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; : ti N ; - Railroad Inadequate in Small Maneuver, Fears for Future By 1IM G. BUCAS is ut Seripps-Howard Staff Writer J . FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. §.—The army§ only supply route ‘to cor trol Alaska—the government-owned Alaska RaWroad--has bogged ‘down under the strain of Arctic winter maneuvers inyplving less than one division of troops. A division is usually about 15,000.me¢n. i \The Alasta department is worried about the situaNon, nat only for the success of Operation Prigid—scheduled to begin withi\two months— *" put for the future. ol “Maj, Geri. Howard Craig, Alaskan engine and freight car to he projdepartment gommander, 100ks 10 ect the road will be able th move the ‘Alaska railroad as “my main . artery of supply.” *It is his only 10 cars every 24 hours. The army year-round transportation route, . In any emergency, the success of to get all of its equipment to Ladd #§ American arms in the interior ‘of | field. . Alaska would depend almost entire-| Ana Operation Frigid is schedIg on the Alaska. railroad. uled. to get underway in 60 days.

Interior Secretary Krug . has| ; : ; pledged himself to modernize the Three hundred freight cars are road. He conférred af length with needed to transport motor vehicles army commanders at Ft. Richard- alone, The Alaska railroad has only * gon and Ladd Field during his re- 3 fraction of that number, cent tour of Alaska. The only other supply routes Delay Threatened lavailable are air freight, the Alaska The railroad was the principal highway through Canada, and the topic on his agenda. As a stop-gap | Richasdson highway from the Semeasure, he has promised to divert ward peninsula, rolling stock, now sold to foreign| Air freight is available the yea governments, to. the territory to around but is not yet sufficiently : ease the | imposed by an ex- advanced to supply a full-scale panding milftary establishment. The military effort. The highway supAlaskan railroad needs new *en- plies only a trickle, gines and additional freight and flit, At times it is impassable; landCars. * slides occur Trequently in the moun"Meanwhile, Operation FPrigid— tains of Yukon territory, blocking § i; combat maneuvers to acclimate sol- it for weeks at a time. The Richard-, ™ g . dier® to “still cold” temperature son highway is open a maximum of ranging down to 60 degrees below four months out of the year. | zero—is threatened with postpone- | Seriouness Demonstrated | ment. { Its advance echelon already has arrived ‘at Ladd field. On the docks had demonstrated the seriousness of at Seward, Gulf of Alaska port 470 [the problem. The road is vulnerable Ries swt a roe to bombing. A horseshoe trestle i, 4.00 the government to abandon tablished industries at the Gulf of Frigid had unloa ) ons O% near Seward is in bad repair and yn iitier completely. Alaska port city

supplies, i A t eliminated all other cargo- lcould be destroyed in a single | wrarpitorial Senator Don Carlos, - The army is’ clifiging stubbornly If i [4 Brown of Seward talked with' Sec- to Whittier, realizing the danger if

an impossibility since Alaska's attack. civilidn population also depends on| A spur line to dhe war-built port yetary Krug at length on the sub« Seward should be attacked Secrethe railroad—the road could carry at Whittier has been abandoned.’ ject during his visit here, charging tary Krug his not committed Bir a maximum of 500 tons daily Political “pressure is being #pplied that the government's sponsorship self. but is’ keenly interested in “the By allocating. every available/by comercial interests at Seward ‘of Whittier was an “insult” to es- road,

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THE STORY! I. 7 ' { ing - . pi ag . i nly 17 ‘when I came to Innisfail that Fitzgerald was dancing on lop of Seeing more of each other, wit

. Heli eventful summer. to help out Cousin |i” with, of ‘all people, Cousin Ellen. we?" : . ’ Building to Cost $171,477 Ellen, who was the Fitzgerald: Sadi | And the : iat hi ROB { i ; keepar. Rovely Charette Brent cap. n 1e next day, which seemed| He came into the hall and threw : tured my heart immediately hat to- nt te 2i i av like’ 7 i , Given Federal 0. K. erratic old Honora Poser, whe A io 13 ts beginning to. be, a day lke down his wet .coat and his hag, the household from a sick bed, fright- any other, should have been marked nnd immediately the hoyge seemed

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of nine applications for construction costing $171,477.55,

