RUSSIAN FUR IMPORTS
CUT U. S. FUR FARMS
WASHINGTON. (A*)—Rep. Tol
lefson (R.-Wash.) told the House
during discussion of Russian im
ports that a few years ago there
were 200 fox fur farms in Wash
ington State while today there are
only three.
He said imports of Russian furs
have increased 800 per cent in re
cent years. “There are some 400
mink farms producing furs and
nobody knows how long they will
last,” Tollefson continued. “In
Alaska the fur trapping industry
has dropped considerably, largely
because of the importation of Rus
sian furs.”
He said Russian furs make up
30 per cent of the total fur im
ports and “because they are pro
duced by slave labor they can un
dersell any fur on the market and
control the raw fur markets.
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BUREAUS PREPARING FOR
RUSH OF HOMESTEADERS
((A*) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON (A3)—Bureau of
Land Management offices in An
chorage, Fairbanks and Nome, are
preparing for a rush of settlement
claims, secretary of the interior
Chapman said today.
Legislation signed by President
Truman last Saturday requires
Alaska homesteaders to record
their settlement claims.
Recording of such claims with
the bureau will enable prospec
tive settlers to quickly check
what lands arc available in Alas
ka, Chapman said.
If a settled fails to comply, J
Chapman said, he will not receive
credit for residence until his claim
is brought officially to the atten
tion of the bureau. This will af
fect the settler when he asks for
a patent on his homestead. ✓
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U. S. Will Give
Immediate Aid To
Southeastern Asia
WASHINGTON, {&) — Under
secretary of State Webb said yes
terday the United States plans
immediate military and economic
aid to Southeast Asia.
Webb told a news conference:
1. The department “plans to im
plement at once” a recommenda
tion by a special survey mission
that about $60,000,000 be used for
economic help to the area. This
mission was headed by Allen Grif
fon, publisher of the Monterey,
California, Peninsula Herald.
2. The military needs of the
area will be met by drawing on
President Truman’s “emergency
fund” of $75,000,000 approved by
Congress for the general area of
China.
Webb did not go into details of
distribution of aid. In Paris last
Monday, Secretary Acheson said
American economic and military
help would be sent immediately to
French Indo-China. The French
have been carrying on a shooting
war there against the forces of
communist-trained Ho Chi Minh
for four years.
But in speaking of American
aid to Southeast Asia, Webb said
Griffin’s recommendations for
economic help “are modest.” He
said.
“The department is working
jointly with ECA to implement
the economic and technical as
sistance recommendations for In
do-China as well as the other
states of Southeast Asia and an
ticipates that this program will
get under way in the immediate
future.”
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Other Industries
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000 rail workers now are on strike
or have been laid off in the sys
tem. About 10 per cent of the idle
are employees engaged in such
non-operating tasks as clerical
work.
CHICAGO, (/P) — More thou- '
sands of railroad workers joined
the ranks of the idle today—laid
off by the deadlocked firemen’s
strike against four major carriers.
Workers in many other key in- .
dustries also were getting layoff j
notices and others were threatened ,
with forced idleness. The three- '
day-old strike by 18,000 firemen i
appeared to have made idle near- ,
ly 200,000 workers already, includ- I
ing some 150,000 rail employees.
There was, however, the first
flareup of violence on some of the ,
strikebound lines.
Shortly after two freight trains j
were reported ambushed and fired 1
upon near Knoxville, Tcnn., the
Southern Railway Lines suspend
ed all operations in the area. A
spokesman said the move was
made to protect the road’s em
ployees. An acting fireman on one
train was shot in the arm. Pickets J
outside the Knoxville switchyards
denied they fired any shots, but
said they were stoned.
There were other minor dis
turbances on the strikebound New
York Central Lines in two Indiana
cities.
The Southern, The New York
Central and a third struck carrier
—the Santa Fe — are operating
only emergency skeleton service.
The Pennsylvania, struck west
and north of Harrisburg, is not
operating in the strikebound area.
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Libby 'cited in earlier subpoena
presumably related to another
phase of investigation*; Alaska
Fish Reduction Company, Alaska
Pacific Salmon Company, Aleu
tian Cold Storage Company, Bris
tol Bay Packing Company, Buch
an and Heinan Packing Company,
Chatham Straits Fish Company;
Fidalgo Island Packing Company,
Grimes Packing Company, Kodiak
Fisheries, Marine By-Products
Fertilizer Company, Newport
Fisheries, Inc., Oceanic Fisheries,
Inc., Parks Canning Company,
Port Ashton Packing Corporation,
San Juan Fishing & Packing Com
pany, Southwestern Fishery Com
pany, Storfoeld and Grondahl
Packing Company and Wakefield
Fisheries.
Individuals cited were Wayne
M. Alkire, G. A. Hvner, both of
Seattle.
Representatives of the Ketchi
kan Spruce Mills, West Coast Gro
cery and Pa & Go Cash Stores
of Ketchikan, were directed to ap
pear at 10 a.m., Monday, May 15.
Also called that day are Fred Dol
phin, Ketchikan; Milton J. Daly,
Ketchikan Spruce Mills, Ketchi
kan; Horace Adams, Juneau;
West Coast Grocery, Juneau; Dean
Hamlin, West Coast Grocery,
Ketchikan: George Terhar, Pa &
Go Cash Stores, Ketchikan: F. A.
Gepner, Seattle; G. E. Anderson,
Seldovia; A. S. Day, Davville
Packing Company, Davville. Tho
mas A. Morgan, Juneau, and Jack
Salmon, General Fish Company,
Anchorage.
DIVERS GET MEDALLIONS
FROM SUNKEN GOLD SHIP
TOBERMORY, Scotland. —
Royal navy divers claim they
have found a 16th century Span
ish galleon, whose hold—accord
ing to legend—carries some $68.
000,000 worth of gold coin.
Old stories say the galleon was
the Duque Florencia of the Span
ish armada, supposed to have
been sunk in 1588 while carrying
gold to pay Spanish fighters at
tempting a conquest of Britain.
Her hold was reputed to contain
30,000,000 gold ducats.
Divers who have been striving
for weeks to uncover the old hull
came up the other day with two
silver medallions from the mud.
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