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New Phonetic Alphabet
For Use In Two-Way
Radio Communication
SEATTLE, Feb 20 — Interna
tional air travelers who chance to
hear a Pan American World Air
ways pilot muttering “Whiskey
. . . Bravo . . . Foxtrot . . .
Zulu . . . Oscar” have no reason
to be alarmed. The pilot hasn’t
lost his mind—not quite, anyway.
Repetition of such gibberish ,
means only that he is practicing j
the new phonetic alphabet now
being used in two-way radio com
munication between Pan Am
pilots and ground stations.
The new code replaces the fa- >
miliar old “R-for-Roger” or “Able
Baker - Charlie - Dog” system.
Trouble with the Able-Baker
j
Charles routine was it’s strictly
English. Two language professors
who worked on the new code
picked words-for-letters with the
idea that the words must be fa
miliar in almost any language.
The new alphabetic jargon has '
been agreed upon by most inter
national air carriers.
The full alphabet goes like this:
A, Alpha; B, Bravo; C, Cocoa; !
D, Delta; E, Echo; F, Foxtrot; G, |
Golf; H, Hotel; I, India; J, Juliet;
K, Kilo; L, Lima; M, Metro; N,
Nectar; O, Oscar; P, Papa; Q,
Quebec; R, Romeo; S, Sierra; T,
Tango; U, Union; V, Victor (the
only one unchanged); W, Whis
key; X, Extra; Y, Yankee, Z,
Zulu.
There were 16,133 women arrest
ed for drunkenness in the United
States in 1949.
Five Die and 12 Injured
In Crash of B-50 Carrying
Classified Equipment
OMAHA, (/P) — A four-engine
B-50 bomber crashed and burned
while landing Tuesday at Offutt
Air Force base near Omaha, kill
ing five and injuring the other
12 persons aboard.
Quick action by an emergency
fire fighting squad at the base
was credited by a base spokesman
with keeping down the loss of life.
Cause of the crash was not im
mediately determined but a wing
was said to have come off the
medium bomber just before the
crash.
The flight was described as
routine but the presence aboard of
some classified equipment led
base officials to permit no civ
ilian photographers or reporters
to visit the crash scene.
The plane had stopped at one
point in its flight at Hickam Field,
Hawaii. An Air Force spokesman
at Hickam said the plane arrived
there from Tokyo Friday and left
early Monday for Offutt on a
routine flight.
Military spokesmen here de
clined or were unable to say im
mediately where the plane was
based, where it had been, or the
nature or classification of the
equipment aboard.
If cotton and nylon socks are
about the same general thickness
and weight, they will be equally
warm.
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Northwest DC-4
Forced Down At
Dutch Harbor
KODIAK. (Navy GRNC) — A
Northwest Airlines DC-4 with 41
passengers and four crew mem
bers aboard made a successful
forced landing Sunday night at
the Navy air strip at Dutch Har
bor.
The four - engine passenger
plane, bound from Anchorage to
Shemya, was forced to try Umnak
because of poor weather at Shem
ya. After arriving at Umnak the
visibility restricted the big plane
from landing.
With both fields closed the air
line pilot radioed Dutch Harbor
and informed the Navy there he
was low on fuel and had to land.
Dutch Harbor runway is only
4300 feet long and 150 feet wide
and is not equipped with lights
for night operations. The Coast
Guard Cutter Clover was present
in the harbor and turned its
searchlights on the runway and
all lights of Dutch Harbor resi
dences were turned on to assist.
The Airway Communication
Station at Kodiak continued radio
contact with the big plane until
his landing. A report from Dutch
Harbor stated the plane blew out
both tires and damaged the land
ing gear but there were no in
juries to passengers or crew.
