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Show A Corridor To Alaska The United States and Alaska are separated by the territory of the Dominion of Canada and while our northern neighbor is about as good a friend, apparently, apparent-ly, as a nation could possess, there has been discussion about the possibility of securing a corridor cor-ridor to connect the United States and Alaska. Anthony J. Dimond, delegate in Congress from Alaska, estimates esti-mates that a good road to close the gap between Hazelton, Canada, Can-ada, and the existing Alaskan highway system, could be built for $25,000,000. The through highway has been advocated in the past, as a mean of freeing military outposts out-posts in Alaska from dependence upon a long sea route. Naturally, with the Army and Navy enlarging en-larging their bases in Alaska this is more important. Whether Canada would approve ap-prove the granting of such a cor- ridor to the United States is 'another question but the high-i high-i way could be constructed per-Ihaus, per-Ihaus, under conditions tiiat j would meet the approval of Canada Can-ada and the United States if i there were no cession of Canad.-!an Canad.-!an ,-overeignity, |