The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-11-23
RIBBON CUT. TRUCKS HIT
 WHITE TRAIL
History for NorthIand Writ ten in Cold, Blizzard
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Continued from Page One) were hoisted to neighborly posts, a lred; white and blue ribbon was shipped, and a road which may eventually lead to Moscow was Eopened.
 There were words for war and words for peace in the speeches 1 preliminary and anti-climactic to the dedication.
 General Speaks
 Northwest Service Commander Brig. Gen. James O'Connor whose men rolled the 1880 miles along the route right over surveyors who were supposed to show them the way declared before all present at the banquet celebrating the opening that this is not a mere road to Alaska. It's going on to Moscow" He made prediction concerning when such a move might be carried out but asked that | 1t not be repeated.
 Western Defense Commander Lieut.. Gen. John L. Dewitt, in a message read at the ceremony, de- clared outspokenly "one does not ihave to be endowed with great powers of imagination to be able Ito comprehend the tremendous ad- vantages this highway now gives Jus in the prosecution of our opera tions against Japan and assisting Russia"
 He urged as the next most inn portant step, construction of a 1 railroad from Fairbanks to Nome.
 Vice-Pres. Predicts 1 Vice. President Henry Wallace re- | ferred to the Alcan road as not merely an answer to an immediate peril, but part of an eventual high way serving the new world from South America to Siberia" pre- dieting that in the not too distant future vehicles win, be driven from Buenos Aires to Moscow.
 ' Col. K. B. Bush, chief of staff of the NwsC, was master of cere- monies. = [ Acting Governor E. L. Bartlett Iof Alaska, representing the Unit led States, and Canadian cabinet member Ian Mackenzie, represent ing Canada. jointly cut the ribbon opening the road Others who at tended from Alaska were Maj. Carl F. Scheibner, military aide to the Governor; Lieut.. Warren Caro-, Ju- Ineau port captain and acting naval aide to the Governor; District Ca- dastral Engineer George A. Parks of the Public Survey Office of the Interior Department, and former Governor of Alaska; District En- gineer M D. Williams of the Pub lie Roads Administration in Alaska
 Enlisted Men Aid
 Four enlisted men selected for meritorious duty in the construction held the ribbons Sgt. Maj. Alfred Sharpe of Montgomery, Alabama and Pvt. Alfred Jalufka of Kenne- dy Texas, represented the north- west sector; Master Sgt. Andrew Doyle of Philadelphia, and Corp. John T. Riley of Detroit represent ed the southern sectorof the high way.
 Corp. Otto Gronke of Chicago, and Pvt. Bob Bowe of Minneapolis, drove the first truck full of freight to Fairbanks and also were the first to pilot a truck into Whitehorse.
 A volunteer soldiers band played the Star Spangled Banner, God Save the King. and the Maple Leaf Forever.
 i O%AAoAAdii iCPl CoCiiJdtltC MdCkckl~ zie predicted that the new road leads into territory which will become the Gibraltar of the air and described the joint good will evident In the building of the highway with I've furnished the |soil. you furnished the toll. We shall be brothers for always and always"
 Have Big Banquet
 At banquet following the cere- morly, the guests ate everything from moose steak to pickhandle beans, and Gen. o'Connor wa. showed under by compliments Those assembled drank two coffe, toasts to the commander, who stat. ed simply in return that with tht Eslpport given his men by all Cana. dian and American agencies ant