OPA Admits
Price Increases
^ WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. </P)—
OPA said today it has no ready
estimate of how much recent price
increases will cost the public.
A statistical expert for the
agency shuddered at a reporter’s
question prompted by this sen- j
tence in reconversion director
John R. Steelman’s quarterly re- j
* port last week:
W “Prices have already risen fur- j
ther in the three months since the
original price control act expired
than they did in the previous 38
months.”
“There have been thousands of
increases — thousands,” the OPA
statistician said. “It would be very
difficult to estimate the total.”
The agency has emphasized that
most of the price boosts it has an
nounced resulted from terms of j
the new price control act Congress
passed after the original OPA stat
^ ute expired June 30.
Today’s list of increases in
ROY SOMMERS. JR. SUFFERS
FRACTURED LEG
Roy Sommers, 12 year old son
of Roy Sommers suffered a frac
tured leg yesterday when he was
hit by a car on Front Street. The
car was driven by John Bahnke
who did not see the boy when he
started to cross the street near the
Bon Marche.
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eluded a variety of items ranging
from Douglas fir doors to sea
hering and alewives <an alewife is
kinfolk to a herring*.
On the building materials front,
OPA < 1» boosted prices on doors >
made from Douglas fir by 4-5 per
cent at the manufacturing level,
with resellers allowed customary
percentage markups, and <2* al-j
lowed a 3.9 percent increase on
prices of millwork from pine stock
ot reflect increased freight rates
and prices of western pine ship
lumber.
Fishing is the principal occupa
tion of the people of Newfound-1
land.
FOREST SERVICE ARCHITECT
VISITING NOME
By co-operative arangement be
tween the U. S. Forest Service
and the Alaska Development
Board Forest Service Architect
Linn Forrest is touring Alaska for
the purpose of cataloging areas
suitable for resort development.
About twenty such spots have
been lined up lor Forrest to inves
tigate. His task wil be to deter
mine if a suggested site is suitable
for resort use and what type of re
sort it should be. He is sketching
the proposed sites and will esti
mate the cost of development of
the project.
Mr. Forrest’s past experience
and proven ability in this field
should give his findings the stamp
of authority as he designed the
Mt. Hood, Oregon, nationally fa
mous Timberline Lodge. He is in
vestigating Pilgrim and Serpentine
Springs, Kotzebue and Barrow in
this Division.
It’s a sure sign we’re unreason
able when we’re sure that we are
not.
NOME SALE!
WAR SURPLUSES
All Items Sold by Lot, Unless Otherwise Indicated,
On a Fixed Basis “As Is — Where Is”
Subject to Prior Purchase by Federal Agencies
Electrical Supplies
Adapter, plug attachments,
bushings, fluorescent tube
lamps*, switches, wire.
Heavy Equipment
Concrete mixer*, snow
plows.*
Mess Hall
Pot covers, spatulas, ther
mometers*
Miscellaneous Items
Burlap bags, sleeping bags*,
sleeping bag liners*, bed
steads*, camp tables*, can
vas money belts, canvas car
riers, cots, cot covers, chlor
ide of lime, cleaning fluid,
cotton flannel, corrosion
preventative, dust respira
tor, foot powder, funnels,
goggles*, identification tape,
leather soles, lip pomade,
lubricating grease, pyrami
dal tents*, rubber heels, sew
ing kits, shoe impregnite,
shoe laces, tents, tent flys,
tent poles and pins, toilet
kits, welt leather.
Miscellaneous
Equipment
Snow trailer, decontamin
ating apparatus*.
Parts
Parts for Continental gas
engine, Kohler light plant,
rear wheel drive unit of
trucks, Bucyrus Erie Shovel,
Chevrolet truck, Ford truck.
Lincoln welding machine.
Tools
Axes, hammers, hooks,
knives, nippers, pullers,
punches, shovels.
Dental and
Medical
Dental equipment, dental
and medical instruments,
medical supplies such as
bandages and orthopedic
supplies, and pharmaceuti
cal items.
* Items so marked may be purchased singly.
-SALE DATES
Veterans (not for resale).Oct. 8 thru 9
All Certified Veterans .Oct. 10 thru 11
Territorial and Local Governments .Oct. 14
Non-Profit Institutions .Oct. 15
Dealers .Oct. 16 thru 21
Public .Oct. 22 thru 25
Veterans are invited to become certified for purchase in this sale. For complete sales
£ list contact the local Surplus Property Office.
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Yugoslavs Release
Yank Engineer
BELGRADE,, Oct. 6. (A3)— (De
layed*—The Yugoslav government
released today an American con
struction engineer with UNRRA.'
who had been held 10 days on
charges of espionage.
Simultaneously, U. S. Ambassa
dor Richard C. Patterson an
nounced that regular C-47 trans
port planes were replacing B-17
Fyling Fortresses in “full airline
service” between Vienna, Austria,
and Udine, Italy, on the route
which skirts Yugoslavia.
The UNRRA engineer, Robert
Burnup of Independence, Mo., left
Belgrade this afternoon by plane
for Rome on his way to the United
States. Authorities here refused to
comment on his release, which
was understood to have been con
ditional upon a guarantee of his
immediate return to America.
UNRRA officials, who demand
ed complete information on Burn
up’s case last week, received a
letter trom Gen. Vladimir Vele
bit, Yugoslav assistant foreign
minister, accusing the engineer of
“collecting detailed information
about the Yugoslav army’s dispo
sition and strength.”
In announcing resumption of U.
S. Army C-47 service between
Italy and Austria. Ambassador
Patterson said the pilots were
given strict orders to fly the es
tablished route and to avoid cross
ing over Yugoslavia.
All U. S. military flights be
tween Vienna and Udine were
n n pi —_ _ _
Lolos Permit Hunt
For Airmen
CHUNGKING, Oct. 7. (A*) — A
friendly Lolo tribesman and a
Chinese general’s aide—the only
two permitted by hostile natives
to pass—were searching the wilds
of western China today for an
American pilot and 31 other per
sons reported held by Lolos since
their Chinese airliner crashed
Sept. 30.
Rifle fire drove off one search
plane carrying a professional par
achutist. He had hoped to locate
the wreckage and jump in an ef
fort to aid the crash victims—
who reportedly had kept Lolos at
bay, for a time, with considerable
sidearms.
The airliner crashed 60 miles
south of Sichang, in the same gen
eral area in which the U. S. Army
graves registration service is mak
ing its own quiet search for five
U. S. air forces crewmen believed
captives of the I^olos for more
than two years.
halted temporarily after Yugoslav
fighters shot down two unarmed
American transports in August.
Five American airmen lost their
lives when the second plane
crashed in flames August 19. In a
note to the Yugoslav government
Sept. 3. the U. S. state department
disclosed that armed B-17s had
renewed flights over the Vienna
Udine route August 25.
Rayon was the first man-made
fiber.
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