The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1940, Page 14

lar Army. Major Graham, long experience with units elsewhere, Nation. has been Guard assigned to a year's service in Al-| Army 297TH INFANTRY, NATIONAL GUARD, IS ALASKA'S QWN emories reach back to the World aska by Lieutenant-General L. DeWitt, Commander of the Ninth Army Corps Area, Valuable advice and counsel in the L. (BOB) BARTLETT Ay <tre John latter city, while Fairbanks wiil 2 The truth is that organization veals Naticnal stage have also been received from vitally needed at | of Major Jesse Graham of the regu-{as to the advisability of establish- who has!ing companies at Fairbanks and T ge, in view of the factt detach, 5 of the regu wiil be maintained at the t. have Air Ci ground force. oan analysis re- are In Guard ’troops those points, g - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 3, 940. PRESIDENT 1 Secretary of Alaska r will recollect the organization Lieutenant-Commander J. S. Mac-| event 0 trouble it might be nec- 54 And Acting Gevernor Hor s then set up in Kinnon of the U. S. Navy, whose|essary for regular troops to be 3 communities. That is the long residence in Alaska has been| shifted quickly, in part or in who! ; By the ti . . appears closest Alaska has previously come especially helpful. to some other section of Alas b { in print, A citizen soldiers to a military establishment other Roy Mulvihill of Juneau hasbeen In that eveni National Guardsmen 4 sout ready to take to the n regular Army forces. Our new appointed Adjutant-General of the would bear the brunt of protecting i {o prepare themselve jonal Guard will be patterned Alaska National Guard with the|the big air bazes. The mere pres- hould t Iy after those in all the States, rank of Major. Serving as Captain ence of Alaska soldiers will give the and n Hawaii and Puerto Rico. It will of Company A of Juneau will be regulars a mobility they otherwise aska National be a federally recognized group, William Walther; Capt @1 John F. would no¢ possess. t 7th Infantry, is largely to War Department regu- Van Gilder is in command of Com- Another “old Rush § crean only a aining to the Guard. | pany B at Ketchikan; Captain Al-| . tuicl transformation nas been A be for Major Assisting bert Pearl of Company C at Feir- brought to Alaska by swift under- Ean 12, each of over 60 mer In ation of the Guard, Gov- banks and Captain Willlam Niemi taking of defer ructures, an i sdoquat ered by men w iest Gruening, as its of Company D at Anchorage. undertaking whicH has o oned & p.evious military training commander-in-chief, has had and/ Modern equipment will be fur-| g 4en influx of new people to the . Mrs. Elizabeth Noraling of Junean E These In the Territory whose will continue to have the assistance pished by the Federal Government, i ang which was unique in that is President of the Alaska Depart- H » ingrenn s ek material f0r| poe “a5 nowhere else in the world, ment, American Legion Auxifiary. 1 ~ - the he eapons company atAn-| ,n. ‘was apt to know one's neigh- ‘ g bor by his first name, whether peaceful as the United Statesshould ! ran “TK"X“"'fi’,A'{"();:fj':;:m haq| that neighbor lived across the strect have o arm itsell against ageres- H a’ “(b h 2 o but with|°C ¥ thousand or two thousand miles <jon from a disordered world, should { % ”‘“:_‘: (,;'”]:?.’:-m?.m)‘\:l_ "L'm‘, away. It is a transformation com- have to build formidable bases in 5 o q)ul:\hl«. in a sense, to that whic! which throughout history ! SNAP SIHOPPE about by events abroad, {ooi” ace ‘Guring - the gold rusn boen recorded. has neyer 2 " N speedily broadened to four h‘: Employment in respect to de- known real war, as a barrier against : companies. In "‘_'“““_’",*‘“”“’"‘;“‘“ fense works has, all in a hurry, possible attack by nations which| o being sought for formation of N |y,0,0n¢ inig heing our third most now discard all the practices and 1\ “ AllA = air squadron. While no d important industry and additional t-achings of civilization and act in Etxends Greetings to INEYICAN. ||nss veen mas us o where suon| SRR COEEK, fod SAoeal) tachings of ctviimion Bed act iy I 3 a squadron would ‘f" 1°“fl“"f" )m'“: tenance of that now underway, will cave men ' Legionnaires and Visitors During | s o o a me tain-| o 2 long tne to come piay o eglo : Neme would provide a fine tral=|p o pary in the Territory's eco-| Unhappily, our thoughts and our . :w: site for a unit of that charac- Koo 1ife Spllate cn tuly “sandebe < are. . B ey i But there are probably none of controlling. Qu the contrary 4 the ZlSt Annual Convennon Some question has been raised ..y, would not gladly do with-| Since that 1\111;(- case and since out the personal and community we as a people are tough and hard roosorendosasrssgmnery ! gains Wi national