The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1944, Page 3

TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1944 LAST TIMES TONIGHT! THERE THEY GO... BOMB-BLAS“NG WEDNESDAY—THURSDAY NIZI"SFY The most astounding mystery of the war! N y mmw PREVUE TONIGHT 12:30 AM. Show Place of Juneau SOVIET AIR FORCE RAIDS 2 AIRDROMES 60 German Planes De- stroyed in Whittling Down Action LONDON, May 30.—The Soviet| Air Force hammered airdromes in Rumania, whittling the Nazi air power available to oppose the ex- pected renewal of heavy offensive action -by the Reds along the east- ern front, Moscow reported. The Russian communique broad- cast from the Soviet capital said that airdromes at Roman on the Siretil River and Husi on the Prut River were hit, and at least 60 en- emy planes were disabled or de- | stroyed. Both towns are between the Car-| pathian Mountains and the Dnies- ter River. e NOTICE May 16, 1944, on and after this date I will not be responsible for | any bills unless contracted for by myself. adv. HOWARD E. MOSHER. ATTENTION The Management of the Capitol Theatre has signed a contract with Local 770 of the Inter- national Alliance of ployees and Moving Picture Machine Oper- ators of the U. . and Canada. LOCAL 770 is affiliated with “American Fed- .eration of Federation of Labor” and the “Cen- tral Labor Council.” LOCAL 770 COVERS ALASKA . 0. Box 1922—Juneau What to Give For that Wedding Present? Why not one of the nice FLOOR, or TABLE LAMPS, Two or three friends could get to- BN ENDS TONIGHT, CAPITOL SHOW| Pat O'Brizn and Randolph Scott are the official stars of “Bombar- dier,” RKO-Radio’s thrill-packed |saga of the air force which shows| for the last times tonight at the Capitol Theatre. But in simple jus- |tice it must be recorded that there lare a couple of other stars in the gripping film that in their way are | as important as the human one— the famous Norden bomb sight, and the Flying Fortress. How that closely-guarded instru- | ment which, in Bombardier’s lan- guage, “drops 'em in a barrel from 20,000 feet,” was developed, and how this country came to have the price- less weapon, and men trained to use it, when war flared across Pearl Harbor, is here told for the first time. And it is told in a brilliant and authentic fashion which makes the picture deftly entertaining as well as revealing. - FACTORIES INAUSTRIA ATTACKED American Fi aner Fleets Make New Raids—Rail Yards Are Bombed | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NAPLES, May 30.—American mght-? jer fleets sweeping Austria in the| {south have hit the Wiener Naustadt larea near Vienna, bombing the| Neudorll aircraft factory and the| Pottendorf spinning mills nine | miles northwest, | Ebreichstadorf carpet factory. All the factories hit have been | converted into production of Mes- serschmitt fighter parts. Other groups of unescorted Fort-| resses bombed the rail yards a:} Zagreb, Yugoslavia. | | | | | | | | | | | | SEATTLEBOYS PLAYING WAR, SNITCH JEEP SEATTLE, May 30.—John Woeck, 11, and his brother Joe, 10, got a |Jeep started then couldn’t stop lt‘ |while playing war. The boys climbed into the parked| machine and soon had it going be- yond Renton. About 12 miles from the starting point, Harvey Thomas | saw the frightened lads and tried| to tell them what to do but they| |were too panicky to heed his in- structions. Thomas then hailed | Corp Glen Dix, who leaped with Thomas on the running board and stopped the Jeep. 1 Theatrical Stage Em- Labor,” “Territorial in our display? ALEUTIAN SEABEE CAMP—In this camp in Happy Valley on the Aleutian isle of Adak live U. n that far northern latitude. /in construction work ALASKA HIGHWAY Use Under Emergency Con- ditions Already Paid | for Construction HEADQUARTERS, NORTH-| WEST SERVICE COMMAND, ED- MONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA— The eight flight strips which were completed early last winter along the route of the Alaska nghwny} from dmonton to Fairbanks, Alaska, already have more thanf paid for themselves in the number‘ | strips under emergency conditions, | it is annuonced by Brigadier Gen- ‘eral Ludson D. Worsham, Com- Service Command. i The saving in human lives from | the availability of the flight strips is incalculable and could not be counted as a part of the cost or| saving of the 'flight strips in any| event, he said. Some types of aircraft do “con- tact flying” (in direct contact with| the ground) using the Alaska High- way as a guide. In other cases planes also use this | method of guidance in flying when their instruments have failed to function properly - or when bad storms have forced them off the normal radio beams. The Northwest Staging Route,’ which these strips complement, is| | “under the jursidiction and opera- tion of the Canadian Royal Air| Force. “ These eight strips, located at| strategic points in the wilderness| of Northwest Canada and Alaska along the 2,000-mile airway, were; completed by contractors working | for the Northwest Service Commandf in less than six months at a cost of $2,363,000. Fewer than 500 civilian| workers were employed. Many Problems Construction of these strips pre- sented preblems similar to those faced by the pioneer