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Northwest Airlines
Gets Go Ahead On
New Routes
SEATTLE, Aug. 1, —(P)—North
*tvest Airlines will operate daily
from Seattle to Anchorage, with
three flights a week from the
Alaska city to the Orient when the
new North Pacific service starts,
officials said today.
Three flights weekly will also
be made from Chicago to Anchor
age.
Frank C. Judd, Western Region
al Manager, said the Northwest
board of directors would meet
here next Tuesday to discuss the
new routes. Judd said the line
would use Seattle’s Boeing Field
until construction of the new Bow
Lake airport midway between
Seattle and Tacoma is completed, j
probably in 18 months.
J. A. Earley, chairman of the ,
Pacific Northwest Oriental Air-1
U^ies Committee which urged a j
Seattle gateway, said “We’re dis-!
appointed that we’re not going to
be the lone gateway.”
“But this decision,” he added,
“is much better than the recom
mendations of the CAB examin
ers.”
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The examiners had recommend
W*!. a main cross-Canada route, I
with feeder line service from Se
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attle to Alaska.
13-yr-oId Boy Held
In Death Stabbing
Of 11-yr-old Girl
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SITKA, Aug. 2, —(£*)—A 13-year
old boy was held today for the
multiple stabbing death of 11
year-old Anne Marie Ward, daugh
ter of City Supervisor William
Ward.
FBI agent Lee O’Teague re
ported last night a confession to
the crime by Chris Didrickson, 13.
No motive was disclosed. The
» girl’s body, found in Dog Creek
• near • the Ward arid Didrickson
homes, bore 30 knife wounds.
Teague said the girl was killed
under the Didrickson home and
dragged during Tuesday night to
the creek 100 yards distant. The
girl disappeared Tuesday evening
after returning home from a trip
to a store for ice cream. A bro
ther found the fully clothed body
during a concerted search the next
+ day. An autopsy showed 10 stab
wounds within a radius of two
4 inches in the upper part of the
body.
SIGHTSEERS IN FAR EAS T_ Liberty boats from the U. 8. Seventh Aset approach
the landing near Shanghai's Bond, whose buildings ■esunhie considerably those hark home _
Dock Collapses
Boats Damaged
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 2, —(JP)—One
trolling vessel was sunk and ano-1
ther damaged yesterday as 75
feet of the Noreby Supply Com-1
pany dock collapsed and sent a
big warehouse crashing into the
bay.
Sunk, was the troller Gony,
while the trolling poles and pilot
house and the troller Redwing
were smashed. Several tons of
halibut gear was dumped into
the bay from the pier. There
was no loss of life.
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Fish Trap and
Freight Rates
To Be Heard.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 2, — UP)— A Con
gressional delegation, headed for
Alaska to hold hearings on fish
trap and freight rate problems,
departed for Ketchikan early this
morning by Navy plane.
The party will go from Ketchi-.
kan to Juneau by Coast Guard
Cutter, then fly back to Seattle
on August 11, for hearings here
the following day.
In the group are Rep. Henry
Jackson of Washington, Delegate
E. L. Bartlett of Alaska and Reps.
Bland and Herter of Mississippi.
Marvin Coles, General Counsel to
the group, a subcommittee of the
House Merchant Marine and Fish
eries Committee is accompanying
them.
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Alaskan GIs Bid
Identical Amount
Chilkoot Barracks
ANCHORAGE, Aug. —</P)—Steve
Larsson Homer, one of two men
whose bid for Chilkoot Barracks
will be drawn from a hat, said
today the historic Southeast Al
aska army post would be used
as a staging area for families of
veterans should he be successful
in the drawing.
Homer is one of three heads
of Veterans of Alaska Cooperative
Company Organization <VACCO'
of Washington, D. C., the organi-,
zation has been recruiting veter
ans and families in the United
States to settle in Alaska on Land
Office approved townsites.
Units of these families would
be quartered at Chilkoot Bar
racks pending completion of the
townsites, Homer said.
Homer and Kenneth E. O’Harra,
both veterans holding equal prior
ity rights, submitted identical
bids and each offered $10,500 for
the one-tenth down payment re
quired.
Under the law, a drawing was
necessary and' will be held here
Aug. 5.
Navy Wants
Wave Reserve
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, —(/P)—
The Navy wants a Wave reserve.
Former members of the Wo
Globemaster l akes
Air With HI Tons
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 2,
—i/P)—A Douglas C-74 Globemas
ter soared from the Mu roc Army
air field recently with an overall
load of 172,000 pounds, more than
twice its own weight, Douglas
Aircraft Company announced yes
terday.
The army’s Air Materiel Com
mand at Wright Field, Ohio, an
nounced that it was the greatest
weight ever known to leave the
earth under its own power.
The Globemaster can circle the
world with only two stops.
Nickel Airmail
Bill Presented For
President to Sign
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, — i/P)—.
A nickel will buy an airmail stamp
come October 1. if President Tru
man signs thp bill Congress sent
him late yesterday. •
It lowers the present eight cent
an ounce rate to five cents, ef
fective the first day of the second
month after White House approv
al.
men’s Branch, the Navy said, can
reenlist in the new volunteer re
serve at their highest war-time
ratings. While on active duty,
training opportunities will per
mit them to advance in rates.
The announcement set no en
i listment goals.
ATHENS, Tenn., Aug. 2, —OP)—
A bi-partisan group of GIs, their
election to McMinn County offices
conceded by a leader of the op
position brought quiet to bullet
ridden Athens today after a bloody
gun-battle around a now battered
jail.
At least IB persons were injur
ed, six dangerously, in the elec
tion day strife which began yest
erday afternoon and continued
until 3 A. M. when a score or more
deputized officers surrendered
their hold on the two-story brick
prison building.
Before order could be restored,
several automobiles were over
turned or stripped, and near riots
swept over this town of 7,000,
suddenly bereft of formal law en
forcement from county agencies.
A mobilization of state guards
men was cancelled and a spokes
i man for the GI forces said they
would maintain order until a mass
meeting Monday when it was
hoped some provision for filing
county offices would be made.
In Washington, Attorney Gen
eral Tom Clark ordered an in
vestigation today of the gun bat
tle. The civil rights section of
the Justice Department was dir
ected to determine whether Fed
eral laws were violated.
The battle of the jail, pocked
and battered from bullets and
home made bombs tossed by GI
sympathizers, was a direct out
I growth of the bitter political cam
paign waged by the veterans to
overturn the Democratic organiz
ation of State Senator Paul Con
trell, in power for a decade.
Armed sherriff’s deputies mov
ed two ballot boxes to the jail
Thursday afternoon, shortly after
the polls closed at 4 P.M., and
trouble, long brewing, burst into
| the open.
A group of GIs disarmed seven
of the deputized officers, shoved
them into automobiles for a swift
ride out of town.
At 9 P. M., a crowd, estimated
at 500 and now armed with pistols
and light rifles, moved on the
jail, occupied by the force of depu
ties. •,
, Ralph Duggan, a former navy
lieutenant commander and a lead
er of the GI forces, said the crowd
was “met by gunfire” and be
cause they had “promised that the
ballots would be counted as cast,'*
they had “no choice but to meet
fire with ladder.”
The exchange of fire, sporadic
for six hours, ended after the jail
was rocked by four blasts of ex
plosives and one of the deputies
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