Captain 'IVIIs Of
Ship Itomhing
At Tsingtao
• Editors Note: The following
eye-witness account is the first
direct word from Tsingtao on the
bombing and strafing attack on
two American ships there. The
dispatch was filed by the captain
of a U. S. ship which was in
Tsingtao).
(By Captain D. E Noble)
Master of the Pacific Far East
Lines ship New World Victory.
(Distributed by Associated Press)
Aboard the New World Victory
in Tsingtao, China, (jP)—At noon
Feb. 27 three Nationalist planes
appeared over Tsingtao and after
circling the city dropped a stock
of bombs over the industrial area
and near the loc^l power plant.
Then heading out over the
docks and harbor .they dove on
two American ships at anchor
and dropped bombs and strafed
same—the Pioneer Dale and the
Flying Clipper.
These ships immediately put to
sea although the planes did not
bomb the dock area where my
vessel was loading. The planes
disappeared about 1 p.:n.
Two planes seemed to be of the
P 51 type and a third a two-tn
gined aircraft of unidentified type.
The bombs dropped were small.
Business was resumed as usual
after the raid.
Agriculture Dept.
Sells Potatoes At
One Cent Per Cwt.
WASHINGTON, <;P) — Potato
growers may have to cut down on
production next year or do with
out government price supports.
Before passing a House-approv
ed farm bill Monday, the Senate
tacked on several amendments,
one of which cut off all price
supports for spuds in 1951 unless
rigid marketing quotas are set
up. Less restrictive production
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Takes All Blame
lor Grounding
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NORFOLK, Va. (/P)—Capt. Wil
liam D. Brown, commanding offi
cer of the battleship Missouri,
said yesterday “I and I alone bear
the sole responsibility” for her
grounding last month.
“As captain of the ship, it was
my duty to keep her safe and se
cure. I didn’t do it,” the 47-year
old officer told a naval court of
inquiry.
This dramatic rev e r s a 1 of
Brown’s previous defense tactics
came as the court opened its 18th
day of sessions designed to fix
responsibility for the grounding
which occurred in Chesapeake
Bay, January 17.
When Brown took the stand in
his own defense February 18 and
February 20 he testified his “team
of officers” fell down when he
“needed it most” January 17, and
he felt “utterly alone as far as as
sistance from my team of officers
was concerned.”
Yesterday, he stood tall and
straight before the court and
(reading from a prepared state
| ment said:
, “I feel, and I feel it strongly,
that despite all ofthe numerous
shortcomings of others which
have been revealed in this court
room, I could have and should
; have, kept the ship in deep water.”
j The decision to place the ship
I on the course that took her
I aground, Brown said, “was made
i by me, without the positive con
currence of anyone in the ship.”
! controls are in order for 1950.
The Senate also directed the de
partment of agriculture to sell at
cost the whopping big pile of sur
plus potatoes it has collected in
the current price support pro
gram. The department already
has started selling potatoes back
to farmers at one cent a hundred
pounds provided they are used as
stock feed or fertilizer.
Hriiiizlrman Seeks
Seattle To Alaska
Aulo Kerrs
SEATTLE, (/P) — It should be
possibleto drive your automobile
onto a seagoing ferry in Seattle
and drive it off in Southeastern
Alaska, B. Frank Heintzleman
said here this week.
The chambers of commerce of
Juneau and other Alaska cities
want to see that become a reality
and Heintzleman has promised to
survey the possibilities while
“Outside.”
Another thing he has to do is
try to raise $10,000 here from
merchants .wholesale houses and
industrialists having commercial
relations with the Territory, to
help Juneau build a library. The
town itself has raised $60,000, and
$70,000 is anticipated in matching
funds from the federal public
works program authorized by the
last Congress.
Both undertakings were accept
ed by Heintzleman because he
had to come Outside anyway on
his annual mission to Washington,
D. C., to be on hand when interior
department appropriations are
taken up by Congress. He is re
gional forester for the Territory.
- “Alaska now has 2,600 miles of
highway into the interior, and a
lot of it is being blacktopped by
the Alaska road commission,”
Heintzleman said.
“Alaskans feel that many more
tourists would come up if they
could drive their cars right onto a
ferry, and have them there to use
when they got off. We understand
such ferries are operating between
the Hawaiian Islands, between
Miami and Cuba, and between
Boston and New Brunswick.
“Many might like to make a
circle tour, coming back by way
of the Alaska Highway. The Hart
highway, Prince George to Daw
son, is expected to be opened this
summer, cutting off 500 miles,
and making it unnecessary to go
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TRIPOD ERECTED
AT NENANA
The* tripod on the Tanana was
finished yesterday, according to
advises from F. W. Avery.
It was erected by Slim Avery,
Butch Grundidge and Boots An
derson. The tripod is all ready for
its coat of red and white paint.
The ice where the tripod is setting
is forty inches thick and the wa
ter is very low in the Tanana, but
there is lots of snow in the sur
rounding area which should make
lots of w’ater at the breakup.
through Edmonton.”
Heintzlcman said he doubted
that flat-bottomed ferries of low
freeboard, like the old Golden
Gate fleet, would do, even if con
verted to staterooms. He pointed
out they would have to cross open
water to Queen Charlotte Sound.
Something like the Puget Sound
Navigation Company’s motor ves
sel Chinook would be necessary.
Heintzlcman will confer with
steamship lines here on the possi
bilities.
Regarding Juneau's library,
Heintzlcman said it is now housed
m two inadequate rooms in the
City Hall. He will ask the Carne
gie Foundation in New York to
FINE PROGRAM SCHEDULED
FOR BOOSTER BANQUET
Joe Hunt, of the Service Barber
Shop, who has been making the
arrangements for the Stag Dinner
honoring the Basketball Team has
announced that the dinner hai
met with splendid response and
! will be well attended tomorrow
j evening at the Pioneer Hall.
John McNees of the Nome Be\
erage Co., toastmaster, is report
ed to have a fine program lined
up for the banquet.
Piping an officer or notable
aboard a ship is believed to have
originated in sailing days when
visitors often had to be hoisted
aboard in a boatswain’s chair in
heavy weather and the pipe was
used to signal the men handling
the ropes.
help stock the proposed new li
brary. The Sears Roebuck Foun
dation has agreed to supply books
for a circulating library, he saioi.
They would be carried to small
fishing and Indian villages by the
small boats operated along the
Alaska coast by public agencies.
Rotary clubs of Juneau and
Ketchikan are co-sponsoring this.
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