Missing B-29
Was Not Lost
„ HONOLULU, (JP) —Ten B-29s
resume a training flight to Japan
yesterday — their radios carefully
checked to prevent a repetition of
Monday’s needless 11-hour alert
for one of them.
The false emergency excited
base control points in Spokane,
Wash., the departure point, Calif
ornia and here. But it passed with
out any of the 203 officers and
men in the flight being aware of
it.
Radio failure aboard one of the
superforts caused it to be reported
missing. Hamilton field, Calif.,
dispatched search planes and the
rescue squadron at Hickam Field
here was alerted. The B-29 landed
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< )hio To “Write In”
Doug's Name
CLEVELAND, UP)—A write-in
campaign for Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur in the Ohio May 4 pri
maries was announced yestedday.
MelVin T. Hott, attorney and
spokesman for a Cleveland Mac
Arthur-for-President club, said a
drive would be started throughout
the state to have Republican vot
ers write in the general’s name on
the primary ballots.
Since MacArthur has no slate of
delegates for the ballots, the cam
paign mainly would serve as a
test of his strength in Ohio.
on schedule. Only then did its crew
learn of the worry it has caused.
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and forbid establishment of others.
The telegram said the Metln
katla Indians “are definitely”
aware that when given ample op
portunity for advancement and
proper and just protection by the
government from unscrupulous
exploiters “they will became self
reliant and self supporting.”
“It is our firm conviction that
the only way this protection can
be assured is by the perpetuation
of existing reservations and the
creation of other reserves for sim
ilar purposes,” the resolution said.
The Indians said it had been
proven “again and again” that In
dian reservations have never been
found to hinder development of
natural resources when the re
sources are accessible.
The telegram took issue with
testimony before the committee of
Mrs. Matilda Davis Channel, of
Saxman. She had testified that
the Indians did not ask for thou
sands of acres other witnesses had
testified the interior department
contemplated placing in reserva
tions.
Mrs. Chappel testified that “ev
ery so often” some one waved a
mner” at the Indians promising
large reservations. “Naturally we
aren’t actually interested in it,”
she said.
The Metlakatlas’ said she was
• not qualified to speak for the In
dians in Alaska as she has not
been a bonafide resident of the
Territory for 25 years. They said
she had grossly misrepresented
Indians of Alaska.
Mrs. Chappel told the commit
tee she was speaking only for her
self.
SHIP COMMEMORATES
GENERAL BUCKNER
New York Port of Embarkation
—March 4—Bearing the p roud
name of the great commander who
drove the Japanese from Ameri
can soil in 1943 and went on two
years later to direct the war's
greatest joint operation in the Nip
ponese front yard, the “USATGen
eral Simon B. Buckner” was to
sail for Bremerhaven. Germany on
her maiden voyage.
The new giant transport, fol
lowing the Atlantic voyage, will
return to San Francisco to join
the Pacifnc fleet operating from
that port. Reconverted from a
j wartime 5,200 troop capacity ves
sel to a modern fast ship with a
j 1,242-troop and 471-passenger ca
pacity, the ship is the former “Ad
miral E. W. Eberle” and the first
of nine army transports to be re
named in honor of the nation’s
most distinguished soldiers who
fell to enemy gunfire during
World War II.
The “General Simon B. Buck
ner” was dedicated at ceremonies
held February 28 aboard the ship,
berthed at the New York port. Be
fore a distinguished company of
army and navy leaders, and with
the late general’s widow and mili
tary academy cadet son as honor
guests, tribute was paid to Gener
al Buckner’s memory by men of
all services who fought by his side
in two major phases of the Pacific
war.
Following dedication ceremon
ies, members of General Buckner’s
staffs in Alaska, Oahu, and the
Ryukyus joined in a testimonial
dinner in honor of Mrs. Buckner
| and Cadet William Claiborne
Buckner at the Governors Island
officers club.
Navy Swimmers
Brush Arctic Ice
In Training
(By Norman Bell)
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (IP)—Navy
and marine corps swimmers for
the first time have brushed
against Arctic ice in underwater
scouting.
This was disclosed yesterday by
Vice Adm. George D. Murray,
first task fleet commander, in on
interview on Alaska exercises.
The rubber-suited swimmers
pushed through slush siv inches
thick and rubbed against four-inch
ice in carrying out their missions.
They remained in water down
to an estimated four degrees be
low freezing for periods of more
than an hour. They came out then
because their beachhead explora
tions were completed — not be
cause they were exhausted.
Not even during the war did
swimmers operate so far north.
Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians
were retaken without their pre
invasion survey and demolition
work.
The men were sailors from navy
underwater demolition team No.
one, led by Lt. Alfred R. Sears,
and marines from the first divi
sion’s reconnaisance company,
led by Maj. Chas. A. Ttigaud.
They hit the water from subma
rines off Kodiak Island in Febru
ary. They wore long undeiwvear
under their rubber suits. Their
faces w’ere smeared with petrole
um jelly.
Lt. Sears, who said his men had
to go through severe tests to win
their fins,” reported they demon
W eather In Nome
Again Tops U. S.
CHICAGO (/P)—Bemidji, Minn.,
sometimes called the nation’s ice
box by weather forecasters, re
ported a deep freeze temperature
early yesterday— 32 degrees be
low zero.
The temperature at Nome regis
tered 4 degrees above zero at the
same time.
The cold belt covered parts oi
the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wiscon
sin and Iowa, with the zero line
reaching as far south as southern
Wisconsin, central Iowa and lower
South Dakota.
Second coldest official tempera
ture was 26 below at Grand Forks,
N. D* Other low readings in North
Dakota were —IT at Dickinson
an 1 —13 at Bismark. In Minne
sota. Duluth reported —10 and the
Minneapolis minimum wa- —ft
The mercury touched 5 above at
Sioux City, la., and 8 above at St.
Joseph, Mo.
strated they could carry out their
tasks right up to the Arctic ice
pack.
The slush and ice were encoun
tered as they reached the beaches
—which they were theoretically
preparing for an invasion.
Commander Edward L. Foster,
who commanded the reconnai
sance force, said the men appeared
to like the cold weather. There
was only one minor casualty, a
sailor aboard ship whose feet were
frost bitten. *
The reconnaisance units oper
ated from the fast attack transport
Ganther, commanded by Com
mander Harold Braune.
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