Northwest Starts i
Delayed Maiden
Flight To Orient
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SEATTLE, (/P) —Delayed more
than three days by weather, reg
ular commercial service to the
Orient by Northwest Airlines
started Saturday with the depart
ure of the four-engine transport
“Manila” from Anchorage to Tok
yo.
Northwest officials said the
Manila, which originally was
scheduled to be the second flight
on the Great Circle run, landed
at Sheyma in the Aleutians at
6:35 a.m. (PST) and after refuel
ing headed for Tokyo approxi
mately 10 hours away. Later it
will continue to China and the
Philippines.
The “Shanghai” slated to make
the inaugural flight, will return to
Minneapolis. Its passengers for
the Far East were put aboard the
“Manila.”
A third DC-4, the “Tokyo,”
took off from Minneapolis at 3:38
a.m. (PST) Saturday for Anchor
age via Edmonton and will follow
a regular schedule to the Orient
unless the weather closes in again,
officials of the line said here.
Each of the big four-engine
transports has been specially con
verted for the long overwater hop
with larger galleys and baggage
space.
Postponement of the inaugural
flight made it necessary to cancel
the first easbtound run, scheduled
to leave from Manila July 19.
What difficulties may be en
countered in landing at Tokyo
still was not known here.
In Tokyo Friday, D. J. King,
vice-president of the line’s Orient
division, said “procedural delays
in Washington” might prevent de
barkation of passengers and car
go there. He explained that the
“procedural delays concerned sig
natures of certain government
committees in Washington” but
declined to comment further.
King also said that proposed
Mass B-29 Flight to
Make 1-Stop Flight
Tokyo-Washington
WASHINGTON, (IP)—'The stra
tegic air command today said
eight B-29’s will make a one-stop
flight from Tokyo to Washington
next week in the “longest and
fastest mass flight of B-29’s ever
attempted.”
Described as a training mission,
the planes will hop off a 7 am
(EST) Thursday, July 31, and aim
at crossing between the Washing
ton Mounment and the Lincoln
Memorial here at 11 a.m. (EST)
on Friday, Aug. 1, which is air
force day. The distance is aoout
7,000 miles.
They will land at Andrews air
field, 12 miles southeast of here.
Headquarters for the strategic air
command, the scheduled stop is at
Elmendorf Field, Anchorage, with
a maximum of .three hours al
lowed for refueling.
The eight ships are of the 492nd
bomb squadron, 7th bomb group,
8th air force, based at Fort Worth,
Tex. They will be under command
! of Lt. Col. Howard F. Hugos, of
Oklahoma.
The estimated time from Tokyo
to Anchorage is 12Vfe hours and
from Anchorage to Andrews Field
13 hours and 10 minutes.
1 The planes will be directed to
fly separately in single file, about
one minute apart, until they reach
Martinsburg radio, a point in West
Virginia about 50 miles from
Washington, when they will as
sume formation.
Officials told newsmen the trip
is intended to train crews in long
range overwater navigation and
other techniques of such missions.
The planes will carry an estim
ated 160 men, including their own
ground maintenance crews.
spur service to Seoul, Korea,
would be suspended because the
debarkation ban would apply
there also.
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Kenai Forest Fire
Moves Toward
City Of Seward
SEWARD, P)—Still raging un
checked, the gigantic Kenai penin
sula forest fire had moved Satur
day within 25 miles of Seward
and forestry men were reported
concerned it might leap a four
mile stretch of the upper Kenai
river and sweep through heavy
timber toward this port city.
Fred Rinaldi, injured fire fight
er brought here by plane Friday,
said that if the fire spans the river
it would be “almost impossible to
check its spread southward.”
Peril to the entire west end of
the peninsula from Tustomena
lake to Homer also is threatened
if the Kasilof barrier is breached.
Dayton Gilliland, who flew Ri
naldi from the fire lines, estim
ated the western front of the blaze1
is 50 miles long and is moving
steadily toward the Kasliof river.
Rinaldi, who suffered a frac-i
tured pelvis when a boulder rolled *
down upon him, said men fighting
the scorching flames spray one an
other with water to help with
stand the terrific heat.
The army reported in Anchor
age Saturday that the battle to
save the village of Kenai on the
north shore of the Peninsula ap
parently has been successful. No
appreciable gains by the fire have
been made in the last 48 hours due
to constantly shifting winds, giv
ing 85 army engineers time to
carve a 12Vfe mile long fire break
around the settlement.
No backfires will be started
near Kenai unless the threat to
the town is renewed.
ANCHORAGE, (/P>—A patrol of
soldier fire fighters, led by L. W.
Bryson of the Alaska fire control
service, forged into the Funny
River valley today, where it is
hoped backfiring may partially
check the huge Kenai peninsula
forest conflagration.
Smoke forced the men back
when they attempted a reconnais
sance of the area.
Latest reports from the fire
lines said the long-uncontrolled
blaze was slowly but steadily ad
vancing south and east in the di
rection of Seward and Homer.
Neither city is any immediate
danger, however.
During the last two months the
fire has burned over more than j
300,000 acres comprising the pe
ninsula’s best bird and game
refuge and prime spruce stands.
Election Results
To Be Probed
WASHINGTON, I/P>—'The Sen
ate rules committee launched a
full-scale investigation yesterday
into charges of fraud in last fall’s
election of Senator Kilgore, West
Virginia Democrat.
Simultaneously, Senator Kem
(R.-Mo.) insisted that the Senate
itself pass on his resolution for a
complete inquiry inte what he has
termed the justice department’s
failure to conduct a full investiga
tion of alleged irregularities in
the August, 1946, Kansas City
primary.
The rules committee voted
unanimously Wednesday night for
the West Virginia probes It in
volves the re-election of Kilgore,
whose official margin over Tom
Sweeney, the Republican nominee,
was 3,534 votes out of a total of
more than a half million.
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Army Developing
21-Ton Bomb
(By Elton C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The army
air forces is developing and prob
ably will test In the next few
months a 42,000-pound super-size
bomb.
So far as is known, this will be
the largest standard-explosive—
that is, non-atomic-missile ever
made.
The weight of the bomb sug
gests that it is intended for use in
such aircraft as the B-36, which is
capable of carrying 36 tons of
explosives and is equipped with a
bomb bay of enormous dimen
sions.
The AAF had even larger
bombs—one of 100,000 pounds—
under consideration and in the
blueprint stage, but designers said
privately today that a curtailed
research program resulted in
shelving these projects.
They described the 42,000
pounder as a “general purpose,
block-buster” type.
“Grass Roots”
Campaign Starts
For Wallace
FRESNO, Calif. {JP)—'The start
of a ‘‘grass roots” campaign wmch
they hope will spread to other
states with the aim of winning the
1*948 Presidential nomination for
Henry A. Wallace Saturday drew
a group of California Democrats
to an organizational meeting here.
Former Attorney General Rob
ert W. Kenny, unsuccessful Demo
cratic candidate for governor in
1946, initiated the meeting. He
said he hoped delegates from each
of California’s 23 Congressional
districts would attend.
A telegram to Kenny from Har
old W. Young, Wallace’:; secre
tary, congratulated the group on
the meeting—regarded as the first
formal step in the nation to open
a drive for Wallace — and said
that if Democrats of other states
follow the lead for Wallace “there
will be no need for a third party
in 1948..”
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