Washburn Reports
Mt. McKinley May
Be 50 Feet Higher
BOSTON, (/P) — Mt. McKinley
in Alaska may be 50 feet or more
higher than currently supposed
to be, the Boston Museum of
Science s^id, reporting prelimin
ary results of a five-year survey
of the peak.
Since a 1924 government sur
vey, McKinley’s altitude has been
listed as 20,270 feet.
Bradford Washburn, director of
the museum, said, preliminary
computations indicate the south
peak, higher of McKinley’s two
peaks, has a tentative altitude of
20,320 feet.
Washburn said the new figure
“is the result of very careful
observations, conducted specific
ally to find the altitude and posi
tion of the summit, and also to
determine the altitude and posi
tion of McKinley’s lower north
ern peak. For years a dispute has
smouldered as to the exact differ
ence in elevation between the
north and south peaks.
“Lowest value in the museum
survey for the higher of the two
peaks is 20,312 feet. Highest is
20,332 feet. The tentative new al
titude of the summit of the south
peak is 20,320 feet.”
Washburn placed the difference
in altitude of the two peaks at
845 feet. They are “almost ex
actly two miles apart and almost
precisely north and south of each
other,” he said.
French Motorcyclists
Enroute Tierra del Fuego,
Detour To Alaska
MONTREAL, (>P) — Tierra del
Fuego, the southernmost tip of
South America, is their ultimate
destination but two young French
men steered their red motorbikes
for Alaska as they left here Sun
day.
Alaska is a side trip for Michel
Le Clerc and Jean Claude Bois,
23-year-old Parisians who came
here from Boston on the first leg j
of their long motorbike tour.
They left Paris by ship and ex
pect to take a year traveling to
Alaska. Then they plan to cycle
down through the United States
to Mexico and from one end of
South America to the other.
They estimate the full trip from
Paris will total some 30,000 miles. I
19 to 0 Is Score Of
Sabre Pilots Over MIGs
In Most Successful Week
SEOUL, (/P) — The U.S. Fifth
Air Force said American Sabre
jet pilots shot down another Com
munist MIG Saturday, the 19th
in six straight days of smashing
victories against the Russian-built
jets.
The Air Force also triumphant
ly announced prior to Saturday’s
furious jet battle over North Ko
rea that'not a single Allied plane
was lost in aerial combat the
past week. However, four were
lost to enemy ground fire and
four to unreported causes. Am
erican Sabres damaged',19 Com
munist jets.
Considering the win-lost ratio
of Sabre jets usually runs about
8-1 over the streaking MIGs, the
past six • days possibly have been
the'.most successful for the war
for TJ.N. fighter pilots.
Crowds Slow in Gathering
To Mourn At Funeral
Procession of Eva Peron
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, (/P)
— President Juan D. Peron
marched bare - headed under a
rain of flower petals in solemn
procession Saturday behind the
body of his wife, Eva, through
the center of Buenos Aires to the
national capital.
Argentina thus began the final
stage of 15 days of funeral honors
for his first lady, equal to those
normally reserved for a president
dying in office.
A gun carriage bore the mahog
any casket along a 15-block line
of march from the labor ministry,
where Mrs. Peron’s body has
been viewed by thousands. It was
drawn by 45 workers from the
General Confederation of Labor,
wearing white shirts with mourn
ing bands and black neckties.
They marched coatless to typify
the Descamisados (shirtless ones)
who formed the great political
power of the Perons.
Crowds were slow in gathering
and—an hour before the proces
sion started—Peron’s press office
broadcast every few minutes over
a nation-wide hookup of all radio
stations an invitation for the pub
lic to assemble along the line of
march.
The crowd that finally devel
oped was much smaller than ex
pected.
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