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NEWS IN BRIEF
OTTAWA. Canada. </P) — Mrs.
Fred Browne said she stopped and
got out when she heard a clanging
noise under her brand new car.
The car seemed to be running
all right without the big steel disc
lying on the road but she decided
to take it home for her husband to
look at.
“I just tugged and pulled, she
said, explaining how she loaded it
into the car trunk. “I guess I was
sro scared I’d wrecked the car that
I could have lifted almost any
thing.”
Hubbie took yne look at the big
steel disc and suggested she take
the manhole cover back to the city
works department.
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands
(/P<—One crewman was reported
lost and five others missing in
high seas off the northwestern
Dutch coast last night after the
2,219-ton coal freighter Ivar
struck a floating mine.
Eighteen crewmen were rescued
while two remained aboard the
damaged vessel.
AVIGNON. Frace. (fP) — The
Spanish border express crashed
against a freight platform just
outside Avignon early yesterday,
killing six passengers and injur
ing 18.
Six of the injured were reported
in serious condition.
The train was a self-propelled
“auto rail.”
■ i — ■ — -I, ■ —
PALMER, (/P)—P. R. Moore of
Palmer was named president of
the Alaska Moose Association at a
recent Territorial conclave at Jun
eau.
The 1950 meeting will be held
here on a date yet to be fixed.
About 150 visitors are expected
at next year’s meeting, the first to
be held in Palmer.
LONDON, (/P)—Britain has pro
tested to the United States that
statements made by high commis
sioner John J. McCloy are seri
ously raming western policies in
Germany.
Diplomatic officials who report
ed this today said McrCloy is going
back to Washington early next
week for special talks with secre
tary of state Dean Acheson. They
said he is expected to pass through
London.
JUNEAU, (/P) — The five-man
Alaska fisheries board will meet
here Nov. 14-15 to draft recom
mended fisheries reguk^ions, C. L.
•Anderson, director of the fisheries
department, said yesterday.
The announcement urged inter
ested parties to attend the two-day
session.
Fishermen members of the
board are Ira Rothwell, Cordova,
chairman; Karl BrUnstad, Dodiak;
and William Walton, Sitka. J. H.
Wakefield of Port Wakefield rep
resents industry and J. P. Valen
1 tine of Ketchikan is the public
representative.
KETCHIKAN, (/P)—New York
ers still have a tough time, appar
ently, with Alaska geography.
The Ketchikan Chronicle got a
(Continued on Page Seven)
| More Discoveries
In Fisliwlieel’s
Gold Strike
(By Jack Daum)
(Fairbanks News-Miner Staffer)
FISHWHEEL, Alaska, (/P) —
i Rumors that more nuggets had
been found along the banks of the
fabled Yukon river swept periodi
cally through this booming gold
rush camp yesterday. But attempts
to trace the finds met with a wall
of cagey silence.
Prospectors eyed one another
suspiciously, unwilling to talk
about their luck in panning the
stream until they have filed their
I claims. ,
i Although the temperature is 15
below and still falling, many of
the early arrivals have begun pan
; ning for the precious yellow stuff
! all men dream about.
From their results we may
! know soon whether this gold rush
j is destined to be remembered
! along with the other famous ones
of Alaska history. That is the opin
ion held by veteran gold seekers
who impatiently await each dawn
to renew their hunt for the yellow
metal amid the Yukon sands.
Feverish activity up and down
| the river from last week’s discov
| ery site 20 miles southeast of Fort
Yukon heightened its tempo as a
report trickled through Fish
wheel’s mushrooming tent city.
The word was that a three-eighth
inch nugget had been found.
The nugget was said to have
been accidentally pulled up in a
miner’s bucket from the bottom of
a water hole on the south bank of
! the river one-quarter of a mile
from the original strike. %
, Earl Hurst, veteran Alaska pros
I pector, admitted he saw the nug
! get, which he described as “good
[ coarse gold.”
A trapper from Eagle, Charlie
Biederman, also said he examined
nuggets panned half a mile up
stream from Discovery Island, on
which Clifton Carroll first found
pea-size nuggets as he dismantled
ris water-propelled fishwheel.