1,700,000 POUNDS OF
WHALE MEAT FOR JAPAN
TOKYO, (/P) — Whale meat —
1,700,000 pounds of it—goes on
sale Thursday. It was brought
into* Shibaura port by the first
ship to return from this year’s
Japanese Anarctic whaling ex
pedition. "
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce
Weather Bureau
Continued cloudy tonight and
Thursday . with light snow and
blowing snow. Easterly winds 30
to 40 mph tonight decreasing
slightly Thursday to 25 mph. Low
temperature expected tonight 25,
high Thursday 35.
In last 24 hours: temperatures,
high 20, low 3. Max. wind, 32 mph
from ENE.
Sunrise 7:14 a.m., sunset 5:13
pm.
A year ago today high temper
ature 8, low -24. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 34 in 1920,
low -23 in 1926. '
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -31 Part cloudy
Kotzebue -13 Cloudy
Wales -3 Part cloudy
Gambell 7 Snow
Nome 25 Cloudy
Dnalakleet 19 Part cloudy
Bethel 36 Cloudy
McGrath 28 . Cloudy
Anchorage 18 Cloudy
Fairbanks -1 Part cloudy
Whitehorse -8 Cloudy
Edmonton 20 Part clorudy
Juneau 32 Cloudy
Ketchikan 36 Cloudy
Seattle 44 Cloudy
Ed's Barber
Shop
-.1
(Back of Alaska Airlines)
Haircut . 1.25
Shave .. 75
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
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Olympic Games
Standouts
OSLO, (j*P)—Here are the Olym
pic standouts:
Hero—Hjalmar Andersen. Nor
way’s triple winner in skating.
Heroine — Andrea Mead Law
rence, United States, double win
ner in skiing.
Shyest winner — Zeno Colo of
Italy, who locked himself in his
room after getting a ski gold
medal and gftve “Himalaya” as
his address.
Sportsmanship surprise — Nor
wegians who still remember five
years of Nazi occupation during
World War Two, cheering Ger
man victors.
Greatest setback — Sweden,
dominant in 1948 games, failing
to place better than third in any
individual event.
Loudest cheer — When Norway
unexpectedly scored the first
goal against the United States in
hockey.
Only repeating champion—Dick
Button, United States, in men’s
figure skating.
Greatest paradox — scarcity of
snow in Norway.
Least athletics looking athletes
—Germany’s victorious four-man
bobsled team which weighed
more than half a ton.
Youngest competitor — Alain
Gilletti, 12-year-old French boy
who placed seventh in men’s fig
ure skating.
There are more than 28 million
miles of telephone wire in the
United States.
Truce Negotiators . . .
MUNSAN, Korea, UP) — Staff
officers tentatively agreed today
to drop the question of voluntary
exchange of prisoners of war back
into the laps of a truce subcom
mittee.
They’ve settled all prisoner ex
change details but this key issue
and one minor translation prob
lem. The translation was to be
ironed out Thursday.
A staff committee headed to
ward a similar stalemate over
Communist insistence that Soviet
Russia help supervise the truce.
Col. Don O. Darrow told the
Reds they “appear to be more in
terested in arguing the merits of
the Soviet Union than in reaching
an armistice agreement.”
North Korean Col. Chang Chun
San said the Communists would
“categorically reject” any Allied
proposal to sidetrack Russia. He
said the only solution was for the
U.N. Command to accept the Red
nomination of the Soviet Union,
Poland and Czechoslovakia as
neutral nations to help police a
truce.
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New Schedules Effective Feb. 1
EACH MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 10:30 a. m.
LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS
Via Kotzebue , 11:30 a. m.
EACH WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 12:45 p. m.
Via Kotzebue
^ LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS 1;45 p. m.
EACH MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM KOTZEBUE
Via Candle and Deering 9:40 a. IN.
LEAVE NOME FOR KOTZEBUE
Via Candle and Deering 10:40 a. IN.
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EACH FRIDAY
ARRIVE NOME FROM FAIRBANKS 12 Noon
- LEAVE NOME FOR FAIRBANKS
Via Kotzebue 1:00 p.m.
FREIGHT ONLY, NO PASSENGER SERVICE ON FRIDAY
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