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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1046

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0f Maps and Terrain Without Laridmarks.

By DAVID M. NICHOL i Times Special Writer OTTAWA, Canada, March 13.—The largest air Sele mission in the history of the far Arctic and one of great experimental importance has been carried out for the Muskox moving force on its northw journey. Six Dakotas, or C-47 cargo planes including one from the U. S, air force, hailed down nine tons of supplies in an hotir on ‘an isolated | Eskimo trading post where Perry |

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PROGRAM SET FOR PRESS MEET HERE

| First hand reports qn’ world poli-| SWEHE¥ HOME, Ore., March 13.— {tics and the atomic bomb. will top| Timber! Make way for Paul Bun- : the program for the annual convenr|yvan and the rest of us loggers. 1| tion of the Hoosier State Press as- S ; | sociation held here April 5 and 6 t the CinLargest Arctic Air Mission Is Carried Out Despite Lack | cinnati_Post 98, sailor of recently [An Oregon logging firm, all hecause from a five-month tour of Europe,|I met up with a head faller, Req- | will be principal speaker at banquet April 6. Walter | Leckrone, editor of The Times, will cides where a tree is going to fall| preside at the banquet meeting. Heward Blakeslee, science “editor |ing it fall as per his estimate. ard | of the Associated Press, will discuss Keenon and I were sitting in Ed|I knew that when I got my first) bound” and the fallers call it some-| a deer, and besides that he had a atomic bomb experiment New Mexico. He will speak at the general merchandise emporium, | Keenon yelled, “Tiniber!!” opening. night banquet sponsored by {When someone mentioned the big! Two fellows came over with big Time wii { The Indianapolis Star and its pub- | Timber Carnival to be held at Al-| saws. They were buckers, whose

{ lisher, Eugene C. Pulliam.

land. The drop was made Saturday. | Details of the execution!

reached head- | Fear Russ in Is Further

nt here esterday. | Push Toward Pacific. By GEORGE WELLER |

sponsorship News and News general C. Walter McCarthy will preside, Included on the daytime schedule [ready there. A scaler is a man with! standing in that area and began] and he said you had to have your a wartime development, is used by | limits. the two-day conclave will be | some hidden mathematical skill| limbing it; they rigged up a big| own hoat, | business sessions, a forum period,| which enables him to look at a] | pulley and connected the line with] Finally he sald, “I know .what) instead of axes to “blaze” forest special election must be held to and sectional meetings,

| for

At a luncheon scheduled for Sat-| entering but he needed a helper, or| lengths. They invited me to try,

river runs into Queen Maude pul h f § 3 A on. His now OO of a] CHINESE DISLIKE urday noon, Mark Ethridge, general [second faller. I don’t know why I mentioning that maybe I could dotgery coid and ¥ might fall in, 1) beautiful Oregon gal” | James Williams was forced to vae } ” : ans (Ky) couldn't keep my’mouth shut, but I| better than I did with the axe.

Courier-Journal will speak, T i is } NEW RED MOVE luncheon ‘meeting will be under the enter the carnival to win some of| ting me in the stomach and knock bos sorship of The Indianapolis|the $2500 prize money. ling out my wind. | I suggested high climbing, but he manager So Keenon and I went to the

ager of the Louisville

Writer Tries Falans Trees, Finds There's Trick In I

By ANDY ANDERSON are 3336 and one-half board feet Bcripps-Howard Staff Writer {in it.

started “dragging the cut up logs where they were needed.

The marr who directed this was

a guy named Paul Bunysn drive 5 : his oxen in the parade and it would : Keenon picked out a tree to fall.| be good {dea if you rode with ‘Southport Methodist church will ‘Prien Tie- handed me a dotible fold the whistle punk pea se’ Ed Cardwell chimed in. Roses second Sevicth women with a banquet ‘musical axe and told me to go around to the mgyeqd, 1 suggested that that would] “You got to come to Albany rogram at 6:30 b. mW. snd in | leeside and, make an undercut. I be a good job for me, but I blew| dressed in lumberjack clothes—no i 8 wii p tomorrow | started chopping on’ ‘the roots |the whistle when I should have| fancy do-dads, Youll wear a loud| ‘he church amnex. » rigger s The Woman's society of Christian | naturally. but Keenon sriorted and|Xept auiet and that made the rigger shirt, some logging pants and a red : vy y het & hh : ,| and choke getter sore. ‘hat.” services, headed by Mrs. C. E. Nel the neth Keenon, of Sweet Home. ma e a big notch in the tree just) . skinner drove a big cater-| I asked why the red hat, and he| So is in charge of the banquet. A head faller is the guy who de-| the way he wanted it to fall | pillar up to load the logs. Keeron| explained that everyone who goes Mrs. Aurilla Hayes is chairman of I'Ruess he was pretty peeved at| foiled 20 trees that day and didn’t|in the woods wears a red hat be-| he Program. The Rev. F. 7’ Taya , anid has the responsibility of mak- | me because he said I was not cut|,cc a single shot. Once ih awhile | cause you never know when some lor, pastor of the church, will be |out to swing a double bit axe; but |a tree gets What is called “timber-| careless hunter might take you for| master of ceremonies.

