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VOL. XLIX. No. 70 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1947 PER COPY — 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
FRYEBURG, Me. (/P)—Clarence
E. Mulford, author of the Hopa
long Cassidy and other western
stories, was rescued Tuesday by
the driver of a passing creamery
truck as fire badly damaged his
home here.
The 61-year-old writer was car
ried down a ladder after John
Sisk, the truck driver, found him
nearly unconscious in his bed
room on the second floor of the
two and one-half story frame
dwelling.
HOLLYWOOD, tAV-An attac*.
of pneumonia, culminating several
years of poor health, has enueu
the film career of J. Warren Ker
rigan, 69, one of the first maunee
idols of the silent screen.
The actor, whose best remem
bered role, perhaps, was in ‘*Tne
Covered Wagon,” made by the
veteran director, James Cruz, anu
who retired from pictures in 192o,
succumbed yesterday at his Bal
boa beach home.
SHANGHAI. (JP) — The Tafeng
Shipping company reported yes
terday that the 449-ton steamer
Taleng sank oil Woosung during
a storm Monday and that 129 of
its 300 passengers were missing.
The other 161 were rescue^, the
company said.
WRANGELL, (/P)—‘The Farwest
cannery, owned by Fred Buhrman
of Anacortes and A. R. Grueger,
was destroyed Monday night by a
fire which caused an estimated
$750,000 damage. Some cannery
equipment, bunkhouse, messhall
and the cannery dock were saved,
the latter with the aid of the
steamer Grommet Reefer, which
moved from a mill dock nearby
to aid in the fight.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP)—,Joyner
White, Seattle outfielder, led the
Pacific Coast baseball league bat
ting averages, in games including
those of June 8, with a percent
age of .360.
SEATTLE, </P)—Claimed by her
builders to be the biggest troller
in the world, the 60-foot fishing
ship Wendy is being prepared
here for an Alaskan fishing ven
ture. The owners, Earl Goodwin
and Jim Cope of Seattle, plan to
take her to Tokeen, Alaska, near
the end of the week.
The Wendy, valued at $40,000,
has a fish capacity of 60 tons and
features an aluminum front sec
tion on her pilot house—to elim
inate magnetic compass interfer
ence.
BLUEFIELD, W. Va. (/P) *—
Pretty girls in shorts will ladle out
free lemonade to all comers today,
keeping the chamber of commerce
bargain to do so whenever the
temperature goes above 90.
The mercury hit 92 yesterday in
this self-styled air conditioned
city, but the C. of C. couldn’t get
enough sugar then. It’s the third
time the chamber has paid off
since the offer was first made 13
years ago.
Balkan Conference!
Being Held
In Belgrade
• By The Associated Press*
Yugoslavia disclosed yesterday!
that a Bulgarian military mission
was in Belgrade, broadening the'
scope of Balkan conference which
, have developed since the Com
I munists seized power in Hungary.
A Czechoslovak military mis
sion also was to arrive yesterday
in Premier Marshal Tito’s capital,
! already host to a Romanian dele- j
: gation headed by Communist Pre- j
! mier Petru Groza,
i The Bulgarians, Yugoslav infor
! mation authorities said, actually
arrived Saturday. The delay in the
announcement was, not explained.
; The Czechoslovak mission osten
sibly was to make a 10-day tour
: of Yugoslavia.
i Groza waved aside suggestions
' in a news conference Monday
night that a Balkan federation,
such as has been suggested by
i Tito, was in the making.
But he said that the cultural
1 and economic cooperation between
his country and Yugoslavia event
ually w<juld lead to complete po
| litical cooperation.
1 With the Bulgarian mission was
; Lt. Gen. Zaharjev, who, a Yugo
| slav announcement said, was in
i Belgrade “for the Soviet Union.” j
I The announcement gave no indi
' cation of the purpose of the visit.
Hungary’s parliament was sum
j moned into session as rumors per
i sisted that anti-Communist mem
| bers would denounce Premier Fer
j enc Nagy.
