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Army wDreamboat'
In Flight Honolulu
To Cairo
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HONOLULU, Oct. 4. </P)—'The
Army’s B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat
took off this morning on its pro
jected 10,300 mile flight from
Honolulu to Cairo over the top of
the world.
The huge plane got into the air
5:51 a.m. to carry the greatest
amount of gasoline, the ship was
overloaded 27,000 pounds at the
takeoff. Of its total weight of 147,
000 pounds, approximately half,
77,352 pounds, was gasoline.
The heavy plane sped down the
army air forces’ 7,000 foot Hickam
field runway and onto the navy’s
adjoining John Rodgers field’s
equally long strip before it was
4»girborne.
(One Associated Press listening
post in San Francisco heard the
Dreamboat report by radio at 8:33
a.m. that it was proceeding nor
mally at 1,400 feet altitude.”)
Col. Beverly Warren, Omaha,
co-pilot and an expert at getting
heavily loaded planes into the air,
^ was at the controls as the B-29
headed toward Dutch Harbor in
the Aleutians, the first check
point.
There is no expectation that the
Dreamboat will set a world non
stop flight record, as Col. C. S.
Irvine, the flight commander, had
hoped, until the navy’s Truculent
Turtle flew from Perth, Australia,
to Columbus, Ohio, early this
week.
The Turtle, commanded by
Cmdr. Thomas D. Davies, Cleve
^ land, Ohio, flew an estimated
11,250 miles to smash Irvine’s rec
ord of 7,916 set last November in
the Dreamboat between Guam
and Washington, D. C.
The Dreamboat will fly an es
timated 10,300 miles if it reaches
Cairo. Irvine said there is no pos
sibility of it having sufficient gas
oline remaining to add another
1,000 miles for a record.
4V He said the air force’s chief ob
jective on this flight is to test the
B-29 under Arctic conditions.
Master Sgt. Gordon S. Fish of
Appleton, Wis., crew chief, said:
‘We will never beat the record
set by the navy’s Truculent Turtle
but a ship was never in better
condition than this one.”
The Dreamboat was expected to
made landfall at Sitka, Alaska,
^ about 11 hours after the takeoff
and then head for Juneau. There
the communications officer ex
Acted to encounter difficulty con
tacting radio stations which had
b«en alerted to watch the plane’s
progress.
Irvine said he expected the first
TRUMAN BRIDCE —This span across the Missouri at Kansas City, built by Milwaukee and
Kock Island railroads, has been named the President Harry S. Truman bridge.
Truman Asks For
;
[Palestine For Jews
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. (/Pi
President Truman called today for
an immediate “substantial immi
gration” of displaced Jews into
Palestine. In a Yom Kippur day
statement, which he cabled to
British Prime Minister Attlee, the
President outlined his own views
sa follows:
“1. In view of the fact that win
ter will come on before the con
ference (Palestine conference in
London) can be resumed, I believe
and urge that substantial immi
gration into Palestine cannot
await a solution to the Palestine
problem and that it should begin
at once. Preparations for this
movement have already been
made by this government and it is \
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danger near the Alaskan coast,
where a warm air front may bring
trouble with icing conditions.
The next danger point was an
ticipated over Greenland.
From Juneau the plane will fly
just south of Whitehorse, B. C.,
and then directly across the mag
netic north pole across Greenland
to London.
The plane’s route will take it
about 30 miles from Paris, over
Bern, Switzerland and thence to
Venice. It will scout Yugoslav
territory, cross Foggie, Italy and
proceed on to Cairo.
“If we have enough gas we will
go on either to Wadihalfa or Khar
toum,” Irvine sai^l.
Maritime Union
Agrees To Load
Ship For Nome
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 2. </P)—
The Cotnmittee of Maritime Unity
CIO cleared Alaska Steamship
company’s freighter Cordova to
carry food relief supplies to Nome,
announcing that the unions “don’t
want anyone to go hungry as a
result of the recent strike action.”