had the idea slightly in niind, for] a few hours, of getting® a, J job with

| surplus stock af red hats on hand. ALDERMAN LOST “And if I wear clothes like that, IN HOUSE SHORTAGE

| what do I get as a prize?” I ven- { tured. METROPOLIS, Ill, March 13 (U, “Well, they will let you dance P.).—For the want of a house an with the Carnival Queen, a very alderman was lost,

in| Cardwell's hardware, clothing and blister. About 15. minutes later, ining very unprintable.

I asked Keenon what he thought I should enter in this timber carni-| | val, would it be the log rolling, and | { he pointed out that the water was|

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{bany July 3 and 4. Ed said he was| job was to cut the trunk in “gight|

{ mentioned log chopping and he

| said 1 should think of that after| S01 told hint to wrap up what Ijcate his home and the only dwels

| would need and send the bill to the|ing he could find was outside the | my ‘experience. 5. lcity limits, which automatically ree - re . [tired him as an alderman. A city Then a high climber and rigger| Said those trees were 150 feet high.| «BLAZE" LUMINOUS TRAILS | ordinance requires that members of | forest. Ed Pitzler, a scaler, was al-| started to climb the only tree left| I asked about the log tugboat races) WwWASHINGTON.—Luminous tape, | the council live within the corporate

The | offered to train for this job and| But the end of the saw kept hit- |

| soldiers in jungles in the Pacifici Mayor Barney N. Beane sald a

‘tree 150 feet high and tell you there| the “donkey” down below and |you can do. They are going to have | trails. It is visible day or night, | fill the post. i

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Y Ihe moving force itself last] was reporte d! Times Foreign Correspondent about 100 miles] KALCAN, Inner Mongolia, March south of Perry 13—~The . new-born “Inner Mon-

Mr, Nichol river near MacDougall lake. The golian Autonomous Movement asso=lake shows on the map as a large ciation” looks to most Chinese like

water body 35 miles long. Lt. Col. [another Soviet spearhead—besides | P. D. Baird, the force commander, | {Manchuria and Korea—toward Pei-

radioed back that this was “mostly Ping -and the Pacific.

Russia persuaded China to rec{ognize *he. “independence” of Outer Mongolia under the SinoSoviet treaty. And Russia is now working eastward, trying to detach Inner Mongolia as another. blockhouse in 1ts cordon of Asiatic satellites, Nationalist Chinese say. Big-boned Yun Tso, the Com-

imagination.” The most careful planning was involved, for the mission is perhaps the most difficult the air supply force will be called’ on to perform. Four of the aircraft were prepared at the Churchill base, 700 miles south and east of their target. Two others flew from Yellowknife, about | | munist Mongolian—who heads ‘the 550 miles aWay, new movement—says that such To prepare a target area and 10 | suspicions are groundless. He claims warn the lone Eskimo trader of \iyat there is no Russian backing what was coming, squadron leader ro. {his Mongolia push toward Joe Coombes, a lanky veteran "of | |self-government even though the years of “bush” flying, left Churchill yo itary claimed includes much of a week earlier in a- ski-equipped | g,viet.oc upied Manchuria. Norseman. At Baker lake he picked | vw «ive that the moveHp an Eskimo interpreter, for his p,ent oets most of its money from host undesstands no English. the Communist regional governFif*y miles short of Perry river ment, which has its headquarters they ‘were forced down by weather in Kalgan, plus some from the on the hard snow .and for four | Mongollians. days lival in an Eskimo village But Inner Mongolians, unlike of showhouses. Friday they flew Outer Mongolians, are not plahnm to the outpost. ning to detach themselves’ from 21 Degrees Below China with Soviet help, according First, he laid out the drop zone to Yun Tso. . Next he had to coach his two Fairy-Tale Figure dative assistants in spilling the | Yun Tso is a fairy-tale-like figure, who looks like a cross between

yarachute and storing the suppli€s. ; ni from his grounded plane, he Genghis Khan. and Daniel Boone. at : He is extremely tall. .

