Negotiations Now In
Most Critical Stage
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Korean truce negotiations now are
moving through the most critical
stage in many months.
Officials here believe that a de
cisive turn toward either a break
down or an agreement may come
within a few days.
There is much less optimism
here now about the chances for
an agreement than was apparent
10 days ago. The reason: still sec
ret Allied proposal which were
supposed to ease acceptance by the
Reds of voluntary prisoner return
apparently have not had the
hoped-for results.
The Communist attitude has
been demonstrated in a new wave
of propaganda attacks on the
United States from the Red Chi
nese radio at Peiping. The Reds
have charged America with
spreading “artifically - inspired
propaganda” of optimism to di
vert attention from the real is
sues.
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Negotiators Disregard
Nearby Artillery Barrage
MUNSAN, (JP) — Allied truce
negotiators accused the Commun
ists Wednesday of dodging the
main issue blocking arrangements
for enforcing a Korean armistice.
The Communists replied there
would be “no progress at all” un
less the United Nations Command
changed its attitude.
The exchange ended a 19-min
ute session of staff officers at
Panmunjom. It apeared more and
more that the truce supervision
negotiators were awaiting out
come of secret negotiations in a
neighboring tent on prisoner ex
change.
During negotiations, Allied ar
tillery shells burst in a brief but
heavy barrage near the neutral
zone. A Communist interpreter
was reading a translation when
the barrage opened. He hesitated
a moment then went on. There
was no other recognition of the
war going on outside.
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f
Alaska Construction Trade
Workers Receive 10 Cent
Per Hour Wage Increase
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
Wage Stabilization Board ap
proved a 10-cents-an-hour across
the-board wage increase for more
than 5,000 workers in the Alaska
construction trades.
The agreement represented a
slash of five cents from the -25
cent increase placed before the
board by the unions and the
Associated General Contractors of
America.
The wage scales approved by
| the board ranged from $2.50 an
hour for common labor to $4.32
an hour for plasterer foremen in
j the Anchorage area.
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an average of a dozen white and
40 Eskimo employes have dene
this at Lost River:
Rehabilitated the bunkhouse,
machine-shop and office buildings
left by the 1917 entrepreneurs;
cleaned the 400-foot tunnel, sunk
a 200-foot shaft, and bored a new
mill-access tunnel; built a com
pletely new 100-ton pilot mill;
erected quonset and other housing
for a village’of around 100 people;
trained Eskimos, who formerly
knew only hunting and fishing,
to man the mine and the mill.
Production at Lost River is just
around the corner. It awaits only
*the tapping of a water source
known to exist within the mine.
When this writer left Lost River
last Saturday, the diamond drill
was within a few feet of this
water source.
When it is reached, and the ore
begins to flow through the mill,
it will be as John Kakaruk and
William Oquilluk wrote recently
in the Mukluk Telegraph:
“Everybody will have smiling
face then.”
The amazing progress made at
Lost River did not just happen, of
course. It is due to the excep
tional ability of Paul M. Sorensen,
general superintendent.
His careful planning, his selec
tion of key men to teach and to
lead the Eskimos, and his sym
pathetic understanding of the na
tives’ problems, have put Lost
River on the map.
This summer will bring new
housing, a recreation hall, and
better living in general for the
“pioneers” of the past nine
months.
It is entirely within the realm
of possibility that this new mine,
producing a new ore by means of
the labor of a new people, some
day will make history that will
dim the lustrous records of Nome,
Juneau and the other gold camps.
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