The Cordova started loading
nine hundred tons of supplies
Thursday and is expected to sail
Saturday, and will be the last ship
to reach Nome before the freeze
up. Eleven Alaska vesesls are idle
here, and another the Sword
Knot, is due Friday, and will join
the tieup. Sixty thousand tons of
general cargo destined for Alaska.
South America and domestic ports |
are held up at Seattle.
The Ketchikan strategy commit
tee of International Longshore
mens Warehousemens union an
nounced that perishables and live
stock aboard the Northern Voy
ager will be unloaded. They also
agreed to unload the perishables
aboard the schooner Dorothy due
today. The Northern Voyager ar
rived Monday. Longshoremen un
loaded the coal and then stopped
work.
TO LEAVE FOR THE
STATES SOON
Mrs. E. K. Johanson and Mrs.
Henry Wuhrman are here from
Coffee Creek after a busy season.
Both are planning on leaving for
the States soon for the winter.
Vegetable Growers
Hard Hit By
Maritime Strike
SEATTLE, Oct. 4 (/P) — King
County vegetable growers face
loss of 75 per cent of this season’s
crops as a result of the maritime
tie-up, industry spokesmen said
today.
“Local and domestic markets
are gluted,” explained a company
representative. “The stuff is piling
up on us by the tons, and there’s
nothing we can do with it.”
D. Vitulli, whose 160-acres at
Bothell is the largest in the area,
said he has 20,000 crates of celery
on his hands and “no place to sell
it.” New crops, normally meant
for shipment to Alaska, Hawaii
and Orient, will be “plowed un
der.” The tie-up already has cost
his company $20,000 in the past
month, he said.
Tony Aries, sales manager for
another firm, said some lettuce
already had been plowed under
on the company's 92 acres.
SONYA OLSON NELSON
PASSES ON
Sonya Olson Nelson, child of
Billy Nelson, died in the M. C.
hospital on Wednesday.
CHRIS NEIBUHR BUYS
MINING PROPERTY
Chris Neibuhr, well known old
timer and miner, has purchased
the mining property of Arvid
Panding on Rock Creek. He has
also leased the adjoining claims
from Dan Camp.
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 </P)—
Former secretary of state Cordell
Hull, ill at Bethesda naval hospi
tal. spent a more restful night last
night, but his condition continues
grave.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 4.
(^P)—Attorneys for Constable Tom
A Crews, convicted yesterday of
violating the civil rights of a Ne
gro farm hand by beating him
with a pistol and cow whip until
he jumped into the Suwannee
river and drowned, planned today
to seek a new federal court trial
for the former Branford town
marshal.
SEATTE. Oct. 4 l/P)—'With the
realization growing that the win
ner of tomorrow's football classic
could eventually be the club to
win the Rose Bowl nomination, it
appeared today that the Univers
ity of Washington stadium’s 43,000
seats will be crammed for the sec
ond week in a row.
The University of California at
Los Angeles Bruins, on the
strength of their showing in blis
tering Oregon State last week,
50-7, rated an eight point favorite
over the Washington Huskies, who
outgained but failed to outscore
St. Mary’s in a non-conference
game here last week, 24-20.
SEATTLE, Oct. 4 (.^—Negotia
tions currently are under way for
purchase of meat in Australia and
Argentina with which to feed U.
S. occupation forces in European
and Pacific areas, Maj. Gen. T. B.
Larkin, the army’s quartermaster
general, told interviewers here
last night.
Two other shortages, also, are
delaying army programs, he said.
A shortage of coffins will delay
the return of war dead until 1947,
and a civilian demand for cloth
ing has curtailed available uni
form materials.
BRUSSELS. Oct. 4. </P) — An
American B-17 crashed today near
Verviers, military police of Liege
announced. A rescue team was
sent to the scene.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. (/P)—
Senator Robert M. LaFollette,
Wisconsin Progressive who lost in
the recent Republican primary,
said today he has “no immediate
plans for the future.”
Commenting on reports that he
may be offered a federal post, La
Follette told a reporter: “I know
of no such thing. I have not been
approached by anyone in this con
nection. I don’t know how such re
ports got started.”