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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, <TP>—President
Truman was cruising down the
Potomac Saturday and putting the
final polish on a foreign policy
speech.
The Presidential yacht Williams
burg anchored Friday night at
Blakistone Island in the lower Po
tomac, ready to push off Saturday
morning fo rthe mouth of the Pa
tuxent River.
Mr. Truman’s party returned to
Washington yesterday afternoon.
The foreign policy speech is to be
delivered today at the laying of
the cornerstone of the United Na
tions building in New York.
CINCINNATI, (TP)—Luke Sew
ell, who led the St. Louis Browns
out of baseball’s wilderness, today
had shouldered the task of trying
to do the same thing for the Cin
cinnati Reds.
Sewell, a veteran major league
catcher, yesterday was named
manager of the Reds for 1950 and
1951, succeeding Bucky Walters,
who was relieved of his duties in
the last week of the 1949 esason.
Sewell was a coach under Walters
during the past season.
Sewell directed the Browns to
their one and only American
League pennant in 1944.
LONDON, (/P)—Lieut. Col. Pat
rick D. Fleming’s U. S. airforce
F-84 jet fighter gave him a hot
ride over the Atlantic
The cockpit heat control stuck
after his takeoff from Iceland. For
more than an hour Fleming baked
at 170 degrees, Air force officials
said he was completely dehydrated
when he, landed at Prestwick,
Scotland, yesterday.
Fleming, 30, of New York City,
and Col. David C. Schlling, 30, of
Traverse City, Mich., flew the
first two F-84 jet fighters to make
the Atlantic hop.
•LOS ANGELES, (/P)—The fed
eral court judge called for the
criminal calendar and Roberto
Ulano Innocente, auto theft sus
pect, struggled to the prisoner’s
stand,
“R. U. Innocehte?” queried the
clerk, without looking up.
4iNo, I am guilty!” Innocente re
torted.
Whereupon the judge sentenced
Innocente to 10 months in jail on
his plea of guilty to driving a
stolen car here from Nevada.
BIRMINGHAM, Eng. </P) — For
almost seven months 41-year-old
Mrs. Mary Smith and her three
small children lived like rabbits in
Birmingham parks. They slept un
der bushes and in tool sheds, tid
ied themselves in the wash rooms,
ate when something came the'r
way.
A magistrate could hardly be
lieve the evidence and police said
they couldn’t understand how they
managed it so long without de
tection. Mrs. Smith, deserted by (
her husband and homeless, was
told last March to place the chil
dren in an institution. She couldn’t
bear to part with them, and took
to the parks. Said police sergeant
ohn McCabe: “Stranger still, the |
children were clean, well dressed I
Gold Discovered
“Size ( )f Peas’*’
At Fort Yukon
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—“GOLD!”
The magic cry and magic word
that brought prospectors, dance
hall girls and confidence men to
the Klondike in 1898, then sent
them storming across Alaska to
Nome at the turn of the century,
was heard in Fairbanks again
Saturday.
Nuggets “the size of peas” were
reported found earlier last week
along the Yukon River#in the Fort
Yukon-Circle area which hitherto
has not been prospected. Fort Yu
kon is just north of the Arctic Cir
cle.
The discovery was said to have
been made by Clifton Carrol, a
fisherman, who went to the Yukon
River spot to pull his fishwheel
from the water for the winter. He
related that he noticed several
bright objects in the frozen sand
and gravel on the axle wheel.
Closer examination revealed them
to be nuggets.
The news was brought here by
Gilbert Lord, roadhouse operator;
Jim Magoffin, bush pilot, and the
Rev. Edward Badten, a flying mis
sionary for the Assemblies of God
church.
The Rev. Badten happened to
fly into the strike area a few days
after the Carrol discovery. He,
| too, caught the gold fever and
filed a claim.
“Gold has been found for two
miles on both sides of the original
strike,” the Rev. Badten said, “and
from all appearances it’s a big
strike.”
He disclosed that gold panned
from the Yukon shore had been
taken south to Circle for assay
and there was pronounced “good
gold” by oldtimers. The mission
ary asserted these old timers
opined that there’s “usually a big
strike where nuggets this size are
found.”
The discovery, although taken
quietly enough here, has all the
elements of a Rex Beach thriller.
. According to Badten, Carrol
kept his find a secret for several
days, telling only his immediate
family and close friends, who filed
the first claims. The tip-off finally
came, however, when samples
were taken to Circle for assay.
Since then a miniature rush has
sprung up for miles along the
river. A camp of more than a
dozen tents mushroomed into be
ing since mid-week.
Natives from both Circle and
Fort Yukon are reported deserting
their fishing and traplines and
flocking to the boom camp.
Magoffin, operator-owner of In
terior Airways, with headquarters
here is enjoying “unprecedented
rush business.”
He now has begun regular
flights to the gold strike area, car
rying prospectors who differ from
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and well nourished.”
It ended as Mrs. Smith had
feared. Homes will be found 'for
the children and the mother was
placed on probation for “exposing
the children to unnecessary hard
ships.”
Junior Queen
Of Nome, 1949
—
Nome’s Junior Queen, who was
crowned last spring at the Arctic
Club Carnival, waited until cold
weather set in before ordering her
beautiful fur parka which she was
awarded by the Arctic Club.