defense ex- enough to ride out storm whici Welcome Legion PERMANENTS FINGER WAVES @ur Specialty AMERICAN BEAUTY SHOP PHONE 637 201 So. Franklin St. ; B Post Cards - - Commercial Pictures FILMS - - CAMERAS DEVELOPING and PRINTING Phone Red 306 221 Seward St. We Extend G reetings to the LEGION and AUXILIARY ® May your stay in Juneau be a pleasant one, and may your 2Ist Annual Convention be a decided success. | " JUNEAU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE e ot it et e~~~ et P~ - 2 Welcome Legion and Auxiliary 9’ ] { \ I} { ) L] N l N } \ } \ 3 3 )\ s l} N \ 5 )\ \e } ) 3 { 3 R von A can 14 ROYAL BLUE CAB CO. Juneau., Alaska { i i % | WeSalute the 1940 Convention! \ | ; penditures have conferred if by so may imperil our free and democrat- loing the necessity for their being-ic institutions, there is only one ie could be obviated. After all, possible solution a that solution 5 a tragic thing that a nation is now being worked out—the con- so great and powerful and struction of an armed force sui- at once e e e S PSS S FRANK A. BOVYLE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for AUDITOR OF ALASKA Election September 10, 1940 Best Wishes ax To the Legion and Auxiliary We Extend ds ICCeSS tothe 940 Convention See Us for Ladies’ Wear DEVELIN’S JUNEAU'S LEADING MEN'S STORE HOME OF Hart Schafiner & Marx @ Florsheim Shoes ® Interwoven Hosiery @ Sireamliner Pacs We Welcome the Legion H. S. GRAVES »The Clothing Man> e e 5 HOURS ALASKA Pacific Alaska An'ways, Ine. 32-Passenger 4-Engine Slknrsky S423 Twice Weekly: SEATTLE - KETG][IKAN = JUNEA Also Service to: | week | ticients cible invasion by bination of forces, repel any pa.-[xsnnc and thus the control of the any possible com-' Pacific be entirely lost. Any active/ | cnemy in that area would soon see | To save our all, we must be pre-|to it that the hazards of sending pared to give a part. That is as| ships between Pacific Coast ports of fundamentally true in Alaska as the States and Alaska would be clsewhere. Quite properly the Fed-|too great to be undertaken and thus eral Government will bear the prin-| the military forces in Alaska, as cipal load in defending the Teri |well as the civilian inhabitants, tory. Already it is spending more than $40,000,000 to do so. But the Alaska National Guard will be in part a direct responsibility of the Territory and its maintenance will require some of the Territory’s tax of supply by that manner is too revenues, How much will be a mat- great. and we have not sufficient ter for the Legislature which will planes for the purpose and will not meet next winter to determine. |have them for at least another two Three Contributors years even if such a method of In this coordinated program supply is possible at all. T am cer- be three-fold sharing in the com- tain that Alaska military posts and mon interest; first, on the part of Alaskan civilian inhabitants cannot the individual Guardsman who will be adequately supplied by airplanes devote time each week throughout and, therefore, in order to make the the year and his summer v.;cuuon‘d(-rvn‘ forces and establishments period to fit himself to guard prop-| in Alaska really effective, we must erly his homeland; second, of the|provide without delay an overland Alaska taxpayer who will contribute supply line not dependent upon our | to the upkeep of his National Guard | control of the sea, | and, third, of the taxpayer re.»idr:nli Highway Necessary in the States who will make pos-| The solution of that problem is cible maintenance of the much larg- not a difficult one. It is necessary would be in desperate position. Now, there may be an idea that Alaska can be supplied from the States b air. The sooner that idea is aban- doned the better, because the job er Federal establishment in Alaska cnly to build the highway to Al-| and whose tax money in lesser dl‘-‘ aska to connect with the Richard- gree will also be diverted to our|son Highway at Delta and thus with Guard, | the Alaska Railroad at Fairbanks. Let it finally be said that no one| A connection should also be built is naive enough to pretend that|between Gulkana and Palmer and the total force of the Alaska Na-|thus facilitate supplying the An- tional Guard would be sufficient to|chorage area. The construction of strike back a strong invasion. The|these roads would guarantee ‘the answer is, of course, that it will| full effectiveness of our defense be a valuable supplement to regu-| posts in Alaska by guaranteeing lar troops and, more important, as that they will always be able to members of the Guard receive have the supplies that are required. training and retire, new men will| The construction of the road should take their place until eventually|go forward without delay for if Alaska will have a sizeable