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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, UP)—Meet the
new champion—
For a long time most people
around here though that Louis Y.
de Zychlinski had the longest
title in Washington. He’s the “spe
cial administrative aide to the
fourth assistant postmaster gener
al.”
But Saturday Don E. Petty ac
cepted appointment as “chairman
of the committee on statement of
principles of administrative law of
the section of administrative law,
American Bar Association.”
LOS ANGELES, (tf5)—It was a
quick switch for the national
headquarters of Allied Building
Credits,, Inc., Saturday.
The company’s acco unting
equipment wast loaded aboard a
chartered plane in St. Paul, un
loaded here Saturday night and in
operation today—the transfer was
accomplished without loss of a
working day, company officials
said.
WASHINGTON (/Pi—Forager U.
S. Senator Augustine Lonergan,
Connecticut Democrat, died at his
home here Saturday after several
months of failing health.
Lonergan, who took up law
practice here in 1939 after his Sen- j
ate term, was forced by illness to
give up his duties last spring. He
served in the House from the First
Connecticut District from 1913 to
1921 and from 1931 to 1933 when
he became Senator. He was his
party’s Senate nominee in 1920
and 1928.
VANDERGRIFT, Pa. (/P)—Rob
ert Eugene Fitzgerald, 16, Vander- ;
grift high school substitute half- ;
back, died in a hospital Saturday j
' after collapsing in a game Friday
night in which his teammates de- !
feated Baldwin township, 41-20.
Death was due to a cerebral
hemorrhage, according to a report i
to Allegheny county coroner Wil- 1
liam D. McClelland.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Several!
earth tremors of from light to ,
moderate intensity were felt here :
and in the Mount McKinley area
yesterday about 2:30 p.m. Nome;
timeh
No damage was reported al-1
though the vibrations sent some j
frightened residents into the |
streets.
VANCOUVER, B. C., (/P)—'The j
discovery of the brutally battered
body of eight-year-old Bobby |
Moore launched Provincial police 1
today on an all-out search for the
slayer.
The boy’s body was found by
another youngster last night, more
than 48 hours after he was last i
seen early Friday leaving for
school. The body was in a depres
sion in the ground, covered with
bushes.
LAUSANNE, (/P) —Wine mak
ing, now under way in most
grape-growing areas of Switzer
land, indicates this year’s produc
tion at 81,000,000 to 84,000,000
Bread And Shoe
Pi •ices Hiked
In States
<By The Associated Press)
The economic shock waves
touched off by soaring grain and
cattle prices shook a little more
weight out of the consumer’s buy
ing dollar today.
Bakers in four eastern and one
midwestern city announced week
end boosts in the price of bread
and the International Shoe com
pany of St. Louis, one of the
world’s largest manufacturers of
footwear, said a general increase
would be made in the price of
shoes.
The boost in shoe prices, which
will be reflected in the retail mar
ket about Jan. 1, will range from
35 cents a pair for children’s foot
wear to 95 cents for men’s.
Meanwhile, December wheat
hit the $3.00 level again on the
Chicago board of trade, after re
maining below this level through
out Friday, and corn and oats also
pushed higher. Near the end of
the first hour, Saturday, wheat
was 1 to 3Vfc higher, December i
$2.99%. Corn was % to 1% high
er, December $2.32Vfc, and oats
were % to 1 V\ higher, December'
$1.20%.
At Des Moines. Ia., a two cents
a loaf retail price jump was ex
pected for bi*ead after the bakery
industry announced the wholsale
price would be hiked \x/i cents to
day. The new retail price was ex
pected to be 16 and 17 cents.
In Washington an official of the :
American Bakers association told 1
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—
Seven Prisoners
Of War Escape
From Prison Train
SALT LAKE CITY <;p)—With a
reinforced armed guard over ap
proximately 150 “of the worst men
the army’s got,” a military prison
train rolled across Utah toward j
California Saturday follow i n g ;
seven escapes in three states.
