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Fairbanks Fire
Destroys Hotel
And Elks Lodge
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 23—
(/P)—For the second time in as
many years, fire has robbed the
Fairbanks Elks Lodge of its home.
Flames which started in an up
stairs room of the International
Hotel shortly after 3 a.m. des
troyed the building, which housed
the Elks’ headquarters, bar and
<4fcoce floor on the ground floor.
Only a shell of the structure re
mained today, and firemen con
tinued during the day to quench
smoldering spots of debris.
The extent of the loss was un
known.
The International was the third
Fairbanks hotel hit by fire in
three months. The Northern Ho
tel was destroyed and the Lacey
badly damaged by previous fires.
^ The losses are doubly serious
because of the critical housing
shortage in the city.
French Press Said
Tito Has Rejected
U. S. Ultimatum
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PARIS, Aug. 23,—(/P)—The French
press agency said in a dispatch
from Belgrade today that Marshal
Tito had decided to reject the
United States ultimatum.
The State Department note gave
Yugoslavia 48 hours to release the
occupants of two army transport
planes brought down by Marshal
Tito’s fighter planes. Part of
this damand was complied with
yesterday when nine occupants
of one plane—seven Americans
4lnd two non-American passengers
—ware released an hour before
U. S. Ambassador Richard C. Pat
terson conferred with Tito and
delivered a copy of the ultimatum.
One occupant of the plane, a
^Turkish captain, has not been re
leased because he was wounded.
In addition the five occupants of
a second plane, shot down in
flames Ang. 19, are still unaccount
ed for, and may have been killed.
The U. S. note further demanded
the right for its representatives
to “communicate with any of the
occupants of the two planes who
are still alive,” and reserve a de
cision on its future course of ac
tion "in the light of the evidence
then secured.”
* The U. S. demands therefore
have not ben fully complied with
and Marshal Tito still is in posi
tion to reject them in part. He
SHIPS FOR PEAC E—The sprawling Ingalls shipyards at Pascagoula, Miss., was busy on
ships In all stages of construction when this aerial photo was taken. The yard, with $100,000,000 in
peacetime orders, is looking forward to a busy postwar building program*
Iio| >es Faded Today
For Five Flyers
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, -(/Pi
Hopes for the safety of five Am
erican flyers shot down by Yugo
slav fighters last Monday faded
today with a State Department
report that the Yugoslav Fourth
Army had expressed doubt of any
of them parachuted to safety.
That note of pessimism was
raised as the Department, on the
basis of a message from its diplo
matic representatives at Belgrade,
officially confirmed the release
of nine occupants of another Am
erican plane which was forced to
crash land Aug. 9.
The two incidents to an ulti
matum demanding that Yugoslav-!
ia release all the flyers still alive
or face an American request for
| prompt action by the United Na
tions Security Council.
may also be in the technical posi
tion of being able to reject them in
toto by saying the nine occupants
were released before the ultimatum
was received and Yugoslavia in
tended to free them anyway.
In London the Yugoslav em
bassy and the official Yugoslav
press agency Tanjug said they
knew nothing of the report cir
culated by the French press ag
ency.
Pacific Northwest
Forest Fire Season
Said Favorable
UNDATED, Fires, —(/P)—Pacific
Northwest fire fighters sat waiting
break of fires in the tinder-dry
watchfully today for a new out
forest regions of Oregon, Wash
ington and British Columbia.
Numerous blazes broke out yes
terday in widely scattered areas
in the wake of lightning storms.
One fire in Oregon’s Mount Hood
forest was reported to have been
“man-set.”
Despite the dangerous conditions
C. Otto Lingh, Regional Fire Chief
re ported “an exceptionally favor
able forest fire season” in Wash
ington and Oregon National For
ests with only 240 minor fires.
Only in British Columbia were
the flames continuing unchecked
and there 300 men backfired a
large area and were reported last
night to be hopeful of controlling
a 700 acre blaze in the Campbell
River area on Vancouver Island.
Some 2,000.000 board feet of felled
and bucked timber already was
destroyed and another 5,000,000
feet threatened.
The largest fire reported in
Washington yesterday was a 160
acre blaz.e near Satsop in Grays
Harbor County. Two western
Lane County fires in Oregon
blackened 100 acres.
New Housing
Expediter For
Alaska, Appointed
! SEATTLE. Aug. 23, —T. O. (lefty) |
Hoagland has joined the Region
VII staff of the National Housing
Agency as a locality housing ex
pediter and will be assigned tem
porarily to Alaska, George W.
Coplen, regional expediter, an- i
nounced today.
Hoagnand will work with Alas
ka communities in formation of
mayor's emergency housing com
munities to coordinate federal and
local efforts in solving local hous
ing problems. Mr. Coplen and
Mr. Hoagland will arive in Nome
about August 28th.
“The primary responsibility for
building homes lies with the com
munity,” Mr. Coplen said. “The
federal government is doing every
thing possible to stimulate pro
duction of building materials and
to channel these materials into
homes veterans can afford. But
our efforts will be fruitless if
communities do not get local labor,
local business and local govern
ment working together in a com
mon effort to solve problems and
get homes built.”
A native of Lewiston, Idaho,
Hoagland has lived in Seattle for
about 35 years. He was educated
at Broadway high and the Uni
versity of Washington. After
The U. S. Coast Guard station
here at Nome, picked up an SOS
from the Army Tug TP225 which
was enroute from Nome to Point
Spencer with two barges in tow.
The tug and barges went aground
at Cape Rodney early this morning
and sent out the SOS without
any further explanation.
Jack Anderson of the Lomen
Commercial Company, left at 4
a.m. with the company’s tugs BO
ZO and GENEVIEVE to try to
get the tug and barges off the
beach as the weather is getting
rough and worse weather is pre
dicted for tomorrow.
It has been reported that the
M.S. METEOR, with Captain Will
iams, which left Nome shortly
after the TP225, with a full load
and towing a barge, was able to
save one of the barges.
Gen. Wainwridit
\ isils Birthplace*
On Anniversary
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BELLINGHAM, Aug. 23.—(/P)—
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright
celebrates his 63rd birthday today
with some of the men who saw
him adding years to his age ;n
the nightmarish months on Bat
aan and Corregidor.
Here for the Washington S'ate
American Legion convention, he
has devoted coniderable time to
reunions with his men.
Enlisted men with rows of rib
bons across their chests saluted
and stood stiffly at attention as
they greeted him for the first
time, in most cases, since the sur
render on Corregidor.
He flashed a smile each time one
of the men informed him he had
signed up for another “hitch” in
the army.
The general will go late today
to Walla Walla, Wash., his birth
place.
A year ago tomorrow he walked
out of a Japanese prison camp in
Manchuria.
leaving college he was associated
with Spalding Bros, sporting goods
in Seattle for 12 years and Spok
ane for six years.
In 1941 he joined the recreation
dviision of the Office of Commun
ity War Services, Federal Secur
ity Agency, and directed commun
ity organization in Washington,
Oregon, northern Idaho and Alas
ka. At the request of the War
Department he toured Alaska and
western Canada in 1943 setting
up clubs for servicemen in addi
tion to evaluating recreational fa
cilities and services.