Five Students
Missing In Trek
Home from Alaska
DANBURY, Conn., i/P) — Con
necticut state police broadcast a
nation-wide missing persons alarm
Staurduy for five students over
due on a trio home from Alaska.
State police Lieut. Carlton Kloc
ker identified the five as Howard
M. Colley, Jr., 21: his 19-year-o!d
brother, Ralph; John M.iler, 21,
and Alfred Adler, 19. all of Dan
bury; and Richard Hollingsworth,
21. of Yard ley, Pa.
The youths went to A1 .ska this
summer to earn money for school
by working in a logging camp.
They began their trip home in mid
August.
Howard Colley. Sr., told police
^ this week that almost-daily letters
or postcards from his son had
abruptly ceased without explana
tion. lie -aid the lust one w »s p. <t
marked from Daws >n Crec c. B. \.
on Aug. 29.
Telephone calls to Cran.i Forks,
N. D., and Cincinnati, .viner • they
planned to visit, disclosed they
never arrived.
Committee OK s
Foreign Arms Bill
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WASHINGTON, :/P*—'Two Sen
ate committees today jointly
stamped formal app'ova! on a
$1,314,010,000 plan f >r re-arm ng
friendly nations against co.mmun
The final vote 20 to 3—cleared
the way for the arms bill to go to
th° Senate. There it face- another
fight by a group determinedto
make a deep cut in the total spend
ing.
The prospective -attacks will be
launched by Senator George D.
Ga.>, who wants to slash the
amount by $700,000,000. and Sen
ator Knowland <R -Calif.', who is
dissatisfied with the treatment
provided for China.
Arizona Miss
Wins Title Of
“Miss America”
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. </P)—
An Arizona ranch girl headed for ,
the big city today to start her
career as Miss America, 1949.
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Dark-haired, brown eyedJacquc
Mercer, 18. of the X-Bar-X ranch,
Litchfield Park. Ariz., who won
the title Saturday night, starts on
a round of personal appearances!
that will take her back across the
continent.
A< the new Miss America she
gets a $5,000 scholarship and a
$3,000 automobile, plus contracts
for the personal appearances. She
won the awards over a field of 52 '
beautiful girls from 45 states, four
major cities. Hawaii, Puerto Rico
and Canada.
Miss America’s marrie i conn
‘•.•■part. Mr-. America, was selcc-i
c i yesterday at Asbury Park, 60
miles north of here on the .Jersey |
shore, and promptly suggested .
'Miss-1\1 rs.” comparison.
Mrs. Frances L. Cloyd of San
Diego. C'alif., 23-year-old mother
of three children, contended that
a woman had to be married before
qualifying as really mature and
beautiful. She suggested a compe
tition, “perhaps for charity.”
SECY. SYMINGTON PLEASED
WITH NOME CAP SQUADRON
Major Les Bronson, commander
> l'the CAP Nome squadron me'
with Air Secretary Stuart Syming
ton and General Armstrong of the
Alaska Air Command while here
Saturday. They expressed surprise (
and pleasure at the progress the i
Nome squadron has made in the '
CAP program here, stated Mr.
Bronson. They informed him that 1
General Spaatz, outstanding offi
cer of ‘.he Battle of the Bulge, was
the new national commander of
CAP.
The CAP has a meeting sched
ule for tomorrow evening at the
City Hall.
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Progressing Very
“Satisfactorily**
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WASHINGTON, </P>—Canadian
finance minister Douglas Abbott
said today the United States. Bri
tain and Canada h,.vo agreed on a
program ot immediate steps to
combat Brita n’s dollar c isis.
In a speech prepared for a na
tional press club luncheon. Abbott
declared that *:uanco and foreign
policy min. to s ; po three coun
tries now c'.> .n_ • !i >.v< k-long
meeting here*, “have mj.de very
cneou aging pregre s."
Abbott di i not >pe 1 mu’ what
the steps would br. Bit; .,e did -ay
that “We have made . . od -
ning” and e'e; ly ieiica'ed tha*
the three n;r ions h ,d agreed to
close and continu " consultation
to ge‘ Britain out of i t itnmed ate
financial hole ,n I keep it oti*.
