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Last Session of Congress Credited With
Most Significant Mining Law Reforms
WASHINGTON, —A House
Interior Committee staff report
today credited the last session of
Congress with making “the most
significant change in the mining
laws of the United States in more
than 80 years.”
The report referred to Public
Law 167, designed to bar “false”
mining claims 'by providing for
multiple use of the surface of the
same tracts of public lands.
Additionally, the staff report
said, Congress this year passed
“probably more” mining legisla
tion than any previous session.
Among the more major actions it
included new laws which:
Permit mineral development of
public lands withdrawn for re
served power sites.
Provide for mineral claims on
lands classified as being valuable
for coal deposits.
Discussing the new law relating
to multiple use of land, the com
mittee staff explained it (1) re
serves to the United States the
surface right on unpatented min
ing claims on public lands, (2)
forbids future claims for mining
of common varieties of pumice,
pumicite and cinders, and (3) re
quires that unpatented mining
claims be used only for mining.
Many national organizations,
including the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, the American Federa
tion of Labor, the Izaak Walton
League and the American Mining
Congress supported this legisla
tion, the report said.
Backers of the bill in Congress
contended that in some instances
persons locating mining claims on
public lands were doing so for the
purpose of cutting timber or es
tablishing homes or commercial
enterprizes. Such operations are
prohibited by the new law.
The change in the status of
lands withdrawn for power sites
by the government will permit
mineral entries on about seven
million acres of land, most of
which has been closed to mining
for 45 years.
Port of New York
Tied Up by Walkout
NEW YORK, MV-A walkout of
longshoremen tied up the entire
Port of New York today. Their
leaders said the walkout might
spread along the whole East Coast
by Monday.
The work stoppage stemmed
from a dispute between the Inter
national Longshoremen’s Assn.,
independent, and the New York
New Jersey Waterfront Commis
sion. The union contends—and the
commission denies—that the com
mission has been harsh and dis
criminatory against the ILA.
Infiltrators Sabotage
Israeli Installations;
Gaza Frontier Quiet
JERUSALEM, MP)—An Israeli
military spokesman said infiltra
tors from Jordon blew up two
water installations early today
near Israel’s Tirat Zvi settlement,
.in the central Jordan valley area.
The spokesman said a truck
was damaged by explosives in the
same region. No incidents were
reported along the Israeli-Egyp
tian Gaza frontier where a cease
fire pledge was renewed Sunday.
An estimated 60 persons were
killed and 100 wounded in recent
violence in the Egyptian-held
Gaza area.
British sources in London said
last night Britain, France and the
U.S. plan to call for a special
meeting of the U. N. Security
Council n a move to prevent fur
ther outbreaks between Israel and
Egypt.
L.A. Suffers in
8th Straight Day
Of 100 Plus Heat
(By the Associated Press)
Sun-baked Los Angeles felt an
other blast of blistering heat to
day and the sodden Texas Gulf
Coast got another drenching from
squalls.
The eighth straight day of 100
or higher temperatures was fore
cast for Los Angeles, where 73
deaths have been attributed to the
heat wave.
The heat has taken a heavy toll
of chickens and rabbits. Tomatoes
and cut flowers have been dam
aged extensively. The avocado
and walnut crops have been heat
burned.
One of the worst forest fires in
Pacific Coast history was burning
near Eureka, a little northern
California logging town. Some
100,000 acres were ablaze.
Waves of flame swept across
tens of thousands of acres of
parched timber and brush land
elsewhere in California and in
neighboring Oregon.
However, fire fighters reported
they had checked a major fire in
the Sequoia National Forest in
east centi'al California. The fire
once threatened the famed Grant
Grove of giant sequoia trees. One
of these, the Gen. Grant, is be
lieved to be the oldest tree in the
world.
The squalls along the Texas
coast were from the backlash of
the tropical storm Gladys. The
storm, finally breaking up in
Mexico’s mountains, dumped up
to almost 11 inches of rain in
some Corpus Christi Bay areas.
Chief Webb Has Plan
For Children’s Activities
In Place of Trick-or-Treat
Fire and Police Chief Carl C.
Webb has a plan to take the
place of children trick-or-treat
ing on Halloween, and he wishes
all civic organizations or other
interested local groups would get
in touch with him to set up a
meeting so his plan can be dis
cussed. Webb says his plan was
put in effect in Morton, Wash.,
last year with good results and
entails a community - wide pro
gram of parades and high-jinks
for the youngsters with prizes
being awarded for best costumes
and the like.
Webb stated he would be will
ing to set up a program if the
townspeople will make known
their wishes -in the matter. He
may be contacted at any time at
the police station.
U.S. Congressman Held
At Pistol Point by Soviet
Officer Near Moscow
WASHINGTON, UP)—Rep. Holt
(R-Calif) reported today he was
detained for more than an hour in
a suburb of Moscow last Wednes
day by a Soviet army lieutenant
who held a cocked pistol at his
head.
Holt said he was accompanied
by a member of the staff of the
American embassy, and asked for
permission of three teachers to
photograph them and the school
building.
When permission was refused,
Holt said, he took no pictures.
But when he returned to his car
the Soviet army lieutenant ap
peared and demanded his identi
fication passport • and identifica
tion card of the embassy official.
Holt said he was getting in the
car at the time but the officer or
dered him out. He said he stayed
where he was on advice of the
embassy official, who had not yet
stepped into the car.
He said the officer “took out
his revolver, cocked it, held it a
foot from my head and ordered
me out of the car.”
