Salmon Interests
To Pay "faxes Now
To Aid Alaska
SEATTLE, — The Alaska
salmon industry announced Sat
urday willingness to make tax
payments more than two months
in advance to alleviate critical
school financing situation at the
request of Territorial authorities.
Managing director W. C. Arnold
released the following statement:
“Because of the serious diffi
culties facing the Territory of
Alaska, the salmon industry will
advance funds to the Territorial
treasury for the purpose of keep
ing municipal and Territorial
schools open. The advances will
be by way of prepayment of pack
taxes on canned salmon normally
due and payable January 15, 1948.
The amount involved will be sev
eral hundred thousand dollars.
This action is being taken pursu
ant to the request of the Territo
rial tax commissioner at the direc
tion of the Territorial board of
administration.”
Call Un-American
Defense Witnesses
In Hollywood
WASHING TON, (/P) — The
House un-American activities
committee, in recess Saturday, t
will hear so-called “defense wit
nesses” this week in its investi-1
gation of communism in Holly
wood.
The first week of the inquiry
was given to what chairman ,
Thomas iR.-N. J.» called “friendly
witnesses,” including such nota- 1
bles as Robert Taylor, Robert
Montgomery, Gary Cooper and
Adolphe Menjou.
They were in general agreement i
in their testimony that commun
ists have infiltrated Hollywood1
and seek to dominate the industry
but have been unsuccessful
Slated as today’s witnesses are
Eric Johnston, head of the Mo
tion Picture association; John
Howard Lawson, Avah Bessie,
Dalton Trumbo and Emmett La
verv, writers.
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Pan American
Plane Missing Near
Ketchikan .
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S. Chidac, purser, 1562 Olive
Way, Seattle. Helen Darrah, stew
ardess, 502 17th Ave. N., Seattle.
Passengers: Sam Phillips, 507
11th Ave., Seattle. Willis Shank,
613 Seaboard Bldg., Seattle. Sally
Richards, Ely, Minn. Hubert War
nick, Ketchikan. John Robb, Jun
eau. Peggy Robb, Juneau, Jill
Robb, infant, Juneau. Robert
Brostrom, 212-R 4th Ave., Chey
enne, Wyo. George Knockemus,
2209 Garrett St., Cheyenne. Ernest
Felton, Hoonah, Alaska. Scott
Murphy. Juneau. Lizemme Dorsh,
Fairbanks. Frank. Twohy, 1512
5th Ave., W., Seattle.
SEATTLE, </P>—'The Rev. Wil
lis R. Shank, *bne of the passen
gers aboard the Pan American
Airways plane missing over
Southeastern Alaska, is Seattle di
rector of the Youth For Christ
Movement.
A member of the Seattle board
of Youth for Christ, Wallace S.
Langmade, said the Rev. Shank
• was on his way to Ketchikan for
I tonight’s dedication of a mission.
SEATTLE, i/P)—Mrs. Mary Chi
dac, purser aboard the ill-fated
Pan American Airways plane
missing between Seattle and Jun
eau, is well known here and in
i Blaine. Her husband is president
i of the C’hidac Trading corpora
I tion, an import and export firm,
l and her father is a deputy collec
i tor of customs.
ELY, M nn.. i/P) — Sally Rich
aids, listed a< a passepger on a
Pan-American Airways plane
missing in Southeastern Alaska is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
! jamin Richards of Ely. Richards is
1 superintendent .of the Zenith Iron
1 Ore mine, a Pickands-Mather
property.
Miss Richards, a civilian nurse
in Alaska, is about 26 years old
and is a graduate of the Univers
ity of Minnesota, friends in Ely
said.
She attended the wedding of her
brother Benjamin Richards, Jr.
in Seattle several days ago.
SEATTLE. (/P) — Capt. Alf. X.
Monsen, 47-year-old pilot of the
Pan American Airways plane
missing en route from Seattle to
Juneau, was one of Alaska’s best
known bush pilots and one of the
Territory’s first airmail pilots.
A resident of Alaska since
youth, he went to the Territory in
1917 as an employee of the Alas
ka Railroad and began flying in
192H. He joined with Pan Ameri
can when that company bought
the firm he worked for, Pacific
International Airways, in 1932. He
now rates as a master pilot, the
oldest and most experienced pilot
on Pan American’s Alaskan divi
sion.
Wesley Monsen, the captain’s
con and himself a co-pilot for Pan
American on the Alaska run, said
the missing plane’s co-pilot, L. A.
<Tod> Foster, had almost as much
experience as his father.
The son and a brother. Albert,
waited anxiously last night for
news with their mother. Mrs.
Helen Monsen, daughter of the
late Gov. John Troy of Alaska,
and publisher of the Daily Alaska
Empire at Juneau. She and Cap
tain Monsen married in 1941.
ARCHIE FERGUSON
HERE ON BUSINESS
Archie Ferguson, Kot zebue
business man and flyer, was in
town yesterday on business.
Fifty-Two Killed In
United Air Lines
Crash I11 Utah
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men were among the victims. One
of the women was an expectant
mother.
The mutilated remains were
flung across the 7,300 foot plateau
or blown into the 200-foot deep
canyon just behind the impact
point.
All bodies were left at the scene
until Saturday morning, witn
guards posted to protect them
from coyotes, pending an inquest.
Capt. E. L. McMillen, Balboa
Park.U Calif., the pilot, reported
by radio at 12:21 p m. fMST>, a
few minutes before the crash,
I that fire had broken out, probably
1 in the plane’s baggage compart
ment, and that the cabin was
i filled with smoke.
Five minutes later the veteran
of 15 years of flying on western
routes opened his microphone and
reported:
“The tail fire is going out. We
may get down and we may not.
Best place we can . .
At 12:27 he reported he had
, turned back for Bryce Canyon
1 airport and said “May make it.
' Think we have a chance now. Ap
! proaehing the strip.”
The next radio message cams
from the airport tower here at
12:32 p.m. It said:
”... fire one mile east.”
The ship had just skimmed
across the top of Tropic Canyon
ALICE EMERSON VISITING
FAMILY HERE
Alice Emerson, mother of Mrs.
W. Schroeter of the U. S. Weather
Bureau who was here last spring
arrived on the Pan American for
a visit with her family.
to the sloping top of a long, sage
brush-covered plateau, seconds of
flying time from the landing strip.
Concussion from the explosion
was felt clearly live miles away.
Black oily smoke billowed into
the air.
Among prominent persons
aboard the ship were:
Jack Guenther, 33, New York,
managing editor of Look Maga
zine; William A. Galvin, New
York, vice president of the Bakery
and Confectionery international
union of America <AFL>; Clement
D. Ryan, president of Whitney’s
department store. San Diego,
Calif., and former president of
Montgomery Ward & Co , and his
wife; Mrs. Dorothy Howard, Cor
onado, Calif., wife of Maj. Gen.
A. F. Howard, USMC, ret.; Samuel
Lillienthal and Mike Lillienthal,
weahhy Chicago brothers, and
ives; Mr .an l Mrs. C. J. de
3rugh. an English industrialist,
and his wife; and Jefferson Davis
Burkett, Chicago Cardinals pro
fessional football team punting
star.
The :ll-fated craft wa- described
at Chicago by J. A. Herlihy, UAL
vico president in charge of opera
tions. as having been “thoroughly
inspected’’ before its take-off on
| the flight.
Nov. 2 $120.00 l,l,,s »ax
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NOME TO KOTZEBUE
$35.00 I>I"S lux
NOME TO SEATTLE
$130.00 pi"* tax