In advance. however. « : 1 • u 1 s
familiar wi h the wo. >i the con
ference s;iid the ;)”t* ■> * t tep
will include '1- gr • e • freedom
for Britain in spmd'uL Mn 'shall
plan dollars for ana i n v r it
and «2- accep*nuc - by *P • Un
States of Britain’ nee t c in
mate against Ameri *a .
order to conserve d< 1 !:r -.
Flying ( a|)Lmi
Savs Navv Strength
Bring Scuttled
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WASHINGTON. <£>)—'The head
of ‘he naval air trai ting program
spoke r rong'v today : • :• . i i •; r.f
the lly'ng er.p'ni.i who charged
that nr vv •ffeo-ivc «*re i ' i be
ing sci’t‘led.
“When .1 i. G o v : . i . c
naval officer an a \ * v superb
naval av ator. spei'‘°. ‘he Ameri
can people imp'd 1 - < •> him ''
Those were the closing words in
a statement by Rear Acimi al Aus
tin K. Oyvle of G fr v
Grommet n is-mod o'icv
Sains ’ey ir. which h nr ‘e-t -d
that navy powe? is being wrecked
in tiie Pentagon, headquarte s o!
the .T-n-iedcecvic rfo s di '
being “nibbbiorl *o d^nii" and
navv "; 'cr*ro\ ■ 1.
The navy air air fore? for .-•< voc
al years have engaged 'n ■; b ‘
dispute >v v t.v ; c • c \ c • •’ .
in st'Mtcpic vc rfaro.
Montana Taste
Of Early Winter
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HELENA, Mont. i^i-Sno;v con
tinued falling in Montana : iday ;s
the first sign of winter spread i's
white blanket and freezing tem
peratures into Wyoming nt '.ir
Dakotas.
The Alaskan storm p.u .fs fin
ger on Montana late Saturday,
spreading more th.m a foot <>,
snow over some areas nd drop
p ng temperature' to « - low a- 2
icg’ ees ebov > zero today.
It was the heaviest So 'r
now'.ill in He.cn a on a • r w
mean records. The m >rn h;F
minimum o; 22 degree- a Is.
i ea ec ' cl lew for ‘hr .hr o.
he year. 1 ir bum. i .
i->,TTSDT'hr 1 ’. p_The s'cel
trike erts:- wa p > o s'ra e
gist.' of • he CIO unite! -tmr.v r..
c s tod iy.
They her’ the answer to P e- -
<’ ”• Tmn'v.n’s re'.|Ucst for an :i
v . .'..no the s' r.re t" lee
expiring t ir n n dn . Steel
e o-try's !’i ' F ve .»<• - o’er) the
ex'* i • on.
Also in the union’s hands is the
working man’s demands for a
fourth round pay incense- spe
cifically whether to accept the
Two Lost Hunters
Reach Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (^)-Two mem
bers of a four-person hunting
party missing for a week walked
into the Sheep Mountain CAA sta
tion Saturday night.
A terse report from the station
indicated the two were a man and
a woman, the Tenth R -sen* S ) ; id
ron said. The -quad: or. surmised
‘he woman must .;/• Mr-. P i O'
Donnell o: Ap.chn :ilo H?r mis
band. pi jot Franc .- -D / <y' Brown
field and Ear! Bogey were the
three o*bers in ‘he* par‘v.
The hunters la-: were -eon
head ’i for the X Ichina r'ver
he..dw".‘ers y.-ot. 4 after taking
:. !'"im the S (■ i Mountain sta
i u. They wear -owed m.ssing
E: . y an I :• < x'e - *: • -earch
fa.led t ■ • lor* i a h'1 •• , ■ ne.
PtvsaXr.’.a’ ;• *nru a t< •
« t: • tile 'tee: Wag -pa .*?.
'I.. ‘ b<-a. i -u e s o 10-cent
.lour.;/ . e cc»' . _ .■ • .or.s
raucc vu n it wages.
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.'>n.' • I.-*- nr* expe -ted irom
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• :. ice • .ft . Jc i d -
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is ‘port.
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