Resume PAA Serv
ice To Hongkong
Direct Clipper service between
California and the British Crown
Colony of Hongkong, pioneered
by Pan American World Airways
a decade ago and disrupted by the
war in the Pacific, will be resumed
on September 24.
Two flights weekly will be via
Honolulu, Wake, Guam, and Man
ila; a third flight each week via
the airline’s new round-the-world
route through Honolulu. Wake.
Tokyo and Shanghai.
The Clippers will be equipped
with new sleeperette seating units
which are converted into full
length lounges, to provide private
sleeping accommodations at night.
The Alaska Clippers of Pan
American Airways flew 5,056,000
revenue passenger miles during
July, as compared with 3,040,545
miles during July, 1946, D. E. M '
Morran, traffic supt. for the air
line’s Alaska region said today A
total of 571,054 revenue ton miles
was flown during July. For that
month a year ago, Pan American
flew 293,647 revenue ton miles.
EDITH MANWARING
VISITS IN NOME
Miss Edith May Mainwaring,
employee in the Provost Marshal’s
office at Fort Richardson has been
spending her vacation seeing more
of Alaska which she has learned
to like during her six months’
stay. She plans to come back in
April for the Fair.
Ramadier May
Resign As French
Premier
PARIS, <A’)—Premier Paul Ra
madier won a vote of confidence
in the national assembly today,,
but the white-bearded leader was
considering resigning neverthe
less, cabinet ministers said.
The vote was 292 for the mo
tion of confidence, and 243
against. However, there were 60
abstentions. Associates said Ra
madier had to decide whether the
vote was strong enough to support
his leadership, in view of the
country’s economic troubles and
imminent international negotia
tions.
A cabinet meeting was schedul
ed tonight.
The assembly, giving Ramadier
his fifth expression of confidence
since he became Premier in Janu
ary, approved the government’s
program of subsidies for the coal
industry.
The confidence motion was
i tacked on to the coal issue.
i The Communists and a sprink
ling of Rightists and Centrists
deputies formed the opposition to
the measure, which authorized the
governmento to grant 4,550,000,000
francs ($38,500,000) in subsidies
to hold down prices in the coal in
dustry.
Although the threat of a govern
jment crisis was thus eased, labor
still was agitating politically
against the soaring cost of living.
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Cool Air Giving j
Knockout Blows !
To Heat Wave
(By The Associated Press* ,
The nation’s heat belt, centering
in the southwest and extending
from the Dakotas to Texas, began
to buckle yesterday as a mass of
cool air overspread the northern
Rockies and started moving east
ward over the northern tier of
states.
Temperatures which Wednesday
soared into the 100’s in Kansas,
Missouri and Oklahoma, were ex
pected to touch near the 100 mark
again yesterday, but federal fore
casters expected near normal read
ings by today. They said the. cool
er weather will reach the upper
and middle Mississippi yesterday
and the Great Lakes and Ohio val
ley today.
New records for the date were
set in many communities in the
heat belt Wednesday. Manhattan,
Kans., reported an unofficial high
of 117, while the weather bureau
said the hottest spot on its map
was Concordia, Kans., with a siz
zling 112.
Some schools closed in Oklaho
ma and Kansas and business firms
allowed employees to go home
early becaues of the excessive
I heat. Alva’s 114 was the top mark
in the Sooner state and a new rec
ord high for September of 105.4
was set in Oklahoma City.
Some of the hot spots in Kansas
included Junction City, 113; Hays,
111; Topeka and Neodesha, 110;
Kansas City, 109 and Hutchinson
and Wichita 108. Missouri’s top
marks were 109 at Kansas City,
107 at Springfield and 103 at Jop
lin.
Forecasters said there were scat -j
tered thundershowers from the
northern Rockies across much of
the Dakotas, Nebraska and west
ern Iowa. They said temperatures
in the eastern states and on the
west coast were near normal.
Midsummer heat with tempera
tures above 100 lingered in the
southwest and southern sections
of the nation today as cooler air
and thundershowers broke the
hot spell in the midwest.
Temperatures again were head
ed for the near 100 mark in Mis
souri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkan
sas and Texas after yesterday’s
high marks in those states. The
cooler air which moved into most
of the midwest was expected to
reach into the Texas Panhandle
by tomorrow.
The mercury climbed to 108 at
IMcAlester, Okla., yesterday, the
highest reading in the area, while
it registered 107 at Tulsa, Okla.
