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lantic and thus the control of the Pacific be entirely lost. Any active enemy in that area would soon see to 1t that the hazards of sending ships between Pacific Coast ports of the States and Alaska would be too great to be undertaken and thus the military forces in Alaska, as well as the civilian inhabitants, would be in desperate position. Now, i there may be an idea that Alaska can be supplied from the States by air. The sooner that idea is aban- doned the better, because the job of supply by that manner is too great and we have not sufficient planes for the purpose and will not have them for at least another two years even if such a method Of supply is possible at all. I am cer- tain that Alaska military posts and Alaskan civilian inhabitants cannot be adequately supplied by airplanes and, therefore, in order to make the defense forces and establishments in Alaska really effective, we must provide without delay an overland supply line not dependent upon our control of the sea.
 Highway Necessary
 The solution of that problem is not difficult one. It is necessary only to build the highway to AL aska to connect with the Richard son Highway at Delta and thus with the Alaska Railroad at Fairbanks. A connection should also be built between Gulkana and Palmer and thus facilitate supplying the An chorage area. The construction of these roads would guarantee the full effectiveness of our defense posts in Alaska by guaranteeing that they will always be able to have the supplies that are required. The construction of the road should go forward without delay for if that is done, the road can be avail able for use practically as soon as the Alaska military and naval posts are completed. I admit, of course, that a problem still remains of furnishing supplies to the Navy air bases at Kodiak and Unalaska but, at least, we could take care of all of the defense establishments in other parts of Alaska and Ko- diak is sufficiently close to An chorage that it might be taken care of, temporarily by air.
 It is a singular thing that the importance of the construction of this defense road has not been completely realized or fully under stood, probably because people still entertained fantastic ideas that such road could be maintained only for few months in the summer where as we in Alaska know that it can be made available for use the year around.
 The Fleet
 It may be said that the idea We will have to send the fleet to the Atlantic is purely a fantastic one That day may be nearer than some 1 people think. So many things have occurred in western Europe in re- cent months, conquest of Poland
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03

ficiently strens tc ,ercl any pos sible invasion by any possible com bination of forces.
 To save our all, we must be pre- pared to give part. That is as fundamentally true in Alaska as elsewhere. Quite properly the Fed eral Government will bear the prin- cipal load in defending the Terri tory. Already it is spending more than s40,000,000 to do so. But ths Alaska National Guard will be in part direct responsibility of the Territory and it's maintenance will require some of the Territory's tax revenues. How much will be a mat ter for the Legislature which will meet next winter to determine.
 Three Contributors
 In this coordinated program will be three-fold sharing in the com mon interest; first. on the part of the individual Guardsman who will devote time each week throughout the year and his summer vacation period to fit himself to guard prop erly his homeland; second, of the Alaska taxpayer who will contribute to the upkeep of his National Guard and, third, of the taxpayer resident in the States who will make pos sible maintenance of the much larg- CT Federal establishment in Alaska and whose tax money in lesser de gree will also be diverted to our Guard.
 Let it finally be said that no one is naive enough to pretend that the total force of the Alaska Ma tional Guard would be sufficient to strike back a strong invasion. The answer is, of course, that it will be a valuable supplement to regu- lar troops and, more important, as members of the Guard receive training and retire, new men will take their place until eventually Alaska will have a sizeable group of men skilled and experienced in the art of warfare.
 It will be Alaska's own 297th-- four companies of young, strong, trained Alaskans of whom we can be justly proud!
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peaceful as the United States should have to arm itself against aggres- ion from a disordered world, should have to build formidable bases in Alaska, which throughout history as it has been recorded. has never known real war, as barrier against possible attack by nations which now discard all the practices and teachings of civilization and act in the primitive, senseless manner uf cave men.
 Muct Be Strong
 Unhappily, our thoughts and our beliefs on this subject are not controlling. Quite the contrary. Since that is the case and since we as a people are tough and hard enough to ride out any storm which may imperil our free and democrat ic institutions, there is only one possible solution and that solution is now being worked out-the con- struction of an armed force suE-
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Ey F.. l.. (BOB) BARTLETT Secretary of Alaska
 And Acting Governor

