The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1943, Page 2

R NAVAL AIR TRANSPORT TO BLANKET GLOBE Giant Flying Boats Speed Personnel, Material to Fronts 2 PAGE TWO NEARLY GIRDLES GLOBE—Naval Air Transport planes fan out to the distant fighting fronts, COOPERATION IS, | SOUGHT, FOREST FIRE PREVENTION Dust Off Your Dominoes: | One of the major problems ‘fac- ing the nation today is the refluc- tion of the number of man-made forest fires that are started care- llessly or intentionally. The United | States has an average of 210,970/ forest fires each year and théy| cover 31,233,000 acres. This almost | equals the area of New York State. ' Ninety percent of all these fires| are man-made. The other ten per-| cent are started by lightning.| Thirty percent are started by care- less smokers and campers; forty | percent are intentionally set for such purposes. as clearing land, burning logging slash and other‘ debris. Many such fires are started lawfully, but get out of control be- ! cause of carelessness, ignorance or| willingness to take a chance. Incen~ diaries are responsible for many | intentionally set forest fires. The forest fire problem, bad un- der the best of conditions, is in tensified at this time because of the war. Forest fire sabotages.the war effort by slowing down! plo- — 1 duction of timber, now a criticad NEW YORK-—The young folks war material; by diverting an aver- have moved back into the parlor, age of 970,000 eight-hour man dusted off grandmother's chess, of labor per year from vital usi Relaxation from war worries and overtime work can be found quiet game of checkers. Fun, too. ATTENTION EASTERN STAR Regular meeting Tuesday, 8, 8 oclock sharp, will exemplify their Initiatory Cere dominoes and checkers and become which offers a battle| ea and air, and Round| DEAF postmark of not later than discount day. Please be prompt. JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS adv. TELEPHONE CO. a few simple rules of fire prévens tion. > The World. Lt. Gen. John L. Dewitt, Westérn pejieving that home and com- Defense Command, has listed twelve munity in wartime need recreation of the land, Parlor Games Come Back June Rainbow Girl: jDinrher for Bridal Party Last Night; - Wedding Tomorrow Given by the betrothed last evening in the Odd - Fellows Hall, was the dinner for brides- maids and ushers chosen to serve the coming nuptials of Miss Kathleen Carlson and Sgt. Paul A. Winkelmann, to be performed 'TOW evening 8 o'clock in nity Cathedral, wing the dinner of roast and stuffing prepared by cook from Duck Creek, and ushers’ gifts were r games were played couple “hicken army bridesmaids’ an presented by the young people. In addition to the bridesmaids and ushers, guests were F Cushman, Zora Dragich, Lieut. Lowell Addis and Corp. Bill Joseph. Following the wedding rites Wed- evening, the reception will be held in the social rooms of Holy Tri y Cathedral, for all he bride and their - TENCE PENDING Marshals arrested Archie on a dr k and disorderly ge. His sentence is pending. friends of parents - White ch . [ BARANOF industries, farms, etc.; by ca game-conscious again. It's part of|\ono ™ Al members urged to be|] Alaska’s Largest Apartment smoke that interferes with the|the general re-discovery of thel ..o this peing the last meet- Hotel training of airplane pilots, invites! home, é"g“cl"dl by gasoline ration-|; . "hoore summer vacation * attacks by enemy submarines and|!ng and high taxes. 1 COW i thein mmnyuur iy Big storés: say'that Monopaly, al-| . ALIVE B:(M EVERY ROOM WITH TUB Figuring the 970,000 man days at “Ways @ big seller, and Bonanza are g S Al kD and SHOWER the war time rate of one dollar still among the most popular games +* per hour we immediately see that O° the market. Jigsaw puzzles and| NOTICE Reasonable Rates $7760,000 annually is being divert- |JU\Z games are going strong ‘and After June 10, no telephone * ed’ ferm vitkl 'ar {ndubtry. afid dsc'e" Mah Jong had a sputtering re-| o 41 for the month of R e dtort o i vival for @ while/ Children have| 'wifily Sl 8 REL | Phone 800 gaing - in o BAOFD el op been concentrating on war games Iy be presented by the observance of like Conflict count. All remittances must S SEATTLE ® Perrect comfort SAN DIEGO, Cal.