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Show leieasea by Western Newspaper Union.) THERE'S TIN IN ALASKA . . . BUT 55 MILES OFF SIBERIA THE CLAWS of the communistic Russian Bear are but 55 miles from the United States. Just across Bering Ber-ing strait from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is Russia, with an established es-tablished airplane base at East Cape, to which planes fly each day. To offset that and other Russian bases within easy flying distance of Alaska, the American government is hurriedly building five air bases in the territory at Juneau, Anchorage, Anchor-age, Fairbanks, on Kodiak island and at Dutch Harbor hi the Aleutian Aleu-tian islands. Should the Russian Bear conclude to take back the then icy waste he sold for $7,200,000 now that it has proved to be profitable and conduct a blitzkrieg, the little Eskimo village vil-lage at Cape Prince of Wales would first feel the claws. Carl Dreutzer, a graduate of Annapolis, who for some years was an officer in the navy and is now a Chicago attorney, attor-ney, visits that village every summer. sum-mer. On his last visit he brought back four young walruses he captured cap-tured at Cape Prince of Wales for the Brookfield zoo at Chicago. The little village consists of a dozen doz-en Eskimo families, a post office and government-conducted school. For two years the school was taught by William Albee and his wife. They had married in Seattle, and for a wedding trip traveled afoot through British Columbia and Alaska, finally final-ly landing at Cape Prince of Wales at a time when a teacher was needed. need-ed. They held the job until another adventurous soul applied to Washington Wash-ington and were then replaced. Near Cape Prince of Wales is Tin City, the site of America's only known tin deposits. Three claims are being worked in a small way, but lack of smelter facilities prevents pre-vents sufficient development to determine de-termine the extent of the ore. Two years ago Dreutzer staked some 16 claims for himself and associates but has attempted no development work on them. America uses more than 50 per cent of the world's production of tin. The greater portion of it comes from the Far East, and that supply would be jeopardized if we had war with Japan. Recently the government contracted to take over all the tin production of Bolivia as insurance against the possible loss of the Far East supply. With a government smelter now being built at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, the tin claims at Tin City may become valuable. PUTTING SKIM MILK AND SUCH TO WORK THE UPHOLSTERING in a 1941 Ford car will be made from soy bean fiber. It represents another step in providing a market for American farm products. Felt hats are now being made from skim milk, of which thousands of pounds are thrown away every day. That is another item pointing to a future for the American farmer. There are some sixty different farm products that are or can be raised in the United States, but which today are being imported into the country to the extent of $1,500,-000,000 $1,500,-000,000 a year. America can keep that money at home by encouraging American farmers to grow these products we are now importing, and the money they sell for can go into the pockets of American farmers. farm-ers. The solution must come from en-. en-. couragement for farmers to produce the crops and encouragement for private industry to provide processing process-ing establishments in which such crops can be utilized. To accomplish it all requires the full play of the American system of free competition, which has created for the American people the highest living standards on earth. With the farms and the laboratories of industry indus-try working together, America can face the future with confidence. MODERN WAR TAKES A NEW TYPE OF TOLL JUDGING from newspaper headlines, head-lines, we would believe that London and other cities of England have been practically wiped out and a large part of the population killed by German bombs. The fact is that in no major war in modern history was the number killed so small as in the present struggle since the French army quit. From the most authentic accounts, ac-counts, the number of people killed by German bombs in all England is- not as great as 20.000. In the first World war, battles lasting last-ing but one or two days resulted in 1 far more than that number of deaths. The total number killed in all armies engaged in that war was approximately 6.000,000. German air raids over all of England Eng-land have resulted in killing only about three-tenths of 1 per cent of 6,000,000 people. The value of the planes Germany has lost and cost of bombs she has used probably would be nearly as great as value of property destroyed. In the way of property destruction, destruc-tion, less than 10 per cent of the buildings of London have been either ei-ther completey destroyed or partially par-tially damaged. |