In neither case was it possible
(Continued on Page Five)
(1. of C. Dinner
Meeting Thursday
Further plans are being formu
lated for the Chamber of Com
merce General Dinner Meeting to
be held tomorrow evening at 7:00
p.m. in the Pioneer Hall. It is re
quested that all persons desiring
to attend phone in for reservations
prior to Thursday noon to Nome
Motors or Vi’s.
An interesting program has been
arranged with several topics to be
introduced for discussion which
will include the committee repoits
on mining, tourist, civic affairs,
health and relief, and miscellane
ous Chamber activities.
Guests will include Russ Apple,
Col. D. C. Jamison, Maj. MacDon
ald, and the sub-committee on
fishing comprised of Delegate
Bartlett and Congressmen.
A tasty menu is planned and all
civic minded citizens are urged
to attend.
| Seattle’s Basement
Continues to Grow
SEATTLE, (/P)—More raw gold
j was found Monday in the base
ment room of the late Carl W. Jo
hn in a first hill rooming house,
Glen S. Corkery, John estate coun
sel, said.
Corkery said that after he and
special administrator William E.
Walker discovered an estimated
S6.000 in gold and amalgum in Jo
hn’s room last Friday, Walker got
to worrying about one old locked
grip they had ignored because it
was so dilapidated and dusty it
seemed most unlikely it could
contain anything of value.
“Walker went back and took
the old grip to a locksmith,” Cor
kery said. “When it was opened,
it proved to contain an old pocket
book hold a dozen nuggets, some
j the size of a dime, one the size of
a quarter. The dirt of the creek
beds was still on them. Also in the
grip was a chamois-skin poke and
a Spokane Trust Company bank
bag, both containing amalgum.
The find must be worth at least
$400. We took it down to the
Laucks laboratories, where we
took the gold found Friday.”
Corkery, himself a prospector,
said Jolin apparently acquired the
gold during his mining days in
Alaska years ago. The lawyer
wrote to the U. S. mint, asking the
estate be allowed to sell the gold
on the open market, instead of be
ing required to take the govern
ment’s price.
Jolin bequeathed his $23,000 es
tate to his sister, Hildur Elisabet
Gustafson of Skora, Sweden. He
died Thursday at 70, of a heart at
tack, while watching market quo
tations in a brokerage office.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Yet more gold
belonging to the late Carl W. Jo
lin was uncovered yesterday in a
safe deposit box.
Glen S. Corkery, counsel for
the special administrator, William
| E. Walker, said it consisted of gold
1 “dust” in two pokes in a box at
the Seattle Trust and Savings
bank.
Jolin, 70, retired Alaskan sour
dough, died of a heart • attack
Thursday while watching the
stock market, in which he was an
investor. Ever since his nuggets
and gold dust have been coming to
light. Most of them were found
by Corkery and Walker in bat
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BULLETIN
SEATTLE, </P)—Delegate Bart
lett described the Interior Depart
ment plan to provide a billion dol
lars and to create the Alaska De
velopment Corporation the "darn
dest dream anyone ever dreamed
on Capitol Hill." Bartlett said it
would never pass the bureau of
budget in its present or any simi
lar form. He says " The President,
would veto it if by any chance it ,
should pass both Houses of Con
gress." He declared the measure
would veto it if by any chance it
years if even introduced ^n Con
gress.
Fishwheel Grow in«*
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(By Jack Daum)
1 (Fairbanks News-Miner Writer)
• Written for The Associated Press)
FISHWHEEL. Alaska, (/Pi—Two
,
women and a coffee shop have
come to Alaska’s latest gold-happy
community.
| This booming tent town, extend
| ing for nine miles along both sides
j of the cold and sluggish Yukon
River, blinked today at the arrival
of two women.
One of them is Evelyn Grinnell,
the wife of a Fort Yukon trapper,
and the second of her sex to ar
rive. She immediately set up a
coffee shop in her tent—equipped
only with a Yukon stove, a coffee
pot a box of cups, doughnuts
and some sandwiches.
