Jap Whaling Fleet
Sails to Antarctic
TOKYO, — Japan’s largest
postwar whaling fleet will sail
shortly for the Antarctic. It will
be the fourth hunt in southern wa
ters since the Allied occupation.
The fleet will be increased to 32
vessels by the addition of two
catcher boats and refrigeration
ship. The fleet will be divided into
two sections, the first leaving
about Nov. 1 and the second about
Nov. 25.
Last year’s whalers killed 1,645
and brought home an estimated
20,000 tons of oil and 34,000 tons
of meat and by-producest.
Two Allied observers, a French
man and an American, will accom
pany the fleet.
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Rotary Observes
United Nations Day
William Angell brought his fel
low Rotarians up to date'on the
progress of, and increasing need
of the United Nations at the Club’s
luncheon Thursday. Citing the U.
N.’s work in bringing an armis
tice in the Indonesian flare-up, the
organizing of self government in
South Korea, the Balkan Commis
sion, its monetary studies, the
Palestinian settlement, and as a
place to blow off international
steam, Mr. Angell suggested that
actually more had been done in
the three years of its organization
than may often be realized.
Russ Apple, Field executive for
the Boy Scouts of America, show
ed graphs depicting the growth of
Scouting during the past three
years from 251 boys to 1300 plus.
He said that in the Second and
Fourth Judicial Districts, known
! as the Midnight Sun District, the
j number had grown from 105 to
350 boys.
The Walrus Club met Thursday
evening in regular session and
' discussed and made plans for their
i boxing tournament.
Rodney Boucher was the recip
ient of S36.25 on the Milk Fund
drawing.
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SHOOT ANNOUNCED
Ted Duffield announces that a
real turkey shoot is planned for
some time before Thanksgiving.
He stated that several different
shoots will be held including the
following:
1. Several shoots of rifle and
shotgun in which anyone can en
ter.
2. Standard 5-man trap shoot.
3. Regulation rifle small bore
and large bore, with and without
scopes.
There will be further announce- j
i ment next week.
Comm’r of Minos
Regrots Stampede |
To Fishwheel
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tunate stampede that has been |
initiated at Fairbanks during the
past week and all others will be
well advised to follow their exam
ple, Mr. Steward declared, and
I thereby save themselves from
; what to the initiated appears to be
I inevitable disappointment, finan
i cial loss and possible disaster.
The physical hazards of encoun
, tering the extreme sub-zero tem
peratures which are almost cer
I tain to obtain during the remain
| der of the season in the remote
! and unpopulated Fort Yukon re
! gion are very great and should not
' be risked by the stranger to the
1 country, Mr. Stewart said.
The futility of attempting to
sink by hand prospect holes in the
deep, water-filled alluvium adja
cent to the channel of a river the
size of the Yukon was also stress
ed by Mr. Stewart.
The discovery by the owner of
•a fish-wheel of a nugget of gold
the size of a pea imbedded in mud
i attached to the wheel when it was
being dismantled for the winter
i and the subsequent discovery on
1 the surface of a very small amount
j of additional grains or flakes of
| gold in the vicinity may be ac
| cepted as authentic as reported by
| n e w spaper correspondents and
j ethers, but the natural occurrence
1 of gold in the form of even small
i nuggets or grains of appreciable
size at or very near the surface of
a stream channel that flows, as do
the numerous channels of the Yu
kon at the locality in question,
over a bed of very deep -alluvium
requires to be established before
the discovery may be reasonably
accepted as a valid indication that
a gold deposit of any importance
j has been found.
| In such a setting, placed-gold,
even in small grains, is to be found
at or near bedrock beneath the
! verburden of muck, silt and gravel
i and not at the surface, Mr. Stew
art pointed out. The vast flat-lying
alluvial basin known as the Yukon
flats, about seven thousand five
hundred miles in area, near the
center of which the mushroom
camp that has been dubbed Fish
| wheel is situated, is filled with al
luvium in the form of vegetal
muck, silt and gravel to a depth
| as great as two hundred thirty
I seven feet as has been proven by
a drill hole sunk at Fort Yukon.
The potential occurrence of a
natural placer-gold deposit of any
extent at or near the surface in
such a setting is regarded as fan
tastic by experienced placer min
ing men, who regard the presence
of the small amount of gold that
has been reported found adjacent
to the river channel at Fishwheel
and vicinity as a freak occurrence,
possibly best explained by the ac- j
tion of floating ice in transporting
the gold from some unidentified
source.
Special Federal
Tax Stamps Sold
Tax stamps covering occupa
tions subject to special federal
taxes were issued during the fiscal
year 1949 to 1,578 special-taxpay
ers in Alaska, the Alaska Develop
ment Board has been advised by
the ureau of Internal Revenue of
the Treasury Department. Number
of Alaska taxpayers in each cate
gory was as follows:
Wholesale liquor dealers *$110
tax* 22.
Retail liquor dealers *$27.50 tax*
l 579.
Wholesale dealers in fermented
malt liquors <$55» 17.
Retail dealers in fermented malt
liquors '$22* 36.
Retail dealers in colored oleo
margarine <$48> 64.
Retail dealers in uncolored oleo
margarine <$6< 149.
Retail dealers in narcotics <S3»
30.
Narcotics practitioners 'SI* 77.
Billiard or pool room premises
($20 per alley* 10.
Coin-operated amusement de
vice premises '$10 per device* 341.
Coin-operated gaming device
($100 per device* 200.
No special-tax stamps were is
sued in Alaska in categories cov
ering wines, national firearms, or
marihuana.
Total yield to the federal gov
ernment from the special-tax
stamps sold in Alaska during the
year was $48,872.50.
Commies Snare
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WASHINGTON (A*)—The House
un-American activities committee
has described the Congress of
American Women <CAW» as an
“anti-American and pro-Soviet”
snare for gullible women. This,
retorted the organization, is “out
rageously unfair.”
A committee report was made
public over the week-end. A CAW
reply followed last night from
New York.
The committee said CAW is
“just another communist hoax
specifically designed to ensnare
idealistically minded but political
ly gullible women,” the chief pur
pose of which “is to act as part of
a world-wide pressure mechanism
among women in support of Soviet
foreign and domestic policy.”
The CAW described itself as “an
I organization of women whose
: openly avowed goal since its in
ception has been the furtherance
of world peace, and the better
j ment of the conditions of life for
themselves and their children.”
In New York, Dr. Gene Welt
fish. executive vice president,
called the report “nonsense, fan
tastic.” She said she is now hon
orary president after having
served three years as president,
i She is an anthropologist who lec
^ tures at Columbia University.
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