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SEATTLE, {&>) — A picked
mountain climbing party faced a
dangerous climb to the precipi-!
tous, crevasse-picked 10,000-foot
level of Mt, Rainier today to check
on what may be the wreckage of
the Marine Corps transport plane
which vanished with 32 men
aboard on a San Diego-Seattle
flight last December 10.
Thirteenth naval district head
quarters reported the “tentative”
identification of the wreckage by
assistant chief ranger Bill Butler,
on Tahoma glacier on the moun
tain’s southwest face. Butler re
ported that he sighted through
field glasses from a high ridge
late Monday a plane’s bucket seat,
a piece of a plane’s metal ’’skin”
and what appeared to be another
piece of wreckage.
FRENCH OFFICER
VISITS NOME
Capt. Michael Gamier, of the
French army engineers arrived in
Nome on Tuesday pending h;s
discharge from the Army. He
served in Syria when France feil
and during the German occupa
tion.
He returned to Rome where he
trained in the Roman Catholic
church for priesthood where he
was ordained.
When France capitulated he be
came a line officer in the French
underground.
Capt. Gamier plans to study in
Washington whan he is released
from service.
MISS LURLINE WILKINS
VISITING IN NOME
Miss Lurline Wilkins, teacher at
the Territorial school at Seward,
is the house guest of her cousin,
Mrs. H. Edwards for a few weeks.
Alaskan Prefers
Alaska To-U. S.
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SEATTLE, (^P)—“The more you
see of the rest of the world," says
Alaskan George Sumption, “the
better you appreciate Alaska!"
George and his wife were in i
Seattle yesterday, awaiting steam
ship passage to. their home in
Wrangell, after a three-month va-!
cation trip through California,
Arizona, and Mexico by automo
bile.
Sumption, who went from Seat
tle to Alaska back in 1925; now
owns the 52-year-old city store in
Wrangell, oldest general mercan
tile store in the city.
He recently sold his interest in
the shrimp and crab packing com
pany.
MS. KOTZEBUE
LOADING FOR TRIP NORTH ...
The MS. Kotzebue is now in the
Snake River harbor loading for a
| trip to the north.
PAA PERSONNEL
VISITING IN NOME
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Kinder and
| daughter Kay from the Fairbanks
| Pan American commissary depart
j ment are visiting for a few days
in Nome.
MS. METEOR ARRIVES
; IN NOME ROADSTEAD
I The Meteor arrived last evening
j on its first trip of the season, hav
i ing two scows in tow.
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JENS FORSHAUGS RETURN
FROM KING ISLAND
Mr. and Mrs. Jens Forshaug,
! teachers for the Alaska Native
Service who have spent the winter
at King Island returned Sunday
from the Island.
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Truman's Midyear I
Economic Report
Very Satisfactory j
- i
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmith)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman’s analysis of America’s
economic assets and shortcomings
drew general praise yesterday
from a Republican and a Demo
crat on the Congressional commit- I
tee seeking an anti-depression for- i
mula.
Sizing up the chief executive’s
special mid-year report which
coupled a description of “unpre
cedented prosperity’’ with a call
for greater efforts against infla
tion, Senator Flanders (R.-Vt.)
told a reporter:
“By and large, it looks like a
good, careful job. I think the most;
important thing the President
said is that the food price and sup
ply situation merits the most care
ful watching.
"I am afraid I don’t quite agree
with him that there is no ground
for general alarm now. There is.
The President should make an ap
^ peal to the people now for ‘strict
economy’ in the use of food, and
not wait, as he suggests, for real
shortages.”
I Senator Myers <D.-Pa.) said in
j a separate interview that Mr. Tru
! man “has emphasized once again
! the necessity for affirmative ac
j tion to stabilize our high level of
prosperity on a solid foundation.”
Declaring he is in “full accord”
with the President’s general re
commendations, Myers added that
| “unfortunately Congress up to
now has given little attention” to
similar proposals contained in Mr.
Truman’s first economic report to
Congress last January.
Both Myers and Flanders are
members of the joint committee
on the economic report, set up to
study White House findings and
make its own soundings.
In the survey he submitted
Mon day, the President urged
among other things that prices be
cut and wages increased where
prof’t* are high. Profits are high,
he said, in “many cases.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, f/P) — Britain’s mili- ;
tary forces contained 1,297,300
men and women as of June 30, the
Secretary for War, F. J. Bellebger
told the House of Commons today.
WASHINGTON, i/P)—President
Truman today nominated Rudolf
E. Schoenfeld of the District of
S Columbia to be minister to Ro
mania.
The nomination of Schoenfeld,
now a foreign service officer, was
sent to the Senate along with a
large number of foreign service
officer promotions.
OSLO, Norway, (£*)—The Nor
wegian foreign office said today
that eight “quislings” fleeing
Norwegian justice had landed at
Vigo. Spain, after three weeks
aboard the 60-foot yacht Solrbis.
The Norwegian charge d’af
faires in Madrid has been order
ed to act, probably to demand the
men be handed over to Norway.
SEATTLE, (A*)—In a notice to
mariners, the Coast Guard an
nounced today a radiobeacon and
finding station would be set up
Aug. 18 in the Guard Islands, in
the Tongass Narrows area of
Alaska. The light characteristic
will be group flashing white every
6 seconds (flash 1 second, eclipse
I second, flash 1 second, eclipse
3 seconds).
Locomotive Strike
Of Short Duration
SAN FRANCISCO. — A
strike by the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive engineers which immob
ilized the western lines of the
Southern Pacific railroad ended
early yesterday six hours and 45
minutes after it began.
Thirty-nine minutes later the
first of hundreds of locomotives
idled by the brief strike puffed
back into service. It was a switch
engine in the railroad’s Oakland,
Calif., yards.
L. B. McDonald, Southern Pa
cific vice president in charge of
operations, announced at 12:45
a.m. (PST), that an agreement with
the union had been reached Mon
day.
Shortly afterward P. O. Peter
son, general chairman of the Bro
therhood of Locomotive engineers,
announced “an agreement has
been signed and the strike indef
initely postponed while the re
maining issues are settled by di
Fire Razes Hangar
At Rosecrans
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. UP) — Fire
razed the hangar at Rosecrans
Field early today, destroyed a
warehouse and two DC-4 airplanes
causing damage estimated at $!,
394.000.
The fire, which started in an
electric motor in an overhead door
in the hanger, was discovered by
a guard, George Bliley. He said
he sounded an electric siren alarm
and then ran to the airport fire
department.
The hangar, of frame construc
tion, is located in the midwest of
a group of other frame buildings.
Resident engineer Wilton Wilding
said he previously had some trou
ble with the motor which started
the fire.
The heat from the conflagration
was so intense it cracked windows
in the control tower 300 feet
away.
rect negotiations with the rail
roads.”
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