— Last year the United States Naval Air Trans- r ice expanded until it cov- ere utes totaling 50,000 miles. the Navy department plans to expand from three to 10 squad- r and virtually blanket the globe, transporting cargoes and personnel from Australia to Africa, from Iceland to Rio de Janeiro. Such great flying boats as the " ter Coronado, a 33-ton llymg; dreadnaught fabricated here by the | Conselidated-Vultee Aircraft cor- | poration, get the job of making ( we men and materials reach those far-flung places, swiftly and A $40,000,000 congressional ap- on is being employed to y triple the facilities of the s little known but vast and portant aerial network. Of the | squadrons authorized, seven al- | y Have been commissioned, service as expanded will op- | in three divisions. While de- of their routes cannot be pub- | they will cover the west | is erate tails lished e . the Pacific and the Atlantic. Squadrons of the west coast command will operate transconti- nental routes, and also serve west- ern Canada and Alaska from head- quarters in Alameda, Cal. Based at Pearl Harbor, the Pa- cific command will operate sched- ules in the Pacific area, particu- larly the southwest. With headquarters in the newly commissioned Naval Air station at Patuxent River, Md., the Atlantic command will serve the Atlantic coasts of North, Central and South America, as well as the European and South African areas. Giant of the Navy The Coronado, which finds in- creasing use in this busy network, appears in a transport version bearing the designation PB2y-3R. It is the largest of all Navy flying boats built on a mass production | basis. This seagoing behemoth, whose wing spans 115 feet from one re- | tractable tip to the other, weighs tons fully loaded, and has a nor- mal range of 2,940 miles. She measures 79 feet long and nearly 28 feet high. In her patrol and combat wver- ng its organization with head- quarters in Juneau. sion, the Coronado is virtuslly s winged battleship, for she carries a maximum load of 12,000 pounds | of bombs or torpedoes. This tre- | mendous carrying capacity gives | her a terrific offensive striking power. Eight to 10 machine guns operated from powered turrets and waist hatches make her formidable on defense. To construct such & ship re- quires more than 500,000 rivets, and more than 200,000 parts, bolts and screws, not to mention many thousand feet of wire and tubing. Uncle Sam is taking extraordi- narily good care of the crews who man these ships. They carry heat- | ing systems, refrigerators and elec- tric ranges—one to each . | and operation of electric controls is supplied by the Coronado’'s own | power plant, which generates | enough electricity to light a town | of 2,500. Coronados cannot be revealed, ex- cept that they will speed people and things to distant battle fronts. That is part of the all-out war Uncle Sam is waging against the Axis. Construction Company is announc- | where he and Dick Price, another NEW CONSTRUCTION member of the company were friends and worked together. Others patrols and invite offshore opera- tions by the enemy. (b) Smoke haze reduces visibility from aircraft warning stations and fire lookouts. tary establishments are located in or .adjacent to forest areas and might be damaged or destroyed by a major conflagration. (d) Forest fires serve as beacons for the enemy. Lt. Gen. H. A. Drum, Eastern De- fense Command, has said, “Protec- tion of our forests is one of the most important wartime duties ‘a citizen may perform. Wood, like ofl, is essential to our war machine: Forest fires destroy a priceless |source of raw materials and ‘also serve the enemy by endangering vital installations. In protecting otx |serve a priceless heritage for days of peace.” Smoke from forest fires in 1941 |eaused a loss of 10,000 flying hours |at a flying school near Tuscaloos: {Ala., and at Camp Davis, North Carolina, in the spring of 1942, anti-aircraft training was seriously iinterrupted by nearby forest fires jand in a number of instances the Many Americans, particularly in cities, had been living in such a whirl that they'd forgotten about| neighbors—until car pools and war-| neighborly interest. Now there are| groups meeting regularly to play ashioned pinochle, euchre, old- bridge or gin rummy. Strangely, a decrease in book- reading has been reported, espe- cially in industrial areas. Busy war workers are just too tired to read, t is said at the New York Public Library, although younger readers are said to be interested in tech- nical works or war correpondents’ books. War wives read books of love letters The importance of playing games as a morale-booster stressed by imany industries where recreational How the Navy will employ the |forests in time of war we Wreb facilities of all types are provided |even during the working day. | > MORRISON - KNUDSON | HAVE NEW CONTRACT; | KENYON IS NOW HERE MEL MARTIN, Noble Grand e adv. P (¢) Many defense plants and mili- den meetings started a revival of |but a hare. Let Us SUIT Your Plans 5% el C(OMPANY ANNOUNCES Six men who have been in Alaska in the organization, all from the for the last year have joined to-|northwest are Mack Jones, Dick gether to form a general contract- |Price, Donald Oppegard and Ray Herb A. Kenyon, Superintendent of the Morrison-Knudson Company, | has returned to Juneau after sev- |trainees were used to combat these| fires. CRGANIZATION HERE first job lined up and arrival of their equip- Western Dredging and FOR SALE PRE-WAR PRICES 4 Electric Rang e Cooking Sefs 10 Pieces CALL AND TAKEM LOOK SEE! A Distinct Bargain Alaska Eleciric Light and Power Company Phone 616 BRINGING UP FATHER Juneau, Alsaka I | OH-DEAR ME- IT HAS BEEN STOLEN# REPLACED! SO