Prospecting Goes
On Despite Assay
And Had Weather
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ther the Yukon’s silt holds gold in
commercial quantities.
Many of the veterans staying on
at Fishwheel placed their faith in
“color” found by panning the
stream. They paid scant attention
1o an assay report that one of the
original nugget finds was brass.
More than half of the 300-odd
hunters who swarmed to the area
by plane have since returned.
Most stayed but a few days with
out bothering to file a claim.
FAIRBANKS, <JP) — Typical of
the calmness with which this once
bustling boom town received re
ports of a gold strike at Fishwheel
to the north is the reaction of A.
E. Albiston.
Across his vest hangs a string of
nuggets worth $1,000. He bought
them since his arrival in 1943 from
proceeds of “feeding folks.” He
operates a boarding house for con
tractors here.
Asked whether he planned to
try his luck at the new Yukon
River gold camp, Albiston replied:
“Naw, Fishwheels come and
Fishwheels go, but a man’s gotta
eat and he can’t eat gold.”
Georgia Suffers
Freezing Weather
ROME. Ga. 0*F)—Heated public
buildings were thrown open here
last night to prevent suffering by
any families caught by the coa*
shortage and sub-freezing tem
peratures.
Less than a do^.en tons of coal
remained for sale in this city of
26,000 persons in North Georgia.
The thermometer dropped to 31
during the night.
A city-wide fuel emergency was
declared by John E. Yarbrough,
city commission chairman.
Warmer weather was forecast
for tonight.
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"TRICK OR TREATER" DIES
AFTER BEING TREATED
SEATTLE, (/Pi — Injuries suf
fered in a Hallowe’en "trick or
treat” accident caused the death
of a six-year-old boy yesterday.
The lad, Larry Parks, fell five
feet from porch steps after win
ning a treat at the home of Ralph ,
G. Band. A sharpened tree branch
punctured Larry’s head, and he
died in a hospital.
Witnesses said the boy’s mask
slipped as he went down the steps
with his twin brother and sister.
Trying to adjust it Larry lost his
balance and toppled head first
from the steps.
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teeship over Somaliland until 1959.
This is opposed by Arab nations.
Following a year of bitter
church-state conflict, Czechoslo
vak churches came under the con
trol of the communist government
today. A new church control law
became effective one minute after
midnight.
In Rome, the Catholic Action of
ficial newspaper II Quotidiano ac
cused the Czech government of
preparing ‘.to discredit Catholic
clergymen in the eyes of the faith
ful.” Quotidiano said the govern
ment announced the Catholic hier
archy’s acceptance of a loyalty
oath to the state but said nothing
of the hierarchy’s direction that
it be conditioned on no infringe
ment of priestly views.
In London, the British Labor
government pushed forward its
legislation to nationalize Britain’s
steel industry. The Labor domin
ated House of Commons gave sec
ond approval of a bill reducing the
time by which the conservative
House of Lords can delay Com
mons-approved legislation. This
means that the nationalization bill
will probably become law by May
1. 1950, before the government’s
term of office expires.
Wednesday, November 2, 1949
A nation was born today—the
United States of Indonesia.
Dutch and Indonesian delegates
ended a 10-week old round table
conference at the Hague by sign
ing a resolution to transfer Dutch j
sovereignty over the East Indies j
to the Indonesians.
The United States of Indonesia I
will be a federal republic govern
ing 70.000.000 people of the archi- ’
pelago rich in oil, rubber, tin, tea 1
and spices.
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Fire Damages
Federal Postoffiee
WASHINGTON, (A*)—Fire, ac
companied by a rumbling series of
explosions, caused heavy damage
to the $11,000,000 postoffiee de
partment building yesterday and
sent hundreds of government em
ployees fleeing to the street.
The blaze was confined to the
eighth floor. But before firemen
brought in under control, they
poured tons of water into the col
umned limestone structure on
Pennsylvania Avenue between
12th and 13th streets, northwest.
Smoke and water damage was
heavy. Theer was no immediate
official estimate of the loss, but
a somewhat similar fire in 1935—
soon after the building was con
structed—caused $400,000 damage.
At least three persons were in
jured, either by flying glass from
the explosions, or when a section
of the seventh floor ceiling fell
in.
Two were employees of the fed
eral communications commission.
They were Richard Jamison and
D. C. Corrigan. Both suffered
head injuries.
Richard Farrington, an Associ
ated Press reporter, got a bad cut
on the shoulder. A glass door be
mnd him was blown out on the
7th floor while he was telephon
ing a report on the fire to his of
fice.
The republic will be linked to
the Dutch crown us an equal part
ner in a new Dutch-Indonesian
union. It will be a grouping ot
equal powers similar to the Bri
tish Commonwealth. Holland has
agreed to sponsor the new state
lor membership in the United Na
tions.
