Russia Strengthens Its Back Door
By RICHARD TOMPKINS, (ff) Newsfeature Writer
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NEW YORK—(/P)—Behind the curtain of the Soviet Far East a pow
erful arm of the Russian Bear is ready for whatever it may be called
upon to do. This Soviet backdoor area has grown stronger by the j
^ WORKER—Industrialisation of Siberia, begun before the war, has
increased steadily since the Germans invaded western Russia.
Above is seen a workman in the concentration plane of a copper
smelting works on Lake Balkash in Kazakhstan, north of Mon
golia. Huge copper deposits are in this region.
necessity of supply western Rus-^
sia with the implements of war.
Now it is a self-sufficient fortress
in its own right.
What military installations ex
ist on this doorstep of Japan nat
urally are not being revealed by
Moscow. But fragmentary news
and authoritative reports indicate
a mighty fortress, with an army
$ 'estimated at 1,000,000 men mark
ing time, and with an arsenal and
the all essential breadbasket to
keep it going.
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Pravda gives us a glimpse be
hind the curtain:
“The conversion of industry to
i war work has required an ability
to utilize one’s own resources. For
example, when the manufacture
of a product entirely new to it . . .
necessary special equipment was
found in various small plants . . .
In 25 days the plant was prepared
for serial mass production.
“An enormous role is being
played in this matter (establish
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Old Age Pensions
Increase On
July First
Increased grants to recipients of
the Old Age Assistance will be
made July 1 by the Department
of Public Welfare under Chapter
10, Session Laws of Alaska, 1945.
The new law allows a maximum
of $60 in place of the former $45
a month. These grants are not
made automatically, and are given
on the basis of need, and a full
investigation of the recipients’ r^,
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Sources and need are made before
the aid is granted.
This assistance is given by a
joint program of the Public Wel
fare and the Federal Security
Board.
The Public Welfare Organiza
tion in the Territory is to be re
organized and district workers
will be added to Fairbanks and
Anchorage.
Nome will have an office with a
district worker. This is to be
opened about August 1.
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M.S. METEOR ARRIVES
IN NOME
The M.S. Meteor, the first coast
wise vessel of the season, arrived
i Saturday to start on its summer
schedule of mail and freight for
the outlying districts. Capt. Wil
liams had a lighter and house
barge in tow.
The Meteor is leaving this eve
ning for Teller and Wales and the
house barge will be loaded with
freight for those two points. Capt.
Williams said that his trip in was
uneventful. The house barge was
loaded in Seattle to capacity, with
freight for Akularak.
ing independence from the west
and conversion to war work) by
rationalizers and inventors, whose
numbers are continually increas
ing.
“The machine building (in this
case primarily shipbuilding) plants
in the city of Komsomolsk have
increased output by 50 to 100 per
cent. Mining of coal on Sakhalin
increases month by month, as it
does at Raichikha and in other
districts. The Okha oil fields on
Sakhalin have increased their pro
duction.
The North Pacific has been a
primary supply line to the Soviet
Union, the Lend-Lease Adminis
tration revealed in 1943. At that
time nearly one-third of all Amer
ican shipments to the USSR were
being sent in Soviet vessels from
our West Coast to ports in the
Soviet Far East.
Much of this equipment, pre
sumably, was consigned to Soviet
Far East military stores.
Regular winter freight trans
portation has been established be
tween Vladivostok and ports on
both coasts of the Kamchatka
Peninsula formerly isolated from
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