BAD a ing company. All have been doing Hull. construction work. Fred V. Menge, one of the group, formerly operat- ed his own company in Califor As soon as their machinery ar- rives they will go to work on a alvage job they already have staked out for themselves. HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Ralph Milander became the mother of a baby boy born June 6 at St. Ann's Hospital. The baby arrived at 10:35 a. m. and weighed six pounds, eight ounces. Gust Brann and Landro Lozzarin were incoming medical patients at (St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday. Serge Lekanos was admitted last night at the Government Hospital. Mrs. Robert Burns, surgical pa- tient, and Jennie Warne, medical, were dismissed yesterday from St. Ann’s Hospital. Mrs. W. M. Triplette and baby boy have left St. Ann's Hospital and returned home. e LIBBY MAN HERE J. A. Rasmussen, with Libby, McNeill and Libby, arrivéd in Ju- neau and is at the Baranof Hotel. Alaska is fortunate in that the |greater part of our commercial timber lies in the coastal rain belt where large fires are infrequent. | Nevertheless, records of large fires |are etched on the landscape ‘at Whitewater Bay and at other |points on the Tongass National Forest. Alaska’s forests are being (drawn upon at this time to make |their greatest contribution in his- tory. As a result of this heavy cut- ated by slashings. This danger will {be further intensified by increased ‘logglns machines and campfires The forests of Alaska, which lie in the Kenai Peninsula and the |Interior beyond the rainbelt, are highly inflammable and constant vigilance is necessary to preserve them for current war needs and future use. These so-called interior {forests are' of extreme importance |to the local economy as they make a subktantial contribution to the development of the country by fur- nishing food and cover for game and furbearers, timber for mining purposes, building and fuel. Fur- thermore smoke from these burning much as though it were billowing ting there will be fire hazards cre-| [numbers of men in the woods, by| forests creates the same hazards and hinders our war effort fully as’ eral weeks in the States where he purchased supplies which will be ed on a new construction project! u. Work | { |his company has near Jun ;\\111 start at once on the project. | | Mrs. Kenyon, who accompanied | {him south, is now visiting relatives | and friends in Arizona. From Ari- |zona she will go to Los Angele: {for a time and then return north| to Juneau - - | The mountain goat is not a goat, | {but an antelope i ]fmm our finest stands of nirplunc‘ spruce. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard has said, “Until we smash | the Axis, every man-made forest fire is an enemy fire.” That state- | ment might by supplemented by |saying that every forest fire, re- gardless of its origin, is a further threat to our national security and jan aid to Hitler, Tojo and Com- pany. It is the aim of the fire sup- pression agencies to reduce the number of forest fires to the mini- mum but this requires constant co- operation on the part of the pub- lic in all phases of a fire preven- | tion program. 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Among them are: (a) Smoke- in Wartime, which contains in- day, June & at 8.pm Kok th be e3¢ o Tarib B palls from forest areas limit ‘Visit structions for nearly every game( ¥y *WHE B G5 C DAL WOUE t0 B¢l MeClare, i, % e bility for defensive air and sea from Jackstraws to Chinese Hop, |Conierred in the First Degree Mgr. all with Bath ALASEANS LIKE THE Hotel JUNE Anchorage Yakutat Cordova Kuskokwim an Kodiak Valdez Seward Wednesday Friday Sunday * ALASKA STAR ATRLINES BaraNor fore Phome 667 TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1943 'HARRY SPERLINGS TO MINNEAPOLIS Harry Sperling, ac- companied by their three children, Mary, David and Billy, have left for the south enroute to Minneapo- lis, Minn. Mr. Sperling, Administrative Assistant with the Forest Service, is on a six-weeks leave from the office here. Mrs. Sperling and the remainder of the family plan to remain outside for the next year. PRI S Mr. and Mrs, Empire Classifieds Pay! 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Inlet Hoonah goon Tenakee Todd ican shan Express Rate: 10 cents per pound—Minimum Charge $80 SCHEDULED TUESDAY and THURSDAY pound—Minimum of $1.00 to ketchikan Express Rate: 10¢ per pound—Minimum of 60c to Petersburg FOR, INFORMATION ON TRIPS TO HAINES, HASSELBORG, SKAGWAY, TAKU LODGE: Above rates applicable when passenger traffic ‘warrants Schedules and Rates Subject to Change Withous Notice. TAL AIRLINES Pel- Kim- Chicha: got Sitka $18 Juneau..$ 8 $10 $18 $10 $18 $18 18 $18 Sitka ....... 18 18 18 10 18 18 10 10 Chichagof 18 10 18 10 18 10 5 Kimshan 18 10 18 10 18 » Pelican . 18 10 18 18 [} Todd.,...... 18 10 10 Tenakee . 10 10 10 Angoon - 18 18 Hoonah . 10 One-Way Fare, less 10% ‘Wrangell Petersburg $35.00 $30.00 10.00 cmi 4 a