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...second movie on the double-bill is "Rose of the Yukon," and it's awful. But it is interesting in that it shows how producers of "B" pictures have jumped on the "hate-Russia" bandwagon. Instead of cattle rustlers or foreign baddies of obscure allegiance, this touching and horrible little epic of the far north has a real live Soviet Union as the agent of evil. One Russian thug is even made up to look just like Stalin, to clear up any doubts the audience might have...
...military intelligence had become suspicious of Hiskey, found that he held a reserve commission in the Army, had him called up and sent to duty on the Canol project in the Yukon, where "he counted underwear." The committee recommended that Hiskey, his exwife, Marcia, Chapin, and the missing Adams be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit espionage...
...exciting news was flashed to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, from Dr. Arthur A. Allen, head of the expedition: "We have found the curlew's nest." It was at 62° north latitude, 164° west longitude, near Mountain Village on the lower Yukon, 160 miles south of Nome. Dr. Allen promised to bring back intimate motion picture studies of the bristle-thighed curlew at home...
Married. Kate ("Klondike Kate") Rockwell Matson, 68, onetime "Belle of the Yukon," famed dance-hall favorite of gold-rush days; and William L. Van Duren, an accountant and friend of 19 years' standing; she for the third time, he for the second; in Vancouver, Wash...
...mile Alaska Highway, now an all-weather (gravel) road from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Fairbanks, Alaska, was finally opened to tourists. Among new accommodations: public camping grounds (with fresh water and cooking stoves) in the 600-mile stretch through Yukon Territory. Canada's advice to tourists: make reservations early (inns are few & far between) or bring camping equipment...