The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1944, Page 10

PAGE FOUR B-17°S STINGER STEPPED UP Staggered Waist Gun Positions Also New THE STINGER—Business end of the new B-17 is now FREEDOM OF ACTION—Staggered waist gun positiont the tail where the new swivel turret of the Flying of the new Forts, allowing freedom of action, are Fortress gives the gunner a 90-degree arc of fire. demonstrated here by girl final assembly werkers. By BIRT DARLING Central Press Correspondent tepping up the stin of the Flying Fort— 1 that isn't all. > research oning turret ¢ g | deadly gun give the machine of fir s contrasted ler turret's 60-degree g of fire, ways and stinger now can lash out with hal | again as many rounds as the old type! The waist gun ports in the new version of this famed bomber have been emdarged and closed with | plexiglass to keep out the bitter THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA DEVELOPINGNEW ' TYPE MINERALS NN W, ALASKA Interesting and significant infor- mation regarding investigation and ‘(le\'(‘lc;;m(-nt of deposits of asbestos |and nephrite, a, near relative of | jade, in the remote Kobuk River | region of Northwestern Alaska is ;.rurmshvd by Eskil W. Anderson, | ociate Mining Engineer for the Territorial Department of Mines. Anderson has arrived in Juneau | from his headquarters at Nome in {order to report to B. D, Stewart, | Commissioner of Mines, the results of his extensive field examinations in the northwest section of the | Territory during the past season | Anderson brought with him striking | specimens of both asbestos and the | jade-like nephrite, which are on | view in the office of the Commis: sioner of Mines. Investigates Deposits Althcugh the occurrence of both |of these minerals in the Kobuk |River region has been known for veral decades, and brief report ‘upon them were published many | vears ago both by the U. S. Geo- | logical Survey and by the Terri-| | terial Department of Mines, it is |only within the past two years |that detailed and extensive in- | vestigations of the deposits have !been undertaken. | | Much of Anderson’s time during | ithis perfod has been spent ir ino afoot the extensive belt rock: | within which |by dealers in the States. djacent to the Kobuk River Valley and some of its tribu- taries, particularly Shungnak River, which the mineralization occurs. As a result of his observa- tions and findings exploratory trenching and other testing work was undertaken during the past season by a party in charge of H. E. Heide of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, with whom Anderson co- operated closely. Development Be; As the investigations progressed and the potential importance of the deposits became known locally, the Arctic Exploration Company, cenducts ge-scale placer operations at Candle, near the north shore of Seward Peninsula and not far from the mouth of the Kobuk River, decided to undertake commercial development cf the deposits. This work has been car- ried on actively by the company with heavy mechanical equipment during the past season and with a crew averaging about 15 men Before navigation closed on Kobuk River, over 20 tons of v high-grade tremolite asbestos was mined and shipped to Kotzebue, the nearest ocean port to the mouth of the river. The the material was transported steamer to the States. Further exploration of the tre- molite deposits by means of power drills is being continued dur the winter season. It that a substantially nage of asbestcs will be mined and shipped from the region next year. During the pas ar, termolite shestos has been eagerly sought Material of the type and |1un'ty of that the is probable | increased ton- | | vestigation of the Noatak River Valley, where | shipped from the Kobuk River region is scarce and - therefore in great demand. Its most important use is as a filter in the chemical industry. Asbestos Deposit ‘The type of asbestos known as chrysolite also occurs in the Shung- nak River section of the Kobuk River region. This type has very tough fibers and is used manufacture of fireproof textiles. It is still on the Production Board list of most critical miner- als and the highest grade material ccmmands a price of from $650 to $750 per ton in eastern markets. The jade material occurs in the same region within a belt approxi- mately 40 miles long that lies pa allel to the Kobuk River and a distance of from five to 15 miles north of the river. It is found principally in the form of float material in gravels of reams tributary to the Kobuk River that Cri cut the mineralized zone Jade in place in badrock also oc- curs on Jade Mountain in the Jade Hills and elsewhere in the Shungnak region. Particular interest the material at this time because is thought the Eskimos of the region may be able to use it in the preparation of attractive art ob- jects, and thus be supplied with a new “home” industry. New Find Made In addition to his work in the Kobuk River regicn, Anderson, em- ploying three Eskimos as guides and assistants, made a trip of in- to the central section attaches to Eskimos had reported the occur- in the| rence of copper minsrahzation.