! Dispatches from Budapest sug
■ gested that the new Communist
I dominated government was wid
ening its purge against dissident
! elements. The Communist news
paper Szabadsag said the resist
ance certificates of nearly 200 per
sons, including Josef Cardinal
i Mindszenty, Roman Catholic Pri
| mate of Hungary, would be re
viewed. The certificates indicate
the holders opposed the Germans
: during the war.
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Soviets Aid
Mongols Fighting
Chinese Troops
NANKING, (/P) — The official
Central News agency yesterday
said government military sources
confirmed reports that outer Mon
golian troops, supported by four
Soviet warplanes, invaded Sinki
ang province Thursday.
The agency said the Mongols
had penetrated to a depth of more
than 200 miles and now were
fighting Chinese defense troops
200 miles northeast of Tihua.
The official report followed
closely a similar report by semi
officials sources.
Central News Agency reported
in a dispatch from Tihua that
“bitter fighting” was continuing
between native Sinkiang troops
and the invading forces from the
Soviet-sponsored Mongolian re
public.
The dispatch, the agency said, J
reported that warplanes accom
Canadian Parlia
ment Applauds
Truman’s Address
OTTAWA, (#*)—President Tru
man told the Parliament of this,
northern “good neighbor" today
that the United States intended to
help those nations that want to
live in peace, without coercion or i
intimidation.
Senators and members of the
House of Commons stood and ap- \
plauded as the President, attired i
in formal morning clothes, enter- j
ed the House chamber.
“We intend to aid those who
seek to live at peace with their
neighbors, without coercing or be
ing coerced, without intimidating
or being intimidated," the Presi
dent told the lawmakers.
He promised that American re
sources would be used to promote
World recovery by aiding those
who are willing to make “the
maximum contribution to the
same cause.”
Two red-coated Mounties, their
hats on, stood at attention
throughout the American Presi
dent’s address. •
Mr. Truman called for comple
tion of the St. Lawrence project,
which has long stirred controversy
in the United States.
The President’s reading of his
address was interrupted repeated
ly by applause. The Senators,
seated in the aisle between the
desks of the government and op
position members clapped their
hands while the House of Com
mons members slapped their
desks with their hands.
Mr. Truman grinningly depart
ed from his prepared text to ex
press appreciation of “political ad
vice” from Prime Minister W. L.
MacKenzie King who introduced
him.
King, for 20 years the Prime
Minister, referred to the fact that
the Republicans control the United
States Congress. He said he had
had experience with opposition in
Parliament and told the President
it was not necessarily “a bar” to
continuance in office.
“W/» seek a peaceful world, a
prosperous world, a free world, a
world of good neighbors, living
on terms of equality and mutual
respect, as Canada and the United
States have lived for generations
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“We intend to support those
who are determined to govern
themselves in their own way, and
who honor the right of others to
do likewise.
“We intend to aid those who
seek to live at peace with their
neighbors, without coercing or be
ing coerced, with<^jt intimidating
or being intimidated.”
panying the Mongolian cavalry
and other troops into Sinkiang
strafed Chinese troop concentra
tions and bombed and strafed
civilians and towns ia the invad
ers path.
Military observers said that be
cause of the great distances in
volved and the lack of, readily
available forces it was unlikely
the government would dispatch
adequate defense forces to Sinki
ang.
Wallace Used
Savage Election
As Testing Ground
(By The Associated Press'
Echoes of the Washington Third
District’s special Congressional
election still were sounding yes- j
terday after the close trace in
which Republican Russell V. Mack
of Hoquiam edged out former Rep. j
Charles Savage by approximately
1,300 ballots Saturday. Still to be
counted were 1,700 absentee votes.
"It is my belief,” Mack said in
a statement from Hoquiam Mon
day night, ‘‘that (Henry) Wallace
entered the Savage campaign with
the sole purpose of using Savage’s
campaign as a trial balloon to as
i certain if the time was ripe for
' launching a third party with Wal
! lace at its head.”
Earlier in the day the former
vice president had said in New
ark, N. J., that President Tru
man’s foreign policy had not been
a campaign issue. This, said Mack,
was ‘‘absurd and an utter mis
statement of facts.”
