Sourdough of Kotzebue
And Flat Takes First
Trip “Out” Since 1925
SEATTLE, UP — Times have
changed since '98 for Joe Mitchell,
an old Alaska sourdough, and
since 1925, too.
Visiting here with a former
neighbor .at Flat, Mrs. Jess Blake
well, the 73 - year - old veteran
prospector reminisced how he and
three companions arrived on Kot
zebue Sound in a schooner in
•98.
“We heard there was gold, and
that was enough to keep me
there,” he said.
Years of prospecting and mining
and putting “all the money we
made” back in more mining
equipment followed and then in
1925 he made a trip “outside,”
the last until this year.
“It took me 45 days then to
go from Flat to Fairbanks by dog
sled, a distance of about» 400
miles,” he mused.
The elderly bachelor will return
north some time next month to
where “There’s moose and ducks,
land for prospecting and I’ve got
a boat and house.”
“I never would have come out
this time if it hadn’t been for the
airplane,” he said.
Ex-State Dept. Man
Convicted on Two
Counts of Perjury
NEW YORK, UP) — William W.
Remington, former government
economist, was convicted Tuesday
of perjury in denying he ever
gave secret government data to
Elizabeth Berttley foT relay to
Russia.
He also was convicted on a sec
ond perjury count for falsely de
nying knowledge of the existence
of a unit of the Young Communist
League at Dartmouth College
when he was a student there in
the 1930s.
Remington was shaky on his
feet after the verdict. Before it
was announced, he sat pale and
nervous at the defense counsel
table, fidgeting and aimlessly pick
ing at the leaves of a pocket dic
tionary.
Remington, 35, could be sen
tenced up to 10 years in prison
and $4,000 in fines on the two
counts. This would be twice the
penalty he drew on a previous
conviction — which he got re
versed on appeal.
The federal court jury’s verdict
left further charges hanging over
his head.
The jury acquitted the hand
some one-time $10,000-a-year De
partment of Commerce employe
on one count of a five-count in
dictment. This charged him with
falsely denying he ever recruited
anyone into the Communist Party.
Miss Bentley, admitted former
courier for a Soviet spy ring, was
a prosecution witness against
Remington at both trials. She said
he gave her War Production
Board information.
AUTHORITY PREDICTS
GOLD PRICE HIKE TO
$52. 0 PER OZ. IN 1953
(The Alaska Weekly)
NEW YORK — The price of
gold will advance to $52.50 an
crunce in 1953, is the prediction of
Dr. Franz Pick, publisher of Pick’s
World Currency Reports, a publi
cation used as reference on eco
nomic, monetary and gold matters
by governments, banks and other
financial institutions.
Dr. Pick’s prediction was made
in Toronto- recently at a meeting
of the Prospectors and Developers
Association. He is a recognized
authority in his field.
Dr. Pick could not say exactly
when the gold price advance
would come, but he said a change
in general policy of western na
tions would take place in six
weeks, and added that “the end of
the road has been reached nearly
everywhere” and the “economic
storm flags are up.”
Br-r-r — It’s REALLY
Cold in Fairbanks!
FAIRBANKS, OP) — Fairbanks
had its coldest day of the winter
Monday as the mercury plunged
to 54 below zero, but the weather
man said it was unlikely the cur
rent cold snap would set any new
records.
The lowest ever recorded here
was 66 below.
That figure of 66 below was the
exact reading, however, Monday
at Fort Yukon, 100 miles to the
north. And at Dunbar, 30 miles
west of here, it got down to 68
below.
A high of 45 below and a low
of 49 were reported in the 24-hour
period ending 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Misformed shell fish are most
likely to have pearls in them.
‘Saucer’ Report Released
Pilot Spots Small,
Metallic Disk Over
Northern Japan
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
U.S. Air Base, Northern Japan,
(.2F—The U.S. Air Force Tuesday
night reported a small, metallic,
disc-shaped object made a con
trolled, sweeping pass at an Am
erican jet fighter-bomber and was
observed at very close range by
another pilot.
The report, from Air Force in
telligence files,’ said the sighting
was made over northern Japan
at 11:20 a.m., March 29, 1952, by
Lt. David C. Brigham of Rockford,
Illinois.
It was a bright, cloudless day.
Brigham said he got a very good
look at the object from about 30
to 50 feet for about 10 seconds.
The pilot described it as “about
eight inches in diameter, very
thin, round, and shiny as polished
chromium, had no apparent pro
jections and left no exhaust trails
or vapor trails.”
He said it caught up with an
F-84 Thunderjet, hovered a few
moments and then shot out of
sight. The F-84 pilot, whose name
was not revealed, did not see it.
It was the second disclosure in
a week by Air Force intelligence
of mysterious flying objects over
northern Japan near the Russian
Siberian area.
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