constructors of the Alaska Highway and the Canol project. Preliminary aerial reconnaisance for the location of the strips was| accomplished by Lt. Col. H. P. Little of the U. S. Army Air Forces, and H. J. Corey, of Metcalfe-Hamilton- | Kansas City Bridge Companies which had been awarded the con- tract of construction. Baranof Beauty Salon WHERE SATISFACTION and SERVICE are SYNONYMOUS |this activity. | been approved, survey parties were The surveyors spent several weeks ' | reconnoitering in the spring of 1943‘pom before allocating present strips in’ i FlIGHI S'RIPS 4plac?s from the types of weather and pROVE VALUABlErwmch can and do occur so swiftly| PAA ‘ 8t order to find the most protected over this route. Actual site surveys to determine soil conditiones and general con-| struction difficulties supplemented After all sites had gant out to the locations and en- {gineering surveys then were made. fly these, the final plans were From prepared. Construction of flight strips Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, commenced June 25, 1943. Work on fields 5 to 8 got under way on. July 20, 1943. All flight strips were completed and in, full operation this winter. Problems of Terrain While the actual conditions under also hitting the'of planes which have utilized the | which workers pushed through this littlesknown project were climatic- |ally favorable in comparison with/ the severe and variable élements in | manding General of the Northwest which most of the Alaska Highway gos, |and Canol project construction was undertaken, the problems of terrain | were in many instances 1dentical.; The same swamp-like muskeg was encountered sand and gravel had to be hauled many miles,to:the actual point of wuse, and the prob= lem of clearing’ rights-of-way was enormous. ‘Where the road-builders had to clear a right-of-way of 60 feet to 100 feet in width, the flight strip | constructionists had to clear a min- imum of 500 feet. Runways were constructed at a *minimum 6,000~ foot length. Northwest Staging Route and its nuxillaxy flight strips has its mll.,m in the old days of “bush f.ying” in the Canadian Northwest and Alaska. It is a tribute to the skill of thes early pilots that the mortality of {men and equipmen!. was low; di- rectional beams were non-existent; radio communication with the ground was undeveloped and the intrepidity of the fliers themselves often carrijed them home on what is still known as the “seats of their pants.” “Bush Pilots” Helped When, in the mid-1930's, the lar- ger airlines of Canada and the United States began to survey the possibilities of airline routes across the northwest wilderness to. Alaska, they gained invaluable knowledge from the experiences—ocassionally tragic, but inevitably a distinct con- | tribution to the .progress” of avia- tion — of these courageous bush pilots. berta Province. Regular airmail and passenger service through Can- ada’s far northwest and Alaska be- came an accomplished, fact a few years later. As early as 1926, there had been a landing field at Whitehorse and by the early 30's landing fields had been used by the bush pilots at Watson Lake, Fort Nelson and Fort St. John. This route was used by the old Yukon & Southern Rail- ways, later absorbed by the Canad- ian Pacific Railways. PAA Uses Routes The Pan American Airways air coastal route from: Seattle to Ju- BAB_I!E\_’ ! GOOGLE i SEE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. . —JUNEAU, ALASKA nesu Alaskan coastal is_impossible navie lu viole X'lL wind snow ¢ ltem of John | Territor Toda these eraticn from & via Lake-Wh generally t jwest of th | Geor Telegr {1y Juneau Whitel Evidence that the nev flight were to become have, of air oper in the 1 in the that eve ruction of | tields w in the sum- mer and early fall of 1943, planes {landed on them, some for repair |some because they had 1 out of and others because they were than five after went into active op= American’s erior Alask: Fort Nelson-Wat route, . althou flights are Rockles, via air ¢ € routed Prince 4 I 1tions fact the L vital part north is n while foul [ under way |lost. Flight Strip Locations 1 is about 350 Edmonton. Flight strip No. mjles northwest of Cjgaring and grading for this strip wgs done by the Public Roads Ad- m')muuon and the work of Met- calfe, Hamilton & Kansas City | Bridge Companies consisted only of consolidating and levelling the sub- ced by the P.R. A, and the necessary drainage structures to drain the strip. Flight strip No. 2 is_located in @ d valley north of Foft St. John. | In order to build a strip in this lo- cation, it was necessary to remove from one to five of muskeg and timber ggrowth. This was ae- complished by bulldozers and scrap- grs. The muiskeg was replaced with clay and gravel which was com- pacted by Sheepsfoot rollers and pneumatic tired rlolers, Flight strip No: 3 is located far- ther north, toward Fort Nelson, B. C., on a high plateau. From a con- truction ndpoint, this loc: was ideal, the strip being loc on a natural gravel bed and grubbing and the removal of s was very light. Some unde- able sili pockets were encounter- ed and had to be removed and re- placed with gravel. Flight strip No. 4, northwest