The young lady, Lois Gifford,
age 4 years, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Waive Gifford, and here
»
models the garment which was
made to order for her at Polet’s
Store.
Mr. A. Polet made her a gift of
the mukluks and mitts to complete
her outfit.
I
Col* Hoffinger, port commander
for the U. S. army, has offered a
complete mastodon skull to the
Boy Scout group. The skull was
found in the Cape Spencer area,
he states although no other parts
of the skeleton were uncovered, i
The complete skull is a rare find
in this area and should be pre- I
served as a museum finding.
“Fish wheel”
Mushrooming
In Gold Strike
(By Jack Daum)
FISH WHEEL, UP) — Dozens of
new prospectors, amateur and
professional, continued to pour
into this scattered gold mining
camp on the banks of the storied
Yukon River today as the list of
claim-stakers swelled past the
hundred mark.
There are tents lining the river
river bank from five miles up
stream to three miles downstream.
The temperature dropped to 15
degrees below zero last night.
The men occupying the tents
literally dropped from the sky
upon this hitherto unprospected
area during the last three hectic
days following disclosure that
pea-sized nuggets were found in
a fishwell by Clifton Carrol when
he started to dismantle the device
for the winter.
The race to stake claims left
virtually no time for the main
business at hand—the search for
gold. That will come later. As a
result, however, no one knows at
this writing how good Alaska’s
latest gold stake actually is.
A few persons who have done
some panning report finding “col
or,” which consists of minute
flakes of the precious metal with
out commercial value. Two of
those are Jim Brown and Jack
White, both originally from Bay
City, Mich., who came to Fair
banks eight months ago. Their
claims are above the point of Car
rol’s discovery. One of eight pan
ning attempts, they said, they got
color each time.
Carrol’s fishwheel was located
off the South River shore near the
bank of a long narrow island now
known as discovery island. The
twisting, meandering river is
about two miles wide at this point,
20 miles southeast of Fort Yukon,
and is split into eight channels by
numerous islands and sandbars.
The terrain is generally flat, and
the area is laced by tiny lakes and
countless sloughs.
Discovery Island is heavily
wooded by 12-inch cottonwoods.
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Gold Strike In
Seattle Basement
SEATTLE, (/P) — Raw gold in
the “pokes” into which it was
poured when sluiced from the
Alaskan goldfields half a century
ago was uncovered Friday in the
effects of Carl W. Jolin.
Glen S. Corkery, counsel for
the Jolin estate, said the gold, val
ued at $6,000. was found in an old
trunk and in grips and boxes in
the basement room of the rooming
house where Jolin lived.
Corkery, himself a prospector,
as well as a lawyer, said Jolin un
doubtedly acquired the gold while
he was a miner in Alaska during
the gold rush days. How Jolin had
managed to keep it ever since, If
his “depository” was his trunk and
bags all this time, was a mystery
in itself, Corkery declared.
Jolin, 70, died Thursday.
News of the \\ oriel
At A Glance ...
Saturday. October 22, 1949
The United Nations assembly
headed into a showdown today on
whether Russian satellite coun
tries are guilty of human rights
oppression.
The assembly must rule on whe
ther Bulgaria, Romania, and Hun
gary should be cited to the inter
national court of justice as viola
tors of their peace treaties.
Speakers seeking the indictment
contended the trial of Josef Car
dinal Mindszenty in Hungary and
the trails of Protestant leaders in
Bulgaria were denials of human
rights. The three satellite coun
I tries were charged generally with
: restricting press and religious
freedom and creating police states
with “sinister features.”
Soviet feroign minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky defended the three
satellites, which are not members
of the United Nations.
Vishinsky sneered at the trial of
11 American communists who yes
terday were sentenced for crimin
al conspiracy in New York. He
said U. S. federal judge Harold
R. Medina “succeeded not only in
' convicting the defendants but in
passing sentence on their counsel
as well.”
A U. S. Embassy attache, Isaac
Patch, left Prague today for Ger
many after being given 24 hours
to get out of the country yesterday
by the communist Czechoslovaki
an government.
Patch was accused of leading an
anti-state espionage ring. He char
acterized the charges as '‘absolute
ly baseless.”
A clerk of the U. S. embassy
was arrested at the same time
Patch was ordered to leave. He
also was accused of being a ring
leader in an alleged spy plot.
“Man Musi Vjiroo
On Atomic Bomb
()r Bo Destroy o<l"
NEW YORK, (/Pi — President
Truman challenged all nations to
day to agree on a workable way
to outlaw the atomic bomb, as the
alternative to man’s destruction.
Speaking against the back
ground of Rushia’s refusal to come
into an agreement that the United
States and other powers have en
dorsed, Mr. Truman said:
“To assure that atomic energy
will be devoted to man’s welfare
and not to his destruction is a
continuing challenge to all nations
and all peoples.”
It was his first foreign policy
declaration since his Sepf. 23 an
nouncement: “We have evidence
that within recent weeks an atom
ic explosion occurred in the U. S.
S. R.” The President declared:
“Ever since the first atomic
weapon was developed, a major
objective of United States policy
has been a system of international
control of atomic energy that
would assure effective prohibition
of atomic weapons, and at the
same time would promote the
peaceful use of atomic energy by
all nations.”
Mr. Truman spoke at the laying
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