By the time this article appears in print, Alaska's citizen soldiers will be about ready to take to the drill ground to prepare themselves in defending. should the need arise, their Territory and their Nation.
 Tcd2y Alaska's National Guard the 297th Infantry, is largely an granizaticn on paper only
 tomorrow t will be four com Elnies strcng, each of over 60 men, adequately officered by men with previous military training.
 Those in the Territory whose
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2q7TH INFANTRY, NATIONAL
 GUARD, lS ALASKA'S OWN

memories reach back to the World War will recollect the organization of Home Guards then set up in several communities. That IS the closest Alaska has previously come to a military establishment other than regular Army forces. Our new National Guard will be patterned exactly after those in all the States, in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. It Will be federally recognized group, subject to War Department regu- lations pertaining to the Guard.
 Major Assisting
 Tn formation of the Guard, Gov ernor Ernest Gruenlng, as lCS commander in- chief, has had and will continue to have the assistance
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-03

Norway, Holland and Belgium and France, the latter universally ac- claimed as possessing the finest army in the world, the defeat and disaster of the British Army in Belgium and France, the loss by Great Britain of all influence in the eastern Mediterranean, the threat to Gibraltar, and the dan ger, the grave danger, that even Great Britain herself will go under as result of the assaults of the German legions on land, in the air and on the sea, and the conse- quent hazard that the great Brit ish Navy will fall into the hands of Hitler, ought to prevent even the greatest and most enthusiastic "Pollyannist" from saying, with any degree of assurance, that it will never be necessary for us to send our fleet into the Atlantic and to leave the Pacific unguarded. While no man knows what the future will hold, at the present time the prob abilities seem no better than even that such great and overwhelm- ing catastrophe will not happen 10 world civilization and to our own immediate safety.
 Up To Canada
 All of this brings us back to the poiilt which I have been urging ana that is that it is not only nec- essary to establish the defensive works in Alaska which are now undertaken and are in construction or contemplated, but it is also equally necessary for the safety of Alaska and the Nation that the supply-line overland through Can ada be built immediately in order that the military establishments in Alaska as we'll as the civilian nopu- lation may be supplied. The ob- lection may be raised that a large part of the road contemplated must be built in Canada, that Canada is separate nation, and that the Canadians will not allow us to build the road which may be used by us in time of war if the Cana dians are not engaged in that war While, in the past, both Great Britain and Canada have probably raised such objections, under pres ent circumstances I cannot conceive that they would be so short-sighted as to offer any opposition now. If Canada and Great Britain would not enthusiastically welcome a pro- posal on our part to build the road Tor the avowed purpose of supplying our military and naval forces in Alaska in case of necessity, they nave not yet recovered from the supreme folly which has governed British statesmen in the past seven years, which led to Munich and which has resulted in the present condition where the British Elm pire is struggling for it's very life.
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sWer to that would be our present complete control of the eastern Pa cific, including the control of the waters adjacent to the coast of Alaska and between the United States and Alaska and therefore that we need not be worried about
 the matter of supply. Such an an sWer leaves out of consideration entirely the possibility, which next week may become the fact, that the fleet may be moved to the At
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Americans in 1889 smoked 172.- 900 0,000,000 cig garets, 5,31I ,0OO, ,OOO cigars and used 38,00O,0OO pounds of snuff.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
BariiunSprings
Finals Start
Sunday

Barium Springs, April 20.-The
1910 graduating EXERCISES lOf 20 boys
ana slrls who finished their high
scnOOI careers in the schools at the
Presbyterian Orphans Home mere
will begin Sunday morning win the
baccalaurate sermon at lib O'Clock
bv Rev. M. =. Calhoun Of the Pres
byterian Church at st. PaulS. The
I.nal program will be on Monday
night.
The commencement address Mon
day evening at o'clock will be de-
livered by Rev. Carl Pritchelt, pas
tor Of the Presbyterian church at
Smithfield, and another visiting
speaker will be Rev Samuel Wiley,
Presbyterian pastor at ThomaSVlIle,
who will preach d sermon TO the
young peoples societies at 1880
o'clock on Sunday night. Class Day
exercises Will be at II o'clock Mon
day morning.
Ed Cole, Of Salisbury, is Valedic-
torian Of the 1910 graduates and
Rufus Long, of Glendale Springs, is
salutatorian. These will speak at the
Monday night exercises, at which
time all graduates will be presented
la Bible, several medals and awards
for music and scholastic improve
ment will be made, a Bible medal
presented, and the Ace medal to
that graduate who has shown the
greatest development while at Bar
ium Springs in the opinion Of the
high school students and workers
who annually vote upon such d Sc
lection.
Total Of 248 years have been spent
in the Home at Barium Springs by
these 25 graduates for an average Of
almost 10 years each. The shortest
residence has been five years by
three students; while two have been
at Barium Springs for Is years.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