All but one of the prisoners who
escaped in wild leaps from the
speeding train have been recap
tured, one critically wounded.
Still hunted by Kansas police >s
the seventh rtian, identified by
army authorities as James D. An- ;
ders, 21, of Jamestown, N. Y.
The train is carrying the hand
cuffed prisoners, many serving j
life terms and facing dishonor-1
able discharges for such crimes as j
murder, rape and desertion, from
Greenhaven, N. Y., to detention
barracks at Camp Cooke, Calif.
At Gamp Carson, Colo., where
a successful, widespread search
for one of two prisoners who es
caped in the snow-covered Colo
rado Rockies was directed, Lt. Col.
H. F. Ames, public information
officer, termed the prisoners “the
worst the army’s got—willing to
go to any extreme.”
Ames said three German prison
ers of war, sentenced to life im
prisonment for crimes committed
in POW ramos. were with the
Air Force Plans
Defense Network i
In Alaska
——
WASHINGTON, (A*) — The air
force is projecting a bristling net
work of defenses in strategically
critical Alaska, an integrated sys
tem including such installations
as radar warning stations, under
ground command posts and fight
er fields.
An official summary issued to
night by the air force high com
mand lifted a corner of the cur
tain on USAF activities on the
Arctic frontier during the last
year.
Twelve months of flights by
Alaska-based squadrons making
aerial studies, weather flights and
conducting training operations,
said the statement, “have proved
the USAF can fly anywhere in
the Polar regions during any sea
son of the year.”
Ranging out from American
territory over the no-man’s land,
aircraft of the 45th Reconnais
sance Squadron have made more
than 100 flights “over the gea
graphic North Pole and its imme
diate vicinity,” the statement dis
closed.
The squadron was sent to Alas- |
ka in June, 1946, to “observe and
photomap the Alaskan area for
the strategic location of defense
components.”
These components, the state
ment said, “included an inter-de
pendent system of early warning
sites (radar), fighter bases and un
derground fighter control centers
with necessary facilities for cold
weather testing of heavy bom
bardment units” (such units are
made up of B-29 and newer mod
els of ultra-long range bomb car
rying aircraft).
The air force statement did not
say how far these defense projects
had been advanced, but army en
gineers and the air force have
been authorized, so far, to spend
more than $75,000,000 in Alaska.
In addition to announced con
struction programs for Ladd
Field, Mile 26 have been uncon
firmed but undenied reports of
fiew beses being built on the Arctic
Ocean rim of Alaska and Canada.
The USAF reported that valu
able geographical, navigational
and weather discoveries had been i
made during the Arctic opera
tions, including the fact that
there are three magnetic north
poles instead of one. (A magnetic
pole is the point toward which an
ordinary magnetic compass turns).
The poles are located in an
eliptically# shaped area with the
major pole on Prince of Wales
Island, instead of the long-report
ed position at the lower tip of
Bothia Peninsula. There are local
poles on Bothurst Island and Bo
thia Peninsula, the statement said.
The poineering 46th Reconnais
sance Squadron, which has flown
more than 5,000 hours and 1,000,000
miles since its arrival in the thea
ter, has been followed by other
units including the 57th Fighter
group, the 54th troop carrier
squadron, the 415th night fighter
squadron and the IQth rescue
squadron. They were sent to Alas
Russia Doesn't
Want To Make
War At This Time
—
WARSAW. </P) — Eight Labor
members of the British Parlia
ment say Prime Minister Stalin j
told them when they visited him
in Russia recently that he wished
to resolve political and economic
issues with the United States and
Britain and impressed them as
having no thought of war.
• An Associated Press dispatch
from Warsaw originally quoted
the Britons as saying Stalin told
them he had no thought of mak
ing war. No direct quotation was
supplied on this angle, however,
and the statement was revised
later to say Stalin impressed them
as having no thought of warp
Konni Zilliacus, head of the
eight-man British delegation, said
Friday night that Stalin added
that if America and Britain did
not want to settle differences “we
shall wait until they regain their
reason.”