‘: This journey, which commenced at the mouth of Salmon River, a| northerly tributary of the Kobuk | |above Kiana, required walking a distance of approximately 75 miles ! across the Baird Range of Moun- | tains, which separates the Valley | |of the Noatak River from that of | the Kobuk. | The region covered in this in- vestization had never before been | professicnally examined and few| perscns except Eskimos have visited | it. Anderson found correct the re- ports given him by the Eskimos, whose statements are usually de-! pendable in such cases. The rogionl is extensively mineralized and af-| fords an attractive and almost un- | touched field for prospecting. ! Full reports cn all of these in-! vestigations are now being prépared | in the office of the Territorial Commissioner of Mines and will be | vailable to the public as soon as| completed. | BASEBALL MEN TALK OF POST-WAR PLANS BUFFALO, N. Y. Dei. Hmi fessional football “was scolded by the International League as “un- friendly and unfair competitior juntil after the end of the basebal |season” but the opening of th: ,meeting of the Forty-third Annua :Minm' League Convention was jus! |another routine affair aside from appeinting a credentials committee | |and a resolutions committee. The |baseball men were more occupied Iiu drawing post-war plans. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1944 FDR NOMINATIONS “a 0 FOR STATE DEPT. '} ARE KICKED BACK WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 — Presi- dent Roosevelt's personal sele@tions to help him in running the States Department bounced back from the Fareign Relations Committee from an unsatisfied majority. Senate Chairman Connally called up the nominations yesterday, but the Senate roll call vote was 37 to 27 and they were promptly sent back the same way. The nominations were approved by the committee on Tuesday out hearings. A vociferous group of lawmakers, some of them New Dealt” B érs, demanded. opportunity to learn # more about the men's political phil-* osophies. This action affected Joseph Grew, former Ambassador to Japan, des- ignated Under-Secretary; Will Clay- ton, forier cotton dealer end erst- while Assistant Secretary of Com- merce, named Assistant Secretary of State; Nelson Rockefeller, Coor- dinator of Inter-American Aflairs,‘ as Assistant Secretary: and Archid bald MacLeish, poet and Librdifun . n ~f Congress, also Assistant Secre- ary. # sl T A VISITING JUNEAU Mrs. Daniels and Mrs. A. Snow are visiting ,in Juneau, and are staying at the Gastineau Hotel. B -, IN JUNEAU Kesovia, from Sitka, Peter i |staying at the Gastineau Hotel. j | | 43 who th of m effective again have hit upon a methods 1 up the our coup! It can now be revealed that the | sub-stratospheric cold that for already battle- [ long has heen one of the greatest enemics of fighting airmen. Noise will be reduced consider- adding balm to airmen’s This modiucation at the sclage positions will give B-17 more enemi other lying adc turret has been tested. | Better View | Its full plexiglass sides and top [ably, ive your gunner a better and |nerves. b | quicke the of ¥ in tiog A PRt 'r view of attacking fighters |side fu o Was ~ B those peeling off “deflection shot t gives him a bet- . foe, and its armor particularly from above for a its reflector ter shot at t plate, | all-around “flak cu ing around the | peeged protection s and “staggered” | anti-ajreraft fir waist gun por the y €OV-| chine gun burs ered-in waist positions so that the| gunners won't get in each other's ! cyadra way. ' The Flying Fortress tail-gunner wil henceforth operate from a for ammunition, AP ARGUMENT S, " CONCLUDED TODAY; FOR FREE PRESS aga wdel of the off the Aircraft corpor Cal, will b for the g The bomber at the L tion, Bu greater visibil more gun newer n and fighter ma- e of ‘inch-thick | proof glass has been place n front of the gunner's well, quare- ace. A the new AP by-la heir face are Chaiwes Attorney Gen- of the rnment trust suit nst n Cahill ¢ udgment, ative. r court’ the AP t -laws regarding the plicants to member- eDe 9 Argu- case WASHINGTON ment in the Associated Press concluded 3 Court_teday, w Attorney proach the peace is greatly prefe to Gove Cahill spoke ments . by Gover 1 the eme AP |4 1 papers. 1f the might as well be- ly, and if the EMOTIONAL TASK AHEAD By ESTHER V. W. TUFTY Central Press Correspondent WASHINGTON-—Just the aver- age GI Joe faces a tough personal reconversion to civilian life even if he is not wounded, has not combat service, or has not X oF MANY E been this. And the d in a spirit of erything we can for Congress did, in such stering out pa loang, education- al opportunities. cannot legislate That - ‘of adjust- rning fight- ones, his commun- 1 in Washington ng opin- the of GI Joe That man is Col. William C. Men- ger, chief of the division of neu- ropsychiatry, office of the surgeon general, and fc y of the Men- ninger clinic in T medical circl one of the country's leading psy- chiatri Th Col. William C. Menninger colonel m. ; - : Ty termined to spend their possibly st f oments living gensat 1 1g down to humdrum farms and bit of