Oklahoma City reported 105 and
6pringfield, Mo., and Little Rock,
Ark., sweltered in 104 tempera
tures.
Federal forecasters in Chicago
reported, thunderstorms over a
wide area from the Missouri and
Ohio valleys to southern section;
of the Great Lakes regions. Heav
iest falls were near the Illinois -
Wisconsin border. . *
Near normal temperatures were
reported in most sections of the
Atlantic seaboard and in the Pa
cific Coast region. A new cool
mass moved into Washington and
Oregon and touched the northwest
section of Montana.
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THE SPORT OF PIGEON
facing is most popular in Belgium,
where nearly every village has its
“Societe Columbophile” or pigeon
club, according to the Encyclo
paedia Britanniea. Pigeons belong
to the family, Columbidae.
Paul Mantz Sets
New East-West
Record—7 Hours
BURBANK, Calif. OP) — Paul!
Mantz, who at 42 is one of the
nation’s hottest pilots, hurtled
across the nation in 7 hours and 4
seconds Wednesday to establish a1
new transcontinental east-west
speed record.
He streaked from La Guardia
Field, New York, to Loockheed air
terminal here in the fastest time
ever recorded for that trip by a
propellor-driven plane.
It was the same bright red
souped-up P-51 Mustang fighter
in which he won the Bendix race,
from Van Nuys, Calif., to Cleve
land last Saturday at an average
of 460.423 miles an hour and the
Bendix in 1946.
The debonair movie stunt flyer i
and charter service operator,
swooped down low past the con-;
trol tower here at 4:26:04 p.m. <P.
S.T.) Wednesday at around 500;
miles an hour, catching everybody
unaware except Larry Therkelsen, j
national aeronautic association
timer. Mantz’ radio had gone dead
so he couldn’t advise the waiting
group of his exact arrival time.
He grinned as he told reporters
he had almost run out of fuel.
“I took off with 770 gallons and
I think I had just enough left to
taxi in,” he said. "Those high head
winds had me worried for awhile,
but they finally let up.”
Flying by way of Pittsburgh, St.
Louis and Albuquerque, N. M., he
said he encountered headwinds
ranging from 20 to 70 miles an
hour nearly all the way but aver
aged about 371 miles an hour for
the 2,600-mile trip.
His record shaved 27 minutes,,
56 seconds off the previous east- j
west record set Aug. 1, 1946, by an
army B-29 piloted by Capt. Boyd
L. Grubaugh, Van Wert, Ohio.
Mantz also holds the west-east
record of 6 hours, 7 minutes for
propellor-driven planes but a jet
propelled Lockheed P-80 set a!
mark lor all types of aircraft of 4 j
hours, 13 minutes, 26 seconds in!
January, 1946.
Government To
Aid Paper And
Pulp Industry
JUNEAU, (JP)—Three members
of the Senate small business com
mittee completed Wednesday their
public hearing on Alaska’s pro
jected pulp and newsprint indus
try and left for investigation of
proposed civil airfield sites at An
chorage and Fairbanks.
They are Senators Capehart <R.
Xnd.), chairman of the newsprint
sub-committee, Ellen der D.-La.),
and Cain (R.-Wash.).
They indicated that, if neces
sary, federal support would be
sought to put the pulp industry in
Alaska on a permanent basis be
cause of the national newsprint
shortage. Senator Capehart said
such support would involve devel
opment of electric power or pro
viding housing.
Heal Estate Board
Plead Not Guilty In
Anti-Trust Case
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Na
tional association of real estate
boards and the Washington real
estate board pleaded innocent yes
terday to a federal indictment
charging violation of the anti
trust laws.
The indictment announced last
week charges the two boards con
spired to fix commission rates for
real estate dealers in the District
of Columbia.
William E. Leahy, counsel for
the Washington board, and Roger
J. Whiteford, attorney for the
NAREB, were granted permission
by federal judge Jennings Bailey
to withdraw the plea and file an
additional plea or other motion by
Oct. 15.
The government also has filed a
civil anti-trust suit against the two
real estate organizations, execu
tive vice-president Herbert U. Nel
son of the NAREB, and 15 mem
bers and directors of the Washing
ton board.
The civil suit asks that provi
sions of the constitution and by
laws of the NAREB and the Wash
ington boord which require or per
mit uniform commission fees be
'.declared in violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law.
The criminal indictment of the
two organizations followed an or
der by attorney general Tom
Clark for the justice department’s
anti-trust division to track down
and prosecute any conspiracies to
maintain or boost the prices of
food, clothing and housing.
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