Mines Bureau ■ •
To Search For
Scarce Minerals
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—The bur
eau of mines said today it will]
make 35 explorations for strategic
metals and minerals on the na
tion’s scarcity list.
Lowell B. Moon, chief of the
bureau’s mining branch, told a re
porter that the search, in 19 states,
and Alaska, will center on about
eight commodity groups listed by
the army-navy munitions board as
facing critical shortages.
‘‘We’ll go after lead deposits
harder than anything else,” Moon
said. “The other commodities are
tin, rutile, coppel, iron, mercury,
berryllium-tantalum and tungs
ten.”
Moon said the mining branch,
despite appropriation cuts, also
will:
1. “Revitalize and continue”
studies of mining methods.
2. Take over and start to digest
the technical records on the min
ing industry assembled by war j
agencies.
The development projects for
the 12 months ending next June
30 included:
Tin—Cape Mountain, on Alas
ka’s Seward peninsula near the
small Bering Sea port, Tin City.
Lead-zinc — Stevens County,
Wash.
Mercury—Lake County, Calif.,
; :v) along the Kuskokwim river in (
Alaska.
PARENTS OF HON TR \VIS
VISITING IN NOME
M’\ and Mrs. Harry Travis, par-1
ents of Don Travis of the Alaska
Airlines, are visiting for a few
weeks. They have recently sold
their real estate business in Ore
gon and are retiring.
Dutch Capture •
Germans, Japs
In Indonesia
(By Stanley Swinton)
BATAVIA, Java. (/P) — The
Dutch army announced that mop
ping up and consoldiation were
under way throughout Java today,
while in Sumatra they claimed
new gains in a drive southward on
the Medan front.
These reports were contained in
a communique issued just after
news reached this Dutch colonial
capital that the United Nations
Security council would ask both
the Dutch and the Indonesian re
public to cease hostilities in prog
ress since July 20.
The Republicans by their own
admission were anticipaitng in
tensification of the Dutch push
toward their capital of Jogjakarta
in south central Java.
A broadcast from Jogjakarta
Friday reported that the Repub
lican high command had declared
the city and surroundings to be a
military area and had ordered Lt.
Gen. Oerip Soemoahardjo to direct
preparations for a last-ditch de
fense.
The Netherlands army’s com
munique, in the first official re
port of any Indonesian army sur
renders to the Dutch, said 36 Re
publican officers and men had
voluntarily given up their arms at
Lawang above Malang, East Java.
The Dutch said they captured
10 Germans and three Japanese at
Pematangsiantar, and four other
Japanese in south Sumatra and
west Java.
The orang-utan, an ape usual
ly as heavy as a man, has exceed
ingly long and strong arms but
his legs are equally small and
weak.
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“Ten Eventful Years,” the En-1
cyclopaedia Britannica’s definitive
new history of mankind’s most
significant decade—the years 1937
through 1946—will be published
in August, it was announced to
day by Walter Yust, editor-in-1
chief of the Britannica.
The new four-volume work is
unique in that it is written large
ly by the very persons most im
portant in the events described,
and was completed while these
events were still fresh in the con
tributors’ minds.
Eight hundred of the most
prominent persons in the world
comprise the select list of authors
of this new four-volume work,
which includes 1.500 articles total
ing 3,100,000 words, and illus
trated by 1,300 photographs,
charts and maps.*
Among the contributors are 23
heads or former heads of states;
authorities representing 40 differ
ent nationalities; a cross-section of
the top Allied military ladership
in World War II; scientists and
sociologists; philosophers, artists,
authors and business executives.
“The men and women who con
tributed to this work not only saw
what happened; in many instances
they were largely instrumental in
causing it to happen,” Mr. Yust
explained. “In ‘Ten Eventful
Years’ the rush of events during
this fateful decade has been or
ganized and systematically told by
the leading actors of the period.”
“Ten Eventful Years” is differ
ent from either the Encyclopaedia
Britannica itself, or from Britan
ica’s annual Book of the Year, not
merely in that it concentrates on
the war decade. It also introduces
a Britannica innovation, in that it
includes articles of opinion as well
as of fact.
