Forest Fires
Spread Over States
And Canada
• By The Associated Press)
Thousands oi men struggled
yesterday to halt the spread of
forest fires in the United States
and Canada.
Flames licked at timberland in
Maine, in western and far western
States and in Quebec.
Scores of persons were evacu
ated from their homes, hundreds
of livestock perished and thou
sands of acres of brush and tim
berland were burned over.
Officials in San Diego County
declared an emergency condition
when one new fire broke out and
other minor blazes were reported.
The new fire raged in Deluz
Canyon, north of Fallbrook, Calif.
Scores ol settlers fled before the
^flames. Three small ranches were
burned and hundreds of livestock
perished. The fire swept over
more than 1,000 acres in moun
tainous country.
In Quebec, army and civilian
fighters won a battle against a
five-mile-wide fire and saved the
Laurentian mountain villages of
Terrebonne Heights and Pincourt
from threatened destruction.
A shift in the wind contributed
to their efforts. The two villages
are 25 miles north of Montreal.
In Maine more than a dozen
fires burned in brush, slash and
timberland. Austin H. Wilkins,
deputy forest commissioner, said
the state was fast approaching the
extreme drought conditions of
1947. In that year forest fires in
Maine cost 16 lives and $30,000,
000 damage.
In Idaho, some gains were made
after wind driven fires roared out
of control over 14,000 acres in the
Payette National Forest.
Crews also reported progress
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“Harry” Causes
Hurricane In
Miami Visit
MIAMI, (/P> — Northeast storrn
warnings were hoisted at Cape
Hatteras yesterday as the season’s
first Atlantic hurricane swirled
northward.
The weather bureau’s 11 a.m.
<EST> advisory placed the storm
about 340 miles east of St. Augus
tine, Fla., moving northward at
about 20 miles per hour and accel
erating in forward movement.
Grady Norton, the weather bur
eau chief storm forecaster here,
said indications were the hurri
cane, called “Harry,” would pass
near and probably east of Cape
Hatteras early this morning.
Winds were estimated at 100 to
115 miles per hour near the center
of the storm with gale force winds
extending outward 125 miles.
Meanwhile the weather bureau
was investigating a new “area of
suspicion” reported east of Puerto
Rico.
Planes from Roosevelt Roads,
San Juan, and Kindley Field, Ber
muda, were sent to investigate
the area in the general vicinity of
the Virgin and Leeward Islands,
about 1,000 miles southeast of Mi
ami.
The original storm was called
“Harry’s Hurricane” because its
advent coincided with President
Truman’s Miami visit.
Four or 500 years ago, slaves
in a rajah’s palace in India threw
water on a curtain of reeds hung
across an opening in a wall and
achieved a primitive type of air
conditioning.
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against a series of fires in Yellow
stone National Park, but three
other fires still burned out of con
trol over 1,700 acres.
“Everv Hour. Is Coffee Hour”
- At -
THE HUT
SERVICE BARBER SHOP
SHINE AND BATHS
POLARIS COFFEE SHOP
Open Under the
Management of Alma Fitch
Breakfasts - Lunches - Dinners
BERING SEA CLUB
Announcing
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The Game of
SIIUFFLEBOARD
Come In and Play
Await Warrant For
Arrest Of Holdup
Slayer Suspect
ANCHORAGE, I/P)—Plans were
delayed yesterday for the return
of Richard Tamborski, 23, to Chi
cago for questioning in the hold
up-slaying of two armorea ex
press guards last June 25.
U. S. marshal H. D. Hoff sa'd
the young newcomer will be held
until a warrant for his arrest, foi
warded from Chicago, arrives
here.
Tamborski surrendered to the
FBI Saturday and was jailed in
lieu of $100,000 bond. He was
quoted by chief special agent Clin
ton W. Stein as denying any con
nection with the South Chicago
Savings Bank holdup in which the
guards, Joseph Den and Bruno
Koziol, died in a machinegun bar
rage.
