GCA Landing Aid
To Berlin Fliers
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ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Alaska!
trained pilots, who accept ground
control approach landings as cooly
as a sourdough brushes aside bliz
zards, are leading the airlifts down
the fog-saturated Frankfurt-Berlin
air corridor, master sergeant Er
nest “Pop” Morrow reported to
day.
Morrow, a member of the 54th
troop squadron which was trans
ferred from Elmendorf field over
seas early in the summer, flew 22 j
missions into the capital.
“Some pilots from Hawaii, Pan- j
ama and Texas are not used to!
GCA landings,” he said. “But our j
boys go right, in without batting |
an eye.
“The Russians never gave us
much trouble and our boys don’t
worry very much.”
The veteran flier, with 25 years ;
experience, admitted, however, it
was a “comfortable feeling” to
have American F-47’s and F-80’s
escort the cargo ships on their re
turn hops, which took them near
two Soviet airfields.
“The German people were skep
tical at first whether we could
meet their needs wit hthe air lift,
but when the planes kept coming
in we won their confidence,” he
said.
Morrow, a C-54 crew chief
whose home is Hollywood, Calif.,
Russia Planes
“Show C ifr To
Excited Berlin
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American offices in the city hall
Monday in which 19 western sec-1
tor police were cartaed off.
The Russians also have turned
down a french demand for the re
lease of another 19 western sector
police who were kidnaped by Sov
iet sector police Wednesday morn
ing while traveling under a Rus
sian safe-conduct guarantee.
About 12 Russian Yak fighters '
roared over Berlin early in the t
day. Later there were two more |
groups, one of five planes and one
of nine. They flew over the Zeh
lendorf district at altitudes of
from 25,000 to 30,000 feet. This, an
American spokesman said, was not
a violation of four-power regula
tions, which apply only to flights
of 10,000 feet or less.
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Yesterday’s Soviet air operations
were reported by American pilots
as “nothing abnormal.”
The American airlift yesterday
set a new 24-hour record, bringing
in 3,319 tons of supplies in 439
flights. The highest tonnage previ
ously brought in in one day was
3,120 in 408 flights.
said he hopes to return.to March
Field at the end of his current tour
of duty.
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COMPLETE LINE OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES
ON COASTAL RAMBLER
THE SEIFFERTS
“The Surprise Store” Phone Main 78
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME .:: ALASKA
COASTAL RAMBLER sailed
August 29th for Nome.
All other sailings cancelled
until further notice.
W. R. WOOD, Agent
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Army Must Pay
Longshoremen
New Higher Wage
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ing on means of moving army car
go. It was held at the request of
various unions involved.”
Waterfront employers also had
nothing to say on this latest
phase of the week-old strike which
has idled 28,000 men along the Pa
cific Coast waterfronts and has
cost shippers an estimated four
million dollars a day.
Union officials said, however,
General Lester agreed to refer the
proposals to the war department
in Washington, D. C.
At Honolulu, housewives who
were fearful that the islands’ lim
ited stocks of foodstuffs would run
out crowded into stores. It was
necessary to rope off store entranc
es to handle the crowds. The rice
supply was almost exhausted.
ARMY MAY LOAD CARGOES
FROM TACOMA
TACOMA, (#*) — The possibility
that the army may load its cargo
vessels in the strike-free port of
Tacoma was advanced by army
and AFL longshore officials here
today.
Tacoma longshoremen, affiliated
with the AFL international long
shoremen’s association, are not in
volved in the current maritime
strike.
A spokesman for the Seattle
port of embarkation said there is
nothing definite on the move, but
negotiations are pending.
Robert R. Collins, secretary
treasurer for AFL longshoremen
in the Pacific district stated that
in talks with army officials he in
formed them Tacoma longshore
ment would take care of the nor
mal quota of work.
•‘If the army has been moving
some cargoes from Tacoma in the
past, it will be given full consider
ation for the same movement in
the future,” he said.
Three Air Force
Officers Indicted
_____
BOSTON, UP)—A federal grand
jury today indicted three former
army airforce officers and one
other man on charges of dealing in
$3,500,000 worth of bonds once
held by Nazis that were peddled in
a European black market.
They were indicted ' specifically
for violating the trading with the
enemy act.
Federal officers said three of
1 those indicted—Edward R. Ashton
of Enfield, Conn., Gerald A. Row
land of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Sey- |
mour Lerner of Brooklyn—were
officers in the air transport com
mand.
Indicted with them was Wen
dell M. Weston, of Weston, Mass.,
who federal officers said, helped
in disposing of many of the bonds.
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Truman Tells Of
Campaign Plans
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will visit Los Angeles—where the
Progressive party candidate,
Henry A. Wallace, drew big
crowds. He also might go to San
Diego.
The President at first sought to
avoid comment on the Soviet
blockade of Berlin and the com
munist led invasion of American
offices in the Berlin city hall.
But when reporters pressed him,
Mr. Truman opened up.
We are still standing up for our
rights in Berlin, he said, and there
j is still argument to be had.
We are doing everything we can
in negotiating on the problems, he
went on. And we will continue to
negotiate, hoping to get peace.
A question was interjected: Had
not this government said it would
not negotiate while Berlin was
blockaded by the Soviet?
We have never made that state
ment, Mr. Truman said sharply.
We have been negotiating ever
since the war ended and will con
tinue to do so.
Does this mean, a reporter asked,
j that the United States will negoti
ate under duress?
We have not been negotiating
under duress, Mr. Truman retort
ed. The blockade is an attempted
duress—and he emphasized the ad
McIVERS RETURN
HOME FROM COUNCIL
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mclver
and children returned Wednesday
from Council where they have
been mining for the past season.
jec'ive—but it is not duress.
And he added that this country
regards the blockade as something
apart from the negotiations of the
French, British, Russian and
American military governors on
the^ttlement of Berlin’s financial
anclBdministrative troubles.
As for another troubled spot—
Israel—Mr. Truman said he could
not now say whether the full, “De
Jure” recognition of Israel would
have to wait until after the elec
tions in the new Jewish state. That
matter is under consideration, the
President said.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman leaves on a week end
cruise today to work on speeches
for his western campaign swing.
Presidential press secre t a r y
Charles G. Ross said Mr. Truman
and his staff will remain on the
Presidential yacht Williamsburg
in the Potomac river until Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. Truman planned to go on
board shortly after lunch.
The President’s western tour
starts Sept. 17 when he leaves for
Dexter, la., for the first of five
major speeches. He will speak at
Dexter on Sept. 18.
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