Record 39,147 Fur Seal
Skins Auctioned In St.
Louis, 15 Per Cent Off
ST. LOUIS, UP)—Some seal skin
prices dropped as much as 15 per
cent as a record 39,147 skins were
sold in the annual fall auction of
the Fouke Fur Co. Monday.
Total receipts were $2,241,547,
compared with about $3,000,000
last year.
In brisk bidding, black Alaska
seal skins sold for around $100,
about the same as last year, but
brown skins went for an average
of $70.
The Fouke firm is the only one
authorized to' conduct seal skin
auctions in the United States.
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Mississippi River Level
Lowest In History
MEMPHIS, UP)— The Mississippi
River was believed at its lowest
level in history here Monday.
The reading was zero minus 2.75
feet. The previous low was zero
minus 2.65 feet, set in November,
1895.
“Zero-” was the lowest level the
river was believed to have ever
reached when the markers were
set in 1871.
The 2.75 reading means the
river is about 90 feet deep in
mid-channel.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage- A1 Slone, Ed
Higgins, E. Galiear, Mr. Bran
ham, J. L. Pohl, H. L. Hanner, F.
J. Fabick, Don Goodman, John
Norbert, Jr., Robert Foss, Frank
Ralston. Major Richardson.
From Anchorage: Bob Jacobs,
Wilbur Harper, Mrs. Murdock,
Mr. Branham, T. W. School.
To Kotzebue: Bertha George,
Laura Jones, E. Bohrer, C. L.
Stephenson, Alex Ivanoff.
To Unalakleet: Virginia Asick
sik.
To McGrath: Willis Gore, P.
Passafuime, Sgt. Hennigen.
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Clipper’ Service Between U.S. & Alaska
ATTY. GEN. BROWNELL
ROUNDS UP SIX MORE
COMMUNIST LEADERS
WASHINGTON, UP)—Atty. Gen.
Brownell announced Friday the
rounduR of six additional officials
of the Communist Party. The ar
rests were made by FBI agents
in Cleveland, Lorain and Steuben
ville, Ohio, and Newark, N.J.
In addition, the announcement
said a detainer had been placed
against another party functionary
now serving time in the Ohio
State Penitentiary for fictitious
car registration.
All of those involved were de
scribed as now holding or having
held positions in the Communist
Party apparatus in the Midwest.
All were charged under the
Smith Act with conspiring to ad
vocate the violent overthrow of
the United States Government.
The new move represents a
continued effort to get into cus
tody second-string leaders of the
party for prosecution similar to
that which resulted in prison sen
tences for the 11 top leaders of the
party in 1949.
To date, a total of 98 party of
ficials have been arrested or de
tained, beginning with the arrest
of the 11 in 1948.
Quadruplets Born To
Australian Mother
Living in a Tent
SYDNEY, Australia, UPi — Mrs.
Ethel Hudson, a 38-year-old
grandmother, gave birth to quad
ruplets Tuesday. The latest ar
rivals, a boy and three girls, gave
her a round dozen children,
als, a boy and three girls, gave her
a round dozen children.
Authorities said the births were
normal and mother and babies
were doing well.
They weighed between 2 lb. 13
oz. and 3 lb. 13 oz.
Mrs. Hudson had expected twins.
The family has been living in two
tents two miles out of Gilgandra.
“I suppose I’ll have to buy an
other tent,” father Z. R. Hudson
said in a telephone interview.
• sain * KAINUISUU, UP)— P'an Am
erican World Airways will intro
duce 300-mile-an-hour “Super-6
Clipper” service between the Uni
ted States and Alaska early in
1954, Col. Clarence M. Young, ex
ecutive vice president of the com
pany’s Pacific-Alaska division, an
nounced Tuesday.
Use of the DC-6Bs will slash
flight times between Seattle and
Alaska’s major cities by 25 per
cent, he said.
At the same time, Colonel
Young announced, the line will
apply for permission to reduce
fares over Pan American’s Alaska
routes. One-way fares between
Seattle and Fairbanks would be
reduced from $90 to $80, fares be
tween Juneau and Seattle would
be shaved from $55 to $53.
The new, four-engined “Super
6” Clippers will provide daily
schedules between Fairbanks and
Seattle and between Seattle,
Ketchikan and Juneau.
Flight times between Seattle
and Fairbanks will be Reduced
from eight hours to six hours.
Colonel Young also revealed
that his company is making an
application to expand its Alaska
I services. He said:
“Pan American — the airline
I which pioneered air service in Al
aska in 1932—is proposing to the
Civil Aeronautics Board that we
be permitted to provide daily pas
senger and cargo service to An
chorage.”
He said a one-way Seattle-An
chorage DC-6B fare of $75 is be
ing proposed in exhibits filed with
the Civil Aeronautics Board in
Washington, D.C., this week.
This would reduce the fare now
charged by $30. (The present one
way first-class fare is $105.)
Colonel Young also said that
Anchorage —by far the largest
market in Alaska—is the only city
which can economically support
more than one air carrier. Unec
onomic operation to Juneau and
Fairbanks is costing the American
taxpayers more than $2,000,000
a year, he asserted.
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Scottish Korea Veterans
To Go To British Guiana
To Smash Red Plotters
LONDON, UR—Tough anfcf sea
soned Scottish troops were order
ed to smoldering British Guiana
today, to help smash an alleged
Communist plot to seize power in
the South American colony.
The War Office announced that
the First Battalion — about 600
men — of the famed Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders, who
served yearly eight months in
Korea, will sail for British Guiana
on Oct. 10 aboard the giant car
rier Implacable.
The Colonial Office Tuesday
night declared the colony was
threatened by “the intrigues of
Communists and their associates
in ministerial posts.”
“If these processes were to con
tinue unchecked” a spokesman
said, “an attempt might be made
by methods which are familiar in
other parts of the world to set up
a Communist - dominated state.
This would lead to bloodshed.”
In the colony’s c a p it a 1 of
Georgetown, the left - wing peo
ple’s Progressive party, whose
leaders are accused of directing
the alleged Red plot, issued a
statement charging the Colonial
Office with “trying to create
hysteria and rob us of our rights.”
FLORENCE CHADWICK SWIMS
FROM EUROPE TO ASIA
THERAPIA Turkey, UR—Flor
ence Chadwick added to her
swimming honors Wednesday by
swimming the tricky Bosporus
from Europe to Asia and then
back to Europe.
The 33-year-old typist from San
Diego, Calif., was timed officially
in 1 hour, 14 minutes and 7
seconds.
The widest point across the lVi
mile Bosporus was chosen in or
der that the test “would not be
too easy” for Miss Chadwick, who
has gained an international repu
tation as a long distance swimmer.
Television engineers estimate
that color television sets will not
be in supply on the free market
before 1956. First sets, they say,
will cost from $800 to $1,000.
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George Bayer, Secty.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets ,
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
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Dorothy .Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
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