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Plane Wreckage |
Found North
* Of Nome
Pilot Gene Jack of the Arctic
Air Service of Candle, found the
wreckage of the missing plane of
the Ferguson Airways fo Kotze
bue, a 4-place Cessna, piloted by
Don George, enroute to Kotzebue.
The plane was sighted between
Imiruk Lake and the low hills to
the west, about 115 miles north of
Nome on Monday afternoon, fol
lowing a five-day search by every
► available plane in the area.
Pilot Jack was unable to find
a landing spot in the gathering
dusk, so returned to Nome, and
after fueling his plane, returned to
the scene Tuesday morning, land
ing some distance from the wreck
ed plane. Jack then walked to the
plane, and observed that the
# plane seemed to have spun to the
earth, wrecking the plane and
killing the pilot, Don George, in
stantly. The body of the pilot was
frozen into the wreckage of the
plane and parts of the plane
would have to be cut away in or
der to remove the body.
Arrangements were made to
have a rescue party take the
necessary tools to the wreckage to
extricate the body.
> Don George, 28, pilot for Fergu
son Airways, was formerly a me
chanic with the C.A.A. at Nome
and Anchorage, and has been fly- j
ing commercially only a few
months.
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Search For Six i
Storm Battered
, Planes
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PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 5—OP)—
Ground and air patrols search the
storm battered Pacific Northwest
and Alaska for survivors of six
planes missing in the past ten
days. The fate of twenty, one civil
ian mail pilot and nineteen serv
icemen still is cloaked in the
snowbound Cascades and the rug
ged Coastal ranges between north
ern California and Nome. Two
other planes disappeared Novem
ber first, which boosted the total
air mishaps to eight hundred forty
one involved in all plane acci
dents.
Ten are known to have survived
and six are known dead. Authori
ties directing the search expressed
doubts that many of the others
still unaccounted, would be found
•dive. A Navy Privateer transport
with twelve men aboard is miss
379 POUNDS OF GLASS — A piece of optical
glass weighing 379 pounds, rated largest ever obtained for a
scientific instrument prism, is examined by workmen in the
Bausch & Lomb plant at Rochester, N. Y. After annealing, grind
ing and polishing, it will be mounted in the giant telescope at the
Observatorio Astrofisico Nacional, Tonanzintla, Mex.
Diplomat Tried To
Get Lend Lease For
Communists
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—UP)—
Maj. Gen. Hurley charged a car
eer diplomat he left in charge of
the Embassy in Chungking sought
to “destroy” the Chinese Nation
alist government by getting lend
lease arms for Chinese Commun
ists. He said the official was
George Acheson, Jr., counselor
for the Chungking Embassy. Hur
ley added the arms were not given
to the Communists.
Acheson was later recalled from
China and also testified before the
Senate Foreign Relations commit-1
tee that the career diplomat John
Service, assigned to General Stil
well in China, proposed in Octo
ber, 1944, that the government of
Chiang Kai-Shek be allowed to
collapse. The former Ambassador
to China said he was unable to
fire Service at the time of the
proposal, because Service was un
der Gen. Stilwell, then American
commander in China.
HAROLD HARPER
HAS APPENDECTOMY
Harold (Bud) Harper underwent
an operation for appendix this af
ternoon at three o’clock, following
his suffering of severe pains for
the past five days.
ing after leaving Kodiak Novem
ber twenty-ninth.
Air patrols are searching the
thousand mile stretch of Alaskan
coastal regions along the route.
Russia Again
Rejects Iranian
Plea For Troops
TEHRAN, Dec. 5— (/P) —Rus
sians refused the second note of
the Iran government to permit the
entrance of additoinal Iranian
troops into the troubled north
western province of Azerbaijan.
The new Soviet note came during
a tense political situation. The
Iranian Premier Hakimi is threat
ening to resign unless the dispute
over the province is settled by
direct negotiation with Moscow.
Iranian troops ordered into the
province, which is the scene of a
local autonomy movement, still
are bivouacked at Sharifabed,
where they were halted November
twentieth by the Russians. Soviet
troops have occupied the province
since 1941, when they were sent
to guard the Russian lend lease
supply line.
