U. S. BUYING
IN CONGO DECLINES
BRUSSELS, — Newly pub
lished Belgian Congo trade statis
tics show the colony to have a
trading profit of about SB.2 million
during the first quarter of 1949.
The Congo's exports are mainly
palm oil, tin, copper and iron ore
as well as precious stones.
Biggest trader was Belgium
herself, taking 45.5 per cent of
the exports and providing 40.3 per
cent of the imports. American
buying slipped from 30.8 per cent
of the Congo’s exports for 1948 to
25.5 per cent for the same period
this year.
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said Heer admitted the shooting.
The officer quoted the student:
“ ‘Whenever I get drunk, I get
triggex*-happy’.”
McKeown was shot once with a
.45 caliber automatic pistol as he
tried to disarm Heer on the fra
ternity house lawn at 2:30 a.m.,
fraternity men said.
Fraternity brothel’s said Heer
“went berserk” after accompany
ing a young woman home from
the party.
COLUMBUS, O. —A first de
gree murder charge was filed to
day against James D. Heer, an
Ohio State University freshman,
who killed a fraternity brother
after a homecoming party.
The 20-year-old student and ex
marine pleaded innocent and was
held for the grand jury without
bond.
Detective Sgt. Lowell V. Sheets
who filed the charge, said the
shooting followed an argument
with a girl friend and a reprimand
from Joyce Crafton, 22, of Cleve
land, was arraigned as a material
witness and her bond was contin
ued at §300.
The officer, after questioning
the 20-year-old Ohio State Uni
versity freshman, reported Heer
said he was “going to get a gun
and start out on a criminal orgy.”
James T. McKeown. 21, a senior
and managing editor of the uni
versity’s student daily, was shot to
death early Saturday when he
tried to take a .45 caliber auto
matic pistol from Heer.
Harold E. Kenny, officer in
charge of the Veterans’ Adminis
tration at Anchorage, Alaska, an
nounces that he will be in Nome
on Friday, November 18, to assist
all veterans with their problems
relative to government insurance;
disability or dependency claims,
! educational problems, etc., which
come under the jurisdiction of the
Veterans Administration. He will
be at the Wallace Hotel.
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No. 1 met last Friday with Mrs.
Charles Pennycook presiding, and
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O’Leary.
Social committee was composed
of Mrs. T. Scott and Mrs. R. Roell
with Mrs Ole Hay, Mrs. James
Walsh and Mrs. Axel Edman tak
ing home the prizes which were
sent in by a member in the States,
Anna S. Hewitt.
Truman's (iolil
Price Declaration
W ill lliui Mining
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mining ventures.
It also will mean that many lit
tle communities built up around
western gold mines will retreat
further into the wilderness.
Many were hard hit during the
war when the government listed
gold mines as non-essential, cut
ting off their supplies of materials
and manpower.
It was hoped the workers would
turn to some other types of mining
but Senator McCarran (D.-Nev.)
said they did not do so. He was ar
guing for a bill to permit owners
of the closed mines to get a court
decision as to whether they were
entitled to damages from the fed
eral government.
The price of gold was raised
from $20.67 a fine ounce to $35 in
1934. Since that time, the South
Dakota legislature found, wages
have more than duobled and the
cost of materials necessary to the
industry has increased 70 per cent.
Rep. Sanborn (D.-Idaho) told
Congress recently that the price
I should be $56 a fine ounce, to
equalize the values of foreign cur
I rencies. •
Mr. Truman made his statement
on gold at a news conference.
The President was not asked
specifically and he offered no
comment to indicate whether he
would approve a free market for
gold.
There have been reports of gold
sales abroad at $70 a nounce.
One argument against accepting
that as a true value is that the U.
S. producer would undoubtedly
have trouble getting the purchase
money back home.
The government now has the
right to purchase all newly mined
gold from domestic sources.
Several bills were introduced in
Ihe present Congress to permit a
free market. Senators McCarran
and Johnson <D.-ColoJ, Reps. En
gle 'D.-Calif.), Hale R.-Me.) and
Reed (R.-N. Y.) all had bills for
this purpose. They never came out
of committee.
Bureau of mines representatives
testified at a Senate hearing re
cently that, besides price increase,
there are two means of stimulat
ing gold mining. These, they said,
are decreased operating costs and
improved technology.
One othy was implied: discov
ery of richer gold ore or of new
sources of gold ore mixed with
some other more marketable
metal.
Many of the copper, lead and
zinc mines of the west were orig
inally gold producers. Some of the
better known are those at Butte,
Mont., now producing copper, lead
and zinc; at Coeur d’Alene. Ida.,
and Leadville, Colo., now produc
ing lead, silver and zinc; and
Bingham' Utah, now copper and
lead. In fact, much of today’s gold
production comes from the smelt
ers where ores from these mines
are treated.
Chinese Reds
Jail U. S. Consul
At Mukden
WASHINGTON. (^—Commun
ist treatment of the American
Consul General at Mukden has
dealt a sharp new setback to com
munist China’s chances of obtain
ing American recognition any
time in the foreseeable future.
Top state department officials
are privately “burned up” at the
way in which local authorities at
Mukden have handled the case of
56-year-old Angus Ward. They
are irked too at the cold shoulder
ing which the American govern
ment has received in its attempts
to get any information on the mat
tre from national communist lead
ers at Peiping.
Ward has been held in jail at
Mukden since October 24, Two
American and two European
members of his staff have been
held with him. All are charged
with having beaten a Chinese em
ployee early in October, as the re
sult of an alleged wage dispute.
The state department disclosed
Thursday that the Consul General
! at Peiping, O. Edmnud Clubb, had
sent a letter to Gen. Chou En-Lai,
the communist foreign minister,
demanding Ward’s release and
asking information about him.
The department said that no reply
had been received.
Officials are now confronted
with the problem of what to do
next in the case. Two courses ap
peared open as speculative possi
bilities.
One is to address the strongest
possible protest to the communist
leaders at Peiping.
Another move would be to bring
the case before the United Nations.
I NUGGET ADS
GET RESULTS
Iml<k|>rn<i<‘iits
To Challenge
CAIt I{iiIin«z
SEATTLE. </P)—Amos E Heo
cock, president of the Independent
Air Carriers Conference of Amer
ica. plans to protest the civil aero
nautics board’s regulation ol non
scheduled air carrier service in
Alaska.
Heacock said he would attend
a meeting of CAA officials and
aerontuaical engineers being held
today to determine policy on air
craft and route restrictions vhirh
become effective Wednesda; .
“As the regulation stands.”
Heacock said, “the pay load of
C-4fi aircraft operated by Arnold
Airlines, Air Transport Associates,
Trans-Alaska Air Lines. Alaska
Air Lines, Golden North Airways,
Arctic-Pacific Air Lines and West
air Transport would be cut almost
in half on Alaskan routes, making
commercial operation economical
ly impracticable.”
At a meeting of the independent
carriers at Boeing Field Friday,
Herbert Hilscher of the Alaska
Development board criticized the
CAB's regulation of carriers with
in Alaska.
The meeting unanimously en
dorsed Heacock’s telegram to Gov.
Ernest Gruening of Alaska chal
j lenging the board and the sched
i uled air lines with an offer to car
ry the mails to Anchorage and
Fairbanks for $1 a year.
"With both Mt. McKinley Air
Lines and Golden North under im
mediate threat of revocation of
their letters of registration for‘un
due frequency and regularity’ and
; with CAA attacks on the C-46
air-craft designed to destroy us, a
faint-hearted appeasement policy
| can onyl lead to destruction of
i non-scheduled service to and with
in Alaska,” Heacock declared.
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