AIRLINES
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WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
A freighting trip was made to
Kaycock, Moses Point, Golovin
and Council on Wednesday. No j
passengers were taken.
A flight started for Fairbanks'
yesterday with Victor Merryfield
as passenger but was forced to re
main at Kotzebue due to poor fly
ing weather.
The St. Lawrence Island plane
is still on the Savoonga field
awaiting cold weather.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers on today’s incoming
flight were: Joe Walsh, Frank
Yung, Nels Mattison, H. F. John
son, Mrs. H. F. Johnson.
Outgoing passenger on the re
turn flight were Robert Reddeway
for Anchorage.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Bill Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. F.
M. Williams, B. W. Neilly, Kotze
bue. Victor Hill, White Mountain
Vincent Kenney, Agnes Cava
naugh, Anchorage.
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Americans Delay
In
TOKYO, i/P) — Two Americans
on a leisurely flight around the
world in two cub planes post
poned a hop to northern Hokka -
do today because of unfavorable
weather.
ue^ige liuman of Los Angeles
and Clifford Evans of //asiiii g
ton, D. J., hau planned to ii\ fr?m
Tokyo to the air field at Chiiose,
on the northernmost Japanese is- |
"and of Hokkaido.
They were still waiting also,
for a reply to their request for
permission to make emergerey
landings in the Russian Kuriles
if they run into trouble on their
1,500-mile hop to the Aleutians,
the most dangerous leg on their
trip.
Thirty-Five Saved
From Burning
Oil Tanker
MONTEREY, Calif. t/P>—'Thir
ty-five crew members of the
burning, crashed-damaged tanker
Sparrow'’s Point were rescued
from five life boats by the coast
guard cutter Minnetonka early to
day.
Four other crew members still
are missing, but the rescued cap
tain said they may still be aboard
the 6,093-ton vessel.
The Minnetonka, in a massage
to the coast guard shore station
here, said the 35 were taken from
two life boats. One lifeboat with
14 men was picked up by the
tanker Colina and the other by
the Minnetonka with 20 crewmen
and the captain, who asked to be
returned to his ship.
A Richfield Oil company tank
er, the Sparrow’s Point caught
fire forward of the bridge after a
midnight collision with the Cana
dian motorship Manx Fisher in
foggy weather 15 miles off Point
Sur tin the central California
coast.
The lighthouse at Point Sur, 23
miles south of here, said the glow
of the burning tanker could be
i seen plainly from the shore.
The Manx Fisher's captain radi
oed to the coast guard in San
Francisco that his ship suffered
only slight damage and intends to
proceed to that port.
| WASHINGTON. i/P) — Demo
j cratic national committee officials
i indicated yesterday that the choice
of a site for the party’s 1948 na- j
tional convention now lies be
tween Philadelphia and San Fran
cis«o.
The convention city will be se
lected at a meeting of the commit
tee here next Wednesday. About
three-fourths of the committee
members have indicated they will
attend. Others will be represented
by proxy.
Many Killed In
Train Collision
LONDON, (/P)—Two commuter
packed suburban electric trains
collided in a dense fog this morn
ing, killing at least 28 persons and
injuring more than 100 others.
Croydon Mayday hospital, near
est to the scene of the crash in
South Croydon, said it had receiv
ed 26 dead by 10:15 a.m. <GMT*.
Croydon general hospital receiv
ed two dead.
Chief ambulance officer A. L.
Hill said all the more than 1 v 0
casualties had been carried away
in 28 ambulances by 9:15. two
hours after the crash.
Railway officials said one of the
train was probing its way slowly
through the fog toward South
Croydon when there suddenly was
a blinding flash and an explosion
as a following train rammed into
thte rear of the first.
The last two coaches of the first
train were thrown off the rails
and the two leading cars of *he
following train were splintered,
smashed and telescoped. There is
no locomotive on these commut2r
trains. v
Nearby residents said there was
complete silence for a few mo
ments after the crash and then
they began to hear screams and
cries for help coming through the
swirling fog
Climbing high, spiked railings
the residents rushed to the scene
and saw passengers fighting their
way from the wrecked carriages,
kicking out broken windows and
calling for help for the injured.
Ambulances and fire engines
rushed to the scene but the latter
were turned back unneeded.
SON BORN TO LT. AND MRS.
