U. S. Suffering
Heavy Fire Losses
In Dry Season
J
(By the Associated Press'
Half of the states of the rain
starved nation fought forest and
brush fires today in what other
wise might be called pleasant In
dian summer.
Except for snow flurries in Wis
consin, the thousands of forest
rangers, National Guardsmen,
farmers, townspeople — even
school children—fighting fires, got
no help from nature. The Weath
er Bureau logged not a drop of
rain in the affected areas and
held forth no immediate hope.
Popping in the tinder-dry wood
lands like firecrackers, the thous
ands of blazes ravaged hundreds
of square miles of wilderness and
occasionally scourged farmlands
throughout New England, the
Midwest, East and South. A pall
of smoke over much of these
regions warned of the peril.
An assistant forest superinten
dent in Missouri said it was “the
worst situation in 13 years.”
There were similar comments
from forest officials in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts,
which closed their woodlands to
the public; from Kentucky, where
16-year-old boys were excused
from school to help fight the
flames; from Pennsylvania, where
suspension of the hunting season
is being considered, and from Ar
kansas, where State Forester Fred
Lang warned residents:
“The forest fire situation is out
of control. Your homes, your
towns and even your lives are in
danger.”
Only in Wisconsin was the sit
uation better today. Chief Ranger
Neil Le May estimated snow flur
ries had reduced the fire hazard
by 20 percent. But except in un
menaced southern Florida, n o
substantial rain has fallen. The
snow flurries were Wisconsin’s
first precipitation in 53 days.
VOICE OF NORTH
IN RINGING VERSE
There is much written these
days about Alaska and its beau
ties and hopes for statehood. Now
C. H. Duckworth adds his poetic
voice to a discussion of America’s
northernmost outpost in a new
volume of verse, “The Call of Al
aska.” It is published today by
Exposition Press of "New York
at $2.50.
Mr. Duckworth shows a strong
faith in the North and its possi
bilities, and yet, for all the infin
ity of the North’s expanse and
riches, he sounds in his verse the
first alarm calling for conserva
tion, and pleads that this richness
I not be slashed and gouged away
ruthlessly—as has been the case
in the American Northwast.
The verse itself is strong and
manly, and it has vigorous rolling
force that gives the reader a feel
ing of independence, of freedom
; and of life.
C. H. Duckworth was born in
i Swanton, Md. He was educated in
local schools and by much private
reading and study. He has lived
and traveled oVCr much of Amer
ica, and today lives in Seward,
! Alaska.
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WEATHER FORECAST
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Compiled by the
’ Partly cloudy tonight becoming
mostly cloudy Thursday with oc
casional light snow flurries. Wind
light and variable tonight becom
ing NE 10-15 mph Thursday. Low
temperature expected tonight 30,
high Thursday 34.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
j 7 a.m. today: Precipitation: .01 in.
| Temperatures: high 39, low 33.
j Max. wind 27 mph from the NE.
Sun rises 7:38 a.m., sets 3:52 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 37, low 30. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 42 in 1949,
low -4 in 1909.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
! Barrow 3 Clear
Kotzebue 30 Cloudy
GambelT’' 34 Part cloudy
Nome 35 Cloudy
Unalakleet 30 Part cloudy
Bethel 31 Part cloudy
McGrath 27 Snow
Anchorage 29 Fog
Fairbanks 33 Cloudy
Whitehorse 44 Part cloudy
Edmonton 47 Part cloudy
Juneau 49 Rain
I Ketchikan 52 Cloudy
| Seattle 51 Cloudy
y_.n Francisco 57 Fog
Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
GEN. ATKINSON TO BECOME
VICE COMMANDER OF THE
ALASKAN COMMAND NOV. 23
OMAHA, Neb., UP)—Maj. Gen.
Frank A. Armstrong Jr. will be
come commanding general of the
Second Air Force at Barnsdale
Air Force Base, La., Nov. 15,
Gen. Curtis Le May, commanding
general of the Strategic .Air Com
mand, announced Monday.
Gen. Armstrong succeeds Maj.
Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson, who will
become vice commander of the
Alaskan Command Nov. 23.
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Koje POW Demonstration
Results in One Red Killed
PUSAN, Korea, (/P)—American
guards killed one North Korean
prisoner and wounded 74 others
in breaking up a demonstration
on bloody Koje Island Sunday,,
the Army announced Tuesday.
No Americans were injured.
The Allied prisoner of war
command said two platoons of
U.S. infantry entered a 500-man
compound and used bayonets and
gun butts to restore order when
the North Korean prisoners re
fused to break up a military drill.
The POW command said action
was taken when it became obvious
th^ prisoners had set up a “chain
of intentional harrassment.”
CRIME 'EVIDENCE' FOUND
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., (/P)—
An early morning visitor to West
Frankfort’s dump found a hand
and a foot and suspected a crime
had been committed.
Sheriff’s deputies soon solved
the case with this report: There
had been a hospital amputation
and the hand and foot got into
the rubbish which was dumped.
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