“The American foreign policy
was the main and about the only
issue in the campaign," said the
new congressman.
Savage, speaking in Seattle, told
a rally sponsored by the ‘‘Defend
Free Labor” committee that labor
make “big gains” in the district
despite his defeat. Savage lost by
a wider margin in his race last
year against the late Fred Nor
man.
Savage denounced the Taft
Hartley labor bill and suggested
that labor urge President Truman
to veto the measure. The meeting
adopted a resolution to that ef
fect, drafted by former Rep. Hugh
Delacy.
I
Miners Protest
Labor Legislation
By Stopping Work
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (/P) — Work
stoppages among soft coal miners
protesting labor legislation before
Congress spread to 22 mines em
ploying 14,800 men yesterday as
AFL united mine workers offi
cials pondered their strategy in
the idleness they termed “unau
thorized.”
The stoppages were scattered
through the three counties that
comprise the heart of an extreme
ly rich southwestern Pennsylvan
ia bituminous section — Fayette,
Greene and Washington.
Two mines voted to resume
work after being idle over .the
week end. They were the Frick
Coke Co., employing 400, men,
and the Kyle mine of the same
company employing 600. They ac
count for a combined daily pro
duction of 5,600 tons.
Among the closed mines was the
world's largest, the famed Robena
mine of the Frick company, which
employs 1,800 miners and has a
normal daily production of 10,000
tons. Some of the other larger pits
affected range from 2,000 to 7,000
tons in output.
Alaska Seems
Assured Pulpwood,
Newsprint Industry
Forest Service Takes
Concrete Steps Toward
Industry Development
(.4*) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (JP)—'The For
est Service disclosed today it has
taken the first concrete step
toward promoting an Alaskan
pulpwood and newsprint industry.
The service revealed details of
a sample agreement it has pre
| pared at the request of a group
I of West Coast and New York fi
nanciers, high interior and agricul
ture department officials said, for
j the sale of eight billion board feet
of plup timber near Petersburg,
Wrangell and Thomas Bay, Alas
ka.
Under the agreement the suc
I cessful bidder must have at least
$8,000,000 immediately available
for plant construction. The finan
i cial group was described as eager
i to submit a bid. When bids can be
! asked depends on Congressional
| action on pending legislation.
Frank Heintzelman, chief of the
Alaskan Forest Service, told a re
porter the quantity of timber cov
ered by the agreement would be
sufficient to maintain a newsprint
plant production of 525 tons a day
for 50 years.
Closing to the deal would mean
| the expenditure of $30,000,000 to
' $40,000,000 to build a pulp mill,
power plant, and a town of 2,000
or 2,500—one of the largest in
| Alaska—16 miles east of Peters
burg.
The sample sale agreement pro
vides that the lowest bid accept
able for pulp timber will be 85
cents per 100 cubic feet ‘slightly
more than one cord>. Heintzelman
said this is lower than the prevail
, ing price on the Pacific Coast.
Bidders must also agree to pay.
I the following fixed rates until
! 1, 1960, for material to be manu
, factured for sale or sold in other
| forms than pulp or its products:
j $3 per 1,000 board feet log
scale for spruce saw logs, includ
ing high grade spruce logs intend
ed for pulp manufacture; $1.50
per 1,000 board feet for cedar; $2
per 1,000 board feet for sawlogs
, of Hemlock and other species; 1.5
cents per linear foot for piling or
poles over 95 feet long: one cent
per linear foot for piling or poles
95 feet or under.
The rates are subject to read
justment by the forest service
July 1, 1960, and at five-year in
tervals thereafter.
The forest service has decided
to call for oral bids, but will ac
cept sealed bids from approved
bidders. The successful bidder,
who must show working capital of
at least $8,000,000—less than a
third of the estimated total cost of
the project—must put up $100,000
at the time his offer is accepted.
This is to serve as a guarantee for
a one-year option period in which
the successful bidder will be per
mitted to qualify for the final
agreement.
Heintzelman said the firm whick
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