AIRLINES
\ PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Saturday night incoming pas
sengers from Fairbanks were Kev.
E. A. Anable, and S. K. Bartleti;
a" 1 r o*n Seattle were Mr. and
Sirs. Ted Wallace, and Mrs. Dora
Cooper. Outgoing passengers were
Charne Maxwell for Seattle; Mar
tha Milligrok, and two children,
Carl Ibianna for Juneau, and
John Penning, George Sundborg
and Lois Jund for Fairbanks.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Robert Fisler, White Mountain.
Vince Hagen, Anchorage. James
Andrews, Nome. Miss Penny Mul
len, Earl Lee, M. Stenstrom, H. E.
Badd and Grant Ruth, and Mr.
and Mrs. Ted Wallace, from Seat
tle. -
WASHINGTON —'The grave
condition of Walter Johnson was
reported unchanged today at
Georgetown hospital following a
“turn for the worse” Friday night.
The former American League
pitcher entered the hospital last
April for treatment of a brain tu
mor. He is 59.
Typhoons hit only the northern
and central islands of the Philip
pines.
Accident Takes
Six Lives
SOOKE. B. C. (/P)—A saddened
community today prepared to give
burial to six of its sons—victims
of one of the worst traffic acci
dents in British Columbia's his
tory.
The six youths, ranging in age
from 14 to 18 years, were killed
late Saturday when their car rip
ped out 40 feet of guard rail and
plunged 95 feet into Jacobs Creek
as they were returning from a bas
ketball game in Jordan River 20
miles west of Sooke.
The dead are: Kerry Sharef, 18;
Gerald Pimlot, 14; Robert Hansen,
15: Fred Smith, 17; Gordon Dun
can, 15; and Warren Shields, 15.
The bodies were discovered by
Pimlot’s father and Shields’
mother who started out to look for
the boys when they failed to ar
rive home.
Loggers aidded by ropes brought
the bodies to the road. Police said
several of the bodies bore no in
juries and expressed belief they
drowned when the car overturned
in three feet of water.
The six were in a party of nine
Sooke athletic club basketball
">1 i.vers who made a trip to Jordan
River and teamed with another
olayer to stage an exhibition game.
S.S. Liberte Sinks
At LeHavre
LE HAVRE, France, (A*)—The
G -. man-built liner Europa, re
named the Liberte by the French,
•napped her moorings in a gale
ven tidal wave today, gashed
■ a • s de against harbor wreckage
and sank into the mud on a shal
... v side of the Le Havre basin;
The 49,746-ton vessel assigned
to France as war reparations, set
tled with a heavy list upon reces
um of the tidal wave, which had
caused the sea to rise three feet
above normal. However, a rising
;!cie later righted her, indicating
• i - had retained some buoyancy.
An official of theGeneralTrans
Atlantic company said there was
i no danger that she would be a
total loss. Divers stood about,
ready to check on the extent of
the damage when the weather
moderated.
The liner was fast in the mud
j with a five-degree list this after
noon. The Liberte had been un
dergoing extensive repairs, intend
ed to make her the pride of the
French merchant marine.
I Three of the nine players remain
ed behind at Jordan River and did
not make the return trip with their
ill-fated teammates.
Sooke is 20 miles west of Vic
toria.
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Fire Destroys
Saskatoon Hotel
SASKATOON, Sask. i/P)—Gas
>ime flames which the fire chief
said “moved like a solid wall”
swiftly turned the Barry hotel into
ti inferno before dawn Sunday,
tilling 11 persons and injuring 18.
The fire was the worst in Sas
catchewan history and the worst
In Canada since the Queen’s hotel
ire in Halifax in 1939 when 28
died.
A can of gasoline, inexplicably
placed beside the kitchen range,
appeared to have caused the holo
caust. Fred Bries, a waiter, said
the cook called him to the kitchen
where he found the gas range
blazing and the can of gasoline
shooting flames eight feet hight.
Fries grabbed the gasoline can
and tried to run into the street
with it but bumped into a fright
ened customer. The can fell and
rolled into the hotel lobby. Some
one else tried to kick it out
through the door, but the draft
rom a large electric fan
flames spiralling inwarc
said within a minute ol
fumble, “All hell broke loi
the fire was beyond con
Acting fire chief E. C
dered fighters to “forget t;
ing; there are lives to be
Firemen visited every 01
87 rooms while the bla
burned and found “four
people wandering around
conditions.” Some guests
safely from the second
third floors in scanty att
weather was mild. Other
escape ropes of sheets anc
ets. Some jumped through
tunda skylight.
One man taking a bath
third floor, reached the b;
window and hung from it
hands until firemen reach
George Hunter, the night
said the 36-year-old hot<
alarm system did not wc
that he shouted the alarm
upper halls.
The hotel was sold for J
a week ago.
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