The Alaska Miner from Fairbanks, Alaska • Page 18

ALASKA Tuesday, September 1940 'floe Squadron of Bombing Planes Will Arrive In Fairbanks Nov. 1 Two Hundred and Forty-one Officers ond Soldiers, Exclusive of Dependents, Will Be Sent to Ladd Field Air Station Before November Nine Botnbsrs To Be Ffown Here from McChord Field, Tacoma TACOMA, Sept. troops being stationed in Alaska as part of the revitalized national defense program will be bulwarked by bombing planes before-November 1, McChord Field officers revealed. Alaska will receive its first bombing force when the "73rd Bombardment Squadron is transferred from McChord Field to Fairbanks. Nine bi-motored bombers will be flown to Fairbanks by their combat crews prior to November 1.

under orders released today. The bulk of the squadron's 24 officers and 217 men will go north by boat, their dependents being allowed to accompany them. The 73rd is under the command of Cfiptair, Charles Overacker. 2,400 More Troops "WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.

War Department announced it is strengthening the defenses Of Alaska by sending approximately 2,400 additional troops to Anchorage about November 1. Permanent station units sent include thS Fourth Infantry, less the First Battalion, already in Alaska. Elements now at Chilkoot Barracks will be moved to Anchorage, as will the Fourth Infantry, now at Fort George Wright at Spokane. Four groups temporarily stationed at Fort Lewis will also be sent to the Alaskan post. They include the First Battalion of the 81st Field Artillery and the 75th Field Artillery, anti-aircraft anci signal personnel, and the anti-aircraft warning sen-- ice.

Old Country." Jess Bryant of the Horseshoe Liquor Store, asserts. "With the liquor in Canada, the possibility of, destruction by enemy air raids is avoided, and great sav- I ings are in elimination- of war risk insurance. "Scotch, in demand in the United States as well as in Central and i South American republics, is pro- i -riding England with a considerable amount of the foreign exchange she is spending for airplanes and other i military equipment. "Whiskey will help Britain win the war." Pacific Alaska Airways Piloted by Joe Crosson and Bert Lien, a Pacific Alaska Airways Electra took off from Fairbanks this morning with airmail and six passengers for Whitehorse and Juneau. The passengers were Captain J.

H. Craine, Mary B. Perry, Robert Simpson, Florence Rose, Forrest Potter, Mike Ulrich. John Troy Agrees With Governor Gruening On Liquor Referendum Facts The Dragline (David Tewkesbury) DEMOCRATIC CATECHISM "Who raised gold to $35 an ounce?" was asked. "President Roosevelt." 'Jack Korba answered.

designated Fairbanks as the site of the Army's airbase?" "President Roosevelt," Larry Rogge replied. "Who authorized the half-million-dollar flood-control project "President Roosevelt," James McGrath responded. "Who laid out the Tanar.a Valley, framed it with rolling hills and beautified it with clustered forests and tumbling streams?" "God." August W. Conradt volun- teered, and Jess D. Lander ejaculated: out that Republican!" KISSES AND SANITY "Usually persons brought into court for inquiry into their sanity are so obviously demented that, juries are quick to favor commitment to an asylum," declared Richard A.

Perkins, Alaska pioneer, who this week served on the panel that found 23-year-old Edward R. Ward deranged. "However, our verdict was reached only after long deliberation. "The testimony established peculiar actions on the part of the young man, but the outstanding evidence and. the occasion of his apprehension was that while in a law office to obtain legal advice he interrupted the attorney to seize a girl stenographer and kiss her.

Neither the young man nor the young woman ever had seen each other previously. "To find him insane, we felt we should exclude this incident from consideration and weigh only the other evidence. Our verdict of insanity was not reached for an hour and a half. "A young fellow isn't crazy just Former Chief Executive of Territory Against Government Competition JUNEAU, Sept. 40 years of residence in the Territory and seven years as Governor of Alaska to draw upon, John W.

Troy expressed his views on the referendum issue and particularly on the three press releases made by Gov. Ernest H. Gruening covering taxation and employment in the liquor industry. "I agree with the facts as presented by Governor Gruening's press releases. For years I have opposed government's competition with private business in the Territory and I see no justification whatsoever for 1 the Territory going into the whole- saling and retailing of liquor.

It would not be for the best interests of Alaska as I see it." Referendum Ballots Valid JUNEAU, Sept. endum ballots in the Third Division, pretested as ambiguous and mislead- 'ing, comply with the statutes and are perfectly legal, according to an opinion rendered by Attorney General James S. Truitt. The Third Division ballots, like those in the other Divisions, cany I the exact wording set forth in the bill passed by the Territorial Legislature. Nothing was omitted.

because he kisses a pretty girl without her consent. He might be cazv if he didn't." FiNE YEAR FOR FLOWERS "Flowers and all other kinds of vegetation have done remarkably well this season," Emil Van Raes. whose grounds at his home 907 Second avenue, are a show place. declared. "There are three kinds oi flower gardens," he continued, "wall garden, rock garden and field garden.

"In this neighborhood, the wall f.brden is exemplified at the George C. Thomas Memorial Library and r.r the home of Mrs. Frank Dunham. Both thrive under her care. "A garden somewhat of the type oi rock garden is on the river bank in front of Mrs.

J. A. Sutherland's The myriad of beautiful flowers arranged by her in well-' designed beds, are really outstanding in attractiveness. "My field garden with its assort- er blooms is conventional in char- peter. The hedge of Siberian brush is of formal trim.

This brush is; actually trees, which, if not back, would attain a heighth of 25 or 30 feet. The brush has been developed from one bush that grew from six seeds I imparted in 1924. This plant is impervious to cold. It never has winter-killed, even in, years when the thermometer fell to 6(1 below. "Everything got a fine start this year, spring having been about two weeks early.

Usually like carrots, are not harvested until after the Tanaria Valley Fair late in August. They should be pitted now. "Tree leaves are beginning to: turn yellow not because of frost for there hasn't been muich, but because they're ripe. "Will fall come soon and be followed by a long, extremely cold winter? "Maybe." WHISKEY BUYS MUNITIONS "Exportable stocks of Scotch whiskey are being shipped from the British Isles to Canada for storage in the Dominion rather than in the' OU see something pretty special in. that bright and shining Buick stepping along so dashingly here! It's the biggest-selling car we ever built all-time sales champion.

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