Surplus Explosive
Radios Sold;
Then Recalled
I
LANSING, Mich. (#*)—State po
lice and government investigators
launched an investigation yester
day into the public sale of war
.•surplus radio sets with a conceal
ed explosive charge.
They said more than 1,000 of the
:;ets have been sold in Michigan.
The principal buyers have been
amateur radio operators who dis
assemble the sets to obtain parts.
State police commissioner Don
ald S. Leonard warned purchasers
to “leave them strictly alone un
til we can learn how to make
them safe. Each one has enough
TNT in it to blow a man’s head
off.”
The purpose of the charge, po
lice explained, was to destroy the
.set to prevent its falling intact in
to enemy hands during the war.
The sets cost the government
about $1,000 each. A Detroit deal
er has been selling them for $4.95
each. They weigh about 40
pounds.
None of the bombs is known to
have gone off.
Big, Stratocruiser
Great Surprise
To Washington
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regularly scheduled service.
Onlookers seeing the plane for
the first time were amazed to find
that there was a downstairs. Sure
enough, you could get up from
your seat in flight (and some
sight-seeing visitors were given
free rides over Washington) and
walk downstairs! There you would
find a bar and lounge. Short or
ders wrere served, and drinks.
For the discriminating traveler, j
a stateroom was available up
front. It sleeps four and seats
eight. On long trips, over an ocean
for instance, one could go to bed
at his regular time and arise in
the morning at his destination.
Nice washrooms, air conditioning
at all altitudes, also feature trips
on this super airliner. Will they
be successful, as money-makers?
Well, the airlines must think so.
More of them are on order, and
the public certainly approved this
first one!
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American Legion
Now 30 Years Old
PARIS, <jP)—The American Le
gion was thirty years old yester
day.
On March 15, 1919, about 1,000
soldiers of World War One met in
the Paris circus to found the or
ganization which now claims over
4,000,000 members. They were
brought together by the late Theo
dore Roosevelt, Jr.
The old circus building has long
since been torn down, but yester-!
day Paris Post commander C. |
Denby Wilkes, navy veteran of
both world wars, placed a wreath j
at the site.
The name American Legion was
adopted on a motion made by Maj.
Maurice K. Gordon, inspector
general of the 36th Division. He is
now a lawyer in Madisonville, Ky.
liner travels at three and four!
hundred miles an hour with com- j
parative ease. It is a four-engined,;
tricycle landing gear, monoplane.
The major difference between it
and the air force superfort is a
larger, deeper belly on the fuse
lage. As an idea of its size, the
rudder on the airliner reaches up
about four stories high.
Magnuson $ees
Huge Housing Pro
gram For Alaska
(Contined from Page One)
limited to $15,000,000 in a loan to
the Alaska housing authority.
“Present information strongly
supports estimates,” Magnuson as
serted, “that this would lead to
construction worth $75,000,000 in
Alaska.”
His bill would authorize the
Territorial legislature to permit
the Alaska housing authority to
undertake construction projects.
It would also give the federal na
tional mortgage association and
the federal housing administration
authority to make real estate loans
and mortgage arrangements.
(Special (&) Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (ffi) — Alaska’s
housing needs will be outlined to
the Senate banking committee to
day and to the House banking
committee tomorrow.
The committees will consider
Delegate Barjlett’s bill to author
ize appropriation of $15,000,000 to
the housing and home finance ad
ministration for home construction
in Alaska in cooperation with the
Alaska housing authority.
The measure also would set up
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a secondary market for home
i mortgages and increase the maxi
mum insurable mortgage from
the $8,100 set for the States to
$10,800 for Alaska. It also would
authorize the housing and home
! finance agency to give technical
help to the Alaska housing author
ity.
The bill is backed by the hous
ing and home finance administra
tion and the Interior department.
The witnesses before the com
mittees will be Raymond Foley,
housing and home finance admin
istrator, William E. Wame, as
sistant secretary of Interior; Fa
ther Paul C. O'Connor, S.J., chair
man of the Alaska housing author
ity of Hooper Bay, Alaska; E.
Glen Wilder, Anchorage, execu
tive director of the Alaska hous
ing authority; Kenneth Kadow,
Juneau, chairman of the interior
department field committee, and
Delegate Bartlett.
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