“It is Britannica’s belief that the
opinions of perosns who played
such leading roles in the events
described are of themselves part
of the history of the events,” Mr.
Yust explained.
“Thus, the personal reactions ol j
a top military, political or busi- j
ness leader to a significant hap
pening are of immediate interest
to everyone who lived through
that event, besides being of ines
timable value to future histori-j
ans,” Mr. Yust believes.
“Ten Eventful Years” contains
probably the most authoritative
account yet written of World War
II itself—and yet the passages on I
the war comprise only a minor
portion of the four volumes.,
Trends in business and in public
opinion, popular foibles and fan*
tasies, political machinations, pub
lic taste in dances, songs, movies,
comic strips and radio programs—
all are depicted from the vantage
point of world authorities on tne
subjects. The whole span of hu-1
man history during the decade i !
covered—from atomic fission to j
zoology.
A few of the contributors to
‘‘Ten Eventful Years” and the
topics they discuss include:
Secretary of States George C.
Marshall, on the results of World
War II; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on
the late President’s life; Senatoi
Robert A. Taft, part of the entry
on the New Deal; Mme. Chiang
Kai-Shek, on China; Trygve Lie,
on the United Nations; A1 Capp
on comic strips; Lincoln Ellsworth
on exploration; Charles F. Ketter
ing, on industrial research; John
Gould Fletcher, on poetry; Arch
Oboler, on radio; Emil Ludwig,
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phone wire covering at Camp Pen
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The male beetle—Scodicia Dec
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lead in which his wife lays her
eggs. As the beetle gnaws, phone
conversations become blurred and
splutter.
Bush, on future techniques of sci
ence; John Kiernan. on sports;
Stanley Walker, on New York
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Hiroshima; and former Governor
Ellis Arnall of Georgia, on the Ku
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‘‘An effort was made to induce
the greatest living authorities on
each subject to contribute to the
article on that subject,” Mr. Yus'
pointed out. ‘‘Because of the con-1
troversial nature of some of the
subjects, they are covered by two
or more authors, from different
points of view.”
Some of the heads or former
heads of states who prepared arti
cles for “Ten Eventful Years,”
are President Aleman of Mexico;
Edouard Herriot, former Premier
of France; King Ibn Saud of Saudi
Arabia; Prime Minister Alcide de
Gasperi of Italy; President Ismet
Inonu of Turkey; Count Michael
Karolyn, former Prime Minister
of Hungary, and Kurt von Schus
chnigg, former Chancellor of Aus
tria.
Other contributors include win
ners of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes,
famous foreign correspondents,
:nd experts in fields as diverse as
humor, folk lore, diplomacy, se
mantics. chemurgy, psychiatry,
anti-Semitism, marriage and re
ligion.
"In order to capture the spirit
of the decade before records were
misplaced or details forgotten, the
editorial work for ‘Ten Eventful
Years’ was accomplished by the
Britannica staff in a little more
than one year,” Mr. Yust com
mented.
Truman Considers
Visiting Brazil
WASHINGTON </P)—The White
House Saturday would neither
confirm nor deny that President
Truman will attend the Inter
American security conference in
Brazil but said his plans will be
made known later.
Press secretary Charles G. Ross
told reporters:
“There will be an announce
ment later as to the President’s
Truman’s plans.” He conceded the
trip has been under contemplation
but would not go beyond this.
In Rio de Janeiro, diplomats
said Mr. Truman and his wife and
taughter. Margaret, are expected
there Sept. 4 aboard the battleship
Missouri. Plans called for him to
close the conference which begins
Aug. 15. it was added.
Fishermen Have
(iood Season
SEATTLE. (/PI—1The first fish
ermen to return from the Bristol
Bay since the season closed July
25. about 100 all together, arrived
Saturday in two Alaska Airlines
planes.
They fished for the Columbia
River Packers, Axel Magnusson
said, and the company’s high boat
for the one-month season grought
in 41.000 salmon, netting its two
man crew about 6,000 apiece.
About 1.600 boats fished for all
operators and the season was one
of the best in years, he said.
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