“I was at the point of saying
‘Let’s go’ when a colonel in the
Red Army came down the road,
pushed through the crowd, and
said we could go after looking at
my passport and the embassy of
ficial’s identification card.”
Three Escape Injury
In Helicopter Crash
KODIAK, 0?*)—Three men es
caped with minor injuries Satur
day when their helicopter hit a
downdraft and crashed near Chig
nik, on the Alaska Peninsula some
250 miles southwest of here.
The men, all employes of the
Humbold Oil Co., of Houston,
Texas, were making a recbnnais
ance survey of the area.
Thousands of Turks in Anti-Greek
Riots Said Incited by Communists
B Street Closed To Traffic
During School Hours Until
Playground Is Arranged
Chief of Police Carl Webb an
nounced today that B Street will
be closed to traffic from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. so that the school chil
dren will have a place to play
before school and during recess.
Barricades will be placed on the
street and school boy patrols will
tend the barricades and direct the
traffic.
This rerouting of traffic will be
in effect during school hours until
a school playground can be ar
ranged.
Traffic to Nome Field will go
out 1st Ave., at B Street, to C
Street then north on C to Third,
thence out to the base. Traffic
from the Bessie Road will detour
around the CAA area or go down
Steadman Ave.
68 Escape Death
In Flaming Crash
Of Globemaster
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., IjPi—
Sixty-eight men miraculously es
caped death yesterday in the
white-hot pyre of a four-engined
C-124 Globemaster which crashed
on takeoff during a dust storm,
killing one man.
One of the 68 was reported in
serious condition at the Sandia
base hospital. Three others were
released after treatment.
The huge Air Force transport,
from Biggs Air Force Base, ' El
Paso, went almost the full length
of the runway at Kirtland AFB
on the last leg of a “restricted
mission” to March AFB, Calif. It
cleared the ground but then hit
again and skidded several hun
dred feet before pancaking on a
shoulder of the runway.
Earlier in the day, a C-119 Fly
ing Boxcar on its way to Kirtland
crashed soon after leaving Eng
land AFB, La. Four men wer6
killed in the crash and two in
jured. The plane was carrying
classified cargo.
Cause of yesterday’s crash was
unknown. Officials at the base
said the alert crew had all hatches
open within one minute after the
plane crashed. Intense heat pre
vented rescue crews from reach
ing the lone victim.
George Bell, son of Mr .and
Mrs. Bert Bell, and who worked
in the N.C. Store for the past two
years, left yesterday for Fair
banks where he will enroll at the
University of Alaska. George was
awarded a territorial scholarship
authorized by the last legislature.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, (4V—Vio
lent *nti-Greek riots have swept
over Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey’s
largest cities, causing millions of
dollars worth of property damage.
The government imposed mar
tial law on both cities last night
after a four-hour wave of destruc
tion and yet uncounted casualties.
It was able to lift the state of
siege today, however.
A communique issued in An
kara, the capital, said Istanbul
and all of Turkey were “objects
of a Communist plot and incite
ment.”
It was the first outbreak here
stemming from the dispute over
the future of the strategic island
of Cyprus, the British crown col
ony in the Mediterranean which
once belonged to Turkey. Greece
demands that the islanders be
allowed to vote for union with
Greece, but is opposed by Britain
and Turkey. The Turkish govern
ment has declared that if Britain
gives up Cyprus it should be re
turned to Turkey.
Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin
Rostu Zorlu announced in London
today that a nine-day conference
of British, Turkish and Greek
foreign ministers on this issue had
ended without agreement.
The communique issued in An
kara implied that Red agents had
inspired the mobs of young Turks
last night, playing on their re
sentment of the Greek demands
for Cyprus.
It expressed sorrow for the dis
orders and regret for the grave
damage to shops, homes and other
property owned by persons of
Greek descent. It promised speedy
compensation and added:
“All necessary steps have been
taken and will be taken to restore
immediately public peace and or
der violated by these incidents.”
Istanbul and Izmir (formerly
Smyrna) both originally were
Greek cities and have retained
large Greek populations through
out Turkish history.
Premier Adnan Menderes flew
to Istasbul from Ankara last night
to take charge personally of the
restoration of order. Even before
martial law was imposed, troops
and marines, some in tanks, went
into the ancient metropolis on the
Bosporus to quell the thousands
of rioters roaming its streets.
Cyprus itself was the scene of
violence and armed police guard
ed the Greek counsulate
LIGHTNING KILLS TWO
SERVICEMEN IN JAPAN
SENDAI, Japan, (S)—Lightning
killed two men of the U.S. 5th
Regiment on maneuvers and
slightly burned 14 others near
here last night, the Army said.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
is OPPORTUNITY for ALASKA
Convention convenes November 8th, 1955.
Election of Delegates September 13th.
Your vote shows your interest—Vote wisely.
Your vote for me September 13th will be appreciated.
—John A. “Mac” McNees
Vote September 13th Election
For Your Delegates To The Alaska State
Constitutional Convention
VOTE for ART (ARTHUR D.) JOHNSON
September 13th as your Delegate, District No. 7,
Alaska Stale Constitutional Convention
Born at Haycock, Alaska, 35 years ago.
Raised and schooled in the Second Division.
Served four years in the Armed Service.
Ten years actively serving you as a bush pilot.
Lives at Unalakleet where he is raising his family.
Knows Alaska’s problems and will serve intelligently
as your Delegate. .
Vote for ART (Arthur D.) JOHNSON
SEPTEMBER 13th