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Show The Western Mineral Survey, Salt 2 LOOKING AHEAD By GEORGE S. BENSON President Harding College Searcy. Arkansas MURDER IN KOREA During the years that Ive been aggressively combatting the infiltration of Communism in America, a person occasionally has asked: What keeps you going in your crusade against Communism? Our people as a The answer: whole dont fully understand the true nature or recognize the real danger of Communism. Until they do, all we love is threatened. Phillip Deane, an English newspaperman in Korea, didnt learn the full truth about Communists until he was wounded and captured by the North Korean Reds. He was a prisoner for 33 months. He has put down his experiences in his book, I Was A Captive In Korea (Norton). His description of the Communists brutality is almost unbelievable. Those people in America who are soft toward Communists, those who are everlastingly attacking our Congressional committees as they expose hidden Reds in government and elsewhere, ought to read and reread Phillip Deanes report on the death of Cordus H. Thornton, an American lieutenant from Texas whom the Reds captured along with. Deane and remnants of Thorntons platoon. The Tiger The North Korean Commandant known as Tiger ordered Thornton not to permit any of his men to collapse during a terrible starvation death march the Reds forced them to make. Finaly, so many of his men fell dying along Thornton the way Lieutenant could no longer comply with the Tigers command. The Texan was hauled before the Tiger. Phillip Deane reports the scene in his book: Why did you let those five men drop out? asked the Tiger. Because, sir, they were dying. Why did you not obey my orders and have them carried? Because, sir, that meant conthe carriers to death demning from exhaustion. You knew I had ordered no one should drop out? Yes, sir. In wartime the penalty for disobedience is death. You disobeyed orders. I will kill you. That is what yould happen in the American Army also, is it not? In the American Army, sir, there would be a trial. The Tiger turned to the assembled Korean soldiers: I have authority to kill him. He has disobeyed orders. What must I do? Kill him, screamed the soldiers, kill them all. You see, said the Tiger to Lieutenant Thornton, You have had a trial, a Peoples Trial, Peoples Justice. Now I will kill you. In Texas, said Thornton, a tone of contempt in his voice, we call that lynching, not justice . . Tell him, said the Tiger (to the Red soldiers), pointing to Thornton, he must turn about. Lieutenant Cordus H. Thornton was on parade. His shoulders squared, head up, chin in, arms firmly at his sides, he about-face- d as one does during drillxThe Tiger took a handkerchief and bound Lieutenant Thorntons eyes. Then with his pistol he shot him in the back of the neck. A tall,' blond sergeant jumped forward and caught his officers body, before it touched the ground. Tenderly, as if carrying a child, the sergeant took the lieutenants body to the ditch. Only One Incident This incident was a part of the education of. Phillip Deane, newspaperman. But it was only one episode in the account of his 33 horrible months a captive of the Lae October 2, 1953 City, Utah Gold Flow Continues At Cripple Creek Shortage Of Gold Fund As Minerals Co. Has Increase Engineers In Stabilizer In Earnings Mining Noted Leading off in a panel discussion of the shortage of young mining engineers and what the industry needs to do about it, Byron E. Grant, assistant to vice president and general manager of Western Operations, U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., Salt Lake City, told the American Mining Congress that there are not to exceed 12,000 engineers engaged in the mining industry one engineer for every 50 persons directly engaged in the industry. Grant, speaking at the 1953 Metal and Nonmetallic Mining Convention of the American Mining Congress, said that the mining industry is so basically dependent upon engineers that it must exert extra effort and interest to overcoming the shortage of engineers. He declared that the mining industry must utilize the skills of the young engineer to the maximum, training him not only to supervise people but to get along with them in so doing. Grant stated that improvement in the training of young engineers in the mining industry could result from (1) more formalized management education or management development programs, and (a) stepped-u- p emphasis in human relations. Sunshine Mining Undertakes New Tungsten Project Sunshine WALLACE, IDAHO Mining Company has undertaken another tungsten exploration project, this one in Stevens county, Washington. Its first, announced recently, is in the old Tungsten King property, now the Little King, on Blue Grouse mountain, north of Deer Creek. Sunshine has been quietly testing the property for several months. Bulldozing has uncovered four promising veins of huber-it- e (manganese tungstate) and a tunnel is being started to tap them some distance downhill from the open-cu- t disclosures. The veins lie parallel in a zone about 400 feet wide, so comparatively little work will be required to open them underground. They are on the strike of a structure which yielded $40,000 worth of tungsten to two partners who worked an 'adjoining mine during World War II. If the same grade tungsten concentrates are produced by Sunshine, they will bring about $2.75 a pound. Communists. Deanes Reading story, I was reminded of a statement made by Matthew Cvetic, the courageous American who spent nine years in the inner circle of Communism as a counter-sp- y for the FBI. The Communists Mat Cvetic are mass murders. killed said. 25,000,000 Theyve blood and cold in in China; people if they gain control in America they already have made plans to kill a still larger number of our citizens, men, women and ' children. Matt Cvetic knows. He was one of them, in disguise, for nine years. And yet many people are ham- stringing the efforts being made in this country to expose and stamp out this evil, godless, savage conspiracy which has infiltrated all phases of our national life, and which would destroy religion, and constitutional government, of property. In private ownership self defense we should outlaw Communism and all its front Talk was WASHINGTON, D. C. Internarevived at the tional Fund here of a 4 billion-plu-s stabilization fund of American gold dollars to steady the ups and downs of foreign currencies. British