Evelyn is doing a thriving busi
ness.
Coffee—25 cents a cup. Coffee
with doughnuts or sandwiches—
50 cents.
First woman to arrive was the
wife of -a Fort Yukon native who
brought her along with him to
share the frigid life of this gold
mining camp on the rim of the
Arctic.
They walked over the tundra
j for two days to get here. The wo
man, a rather attractive Indian
with jet black hair, smiled shyly
as she walked by with a large
pack on her back. Her husband,
thin and impassive, twisted his
wrinkled features into a large
grin when somebody yelled “Hi,
Joe!”
He carried a rifle, an incongru
ous instrument where man’s most
precious tool is a pick or shovel.
The first showing of gold in
this area was made 12 days ago by
Clifton Carroll, who spotted pea
sized nuggets in the muck on his
fishwheel axle. Claims since have
spread up and down from what is
now known as the “Discovery
Claim.”
Colors have been found consis
tently along a two-mile stretch of
river shore adjoining Carroll’s,
| claim and there have been a few
nuggets found in the frigid pans.
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Senator Asks Some
“Point Four” For !
11nited States
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Millikin <R'.-Colo.) called yester
day for “a domestic Point Four”
instead of President Truman’s re
newed proposal for government
protection of U. S. investments
abroad.
Mr. Truman said in dedicating
the United Nations building cor
nerstone in New York Monday he
will ask Congress in January to
give high priority to proposals to
speed American technical aid and
investments in the world’s back
ward areas.
This was Point Four of a world
program the President outlined in
his inaugural address last Janu
ary. *
News of the \\ oriel
At A (fiance ...
Tuesday, October 25, 1949
(By The Associated Press)
The Roman Catholic hierarchy
in Czechoslovakia today told its
priests to swear loyalty to the
communist-led government, and
accept certain provisions of the
new church control law to save
them from arrest.
The bishops said it was neces
sary to accept with regret the new*
law to save priests “for the spirit
ual care of the faithful.”
The hierarchy said the priests
could accept their salaries from
the state and take a state oath of
i loyalty. This is a reversal of the
hierarchy's previous position in
defense of w’hich a reported 300
priests have gone to jail. The
: priests, however, must state they
i accept the government’s rules with.
1 the reservation that they do not
violate the church law or priestly
conscience.
The new law. which becomes
effective Nov. 1, gives the govern
ment control of appointments, fi
nnaces and administration of all
churches.
The problem of demilitarizing
Jerusalem is before the United
Nations security council today.
The Holy City at present is partly
under control of Israel troops,
partly under the Arab forces of
Hashemite Jordan.
One proposal is to make Jeru
salem an international zone un
der U. N. control, Israel is opposed
to this plan.
Egype, an Arab state, raised the
issue in the security council. The
question came up as Israel charg
ed another Arab state, Iraq, with
oppressing thousands of its Israeli
inhabitants. The charges were de
nied by Fadhil Jamali, Iraq for
eign minister.
The British Labor government’s
new economy program is headed
for critical debate tomorrow in
the House of Commons. Prime
Minister Attlee announced yester
day that government spending
would be cut 2o0.000.000 pounds
f$7R4.000,000>.
Both the conservative opposition
and even some of the labor gov
ernment’s own supporters are
complaining that the cuts are tardy
and insufficient to cure Britain’s
economic crisis. Sir Stafford
Cripps, chancellor of the exche
quer will open the two-day debate.
In Ottawa. Indian Prime Minis
ter Jawaharlal Nehru continued
his talks with Canadian govern
ment officials. He is making his
first official visit to Canada. Ob
servers said Nehru in his public
addresses on the American Con
tinent has placed India closer to
the western democracies at a time
when Moscow is putting pressure
on them from the ipposite direc
tion.
Nehru said he probably would
accept if Stalin invited him to
make a state visit to the Soviet
Union.
Sgt. A. Miller and family are
leaving this week for assignment
in Arizona. Sgt. Miller was active
in sports while stationed here and
leaves many friends.