The parliamentary group —
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Hurricane In Gulf
Near Bermuda
HAMILTON, Bermuda. (TP) —
Winds estimated at 90 miles an
hour beat against Bermuda and
churned heavy seas today as the
center of a tropical hurricane
moved north, 75 miles off the Brit
ish colony. Some gusts reached
100 miles per hour.
The hurricane was expected to
come within 50 miles of Bermuda
before continuing out to sea. No
casualties were reported.
Telephone and electric wires
were downed by torrential rain
accompanying the wind. Palms
cedars bent to the gale, deposit
ing many of their branches in the
streets. Many workmen were un
able to reach their jobs.
The yacht Sephyr, which won
the last race in the Amorita Cup
series last season, was dismasted
at its anchorage in the Royal Ber
muda Yacht clubs.
Alaska Observes
#
Its Eightieth
Anniversary
ANCHORAGE, (/Pi — Al-a ska
celebrated the 80th anniversary of
the Territory’s purchase from
Russia Saturday.
Numerous guests from the
United States and from all over
Alaska assembled here for the
Territory’s biggest celebration. As
part of the observance the Alaska
Railroad’s new streamliner train
was christened and made a special
run to Mount McKinley park.
A "Days of '98 ball” was held
at the Mount McKinley park ho
tel Saturday night, with Fairbanks
representatives from the north
and joining in the activities. In a
contest entered by more than 1,000
persons, Mrs. Molly Manring. An
chorage, won first prize with the
name "Au-Ro-Ra” for the stream
line, with the A R R in capitals,
standing for Alaska Railroad.
In ceremonies Friday at Fort
Yukon, where on Aug. 9, 1869.
Capt. Charles Raymond arrived
' and informed the residents that
, the British trading post was part
of the Territory of Alaska, an
American flag was again raised
over the old fort.
Judge Anthony J. <Tony> Di
mond, former Alaska Delegate to
Congress, praised the "foresight”
of secretary of state William H.
Seward, who bought Alaska, at a
meeting here yesterday.
“Seward looked into the future
and saw that the purchase of Alas
ka was indispensible to the United
States,” he said.
“It is unfortunate that the gov
ernment does not use a little of
that foresight today and make
Alaska a State,” he added.
It was on Friday, Oct. 18, 1867,
when the actual transfer of the
Territory was made from Russia
to the United States at Novo Ark
hangelsk, now’ Sitka, histories
show.
In August that year, after a
treaty had been signed by the two
countries, commissioners were ap
pointed by each and although the
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CAB’s Refusal To End Rate War
(By James J. Strebig) <
<i>P) News Feature Writer*
WASHINGTON — The Civil
Aeronautics Board (CAB) usually
disposes of petitions regarding
rates by what it terms a “simple
order”—that is, a thousand words :
of legalisms built around one ofj
two words: “granted” or “denied.”
But it has just noted an excep
tion to that custom in writing
what appears certain to be a high
ly important document in the des
tiny of aviation’s youngest and
fastest growing department — the
freight business.
There was some experimenting
with air cargo before the war.
During the war some of the larger
airlines made a start on it.
But the business really devel
oped into something worth fight
ing for after the war, when a
great many former military fliers
bought up surplus transports at
bargain prices and filled them
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which overflowed the capacity of
the scheduled airlines.
How Fight Started
As the airlines rebuilt their
fleets, much of the heavy demand
for air transport melted away. The
issue is now between the air lines
and a relatively few large inde
pendents.
This latter group has won a
temporary right to give scheduled
cargo service. The airlines made a
big move to meet the competition
by reducing their rates to 20 cents
a ton-mile Aug. 1. This compared
with an average of about 16 cents
for the un-certificated operators,
some of whom promptly cut their
rates to an average of about 13
cents.
Three airlines—American, Cap
ital and United — were most di
rectly affected by that rate slash.
They countered with a reduction
to about 12 cents, and the inde
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