of | Fort Nelson, liés in a fairly low level area, near the Liard River. The water level of the Liard at this| ocation - is - approximately 35 1<»en‘ telow the level of the flight strip, Considerable difficulty s en- countered in the cledring of this| feet ated tre | In 1839, two aiyports went into site, in that it was heavily wooded | ory of those operation at Fort St. Johp, British | Columbia, and Grande Prairie, Al- with jack-pine : spruce timber, whigh. had to be removed by hand| felling, and the fallen :trees bull- | dozed into ‘windrows and burnt or| |bulldozed over the bank and into the river, Flight strip No. 5, located of Whitehorse, was built under s ilar conditions to No. 4. The nat- wwal ground in the flight strip area | e . cast | sim- | MANURE ==-- Any Amoun of P ! Services Cond color: jon o Clearing g | stirring address on what | placed S. Navy Seabees engaged a gravel the entire boulde hundr ered from y pound €0’ ing 1 ound: ral each rial 6, 'is also locatec This area was with poplar and cleared by buil- windrow ind *burnt immediately below this of a coarse lled and ip No whicl in und n which could d by blade 1 very suitable Flight strip No. rea ltself A ne ru we ozing y 11¢ consisted west of White- located on a ridge. The heavily wood- difficulty was trees and ground was 1 deposit and grading for W comparatively remov he sub-base E 8 is fartk Clearing trip No. er ‘west of movs paratively MEM l‘" ORIAL DAY OBSERVED IN JUNEAU TODAY Management of Am- | erican Legion observed Memorial Day, full program carried under the American Legion in the Flks Hall, at the docks and at Evergreen Cemetery, with Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska,’ de- livering the main 'Memorial D‘\y( addr In An Junean teday with a out | the with Elks Hall the program| the advancing of the| by the Coast Guard color The Rev. G. H. Hillerman | he prayer and the audience first verse of America, led | Lola Mae Alexander, ac- | panied at the piano by Pat Shaffer After the Governor had given a | Memorial | Day should mean under p:esent‘ con 5, Mrs, Alexander led Lhe\ a in inging God - Bless | werica. This was followed by the retiring of the colors and the aud-| en proceeded to the Alaska hip dock where a wreath waters in mem- sea, and the | Rev. Charles E. Rice gave a prayer. | Three volle were fired by the Coast Guard squad and John Wal- | mer played tap: At the cemetery a wreath was| at the base of the flagpole, T. J. Dyck gave the prayi hre more volleys were! fired m the Military Police squad, | Taps were plavw( by John Walmer ms} s cast upon the 1 v at and Capt NEW or OLD t Delivered JACK CROWLEY-—PHONE 219 AND SNUFFY SMITH _ | Americ: | the ducted Under v | Fred TOD T ENTURY e e A AR TONIGHT ONLY! America Will Never Forget "WARE ISLAND“ Brian Donlevy an ! An All-Siar Cast * The Tops in Skort Subjects LATEST WORLID NEWS THLATRE d by Les Hogin. Ed Keithahn of in charge nd echoe Commander A L‘g\nn was arrangements v VISITORS AT OFF!(E OF ALASKA MISSION, the of | nessee, Hotel TTH-DAY ADVENTISIS | Recent visitors at the office of Alaska Mission ntists were Pastor and Mrs. V. Anderson, Mrs. Paul Bartholo- and children, Miss Billy Wagner, and Mrs the Adv mew nd wighter, stor and returning Mrs re 1o the States after| Merebeth | Mrs. | Le Pac and Hotel. | Bartholomew | Jerse BEST SHOWS LOWEST PRICES HOFFMEISTER, WIFE HERE Mr. and Mrs. Willlam J.. Hoff- meister are guests at the Juneal Hotel, having registered last even- ing from Seattle. i HERE FROM TENNESSEE Jeanne Keyes, of Knoxville, Ten=- is registered at the Juneau e LILA ELLISON HERE Lila Ellison registered at the Jue neau Hotel last evening from Se- of Seventh-Day | attle. >~ FROM NEW JERSEY Sara Cameron, of Sussex, New is a guest at the Juneau eee - ANDERSONS IN JUNEAU Mr. and Mrs. George H .Ander- | visiting many of the Seventh-Day gon are in town and registered at Adventist Churches in Alaska. rtholomew is the wife of Pastor ul Bartholomew of Anchorage, i plans to spend the summer in States ner are the H. Wagner Alaska, an dplan grandparents, Mrs. H. L. Wood has the local office from her !the churches to the Westward. Pastor M. L. Miles returned children of Pastor | of to visit their Merebeth and BillY | pere and is registered at the urned to| Ssth L0;1')'(:m Everett, to Juneau at the same time and plans to go soon with his wife and daugh- ter to Sitka. his family are visitors at the Mis- | sion. " At present he andi' Mrs. | the Baranof. He is with the ATS. e — HERE FROM VANCOUVER Margaret E. Higgins has arrived Bars anof from Vancouver, Washington. Dillingham, | > HERE FROM EVERETT June Brudevald and Edith Wicks strom are registered at the Washington. . . . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8, Bureau) Temp. Monday, May 29 Maximum 51; Minimum 42 o o o We Appreciate Pan American Airways appreciates ' the patience and understanding of our friends in Alaska at this time when every passenger and every ounce of cargo is subject to military . priority. After Victory, Pan American will pioneer new standards of service for Alaska. MEBBY v E GOT SOME HAND-FLINGIN' GRENADES gether and make one, nice gift. 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