radioed ne go Sigh, 2 He received me in a lordly and At dawn Saturday the tempera- peautiful costume. He wore a ture in Churchill stood at 21 below sharply, tailored fur coat with a and a 14-mile-an-hour wind Kentucky foxskin cap. Underneath skidded snow along the runway. was a -gleaming, blue silk gown The four aircraft had been warmed with a broad vellow-silk sash and and loaded and took off within (ay shiny black boots. a period of 15 minutes. “Inner Mongolia and Mongolian “Then began one of the most Manchuria want only self-govern-difficult and unusual air voyages ment, not independence,” Yun Tso in the world. Their course lay said. “With the friendly support of across 200000 square miles of -the China's Communist party, we are most inaccessible and: least-known ' attempting to create a new provtepritory cn the American con- Ince. This will take northwestern tinent. Manchuria, including Hailar, and It took them within 250 miles of swinging around in the shape of a the magnetic pole on Boothia bow, westward across the states of peninsula where compasses spin Jehol, Chahar, Suiyuan and Ningdizzily and are completely unre- Sia.” liable, sun compasses will give a These last three comprise what is course. but will not fix a position. already known as Inner Mongolia. . . But the Manchurian claim is a new Maps of Little Value and strictly unprecedented CommuMaps are few-and of little value. njst-sponsored plan. Even good ones would be almost] The easternmost boundary of the s because landmarks are SO new autonomous state would bisect

useless difficult to spot in the flat, endless Manchuria, north to south—passing f- =

expanse of white. It's a phenome-| just west of the Manchurian city of non vou must see to believe. -Even Tsitsihar. oh the ground it is hard to main-| The southern boundary passe “%4in a’course, because there isn't a about 30 miles north of Kalgan distinguishing feature. then follows thé 40th degree of latiComplicating the trip was the tude, westward across the - Little fact that the Perry river post 1s Gobi desert to Sinkiang. located improperly on every map Two Million Population Instead of being -on the mainland, Yun Tso estimated the populait is a single building “with a rcd tion of this widened Inner Monroof” on an island in the river golia at 2,000,000, exclusive of the outh. Manchurian portion. It had been agreed that the first He said that the capital probably plarie to reach the target would | will be Tolun—that is, Dolon-Nor— provide a beacon for the others. about 200 miles northeast from KalOne flown by Flight Lt. W. J. can, Tolun is on the border beJohnson, of Welland, Ont., was the | tween Soviet-held Manchuria and first to spot the tiny post. He | Inner Mongolia. Tolun was recentcircled and supplied a homing sig- ly evacuated by Soviet troops. nal for. the others. Lt, Col. Robert S. Drake of PittsA few minutes later the two air- burgh, sow in Kalgan with Gen. craft from Yellowknife arrived. | George C. Marshall's peace commis- . sion team, found Tolun early in Back in 11 Hours March in Communist hands, with The drop itself was described as|two cracked-up Soviet planes on its a “complete success.” None of the! airfield. supplies were damaged, Coombes| Yun Tso said that his nominareported later. “The air supply tion as the leader of the new aucrews, who unload the parachute tonomous movement dérived from bungles, had been cut from four to! what he termed “mass elections.” three to allow extra weight. This phrase is commonly used by Eleven hours after takeoff time the Communists for peasant meetthe planes reached the Churchill ings’in liberated regions where the base again. ‘They were aided on| | Communists summon the peasants the homebound trip by the radio land nominate and elect by acclaim

beacons there. ~rather than secret ballot—their

Each had to carry sufficient extra | selected candidates among whom

gasoline to reach the Pas, or Win- | party members and “independents” nipeg, if Churchill had been weath- | Tare mixed. ered in. Was a Schoolteacher The American aircraft in ‘the| Yun Tso—who is probably the operation is flying under Royal] | tallest figure in international. policanadian air force command but| | tics, after Gen. De Gaulle of France with an American crew. It Iis| —Says that he earned his living as equipped * with a newly- developed | |a schoolteacher after his graduation automatic parachute unloading de- | from the Mongolian-Tibetan acadvice, a powered belt that pushes|S™Y in Peiping.: His family are half

the bundles from the cargo door. | farmers, half nomads, from Tummotochi in central Suiyuan, It- was piloted by “Capt. R. D.| Forty years old, Tso says that Stevens, of Louisville, Ky. | 3a apan’s greatest crime in Inner “Muskox moving force 1s about [Mongolia was “trying to divide the five days behind its planned sched-| conc of Han from the sons of ule, which seems surprisingly 800d | ntune» Han and Mung are the lenin light of the.conditions it has en- endary founders of the Chinese and countered. Snow-covered boulders | nrongaia races, respegtively. have slowed. the towing of the | Copyright, 1046, by The Indianapoiis Times sleds which each snowmobile is ahd The Chicago Daily News, Tne

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Mechanical failures have required SIX LOCAL MEN T0 replacement of an entire. tread, ATTEND YMCA ‘MEET

dropped by ain, under the bitter . Arctic conditions. Six Indianapolis men will attend

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