delegates, as well as some American officials and others, reportedly are interested in the possibility of such an arrangement. This gold fund could be created by the U. S. congress, since prevailing high interest 'rates presumably would rule out private sources. It would supplement the currency resources of the international Monetary Fund in meeting the temporary gold dollar needs of some nations. So far as is known, no. formal proposal of this kind ever has been presented to the U. S. government or to the IMF. The most discussed proposal, however, is that the U. S. congress set up a sum as lending authority rather than as an appropriation. The IMF' wbuld use it as needed, repaying as its own money came back in. The fund might be administered by the U. S. government or if Congress were willing, by the IMF. In much more general terms, Sir Reginald Maulding, economic secretary to the British Treasury, told the 8th annual meeting of the governors of the monetary fund and the World Bank that IMFs resources are not in our opinion likely to be big enough for the job ahead. The job is that of making British and other restricted sterling moneys of the world convertible that is exchangeable into gold dollars and other hard currencies as a major step toward freer international trade. There is a school of thought in the I.M.F. which holds that unless gold' is given a price, matching commodity prices that is $7& commodity prices will eventually fall down to the level occupied by the low price and the small supply of gold. 55-nati- . . Proper Selection W. VA. non-profirab- le $6,-652,2- 51 Goldfield Cons. WASH. The NORTHPORT, Deep Creek mine of the Goldfield Consolidated Mining Co., is located six miles east of Northport and produces lead and zinc. The mine, served by an inclined shaft, is opened up through eight levels, five of which are in production. CRIPPLE CREEK, COLO. Three gold bricks were poured at the Carlton mill. The three bricks, the 139th, 140th and 141st to be poured at the mill, were valued at $75,-20- 0. Shipment to the U. S. mint at Denver was made on Thursday. A large shipment of highgrade ore was received from the bonanza Ajax vug on Wednesday. Settlement on value has not yet been made. Most of the mine ore for the mill came from the Cresson and the Ajax mines. Oh the average the value of the ore from the Ajax has improved over last week. The McKinney Dump has shipped most of the dump ore and values are up slightly. A1 Beebe reports that work on the pocket of the 2,200 level of the Cesson is completed and they are now slabing out the station. C. H. Carlton, mine manager, just returned from Uravan, reports that the shaft has now reached a depth of 340 feet, they are once more in clay. Isabella Mines, Inc., is driving east from the shaft which was sunk to a depth of 25 feet on the Queen of the Hills Vein System. They have opened up a small vein running east from which samples have run as high as $38.50 gold a ton. Trail Mines, Inc., working on the 600 level of the Cresson have raised their stope to about 60 feet. The stope, ranging from four to ten feet in width looks like a large body of ore. According to Bill Kyner, president of the company, it is believed the southern extremity of the ore was reached when they hit a basalt dike. They are now hogging to the northeast Grab samples this week ranged from $18.55 to $134.90 gold per ton. Last week one shipment of coarse settled at $30, and a shipment of screenings settled at 49.35 a ton. SEND A Of Equipment Helps Efficiency CHARLESTON, Annual Report This Forty-fourt- h & ChemMinerals of International the covers operaical Corporation tions of the corporation for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1953. It is another year in which satisfactory increases both in sales and operating results have been recorded. Net sales for the fiscal year were $88,837,456, an increase of 5 over the sales of $84,570,447 in the previous corresponding period and an increase of 34 over sales of $66,257,884 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1951. Sales in the previous year included those of a chemical brokerage business in the amount of $6,598,-50- 9. This business was acquired in the purchase of another company in 1951 and was liquidated early this year. Earnings for the twelve months ended June 30, 1953 were $7,030,-17- 6 after all federal and other income taxes, as compared with in the corresponding previous 'twelve month period. Earnings were equivalent to $2.87 per common share on the 2,316,164 shares of common stock outstanding on June 30, 1953. This compared with the equivalent of $2.90 per share on the 2,161,511 shares outstanding at June 30, 1952. It is significant that funds obtained through recent Debenture financing (explained later herein) are not yet producing income to the Corporation and th&t the interest and other costs in connection with carrying this debt on a per share basis slightly exceed the decrease in earnings per Common Share. In- creased cleaning of coal to meet present day market requirements has greatly expanded the use of processing equipment and requires more emphasis on the selection of electrical equipment, the middle eastern district meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was told today. This emphasis, said Mr. W. R. Morton, of General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. is to obtain the- utmost in safety, reliability; and efficiency. The various phases of the electrical system should be considered early in the planning stages in order that the location of the mechanical and electric equipment may be properly coordinated, he pointed out in a paper presented at a mining session. One Dollar Bill and receive sixteen (16) issues Western Mineral Survey By the year $2.50 2 years-$4.- 00 - You ned no carton tops and we have no silver spoons to give away but we will give you mining and oil information that should be of interest and prove valuable to you. . Schroeder Resigns The resignation of Dr. Wilburn Schroeder as assistant director for programming of the Bureau of Mines, was announced by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay. Dr. Schroeder will teach chemistry and chemical engineering at file University of Maryland, College Park, .Md., under a contra6t permitting him also to engage in private consulting C. DIG and SEND ... with complete Name and Address to WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY 22 Yi East 1st So. Street Salt Lake City, Utah |