Raleigh, April 20.--Calllng atten-
ton to the fact that three persons
were killed in North Carolina last
month as a result of failing TO take
proper precautions when changing
tires on the highway at night kohalo
Hocutt, director OF the highway SAFE
ty division, gave out the following
suggestions:
When compelled TO make repairs
or change tires on the highway at
night, the first precaution to observe
is pulling completely off the highway
or as far over on the shoulder as
possible.
Flares should be placed on the
highway some feet behind the car
and also in front Of it, but il you 40
not carry flares you should by all
means leave the dim lights on your
car burning.
"These are simple, commohsense
precautions, and fatal accidents OF
this type will be materially reduced
if not entirely eliminated when all
motorists follow such precautions IN
making repairs or changing tires on
the highway at night, HoculI SAID
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
Students Direct
Sunday Visitors
To UNC Campus

Chapel Hill, April 20.-Wllh num-
dreds Of visitors and slShlSeerS ar
irving at Chapel Hill every week.
end, especially now that the dog
wood and other beautiful flowers are
in full bloom, a free student guloe
service has been established at Caro-
lima. it was announced today by Ad-
minjstrative Dean r. 3. House.
Each Sunday afternoon heaoquar-
tiers of the guide-service Will be open
If the Old Well in the center Oh lhe
campus, and visitors may request the
services of students TO conot,cI lhem
on tours or drives through the cam
pus and village. ,,bio,, ,o
The Coker Arborctum, which mas
more than 500 species OF naive ana
exotic plants, Bowman Grey memoir
ial swimming pool, Woollen Gymna-
SUM, the new medical building, new
dorn7itories, the new dining hall, the
Library, radio studio: Carolina ma Play
makers Theatre, Kenan Stadium.
patterson-Morehead Bell tower,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
Tennis Holds
Spotlight On
States Card

Raleigh, April 2O.-Coach r. W;
Green's varsity tennis team VIII
hold the spotlight Of the spring
sports program at North Cafolilla
State next week with its annual m
vasion of the deep south, playing
Davidson, Clemson, Emory, ana
Clemson again on successive days.
The clcven-man squad opens the
tour Monday at Davidson and goes
into South Carolina Tuesday to meet
Clemson at Clemson. Wednesday
finds the Techs at Atlanta, Ga, Tor
= watcn with Emory University.
Winding up the trip Thursday, the
State boys circle back Tor anolhcf
meet with Clemson at Clemson.
Coach williams (Doc) Newton $
bascballcrs, back from a tour OF VIr-
ainia. are carded for one game next
week playing Duke in Durham Wed
neSday afternoon. ;,
States freshman baseball team
will be out to make up for some OF
IFS numerous defeats next week
when it tangles with the Wake For
est frosh here Fednesday afternoon
and Dunn nigh school III Dunn FIJI
day.
The freshman tennis team ranks
next on the program with two meets
schedulcd--Wake Forest at Wake
Torcs, Monday and Carolina at
Chapel Hill Wednesday.
Coach Ray Sermon will take the
varsity and Freshman track teams
TO Chapel Hill for the Carolinas A.
\. u. meet in the only event Schc-
dulCd for Saturday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
Henderson Scores Al Win
Over NIiddleburg Nine
Abbreviated Contest
Gives Bulldogs Sec
ond Victory over Mid
dleburg; W arwick
Has Perfect Day at
Bat for Henderson.