JACOB KAUFMAN
Mrs. Sylvia Kaufman, wife of
1st Lt. Jacob Kaufman of the
202nd Station Hospital, gave birth
to an 8 lb., 13 oz. son named Law
rence Mitchell Kaufman, Wednes
day morning at 9:45 a.m. in the
station hospital.
GOING OUTSIDE?
NOME TO SEATTLE-4150 plus lax
(VIA FAIRBANKS)
Direct Connections with Wien Flight
'ten ALASKA
Main 46 tor Reservations_
Somervell Not
Satisfied; Mobiliza
tion Plan Ditched
WASHINGTON, <£’) — Louis C.
Johnson, former assistant secre
tary of war, said yesterday that
he and President Roosevelt knew
as early as 1933 “that war was
coming and we could not stay out
of it.”
Johnson, who served as assist
ant secretary from 1937 until
1940, testified before the Senate
war investigating com m : 11 e e
which is trying to learn why a de
tailed industrial mobil zation plan
was discarded after Pearl Harbor.
At first Johnson asked that his
account of pre-war moves in con
nection with the late President be
“off the record,” but chairman
Brewster <R.-Maine* said the tes
timony should be open to the pub
lic.
Johnson said that his efforts to
prepare this country for war were
blocked by two former cabinet
members—former secretary of la
bor Perkins and former secretary
of war Woodring—and Gen. Bre
hon Somervell, wartime chief of
the army’s supply service.
. Johnson said that a detailed in
dustrial mobilization plan “was
ditched' by brass hats because it
did not suit the program of Gen
eral Somervell.”
He also said that secretary of
defense Forrestal had made "in
correct” and “inexact” statements
about the reason for shelving the
program.
At one time, Johnson testified,
■ Somervell “even planned to get
J rid of General Marshall.”
He referred to George Marshall,
I then army chief of staff and the
now secretary of state.
Jury Convicts
Texas Surgeon
LA GRANGE, Tex. (/P)—A jury
of ten farmers and two craftsmen
brushed aside the insanity plea of
Dr. Lloyd I. Ross, San Antonio
surgeon, and decreed death in the
electric chair for the slayer of a
family of four.
The jurors, 11 of whom are
fathers, debated less than 15 min
utes last night before convicting
the Ohio-born, Harvard-educated
surgeon of murder with malice in
the shooting of Mrs. Gertrude
York, her husband, Willard York,
San Antonio investment broker
and formerly Ross’ intimate
friend; her 9-year-old son John,
and York’s mother were killed in
the same hail of bullets on a rural
road last May 25.
Ross did not deny the shootings.
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, October 24, 1947
Forecast Nome:
Advisory Storm Warning
Gale force southeast wind to
night with snow and blowing
snow. Continued strong to gale
force wind Saturday. Lowest tem
perature tonight 25. highest tem
perature Saturday 32
Nome data as of 7:3J a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours none.
Total • precipitation this month
1:04 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 25, lowest 2.
Ivlaximum w;ncl last 24 hums
27 miles per hour from the E.N.E.
Sunrise at 7:20 a.m., sunsi4 at
4:11 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
lures one year ago today: high
est 32, lowest 19.
Fxtreme temperatures on mis
day since 1907: lowest 1 in 1900,
highest 44 in 1938.
Data for other selected stat on.-:
as of :30 a.m 4oday:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 7 Cloud v
Point Hope 15 Snow
Kotzebue 19 C'culv
S-ishmare-' i2 Cloudy
Wales 15 Cloudy
Garrbell 29 Snow.
N< me 21 Ci j id •'
File lekleet 0 C’eaV
Bethel 8 Cieo*
M. Grath 18 Snow
Anchorage 32 Cloudy
Fairbanks 14 Snow
Juneau 46 Rah.
\V1 he horse 38 Cloudy
Ketchikan 50 Cloudy
Edmonton 48 Partly Cloudy
Seattle 50 . Cloudy
San Francisco 59 Cloudy
Cardinal Salotti,
77, Dies In Rome
ROME, i/P)—Carlo Cardinal Sa
lotti, 77, prefect of the Congrega
tion of Rites, died today.
He had been gravely ill for
some time and received the last
sacraments and a special blessing
from Pope Pius XII last Saturday
He had been a prince of the
church since 1935.
His death reduces the college of
cardinals to 62 members.
Cardinal Salotti, regarded as
one of the most brilliant princes
of the Catholic church, bore at
one time one of its strangest titles
—the Devil’s Advocate.
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