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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1940)
The OREGON STATESMAN. Solenv! Oregon. Thursday Morning. Dcenibr 19. 1940 PAC2 Alaska Road To Be Pushed Highway From Seattle Would Cost $25,000,000, Says Congressman WASHINGTON. Dec. ll-iPt-Representatlve Ma&nuson, Seat tle democrat, and chairman of the Alaska international highway commission, said upon his re turn to the capltol he planned to urge approval by congress of the proposed roadway daring the eomlng session. Magnnson said the proposed highway would be of outstanding defense value in getting supplies to Alaska and maintaining com munications with the territory If war arose in the Pacific which made ocean travel dangerous. The American commission has recommended to President Roose velt selection of a route from the vicinity of Seattle running thro n rh Canada to White Horse In Yukon territory and entering Alaska in the Klune lake region The. road , would cost approxi mately $25,000,000 and would provide year around communica tion with Alaska. Early Action Planned I The representative said he ex- . . .1 4M ..11 nntfn. t t 1 A 1 iWlCU IU Vail Ulduug Vf commission early in January and Invite . the Canadian-Alaska high way commission to be present. He said he planned to ask the house and senate roads commit-, tee to hold exhaustive hearings on the proposal and recommend immediate action to congress. . Magnuson . said the meeting with the .Canadian commission would seek to Iron out the final details of the plan and agree npon means of financing con struction of the road. He said the two commissions were "gen erally agreed" upon the route. He has received a letter from Charles Stewart, chairman of the Canadian commission, in which the Canadian said engi neers sent out during the sum mer had reported on their sur veys on the Canadian sections of the road. The reports, he said, would be ready for presentation to the Joint meeting of the two commissions. Stefannson Interested Stewart enclosed a letter from Vilhjaimer Stefannson, Arctic explorer, In which he urged three or four highways he com pleted from the United States to Alaska, passing through Canada. He said one of these should go from Winnipeg through the Great Slave lake region and through the ' Norman oil fields making the oil from these fields available to Alaska. Stefannson added "a road to Alaska would cost less than one battleship" and provide means of supplying Alaska and northwest Canada the defense sup plies. State Holds WPA To Common Labor Continued sponsorship of WPA projects that involved labor only was voted by the state board of control yesterday after Budget Director David Eccles had recom mended that Oregon decline all WPA aid. "If Oregon refuses WPA proj ects and thus makes more em ployment by regular labor, it would have a salutary effect," Eccles said, "because It would give WPA workers jobs in pri vate Industry. It would put some burden on the state budget, but In the long run it wouldn't cost the taxpayers any more because regular laborers can have a ditch dug before WPA workers unpack their tools." Governor Charles A. Sprague said the state should cooperate with the federal government In providing common labor employ ment for WPA workers. He doubted, he said, that the na tional defense program would materially reduce WPA rolls. Secretary of State Earl Snell exrpessed fear the government would object to a no-WPA policy and that WPA workers would feel the state was trying to take away their Jobs. Streamlined Ship Launched at SF SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. lS-P) The streamlined motorship Ame rican Builder, 85 75-ton addition to America's fast growing mer chant marine, was launched here Tuesday. A bottle of California cham pagne was broken aeross the ves sel's bow by Miss Aileen Taller day, daughter of H. O. Tallerday, president of Western Pipe and Steel company, where the ship was built. Before the last of 1000 specta tors had left the yards, workmen began preparations for' laying the keel of a similar vessel, last of five ships to be built under, a contract with the United States maritime commission. ; , Three of the vessels, the Ame rican Manufacturer American Leader and American Builder now have been launched, and work Is progressing on the framework of a fourth, as yet unnamed. The ships are 416 feet long, with space for freight and 18 pas sengers, and are propelled by two 2000-horsepawer Diesel engines.; 111 m " - --. .z t ... rt. : .r - ; ' i Ruth Damon Rites' Are Today at 11 Graveside services- for Miss Rath Damon,- Salem , native and Pliilco H; EXCLUSIVE DEALER' : former resident who was 'the daughter of N. J. Damon, one time well known merchant here, will be held at City View ceme tery at 11 o'clock this morning. Miss Damon, who taught in Portland public schools for many years and later at a nursery school in Salem, died in Port land Monday. She is survived by a step mother, Mrs. Helen Damon of Newport: a brother, Ray Damon of Salem, and a sister. Mrs. Fred S. Knight of Hood River. Editor Forms No-War Group Verdun Ambulance Driver Sees Effort to Drag US Into Conflict NEW YORK, Dec. l-yP)-Verne Marshall, 81 -year-old news paper editor who said, he learned by Aiding 'the Allies, headed by to hate -war as an ambulance driver at Verdun, has organised a group to "help keep the nation out of war." - " A statement issued by the or ganisation, known as the No For eign War committee, said the pur pose was "to give articulation to the hopes and prayers of . . . millions of Americans who know if they are dragged once again into the economic and political con. filets of the old world, only com plete world chaos can result." -The statement declared that the Committee to Defend America another editor; William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., was de veloping "exactly . the same .public psychology as that .which , was carefully created during the war period preceding our declaration of hostilities in April, IS 17" and that much of that committee's "success" was dae to lack of op position to its efforts. "It is the purpose of the No Foreign War committee to pro vide that voice," the statement said. Marshall, editor of the Cedar Raids (Iowa) Gazette, said In a press conference today "that "we start with 100 groups behind vs." . "Eighty-three , per cent of the population Is against participa tion (In the war), he said, "and we expect to enroll 'the majority ot that percentage." - "This committee Is In 'favor ot the present defense measures, only because we may well be the last democracy. Therefore we must be strong ... but It's pure poppycock to say that If Germany licks Britain they would attack us." New Mink Coats Seen on Campus, Still on Animals PORTLAND, Dee.! It Startling decreases in the wild duckling population of the Reed college campus a state game refuge were explained today and co-eds began: to think, seriously of mink coats. Grounds Superintendent Har vey Davis dug into a mink nest while transplanting laurel cut- Unas sear East Moreland la. 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