He.y,,son bounced back into the
,.ictc-, column yesterday afternoon
bv ! 'ug a t to vict"gi over Md
diebwg here ON tie athletic field:
Ashton Warwick le,i the way for
rhe BULLDOGS 1t bat. with three for
three. two OF them doubles. Short,
pitcher. was tho only Middleburs
man 10 hit safely more 'han once.
Billy Allen started on The hill Tor
the BULLDOGS. lasting :hree innings.
He was wild. waikiki" i3"r men; tie
struck out one and allowed three
hits during his stay
The victory W;JS Ne"ctc"S"nS sec.
ond over NIjdGlebure tins season. ana
put the Bulldogs BAGS III the VIM
column. atter TWO defeats At the
hands of Littlctou and HoNooro.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

Wake Forest April 20.--COnstruc-
ton is expected 10 begin soon on a
new chapel and auditorium at Wake
Forest college which will seat more
than 1000 and will cost $25O,000.
The building is being provided
through the auspices Of the Baptist
State Convention which voted unan-
imously at its last annual meeting
10 raise the money. All BaptistS,
Wake Forest alumni, and other
friends Of Christian education are
being called upon by NJ. A. Higgins,
secretary Of the Convention, to have
a hand in the project
The structure will house the de-
partments of Bible and Music and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

there will be Il center tu. gH ,..-
gioua and allied activities 90 ,..
students.
with IFS spirc pointing aaw.a
this building, when crcc,U ..
idealiZe in the years ahead '.u.r
impcrishable values for wmca Wake
Fore:~> stands" Mr.. Hus&ns ..d
DR.. Thurman kitchiu. Walk, rYr-
est's president, said that the chapel
will supply an urgent need Suo.
1884, when historic W!ugaI, Hall
burned, Wake Forest has been WITH
out an auditorium and has had 20
hold student meetings IN The Wake
Forest Baptist church. which is .a.-.
enough TO seat only about two-'NuG
Of the student body.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

Lieutenant Governor w. p. Horton
almost came out publicly and strong
ly for reapportionmcnt about zee:
ago. Had a speech all prepared and
ready for delivery; but changed his
mind at the last minute and ordered
the advance releases "killed".
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

Your reporter was talking with
Wakes State Senator l.. Y. Ballentine
a day or so ago, when up walked a
serious, unsmilng gentleman to hand
to the Senator and the reporter a
political card, with the earnest re-
quest that they consider supporting
the candidate whose virtues were eX-
tolled thereon.
vote for R. N. Sims, Jr., for
State Senator, read the card.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

Difficulty in finding more than a
tweedle-dee and tWeedle-dum differ
ence between gubernatorial candl-
dates as far as issues 60 was we'll
illustrated during the anti-diversion
meeting here under auspices Of the
Highway Users Conference.
Professor Harry Tucker OF North
Carolina State College, chairman OF
the conference, said he has receiv-
ed letters from all Democratic CALI
didates. He added that all stated
their opposition to diversion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
Rose Bowling
Teams Clash

Rose office bowlers tripped over
the Rose warehouse crew last night
on the Standard Bowling Alleys,
winning 1922 to 1884.
J. G.. Bradford topped the winners.
with 1872. and Toby Bell was the best
for the losers, with oGJ.
The lineupS:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
Plan Handicap Tourney
And Inter-City Matches
For West End Golfers

near future, and that il IS necessary
for each member that desires TO
participate 10 turn in five cafoS IN
order mat Just handicap may be
assigned each player.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

Those Of the North Carolina Food
Dealers Association Ca group made
up OF so-called independent mer-
chants who have fought the chain
stores tooth and nail'D supporting j.
NJ. Broughton Tor governor explain
they do not hold the Raleigh law
yers representation Of the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea company
against him He appeared for the big
chain just as he would appear Tor
any client who hired him as law
yer, they contend.
The food dealers are headed, in
fact if not in name, by James B.
Vogler, Mecklenburg Representative
n the 1887 and 1889 General As
Semblies. A candidate Tor reelection,
Vogler isn't saying anything at all
for publication about the governors
race.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
Vulcaniizers
Top Teachers

Henderson Vulcanizng counted a
1916 TO 1861 bowling victory over
the teachers last night on the Stand
ard Alleys.
Thurston Hoylc led the winners,
with 2G3. with \. c. Hoover topping
the losers. with 255.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL.