group that is done, the road can be avail- of men skilled and experienced in' able for use practically as soon as the art of warfare. the Alaska military and naval posts It will be Alask: own 297th—|are completed. I admit, of course, four companies of young, strong, that a problem still remains of trained Alaskans of whom we can furnishing supplies to the Navy be justly proud! air bases at Kodiak and Unalaska but, at least, we could take care of all of the defense establishments in other parts of Alaska and Ko- diak sufficiently close to Aa- > that it might be taken care temporarily, by air. It is a singular thing that the swer to that “““]d be our present importance of the construction of complete control of the eastern Pa-|this defense road has not DIMOND (Continued from Page One) of, been cific, including the control of the|completely realized or fully under- waters adjacent- to the coast of|gstood, probably because people stiil Alaska and between the United entertained fantastic ideas that such States and Alaska and therefore g road could be maintained only for that we nced not be worried about| 4 few months in the summer where- the matter of supply. Such an an-|a5 we in Alaska know that it can swer leaves out of consideration pe made available for use the year entirely the possibility, which next| around. may become the fact, that the fleet may be moved to the At- The Fleet It may be said that the idea we oM H i will have to send the fleet to the resrrrrrrrreceereeeee, Atlantic is purely a fantastic one.| That day may be nearer than some people think. So many things have WELCOME LEGION! occurred in western Europe in re- cent months, conquest of Poland, LISLE F. Merchandise Broker g- | ) { | ! N { ; L r v e - 20TH f Ceniury Grocery 'EXTENDS ' GREETINGS to the 21st ANNUAL AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION MERRY G PHUN‘E 196 Finest Quality A PLEASURE TO SERVE YOU! FAIRBANKS - NOME - BETHEL [ ] 202-Phones-603 A R R | | WELCOME LEGION AND ITS . AUXILIARY May Your 1940 Convention Be a Success! H.R. SHEPAED& SON Nor . Holland and ium and France, the latter universally ac- claimed as possessing the finest army in the: world, the defeat and disaster of the British Army in Belgium and France, the loss py Great Britain of all influence the eastern Mediterranean, threat to Gibraltar, and ger, the grave danger, Great Britain herself wi as a result of the ass German legions on 2eig: in the the dan- that even land, air and on the sea, and the conse- quent hazard that the great Brit in the ish Navy will fall into the hands of Hitler, ought to prevent even the greatest and most enthusiastic “Pollyannist” from saying, with an: degree of assurance, that it will never be necessary for us to send our fleet into the Atlantic and to leave the Pacific unguarded. While Y what the future will liold, at the present time the prob- abilities seem no better than even that such a great and overwhelm- ing catastrophe will not happen to world civilization and to our own immediate safety. Up To Canada All of this brings us back to the point which I have been urging and that is that it is not only nec- essary to establish the defensive in Alaska which are now undertaken and are in constwction or contemplated, but it is also equally necessary for the safety of the Alaska and the Nation that supply-line overland through C: ada be built immediate that the military establ Alaska as well as the civilian popu- iation may be supplied. The ob- Jection may be raised that a large part of the road contemplated must be built in Canada, that Canada IS a separate nation, and that the Canadians will not allow us io build the road which may be used by us in time of war if the Cana- dians are not engaged in that war in the past, both Britain and Canada have probably raised such objections, under pres- ent circumstances I cannot conceive that they would be so short-sighted as to offer any opposition now. If Canada and Great Britain would not enthusiastically welcome a pro- posal on our part to build the road for the avowed purpose of supplying our military and naval forces in Alaska in case of necessity, they have not yet recovered from the supreme folly ‘which has governed British statesmen in the past seven years, which led to Munich and which has resulted in the present condition where the British Em- pire is struggling for its very life, e e in order hments in Americans in 1939 smoked 172,- 000,000,000 cigarets, 5311,000,000 cigars and used 38,000,000 pounds of snuff. ALLEN SHATTUCK ‘Candidate for* TERRITORIAL HOUSE 1941 Session DEMBCMTE TICKET —_— ‘EXTENDSA ¢ REETING LEGION 384 So. Franklin « ' TO THE AMERICAN PN T N fvas A& e TO. LEGION AND 0 EXTENDS GREETINGS ADXILIARY v DURING ITS 1940 CONVENTION IN JUNEAU i o vl ol