The resolution signed today
must be ratified by both the Neth
erlands and Indonesian parlia
ments. Such ratification seemed
certain of fulfillment.
Today’s action followed four
years of bitter strife in Indonesia.
Now Holland agrees to withdraw
her troops and hand over some na
val ships to the Indonesians.
The agreement provides limited
Dutch and Indonesian cooperation
in foreign affairs, defense, econo
mic and cultural matters.
Observers in Rome said today 1
the Italian political crisis would
soon be mastered by Premier Al
cide de Gasperi. Three moderate
Socialists walked out of his cab
inet Monday. A spokesman for
De Gasperi said the Premier had
no intention of forming a new
government. Instead he would
patch the holes by temporary ap
pointments, this informant said.
Yugoslavs at the United Nations
said Premier Marshal Tito’s gov
ernment has won friends all over
the world since it opposed Moscow
domination. Tito, these informants
said, expects better trade deals
from the West than he got from
Russia.
Britain told the Organization for
European Economic Cooperation
that it is difficult for her to join
fully in a European economic
union. Sir Stafford Cripps, chan
cellor of the exchequer, said Bri
tain had great world wide respon
sibilities as leader of the sterling
bloc that might conflict with inte
gration of European economy as
advocated by Marshall Plan ad
ministrator Paul G. Hoffman.
“Our position, therefore, is such
that we could not ‘integrate’ our
economy into that of Europe in
any manner that would prejudice
the full discharge of these other
responsibilities,” Cripps said.
Bcthlrhcm Steel
Signs Up for l Inion
\\ orkers Pensions
WASHINGTON, (/I1) — A wel
fare plan agreement that sends
80,000 striking CIO steel workers
back to their jobs with Bethlehem
Steel Corp., yesterday buoyed gov- ,
ernment hopes for a quick end to
both the steel and coal strikes.
Officials said they expect other
steel firms to follow in the foot
steps of Bethlehem, the nation’s
second largest steel producer,
which signed an agreement Mon
day night to end the strike so fur
ns this company was concerned.
The government officials said -
that now that a break has come in
the steel strike, definite peace
moves may be expected in coal
because of the close relations of
the two basic industries.
Bethlehem signed up in Cleve
land Monday night with Philip
Murray, president of the CIO and
the striking steelworkers.
“We broke the line,” Murray ex
alted. ‘ From here on we move
with a firmness of purpose and a
determination that victory will
attend our efforts.”
The precedent-making contract
gives Bethlehem workers employ
er-paid pensions starting at $100 a
month, including the benefits they
get from the government’s social
security system.
It also calls for a death, sick
ness, accident and hospital cost in
surance plan worth five cents an
hour per worker, with employer
and worker equally sharing costs.
Bethlehem has maintained com
pany-financed $50-a-month pen
sion plan for some years, as well
as a wholly worker-financed in
surance system costing employees
about IV4 cents an hour.
The settlement came on the
steel strike’s 31st day and the coal
walkout’s 43rd.
Murray ad Bethlehem officials
worked out final details and sign
ed the agreement at a three-hour
conference between sessions of
Murray’s CIO convention at Cleve
land.
The reaction was swift. Govern
ment mediation chief Cyrus S.
Truman Forecasts
Greater Spending,
Higher Faxes
P
WASHINGTON. t/Pi—President
Truman’s forecast that the gov
ernment will run five and one
half billion further into the red
this fiscal year set the stage today
for a rousing taxes-vs.-spending
battle in Congress.
The President now figures:
1. Federal spending will soar to
a peacetime record of $43,500.
000,000 in this fiscal year, which
ends next June 30. This is equiv
alent to $290 for each man, wo
man and child in the country, or
nearly one-fourth of the National
income.
2. The government will be
plunged $5,500,000 000 in the red
because its income will total only
$38,000,000,000 with tax rates
what they are now. This would
place the federal debt next June
30 at approximately $260,000,000,
000.
Mr. Truman's new spending
forecast was made yesterday in a
revision of his estimates last Janu.
I ary of federal financial operations
in the 12 months ending next
| June 30.
The forecast anticipates that the
81st Congress will add $4,000,000,
000 in spending authorization be
tween next January and July to
supplement the billions author
ized at its recently concluded ses
sion.
The administration figures that
Congress practically committed it
self to providing the extra funds
when it enacted or let stand the
program of activities on which the
spending would be incurred.
Ching said he trusted “this settle
ment will lead to industrial peace
in the steel industry generally, at
a very early date.”
U. S. Steel Corp., the biggest
steel producer, which has been
holding out for workers paying
part of the pension costs, invited
peace talks with Murray’s union.
U. S. Steel’s president, Benjamin
F. Fairless, said “of course we will
study the Bethlehem settlement.”
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