CHAPTER SEVEN |again, And never again -that sum- excited at the sound of a familiar SNUG IN bed, with-a Tight sum-| mer would it be quiet for-any length voice. The applications were approved mer rain pattering on the roof, I of time. . a Ta during. the ‘week ending. Sept. 5 opened up Whe treasures I had] For. Colifi Fitzgerald -.came hore, | I FELT oddly excited, myself, and : 3 Sow found after Mark left me alone in* Colin Fitzgerald arrived at Innis- Somehow it seemed fitting that [Puting ihe same.period, the agency, ine library. fail in the midst of a thunderstorm Colin Fitzgerald should return turned down 21 applications for ~ Among them were, “Under the late that afternoon and there was: #8ainst a background of wind and which would have Lilacs,” which I had read only three 10 one to receive him but myself. | thunder, wr . times, “The Man - in| 2. Baw 1 said breathlessly, “Won't you let Lower Ten" and “Graustark,” which| ‘MISS CHARLOTTE and the pro- We, take your things?” - I discovered tucked cozily in. bes fessor had gone to town shortly] But he hadn't heard me. He had tween “An Introduction to . Phil- after breakfast -and a- little later eft me and gone into the living osophy” and “The Lives of ‘the Cousin Ellen left for market, with fem. though -after a few quick Swints” on one of the lower shelves. strict instructions to me to make SiADces around the room, he was With that inborn capacity of the, myself useful in her absence. (back, and the hall came alive again. Irish for being at one moment in| | wa in thé library dusting the | 2 flash of lightning made his olive

Service and Sales, Indianapolis, al- } hs : . - . : h : the ‘depths of a despairing pit afl | ops ‘ ss skin. look bronze and his eyes and 00Kks. and, incidentally, looking over hair very dark, and IT saw that he

teration of building, $10,000; Ernest“ next to-be riding high on ale ¢ ¥ Summers, Hammond, building to 0.00 1 10w completely forgot The Hound’ of. the Baskervilles,” nad a thin line of a black mustache. house garden supply business, my. troubles. in the delightfully en I heard the sound of a car «Beware of a black Irishman!” : ) g 1 . ’ $6000; F. M. Dillon, Muncie, bulls ants: adventures’ of a princess S00} closing and the ringing of the yaw nften had I heard my mother ing contractor's affice, $4000; Louis in disgtiise : doorbell i {say that. (All her people were Schade, Indianapolis, “hotel repairs, : 5 a ; I replaced the book quickly and sandy.) I had always tried to do $3601; Marie M, Jones, Indian- 1 WAS barely ‘conscious of the Vent io answer the door. And there my mother's bidding, but today I apolis, repair storeroom, $3518, fact that somewhere in the house WAS Colin. {looked up into Colin Witzgerald's Stratigons restaurant, South Bend, yore was music, beautiful ‘music.! He stood in the doorway with his fiark eves and I fell in love with repair damage, $1337: Fraternal po ,.oqe a soothing background to raineoat flung across his shoulders him instantly. Order of Eagles, Kokomo, repair my reading. though I hardly real- and four be-labeled bags beside him, u » » lodge building, $1149.55. ized it existed, and he smiled at me and said THIN AND freckled and gauche e CPA said most of the proj- couch Ellen, coming up to bed “Hello, 1 don't. belieye welve met | Was. and young for my age, bi ects were approved because of evic- later, ordered me to put away my before, have we?’ .in a quick, I knew in that instant that neve tion” hardships and public safety. books and say my prayers. charming voice and. what sounded again would I meet such a mag= “Did you hear Father .Burke like an English -.accent faintly |Detic man as this black Irishman. , “Where is everyone, Cecelia?” he “How is my mother?”

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MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Sept. 9 tears to the eyes of a stone itself “OH, YES, sir.. Of eourse, I'm that her Colin, she wanted to know. Morgan county schools have a4 net tc hear him.” Cecelia—Cecelia Hart," I said, and 1 It Was her Colin, she knew it was value of $493,548, according .to’ the! ‘“When Cousin Ellen's emotions think I must have blushed. her Colin, and he was to come up annual financial and statistical re- were aroused, her brogue was apt. “Little Saint Cecelia,” he said. 3nd see her, “At once; at once, do port submitted by County Superin- (no become very pronounced. She “Well, well, and do you play the YOU hear?” tendent James Bourn. sounded now like a greenhorn just organ, too? And do the angels Colin took the stairs three at a

Assets for county schools are fist: off the boat, Shower roses down upon you?” time and I heard her glad ery when ed as $544,785.46, and expenditures ¥ an “Oh, nn,” 1 said hastily. “I help he went into her room and then during the 1945-46 school vear to I WENT to sleep then and Cousin Ellen in the Kitchen, I'm his voice calling her endearing

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