Two other men are being held
in Chicago and a fourth sought by
the FBI is still at large.
Pacific Cod Livers
Worth Saving
WASHINGTON, (K>) — Pacific
cod livers, now wasted by the ton,
probably are worth saving for
their oil and vitamins, the Fish
| and Wildlife service said today.
A report by chemists ¥. B. San
ford. Seattle, and H. W. Nilson,
College Park, Md., said large
scale analyses of the cod livers
during 1947 disclosed a high con
tent of vitamin A and D.
As the season advanced from
May to August, they said, the oil
content of the livers increased
while the vitamin A potency of
the liver oil decreased.
“Hence, if only a limited space
is available on board ship for stor
ing the livers, they should be
taken during the early part of the
season,’ they said.
“Many tons of livers were dis
carded at sea as a waste by-pro
duct of the cod fishery.
“By 1947, the price of vitamin
A was high enough to warrant
saving the livers.
“The results of the analyses in
dicate that Pacific cod livers are a
marginal source of vitamin A
which might be utilized at a profit
under favorable market condi
tions.”
WILLARD W. MARSH NEW
PAA PUBLIC RELATIONS MAN
Pan American World Airways
today announced the appointment
of Willard W. Marsh as public re
lations representative for the Pa
cific Northwest and Alaska.
Marsh, at present employed by
the Boeing Airplane Company in
the public relations department,
will take over his new position on
September 1.
He replaces Marie Swanson I
who will leave the company to be
married in September.
Marsh’s headquarters will oc at
Boeing Field. Seattle, until such
lime as the airline moves its base
to the Seattle-Tacoma airport.
Bo; n in Portland, Ore., Marsh:
attended school there and was
g • dun' 'd from the University of
(/re:,on it' 1037. He worked for
the Oregon D dy Journal in Port- |
land, the Yakima ‘Washington* j
Daily Repub’ic and the Seattle1
Time.-, prior to and following the j
war.
Turing the war, he was with
the navy in the Pacific, the Atlan
tic and the Mediterranean and
visited every continent except
South America.
Fairbanks Flans
To Market Utility
Komi Issue
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, f/P) —
Plans for two bond issues, total
ling $4,500,000, to finance con
struction of a city-owned power
plant and utilities system, should
be completed this month, Mayor!
Ray Kohler said yesterday.
The mayor said the program in
volves a $4,000,000 revenue bond
issue and a $500,000 general obbli
gation bond issue, both of which
are under consideration for financ
ing by the B. J. Van. Ingen Muni
cipal Bonding company of New
York.
Kohler made his announcement
in answer to a resolution passed
last week by the Fairbanks Cen
tral Labor Council. The resolu
tion criticized the city for spend- '
ing $125,000 on the program with
out a “comprehensive report” on
the expenditure.
The mayor said the union’s ac
tion resulted from “misinforma
tion or lack of information,” and
added that the latter possibility
is “obviously due to the city coun
cil’s inability to anticipate ques
tions that arise in the mind of the
Committee (
Some Arms Aid
WASHINGTON, The com
bined Senate committees on f .
eign relations and armed service
yesterday approved $239,000.' '0
of arms aid for Greece, Turkey,
Iran, Korea, and the Philippin
The committees delayed unt.J
later this week a decision as to
how much military assistance
shall be given European member'
of the Atlantic Pact under Presi
dent Truman’s arms aid program
Chairman Connally <D.-Tex.‘ of
the foreign relations committee
announced that the combir !
groups approved $211,370,000 for
Greece and Turkey, and $27,6-»
000 for Iran, Korea and the Phil
ippines.
Similar amounts have been ; p
proved previously by the House,
which cut in half the $1,160,990,
000 asked by the President for
European members of the Allan'ic
Alliance.
public.”
Work to date has consisted ir
developing a plan economical 3
feasible for marketing the bonds
Kohler said.
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