the entire session by stenotype.
Norman Banfield, appointed by
the JUneau Chamber of Commerce
and the city, made the carefully
prepared and well-documented pre
sentation of the case for the Ju
neau runway extension and Instal
lations.
He related that the Alaska Civil
Aeronautics Administration had
applied for the runway extension,
and that the CAA had refused its
construction under the Federal Aid
to Airports program.
The extension and seaplane land,
ing would cost approximately $350,
000, toward which the City of Ju
neau, under a Territorial Aviation
Commission grant, has made avail
able $90,000 to assist the CAA un
der the Federal Aid Act.
Banfield said the city had been
advised that as Juneau Airport
Is owned and operated by the Fed
eral Government (the CAA), the
runway extension would have to be
financed by a special appropria
tion from Congress.
Three Years' Work
He reported that the City of
Juneau and Chamber of Commerce,
with the Aviation Commission,
have worked lor nearly three years
for the extension.
The C. of C. brief emphasized
the importance of the Juneau alf
port in wartime, giving statistics of
use in World War II, and relating
the Juneau field to the entire stra.
teglc situation of southeast Al
aska.
Supporting evidence was given at
the hearing by J. S. MacKinnon,
Capt. (USN, inactive) and T. H.
Dyer, the Chamber’s Aviation com
mittee chairman.
Capt. MacKinnon, a 35-year resi
dent of Juneau with 15 years’ Na
vy service, including high wartinw
commands, emphasized the import
ance of the land-seaplane base for
submarine patrol.
Military Endorsements
A letter written by him was among
the documents read and attached
to the brief, everything becoming
part of the formal testimony. A let
ter from Mayor Waino Hendrickson
also was read and attached, as were
the recommendations of the Pan
American World Airways Investi
gating Board, following investiga
tion of the accident on the icy run
way February 19, 1950.
Other documents, likewise stress
ing the importance of the Juneau
airport and its runway extension
project to Alaska’s military de
fenses, Included statements from
Lt. Oen. N. F. Twining. USAF.
written when he was commander
in-chief. ‘Alaskan Defense Com
mand; Rear Admiral Frank D.
i
Wagner, USN, then Commander of
the Alaskan Sea Frontier; Rear Ad
miral Joseph Oreenspun, U8CO,
Commander of the 17th Coast Guard
District, and the commander of the
Juneau Squadron, Civil Air Patrol.
, Joseph A. McLean, also represent
: lng the Juneau Chamber of Com
i merce, presented the case for thq
Alaska Highway improvements In
Canada and the new ship terminal.
He estimated the total cost of Im
provements a t approximately
*260,000.000. two-thirds of which
would be required for work In Can
ada. By this program, the United
States Government would supply
the Canadian Government with
necessary funds for highway Im
provements.
Speaks tar Haines
Representing the veterans' com
munity at Port Ohllkoot, Carl Heln
mlller spoke for the same project,
pointing out the small Canadian
population of the area; that the
Canadian section of the highway
I is of prlpiary Interest to Alaska,
and that It opens up a district rich
In mineral resources. He asked that
plans for a new and better dock
be Included.
Kent Fuller of Skagway yielded
his time to Mayor Morgan Reid of
that city. Mayor Reid listed the
ways In which the head of Lynn
Canal is strategic, and said the
need there Is for protection.
Robert N. Druxman, Immediate
Past Commander of Juneau Post
No. 4, American Legion, spoke for
encouragement of the reserve com
ponents In Alaska. He was asked
to submit a formal brief containing
his constructive criticism, and con
structive suggestions of the type of
program that would best help the
needs of Alaska in relation to
civilian defense.
Governor b Witness
Oov. Ernest Gruening was the last
witness, first expressing pleasure at
the visit of the Senators.
Gov. Gruening unqualifiedly en
dorsed the airport project, called
attention to the dependence here on
air transportation, both civilian and
military, and asked the Prepared
ness Committee to name the solu
tion—whether by an amendment to
the present Federal Aid program or
a new measure, and to follow
through.
He said, “It Is agreed that the
Haines route Is essential. The Ju
neau runway extension Is vital In
wartime, but we can’t afford to
wait. One-quarter of the cost, under
the Federal Aid program, already
has been offered by the Territory."
Lt. Gen. William E. Kepner, who
succeeded General Twining as over
all Alaska commander, was Intro
duced and said he had been taking
notes and would give serious con
sideration to all matters pertaining
to his commnd.
On recommendation of Senator
Morse, who said he had heard many
criticisms of the CAA and OAB,
Presiding Senator Hunt asked Gov
ernor Gruening to prepare an offi
cial report on (he cooperation of the
two agencies with the Territory.
“They relate to the whole prob
lem of the defense' on the West
Coast,” Senator Morse had said.
The party left immediately for
Ketchikan, where the last Alaska
hearing was scheduled this after
noon.
Of special interest were com
ments of the one Western Senator
—Senator Morse of Oregon.
Senator Morse Comments
Requesting a memorandum on
Alaska's experience in getting fed
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o WEATHER REPORT O
o Tempenturta (or 24-rtour Period O
O ending CM o'clock ttue morning o
o In Juneau—Maximum, 43; •
o minimum, 31. o
o At Airport—Maximum, 43; o
o minimum, 36. •
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• FORECAST •
O (Jenna end VlekiHr) O
o Cloudy with light rain to- o
o night, becoming mostly •
o cloudy with showers Satur- o
• day. Lowest temperature to- o
o night near 38 degrees and o
o highest Saturday about 45 e
o degrees. e
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O PRECIPITATION o
O (Past 24 hour* ending 7:30 a.m. today o
e City of Juneau—0.18 inches; e
e since October 1—4.04 Inches; e
e since July 1—26.12 inches. e
e At Airport — 0.14 inches; e
e since October 1—1.54 inches; e
e since July 1—20.88 Inches. e
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