The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-23
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 States. MT. Dimond has been invited to accompany and aid the commit tee in it's investigation. H. Res. 162 and 163. (This committee is now il Alaska aboard the Ingham)
 Right of Way
 Recent approval of the bill by the President now gives the Secretary of War authority to grant right of-wav for the installation ant maintenance of a gasoline and fucl oil pipe line starting on the Gov ernment wharf and extending through the Chilkoot Barracks Mil itary Reservation to the tanks O Erik Oslund, of Haines.
 Due to the poor condition of tn wharf at Haines the War Depart ment in 1886 granted five-yeal license for the pipe lines for the transferring of gasoline and oil from tankers to supply tanks across the Government wharf and through the reservation. This license specifically stated that extension or renewa would not be made unless the licen see had meanwhile obtained the ap- proval of Congress to continue oper ation of the pipe line and facilities Under the terms of the Act the Gov ernment obtains free use of the pipe lines and facilities. The license may be cancelled by the Secretary of War at any time. Public Law No. 348.
 Defense Program for Alaska
 This year marked the first sub stantial steps taken in the program for the defense of Alaska so con- sistently sought by Delegate Dimond during his seven years in Congress. The first Executive communication taken from the Speakers table when the House met last January was letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report on the need for certain additional maya defense facilities, recommended for normal" naval operations that may be required in the defense of the United States and the Territories Among the ten naval air bases list ed as urgent" were two for Al aska--one at Sitka and the other at Kodiak. With this suspicious star on the opening day of the 76th Con- gress the program of defense for Alaska started to move forward, and consistent progress was made there after in the parts to be carried by the Navy, the Army, and the Coast Guard.
 Legislation authorizing the con- struction of the naval air base at Kodiak at an estimated cost of S8,- 750,000. and enlargement of the naval air base at Sitka at an esti- mated cost of $2,9O0,000, and build ing improvements at the naval radio station at Dutch Harbor in the amount of $12,000, was enacted and in due course the appropriations were made for the projected con- struction. Field survey parties of the Navy Department are now on the ground in Alaska working out the necessary plans and specified tions in order that major construc- tion may be commenced as soon as possible.
 Authority for construction of an Army Air Corps station in Alaska was embraced in the Wilcox Air De- fense Act which was approved in 1885. Appropriation was made re- gently by Congress to undertake the establishment of the base, which military experts have estimated will cost in excess of $1000000O before it is complete. The initial construc- tion to be commenced this year is expected to amount to $4,0O0 900. Following enactment of the Wilcox Bill a special War Department Com mission was dispatched. to Alaska Tor the purpose of selecting a site Tor the proposed base On account of strategic reasons location near Falrbanks was recommended by the commission. Recently a second party made preliminary examination of available sites and it is believed that their recommendation confirmed H.
 that Of the first commission with respect to Fairbanks as the appro- priate location. Major Edward M. George, who will be in charge of the construction survey, is in Fair banks now with his party to com mence work on the specifications