U. S. Will Speed Up
Atomic Bomb
Production
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about 10 per cent of the overall
program which is to be financed
by a deficiency appropriations
bill in the next session of Con
gress.
The second move was Senate
approval of a measure by Senator
McMahon to lift some of the
spending curbs imposed on the
AEC earlier in the session. This
still is subject to House approval.
McMahon refused to answer
when asked by newsmen whether
the speed-op action is the result
of recen disclosures that Soviet
Russia has had an atomic explo
sion.
At the United Nations yester
day, Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet for
eign minister, restated to a news
conference the Soviet claim that
Russia has had the bomb since
1947.
McMahon, while saying that a
“major expansion effort” is being
undertaken, emphasized that it is
“an acceleration of planned pro
duction that has been in the plan
ning stage since last spring.”
McMahon made the announce
ment of the President’s authoriza
tion following a closed door com
mittee meeting with AEC officials.
^ The Senator predicted the accel
eration would “probably result in
speeding up” the AEC construc
tion program by “three or four
months.”
Hanford is the center of pluton
Aircraft Carrier,
Freighter Collide
Off England
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BERWICK, Eng. (/P>—The Bri
tish aircraft carrier Albion and a
small coal freighter collided in a
gale in the North Sea yesterday.
The freighter sank swiftly and
eight hours later only three of the
24 crewmen aboard were known to
hove survived.
Lifeboats fought the foaming
waves hunting survivors near the
Fame Islands eight miles off the i
northeast coast of England.
The newly built 18,500-ton Al
bion was manned by a civilian
crew and was in tow to drydock
for completion. The collision ram
med a hole in the carrier and she
was reported taking water.
The Albion had aboard three
survivors from the freighter, the
2,025-ton Maystone, carrying coal
to London. A spokesman for the
owners of the Maystone, said life
boat crews still at sea had some
hopes of picking up other surviv
ors.
TELEVISION WORKS IN DUSK
NEW ORK, (/P)—The modern
television camera, known as the
“image orthicon,” is so sensitive
that it will work under unusually
poor lighting conditions. In fact it
will function in the late dusk when
even the human eye has to strain
a little.
ium operations, while Oak Ridge
turns out uranium—both key ma
terials for atomic bombs.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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terday in Moscow newspapers and
radio broadcasts.
CHEHALIS, Wash. </P) — Two
children were burned fatally yes
terday by fire that destroyed the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mc
Cormick at Bunker Creek, 10
miles west of Chehalis.
The two victims, Sheila, 3, and
Kathy, 17 months, were in bed
with colds. Their mother had
placed a vaporizer on an electric
plate.
The fire was beyond control
when noticed by Mrs. McCormick.
Flames made rescue of the chil
dren impossible.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A bill di
recting the court of claims to hear
overtime pay claims for employees
of the Alaska Railroad as far back
as 1934 was passed by the Senate
today and sent to President Tru
man.
OLD-TIMER'S PHOTO
DISPLAYED AT NUGGET
On display in the window is a
picture of an old-timer of Nome
and Solomon, and former legisla
tor, Andy Nylon, who is nearing
87 years of age and wishes to be
remembered to his many friends
here.
Andy and his wife have lived in !
Seattle for many years and keep |
in contact with Alaskans all the
time. Nomeites are always wel- j
corned into their home.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results j
Sale of Buildings
The Alaska District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, will offer
for sale on October 11, 1949, by sealed bid, the following buildings
and structures:
Over 100 Quonset Huts of various sizes
12 K-D Frame Buildings
1 Single and Double Cowin Huts
6 Yak Huts, joined
2f> Miscellaneous Shacks
57 Wood Tanks
1U Steel Tanks
Paint, Roof Tar, Lumber and Other Miscel
laneous Structures and Supplies on Surplus
Leased Land.
The property being offered is located near Marks Air Force
Base, also in the Ordnance-Utilities-Material Yard area, the Old
Hospital area and the Plumbing Supplies area Northeast of the
North-South runway of Marks Air Force Base, near Nome, Alaska,
and may be inspected by making arrangements with the Resident
Engineer, Mr. William Brown, Nome, Alaska.
