STRONG, INDUSTRIALIZED BASES
IN SIBERIA FACE ALASKANS
By EUGENE GRIFFIN 4
(Chicago Tribune Writer)
ANCHORAGE — Alaska de
fenses, based in a thinly populated,
undeveloped territory, face strong,
industrialized Russian points in
Siberia.
Air bases, munitions plants^
tank factories, and shipyards were
moved from European Russia to
Siberia during World War II, ar
Stalin recoiled from Hitler. Manu
facturing cities were built in sub
Arctic zones relative to unin
habited areas of Alaska.
Stalin is believed to have at
least half a mUUontrooj>j>. in Si
beria. The populatU^ is estjn^t^
at* more than ,10 million pepspps,
who include such legendary, fight
ing races as the tartars and the
Kazakhs. Fiercq . Siberian troops
m turned back the Germans at
Stalingrad. . v
Russia has led tHe United States
for many yeajrs in exploring and
settling the north.. It 4j$(t!he only
country to establish successfully a
city of a quarter million popula
tion within the arpa of perma
frost, permanently frozen subsoil.
In contrast to Siberia’s millions,
Alaska has a populations, of scarce
ly more than 100,000 persons and
there are few towns in Canada’s
prairie provinces.
While Alaska must import near
ly every mouthful of food it con
sumes, the Siberians under equal
conditions have become self-suf
ficient. Pigs are bred in Velkal,
a Siberian village on the Bering
strait near the Arctic circle.
Chickens, beef and dairy cattle
arc raised in Russia's Far North.
Quick maturing strains, of hardy
wheat and rye have been devel
oped. Even apples are. grown in
the subarctic of Siberia^ and a
few oranges 9s a, stunt. Growth
of melons, cucumbers, and toma
toes is forced under glass.
Norilisk, above the, Arqtipi Cir
cle, is a city of heavy metallurgi
cal industries. Yatusk, believed, to
have a population of 50,000, has
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about the same relative position
in Siberia as Fairbanks in Alaska.
Fairbanks is a community of
about 6,000 papulation, with no in
dustry except gold dredging. It is
near big air bases, on the direct
flight line from Siberia across
the Canadian prairies to Chicago.
Many Siberian cities have pop
ulations of more than 100 000, in
cluding Novosibirsk, a war fac
tory and fighter plane manufac
turing center which was described
by a State, Department official
as a “Siberian .Chicago*” Kom
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Tomsk.
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Almost everywhere north of the
Trans-Siberian Railroad is perma
frost. The topsoil thaws, jn sum
| nier, or wKeri exposed id Heat from
i bpijdings construct^ pp it. Homes
| in some small Alaskan towns on
permafrost tij) iri lofisiciede fa
l Vi*?*'
shipn. _ j.
, Russian^ pave pioneered, .in the
1 study of. permafrost, Arctic ter
! rain conditions and ice fields.
|
! Russians has been maintained and
lit is no idle boast on their part
that they have acquired, know
how in this particular field far
| exceeding our own ” H. E. Lan^s
| berg, executive director of |he
committee on geophysics and geo
1 grafy, national research and de
velopment board, told a recent
conference o£ American arctic
scientists in Washington.
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REV. AND MRS. CLARK LEWIS
ATTEND WAZARENE CHURCH
CONVENTION AT FAIRBANKS
On. Thursday of last wiek, Rev.
and Mr?- 0ark Lewj$ and family
returned with Wien Airlines from
Fairbanks, where they had at
tended the first Convention Qf thie
Alaska, Churches of the Naza
rene. The Convention was pre
sided over by Dr. Hardy C. Pow
ers, General Superintendent of the
church,. who had spoken? in the
local Church of the Nazarene
Sunday, April 15.
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Reports by the pastors from
Fairbanks, Anchorage, Seward^
and Nome indicated that, with a
total membership of 119, .in excess
Of $33,000 had been raised for all
purposes by the , churches, or
slightly more than .$277 f>er capita.
Property evaluation was set.. at
$ldo,000. Plans were set in motion
to expand the Alaska department
of the Church ot the Nazarene to
luneau, Ketchikan, Palmer, and
Sitka.
. $hile in Fairbanks Rev. and
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