ad- GI probler are his own. ion- Probl The returs to find it ¢ Some left 1s on Returning ng vetera om | Jus n al s and will | gaB, ¥ ] ¥ uch about | % as boy ght fr exe pay-fay celebration t—for the every | day excitement of a war situation,’ il Took for | Colonel Menninger says. will not find| ~“A man who drives his tank, vic- me too de. | torious, the 200 miles from Cher- omed to | bourg to Canncs will never again e ¢ a moment like that. Such an upsetting th and acting” lush war jc {similar one m. Some x| cated in civilian life.” | What can be done? Colonel Men- ninger hopes we will not rep our World War I mistakes w a rest- | the veter Let us not give them will be|a lot of flag-waving and armistice | cel i in welcoming the home her: only to fc them two later and leave them to shift for them ves. But, w 1018, most veterans | will have seen longer service and e time they have been | three tin sgrasping at mo 'y things, de- rthose who served. {habit of . themselves. 4 Some have been living out of {knapsacks for so 1 W developed a 1 lessness so great t hard for them to s Harde: r the warriors Pl ment ‘< A’ro ;| dom ¢ which is in the nature of an | On top of all this, an expansive | bullet- | o it would compel the AP takes : : AP comes a monopoly I have no al tempo cannot be dupli as many will be among | {he gunners a great deal more free- action in the heat of battle. re protection is provided frontal attacks, too, in r moveability in the “cheek” guns in the nose, making it possi- ble to fire them in arcs which ex tend from the sides of the B-11 | nose almost straight backward o forward. Armor plate of heavy - platet 1 has been added at every gu jon on the bomber as a mean | of deflecting ack-ack. have to that will AP but |doubt that it will |regulated. I think be bad for the country as well.” |EASTERN SQUAL not for QUAD READY FOR NEW YEAR'S GAME NEW YORK, Dec. 9—William M. Coffman, G M of the East-West footh ame to be play ¢d in San Francisco on January 1. said the eastern sguad will meet Nerthwestern University at Evans- n, T, on Decembe: then leave that night for the west co ager -SERVICEMEN “Adjustment does not take place | in a month or even a couple of | years: Families and communities, like the government, long-range plans and avoid a post- armistice emotional slump,” says the colonel. The psychi stresses the need for the = achieving “security and satisfactien,” the es- sence of reconversion. Yo secure these, a permanent job he likes is | imperative. | Meanwhile, GI bill benefits will | help him until such a job can be | found. But the GI bill, for all its | worth, eannot provide what his | own family can towards his return to “life as usual.” Beware those who say, “Look what we did for you—what more do you expect?” Colonel Menninger is wary of a set formula for adjustment. With the best intentions in the world, a | mother or father can upset the re- turning soldier by calling him a “kid,” when he is very niuch a man. A wife can hiader adjustment by spoiling him when what he needs is to resume his old responsibilities and again be man-of-the-house, | No Pity, Please | Do not pity him—just get across | that civilians know the debt they owe him. Do not make him talk if | he does not want to. b | The community attitude should be the same. So many - practical /s exist to help him, free of any pampering. | A general information bureau where all his questions can be an- ered is already a popular meth- »d in many an American city. There he can be assisted in finding | a house to live in, a job, details of | the GI bill benefits (many do not | know them), and even in meeting other young people through local recreational facilities, | ‘The colonel puts a high value on fun. Keep a man laughing enough nd his r ssness will diminish. Help him find the recreation he needs to keep his mind occupied. The average GI Joe to find him- self again needs good times—and that usually means the company of girl He likés. But the GI bill can- ot provide that, any more than it can the ideal family conditions for la 100 per cent reconversion job! J be | | | | | | “RECONVERSION” DIFFICULT | ould make || Your Chrisimas shopping days are viriually over! But no need fo become alarmed hecause you've still thingsleft 1o buy and little time in which fo do if. There is one gift you can pirchase any 5 day, any hour—the gift that heads the list—personally endorsed by Santa and suitable forevery 8" ‘member of the family—U. S. WAR BONDS. For here is “The Present with a Future”—the gift ‘ that gives you a stake in the glorious Victory that will be ours — a future of security; added hap- ‘pinessiand joy to those who receive it. So check your list ioday and complete it with the best gift of all for'everyone —U. S. WAR BONDS. GIYE THE KIDDIES WAR STAMPS Toys, games and goodies are the all impotrant thing fo the kiddies on Christmas morning. It is ior you o think of their fulure. Start a War Stamp Book 1o put in their stockings. Tuck War Stamps in their packages. For these are the lifile gifts that will insure their happiness for many Chrisimases fo come. z SAN JUARN FISHING and b, PACKING COMPANY