Bids will be opened at 3:00 P.M., 21 October 1949. Purchasers
will be required to remove the structures from the premises.
Specifications of sale, bid forms and other information may be
obtained at the office of the District Engineer, Alaska District, Real
Estate Division, Anchorage, Alaska, and from the Air Installations
Officer, Marks Air Force Base, also the Resident Engineer, Nome,
Alaska. i
Rescue Seventeen
Seamen From
Burned Freighter
SEATTLE, (fP) — A “nick of
time” rescue saved 17 seamen
from the wind-frothed North Pa
cific Monday night after fire turn
ed their wooden lumber schooner,
the Saltina Cruz, into a blackened
broken hulk.
The officers and men were
picked up by the Fish and Wild
life service vessel Black Douglas (
just as one of their two lifeboats
was awash and sinking.
The Douglas reported early yes
terday all of the sailors had recov
ered from their ordeal, and she
was proceeding to her home port
of San Francisco. Arrival there
was expected Thursday.
The dramatic rescue a few
hours after nightfall 140 miles
west of Grays Harbor, Wash., was
carried out in heavy seas kicked
up by a 25-knot wind. Coast guard
search planes had been circling
overhead throughout the day and
guided the Douglas to the scene.
Ten of the men in one of the
open lifeboats had managed to
keep afloat without difficulty.
They were the first ones spotted
by the Douglas. An hour later, af
ter the second boat had sent up
direction flares, the seven remain
i
ing survivors were pulled from
their foundering craft.
All members of the Salina Cruz’
crew were Mexicans, with the ex
ception of the master, Capt. Ben
jamin F. Ivey of Long Beach,
Calif., and one or two of his offi
cers, the coast guard said.
The schooner sent out her first
s.o.s. early Monday that she was
afire in the engine room. The
flames quickly spread to the gen
eral cargo in the holds and lum
ber above decks, forcing the men
to abandon ship.
In midafternoon, the blazing
hull slowly heeled over and plung
ed beneath the waves, reappear
ing 15 minutes later split into two
sections. A coast guard cutter was
dispatched to the area from Grays
Harbor to tow the derelict to
shore.
The Salina Cruz met disaster
one day out of Vansouver, B. C.,
bound for Honolulu with a general
cargo. Though of Panamanian
registry, she was owmed by the
Seven Seas Trading and Shipping
[Fear Three Duek
Hunters Drown
PETERSBURG (A>—Three duck
hunters, missing since Sunday
night, were feared to have drown
ed while trying to cross Frederick
Sound near the north arm of the
Stikine River.
A radio message from two
search planes disclosed discovery
of the party’s skiff, an oar, sleep
ing bag and a pack sack. The skiff
was found looting, upside down, a
mile south of Coney Island, near
the Stikine.
The missing hunters were iden
tified as Mr. and Mrs. Connor
Kinnear and James Miller, all of
Petersburg. Kinnear is part owner
of the special delivery transfer
company here. The couple has
three small children. Miller, part
owner of the Vets’ Cab Co., was
stationed in Southeast Alaska with „
the coast guard during the war.
His wife and two children are in
Petersburg.
The trio were reported missing
when they failed to rejoin others
in their party Sunday night.
PETERSBURG UP)—Heavy seas
driven by a sleet-bearing wind
hampered searchers seeking three
lost Petersburg duck hunters in
Frederick Soupnd yesterday.
The missing hunters, identified
as Mr. and Mrs. Connor Kinnear
and James Miller, all of Peters
burg, are believed drowned.
Their skiff was found floating
upside down a mile south of Coney
Island near the Stikine River. An
oar, sleeping bag and packsack
also were found.
Shrimp boats from three Peters
burg caneries went out early to
drag the shallow water near the
mouth of the north arm of the Sti
kine. The shrimp boats reported
rough seas and said it was impos
; sible to lower their trawls to drag
teh area.
I The trio has been missing since
failing to rejoin others in the
party Sunday night in Ideal Cove.
The total area of the Philippines
ils 114.830 square miles.
Co., of Los Angeles and Anthony
C. Stralla.
Stralla. also known as Tony
Cornero. formerly operated two
gambling ships off the southern
California coast.
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