Raleigh. April 20.-Departmcnt OF
Conservation and Development Off
Gals probably heaved sigh Of relief
when they looked over the list Of
candidates for the 1871 House and
found that Raymond B. Mallard OF
Tabor City is not among those trying
for Il seat in the 194l legislature.
AS Columbus 1889 Representative
Mallard was perhaps the biggest pain
in the neck That the department had
in the General Assembly. On more
than one occasion lie publicly called
the department nothing but a
racket.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

Bystanders are wondering what
Mrs, j. B. Spillman, U. c. Z. mem
Der by Hoey appointment and Hoey
'Woman's manager" in 1886, is going
to do about her membership on the
North Carolina for Roosevelt COM
mittee, now that her patron has de-
clared publicly for Cordell Hull.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

Castle, and number of
other points or interest at the Uni
versity will be open to visitors.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

w. w. Walker has withdrawn as
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for Representative in Hen
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

It's hard to get up much o.. I'D
argument when everybOdy's on cao
same side.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

derson county, i::vs leaving incum-
bent l.. l.. Burgin unopposed in the
primary.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
AMERICAN LEAGUE
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Chicago ): St. Louis 0.
Brooklyn -: New York U.
Only games played.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20

It's the smart politician who
does wait until the political cam
paigI. - on before shopping around
for a mud-prOOf vest.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
schedule

PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Durham at Winston-Salem.
Portsmouth at Rocky Mount.
Ashcville at Charlotte.
Richmond at Norfolk
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia at Boston.
Chicago at st. Louis.
Washington at New York.
Detroit at Cleveland.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.
Boston at Philadelphia.
New York at Brooklyn.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-04-20
Results
PIEDMONT LEAGUE

PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Portsmouth ): Rocky Mount 2.
Only games played.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston II: Philadelphia 6-3.
Cleveland !: Detroit 0.
New York ;: Washington 3.
Only games played.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-05-23
Three Longest Rivers

The three longest rivers in the
United States are the Missouri,
Eats miles from the junction of the
Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin in
Madison county, Mont, to the Mis-
sissippi; the Mississippi, 2,47O miles
from Lake Itasca, Mimi, to Head
Of Passes in the delta, and the Rio
Grande, 1900 miles from San Juan
county, Colo, to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Observation-Disclosures is 1898
miles long.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-05-23
JAMESTOWN NEWS

Mr. and Mrs. Avery Fleming
are the proud parents of a baby
boy, arrived Tuesday, May 16.
Princie Hughes and children,
Jimmy and Agnes, spent the week
end with her daughter, Mrs. Wv
ian Branham of Splashdam, who
is the proud mother of a 9-pound
girl, who arrived Wednesday and
was named Peggy Sue.
Mr.. and Mrs Luther Yates spent
the weekend with Mrs. Yates
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison
Blankenship of West Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Hughes
and son, Donald B., spent the
weekend with Marsh Hughes.
Mrs. B. NJ. Lane visited rela-
tives Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs Nelson Stanley
visited their daughter, Mrs. Alpha
Hughes, Sunday. Her baby is i'm
proving fast after an attack of
scarlet fever.
Mrs. Ida Short took dinner with
Mrs. Maude Mullins Wednesday.
F. A. Hughes is having stone
wall built underneath his house.
George Mooney and SON are doing
the work.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Rev. Horton Davis of Kentucky
will hold services at Valley View
church Sunday, May 26, at eleven
o'clock.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-05-23

FOR SALE on Reasonable Terms:
one of the best bargains in
ClintWood.
I have a six-room home, two
porches, concrete dairy. cow-barn
and other outbuildings, garden
and private water system, togeth-
err with almost two acres of land,
which I will sell at bargain. See
w. G. .Rasnick, Clintwood, Va.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-05-23
NANCY BRIEFS

Flora Anderson called on Mrs.
L. G. Grizzle Tuesday of last
week.
Rachel Dee1 visited at the home
of Bruce Deel Sunday.
Mrs. M. M. Hay has taken ovel
the farm, and is making a success.
Mildred and Jean Grizzle visit
ed Goldie Counts Tuesday.
Carson Hay and small daugh-
ter visited Earl Edwards Sunday
night of last week.
Lionel Deel visited Clayton Hay
last Sunday.
Vivian Hay is very ill with
mumpS.
M. M. Hay is very i'll at this
time.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-05-23

ClintWood on business Tuesday.
Glenn Kiser has returned to his
home here after a period of en-
ployment with the Tri-County
News of st. Paul.
Bob Swami, travelling man of
st. Paul, was a business visitor in
Clintwood on Tuesday.
Fred Yates of Willard was in
Clintwood on business Tuesday.
Morgan Mullins of Norland was
visiting in Clintwood Monday.
F. H. Fleming of Virgie. XIV,
visited relatives here Sunday.