First Guns Are
Nats.’ — Firing On
Red Planes
By SPENCER MOOSA
TAIPEI, Frmosa, OP — Nation
alist Chinese antiaircraft guns on
Quemoy punctuated the cease
fire in the Formosa Strait Tues
day . afternoon, firing on eight
Communist planes which flew
over the offshore island.
The Nationalist defense min
istry said the Red aircraft did
not attack and were not hit by
the Nationalist fire. They flew
back toward the mainland.
The Quemoy antiaircraft bat
teries were the first guns to go
off in the area since the Commu
nists proclaimed a seven-day
ceasefire, effective 40 hours
before.
Observers in Taipei did not
consider the Quemoy truce had
necessarily been broken, since
the earlier Communist announce
ment had spoken only of halting
the artillery bombardment against
besieged Quemoy and the neigh
boring Nationalist islets.
U. S. Navy ships escorted more
supplies to Quemoy Wednesday,
again defying the Red demand
that the cease-fire be accompan
ied by a halt to the American
convoying.
The Reds had announced they
would halt their attacks on the
islands for a week beginning Sun
day midnight if the Americans
stopped escorting the Chinese Na
tionalist supply ships. But Mon
day and again Tuesday they of
fered no opposition to National
ist convoys which still were shep
herded by ships of the U. S. 7th
Fleet to the three-mile limit off
Quemoy.
Supplies also were dropped on
Quemoy from Nationalist C4
transports.
PIONEER WOMEN POSTPONE
FRIDAY MEETING
Pioneer Women of Alaska Aux
iliary No. 1 will not meet this
Friday, so members can attend
the USO show. Another meeting
night will be announced later.
this month.
Reception For, British
Army Recruit
YORK, England, — Alan
Yansley joined the British Army
Tuesday, and you never heard of
such a reception.
As he sauntered out of his
train at York station, a welcom
ing delegation of soldiers from
his new regiment came up the
platform to greet him.
Capt. Peter Fleming, leading
the welcoming group, explained
he was adjutant, shook hands,
and escorted Yansley off to the
nearby camp in an army car.
At the camp headquarters the
commanding officer, Maj. J. S.
Wood, stepped forward, shook
Yansley’s hand enthusiastically,
and gave him a government sav
ings bond.
Yansley was getting the idea
the British Army must be in
pretty bad shape for manpower.
Then the commanding officer
started his welcoming speech.
Yansley, said the happy major,
was the regiment's 200th recruit
of the year, the man who ful
filled their recruiting target.
It was wonderful while it
lasted. Wednesday Yansley went
on KP.
Frances Smith, of the Terri
torial Welfare Office, who has
been in Fairbanks shopping for
a trousseau, returned home Mon
day.
Her wedding has been an
nounced for November 8th, to
Norris Finch of the BPR.
Mrs. Larry Fagan and daughter
who have been visiting the Clem
Boucher family, returned yester
day to their home in Kotzebue,
where Mr. Fagan is with the
U. S. Weather Bureau.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy, with occasional
light snow tonight and Thursday.
Low tonight, 30; high tomor
row, 36.
2,000 persons were killed in
floods in the wake of a typhoon
in Japan in 1947.
The Nugget Editor would appre
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son who submitted a poem en
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Sitka’s Alaska
Day Festival
Enlists Military
The Alaska Day Festival in Sit
ka, which has become an annual
celebration in Sitka since 1947,
will be bigger and more spectac
ular than ever this year, it has
been announced.
The three-day celebration, Oc
tober 16th, 17th and 18th, will
have active participation of the
Army, Navy, Air Force, Codst
Guard and Marines. A 21-gun sa
lute from a Navy gunboat will
follow the lowering of the old
Russian flag, and another 21-gun
salute by the 9th Manchu Regi
ment, who furnished the original
color guard in 1867, when the
American flag is raised.
A military bank has been
promised from Fairbanks, and an
honor guard and color guard from
the Marines stationed at Kodiak.
George Beacom, former Nome
businessman, is president of the
Alaska Day Festival which in
cludes a pageant in costume
(Some of the costumes are over
a hundred years old), old fash
ioned mug-up, fashion show,
Alaska Day Ball, parade, sight
seeing trips to old historical
places, as well as to the new
Pulp Mill.
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Warren Kiyutelluk, Mildred
Murphy, Freida Green, Anthony
Shooguruk, Margaret Chase, Ag
nes Crosby.
Discharged — Phyllis Dick
man, Rueben Herman, Sig Savok,
Mildred Keelick, Robert Schick.
Sig Savok. son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Savok, who was seriously,:
injured when his car overturned
on him 1st week, has been sent
to Anchorage for hospitalization.
A series of tidal waves in 1946
in the Pacific, originating off
Alaska, killed about 150 persons
in Hawaii.
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Norway Fisheries’ Face-Lifting Intends
Substituting Frozen Fish For Dried,
To Capitalize On World Export Market
OSLO, Norway, UP) — Norway’s
huge fishing industry, one of the
world’s largest, may get a face
lifting that will be felt in world
markets.
Government-appointed experts
are making a survey of the indus
try. Their instructions were to
find a means for the fisheries to
pay their own way without the
present heavy government sub
sidies.
The committee is expected to
recommend that an v ocean-going
fleet of trawlers be built and that
the industry be geared to satisfy
the well-paying markets of west
ern Europe and the United States
rather than the traditional dried
fish markets of Latin America
and Africa.
The latter aim would be
achieved through a switch to
frozen fish from dried.
Finishing touches are being ap
plied to the report, expected to be
ready for government study some
time this month.
Most fishing in Norway has
been done along the coast by
small farmers as a sort of side
line. The fish was dried and ex
ported to markets where such
food is a regular part of the diet.
Lately, however, the coastal
catch has been cut, partly because
of intensive trawling off the coast
and partly because of changed
migration habits of the fish. The
traditional methods of lines and
drifting nets are more costly than
: trawling.
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In addition, Brazil, the biggest
market for dried cod, has been
having currency difficulties. Trade
was cut off for awhile and is
still on a very small scale, not
enough to support the industry.
The committee’s proposals, if
they follow the expected path,
will certainly create an uproar.
The thousands of small coastal
farmers will not be happy at com
petition from ocean going traw
lers. Nor will they applaud any
proposal to take away their heavy
government subsidies.
Rubbing the farmers the wrong
way could have results at the
next election.
Also, the government is ex
pected to proclaim a 12-mile fish
ing limit, a move normally con
sidered a defense against over
taxing the fisheries through heavy
trawling. Informed sources say
the government would allow
limited trawling between the pres
ent four-mile limit and the new
limit.
Since fishing is Norway’s third
largest industry, the committee’s
report is likely to stir up a lively
discussion. Norwegian- fishermen
are not known for saving their
ammunition whep they fight for
something.
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