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Byron Price Takes
Movie Office
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—(>P)—
Byron Price, 53, veteran newsman
and former censorship director of
(/P), and executive news director,
accepted a vice presidency of the
Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors of America. He will
be in charge of the Hollywood
branch, what used to be called the
Hay’s office until Eric Johnston
succeeded Hays as President.
OP A Objects To
Jan.J{ Hearing:
Audits SS. Books
JUNEAU, Dec. 5—The fact that
the date of January 8, set for the
.reopening of the rate hearing, will
not allow sufficient time to make
the necessary analysis of prospec
tive costs for 1946, was made the
basis of a protest on the part of
the Alaska OPA office it was an
nounced today by Mildred R. Her
mann, Alaska director.
It was pointed out that slow
mails and the holiday season will
greatly impede contact and con
sultation with the Territory’s
merchants and business people.
The trend of the hearings just
adjourned in Seattle shows defin
ite likelihood of an increase in
freight rates up to one hundred
percent, according to OPA offi
cials who attended. Due to the
urgency of the situation as re
vealed in wires received from
Territorial price executive Donald
O’Connor.
George Rogers, senior economist
of the Alaska OPA, left Juneau
today to assist O’Connor in Seat
tle. An OPA audit of the steam
ship companies books is already
under way to check their claim of
necessity for increased rates.
In the meantime 1946 estimates
are being sought by questionnaire
to all Alaska merchants in an at
tempt to confirm OPA’s claim
that the company’s alleged marked
cost increases will be offset by the
much greater freight and passen- f
ger traffic anticipated in post-war j
Alaska. Cooperation of all Alaska j
businessmen by prompt reply to J
the questionnaire they will receive!
shortly was urged by the Alaska
dircetor.
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Naval Fliers To
Receive Navy Posts
WAHINGTON, Dec. 5—Secre
tary of Navy James V. Forrestal
announced Tuesday a reorganiza
tion of the Navy under which
qualified naval fliers will receive
half of the principal posts under
the Chief of Naval Operations.
Naval aviators will also be as
signed for the first time to fleet
commands.
Mr. Forrestal, naming some of
the officers who will be affected,
said his announcement concerned
the composition of the office of
Chief of Naval Operations. Acting
under the chief is vice-chief and
five deputy chiefs.
CIO Rejects
Proposals For
Kiicling Strikes
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 5— (VP) —
Philip Murray, CIO. rejected
President Truman’s proposals for
ending strikes, and charged the
Federal Administration “com
pletely ignored human rights” in
current industrial problems.
In an outright break with the
Administration, Murray asserted,
as he addressed a prepared ra
dio address, “The design of the
organizations.” He added “It can
be put as the first step for ever
more savage repression, and for
this reason CIO shall mobilize its
entire membership and the Amer
ican people to defeat this specific
measure and all similar attempts
directed against labor.”
The CIO leader declared the
administration had embarked
“upon a policy of continued ap
peasement to American industry.
In the face of its contemptouous
attitude toward American people
and the government itself.”
This was Murray’s reply to the
President’s message to Congress
calling for legislation whicll
would create fact-finding commis
sions to inquire into major dis
putes. The President at the same
time called on CIO UAW, to go
back to work and appealed to CIO
United Steel workers, of which
Murray is also the president.
WASHNGTON, Dec. 5—(VP)—
CIOs open break with the admin
istration aligned labor’s big three
in solid formidable opposition
against President Truman’s pro
gram for fact finding as a means
to end industrial strife. Congres
sional leaders hastened to deter
mine how seriously this united
front among CIO, AFL, and UMW
would threaten the enactment of
the law which President Truman
asked for in a special message, but
they went ahead with plans to
draft the bill to carry out his pro
gram.
Communists Steal
Chinese Officials
CHINWANGTAO, Dec. 5—Chi
nese Communists, according to a
press dispatch, kidnapped four
Chinese government officials last
week in a behind the lines swoop
into the coal mining town of Hai
yang, three miles northeast of
Chinwangtao, and headquarters of
the United States Marine batta-*
lion.