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Sen. W. Kerr Scott and Alaska Tin
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The Congressional hearing on Tuesday is a very!
Important one and anyone having an interest in the
development of the natural resources of the Second
Division should be keenly interested in this visit of
Senator W. Kerr Scott, who comes to see for himself;
the only place in North America that can supply thej
United States with tin, as we now depend on the Com
munist-shadowed countries of Bolivia, Belgian Congo,1
Nigeria and the Malay states.
Tin has become an important essential of our mod-;
ern life, a mineral for which no substitute has been i
found and without which we cannot get along. With a
known quantity of thousands of tons of ore right in
America’s front yard as well as a potential as yet not
evaluated, the t^me seems right to put industry on a
sound and business-like basis by the establishment of
a base price by the government over a period of ten
years, making it possible for private industry to make
the necessary investment for the venture.
If Congress will establish and sustain the base price
now in the proposed amendment, there will be three
outstanding benefits. First, the payrolls of the several
companies who have indicated they will go into opera
tion will help solve the serious employment problem of
this part of Alaska. Second, it will encourage the mining
and prospecting for other strategic minerals, and Third,
America will be protected from ever being completely
cut off from a supply of tin.
HALLOWE’EN
By HAROLD SALISBURY
Gobs of goblins,- hosts of ghosts
And cavalcades of shades that coast
And glide in ghoulish glee to glean
Pranks and tricks on Hallowe’en !
Through the warped and sagging doors
Through the ceilings and the floors
Through the broken window panes
* Down the chimneys, up the vanes,
In the holes and out the cracks
Through the walls and stovepipe stacks,
No room in the creepy dwelling
But that hears their swish imp-elling !
No hall,- dusty, vacant, colti,
But their whispering whimpers hold
Never attic, cellar, stoop,
But re-echoes to the swoop
Of their silent whirr and wiggle
As they spin a hollow giggle
In the orgies that they do
All the spooky night-long through !
Gobs of goblins,- hosts of ghosts
And cavalcades of shades that coast
And glide in ghoulish glee to glean
Pranks and tricks on Hallowe’en !
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Russia Has Set Off
Over 12 A-Bombs
Since Sept. 1954
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., UR—A
consultant to industry on atomic
energy says there has been more
than a dozen atomic explosions in j
Russia since September 1954.
Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, director of
the Nuclear Science Service at
Washington and a division direc
tor of the Manhattan Project dur
ing World War II, made the asser
tion Friday in addressing a con
vention of more than 1,000 Con
necticut school teachers.
Noting the Atomic Energy Com
mission has promised to “inform
the people about Soviet atomic
explosions when they are of any
importance,” Lapp added:
“I believe that the detonation of
more than a dozen bombs by the
Soviet Union since September of
last year is of great significance.
Why are the American people not
being given these facts by our
government?”
The scientist said the answer
seemed to him to be multiple.
“Either they (the AEC) think
American people will panic, or
that they will resist a balanced
budget, or perhaps they will turn
pacificst.”
He went on to say that “the
facts of the past 13 months show
clearly the Russians are drawing
abreast of us in the art of making
atomic bombs.”
Worldwide Holdings of
Defense Department
Valued at $123,866,000,000
WASHINGTON, UR—'Worldwide
Defense Department holdings of
property, equipment and supplies
have been valued by the Pentagon
at $123,866,000,000.
This figure was given in the
first published tabulation of mili
tary investments, made public
Saturday. Such durable items as
land, buildings and ships were
computed on the basis of original
construction cost, rather than
present value.
The report, submitted to the
President and Congress, carried
figures as of Jan. 1, 1955. It put
tflie highest valuation—$56,428,
000,000—on Navy holdings. The
Army was valued at $34,082,000
000 and the Air Force at $33,356,
000,000.
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Knowland Demands Russia Withdraw
From Satellites as Price of Security
Pan Am Files New
30-Day Excursion
Fares With CAB
JUNEAU—Pan American World
Airways has filed with the Civil
Aeronautics Board a schedule of
30-day excursion fares which will
permit Alaska residents to take
advantage of recently reduced
transcontinental air-coach fares, it
was announced in Seattle by D. E.
McMorran, PAA traffic and sales
superintendent.
The new fares will permit com
bining short limit domestic air
coach rates with the reduced
round-trip fares just filed by Pan
American for service between
Portland, Seattle, and points in
Alaska. The lower round-trip
fares between Alaska points and
eastern cities of New York, Wash
ington or Baltimore are subject to
air-coach baggage and stop over
restrictions on the domestic por
tions of through trips. Travel un
der the reduced rates applies only
to Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednes
days or Thursdays, and trips must
be completed within 30 days. Mc
Morran pointed out that “These
are strictly short-limit excursion
fares, but they will be money
saving for persons travelling
straight through to eastern points
from those Alaska cities served by
Pan Am’s recently lowered Alaska
fares.”
Northeast Hit Again by
Strong Winds and Rain
By the Associated Press
A strong wind and rain storm
hit the northeastern states Sun
day. For a time there was fear of
floods, but latest reports today in
dicated this danger had subsided.
Two deaths by drowning were
blamed on the storm and four
other persons died in traffic acci
dents {luring the downpour yes
terday.
The heavy downpour raised
flood fears in an area made jittery
by two flood disasters earlier this
season. Connecticut was put on a
preliminary flood alert last night.
A short violent storm with
winds up to 100 miles an hour tore
through Nedrow, a Syracuse, N.Y.,
suburb, breaking windows and
ripping airplanes from their moor
ings at an airfield.
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*' WASHINGTON OP)—Sen. Know
land (R-Calif) demanded Friday
that the free world make Russian
withdrawal of military forees
from its satellite nations the price
of any guarantee for Russian
security in Europe.
Knowland, the Senate Republi
can leader, said any action at Ge
neva granting the Soviets a “sanc
tuary” in Europe and freeing them
for exploitations in Asia will be
thoroughly explored” by the Sen
ate.
Knowland spoke out in a speech
before the National Conference of
Business Paper Editors shortly af
ter a Geneva announcement that
the U.S., Britain and France had
offered Russia a nine-point “trea
ty of assurance” against German
aggression.
Apparently without advance
knowledge of the terms of this
offer, Knowland assailed what he
called Russian efforts to “build
a neutral wall through Germany
to the Scandinavian^ countries of
the north.”
Knowland said if Russia has
guaranteed security in Europe, it
could place “full industrial power
and unlimited numbers of ‘volun
teers’ ” at the disposal of Commu
nist China. ,
Knowland said the way might
be opened for “Soviet-type bomb
ers with Chinese markings” to
penetrate the American radar
screen in Alaska and Canada and
draw retaliation only on the main
land of China.
“The life of our Republic and
the free world may be at stake in
the first critical 48 hours,” he said.
Britain Cuts Army by
100.000 to Keep in Step
With Nuclear Age
LONDON, (iP)—A plan to cut its
armed forces by 100,000 men in
the next 2V£ years has been an
nounced officially by Britain.
A government policy statement
said Friday the reduction will be
- made by moving the present call
! up age of 18 to approximately 19
by March 1958. Current estimates
put Britain’s military strength at
800.000 men.
Discussing reserve forces, the
' government white paper said they
still were needed “but in a nuclear
age the conception of reserve forc
es waiting to take part in large
scale conventional war is out of
' date.”
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